Holy Moly! “Unholy Murder” is wholly original and chillingly written! It’s book seven in the ‘Tennison’ series, the prelude stories to “Prime Suspect” and is another cracking case for Jane and the murder squad to solve. 

 

The discovery of a nun in a coffin during excavation work, raises concerns when it’s realised she didn’t die of natural causes and had been dead for several years. Could the Catholic Church be hiding some heinous crime?  

 

I’ve really enjoyed seeing Jane maturing both personally and professionally throughout these series of books. Her lateral thinking and positive determination makes her an exceptional police detective, role model and a joy to read. Her professionalism and dedication to justice, sees her cracking the most unusual of cases and nothing is more unique, than the sinister cold case in this book. 

 

I was pleased to see Jane wasn’t subjected to the excessive misogyny that she’s endured in the previous books, although any that does come her way, she deals with in a respectable but forthright manner. 

 

Set in the 1980’s it was also interesting to see how forensics have developed since the earlier books in the series, which were set in the 70’s and yet still a far cry from what’s available now to prove crimes. 

 

Another five star read for me and I look forward to what Lynda La Plante has in store for Jane in “Dark Rooms”. 

 

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