When I picked up a Lynda La Plante novel from the library the other day, about a detective named Jane Tennison, I hadn’t realised it was part of a prequel series to the Prime Suspect series. I don’t think I’ve read any of those but I have seen a few episodes on TV and I was expecting a follow up story. I didn’t cotton on until a scene in which a brick like mobile phone comes into play although perhaps I should have twigged at the fact that Tennison wasn’t the ranking officer in the room down at the police station!

So far, it is okay although not quite such a gripping read as I expected. I’ll get to the end of this one but I’m not convinced it is a series I will diligently pursue. Mind you, looking back on my LibraryThing account, it appears I did read a good handful of novels about the Prime Suspect era Tennison back in 2007. Perhaps I did find them gripping or maybe, in the end, they proved forgettable to me.