Appeal - A Trial & Retribution thriller

THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA, LYNDA LA PLANTE

Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes to light, he wins his appeal for a retrial.

Detective Inspector Pat North is assigned to the reinvestigation. But when North discovers that her partner, Detective Superintendent Mike Walker, led the original police inquiry, their fledgling relationship is put to the test - particularly when she starts to suspect that he is covering something up.

Could Walker have tampered with evidence to frame an innocent man? And if so, who is the real killer?

About the author

Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.

Product details

• Authors: Lynda La Plante, Lynda La Plante
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2026
• EAN: 9781804189498
• ISBN: 978-1-80418-949-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 188 g
• Series: Trial and Retribution
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Legal, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Political / legal thriller, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: police procedural