It’s the latest instalment of #TeamTennison and I can’t believe we are already on book 6!

Blunt Force by Lynda La Plante sees Jane Tennison having been kicked off the flying squad back into petty crime and worrying that her career has reached it’s pinnacle. However the discovery of a body soon changes that. Showbiz agent Charlie Foxley has been brutally beaten to death then dismembered and disembowelled. As an agent he had a lot of powerful friends but also a lot of enemies and the list of suspects just keeps getting longer. Jane alongside her old partner Spencer Gibbs is soon having to use all of her skills to try and find the killer.

Blunt Force was a good story that saw Jane struggling with her career and try and keep herself motivated despite feeling so despondent. I quite liked seeing a slightly different side to her this time as her upward trajectory had been halted yet she still wasn’t going to let that hold her back.

I enjoyed the story in this one as I always like a good murder and this was particularly brutal. Alongside this there was a secondary storyline focussing on corruption in the police force and again this was interesting and a good vehicle for Tennison to explore her options further and I suspect that this might come up in future novels.

As always the setting of the story is one of the things that standout in this series and it really interesting to have read them from the start and to see how attitudes are changing albeit slowly.  I especially like the way that the story shows how procedures change, and how the techniques used in detection seem so antiquated compared to now.

Whilst I have been reading this series from start I think this could easily be read as a stand alone but I would highly recommend reading this series from beginning and I can’t wait to book number 7.