The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s ground-breaking thriller, Widows, has been released, titled Widows’ Revenge.
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off – at the cost of their lives. But though they may be in the money, they are far from easy street. Shocked by her husband’s betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn’t dead. He knows where the four women are and he wants them to pay. And he does not just mean getting his hands on the money. The women can not keep running. They have to get Harry out of their lives for good. But can they outwit a criminal mastermind who will not hesitate to kill? Especially when one of them has a plan of her own … to kill or be killed.
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful television series Widows which has since been made into Steve McQueen’s blockbuster movie Widows in 2018. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Lynda has written and produced more than 170 hours of international television. She is one of only three screenwriters to have been made an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.
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