SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

 SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

Now I am going to tell you a summary of the book "Prime Suspect" by Lynda la Plante, which is a very exciting book full of mystery in each of its chapters. Even the book has its own TV series.

The story begins by talking about a woman (Jane Tennison) who had always wanted to be a detective, influenced by her father. She was working in a police station but they never gave her the opportunity to investigate a murder case because there they said that it was a job only for men, a totally sexist police station.

One day there was a case in which a young woman was murdered in her own apartment, she had signs of torture and her face was totally destroyed. Jane wanted to hear about that case for the first time but the police station did not allow her because it was a men's job and she was very sad. The case was taken over by another detective but unfortunately, shortly thereafter he died due to severe pain in his heart. So at the police station, the boss put Tennison in charge of the case, and although no one wanted to work with her, then all of them decided to collaborate in her investigation with her.

A short time later, according to investigations into the murdered woman, DNA samples belonging to a man named George Marlow were found. The police officers arrested him, but it was not possible to take him to jail because they did not have sufficient evidence to convict him of the murder of the young woman.

Sometime later the body of another murdered young woman appeared in a big paddock, it had signs of torture and she died in the same way as the other woman, the girl was recognized as a young London prostitute. Jane Tennison did not know what to do, she knew that George Marlow was the culprit but she could not find sufficient evidence for it. Marlow was questioned many times by the police and always said that he did not know women and that he had only been with the first of them for pleasure.

Jane was so worried and busy with the murders she had to solve, she was careless and had her love affair and came home very late for dinner with her boyfriend. Jane's boyfriend decided to break up with her because she was very careless, because she came very late from work and did not spend much time with him, he wrote everything down in a letter and Tennison saw this one night after arriving very late from work.

Jane Tennison focused even more on the case to be solved and together with other officers began to search for evidence to put an end to everything. She questioned everyone close to the victims and George.

In an interrogation with George's wife, the detective realized that George did know the murdered women, the first because he was a client of his wife who was now a nail maker and the second because in a past time Marlow's wife was a prostitute, and the second murdered was a friend of hers.

With this information, Jane took the investigation to the bottom of everything and along with other statements from some witnesses, it was known that George Marlow was the first suspect and the intellectual actor of 6 murders of women in total throughout his life.

The police went looking for him at his house but he was not there. Some police infiltrators on Jane's orders were always aware of what he was doing and where he was going, so they found Marlow in an old garage far from the city and about to take his car to flee. In the garage, they found clothes of the murdered women, traces of blood, very large chains, and some tools that George used to kill his victims.

George was captured and taken to the station where he was asked some questions and accepted each of his murders even though his lawyer was there. He felt very angry and sad at the same time because of everything that had happened. In the end, George was brought before a judge and the strangest of all is that this time he did not accept the charges against him.

At the station, everyone was very happy with the work Jane Tennison had done that each of her colleagues congratulated her for her great work.

 She had solved the largest investigation in the station, an example that a woman can do great things, even better than men.

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