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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.
'Tennison is a great character. Her hard-fought career - her own life sentence - comprises a landmark series in crime fiction' - THE TIMES 'Lynda La Plante is an exceptional writer of Crime Drama' - Dame Helen Mirren 'The UK's most celebrated female crime author' - DAILY MAIL 'Thirty years on from writing Prime Suspect, La Plante is still delivering the goods' - THE TIMES 'Tough, brilliant and damaged, [Tennison] shook up the genre forever' - DAILY EXPRESS 'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' - KARIN SLAUGHTER
