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Lynda La Plante


Born
in The United Kingdom
March 15, 1943

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Lynda La Plante (born Lynda Titchmarsh) is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress (her performances in Rentaghost and other programmes were under her stage name of Lynda Marchal), best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.

Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows, in 1983, in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands.

In 1991 ITV released Prime Suspect which has now run to seven series and stars Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. (In the United States Prime Suspect airs on PBS as part of the anthology program Mystery!) In 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series. In ...more

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Prime Suspect (Prime Suspec...
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Above Suspicion The Red Dahlia Clean Cut Deadly Intent Silent Scream Blind Fury Blood Line
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Prime Suspect A Face in the Crowd Silent Victims
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“Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.”
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“Langton, believing Anna’s silence was due to distress about”
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