Lynda La Plante

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in The United Kingdom

March 15, 1943

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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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Average rating: 4.01 · 65,780 ratings · 5,059 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	Above Suspicion (Anna Travis #1) 4.08 avg rating — 5,613 ratings — published 2004 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Dahlia (Anna Travis #2) 4.08 avg rating — 4,120 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Friday (Tennison, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 3,120 ratings — published 2017 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Fury (Anna Travis, #6) 4.01 avg rating — 2,884 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Scream (Anna Travis, #5) 3.95 avg rating — 2,694 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clean Cut (Anna Travis, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 3,074 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennison (A Jane Tennison Thriller #1) 3.96 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 3,134 ratings — published 1991 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Killers (Tennison, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 2,898 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Intent (Anna Travis, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 2,440 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Anna Travis (9 books)
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4.01 avg rating — 28,080 ratings

Tennison (6 books)
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4.12 avg rating — 11,569 ratings

Prime Suspect (3 books)
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4.01 avg rating — 6,023 ratings

Dolly Rawlins (3 books)
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3.98 avg rating — 5,653 ratings

Lorraine Page (3 books)
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3.94 avg rating — 3,946 ratings

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“Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.”
― Lynda La Plante, Bella Mafia

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“Langton, believing Anna’s silence was due to distress about”
― Lynda La Plante, Above Suspicion

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“He had worked spasmodically”
― Lynda La Plante, Backlash

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September BoTM Nominations ~ Book Published Before 2000 ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto final round

Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo

7 votes, 18.4%

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

6 votes, 15.8%

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

6 votes, 15.8%

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

5 votes, 13.2%

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

4 votes, 10.5%

Widows

by Lynda La Plante

3 votes, 7.9%

A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

3 votes, 7.9%

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

2 votes, 5.3%

Parnassus on Wheels

by Christopher Morley

1 vote, 2.6%

The Magician's Assistant

by Ann Patchett

1 vote, 2.6%

38 total votes

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