Lynda La Plante

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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: 4.02 · 79,414 ratings · 5,937 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors

	Above Suspicion (Anna Travis #1) 4.09 avg rating — 5,932 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	The Red Dahlia (Anna Travis #2) 4.09 avg rating — 4,415 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 — 3,586 ratings — published 2017 — 22 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) 3.92 avg rating — 4,039 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
	Deadly Intent (Anna Travis, #4) 3.96 avg rating — 3,198 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
	Blind Fury (Anna Travis, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 3,128 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Buried (DC Jack Warr #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,690 ratings — published 2020 — 12 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) 3.94 avg rating — 3,334 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
	Silent Scream (Anna Travis, #5) 3.96 avg rating — 2,997 ratings — published 2009 — 26 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 (Tennison, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 3,271 ratings — published 2015 — 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

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Anna Travis (9 books)
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Tennison (7 books)
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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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The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon

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The Red Dahlia, Lynda La Plante

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Empress Orchid, Anchee Min

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Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh

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