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Lynda La Plante

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 14 1943
Lynda La Plante is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress , 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 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series. In 1992 she wrote at TV movie called Seekers, starring Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, produced by Sarah Lawson.

She formed her own television production company, La Plante Productions, in 1994 and as La Plante Productions she wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out . The name "La Plante" comes from her marriage to writer Richard La Plante, author of the book Mantis and Hog Fever. La Plante divorced Lynda in the early 1990s.

Her output continued with The Governor , a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings pulling miniseries: the psycho killer nightmare events of Trial & Retribution , the widows' revenge of the murders of their husbands & children Bella Mafia , the undercover police unit operations of Supply and Demand , videogame/internet murder mystery Killer Net and the female criminal profiler cases of Mind Games .

Two additions to the Trial and Retribution miniseries were broadcast during 2006.

Lynda La Plante

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 14 1943
Lynda La Plante is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress , 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 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series. In 1992 she wrote at TV movie called Seekers, starring Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, produced by Sarah Lawson.

She formed her own television production company, La Plante Productions, in 1994 and as La Plante Productions she wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out . The name "La Plante" comes from her marriage to writer Richard La Plante, author of the book Mantis and Hog Fever. La Plante divorced Lynda in the early 1990s.

Her output continued with The Governor , a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings pulling miniseries: the psycho killer nightmare events of Trial & Retribution , the widows' revenge of the murders of their husbands & children Bella Mafia , the undercover police unit operations of Supply and Demand , videogame/internet murder mystery Killer Net and the female criminal profiler cases of Mind Games .

Two additions to the Trial and Retribution miniseries were broadcast during 2006.

Books from Lynda La Plante

Above Suspicion

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Judas Horse

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Red Dahlia

4/5 ( ratings)

Good Friday

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Prime Suspect

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Deadly Intent

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Unholy Murder (Tennison, #7)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Clean Cut

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Cold Blood (Lorraine Page, #2)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Tennison

4/5 ( ratings)

Hidden Killers

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Widows

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Dirty Dozen

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Backlash

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Blood Line

3.8/5 ( ratings)

She's Out (Dolly Rawlins, #3)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Face in the Crowd

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Blind Fury

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Widows' Revenge

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Judas Horse (DC Jack Warr #2)

3.9/5 ( ratings)
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