Many of us lie awake wondering whether we can pay the mortgage. The night before we meet, Lynda La Plante lay awake worrying whether it’s possible to find DNA on a body obliterated by a bomb explosion ...

LYNDA La Plante turns 80 next year - but she's calling this decade "the new 50s". "There's this slew of incredibly old actresses treading the boards, there's the wonderful Glenda Jackson, 85, doing ...

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If it was La Plante's intention to create a character far removed from her memorable Jane Tennison (of Prime Suspect fame), she has succeeded in this sequel to Cold Shoulder. Where the upright, ...

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Transcript Anita Barraud: Lynda La Plante is often described as Britain's queen of crime, with more than a dozen crime fiction novels under her belt. The former actress is also the creator behind that ...

La Plante’s so-so sequel to 2020’s Buried starts more strongly than it finishes. Like many a maverick cop, Det. Sgt. Jack Warr, of the Metropolitan Police, has a “reputation for doggedly following his ...

Masterpiece has boarded upcoming Prime Suspect prequel, Prime Suspect: Tennison, as co-producer alongside ITV Studios and NoHo Film & Television. The original series, which starred Helen Mirren, aired ...

LYNDA La Plante is contemplating how she would like to bring her dogged detective DCI Jane Tennison, originally played 30 years ago by Helen Mirren, back to life. "I've been asked this so many times.

Lynda La Plante started her career as an actress, then became an author and screenwriter, creating the much acclaimed Prime Suspect series. She founded La Plante Productions to maintain control of her ...

Novelist Lynda La Plante is in lockdown, holed up in her ­impressive Surrey home with her 16-year-old son Lorcan, the child she adopted when she was 59 and who, she proudly declares, is the best thing ...