One of her best known stories is The Talisman, published in 1987, closely followed by Bella Mafia in 1990. This is when Lorraine Page finds herself torn between revealing her identity as the witness who narrowly escaped an attempted murder or remaining silent. A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun. When the investigation uncovers an international drugs operation on the widow's property, the case grows even more complex.

The story charts Jane Tennison's entry into the police force as a 22 year old Probationary Officer at Hackney Police Station in 1973. Lynda La Plante has managed to capture the 1970’s perfectly and her descriptions put you right in the middle of the investigations. Anna Travis is back in a new gripping mystery from Lynda La Plante, featuring the female detective every bit as intelligent, ambitious, and flawed as Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison.She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

When an unidentified woman is discovered raped and murdered at a service station off the M1 motorway in La Plante's gripping sixth novel featuring London Det. I have followed Lynda la Plante's Jane Tennison from the beginning over many years and this was just as good and fresh as always. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. Last night (9 th March) saw a gathering of an array of players from trade and publishing at The Delaunay in London (WC2B) to celebrate Lynda La Plante’s 80 th birthday and toast the announcement of her dazzling new memoir. Each month I pick a few select charities broken down by our most popular countries that you can support instead.

But, when he finally gets what he’s yearned for all these years, a political scandal erupts around him and he is shunned into the shadows once again with no shred of a positive reputation left. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives. Lynda La Plante, a highly acclaimed figure in the field, boasts an impressive array of achievements throughout her career.

Lynda only appears at a very select number of events, so we are privileged and delighted to be welcoming her soon. When she is asked to investigate a case of domestic violence, she senses there is more to this story than meets the eye, and feels that a group of warring neighbours have a secret they want to stay hidden. She then turned to writing and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Admirers of La Plante's Edgar Award- winning TV miniseries, Prime Suspect, and of her earlier crime-thriller fiction (Bella Mafia), will want to give this novel anything but the cold shoulder.Where we land in Book 3 is a 1970s London where the peace is threatened by the IRA bombing campaign. His Bob Lee Swagger series took the world by storm in the 90s, and he has a new collection of novellas this month featuring Bob Lee, Earl and Charles. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. When an eccentric widow claims she is being stalked by her former lodger, Detective Jack Warr is the only person who believes her wild claims.