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Lynda La Plante

Lynda La Plante
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Lynda La Plante

Lynda La Plante bestowed John Moores University with a creative writing scholarship in her hometown of Liverpool and is an honorary member of the British Film Institute. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has also awarded Lynda with the Dennis Potter Writers Award.She was awarded a CBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List (for services to Literature, Drama and to Charity), and was presented with the prestigious TV Spielfilm Award for her television adaptation of her novel Above Suspicion at the International Film and Television Festival Conference in Cologne. In 2009 Lynda was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame . Her novels... Read full bio

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Evening News 24, March 12, 2012
...One of Brenda Reidâs projects during her time with Anglia Films was a crime-thriller called Framed. Written by Lynda La Plante, it starred former James Bond Timothy Dalton as a villain on the run in Spain. The four-part series also featured a...
Huffington Post UK, February 24, 2012
...written by some of the world's best-selling authors including Maeve Binchy, Tony Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith and Lynda La Plante. Each book is short and easy to read so I managed to finish Quantum of Tweed, by Conn Uggulden, during a couple of lunch...
Huffington Post UK, February 24, 2012
...written by some of the world's best-selling authors including Maeve Binchy, Tony Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith and Lynda La Plante. Each book is short and easy to read so I managed to finish Quantum of Tweed, by Conn Uggulden, during a couple of lunch...
Lovereading, February 22, 2012
...re brilliant, fast-paced, easy to read bite-sized books by big name authors such as Maeve Binchy, Tony Parsons, Lynda La Plante, Jacqueline Rayner and Conn Iggulden. There’s a mix of fiction and non-fiction and all of them are also available to...
Huffington Post UK, February 17, 2012
...charity's "fall in love with reading" campaign, with a line-up of eight books from authors such as Lynda La Plante, Maeve Binchy, Conn Iggulden and Parsons. Speaking about the charity and the campaign, Parsons said: "It's a campaign that will never end...
Telegraph, February 16, 2012
...charity's "fall in love with reading" campaign, with a line-up of eight books from authors such as Lynda La Plante, Maeve Binchy, Conn Iggulden and Parsons. Speaking about the charity and the campaign, Parsons said: "It's a campaign that will never end...
Lancashire Evening Post, February 16, 2012
...charity's "fall in love with reading" campaign, with a line-up of eight books from authors such as Lynda La Plante, Maeve Binchy, Conn Iggulden and Parsons...
APP Market, May 3, 2012
...Green’s spellbinding crime drama Touching Evil; the award-winning period detective series Murdoch Mysteries; Derek Jacobi in Cadfael; Lynda La Plante’s Trial & Retribution; Masterpiece Theatre favorite Lillie; as well as contemporary detective...
Media Update South Africa, May 3, 2012
...season three)From Monday, 14 May at 20:00. Series continues every Monday at 20:00.Award-winning writer Lynda La Plante returns with a new instalment of her franchise Above Suspicion. DI Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly) is back after her promotion, reunited...
RTE Online, April 28, 2012
...and Retribution)Sexy, smart and occasionally icy, Connor doesn't tolerate fools or would-be tough guys easily in Lynda La Plante's recent cop drama. The Irish copper in the English manor was played by Victoria Smurfit. DI Sarah Lund (The Killing)"We have...
RTE Online, April 23, 2012
...and Retribution)Sexy, smart and occasionally icy, Connor doesn't tolerate fools or would-be tough guys easily in Lynda La Plante's recent cop drama. The Irish copper in the English manor was played by Victoria Smurfit. DI Sarah Lund (The Killing)"We have...
Star Ledger, April 20, 2012
...well when Anna teeters on spike heels at her first crime scene and loses her lunch. Created by Lynda La Plante ("Prime Suspect"), this cop drama focuses on the age-inappropriate fireworks that occur between Langton and Anna as they investigate extremely...
New Jersey Online, April 20, 2012
...well when Anna teeters on spike heels at her first crime scene and loses her lunch. Created by Lynda La Plante ("Prime Suspect"), this cop drama focuses on the age-inappropriate fireworks that occur between Langton and Anna as they investigate extremely...
Deseret Morning News, April 8, 2012
...Acorn, 2008, three discs, $49.99). Amanda Burton stars in the final four episodes of this series by Lynda La Plante, of "Prime Suspect" fame. Burton is the title character, who solves crimes here for the Homicide and Serious Crime division, including one...