Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. 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. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity. Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.
<p><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE LEGENDARY LYNDA LA PLANTE</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton's wife and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. But if people lie under oath in a court of law - who can the jury believe?</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PRAISE FOR LYNDA LA PLANTE</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'The UK's most celebrated female crime author'</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">DAILY MAIL</i><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller'</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">KARIN SLAUGHTER</span><br></p>
