Many of us lie awake wondering whether we can pay the mortgage. The night before we meet, Lynda La Plante lay awake worrying ...

Sparkling company, dripping with dry wit and irony, La Plante is sharp as a knife. Her thirst for knowledge is unrelenting, ...

A century ago, in the early 1920s, English mystery writer Agatha Christie was dubbed the ‘Queen of Crime’. That crown has now been transferred seamlessly to Lynda La Plante, and what has earned her ...

BBC Breakfast fans weren’t impressed by a “car crash” interview on the morning programme, as novelist Lynda La Plante took to ...

Tour de force Lynda la Plante turned 80 on Wednesday and while she admits that the landmark birthday was not particularly welcome, the legendary writer embraced it. “I’ve reached 80 but I feel ...

Lynda La Plante. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-213434-9 La Plante breaks no new ground in her eighth Anna Travis novel (after 2012’s Bloodline).

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.

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 ...

Wrongful Death by Lynda La Plante is published by Simon & Schuster, priced £18.99. The author will be in conversation on Wednesday at 7pm at the Steps Theatre, Central Library, Wellgate Centre ...

La Plante broke through in 1983 with her six-part British robbery miniseries “Widows,” which had a follow-up series, “Widows 2,” in 1985 and another spinoff, “She’s Out,” in 1995.

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 ...

Now an ebullient 70, with a mane of maple-leaf red hair, La Plante was a successful actor - Lynda Marchal - in the 1970s and early 1980s, appearing on stage opposite Anthony Hopkins and with the ...