La Plante lives with her 18-year-old son Lorcan, his girlfriend, and the dogs – Max, a cockapoo and Pluto, a whippet. She hasn’t been out socially for over a year because of the Covid pandemic.

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 left viewers in hysterics during her chat on This Morning today Credit: ITV. Lynda, 75, was promoting her new thriller Murder Mile - the fourth book to follow policewoman Jane ...

Lynda La Plante, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (498p) ISBN 978-0-688-09242-9. BBC writer La Plante's hefty first novel initially daunts with a surfeit of minor characters and confusing ...

Lynda La Plante writes bestsellers. She wins awards, she makes money. Sounds like the perfect life. So why is her latest book so filled with fear and rage?

Lynda La Plante has managed to pack a thousand lifetimes into one. The celebrated writer has shared the stage with Anthony Hopkins, come face-to-face with some of Britain's most notorious ...

Original writer Lynda La Plante appeared on This Morning today, where she promoted her new book Widows' Revenge. After being asked by Phillip Schofield about a potential movie adaptation, she ...

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 ...

Lynda La Plante is merrily listing the prisons, hostels, bordellos and mortuaries where she has carried out research for her gripping crime thrillers down the years. There was her first time at a ...

Lynda La Plante published her first novel in 1987 (David Parry/PA) In 1991, police drama Prime Suspect made its debut with Dame Helen Mirren as hard-edged Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison.

The Thames glistened in the early morning sun," writes Lynda La Plante in the opening chapter of her international bestseller, The Red Dahlia.… ...