Born in Liverpool and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Lynda also worked with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Lynda turned her hand to writing books; her first title being the Legacy.

Books penned by Lynda La Plante include: The Legacy, The Talisman, Bella Mafia, Entwined, Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood, Cold Heart, Sleeping Cruelty, Royal Flush, Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Clean Cut and Deadly Intent have all been international best-sellers.

Alongside numerous BAFTA awards for her television writing, Lynda has received an EMMY, the 1997 Liverpool Echo Arts Award for best television writer, the Dennis Potter Writers Award and the prestigious Edgar Allen Poe Writer’s Award.

Lynda bestowed John Moores University with a creative writing scholarship program, in her hometown of Liverpool.

On Saturday 14th June 2008 Lynda was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List (Writer and Producer for services to Literature, Drama and to Charity).

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