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Login or signup to continue reading All articles from our website The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue Lynda La Plante is the creator of some of the grittiest and gutsiest TV thrillers focused on fierce and flawed women, including Prime Suspect, Widows and The Governor. Now the doyenne of British crime fiction is ready to tell her own story. Aged in her 80s, La Plante bills her memoir as a journey through "my expected life on page, stage and screen" and steers us from her drama student days at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts alongside the likes of Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane to her bold first steps into writing in the 1980s and how she expanded her crime knowledge by mixing with the Mafia in Italy and shadowing a private detective in Los Angeles.

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