Lynda La Plante featured in the Independent

Nick Clark writes about Lynda’s honorary fellowship by the Forensic Science Society and her close cooperation with forensic experts and the police from her debut novel in 1983. Lynda’s love to detail and accuracy has continued to take her ‘to major crime scenes, mortuaries, prisons and even on a drugs raid’, but such profound research has also left its traces on her personally.  As Clark states, ‘La Plante has received the ultimate accolade for a crime writer, becoming the first lay person awarded with an honorary fellowship by the Forensic Science Society.’ Read the full article