In 1991 itv released prime suspect which has now run to. Lynda writes novels that she adapts to television series through her. The murders are gruesome, and the method of killing is also. Buy a discounted paperback of clean cut online from australias leading online bookstore. The anna travis series began in 2004 with above suspicion. Detective inspector anna travis learns that her lover and mentor, detective chief inspector james langton is gravely wounded during the line of duty and rushes to his side. I havent read the last two books in her series though please let me know. In the first novel of anna travis series, we are introduced to anna, a rookie detective who is about to start off on her first murder case. The police procedures ring true and show the real work of detectives, which is not the flashes of intuition that are common on tv detective shows but the result of painstaking research, forensic. When i read the series and watched the show, i always wondered if the character was treated as poorly as i thought. Id gotten a bit sick of anna travis the heroine of a number of her previous books, as she didnt seem to be moving forward personally, even though the murders she investigated were interesting. Ruthless drug trafficker alexander fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the western hemisphere.
She is a detective and the books pick up when she is a trainee detective. The tv show was called above suspicion, after her first novel. She has to win over the respect of her male counterparts and takes a risk with a high risk suspect. She is an honorary fellow of the british film institute and a recipient of the british academy of film and television arts bafta dennis potter writers award. I am glad that she has revisited a younger jane tennison. After attending the royal academy of dramatic art rada training for stage, she appeared in several productions and well known tv series under the pen name lynda marchal. Here she began working on her anna travis series, which includes above suspicion 2004, the red dahlia 2005, clean cut 2007, deadly intent 2008, silent scream 2009, blind fury 2010 and blood line 2011. The series was adapted into a television series titled above suspicion, starring kelly reilly as anna travis.
As many of you know, my next book will be coming out on 24th september 2015. The fifth book in the tennison series following more. In the footsteps of jane tennison, immortalized by helen mirren in prime suspect, comes anna travis, a rookie female detective about to embark on her first murder case. I trained as an actress then turned to writing and made my script breakthrough with widows and. Her third novel bella mafia was later adapted for television in 1998 staring vanessa redgrave. But i have had a huge number of questions about anna travis, asking when i will be writing my next book about her. Travis, anna fictitious character up to 20 books are listed, in descending order of popularity. Awarded a cbe, she is a member of the uk crime writers awards hall of fame. In the second book, she is now a detective inspector and she is still working with her partner, james langton. She then turned to writing and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful tv.
What they uncover leads to the opening of several cold case missing persons files. Books about travis, anna fictitious character what. Its basically the backstory of jane tennison the take no shit senior detective chief inspector whatzit from her popular prime suspect books and the equally popular tv series based on those books starring helen mirren. I read the first set of books decades ago, and i still remember the series. Lynda was born on march 15, 1946 in the united kingdom. She runs her own television production company and lives in london and east hampton, new york. She was raised in liverpool and trained at the royalacademy of dramatic art.
In 2009 she was inducted into the crime thriller awards hall of fame. Born lynda titchmarsh in 1943, she grew up in liverpool, merseyside. A chance pull over of an erratically driven van leads to the discovery of a brutally murdered woman and a full investigation by the murder squad. They started eight years ago now the body count is up to six. She is an honorary fellow of the british film institute and a member of the uk crime writers awards hall of fame. Anna travis is a new female detective who is about to work on her first murder case. Her first tv series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series widows, in 1983, in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands. Anna travis after 2009s deadly intent, travis looks into the stabbing murder of 24yearold movie star amanda delany in her. She is also wellknown as lynda marchal, which was her stage name when she performed with the royalshakespeare company in several productions. The books then go on to follow anna traviss career in the police.
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