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It begins with death, or the spectre of it. Under a mane of reddish hair and sporting Ozzie Osbourne-style shades, Lynda La Plante, doyenne of British TV crime fiction, enters the room. Her fingers are knuckled with carbuncles of jewellery and her clothing is gothic dark. She's talking about an old friend whom she planned to visit while in Dublin, only to discover the lady had passed away. It could be the opening to one La Plante's bestselling thrillers. It's tempting to paint the creator of Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison in a noir-ish light: someone who is fond of saying 'the darkness is everywhere' and who had a series axed by ITV for being too gruesome. But in person, La Plante is not so easily pinned down.
Sitting with her legs propped up underneath her, the author and TV producer talks about her latest book (Blood Line is her 16th title) and a TV mini-series she has been pitching to the US. "You've no idea how tough it is to make two or three pitches a night", she says, and you nod knowledgably. This latest (following such shows as Trial & Retribution and Above Suspicion) is a big-budget production (hence the need for the deep American pockets) being developed through her company, La Plante Productions. "Pirates", she says, with a wary glance around the hotel room. This mini-series, it turns out, is Villains of All Nations, which started with a request from Lionsgate TV for her to cast an eye over a script by a famous writer ("it stunk"). So she took it on.
"I'm up for anything", says La Plante, a line that could be the opening of her memoir. La Plante is an animated and entertaining talker. Give her a prompt - her old school in Crosby for example - and she's off like the clappers, remembering it in forensic detail and occasionally dramatising the characters. But she is at a loss to explain her interest and aptitude for the macabre. There is, however, a story from childhood that may offer a clue. "I remember it with absolute clarity", she says. "I was only about five or six and in the school classroom. The door opened and teacher brought in this woman. Teacher said: 'This is Mischa and Michaela's mother and she has come to take them home.' It was early afternoon, not the time for them to go home. She told them to say goodbye and they didn't come back the next day. That woman had taken her children home and gassed all three of them. I remember that so clearly. Why? Why do I remember that woman in that woollen suit and those two little girls? Weird.
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