Name: Lynda La Plante SACRIFICE with Triona Adams
Start: 2026-03-13T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-13T19:00:00+00:00
Location: The Sheldonian Theatre

Bestselling Crime Writer and winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger, Lynda La Plante will join us for an evening at the Sheldonian Theatre
About this Event

Sacrifice

Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard's fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery - a multimillion-dollar Basquiat.
When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, Jack's hunt spirals into obsession. Clues point to Adam Border, a reclusive genius hiding in a decayed Sicilian villa haunted by Mafia ties and violent secrets.
As Jack abandons family and duty to pursue him, he's drawn into a world where brilliance and madness collide, masterpieces mask psychosis, and death stalks every shadow. In chasing the truth, Detective Jack Warr must decide which side of the law he's on . . . once and for all.

Lynda La Plante

Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing – and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

Lynda’s original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer’s Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.

Triona Adams

Triona Adams is the Crime Fiction Programmer for the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival. She was a founding member of the Barbara Pym Society and the St Hilda's Annual Crime Conference. In the past Triona has interviewed authors including Mick Herron, Charlie Higson, Val McDermid and Simon Mason.