Cold Blood - Softcover

La Plante, Lynda

3.96

2,674 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849832641 ISBN 13: 9781849832649

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2010

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Suspicion and fear surround the mysterious disappearance of a movie star's daughter, and the race to claim the reward for finding Anna Louise Caley spirals into a deadly trail of voodoo in the French quarter of New Orleans.

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A weakness for the bottle has cost Lorraine Page her job as a lieutenant in the LAPD, her family--everything she once held dear. Down and out, Page finds the will to crawl out of the bottle, pull together the few remaining strands of her life, and open a modest detective agency in Los Angeles. After a slow start, she finally lands a high-profile case that she hopes will get her business off the ground. The daughter of a movie star has disappeared while on a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and the distraught parents offer Page a cool million if she can find the girl.

Page quickly discovers the case is about more than one missing girl, and her investigation leads her into the seamy underworld of New Orleans lowlife and rich, thrill-seeking Hollywood kids, a world where violence and deceit are as commonplace as beignets and caf� au lait. As the pressure to find the girl mounts, Page finds herself falling off the wagon, turning again to booze for solace in her hour of need. Out of control, she knows she should back off the case, but one million dollars is a powerful incentive to keep going; if she blows this case, she realizes, she will never get the professional respect she so desperately wants.

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"The scenes keep moving as if their wheels were greased, and there is terrific energy in the simple, driving, cinematic plot."
-The New York Times Book Review

"This gripping crime story...strong-arms its readers--all the way to its double-whammy climax."
-People

"Riveting."
-Los Angeles Times

"Rarely has a British novelist penetrated the cultural undertow of American crime and law enforcement as shrewdly and incisively as Lynda La Plante in Cold Shoulder. Raises enough issues of power, gender, sex and corruption to keep the pages turning almost by themselves."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"Nothing about Prime Suspect is much less than extraordinary. One of the most absorbing, well-acted and mercilessly nerve-racking dramas of the season. 'Sensational' would not be too strong a word."
-The Washington Post

"Gritty and graphic...keeps you suspended in an edgy state of perpetual doubt. La Plante's script is a beauty."
-USA Today

"Prime Suspect is a mystery that builds to a powerful climax ...although there's not a single explosion, not a gunshot or a car chase, the suspense never flags."

-The Wall Street Journal

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