Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55442 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
LaPlante's television scripts--Widows and Prime Suspect--satisfactorily combine thriller plots with some intelligent brooding on the problems of women in middle age; her private eye trilogy is to that extent pretty much what one would expect from her. In the third installment, Los Angeles detective Lorraine Page has entirely recovered from the alcoholism that forced her out of the police department, and even finds love. She is hired to investigate the death of porn mogul Harry for his third wife, the most likely suspect, and finds a trail of blackmail and art fraud.

Following the money will only get her so far--Lorraine has also to understand the emotional maelstrom which Harry created around him; there are less rational motives than money. LaPlante sets herself a difficult problem of balance--Lorraine's struggle with her demons and with chickens that persist in coming home to roost, is only tangentially relevant to her work. Indeed, as Lorraine becomes less driven, she gradually loses interest in detection altogether--which may be sane, but is not what we want to hear. LaPlante's stretching of the thriller form may not be always successful--the digressions meander too far-- but it is always interesting. --Roz Kaveney

Synopsis
Cindy Nathan hires Lorraine Page - ex-LA cop, ex-wife, ex-hooker and recovering alcoholic - to clear herself of her husband's murder. It soon becomes clear that Cindy had every reason to kill her husband, and that two ex-wives both had equally powerful motives for revenge.

From the Publisher
LYNDA LA PLANTE ONCE AGAIN SHOWS HER BRILLIANCE
Movie mogul Harry Nathan's lonely death in a Beverly Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust and conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world.

'Lynda La Plante once again shows her brilliance' Daily Express

Customer Reviews

Good Book
This was generally another good book by Lynda La Plante, though i was suprosed at the ending and the way it enfolded,great read

MY HEART IS NOW "COLD"
I've so enjoyed the first two books in this series, Cold Shoulder and Cold Blood, that it was actually exciting for me to begin this one in the hopes that Lorraine Page is still on the right track towards putting her life back together. When Cold Blood ended, Lorraine and her partners had just received a million dollar bonus for solving their last case. This installment begins with Lorraine spending some of that money getting new office digs, a new car, some new clothes and waiting for the phone to ring in her private investigation agency. Her assistant Rosie has been replaced by Decker since Rosie and Rooney are still honeymooning in Europe. Fans of this series were delighted when Rosie found love in Cold Blood - how ironic.

The phone finally rings at Page Investigations beginning this new adventure into the world of movie producing, pornography, art theft and a possible love interest for Lorraine. The appearance of Jake Burton, as the new chief of detectives, will add some spice to the series not only in the police department but in Lorraine's apartment as well. As she tries to find out who really killed Harry Nathan, all the supporting characters in Harry's world begin to die as well. As his estate travels from one ex-wife to the other, Lorraine will also travel to the Hamptons and New Mexico in an effort to tie all the loose ends together.

While Lorraine is out of town, many things will be going on behind the scenes back home in LA. Rooney and Rosie have returned from their honeymoon and come up with some startling evidence that might bring Lorraine's past demons back to the forefront endangering her life.

Cold Heart is definitely a perfect title for this book as my heart was cold as I read and cried through the last few pages. I have only one thing to say to the author - How Could You?

Not as good
OK don't get me wrong, it *is* a good book. I *did* loose at least a nights sleep reading it BUt there is something missing. I have loved all the first two and the third one is good but there is a definate missing piece of the puzzle that makes this one less enjoyable as the other two of the series are.