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Cold Blood [Unabridged] (Paperback)

by Lynda La Plante (Author)
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  • Paperback: 566 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; 7 edition (1 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330347691
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330347693
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,823 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

 

In her desperation to succeed in this, her first case as a private detective, ex-Lieutenant Lorraine Page is caught in a web of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the murky world she has fought so hard to escape.

 

Continuing the investigation means risking everything. But the million dollar bonus is one hell of an incentive not to back off a case that could kiss her – or give her the future and the professional respect she craves.

 

 ‘La Plante’s stinging social realism in fiction and drama always inspires biting controversy.  In Cold Blood .  . . there is a heavy dose of the darker side of 90s America.  It is the raw material that La Plante serves up best.’

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‘True La Plante style . . . a faced paced romp’

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4.0 out of 5 stars IS THE BLOOD "COLD" ON THIS CASE?, 20 Oct 2002
By Nancy Martin (Pennsylvania (orig. NY)) - See all my reviews
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When I read Cold Shoulder, the first book in this series, I immediately felt a connection to the main character, Lorraine Page. She's nothing like I am - as a matter of fact, she's quite different but she seems like someone I would like. As she struggles through her daily routine, trying to put her life back in order, she manages to capture the reader's heart in such a way that we will defend her to her dying day. In Cold Shoulder, she was actually given the "cold shoulder" by all those who knew and loved her. When her partner is killed on duty, she begins a downward spiral causing her to lose her job as a policewoman, lose her husband, lose her kids, resort to drugs and alcohol for some relief from her nightmares and basically give up living. It's not until she meets "Rosie", an AA member, that her life will finally get the help it needs to go on.

Cold Blood now finds Lorraine starting her own private investigation agency with Rosie as her partner. Their coupling is so very needed by both of them. Rosie will keep Lorraine on track and Lorraine will provide a much needed source for Rosie to mother. In this episode, Lorraine will travel from LA to New Orleans as she tries to find the missing teenage daughter of a wealthy California couple. She will be joined by Rosie, as well as Bill Rooney, a retired police captain, and Nick Bartello, another old friend of Bill's from the police department. The foursome has a great incentive...a million-dollar bonus if they can find 18-year-old Anna Louise Caley dead or alive.

This book is a fun romp through New Orleans in the midst of Mardi Gras. As usual, Lorraine is overbearingly persistent in tracking down all the clues that will hopefully lead to some closure for the girl's parents. Although the reader hopes and prays that the girl will be found alive, her blood just might be "cold" by the time they find her.

I'm just about ready to pick up the next book in the series - Cold Heart - and am looking forward to following Lorraine around again and making sure she stays away from the bottle.

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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant conclusion to Lorraine Page's career!, 26 Dec 2000
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The last in the series of three books on Lorraine Page's career as an ex cop, alcoholic and private investigator. As with the first two books; Cold Heart and Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood is completely "unputdownable" and has a brilliant, but sad ending for those who have grown to love and admire the main character Lorraine Page (There always seemed to be a happy ending in the future for this lady but it was not to be)!However, there is a happier ending for her two best friends who have been in the story of her life since Cold Shoulder.

Typically of La Plante, the research involved in writing the book is second to none and even taught me a few things about the voodoo religion which I would never have bothered to find out about otherwise.

Lynda La Plante at her best but you should read Cold Shoulder and Cold Heart before but not absolutely necessary.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars gripping, 29 Mar 2000
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This review is from: Cold Blood (Hardcover)
This is one of my first Lynda La Plante reads and is one of the best books I have read for a long time. Edge of the seat thriller, can't wait to read her other titles. More, More, More.
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