Cold Heart
An addictive crime thriller (Lorraine Page Book 3)
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4.3 • 110 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' KARIN SLAUGHTER
Who will you believe?
In a Beverly Hills swimming pool, a single gunshot ends the life of movie mogul Harry Nathan.
As a man with many enemies – including a widow and two ex-wives – the challenge for private investigator Lorraine Page at first seems to be the number of potential suspects. But police are quick to hone in on Harry’s third wife, Cindy Nathan, as the culprit, even while she maintains her innocence.
Lorraine believes the grieving widow's story but police soon charge Cindy with murder. Proving Cindy’s innocence will be Lorraine’s toughest fight yet, ultimately leading her down a trail of lust and conspiracy, to the darkest corners of the international art world.
PRAISE FOR LYNDA LA PLANTE
'Classic Lynda – a fabulous read' MARTINA COLE
'Satisfyingly full of twists and turns' INDEPENDENT
'An absorbingly twisty plot' GUARDIAN
'A rare ring of authenticity' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Featuring the sleazy Hollywood denizens that La Plante depicts so well, this follow-up to Cold Blood and Cold Shoulder, though enjoyable reading, suffers from a flurry of plot coincidences and an unsatisfying ending. Ex-cop Lorraine Page (last seen in Cold Blood, 1997) is fresh out of surgery and rehab when she gets the first call at her new detective agency. Tinseltown sex kitten Cindy Nathan has found the body of her porn filmmaker husband, Harry, in his Beverly Hills pool and asks Page to prove she didn't do it. All evidence points to Cindy, but Lorraine weeds through the good, the bad and the really nasty in the deceased's circle of ex-spouses and scammed partners, and digs up a private video collection that makes everyone a suspect in wanting him dead. A visit to the police station ignites romance between Page and the new captain, Jake Burton, but few leads on the case. Then an art scam surfaces and Page is hired to track Harry's missing art collection, the bulk of his estate. She visits Harry's surviving first wife, a reclusive feminist artist living on Long Island, and uncovers hot leads, more death and lethal danger that follows her back to the West coast. La Plante's plotting is ragged with loose ends and the novel's conclusion is as familiar as scrambled eggs. But her leads are two raw nerves in search of a synapse and La Plante makes romantic sparks fly between them like few writers can.
Customer Reviews
American
I like English stories
Cold heart
The first two books kept me wanting to get to the end.
Brilliant writer, read loads of her books.
But the third one didn’t hold my attention for a long time.
Then it seemed to drop off
& be dull, then I thought the end was a load of rubbish,
She had just found love only to die after all she had been through in her life.
Really disappointed ruined the story completely. Perhaps Lynda was having a bad day? JS
Ok
On a par with other La Plante books but somewhat different because it is set in America and is not written from the perspective of the police. Sad in parts. Really liked some of the characters. Couldn't work out who did it till much later in the book which is good. Worth a read if you like this author.