Cold Blood - Rilegato

La Plante, Lynda

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679441042 ISBN 13: 9780679441045

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1997

Riassunto

Lorraine is a three-time loser: an ex-LAPD cop, ex-hooker, ex-wife, even an ex-mom, since she lost custody of her kids. She is recovering from the alcoholism that nearly destroyed her life and, through tremendous force of will, has managed to pull herself back together and set up her own private detective agency in Los Angeles, but she finds that there is scant demand for her services.
Finally she lands the high-profile case that could activate her new career. The eighteen-year-old daughter of a fading movie starlet has disappeared during Mardi Gras, and her parents offer Lorraine $1 million if she finds the girl, dead or alive. As the search for the missing girl becomes a deadly murder hunt involving Hollywood rich kids and New Orleans lowlife, Lorraine 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. When she finds herself strongly attracted to Robert Caley, the girl's father - who, in turn, is sexually drawn to her - she knows she faces a new kind of danger. She begins to spin out of control and turns to her old friend booze for solace.
The game gets more dangerous as Lorraine fights demons within and without, but the million-dollar bonus is a powerful incentive not to back off a case that would give her the professional respect she craves but could also kill her. Cold Blood reverberates with realism.

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L'autore

Lynda La Plante started her career as a stage and TV actress, then turned to scriptwriting, where she made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful British television series Widows. In the United States she is best known for her television miniseries Prime Suspect, which twice won Emmy Awards for Best Series. In addition, she was nominated for an Emmy for her writing, and has won the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writers Award, as well as many other top British awards. She has just completed the screenplay of one of her previous novels, Bella Mafia, which will air as a four-hour CBS miniseries. La Plante lives in East Hampton, N.Y., and London.

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t, the enormously successful two-time Emmy Award-winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Turning her talent from the screen to the page,

La Plante has crafted an intelligent, hard-hitting thriller featuring a female lead every bit as compelling and complex as her Prime Suspect heroine played by Helen Mirren. Lorraine is a three-time loser: an ex-LAPD cop, ex-hooker, ex-wife, even an ex-mom, since she has lost custody of her kids. She is recovering from the alcoholism that nearly destroyed her life and, through tremendous force of will, has managed to pull herself back together and set up her own private detective agency in Los Angeles, but she finds that there is scant demand for her services.

Finally she lands the high-profile case that could activate her new career. The eighteen-year-old daughter of a fading movie starlet has disappeared during Mardi Gras, and her parents

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679441042
• ISBN 13: 9780679441045
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 402