[Lorraine Page 03] • Coeur De Pierre

Having established her reputation with the enormously successful, two-time

Emmy Award-winning television series Prime Suspect, author/screenwriter Lynda

La Plante enhanced it with her more recent popular CBS TV miniseries, Bella

Mafia. The same unbeatable storytelling power she brings to her films is the

engine that drives her new thriller, Cold Heart, from its disturbing beginning

to its shocking climax.

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A single gunshot into a Beverly Hills swimming pool ends the life of movie

mogul Harry Nathan, a man with so many enemies--including a widow and two ex-

wives--that the challenge for PI Lorraine Page at first seems to be the

surfeit of suspects. Newly established as an independent private investigator,

Lorraine comes to the case hungry and determined to succeed--but Harry

Nathan's death is the beginning, not the end, of a trail of lust and

conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. A

sordid trail of video evidence implicates other leading Hollywood figures in

the case, while Lorraine finds her own investigations hampered by the personal

intervention of new police chief Jake Burton, a man who appears to know

everything bad about her but still seems determined to know more.

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As the failures of her past come back to haunt her, Lorraine finds that

solving this murder is no longer just a job, it's about recapturing her own

self-worth. A first-rate crime story, a love story, and more--it's precisely

the kind of superior suspense novel we've come to expect from Lynda La Plante,

one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama.