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A weakness for the bottle has cost Lorraine Page her job as a lieutenant in the LAPD, her family--everything she once held dear. Down and out, Page finds the will to crawl out of the bottle, pull together the few remaining strands of her life, and open a modest detective agency in Los Angeles. After a slow start, she finally lands a high-profile case that she hopes will get her business off the ground. The daughter of a movie star has disappeared while on a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and the distraught parents offer Page a cool million if she can find the girl.

Page quickly discovers the case is about more than one missing girl, and her investigation leads her into the seamy underworld of New Orleans lowlife and rich, thrill-seeking Hollywood kids, a world where violence and deceit are as commonplace as beignets and café au lait. As the pressure to find the girl mounts, Page finds herself falling off the wagon, turning again to booze for solace in her hour of need. Out of control, she knows she should back off the case, but one million dollars is a powerful incentive to keep going; if she blows this case, she realizes, she will never get the professional respect she so desperately wants. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Page Investigations, the limping brainchild of alcoholic ex- cop Lorraine Page (Cold Shoulder, 1996), is about to go belly-up- -unless Lorraine and her buddies Rosie Hurst and Bill Rooney can find missing heiress Anna Louise Caley. The make-or-break case is a special challenge because Anna Louise, who grew up in Los Angeles, disappeared from New Orleans 11 months ago, right after a bare-knuckles fight with her best friend, Tilda Brown--and the ground's been endlessly trodden since then by the police and every shamus with an eye for a $100 million, the size of poor Anna Louise's trust fund. But Lorraine (an obvious Demi Moore role) talks her way into a two-week trial run, with a big fee up-front and a million-dollar bonus if she produces the missing teenager dead or alive, and promptly settles down to dig the dirt on the family circle. She convinces herself that self-dramatizing actress Elizabeth Seal Caley is injecting herself with Temazepam; that her developer husband Robert has one eye on adultery and the other on that idle trust fund; and that Anna Louise herself liked kinky sex as much as the next young American miss. Though her employers are less than overjoyed at these revelations, Lorraine, her associates still in tow, tags along on the Caleys' return trip to New Orleans, where she'll find a heady mix of gambling, voodoo, and an alarmingly industrious family of hardscrabble crooks. Despite the wholesale debauchery, La Plante's stilted dialogue and her heroine's nonstop attitudinizing (flirting, pining, and accusations seem to be her only weapons) kill any momentum, even when the gumbo hits the fan and corpses begin to spring out of the backdrop in every third scene. Overstuffed, overemotional, and unforgivably overlong. A better bet for a fun evening or two would be your nearest AA meeting. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Not a "Prime Suspect!" 12. Juli 1999

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Ms. LaPlante achieved great success with her series, "Prime Suspect," and the Jane Tennyson character. However, after reading "Cold Blood" (before "Cold Shoulder" -- can't find it!), I was very disappointed. First, Ms. LaPlante tries to "Americanize" her characters too much -- providing them with the foulest of language in everyday usage. What women talk like this on a regular basis? None that I know of; however, it's only a book and "Lorraine Page" has to be viewed as a tough cookie -- having gone through the loss of her husband and children because of alcohol addiction. Granted, imperfect and flawed characters are the most interesting to me -- especially detectives who solve heinous crimes -- but Lorraine's on-and-off-again binges are too depressing and far removed from my way of life. The storyline is somewhat strange -- not your usual detective novel -- and the lack of description about New Orleans and its amenities detract from the novel. Had the City been given its due, the book could have had some sparkle! In addition, the "real" perpetrators are never arrested -- which ticked me off somewhat! I read the novel through and will probably read other La Plante books for comparison.

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Obviously written by a Brit 1. Juni 1999

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While I am a HUGE fan of Prime Suspect, I was not a fan of the Lorraine Page saga, especially after I had to put Cold Shoulder down 3/4 of the way through because I simply did not care what happened to Lorraine, so fed up was I with her battle with the bottle (good thing she's not real or I'd be terribly heartless). This book does not fcous nearly as much on Lorraine's drinking problem as the first one (thank God). This was a real down and dirty mystery that I enjoyed but I found Ms. LaPlante's attempts to sound "American" and to have Lorraine, Bill and Rosie sound like tough Los Angelenos irritating. I also found the emotions overwrought, especially between Lorraine and a main suspect. She's in love with him after 3 days? Give me a break! Another former cop brought into the case by Rooney decides Lorraine is the love of his life and tells her so after 2 days? Get real! The plot itself, involving Hollywood brats and the dark side of New Orleans was very good, although I agree with the above reviewer who thought the descriptions of New Orleans were hugely lacking. All in all...the SUBSTANCE of the book was good but the characters and their settings were a little unrealistic. And one character in particular...the famous movie star Elizabeth Seal...the explanation at the end (FINALLY) of why she is the way she is made me laugh out loud...I'm sorry but it was ludicrous (some nonsense about a movie set and a curse and snakes). Anyway, read it if you must but be warned.

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An enjoyable read 19. April 1999

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Great book - a fast and enjoyable read. I am going to go buy her other books, as the reviews of them are so glowing.

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