This series follows a tough and determined police investigator grappling with personal demons and forced to confront her past. When a serial killer investigation is complicated by the disappearance of a key witness, it's revealed that the witness is the investigator herself. These stories are packed with suspense, twists, and deep psychological insight into the protagonist's life.
Forced out of the Los Angeles Police Department when she shoots dead an innocent boy while drunk on duty, Lorraine Page sinks rapidly into alcoholism, petty crime and prostitution. But when a serial killer chooses his victims from the demi-mondaine of Los Angeles, Lorraine becomes drawn into the search, and must battle her alcohol addiction to find a new career as a private investigator.
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.’ Elle ‘True La Plante style . . . a faced paced romp’ Daily Mail
The third in a crime series new to Simon & Schuster by the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of ABOVE SUSPICION and THE RED DAHLIA.