COLD HEART [Import] [Hardcover]

LYNDA LA PLANTE (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 472 pages
• Publisher: BCA; First Edition edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333622057
• ISBN-13: 978-0333622056
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,875,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars La Plante, how could you?, May 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cold Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)

Linda LaPlante had a good thing going and blew it. Lorraine Page was a real and fascinating character, leaving the reader happily, although impatiently, waiting for the next book. In Cold Heart, the third in the Page series, as soon as Lorraine meets Jake Burton you know things are moving too fast and the plot begins to really ring false. Linda LaPlante clearly wanted to move the story along as quickly as possible and bring the series to an end. And what an end! Trite, awkwardly written, almost painfully unbelievable and a slap in the face to her dedicated fans.

If you care about Lorraine Page, DO NOT READ Cold Heart...she deserves a better ending. A thoroughly disappointing book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning - spoilers, December 19, 2002

By 

Repairmanjack "rationalcoach" (The Beach) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)

The first book in the Lorraine series, Cold Shoulder, was darn good. Great characterizations, good plot. The second, 'Cold Blood', was not as good, but still very readable. 'Cold Heart' went straight downhill. The plot was haphazard, the characterizations were mediocre. Lorraine lost a bit of her sparkle and if I hadn't read the first two books earlier, I would have found her fairly uninteresting. However, it was the ending that made this book horrible. You do NOT kill off your heroine. Sure, it can happen in real life, but this isn't real life. We read books and go to movies to see what life could and should be - and killing off someone like Lorraine, who has finally succeeded in her struggle to pull her life together, sends a message that life is hopeless. There was not even an attempt at a noble purpose in her death.

I've never given away an ending of a book before, but this one deserves to be exposed. Shame on Ms LaPlante. My advice - don't bother reading this book and allow a successful Lorraine to live on in your mind, as someone to respect and admire.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MY HEART IS NOW "COLD"!!, November 1, 2001

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Nancy Martin (Pennsylvania (orig. NY)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)

I've so enjoyed the first two books in this series, Cold Shoulder and Cold Blood, that it was actually exciting for me to begin this one in the hopes that Lorraine Page is still on the right track towards putting her life back together. When Cold Blood ended, Lorraine and her partners had just received a million dollar bonus for solving their last case. This installment begins with Lorraine spending some of that money getting new office digs, a new car, some new clothes and waiting for the phone to ring in her private investigation agency. Her assistant Rosie has been replaced by Decker since Rosie and Rooney are still honeymooning in Europe. Fans of this series were delighted when Rosie found love in Cold Blood - how ironic.

The phone finally rings at Page Investigations beginning this new adventure into the world of movie producing, pornography, art theft and a possible love interest for Lorraine. The appearance of Jake Burton, as the new chief of detectives, will add some spice to the series not only in the police department but in Lorraine's apartment as well. As she tries to find out who really killed Harry Nathan, all the supporting characters in Harry's world begin to die as well. As his estate travels from one ex-wife to the other, Lorraine will also travel to the Hamptons and New Mexico in an effort to tie all the loose ends together.

While Lorraine is out of town, many things will be going on behind the scenes back home in LA. Rooney and Rosie have returned from their honeymoon and come up with some startling evidence that might bring Lorraine's past demons back to the forefront endangering her life.

Cold Heart is definitely a perfect title for this book as my heart was cold as I read and cried through the last few pages. I have only one thing to say to the author - How Could You?