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Credits

Writer: Lynda La Plante; Genres: Fiction, Mystery; Publisher: Random House
La Plante excels at creating hard-edged female detectives (Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison is her small-screen triumph), and Cold Blood's Lorraine Page is no exception. In this, her third Page novel, the L.A.-based private investigator is savoring a $1 million bonus from her last case as she plunges eagerly into a murder investigation involving sadistic home porn movies and a $20 million art-forging conspiracy. The mystery side of the novel satisfies; it's the surprisingly soppy finale — focusing on Page's personal life — that falls apart in a most un-La Plante-like manner. C

 

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