Lorraine Page is a down-on-her-luck ex-LAPD cop, recruited against her will to hunt for a serial killer. Cold Shoulder is the story of a young woman who has everything: a devoted husband, two beautiful daughters, and a successful career as a lieutenant with the Pasadena Homicide Squad. But when her partner is shot and dies in her arms, Lorraine's life starts to unravel. The after-hours drinking that once was social becomes her refuge, and soon she's not waiting until the end of her shift. From there it all comes undone with frightening speed: Drunk, she kills an innocent boy while on duty, is fired from the force, is abandoned by her family, and ends up living on the street as a prostitute. Cold Shoulder is the dramatic, frighteningly explicit account of Lorraine Page's fall and nightmarish recovery while caught between the danger of a serial killer on the loose and the manipulations of the old-boy police force that had ostracized her not so long before. The book reverberates with realism because it is based on a true story, one that has been meticulously researched and crafted by Lynda La Plante, a consummate expert in crime writing.

This book was found in the Red Cross Blood Bank in Garran, ACT. I was given it for Bookcrossing.

15/12/2012: Released at our Bookcrossing Christmas party at Southern Cross Yacht Club, Yarralumla, ACT. Enjoy.

Picked up at our bookcrossing Christmas lunch - looking forward to reading it.

To be released at the monthly bookcrossing meet up. This month it is at the Mt Stromlo Cafe.

An escape from reality - to someone else's much darker world

At Canberra BookCrossing monthly meet up

This book returned to the BC get-together at King O'Malley's Pub in Civic, ACT. No-one else took the book, so instead of leaving it there I reclaimed it. I will find another place to release it.

Left near Loch Ard Gorge, Great Ocean Road, Victoria.

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