L'autore:
Lynda La Plante started her career as a stage and TV actress, then turned to scriptwriting, where she made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful British television series Widows. In the United States she is best known for her television miniseries Prime Suspect, which twice won Emmy Awards for Best Series. In addition, she was nominated for an Emmy for her writing, and has won the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Writers Award, as well as many other top British awards. She has just completed the screenplay of one of her previous novels, Bella Mafia, which will air as a four-hour CBS miniseries. La Plante lives in East Hampton, N.Y., and London.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
t, the enormously successful two-time Emmy Award-winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Turning her talent from the screen to the page,
La Plante has crafted an intelligent, hard-hitting thriller featuring a female lead every bit as compelling and complex as her Prime Suspect heroine played by Helen Mirren. Lorraine is a three-time loser: an ex-LAPD cop, ex-hooker, ex-wife, even an ex-mom, since she has lost custody of her kids. She is recovering from the alcoholism that nearly destroyed her life and, through tremendous force of will, has managed to pull herself back together and set up her own private detective agency in Los Angeles, but she finds that there is scant demand for her services.
Finally she lands the high-profile case that could activate her new career. The eighteen-year-old daughter of a fading movie starlet has disappeared during Mardi Gras, and her parents
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