Cold Heart

Acknowledgements

I sincerely thank Suzanne Baboneau, Arabella Stein and Philippa McEwan at Macmillan, and the real Lorraine Page whose name I borrowed. Thanks to Gill Coleridge, Esther Newberg, Peter Benedek, and especially to Hazel Orme. I’d also like to thank my team at La Plante Productions: Liz Thorburn, Vaughan Kinghan, script and book editor, Alice Asquith, researcher, Nikki Smith, Christine Harmar-Brown, and Ciara McIlvenny.

With thanks for their contribution to:

Geoffrey Smith

East Hampton Police Department

Sergeant Gilmore and Lieutenant Salcido of the Beverly Hills Police Department

Dr Ian Hill, Department of Forensic Medicine, Guy’s Hospital

George W. Clarke, San Diego District Attorney’s Office

Tom Rowland of Thomas Rowland Associates

Kathy Byrne of the Chicago Film Office

J. B. Smith of the New Mexico Film Commission

Kerstin Chmielewski from the Berlin Tourist Office

Sotheby’s Press Office, New York

But above all my thanks go to a very admirable lady who brought me the story of her life.