Linda Barnes

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Title: Steel Guitar: Description:
Carlotta Carlyle used to share most things with Dee Willis until they shared one thing too many and Dee ran off with Carlotta's newly ex-husband.Now Dee is a best selling blues singer,back in town and in trouble.Investigating Dee's present take sCarlotta back to their past,where plenty of wounds are waiting to be re-opened.

Title: Hardware (a Carlotta Carlyle Mystery): Description:
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Title: Snapshot: Description:
While Carlotta Carlyle looks for a reason behind the suspicious death of six year old Rebecca Woodrow,her young friend Paolina is looking for her drug baron biological father.The two cases soon lead Carlotta into a conspiracy that threatens to rock the foundations of one of Boston's most successful hospitals.

Title: A Trouble Of Fools (crime Club S.): Description:
In the first Carlotta Carlyle story,Carlotta is asked to find Margaret Devens' missing brother, a Boston Irish cab driver.As a part time cabbie she finds it easy to go under cover and finds that a group of Irish cabbies are engaged in what looks like IRA fundraising.A really good start to a good series,if you like Kinsey Millhone and V.I.Warshawski you should definitely try Carlotta.

Title: Coyote (coronet Books): Description:
Carlotta Carlyle enters the world of illegal aliens as she tracks down the Coyote,who smuggles people in to the States and dumps them.Unless he could be killing them instead?This is the fifth Carlyle book and she shows no sign of slowing down.

Title: The Snake Tattoo (coronet Books): Description:
Two jobs at the same time keep Carlotta carlyle out of the house nwhere builders are causing their own chaos.She needs to find the hooker with the snake tattoo who witnessed a barroom fight that left Carlotta's friend Mooney suspended from the Boston police,and at the same time find the runaway daughter of a wealthy Boston family.Carlotta cruises the red light district at night and a high class private school by day struggling to keep both balls in the air-luckily,and oddly for a woman,Carlotta certainly has balls.

Title: Cold Case (a Carlotta Carlyle Mystery): Description:
Twenty years ago a young author,Thea Janis,wrote a stunning first novel and then disappeared a few weeks later.A madman was convicted of her murder and a body buried.But now a new manuscript which only Thea could have written turns up and her family are being blackmailed a chapter at a time.I found this a tough case to solve but luckily I wasn't hired.Carlotta Carlyle got the job and she gets it done with her usual impeccable style.