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Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries
by Linda Barnes
Bestseller and multiple award–winning author Linda Barnes returns with the most personal case to date for her popular Boston PI, Carlotta Carlyle. Carlotta, in unfamiliar territory working on her own behalf, finds herself in the middle of a complicated case that has as much to do with the people she loves as the backstreets of Boston, and beyond.
For starters, Carlotta wants to know what her on-again, off-again boyfriend Sam Gianelli did to earn himself a secret indictment for murder that’s keeping him out of the country. A man with plenty of secrets, he won’t tell her anything, much less let her help, and she isn’t having any more luck with her old friends at the Boston PD. Sam’s exile could be connected to the mob—he is in the family—but she’s not buying it. It couldn’t be that simple. Nothing involving Sam ever is.
Faced with nothing but dead ends, Carlotta goes back to basics and takes a case for a nervous bride-to-be who wants to make sure her fiancé is being faithful. Simple enough, but when her client turns up dead, Carlotta catches the kind of break she wished she hadn’t.
"Starred Review. The story moves unhesitatingly from point to point, and each character encountered holds his or her space on the page with confidence and distinctiveness. The reader can just sit back and enjoy the ride." - Publishers Weekly.
"Middling work for Carlotta, less rewarding as an account of crime and detection than as a startling new chapter in the heroine's checkered personal life." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Linda Barnes is the author of fifteen previous novels, eleven of which are Carlotta Carlyle mysteries. Her work has won the Anthony and American Mystery awards, and received numerous nominations for the Shamus and Edgar awards. Born in Detroit, she lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.
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