Linda Barnes, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-13940-7
Elderly, wealthy and game, Mary Hillman catches the next plane from Boston to New Orleans when her long-time cook, Dora, vacationing there, calls to ask for help. Dora has been accused of stabbing to death her former husband while both attended a...
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Linda Barnes. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02363-6
Anthony Award–winner Barnes (Lie Down with the Devil and 11 other Carlotta Carlyle novels) crafts a stand-alone with Shakes-pearean ambitions. Em Moore, an agoraphobe who ghostwrites celebrity biographies under the joint pseudonym T.E. Blakemore,...
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Linda Barnes, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-30614-0
In less capable hands, a tale about a 14-year-old literary sensation who's been missing and presumed dead for 24 years would be hard to believe. But Barnes's writing is so confident and her characters so engrossing that readers will have no trouble...
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Linda Barnes, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-385-30613-3
When Boston-area cabbies are targeted in a series of attacks, the professional and personal lives of Carlotta Carlyle bloom with mystery in this lively yarn. The part-time PI and part-time cab driver last seen in Snapshot is hired by the Small Taxi...
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Linda Barnes, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-385-30612-6
In the ever-increasing crowd of admirable female PIs, Boston-based Carlotta Carlyle is a stand-out and not just for her red hair and 61 frame. Self-possessed and confident, she's also short-tempered, restless and skeptical. On a referral from a...
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Linda Barnes, Author Delacorte Press $18.5 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-30013-1
Tall, red-haired private eye and part-time cab driver Carlotta Carlyle returns for her fourth, cleverly plotted and zestfully related adventure. in which she must deal with her past. Her former best friend, singer Dee Willis, in Boston to begin a...
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Linda Barnes, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-30012-4
Although the title may suggest a Western setting, Coyote brings back to familiar Boston territory six-foot-tall, flame-haired sleuth Carlotta Carlyle. This time the ex-cop and sometime cab-driver prowls overcrowded apartments where illegal aliens...
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Linda Barnes, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-02643-1
The award-winning author of A Trouble of Fools rekindles her 61 redheaded female private eye, Carlotta Carlyle, in a rivetingly well-told story. Her old friend, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, is under investigation for excessive brutality...
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Linda Barnes, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-01100-0
Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is the newest creation of the author of the lively Michael Sprague mysteries. In addition to being red-haired, 61 tall, a former cabbie and an ex-cop, Carlotta is the sort of storyteller capable of enlisting
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Linda Barnes, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28270-7
The taut ninth entry in Barnes's Carlotta Carlyle series concerns malfeasance at Boston's Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project, "the biggest urban construction project in the history of the modern world," an engineering marvel...
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Linda Barnes, Author Hyperion Books $32.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6317-4
With eight appearances in the last 12 years, Barnes's PI Carlotta Carlyle has the full-bodied presence of an old friend. Like most fictional detectives, she's fearless and smart-mouthed. Unlike most, she has a social circle, an exercise regimen and...
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Linda Barnes, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-21220-1
Female PI Carlotta Carlyle investigates the death of a young leukemia victim in this adroitly plotted and entertaining novel. (Mar.)
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Linda Barnes, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-21759-7
In ``a rivetingly well-told story,'' redheaded, 61 private eye Carlotta Carlyle helps an old friend, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston PD, who is under investigation for excessive brutality. ``There are surprises at the finish, made all the more...
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Linda Barnes, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-33289-1
In Barnes’s utterly compelling 12th mystery to feature Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle (after 2006’s Heart of the World
), Carlyle is still engaged to her mob-associated fiancé, Sam Gianelli, though she’s waiting for Sam to...
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Linda Barnes, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-312-33287-7
Barnes's fast-paced 11th mystery (after 2004's Deep Pockets
) finds Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle involved in a deeply personal case: Paolina, a spunky teen whom Carlotta loves like a daughter, has disappeared. Paolina's mother, too busy...
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Linda Barnes, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-28271-4
In her 10th robust Carlotta Carlyle mystery (after 2002's The Big Dig
), Barnes weaves an intricate web with a pleasingly poisonous spider at its center. African-American Harvard professor Wilson Chaney asks Boston PI Carlotta for help because...
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Linda Barnes, Author, Brett Battles, Author, Lee Child, Author et al. Perseus/Vanguard $25.95 (404p) ISBN 978-1-59315-559-9
Fans of the TV series 24
will best appreciate this two-part serial thriller written by 22 members of International Thriller Writers. Based on an idea by Deaver (The Broken Window
), who provides the opening and closing chapters of each segment, the
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