Linda Barnes
1) Snapshot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Boston P.I., Carolotta Carlyle, finds herself in deadly conspiracy involving one of Boston's finest hospitals.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the outs with her secretive mob boss lover, Sam Gianelli, Carlotta occupies herself with a seemingly routine case. She feels an immediate bond with her new client, Jessie Franklin. Right now, both women are dealing with issues of trust. For Jessie, it's the man she's soon to marry. Tipped off that he's cheating on her, she wants Carlotta to tail him. No sooner does Carlotta get a track on the likely cad, than Jessie is killed by a hit-and-run driver....
3) Cold case
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlotta Carlyle, a Boston private detective, finds herself involved in an unusual case when a new manuscript turns up, which may possibly be written by an author believed to be dead for the past twenty-four-years.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlotta is frantic. It appears that Paolina, a street-smart teenage girl she's always thought of as a little sister, has run away. After dead-end investigations throughout Boston, Carlotta fears the worst. Especially when she connects the disappearance to Paolina's biological father, Roldán Gonzales, a ruthless Colombian drug lord. To find Paolina, first Carlotta has to find Gonzales-but he's vanished too. The official report is that he's dead....
5) Steel guitar
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlotta Carlyle, a private detective, must confront her suspicions and investigate the death of a bass player for blues singer Dee Willis.
6) Hardware
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston detective Carlotta Carlyle decides to take her business on-line when she is hired to investigate a series of vicious attacks on cabbies at the Green & White Cab Company, where she moonlights.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston's largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn't unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who's deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer...
9) Deep pockets
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvard professor Wilson Chaney is in a comprising position. His marriage, his reputation, and his career are all being held hostage. Chaney needs Carlotta's help to ferret out the blackmailer and retrieve the last of the incriminating love letters he sent freshman student Denali Brinkman-before she committed suicide in a Memorial Drive boathouse. It's a nasty bit of business, but Carlotta reluctantly agrees to help the dishonorable mentor. However,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle puts her life and the lives of her friends in danger when she sets out to discover who killed Valentine Phipps, an elderly eccentric for whom Carlotta had done a security consultation only twenty-four hours earlier.
11) Dead heat
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The U.S. Senator from Massachusetts decides to run in the Boston Marathon, and snipings and death threats follow.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This award-winning debut mystery introduces a Boston PI who's one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit ( Chicago Sun-Times ). Let go from the Beantown police force for insubordination, six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop, part-time taxi driver, and neophyte private eye Carlotta Carlyle is ready for business. Her first client is the genteel and elderly Margaret Devens, whose brother, Eugene, one of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a former Boston cop, Carlotta Carlyle thought she had seen it all-but that was before she became a private eye . . . A Trouble of Fools: Recently fired from the Beantown police force for insubordination, the part-time taxi driver lands her first case as a private eye. Searching for a missing Irish cabbie leads her into a nefarious scheme that puts her at odds with the FBI and a Mafia-connected former lover, in this award-winning debut. The Snake...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Former PI and independently wealthy actor Michael Spraggue attends a get-together of great New Orleans chefs where the secret ingredient is murder Sophisticated Boston Brahmin Michael Spraggue will never forget the flaky strawberry tarts Dora Levoyer made for him when he was a little boy. A French immigrant who has worked for Michael's eccentric aunt Mary for decades, Dora has an old-world sensibility, an elegant palate, and a past that cannot be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Available for the first time in one volume: three delectably puzzling mystery stories--including the Anthony Award-winning story "Lucky Penny"--starring the inimitable taxi-driving Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle Struggling PI Carlotta Carlyle drives a cab at night to make ends meet. She's almost done with the night shift when a fare tries to rob her, and her moonlighting gig becomes a crime scene. Unfortunately for the thief, nothing...
16) Bitter Finish
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To save his winery, independently wealthy actor and former PI Michael Spraggue investigates a Napa Valley slaying Shooting on location in Boston for a new film, Michael Spraggue has just tumbled down a flight of stairs when a call comes in from California. On the line is Kate Holloway, Michael's on-again-off-again lover and partner in a fledgling California winery. It's harvest time and their winemaker has disappeared. Right after Kate reported him...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Award–winning author Linda Barnes introduces dashing private eye turned actor Michael Spraggue who must unmask a deadly prankster in a haunted theater Boston Brahmin Michael Spraggue believes distinguished director Arthur Darien has invited him to the old Fens Theater because he needs financial backing for his new production of Dracula. But Arthur has a different kind of problem: His actors believe the theater is haunted. One even quit when...
18) Coyote
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For the sake of an illegal immigrant, Boston private investigator and part-time taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle gets involved in a serial murder case Carlotta Carlyle has just returned home when a dead woman walks through her door. Manuela Estefan is breathing, walking, and talking-but according to the newspaper in her hand, she was just found savagely murdered in a marshy park not far from Fenway. The deceased woman was carrying Manuela's ID card, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pride and Humility: A Guide to Better Understanding Yourself and Others was written to help people discover where pride has infected their life and how to develop humility instead. The study spends six weeks taking an honest look at six varieties of pride, including the pride of self-sufficiency, the pride of rebellion, the pride of insecurity, the pride of stubbornness, the pride of superiority, and the pride that is not a sin. Following this journey,...