Books

	Lie Down with the Devil Author: Linda Barnes Published: August 5, 2008 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle 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. Click for more info.

	A Trouble of Fools Author: Linda Barnes Published: June 27, 2006 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle A private investigator named Carlotta? Unusual, perhaps, but Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle is every bit as feisty as Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone. If you like Kinsey, you'll enjoy Carlotta. But you kinda have to love anyone who'd list her home phone under her cat's name — Thomas C. (as in Cat) Carlyle, to discourage the kind of crank calls women living alone tend to get. Click for more info.

	Heart of the World Author: Linda Barnes Published: May 2, 2006 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle Most kids who run away turn up. Most kids who disappear reappear. But there are girls who vanish and never come back, girls whose clean white bones are dug up years later in vacant lots and distant forests. Carlotta Carlyle's latest case — investigating the disappearance of her adopted little sister Paolina — could change her life forever. Click for more info.

	Cold Case Author: Linda Barnes Published: November 29, 2005 by St. Martin's Press Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle Twenty-four years ago, teen prodigy Thea Janis vanished from her upper crust Boston prep school. At first called a runaway, she's later named among the victims of a serial killer, a man doing life in Walpole Prison. Click for more info.

	Hardware Author: Linda Barnes Published: August 1, 2005 by St. Martin's Press Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle In her sixth spellbinding adventure, Carlotta Carlyle, the 6'1" redheaded P.I. from Boston, takes on a case that draws her into the mysterious shadow of computer technology, where information is cheap, and privacy may be a thing of the past. Part-time cabbie Carlotta is entering the modern age of investigation. With the help of her sometime lover, mafioso, and computer-hobbyist Sam Gianelli, she invests in her first hardware, a cheap personal computer. And at the urging of her ex-boss, Boston Police Lt. Mooney, who decries the stopping power of her .38 S&W, she decides to upgrade her arsenal. Click for more info.

	Snapshot Author: Linda Barnes Published: June 1, 2005 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle Every Friday a child's snapshot arrives at the Boston office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle. There's no note. No return address. Just pictures of the child as a newborn, as a toddler, as a preschooler. Maybe Carlotta should have tossed them all in the trash. Maybe then she wouldn't have gotten mixed up again...in murder. Click for more info.

	Steel Guitar Author: Linda Barnes Published: May 1, 2005 by St. Martin's Press Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle They say you meet all kinds when you're driving a hack. That's certainly the case for Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle, who gets an unexpected fare while moonlighting behind the wheel. It's singer Dee Willis, Carlotta's ex-friend and former band mate, who stole Carlotta's man before clawing her way up the charts. Click for more info.

	Coyote Author: Linda Barnes Published: February 1, 2005 by St. Martin's Press Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle When a mysterious woman asks Carlotta to help locate her missing immigration card, it looks to be a pretty straightforward assignment. That is, until the lady disappears, and the card turns up in the possession of another woman...who just happens to be dead. Suddenly the case is far too intriguing for Carlotta to drop — and when her investigation indicates that her client was somehow connected to her inner-city little sister Paolina, Carlotta's got an even bigger stake in seeing it through. Click for more info.

	Deep Pockets Author: Linda Barnes Published: December 28, 2004 by St. Martin's Press Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle A blackmailed Harvard professor calls on shamus Carlotta Carlyle because he thinks his world is falling apart. Medical/educational researcher Wilson Chaney is not eager to get fired over the torrid letters he wrote Denali Brinkman, a white freshman, during an affair he insists ended even before her suicide in the Harvard boathouse. Carlotta soon identifies Denali's boyfriend, ex-con Benjy Dowling, as the perp during an unauthorized visit to his apartment that nets all the letters. Then Benjy's killed by a hit-and-run driver behind the wheel of Chaney's own car. Click for more info.

	The Snake Tattoo Author: Linda Barnes Published: February 3, 2004 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: Carlotta Carlyle PI series Category: PI series Main Character: Carlotta Carlyle Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6'1" of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with brutality, suspended, and desperate. The witness who can clear him is a hooker with a snake tattoo...and she's vanished. Click for more info.