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Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
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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.
While nothing is as it seems in Lie Down with the Devil, one thing is clear: Readers know that when they’re reading Linda Barnes, they’re in the hands of a maestro.
Coyote (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
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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. Alongside a handsome immigration agent with some secrets of his own, she follows her leads into the treacherous underground world of illegal aliens and those who mercilessly prey upon them. It's a lawless, dangerous territory: a place where the only thing Carlotta can rely on is her own wits, and where nothing-from innocence to life itself-is sacred...
Heart of the World (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery)
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When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is wakened by a late-night phone call, she discovers that her "little sister," Paolina, the child with whom she was paired years ago by a local mentoring program, is missing. Carlotta combs the Boston streets looking for Paolina, torn between anger at the thoughtless teenage runaway and anxiety that something has really happened to her.
Paolina is more than a sister to Carlotta. She's the daughter she never had, or never owned up to having. She's the one constant in Carlotta's life, more reliable than Sam Gianelli, her mob boss lover, a man whose always unpredictable behavior has become increasingly mysterious.
Heart of the World, Linda Barnes's most intense, personal, and suspenseful Carlotta Carlyle novel yet, follows Carlotta's trail from New England to Miami to Bogotá and beyond as she probes the connection between Paolina's disappearance and the corresponding disappearance of the Colombian drug lord father Paolina has never met.
A breathless and shocking read, Heart of the World is perhaps Barnes's best.
Snapshot (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
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- Published by St. Martin's Pressure
- A Carlotta Carlyle Police officer Murder Mystery
- Amazon ISBN-10: 0312932677, ISBN-13: 978-0312932671
- Paperback: St. Martin's Paperbacks Print run, July 2005
- Snapshot by Linda Barnes
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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.
Discovering what happened to the child in the photos draws Carlotta into a shattered picture of private lives sadly out of focus-and big shots mixed up with deadly conspiracy that stretches from a New England hospital to the Third World. And when she finds her own "little sister" from the Boston Big Sisters program in a different kind of danger, the truth jumps out in harsh black and white. In a world filled with killers and innocence, Carlotta Carlyle may be the only avenging angel left....
Deep Pockets (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
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Linda Barnes, one of today's most popular crime fiction writers, returns with another intricate, engaging novel featuring Boston p.i. Carlotta Carlyle. Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread; his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone willing to sell his secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should his indiscretions with a young, white student become public knowledge. So he hires Carlotta Carlyle to track down the blackmailer and put a stop to the scheme. Can she do it? Of course, but should she? The professor, while not a criminal, doesn't inspire much loyalty, and when a suspicious death becomes part of the backstory her sixth sense warns her the case might be dangerous. Carlotta's curiosity gets the better of her in this complicated, surprising mystery infused with the personality and suspense-not to mention writing as melodic as the Delta blues Carlotta loves-that have become the trademarks of one of mystery fiction's most beloved authors, Linda Barnes.
Like Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes deserves credit for usurping the male dominance over American private-eye fiction in the 1970s and '80s. Her six-foot-tall, redheaded Boston snoop and part-time cabbie, Carlotta Carlyle, started out (in 1987's A Trouble of Fools) as a savvy, self-reliant former cop whose potential to become Sam Spade in a skirt was mitigated by her emotional sensitivity and resistance to brash risk-taking. More than two decades later, Carlotta shows herself to be as compelling and credible as ever--if a bit wiser--in Deep Pockets. "Look, I made a mistake. I slept with a student," concedes Wilson Chaney, an African-American professor at Harvard Medical School, as he hires Carlotta to find and foil the person responsible for blackmailing him with love letters he'd sent to Denali Brinkman, a startlingly attractive freshman rowing champ who evidently committed both suicide and arson at a Charles River boathouse. Carlotta thinks to curtail this squeeze by unearthing information damaging to the extortionist. But when the suspect turns out to be another of Denali's boyfriends, 30-year-old ex-con Benjy Dowling, and then Dowling perishes in a hit-and-run involving Chaney's van, the PI must reassess both her tactics and assumptions about this investigation. Is her client, already afraid of losing his job over an ill-advised intimacy, now being framed for murder, perhaps by another one of Dowling's blackmail targets? Could Chaney's troubles be traced to a rival or enemy at Harvard? Or to his wealthy, pregnancy-obsessed wife? Or maybe to his cutting-edge research into drug treatments for attention-deficit disorder? As Carlotta confronts the case's multiplying puzzles, she wonders whether there are answers to be found in Denali's sketchy past--answers that could not only clear Chaney, but protect this gutsy gumheel from an increasingly dangerous adversary. Carlotta's distractions in Deep Pockets are numerous, from her ebbing relationship with a black FBI agent to her concern over the half-dressing habits of her fast-developing "little sister," Paolina. Yet she rarely misses a clue--except, of course, when it adds to the story's tensions. Barnes fails to fully explain a couple of dramatic plot turns in this 10th Carlotta Carlyle novel (after The Big Dig), and you needn't boast a Harvard sheepskin to figure out her tale's principal twist well in advance of its conclusion; however, those faults are outweighed by one's delight in seeing the pertinacious Ms Carlyle again get her man without entirely losing her femininity. --J. Kingston Pierce
Steel Guitar (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
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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.
Dee's made the leap from Southie's barrooms to the cover of People magazine, but now she's back in Carlotta's life, bringing with her a load of trouble. She hires Carlotta to track down a mutual friend who's fallen on hard times, but Carlotta soon finds that there's a far more menacing tune being played. Someone is blackmailing Dee, claiming she stole songwriting credits-and the money and fame that came with them. As the spotlight's glare turns as cold as the corpse that turns up in Dee's hotel room, Carlotta's past is about to catch up to her...with a vengeance.
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Visitors learn about MCC ag program - Marshalltown Times Republican
Marshalltown Times Republican, IA - Feb 10, 6485
Visitors learn about MCC ag programThe group asked questions of Norm mccoy, director of the Midwest Center for Entrepreneurial Agriculture at MCC and Linda Barnes, associate professor of biology at MCC, during one of their sessions. "They have been bringing in people from eastern
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Boulder City Celebrations - Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun, NV - Feb 10, 8466
Boulder City CelebrationsJune 1: Jane and Eddie Shafer, 1973; Linda and Eugene Musgrove, 1973; Diane and Chen Campbell, 1980; Vicki and David Lampil, 1987; Donna and William Och, Becky and Don Perkins. June 2: Tina and Moris Heit, 1964; Cathy and Ken Braithwaite, 1973;
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Suspect in grisly murder arrested in Ohio - WLOX
WLOX, MS - May 23, 2009
Suspect in grisly murder arrested in Ohio"It was heartbreaking," said Linda Favre. "As the news kept coming in, kept coming in, it was like 'God, I can't believe this! I just can't believe this happened out here!'" Linda Favre lives just a few doors down from the house where Barnes lived. Fugitive wanted again for murder
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Cardinal doubles team settles for second in nation - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA - May 26, 2009
Cardinal doubles team settles for second in nation when Alice Barnes and Erin Burdette defeated Amber Liu and Anne Yelsey 6-3, 6-4 in an all-Stanford final. Five Cardinal doubles teams have been crowned NCAA champions, with victories coming in 1984 (Linda Gates, Elise Burgin), 1985 (Linda Gates,
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Tri 4 Fun a success - Charlevoix Courier
Charlevoix Courier, MI - Feb 10, 2167
Tri 4 Fun a successMy dream team—You guys rock: Sue Morris, Linda Hoffman, Kathy Jacobsen, Ginny McCallum, Mary Siegwart, Linda Atkins, Gloria Barnes, Ann Feres, Mo Radke, Natalie Jason, Al Hansen, Al Gooch, Gay Pung; my family: Heather, Miss Amelia, Cliff and Chelsea
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