Linda Barnes
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Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But Ems dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job-Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world she doesnt understand. The only way she can honor his memory and...
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 8
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PI Carlotta Carlyle of Boston investigates the death of an old lady who refused to give up her apartment for a development project. When an attempt is made to burn Carlotta's house, she knows she is onto something..
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 11
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[2006]
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When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.
4) Snapshot
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
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1993
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A series of strange photos draws Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle into a chilling case of medical malpractice Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous...
5) Steel guitar
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 4
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1991
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Helping an old college friend who made it big in the music industry puts Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle in a deadly spotlight She may be Boston's most tenacious private detective, but by night, Carlotta Carlyle is just another cab driver hustling for an honest buck. When blues superstar Dee Willis climbs into her cab, Carlotta isn't starstruck-she's shocked. The two women were friends in college, right up until the day Dee ran off with Carlotta's husband....
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 12
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[2008]
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Faced with nothing but dead ends in her boyfriend Sam Gianelli's secret indictment for murder, Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle 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.--From publisher description.
7) Cold case
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 7
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[1997]
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Twenty years earlier, a 14-year-old girl from high society in Massachusetts vanished, leaving her clothes on a beach. At the time no one thought of linking the apparent suicide to the disappearance of a gardener at her school. Now PI Carlotta Carlyle hopes to make a connection. By the author of Hardware
8) Hardware
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
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[1995]
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The brash Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle takes on a case for the Green and White Cab Company. The investigation will lead her into the mysterious shadowlands of computer technology, where she finds that information is cheap and privacy is a thing of the past.
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 2
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[1989]
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A dual search for a runaway girl from a wealthy suburb, and a fifty-buck hooker named Janine take Carlotta Carlyle, a private investigator, to the sleazier side of Boston.
10) The Big Dig
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 9
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[2002]
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Bored with her assignment working undercover to seek out fraud on Boston's Big Dig project, Carlotta Carlyle moonlights by taking on the case of the missing Veronica James, an investigation that uncovers links to a vast conspiracy.
11) Deep pockets
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 10
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[2004]
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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 threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the blackmailer's evidence-proof of his affair with a young student-become public knowledge. So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to...
12) Bitter finish
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2000
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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...
13) Dead heat
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2001
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To protect a senator at the Boston Marathon, private investigator turned actor Michael Spraggue must run faster than he ever has before Michael Spraggue receives an anonymous note requesting a meeting on the running path in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir-a favorite spot for runners training for the Boston Marathon. His muscles aching, Michael is about to throw in the towel when he sees a familiar grin. Brian Donagher is the charismatic junior senator...
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Carlotta Carlyle Mystery volume 2
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c2004
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Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redheaded private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment, but playing a mild-mannered secretary working out of a construction trailer is not quite the thrill ride she had in mind.
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In this explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton returns. This time, Middleton is drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war. Careening from Europe to Asia in order to prevent nuclear catastrophe, Middleton is unaware that his prey has changed and that the act of terror is much more diabolical than he can imagine.
18) Watchlist
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p2009
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From International Thriller Writers, comes Watchlist: two novellas featuring the same cast of characters. 'The Chopin Manuscript' and 'The Copper Bracelet' are collaborations of Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plots in motion. The other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing both novellas to their conclusions.
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2010
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From International Thriller Writers comes Watchlist: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrill cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. The Chopin Manuscript and then The Copper Bracelet were a collaboration by some of the world’s greatest thriller writers, including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion. The...