Carlotta Carlyle Series by Linda Barnes

3.82 · 146 ratings
  • A Trouble of Fools (Carlotta Carlyle #1)
    #1

    A Trouble of Fools (Carlotta Carlyle #1)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1987

    The first book in the Carlotta Carlyle series!Linda Barnes's A Trouble of Fools is the book that introduced readers to ex-Boston cop and PI Carlotta Carlyle, who knows trouble when she sees it like the old Irish lady offering a grand in cash to find her brother...TROUBLE…Since being bounced from the Boston police for insubordination after six years of service, Carlotta Carlyle has set up shop as a private investigator ready to deal with anything from lost pets to substantially grander larcenies... more

  • The Snake Tattoo (Carlotta Carlyle #2)
    #2

    The Snake Tattoo (Carlotta Carlyle #2)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1989

    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.The second client is a teenager with a missing wallet and a split lip... more

  • Coyote (Carlotta Carlyle #3)
    #3

    Coyote (Carlotta Carlyle #3)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1990

    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... more

  • Steel Guitar (Carlotta Carlyle #4)
    #4

    Steel Guitar (Carlotta Carlyle #4)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1991

    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... more

  • Snapshot (Carlotta Carlyle #5)
    #5

    Snapshot (Carlotta Carlyle #5)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1993

    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... more

  • Hardware (Carlotta Carlyle #6)
    #6

    Hardware (Carlotta Carlyle #6)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1995

    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 shadova and 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... more

  • Cold Case (Carlotta Carlyle #7)
    #7

    Cold Case (Carlotta Carlyle #7)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1997

    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. Then a new manuscript appears in her family's mailbox. The words cry out from the printed pages, Thea's voice unmistakable even a quarter century since the girl's mysterious disappearance. A new client bearing a dead man's name turns up in the office of P.I... more

  • Flashpoint (Carlotta Carlyle #8)
    #8

    Flashpoint (Carlotta Carlyle #8)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1999

    Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle thinks she's doing a friend a simple favor when she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But 24 hours later, when the woman turns up dead, with her apartment ransacked, Carlotta is left with a lot of questions... more

  • The Big Dig (Carlotta Carlyle #9)
    #9

    The Big Dig (Carlotta Carlyle #9)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2002

    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. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery tunnel running beneath crowded downtown Boston is an engineering marvel, the largest urban construction project in modern history, a fourteen billion dollar boondoggle in the eyes of protesters... more

  • Deep Pockets (Carlotta Carlyle #10)
    #10

    Deep Pockets (Carlotta Carlyle #10)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2004

    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... more

  • Heart of the World (Carlotta Carlyle #11)
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    Heart of the World (Carlotta Carlyle #11)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2006

    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... more

  • Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle #12)
    #12

    Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle #12)

    Linda Barnes

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 2008

    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... more

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