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Linda Barnes: Flashpoint (USA 2018) From the Publisher: Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine" (New York Post). Carlotta Carlyle knows all about urban survival. That's why she's happy to do her neighbor, Valentine, a favor like this one. The elderly recluse needs help burglar-proofing her rent-controlled apartment. But it seems Valentine's fears are more immediate and threatening than she's letting on. Because just twenty-four hours later, the old woman turns up dead in her ransacked home. Finding out who'd want to kill a nice old lady lands Carlotta on the heels of a hotshot music executive claiming to be Valentine's last living relative, a real-estate mogul with a knack for eviction, and Valentine's terrified healthcare worker. But when Carlotta becomes the target of an arsonist, she knows she's on to something hot: a city-wide conspiracy that Beantown's top brass want dead and buried -- along with the woman who knew too much. Delivering a "twisty plot, colorful language, and even more colorful characters" (The Dallas Morning News), "Flashpoint further cements Carlotta's place in the pantheon of contemporary P.I.s" (Chicago Tribune). Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504053068 (June, 2018), eBook, 2.67 MB (ca. 370 p.), $7.99.
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Linda Barnes: Flashpoint (USA 2008) From the Publisher: Who would want to hurt Valentine? What was she hiding behind closed doors? Is there a connection between her murder and an age-old mystery that the city's top brass -- and its real-estate moguls -- want to keep buried? But the most troubling question of all involves the victim's home health aide, Gwen: Why did she introduce Valentine to Carlotta in the first place? The race to catch one of Boston's most ruthless and ambiguous criminals has just begun... Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. A Carlotta Carlyle Novel. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312380496 (May, 2008), 384 p., $6.99.
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Linda Barnes: Flashpoint (USA 2001) From the Publisher: Carlotta thinks she's simply doing a friend a favor when she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But 24 hours later, when the woman turns up dead in her ransacked home, Carlotta finds herself with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions: What is a suddenly vacant apartment worth to a greedy developer? What "article of value" was the woman so eager to protect? Why is there such interest in her will? Is there a connection between the lady's death and a long-forgotten robbery? Carlotta needs to find the answers in a hurry, before an innocent woman is convicted and before the arsonist who set fire to her house strikes again. Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. Hyperion, ISBN: 0786889489 (March, 2001), 370 S., $6.99.
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Linda Barnes: Flashpoint (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Carlotta thinks she's simply doing a friend a favor when she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But 24 hours later, when the woman turns up dead in her ransacked home, Carlotta finds herself with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions: What is a suddenly vacant apartment worth to a greedy developer? What "article of value" was the woman so eager to protect? Why is there such interest in her will? Is there a connection between the lady's death and a long-forgotten robbery? Carlotta needs to find the answers in a hurry, before an innocent woman is convicted, before the arsonist who set fire to her house strikes again. Filled with nerve-tingling plot twists and the razor-sharp dialogue that makes Carlotta "a heroine worth spending time with" (The New York Times Book Review), Flashpoint confirms Carlotta's place as the hottest leading lady in detective fiction. Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Hyperion, ISBN: 078686317X (September, 1999), 276 S., $22.95.
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