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 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. Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. Hyperion, ISBN: 0786889489 (March, 2001), 432 S., $6.99.
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Linda Barnes: Flashpoint (USA 1999) From the Publisher: 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. Linda Barnes: Flashpoint. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Hyperion, ISBN: 078686317X (September, 1999), 276 S., $32.95 (?)
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