Linda Barnes: Snapshot (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
The award-winning author's Boston PI returns in a mystery "destined to secure Barnes' position in the hotshot ranks of detective fiction" (Arizona Republic).

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 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 assignments of her career.

The girl was named Rebecca and she died of leukemia at the age of seven. Her grief-stricken mother has never been able to accept what happened, so she hires Carlotta to investigate the highly regarded hospital where someone on staff seems to have forgotten the most important lesson of a doctor's training: Do no harm.

Snapshot is the 5th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Linda Barnes: Snapshot. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504014465 (July, 2015), eBook, 0.56 MB (ca. 398 p.), $7.99.

Linda Barnes: Snapshot (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
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...

Linda Barnes: Snapshot. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312932677 (June, 2005), 386 p., $6.99.