Linda Barnes Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle's allegedly unfaithful fiancé disappears right after his supposed mistress turns up dead.

Carlotta Carlyle, Privatdetektivin in Boston, ermittelt in einem Korruptionsfall bei einem Straßenbauprojekt. Sie wird als Sekretärin in eine Baufirma eingeschleust, findet jedoch zunächst nichts Auffälliges. Als ein Bauarbeiter tot aufgefunden wird, erkennt sie, dass es um mehr als nur Korruption geht.

The first installment in the Carlotta Carlyle series introduces readers to ex-Boston cop and private investigator Carlotta Carlyle, who recognizes trouble when it appears—like the elderly lady offering cash to locate her missing brother. After being dismissed from the Boston police for insubordination, Carlotta has become a private investigator, handling cases from lost pets to serious crimes. Standing six feet tall with striking red hair, she operates her business from home, where unexpected clients are rare. However, when the genteel Miss Margaret Devens approaches her about her brother Eugene's disappearance, Carlotta decides to take the case, despite her financial struggles and light caseload. She remembers Eugene from their time at Green and White Cab, thinking the investigation will be straightforward. But things take a turn when two thugs targeting her client send Miss Devens to the hospital. As Carlotta delves deeper, she uncovers that Eugene's involvement is far more dangerous than anticipated. Determined to find him, she is willing to work with the police, assume different identities, and even return to driving a cab to solve the mystery before it’s too late.

Carlotta thinks shes doing a friend a simple favor when she agrees to burglar-proof an elderly recluses apartment. But twenty-four hours later the woman turns up dead, her apartment ransacked, and Carlotta is left with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions. Filled with gripping plot twists and razor-sharp dialogue, Flashpoint confirms Carlottas place as the hottest leading lady in detective fiction.

A case almost a quarter of a century cold turns red-hot again as Linda Barnes's detective and parttime cabbie, Carlotta Carlyle, searches for the source of a manuscript in the unmistakable voice of Thea Janis, the stunning literary sensation who disappeared twenty-four years ago at the height of her fame. Who wrote the new manuscript? Who is sending it piecemeal to Thea's family, demanding chapter-by-chapter blackmail? Who is playing games with Carlotta with every loaded word? Is Thea alive or dead? Is the author a victim, a plagiarist...or a killer? Carlotta Carlyle confronts demons from the past and from the present as she peels back layer upon layer of a glittering family's dark secrets in Cold Case, her most gripping investigation yet.

Carlotta Carlyle--part-time cab driver, full-time private eye--returns, taking on the night shift and a case that turns into a matter of life and death

Tall, redheaded PI Carlotta Carlyle faces two cases of family obsession--a mother tormented by the suspicious death of her daughter and a daughter determined to find her elusive father--in her latest outing from the acclaimed author of Steel Guitar.

Dee Willis, singer of the blues, is well on the way to becoming a star. Close friends from college, Carlotta and Dee have not met since Dee ran off with Carlotta's ex-husband, Cal. Now Dee wants help in a missing person's case and, against her better judgment, Carlotta accepts the job.

There's a mysterious woman who speaks broken English sitting in Carlotta's office with a newspaper clipping about a mutilated corpse. Suddenly Carlotta is plunged into the desperate world of illegal aliens, the cold-hearted immigration agents who hunt them down, and the deadly "coyotes" who bring the innocents across the border.