{"title":"Linda Barnes","description":"LINDA BARNES is the author of sixteen previous novels, including her Carlotta Carlyle mystery series. Her work has won the Anthony and American Mystery awards, and received numerous nominations for the Edgar and Shamus awards. Born in Detroit, she now lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.","products":[{"product_id":"perfect-ghost-paperback","title":"Perfect Ghost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But Em's dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job--Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world she doesn't understand. The only way she can honor his memory and cope with his loss is to finish the interviews for their current book--an \"autobiography\" of renowned and reclusive film director Garrett Malcolm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnsconced in a small cottage near Malcolm's Cape Cod home, Em slowly builds the courage to interview Malcolm the way Teddy would have. She finds Malcolm at once friendlier, more intimidating, and much sexier than she had imagined. But Em soon starts hearing whispers of skeletons in the Malcolm family closet. 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In a Combat Zone bar, Mooney got into a scrap with a stranger over a woman. Now the stranger is comatose, the woman has vanished, and Mooney has been suspended. He wants Carlotta to find the blond hooker with a snake tattoo who witnessed the brawl, and who can exonerate him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Doing surveillance in the Zone, Carlotta gets a second case. A ritzy prep school kid with a bloody lip hires her to find his missing girlfriend. Drawn into two different yet equally dangerous worlds where dead bodies are showing up, Carlotta has only two weeks to save the most honest cop in Boston from going to jail, and to find a girl whose privileged parents don't seem to care that she's run away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snake Tattoo\u003c\/i\u003e was named an outstanding book of the year by the London\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Snake Tattoo\u003c\/i\u003e is the 2nd book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577951224031,"sku":"9781504068444","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5zRUMk3_Ve9781504068444.webp?v=1790399226"},{"product_id":"steel-guitar-paperback","title":"Steel Guitar - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Boston PI tries to help a musician friend--and find a murderer--in this \"gripping\" mystery by an Anthony Award-winning author (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is \"the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She may be Boston's most tenacious private detective, but by night, Carlotta Carlyle is just another cab driver hustling for an honest buck. When blues superstar Dee Willis climbs into her cab, Carlotta isn't starstruck--she's shocked. The two women were friends in college, right up until the day Dee ran off with Carlotta's husband. Now Dee is back in town to play a sold-out concert and Carlotta is too surprised to introduce herself--or to wonder why her old pal is asking to be dropped off in one of Boston's roughest neighborhoods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After saving the blues diva from being ripped to shreds, Carlotta agrees to help her track down an old friend. Soon, a blackmail plot concerning stolen song lyrics is uncovered and a corpse is found in Dee's hotel room. 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