12 The Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries books in order

This award-winning debut mystery introduces a Boston PI who’s “one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit” (Chicago Sun-Times).
 
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).… show more.

Hailed by Sue Grafton as "a true original," ex-cop turned private eye Carlotta Carlyle risks her neck in Boston's Combat Zone for two very different clients

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).

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When a mysterious woman asks Carlotta to help locate her missing immigration card, it looks to be a pretty straightforward assignment. This is, until the lady disappears, and the card turns up in the possession of another woman...who just happens to be dead. Suddenly the case is far too intriguing… show more.

A Boston PI tries to help a musician friend-and find a murderer-in this "gripping" mystery by an Anthony Award-winning author (Publishers Weekly).

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).

She may be Boston's most… show more.

After receiving several snapshots of a newborn baby in the mail, private eye Carlotta Carlyle is drawn into a mystery involving the unnecessary death of the little girl in the photos. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

Private investigator Carlotta Carlyle's moonlighting job as a taxi driver turns into the most dangerous, high-octane case of her career

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).

When Carlotta can't sleep-or when money gets… show more.

Hired to find a missing novelist, Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle gets tangled up in a cutthroat political campaign

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).

Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published… show more.

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Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redhead private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery highway through downtown Boston, is a USD 14 billion project, the largest urban construction undertaking in… show more.

Harvard professor Wilson Chaney has a secret and somebody knows it. His adulterous affair with a freshman ended just weeks before she wound up dead. The sole trace of his infatuation is a stack of missing love letters - and they've fallen into the wrong hands. Carlotta Carlyle takes the… show more.

Carlotta is awakened by a late-night phone call telling her that Paolina is missing. Fourteen year old Paolina was paired up with Carlotta by a mentoring programme in Boston years ago, and she knows that Carlotta thinks of her more like a daughter. In fact, as Carlotta combs the streets… show more.

Award winner Linda Barnes' dynamic heroine private eye Carlotta Carlyle finds herself in an unusual role in "Lie Down With the Devil": working on her own behalf. First she's trying to figure out what her on-again, off-again boyfriend - now her fiance Sam Gianelli has done to earn himself a… show more.