Lie Down with the Devil
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- 11 hodin čtení
Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle's allegedly unfaithful fiancé disappears right after his supposed mistress turns up dead.
Linda Barnes je americká autorka detektivních románů, jejíž díla jsou proslulá svým ostrým stylem a originálními postavami. Její detektivní příběhy se často zaměřují na složité zápletky a psychologický vývoj postav. Barnes si získala oblibu u čtenářů díky svému jedinečnému pohledu na žánr a schopnosti vytvářet napínavá a nezapomenutelná vyprávění. Její práce reflektuje hluboké porozumění lidské povaze a světu kolem nás.






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.
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.
"Barnes builds her plot like a fine pastry, layer by layer." Chicago Sun-Times A Michael Spraggue mystery. When the great chefs of New Orleans stage an elegant banquet, tempers burn hotter than cayenne pepper. Up-and-coming Cajun chef Joseph Fontenot is found with a slender French cooking knife through his heart, and all the evidence points to Dora Levoyer, sublime cook to Boston's wealthhy and eccentric Mary Spraggue Hillman. A guest at the banquet, Mary summons her nephew Michael Spraggue, actor-cum-private detective, to the scene. And soon Spraggue is investigating a murder case that will leave his mouth burning and his mind spinning. One thing is certain: the solution to the murder will make for a spicy mystery indeed!
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.