Snapshot (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries) - Softcover

Barnes, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312932677 ISBN 13: 9780312932671

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2005

Synopsis

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....

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A STUNNER!"-Denver Post

When work is slow, Carlotta Carlyle drives a cab on Boston's night-shrouded streets. When love goes wrong, she plays blues on a steel string guitar. And sometimes, when someone dies, she gets paid to find out why...

PICTURE OF INNOCENCE
The photos come one every week. A beautiful baby. A growing toddler. The apple of someone's eye. Then Carlotta finds out who has been sending her the snapshots-and why. Now, she begins an investigation into a revered Boston hospital and the possibility that a seven-year-old cancer patient was murdered there. And when her client goes missing and a stalker comes crashing into her life, Carlotta knows that in a realm of clashing egos and big-time medicine, a killer is desperately trying to cover his tracks. But what he has to hide, how far it reaches, and how many hearts it will break is still unclear. Until Carlotta gets the big picture-and faces an evil that she must conquer...any way she can.

"Irresistible!"-Chicago Sun-Times

"Barnes scored a direct hit with Steel Guitar, and her P.I. is in top form here."
-Chicago Tribune

A Book-of-the Month Club Alternate Selection

About the Author:

LINDA BARNES is the author of ten previous Carlotta Carlyle mysteries and winner of the Anthony and American Mystery Awards. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312932677
• ISBN 13: 9780312932671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400