Lie Down with the Devil (Platinum Mystery)

Barnes, Linda

ISBN 10: 1602852634 ISBN 13: 9781602852631

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2008

Synopsis

Award winner Linda Barnes's dynamic private eye Carlotta Carlyle finds herself in an unusual role -- she's working on her own behalf. Private Eye Carlotta Carlyle is trying to figure out what her on-again-off-again boyfriend -- now her fiancé -- Sam Gianelli has done to earn himself a secret indictment for murder that's keeping him out of the country. Sure, it could be mob-related. After all, he's in the family. But Carlotta's not buying it. Sam's not talking, and neither is her old boss, police homicide chief Mooney.

In the meantime, a nervous bride who hired Carlotta to make sure her groom-to-be was being faithful ends up murdered. Not only did the victim use a phony identity, it turns out she was aware of Carlotta's relationship with Sam. So what does her mob-connected boyfriend have to do with a dead bride-to-be.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Better the devil you know...

Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle wants to know what her on-again, off-again boyfriend Sam Gianelli did to earn himself the secret indictment for murder that’s keeping him out of the country. A man with plenty of secrets, Sam won’t tell her anything, much less let her help—and she isn’t having any more luck getting info from her old friends at the Boston PD. Sam’s exile could have something to do with his mob connections, but it can’t be that simple. Nothing involving Sam ever is.

than the one you don’t.

Finding no easy answers, Carlotta goes back to basics and takes a job working for a jittery bride-to-be who wants to make sure her fiancé is being faithful. The case is simple enough—at first. But Carlotta catches the kind of break she wished she hadn’t when her client ends up getting killed. Now, as she’s hunting a down a murderer, she can’t help but wonder whether love itself isn’t the ultimate dead end...

“Utterly compelling....just sit back and enjoy the ride.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Carlotta Carlyle [is] still one of the standards against which...female PIs measure themselves.”—Baltimore Sun

About the Author:

LINDA BARNES is the author of fifteen previous novels, eleven of which are Carlotta Carlyle mysteries. Her work has won the Anthony and American Mystery awards, and received numerous nominations for the Shamus and Edgar awards. Born in Detroit, she lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1602852634
• ISBN 13: 9781602852631
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 336