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Flashpoint (Carlotta Carlyle Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]

Linda Barnes (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; Reprint edition (1 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312380496
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312380496
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.9 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 428,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Carlotta Carlyle has both timeless and contemporary appeal...a winner."--"Boston"" Herald"

"One of the best private-eye series ever."--Harlan Coben

"A sizzler of a crime story."--"Booklist"

""FLASHPOINT" further cement[s] Carlotta's place in the pantheon of contemporary P.I.s."--"Chicago"" Tribune"

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When six-foot redhead ex-cop and Boston-based private investigator Carlotta Carlyle agrees to help an elderly recluse burglar-proof her apartment, the last thing she expected was that the woman would turn up dead. Now Carlotta must find out why the eccentric yet seemingly harmless Valentine Phipps isolated herself - and needed protection.Who would want to hurt Valentine? What was she hiding behind closed doors? Is there a connection between her murder and an age-old mystery that the city's top brass - and its real-estate moguls - want to keep buried? But the most troubling question of all involves the victim's home health aide, Gwen: Why did she introduce Valentine to Carlotta in the first place? The race to catch one of Boston's most ruthless and ambiguous criminals has just begun.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
This is the first of Linda Barnes' books I have read and I enjoyed it very much. I could not ignore some of the similarities to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone (single, female private eye, ex-cop, ex-wife, quirky landlord-tenant relationship, broken nose), but the plot was well paced and the mystery kept me guessing. I look forward to reading other Carlotta tales.
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After serving as teammates in a volleyball game, Gwen Taymore asks private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to provide security services to elderly Valentine Phipps. Securing a residence is not Carlotta's expertise, but the mention of a fee entices Carlotta.. Reluctantly, she agrees to help the senior citizen feel safer in her rent controlled apartment in the Fenway (not the ball park) section of Boston.

Carlotta's efforts fail as someone murders Valentine a day after the sleuth met the retired person. The police feel Gwen is the prime suspect. Unable to fully accept the seemingly shy and kind Gwen as a killer, Carlotta makes inquiries. On the way, she picks up a new client interested in everything and everyone related to Valentine. As Carlotta digs deeper into the death of Valentine, the case takes many twists, not the least being the police's desire to keep Carlotta away from the crime scene. However, the courageous Carlotta will never allow bureaucratic officialdom or even threats to her to halt her investigation.

The eighth Carlyle mystery, FLASHPOINT, is an entertaining who-done-it due to the antics of the lead character and her support cast. The murder mystery is engaging except for the out of control climax that actually subtracts from a well-designed plot. The sidebars involving Carlotta's personal life, her little sister, and her tenant Roz add depth to the protagonist and help bring vivid life to Boston. Linda Barnes provides her fans with an enjoyable entry in a pleasurable series.

Harriet Klausner

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I've been eagerly anticipating the release of the newest in the Carlotta Carlyle series. I kept wondering how the characters had fared in the intervening few years since the last book! However, although I did enjoy reading it, I'm somehow a little disapointed. I don't find it up to the quality of the earlier books. Carlotta seems to have lost some of her energy & bright, sassiness. She doesn't seem to be having fun anymore. I don't feel as if I am being invited to become involved in her life anymore. The earlier associated stalwart characters are mentioned only in passing, as if thrown in because Linda Barnes knew she had to at least mention them. I got the feeling that Mrs. Barnes is tired of her heroine & has became disconnected from Carlotta's spirit.
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