A Trouble of Fools, Linda Barnes
A Trouble of Fools, Linda Barnes
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A Trouble of Fools

Author: Linda Barnes

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/25/2011


Synopsis

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). Let go from the Beantown police force for insubordination, Carlotta Carlyle is ready for business. Her first client is the genteel and elderly Margaret Devens, whose brother, Eugene, one of the last in a handful of Boston’s aging Irish cabbies, has suddenly vanished. The case should be a cinch. Carlotta knows the territory. She even knew Eugene. But when Margaret is attacked, Carlotta fears the disappearance is just one hitch in a bigger scheme. Trolling the local pubs for clues isn’t going to hack it. Especially when she finds herself at odds with the FBI and a Mafia-connected former lover. As a moonlighting cabbie, Carlotta knows the streets well. But even she has no idea just how dangerous a route she’s taken … Winner of the American Mystery Award and nominated for both the Edgar and Shamus Awards, this first book in the series is “beautifully plotted, exciting, moving, and leavened with wit” (Robert B. Parker).

About Linda Barnes

Linda Barnes is the author of sixteen previous novels, including her Carlotta Carlyle mystery series. Her work has won the Anthony and American Mystery Awards, and received numerous nominations for the Edgar and Shamus Awards. She was born in Detroit and now lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG

A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes is the first book in the Carlotta Carlyle private investigator series. Carlotta is an ex-Boston police officer, ex-part-time cab driver, and a newly minted private detective. Miss Margaret Devens hires her to find her missing brother Eugene. Carlotta slightly k......more

Goodreads review by P.

Pleasant, but so unmemorable that I'm having trouble even conjuring the interest to write a review. The sort of book that doesn't inspire enough glorious frustration to write a rant, nor the adoration to pen a slavering paean to its greatness. Carlotta Carlyle, the story's protagonist, is a former ca......more

Goodreads review by Tony

The book started quite well and I liked Carlotta right from the start, but the problem for all this type of mystery/thrillers is that there has to be something that sets them apart from the hundreds of very similar books already out there. This could be that the plot is very clever and well written o......more

Goodreads review by Betty

This is the first of this series. I found it hard to get into the first part of the book. Too much of Carlotta thoughts and not enough actions. Part way through this changed and I found the Carlotta I knew. Carlotta is focus on a guy passing drugs near Paolina's school. She has received a letter for......more