Flashpoint, Linda Barnes
Flashpoint, Linda Barnes
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Flashpoint

Author: Linda Barnes

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2013


Synopsis

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.…

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 Steve

Somewhere in the works of James Thurber, Thurber mentions a woman telling him that she is worried about the possibility of thieves breaking in to her home and so intends to have her house burglarized. As I recall, Thurber says something like, "I didn't know you could hire people for that." What she m......more

Goodreads review by Jan

I have not read #7, and I think I did miss something--a couple of love interests. Mooney, Mooney--the timing is everything and it's still off. In fact, he has found another bright, young eager beat cop to help solve the death of an old woman. This elderly woman had byzantine techniques to check out......more