Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redhead private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery highway through downtown Boston, is a 14 billion dollar boondoggle, the largest urban construction project in modern history. But playing a mild-mannered secretary working out of a construction trailer is not quite the thrill ride she had in mind, so Carlotta starts moonlighting, taking on a missing persons case.
The search for the missing Veronica James turns up one dead end after another, as do her fraud investigations, and it looks like Carlotta has dug herself one big hole. But the mysterious death of a construction worker stirs up a storm of events, and soon enough Carlotta is really in over her head, grasping at the edges of a vast conspiracy that threatens to make this investigation her last.
It isn't easy for an attractive six-foot tall redhead to go undercover. So it's no surprise that when part-time blues singer/cab driver/private eye Carlotta Carlyle goes to work for a contractor of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project to uncover fraud, the bodies start piling up. Barnes's style is tight, smart, and darkly funny, and Bernadette Quigley's reading matches Barnes in tone and intensity. Easily and believably, her voice glides from tough construction workers to the Beacon Hill elite. But most important, she becomes Carlotta Carlyle, narrating this adventure filled with action and twists and a tough and intelligent female protagonist. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Linda Barnes is the author of eight previous Carlotta Carlyle mysteries and the winner of the Anthony and American Mystery Awards. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and son.
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