Linda Barnes: Cold Case (USA 2015) From the Publisher: Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published her first novel at age fourteen, shocking the upper crust of Boston with her frank depiction of blue-blooded indiscretions, and she seemed to have a magnificent career ahead of her. But before Thea could publish her follow-up novel, she mysteriously disappeared and was eventually named as a victim of a serial killer. Twenty-four years later, an admirer of Thea's comes to Carlotta claiming to have evidence that Thea is alive -- and still writing. He begs Carlotta to find the onetime prodigy, but there are powerful people, including Thea's prominent family of Boston politicians, who want Thea's second book to stay buried. As a take-no-prisoners gubernatorial race speeds to its climax, Carlotta discovers a secret that could upend the campaign, endanger people's lives, and rewrite literary history. Cold Case is the 7th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Linda Barnes: Cold Case. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504014489 (July, 2015), 0.61 MB (ca. 482 p.), $7.99.
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Linda Barnes: Cold Case (USA 2005) From the Publisher: Then a new manuscript appears in her family's mailbox. The words cry out from the printed pages, Thea's voice unmistakable even a quarter century since the girl's mysterious disappearance. A new client bearing a dead man's name turns up in the office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle, looking for her help in finding whoever is sending the book -- even if it turns out to be Thea herself. The investigation leads Carlotta to a prominent Boston family with deep connections and even deeper pockets, and which badly wants the tragic past to stay buried. But after a hit man tries to write his own ending to the saga, the cold case suddenly goes white hot -- and Carlotta may be the one who ends up getting burned. Linda Barnes: Cold Case. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 0312932669 (November, 2005), 496 p., $6.99.
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Linda Barnes: Cold Case (USA 1998) From the Publisher: Cold blood. Cold case. Linda Barnes: Cold Case. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Dell, ISBN: 044021226X (March, 1998), 496 p., $5.99.
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Linda Barnes: Cold Case (USA 1997) From the Publisher: Now, pages from an inflammatory new manuscript are appearing, written in a voice that could be none other than Thea's. But a madman sits in a Massachusetts state prison, convicted of her murder. The "Cold Case" squad of the Boston Police won't touch this one--they want to keep it irrevocably closed. Thea's brother, a dashing politician, is in the middle of a hotly contested gubernatorial race and has other problems, with a fiery young wife and a reputation for ruthlessness. Thea's older sister has withdrawn into her own oblivion. And her aristocratic mother finds her refuge in a bottle. Who wrote the new manuscript? Who is sending it piecemeal to Thea's family, demanding chapter-by-chapter blackmail? Who is playing games with Carlotta with every loaded word? Is Thea alive or dead? Is the author a victim, a plagiarist or a killer? Carlotta Carlyle confronts demons from the past and from the present as she peels back layer upon layer of a glittering family's dark secrets in Cold Case, her toughest and most intriguing assignment yet. Linda Barnes: Cold Case. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385306148 (April, 1997), 385 S., $21.95
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