Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets (USA 2019)

From the Publisher:
The Boston PI gets caught up in extortion, murder, and Ivy League secrets in a "poisonous... nail-biter" by the Anthony Award-winning author (Publishers Weekly).

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).

Harvard professor Wilson Chaney is in a comprising position. His marriage, his reputation, and his career are all being held hostage. Chaney needs Carlotta's help to ferret out the blackmailer and retrieve the last of the incriminating love letters he sent freshman student Denali Brinkman -- before she committed suicide in a Memorial Drive boathouse. It's a nasty bit of business, but Carlotta reluctantly agrees to help the dishonorable mentor.

However, Chaney isn't the only one with something to hide. Just as Carlotta closes in on the suspect, the case takes a stunning detour. It seems Chaney's amorous indiscretions have a farther and more threatening reach than either he or Carlotta imagined. The PI now realizes that the going price for secrets has just gotten higher -- because murder has become part of the deal.

Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504057042 (March, 2019), 3.68 MB (ca. 306 p.), $7.99.

Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread; his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the blackmailer's evidence - proof of his affair with a young student - become public knowledge.

So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to track down the blackmailer and put a stop to the scheme. Can she do it? Of course, but should she? The professor doesn't inspire much loyalty-after all, he did commit adultery with one of his own students-but Carlotta agrees. Digging into the case, nosing around Harvard and the possible suspects from the rest of Dr. Chaney's life, she uncovers a suspicious death as part of the backstory to Dr. Chaney's situation. Suddenly Carlotta's sixth sense is telling her the case might be more complicated-and more dangerous-than it first seemed.

Fresh from the success of The Big Dig, the masterful Linda Barnes delivers a bold and engaging novel infused with the deft touch and intricate suspense that have become her trademarks.

Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 0312997280 (December, 2004), 320 p., $6.99.

Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the blackmailer's evidence-proof of his affair with a young student-become public knowledge.

So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to track down the blackmailer and put a stop to the scheme. Can she do it? Of course, but should she? The professor doesn't inspire much loyalty-after all, he did commit adultery with one of his own students-but Carlotta agrees. Digging into the case, nosing around Harvard and the possible suspects from the rest of Dr. Chaney's life, she uncovers a suspicious death as part of the backstory to Dr. Chaney's situation. Suddenly Carlotta's sixth sense is telling her the case might be more complicated-and more dangerous-than it first seemed.

Fresh from the success of The Big Dig, the masterful Linda Barnes delivers a bold and engaging novel infused with the deft touch and intricate suspense that have become her trademarks.

Linda Barnes: Deep Pockets. A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312282710 (March, 2004), 310 S., $24.95