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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 2
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A dual search for a runaway girl from a wealthy suburb, and a fifty-buck hooker named Janine take Carlotta Carlyle, a private investigator, to the sleazier side of Boston.
2) The odd job
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One of Boston's landmark museums is shaken by a savage murder When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohnthe savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian...
3) Hardware
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
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Investigating a series of cab hold-ups that are depleting the G & W Cab Company of drivers, part-time cabbie and Boston private eye Carlotta Carlyle applies her new computer skills to the case and discovers a troubling secret about her lover, Sam.
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 1
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"Thea Kozak's younger sister is murdered, leaving Kozak wondering if her sister's adoption and search for her birth parents have something to do with her death. New paperback edition of the 1994 novel that introduced Kozak." -- Amazon.com
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"Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling's Great-Uncle Frederick. In his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient family tomb at Boston Common, which hasn't admitted a new member in over a century. But when the Kellings crack the old vault's door, they find a recently built brick wall--and behind it lays a surprisingly fresh corpse,...
6) Cold case
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 7
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A case almost a quarter of a century cold turns red hot again when Linda Barnes's detective and part-time cabby, Carlotta Carlyle, gets ensnared in the hunt for the source of a manuscript in the unmistakable voice of Thea Janis, the young literary sensation who disappeared twenty-four years ago at the height of her fame. Now, pages from an inflammatory new manuscript are appearing, written in a voice that could be none other than Thea's. But a madman...
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While searching for a stolen Rolls Royce, Sarah and Max find a dead gardener at a Renaissance fair Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have made names for themselves tracking down stolen paintings, sculptures, and, when necessary, the occasional murderer. But this is the first time they have been asked to find a missing Rolls Royce. When Bill Billingsgate's prize 1927 New Phantom disappears, they head for his estate on the Massachusetts...
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 2
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After the terrifying search for her sister's killer, Thea Kozak, a young, dynamic businesswoman, vowed that her detecting days were over. But when her old college roommate's mother, Helen Streeter, is brutally murdered on their prosperous suburban street, Thea goes to offer comfort and chicken soup, and finds herself being drawn into the investigation.
Her friend Eve, convinced that her father is the killer, begs Thea to help her prove it. Thea
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Death pays a visit to Sarah Kelling’s Boston boardinghouse in this cozy mystery from the bestselling author of the Peter Shandy series.
Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the face of hounding from charitable organizations and the IRS. Facing the loss of her stately Back Bay brownstone, Sarah opens her home to lodgers—deciding she...
Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the face of hounding from charitable organizations and the IRS. Facing the loss of her stately Back Bay brownstone, Sarah opens her home to lodgers—deciding she...
11) Coyote
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 3
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The visit of a mysterious Hispanic woman requesting aid in discovering her missing green card embroils Boston private detective Carlotta Carlyle in the dangerous world of illegal aliens, the "coyotes" who prey on them, and murder.
12) Snapshot
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
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Boston P.I., Carolotta Carlyle, finds herself in deadly conspiracy involving one of Boston's finest hospitals.
13) Steel guitar
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 4
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Several years ago, private eye Carlotta Carlyle's husband, Cal, ran off with Carlotta's college chum, Dee Willis, and now the successful blues singer Willis has asked Carlotta to help her locate the missing Cal.
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A thief targets an amateur theatrical group, and murder follows in his wake Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan opera requires a special kind of madness, and the Kelling family is large enough and peculiar enough to undertake an entire company by themselves. For years now, Sarah Kelling's Aunt Emma has supervised these annual productionsfrom The Pirates of Penzance to The Mikadoand this year she has invited her cast of relatives to rehearse The Sorcerer...
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A homeless man's murder threatens to destroy the Kelling family Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohna pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back alleys as they are at black-tie ballsare about to have a baby. And if the child takes after his parents, he will be one of the cleverest infants in New England. But while Sarah is a month away from giving...
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fter years of toiling upward through the ranks, Jeremy Kelling has finally attained his goal: to preside as Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. Suddenly, at the height of the ceremonies, Jeremy discovers that he's been robbed of his extremely valuable emblem of office. The Great Chain of the Convivial Cod is gone! He calls his new nephew-in-law, Max Bittersohn, who isn't inclined to take...
18) The balloon man
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When art detective Max Bittersohn's family gathers at his mansion for his nephew's wedding, he thinks the day couldn't be any better, but when a hot air balloon lands on the tent and kills a man and the long-lost family rubies turn up, Max realizes that someone in his family has a deadly secret to hide.
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 8
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Carlotta thinks she's simply doing a friend a favor when she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But 24 hours later, when the woman turns up dead in her ransacked home, Carlotta finds herself with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions. What is a suddenly vacant apartment worth to a greedy developer? What "article of value" was the woman so eager to protect? Why is there...
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