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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
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The Snake Tattoo (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312993559
ISBN: 0312993552
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-02-16
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Product Release Date: 2004-02-03
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312993559
ISBN: 0312993552
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-02-16
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Product Release Date: 2004-02-03
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Editorial Review of The Snake Tattoo (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6'1" of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with brutality, suspended, and desperate. The witness who can clear him is a hooker with a snake tattoo...and she's vanished.
The second client is a teenager with a missing wallet and a split lip. He's been roughed up on the Boston streets while searching for his runaway girlfriend. He's too young to be a client, and Carlotta should have turned him down. Shoulda, woulda, coulda...didn't.
Both investigation send Carlotta into Boston's Combat Zone and the dark alleys of the human heart. Hookers don't disappear and kids don't take off with good reason. Now Carlotta is coming face to face with the evil that men do, and what is she going to do about it? Tackle it head on....
The second client is a teenager with a missing wallet and a split lip. He's been roughed up on the Boston streets while searching for his runaway girlfriend. He's too young to be a client, and Carlotta should have turned him down. Shoulda, woulda, coulda...didn't.
Both investigation send Carlotta into Boston's Combat Zone and the dark alleys of the human heart. Hookers don't disappear and kids don't take off with good reason. Now Carlotta is coming face to face with the evil that men do, and what is she going to do about it? Tackle it head on....
Customer Reviews of The Snake Tattoo (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Cops on the Take!
Review: Carlotta Carlyle from A TROUBLE WITH FOOLS, gets stuck with a none functioning bathroom, her little sister in Columbia, a mentor who makes the papers as a crooked cop and a young teen who finds life on the streets preferable to home.
A fine continuance for a budding detective who knows no other way than to keep plugging away until all the layers of Boston sleaze are stripped away. Into her life comes Sam, an old flame but balanced by Lt. Mooney who needs a friend against his own kind who intend to destroy his testimony before Internal Affairs. Complicated personal relationships move this second entry and make a smooth read. Enjoy Charlotte and The Brothers who owe her roommate a favor.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A series that's growing on me
Review: I wasn't so sure about Carlotta when I read the first book, but she's really starting to grow on me. I'm not reading them in any particular order - which might be helpful, but isn't really necessary because the focus of the book is really the mystery, not the side bits of fluff (though in this book, the side bits were really good). Barnes creates great characters, good plot lines and a nice pace - pretty much all you can ask for in a mystery. I would recommend her Carlotta Carlisle series to anyone who likes a laid back, good ole armchair mystery.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This writer is FUNNY
Review: A good rainy-day author. Here's an excerpt "I had the strong feeling that [they] were in a Plymouth Reliant motoring toward some southern state where you could marry your first cousin provided you were both over the age of eight." Such wry wit permeates the book and makes for a fast, fun read. I'm glad she's written so many other books. I can't wait to read them all.....
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Private Cop -- Carlotta
Review: The book fills with tense, actions, humor, and funny. The whole book is unpredictable! it makes me keep guessing what is going to happen next. It makes you laugh when you are nervous about what is going happened next. The book is fun and easy to read, and I love the main character! The book brings out a lot of dark sides of real life but without making reader feel depressed or hopeless about the world. When I was reading the book, I see and understand more bad sides about the society, but the writer brought it out by warm and fragrant way.
Because of the main character was a policewoman and became a private cop. She always has a lot of situations need to solve, and has to social with different kinds of people in her daily life. There always must be many things that annoying her, but she always can make her own happy in any kind of situation; she is pretty optimistic! Her personality makes readers fill with hopes and happiness while reading the book.
While I was reading the book, I not only learned how to solve problem by Carlotta's inference, but also learned how to look at things from different sides. Linda Barnes - the writer of the book, she wrote the whole story with stimulation and humor, it is really good for teenagers to read the book after school. She teaches readers things while readers enjoy reading. There is no hard word or sentence in the book; it is a good choice to read after a whole day work to relax!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Carlotta looks for missing women
Review: Carlotta Carlyle can barely makes ends meet with her two jobs as a cab driver and a private investigator in Boston. She counts herself fortunate when she gets two cases at once, but she soon regrets her decision to take them both. Her first client is a young teenage boy who hires Carlotta to track down a 14-year-old girl who is missing. The second case involves Carlotta's longtime friend and ex-boss, Lieutenant Mooney, who asks her to track down a missing witness who can testify for him in a case against a man who accuses him of assault. As these two cases unfold, Carlotta has to deal with two irresponsible plumbers who threaten to turn her bathroom into a garish horror. Author Barnes artlessly weaves the criminal cases in with Carlotta's personal life which is often hilarious and never dull. This is a worthy follow-up to Trouble of Fools, the first book of this enjoyable series.
Review Summary: Cops on the Take!
Review: Carlotta Carlyle from A TROUBLE WITH FOOLS, gets stuck with a none functioning bathroom, her little sister in Columbia, a mentor who makes the papers as a crooked cop and a young teen who finds life on the streets preferable to home.
A fine continuance for a budding detective who knows no other way than to keep plugging away until all the layers of Boston sleaze are stripped away. Into her life comes Sam, an old flame but balanced by Lt. Mooney who needs a friend against his own kind who intend to destroy his testimony before Internal Affairs. Complicated personal relationships move this second entry and make a smooth read. Enjoy Charlotte and The Brothers who owe her roommate a favor.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A series that's growing on me
Review: I wasn't so sure about Carlotta when I read the first book, but she's really starting to grow on me. I'm not reading them in any particular order - which might be helpful, but isn't really necessary because the focus of the book is really the mystery, not the side bits of fluff (though in this book, the side bits were really good). Barnes creates great characters, good plot lines and a nice pace - pretty much all you can ask for in a mystery. I would recommend her Carlotta Carlisle series to anyone who likes a laid back, good ole armchair mystery.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This writer is FUNNY
Review: A good rainy-day author. Here's an excerpt "I had the strong feeling that [they] were in a Plymouth Reliant motoring toward some southern state where you could marry your first cousin provided you were both over the age of eight." Such wry wit permeates the book and makes for a fast, fun read. I'm glad she's written so many other books. I can't wait to read them all.....
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Private Cop -- Carlotta
Review: The book fills with tense, actions, humor, and funny. The whole book is unpredictable! it makes me keep guessing what is going to happen next. It makes you laugh when you are nervous about what is going happened next. The book is fun and easy to read, and I love the main character! The book brings out a lot of dark sides of real life but without making reader feel depressed or hopeless about the world. When I was reading the book, I see and understand more bad sides about the society, but the writer brought it out by warm and fragrant way.
Because of the main character was a policewoman and became a private cop. She always has a lot of situations need to solve, and has to social with different kinds of people in her daily life. There always must be many things that annoying her, but she always can make her own happy in any kind of situation; she is pretty optimistic! Her personality makes readers fill with hopes and happiness while reading the book.
While I was reading the book, I not only learned how to solve problem by Carlotta's inference, but also learned how to look at things from different sides. Linda Barnes - the writer of the book, she wrote the whole story with stimulation and humor, it is really good for teenagers to read the book after school. She teaches readers things while readers enjoy reading. There is no hard word or sentence in the book; it is a good choice to read after a whole day work to relax!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Carlotta looks for missing women
Review: Carlotta Carlyle can barely makes ends meet with her two jobs as a cab driver and a private investigator in Boston. She counts herself fortunate when she gets two cases at once, but she soon regrets her decision to take them both. Her first client is a young teenage boy who hires Carlotta to track down a 14-year-old girl who is missing. The second case involves Carlotta's longtime friend and ex-boss, Lieutenant Mooney, who asks her to track down a missing witness who can testify for him in a case against a man who accuses him of assault. As these two cases unfold, Carlotta has to deal with two irresponsible plumbers who threaten to turn her bathroom into a garish horror. Author Barnes artlessly weaves the criminal cases in with Carlotta's personal life which is often hilarious and never dull. This is a worthy follow-up to Trouble of Fools, the first book of this enjoyable series.