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A Trouble Of Fools by Linda Barnes

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Also by Linda Barnes:

The Perfect Ghost, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Perfect Ghost, April 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Lie Down With The Devil, August 2008
Hardcover
Flashpoint, May 2008
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Heart Of The World, June 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
A Trouble Of Fools, July 2006
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Cold Case, December 2005
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Hardware, September 2005
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Snapshot, July 2005
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Steel Guitar, May 2005
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Coyote, March 2005
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Snake Tattoo, February 2004
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Big Dig, August 2003
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Deep Pockets, November 0000
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)

A Trouble Of Fools
Linda Barnes

Carlotta Carlyle #1
Minotaur Books
July 2006
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Featuring: Carlotta Carlyle
240 pages
ISBN: 0312359438
EAN: 9780312359430
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

The first book in the Carlotta Carlyle series!

Linda Barnes’s A Trouble of Fools is the book that introduced readers to ex-Boston cop and PI Carlotta Carlyle, who knows trouble when she sees it like the old Irish lady offering a grand in cash to find her brother...

TROUBLE…
Since being bounced from the Boston police for insubordination after six years of service, Carlotta Carlyle has set up shop as a private investigator ready to deal with anything from lost pets to substantially grander larcenies. Though Carlotta, a six-foot-tall, redheaded ex cop, part-time cabbie, and neophyte private eye, works out of her home, it’s rare that clients stop by unannounced. Especially clients like the genteel, reserved, elderly spinster Miss Margaret Devens.

ALWAYS COMES…
With cash flow problems and a caseload so light that she’s taken to reading her cat’s mail, Carlotta accepts the case of Miss Devens’s missing brother Eugene. Oddly enough, Carlotta knew Eugene when they worked together back at Green and White Cab. As far as Carlotta sees it, this case should be a pinch—until two thugs looking for money send her client to the hospital.

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT…
The old lady’s missing brother seems to have been involved in something much more dangerous than simply driving a cab. Carlotta is determined to do whatever it takes?work the cops, pose as a hooker, and even drive a cab again—to find Eugene before it’s too late.

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