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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Hardware 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)

HARDWARE
By: Linda Barnes

Carlotta Carlyle #6
Minotaur Books
September 2005
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Featuring: Carlotta Carlyle
400 pages
ISBN: 0312932650
EAN: 9780312932657
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

In her sixth spellbinding adventure, Carlotta Carlyle, the 6'1" redheaded P.I. from Boston, takes on a case that draws her into the mysterious shadova and of computer technology, where information is cheap, and privacy may be a thing of the past. Part-time cabbie Carlotta is entering the modern age of investigation. With the help of her sometime lover, mafioso, and computer-hobbyist Sam Gianelli, she invests in her first "hardware," a cheap personal computer. And at the urging of her ex-boss, Boston Police Lt. Mooney, who decries the stopping power of her .38 S&W, she decides to upgrade her arsenal. Both types of hardware come in handy when Carlotta is hired by Gloria, owner of G&W Cab, to investigate the brutal robberies that are causing her cabbies to quit in record numbers, and the violence and unanswered questions escalate. An explosion rocks G&W, killing Gloria's brother and seriously wounding co-owner Sam Gianelli. Is someone out to bankrupt G&W to acquire its invaluable cab medallions? Is the company a pawn in a Mafia vendetta, with Sam, the underboss's son, the target? And who put that tiny microphone near G&W's bathroom? Aided by a mysterious databank expert, Carlotta learns far more than she thought possible about "private" transactions. And she finds herself digging into Sam's past, exposing secrets he's kept hidden for years--secrets that begin to pull them further apart. As the investigation reaches its climax, Carlotta realizes, almost too late, that the mob may be just a fall guy in a very intimate crime.

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