Cold Case

by Linda Barnes

Book Overview

Twenty-four years ago, teen prodigy Thea Janis vanished from her upper crust Boston prep school. At first called a runaway, she's later named among the victims of a serial killer, a man doing life in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312932669
• ISBN13: 9780312932664
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Her best book so far

Of all the current crop of female PIs, Linda Barnes' CarlottaCarlyle may just be the best:.... This is her best book so far: cunningly plotted, beautifully written, believable and likeable. Read it once for the plot, twice for Carlyle herself. Added bonus: Barnes is the only writer I know who can talk knowledgably about music without making it seem like she's showing off.

A ghost -like creeper without the ghosts

"Cold Case" by Linda Barnes is enjoyable from start to finish.The poems of a murdered writer surfaces 24 years after her death.Recent poems. Private I,Carlotta doesn't know if they're frauds or genuine.She only knows that the poems reveal more than writer's family wants her and the public to know.Things such as the truth behind a seemingly solved case,and secret alliances between politicians and members of the Boston PD. The role of the murdered,child writer makes this novel border on the paranormal.It gets very eerie without getting "out there."I give it a 10 for suspense. -Joe

Well constructed mystery

I surprised that this mystery did not make People Magazine's "Page Turner of the Week." I couldn't put it down. Linda Barnes reoccuring characters are well constructed. Here books don't take reading and re-reading the first few chapters several times to jump right into the reading journey. If this book were food, it might not be filet but it certainly is warm oatmeal on a cold, rainy day.

Fresh, exciting, intellilgent.

Linda Barnes does it again. Such a tight, intriguing, carefully drawn plot. The characters are fresh and intelligent. The roller coaster action hangs together without distraction - so difficult to do. And Carlotta Carlyle, woman detective par excellence, has not become brown and jagged with age. Boston makes for an interesting setting.

Linda Barnes is one of my favorite writers

I love all of Linda Barnes' books about Carlotta Carlyle and this one was no exception, but it was not my favorite. I thought it was very interesting and it keep my interest, but I didn't want to sit down and read it in one sitting like some of her other books. It was still a very entertaining and remarkable book and I would highly recommend it to anyone