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Hailed by Sue Grafton as "a true original," ex-cop turned private eye Carlotta Carlyle risks her neck in Boston's Combat Zone for two very different clients

Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the... Read Full Overview

Carlotta Carlyle is back. The 6'1 redheaded female private eye finds business booming with two cases on her hands: tracking down a missing teenager from one of Boston's finest private schools, and helping her old friend Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police find a witness who... Read Full Overview

What do a privileged Emerson student and a hooker from the Combat Zone have in common? They are both missing--and both areta Carlyle in her Boston cab! "A riveting, well-told story."--Publishers Weekly. HC: St. Martin's.

Suspended for brutality, Lieutenant Joe Mooney hires Carlotta to find the witness--a witness with a snake tattoo--who can prove Mooney was threatened with a knife.