The Big Dig (2001)

by Linda Barnes

Series: Carlotta Carlyle (book 9)

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i don't like this series. will never read another. stupid character. stupid plot. stupid reader. (

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mahallett | Oct 5, 2010 |

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elkiedee | Jul 28, 2010 |

I’m sort of hit or miss with the Carlotta novels, I’ve read a few, but not all of them and not in order. As a character, I like Carlotta. She’s the same as other female P.I.s, but also like some of the men as she has a hell of a libido and isn’t ashamed of it. In this one she gives it a bit of reign with a hot construction guy. And of course she had a little personal danger on the way to solving the case, but came out OK. Maybe I’m getting too jaded and need to cut back on my detective genre novels because this one didn’t move me at all and I felt like I wasted my time reading it. I think I should intersperse other books more liberally in order to keep enjoying these. (

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Bookmarque | Sep 3, 2008 |

About the big di under the city of Boston and possible corruption. Also, Carlyle is working her PI business on the side with a wealthy widow for a missing friend.

It got scary toward the end when Carlyle is involved in the rescue of the girl and the owner's daughter of the Construction Project.

Rebecca

onthehill | Oct 22, 2007 |

lots of local references to the Big Dig and the Boston area, enjoyable mystery. (

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weez910 | Oct 2, 2007 |

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Carlotta Carlyle (book 9)

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The Big Dig

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2001

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When PI Carlotta Carlyle is hired to go underground in the newest title in Linda Barnes's popular series, it's more than a figure of speech; she's investigating rumored theft and corruption on the big dig of the title, Boston's multibillion dollar tunnel project. She's also involved in another case, that of a missing woman whose friend, wealthy Brahmin Dana Endicott, knows that even if Victoria left her job tending bar or her other job caring for animals at a local dog-grooming company without giving notice, she would never have abandoned her beloved dog, who's been left behind at Endicott's Back Bay brownstone. Then a workman who alerted authorities that things were disappearing from the dig site dies in a fall that might be an industrial accident but on closer investigation, begins to look like murder. It takes the determined Carlyle a few more beats before she links her two cases with the big Patriot's Day celebration planned at Faneuil Hall on the anniversary of the Waco massacre, but by the time she has, she's located the missing woman and a kidnapped teenager, foiled the bad guys, and managed to bed an undercover FBI agent--attagirl, Carlotta! A lively and engaging heroine in a tidy mystery whose fast-paced narrative slows but doesn't stop for the details about Boston's ambitious, overdue, and overbudget urban renewal project. --Jane Adams

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"Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redheaded private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery tunnel running beneath crowded downtown Boston, is an engineering marvel, the largest urban construction project in modern history, and a $14 billion boondoggle in the eyes of protestors. But playing a mild-mannered secretary working out of a construction trailer is not quite the thrill ride she had in mind."."Carlotta decides to moonlight, taking on a missing-persons case, but the search for Veronica James turns up one dead end after another. So do her fraud investigations on the Dig, and soon it looks like Carlotta has dug herself one big hole. But then a break-in at Veronica's coupled with the mysterious death of a construction worker on one of the sites stirs up a storm, and soon enough Carlotta is in over her head in more ways than one."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)