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Private investigator Carlotta Carlyle's moonlighting job as a taxi driver turns into the most dangerous, high-octane case of her career Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine" (New York Post). When Carlotta can't sleep--or when money gets tight--she drives a cab. It's always been a dangerous way to make a living, but lately it's become truly terrifying. In the last show more two months, nine cabbies have been savagely beaten and robbed, and every time Carlotta gets behind the wheel, she knows that she could be next. How then can she refuse when a rival taxi company hires her to investigate the assaults? Thinking she will be making the world a safer place for cab drivers, Carlotta doesn't suspect that this new case will push her even closer to the edge. The company she works for is co-owned by Sam Gianelli, her sometime lover and a mob-connected businessman whose family knows how to get tough. Drawn into a tangled conspiracy of mafia secrets and high-tech espionage, Carlotta will have to drive faster than ever to stay alive. Hardware is the 6th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. show lessTags
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The 6th in the Carlotta Carlyle series, in which cabbies are getting killed and the business of the Boston mob becomes very personal.
I had a hard time following the plot of this one.
Great author. Fun series with a female PI protag.
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Linda Barnes is a writer and educator. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Barnes graduated from Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts majoring in acting, theater education, and English. After graduation, Barnes taught theater in a Massachusetts high school. She wrote a one-act play that won a contest sponsored by the Boston Globe. show more The play Wings was published and performed across the country. Barnes' first crime novel was published in 1981 and featured an amateur detective named Michael Spraggue. She continued with a series of books that featured Spraggue until a short story featured a new detective named Carlotta Carlyle. The first book in that series, A Trouble of Fools, won the American Mystery Award for best private eye novel of 1987. Barnes won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story for Lucky Penny in 1986. Some of her other works include Deep Pockets, Heart Of The World and Lie Down With The Devil. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Hardware
- Original publication date
- 1995
- People/Characters
- Carlotta Carlyle
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Epigraph*
- "As a father you shall be to me"
"For a little while." - Dedication*
- In loving memory of my uncle, Hal Weiss
- First words*
- Drey kenen haltn a sod as tsvey zaynen meysim, my grandmother used to say.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Marvin's Cabs,' Gloria said. 'What color do you think we should paint 'em?'
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
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