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Carlotta renews her friendship with legendary blues singer, Dee Willis, who hires Carlotta to find the man who has been threatening to kill her.Tags
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didn't like this much. dee was portrayed very well, totally self absorbed.
but the story was hard to follow, carlotta is the stupidest name i have ever heard, and the whole thing didn't make much sense.
but the story was hard to follow, carlotta is the stupidest name i have ever heard, and the whole thing didn't make much sense.
I liked this installment of the Carlyle series. Good characters and Barnes knows how to keep the reader interested.
4th in the series, in which old friends surface and old illusions crumble.
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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
- Steel Guitar
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Carlotta Carlyle; Dee Willis; Lt. Mooney; Calvin Therieux; Roz; David Dunrobie (show all 7); Hal
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Epigraph
- “She could put it all together on a real, on a steel guitar.” “Steel Guitar”. Danny O'Keefe
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- Members
- 357
- Popularity
- 87,815
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.46)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 11
