The Big Dig

Carlotta Carlyle is back. This time she has an assignment to go undercover to monitor rumors of theft on a construction site in the heart of Boston. Only this isn't your ordinary dig site. This is Boston's famous Big Dig. Massachusetts residents will remember that tolls paid along the turnpike were supposed to fund this ginormous project to reroute traffic around one of the oldest cities in the nation. Only, the action isn't hot and heavy enough for Carlotta. She seems to be monitoring the theft of...dirt. She decides to moonlight, taking on a missing persons case. Working two separate jobs seems like a win-win for Carlotta until she gets fired from the Big Dig assignment. Isn't it ironic that Carlotta discovers that her undercover show more assignment is directly tied to her on-the-side case, the disappearance of a dog groomer/waitress? Now Carlotta must find a way back onto the Dig assignment to connect the cases and solve them both.
Big Dig is full of twists and turns. Both the events of Waco, Texas and Oklahoma City play a part in the action. Carlotta finds herself back in the presence of an old flame and finds time to fan a new fire. show less

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.

One of my favorite mystery series. Carlotta Carlyle is a good protag. This was not my favorite book in the series, though. Carlotta sets out to find the murderer at the Big Dig site in Boston.

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

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

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

Nice M&M mystery