Barnes, Linda

Working undercover as a mild-mannered secretary has private investigator Carlotta Carlyle bored. She starts moonlighting, but soon finds herself over her head in a storm of events that threaten to make this investigation her last.

Carlotta Carlyle, a private detective, must confront her suspicions and investigate the death of a bass player for blues singer Dee Willis.

Collects two novellas that feature the same cast of characters from collaborating thriller writers, including "The Chopin Manuscript, " in which a former war crimes investigator discovers a threat to Americans encrypted on a score from Frederic Chopin; and "The Copper Bracelet, " in which Harold Middleton must discover the identity of the "Scorpion" and prevent a terrorist war.

Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle pulls out all the stops when Paolina, the now-teenage girl she has mentored for years, disappears without a trace, and as her search continues, Carlotta begins to suspect Paolina has been snatched by her biological father--a Columbian drug lord believed by many to be dead.

Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle, unable to get anyone to share information about why her mob-connected boyfriend Sam Gianelli has been indicted for a murder that is keeping him out of the country, decides to take a simple job checking out a fiance for a nervous bride-to-be, but when the young woman is found dead, Carlotta suddenly finds herself under suspicion and in over her head.