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    A Trouble of Fools
    A Trouble of Fools
    A Trouble of Fools
    Audiobook7 hours

    A Trouble of Fools

    Written by Linda Barnes

    Narrated by C.J. Critt

    3.5/5

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    As she looks for a missing taxi driver, Carlotta's investigation sends her traveling the pub route with a bunch of blarney-loving geezers whose devotion to the Emerald Isle has gotten them involved in a deadly mix of Boston-Irish politics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781456124304
    Author

    Linda Barnes

    Linda Barnes is the award-winning author of the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series. Her witty, private investigator heroine has been hailed as “a true original” by Sue Grafton. Barnes has also written the Michael Spraggue mystery series and a stand-alone novel, The Perfect Ghost. A winner of the Anthony Award and an Edgar and Shamus Award finalist, she lives in the Boston area with her husband and son. You can visit her at www.LindaBarnes.com.

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    • 3/5
      I might have picked this up as it was the first in a series about a female PI, written by a woman. Not a terrible shout. In and out in under 220 pages with some nice detecting and a messy ending. Not sure I'll rush out to read the next in the series, but a nice alternative to Parker's Boston books, even if the writing doesn't have quite the same zing.
    • 4/5
      In the latter half of the 1980s crime fiction experienced an eruption of tough, bright, resolute and engaging female private detectives, such as Sara Paretsky’s V I Warshwski, Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone, and Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan. One of the finest, though less celebrated than her peers, was the cab-driving and aspiring guitarist, Carlotta Carlyle, created by Linda Barnes.A Trouble of Fools is the first outing for Carlotta Carlyle. Although already established as a private eye, as the book opens we sense that business is far from brisk for Carlotta. She does, however, soon acquire a case when she is retained by the highly respectable Margaret Devens to find her missing, and rather less respectable brother, Gene. Ms Devens sought out Carlotta because her brother had been a cab driver, employed by Green and White, one of Boston’s many taxi firms. For whom Carlotta herself had worked during night shifts while a student. We learn that Carlotta had subsequently joined the police before leaving to go solo, disaffected equally by the mindless regulation and Neanderthal attitudes that she encountered.Gene Devens’s disappearance is unexpected because he had, thitherto, been conspicuous solely for his orthodoxy. He had driven his cab, gone for a quick drink with his colleagues once his shift was over, and then gone home. Initially perplexed, Carlotta digs more deeply and gradually uncovers another side to Gene’s life, and that of several of his colleagues at Green and White Cabs, rooted in a difficult and emotive past.Carlotta is certainly and well-drawn character, and the plot is well constructed, rooted in plausibility. A very enjoyable opening to what I hope is an engaging series.
    • 4/5
      Good author, fun series about a female PI in Boston.