Flashpoint: A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries) Hardcover – September 8, 1999 by Linda Barnes
Book 8 of 12: The Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries
 
Carlotta thinks shes doing a friend a simple favor when she agrees to burglar-proof an elderly recluses apartment. But twenty-four hours later the woman turns up dead, her apartment ransacked, and Carlotta is left with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck, as well as a lot of questions. Filled with gripping plot twists and razor-sharp dialogue, Flashpoint confirms Carlottas place as the hottest leading lady in detective fiction.
 
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