Hardware

by Linda Barnes Narrated by C. J. Critt

Overview

The brash Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle takes on a case for the Green and White Cab Company. The investigation will lead her into the mysterious shadowlands of computer technology, where she finds that information is cheap and privacy is a thing of the past.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

When Boston-area cabbies are targeted in a series of attacks, the professional and personal lives of Carlotta Carlyle bloom with mystery in this lively yarn. The part-time PI and part-time cab driver last seen in Snapshot is hired by the Small Taxi Association to investigate the attacks. On the same day, she discovers four microphones hidden at Green & White, the company she drives for. Sam Gianelli, her ``on-again, off-again lover'' and Green & White's co-proprietor, wants the bugs left undisturbed-though he won't say why. Sam's friend Frank sells Carlotta a new computer; on the way home she and Sam are shot at. Violence edges closer to Green & White, leading to serious injury for Sam and his co-owner, Gloria. Unexpectedly, Frank the computer maven, whom even Roz, Carlotta's tenant with a lively taste for men and the bizarre, finds odd, resurfaces. Before Carlotta can sort out taxi industry troubles, the past intrudes on the present and she discovers some surprises about Sam. The puzzle works well, but mainly it's Carlotta and her interactions with the well-drawn folks around her that make Barnes's story hum. Simultaneous release from BDD audio; author tour; rights: Gina Maccoby Literary Agency. (Mar.)

Library Journal

The name of Barnes's heroine, private investigator Carlotta Carlyle, is spoken in the same critical breath as Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski. Here, in her sixth adventure, Carlotta buys a personal computer and a new gun, both of which come in handy in her latest case.

From the Publisher

"Carlotta is an engaging narrator with a brisk, easygoing style. . . . A worthy competitor in the private eye business.” —The Washington Post
 
“The most refreshing, creative female character to hit mystery fiction since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.” —People
 
“One of the most sparkling and irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit.” —Chicago Sun-Times
 
“The genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine.” —New York Post

 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171020743
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Series:	Carlotta Carlyle Series , #6
Edition description:	Unabridged

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