The Snake Tattoo
Linda Barnes
290 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0312026439
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Language: English
Publish: 599644800000
AudiobookCrimeDetectiveFictionMysteryMystery ThrillerThe United States Of AmericaWomens
Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6’1″ of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with brutality, suspended, and desperate. The witness who can clear him is a hooker with a snake tattoo…and she’s vanished.The second client is a teenager with a missing wallet and a split lip. He’s been roughed up on the Boston streets while searching for his runaway girlfriend. He’s too young to be a client, and Carlotta should have turned him down. Shoulda, woulda, coulda…didn’t.Both investigation send Carlotta into Boston’s Combat Zone and the dark alleys of the human heart. Hookers don’t disappear and kids don’t take off with good reason. Now Carlotta is coming face to face with the evil that men do, and what is she going to do about it? Tackle it head on….