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This novel "sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that is 'Juice' Terry Lawson ... Juice is a man who contains multitudes: he's a top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo pornstar and taxi driver. As we ride along in Juice's cab through the depraved streets of Edinburgh, Juice encounters a series of charmingly filthy characters, each of whom present...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Unable to stay out of trouble for too long, Dublin limo driver Megan Malone helps her latest client, a world-renowned romance novelist, look into the death of her protaegé, leading her to the victim's writing group and to a killer who wants to write her out of the story-- permanently.
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-152
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
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English
Description
A New York City cab driver drives a beautiful woman across the country to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life awaits.
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Hailed by Sue Grafton as "a true original," ex-cop turned private eye Carlotta Carlyle risks her neck in Boston's Combat Zone for two very different clients Carlotta Carlyle is halfway through a pizza when her former boss, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston Police, shows up at her door needing help even more than Carlotta needs a case. In a Combat Zone bar, Mooney got into a scrap with a stranger over a woman. Now the stranger is comatose, the woman...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
So this was it, he thought. He had his first fare and was now officially a cab driver. He shook his head as he exhaled the smoke into the morning cold. Well, he'd use the taxi time just as he had promised himself. He would figure things out, get a hold on himself, keep some little money coming in, and find the men who had murdered his wife.Nick Cullen's wife was brutally murdered in a burglary gone horribly wrong, and he's not the type to move on...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
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English
Description
Wynston Cleave, a black taxi driver on a small Caribbean island, spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the death of a wealthy white tourist. Finally released, he tries to piece his life together working as a bartender and reading literary classics to the unruly cockroaches infesting his taxi.
On the anniversary of his arrest, Wynston picks up two white Americans just kicked off a cruise ship. The next day, the ship reports a...
11) Snapshot
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
Description
A series of strange photos draws Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle into a chilling case of medical malpractice Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous...
12) Cold case
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Hired to find a missing novelist, Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle gets tangled up in a cutthroat political campaign Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published her first novel at age fourteen, shocking the upper crust of Boston with her frank depiction of blue-blooded indiscretions, and she seemed to have a magnificent career ahead of her. But before Thea could publish her follow-up novel, she mysteriously disappeared and was eventually...
14) Hardware
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Carlotta Carlyle's moonlighting job as a taxi driver turns into the most dangerous, high-octane case of her career When Carlotta can't sleep-or when money gets tight-she drives a cab. It's always been a dangerous way to make a living, but lately it's become truly terrifying. In the last two months, nine cabbies have been savagely beaten and robbed, and every time Carlotta gets behind the wheel, she knows that she could be next....
15) Steel guitar
Author
Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Helping an old college friend who made it big in the music industry puts Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle in a deadly spotlight She may be Boston's most tenacious private detective, but by night, Carlotta Carlyle is just another cab driver hustling for an honest buck. When blues superstar Dee Willis climbs into her cab, Carlotta isn't starstruck-she's shocked. The two women were friends in college, right up until the day Dee ran off with Carlotta's husband....
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning debut mystery introduces a Boston PI who's one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit ( Chicago Sun-Times ). Let go from the Beantown police force for insubordination, six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop, part-time taxi driver, and neophyte private eye Carlotta Carlyle is ready for business. Her first client is the genteel and elderly Margaret Devens, whose brother, Eugene, one of the...
17) Spoon to be dead
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Series
Shake shop mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Trinidad Jones is starting the festive season with sugary confections and a heaping scoop of worry as her shake shop enters its first Oregon winter. With snow abounding and tourists trickling through, she'll do anything to keep her milkshake dreams afloat, even if it means catering a holiday steamboat party for some new arrivals in town. But when her good-for-nothing ex crashes through her shop's door claiming he's being charged with murder, things...
Author
Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
For the sake of an illegal immigrant, Boston private investigator and part-time taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle gets involved in a serial murder case Carlotta Carlyle has just returned home when a dead woman walks through her door. Manuela Estefan is breathing, walking, and talking-but according to the newspaper in her hand, she was just found savagely murdered in a marshy park not far from Fenway. The deceased woman was carrying Manuela's ID card, and...
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