Cold Case [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Barnes, Linda

ISBN 10: 0385306148 / ISBN 13: 9780385306140

Published by Delacorte Press, New York, NY, 1997

About this Item

Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on the title page (signature only). First edition, 1st printing, complete numberline. Dust jacket as new in protective mylar sleeve. Book has softening to the base of the spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. A Carlotta Carlyle mystery by the Anthony-and Edgar Award-winning author of 'Lie Down With The Devil' and 'Steel Guitar'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Case [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385306148
• ISBN 13: 9780385306140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A case almost a quarter of a century cold turns red hot again when Linda Barnes's detective and part-time cabby, Carlotta Carlyle, gets ensnared in the hunt for the source of a manuscript in the unmistakable voice of Thea Janis, the young literary sensation who disappeared twenty-four years ago at the height of her fame.



Now, pages from an inflammatory new manuscript are appearing, written in a voice that could be none other than Thea's. But a madman sits in a Massachusetts state prison, convicted of her murder. The "Cold Case" squad of the Boston Police won't touch this one--they want to keep it irrevocably closed. Thea's brother, a dashing politician, is in the middle of a hotly contested gubernatorial race and has other problems, with a fiery young wife and a reputation for ruthlessness. Thea's older sister has withdrawn into her own oblivion. And her aristocratic mother finds her refuge in a bottle.



Who wrote the new manuscript? Who is sending it piecemeal to Thea's family, demanding chapter-by-chapter blackmail? Who is playing games with Carlotta with every loaded word? Is Thea alive or dead? Is the author a victim, a plagiarist*or a killer? Carlotta Carlyle confronts demons from the past and from the present as she peels back layer upon layer of a glittering family's dark secrets in Cold Case, her toughest and most intriguing assignment yet.

About the Author

Linda Barnes is the award-winning author of six previous Carlotta Carlyle novels: Hardware, Snapshot, Steel Guitar, Coyote, The Snake Tattoo, and A Trouble of Fools. She lives near Boston with her husband and son, and is working on Carlotta Carlyle's next case.


From the Paperback edition.