The Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries Volume One

As a former Boston cop, Carlotta Carlyle thought she had seen it allbut that was before she became a private eye . . . In The Snake Tattoo, a London Times outstanding book of the year, Carlotta Carlyle's former boss, Lieutenant Mooney, gets into a scrap with a stranger in a bar. When the stranger winds up comatose, Mooney is suspended, and he needs Carlotta to find the one woman who can exonerate him: a blond hooker with a snake tattoo. But when Carlotta picks up a second casetracking down a prep school kid's missing girlfriendshe's drawn into two different yet deadly worlds. Boston private investigators aren't supposed to touch murder cases. But in Coyote, an illegal immigrant named Manuela Estefan has nowhere else to turn. She was mistakenly pronounced dead when her ID card was found on the body of a murdered woman near Fenway Park, and now she needs Carlotta to get her IDand her lifeback. But...