Book Review: The Big Dig

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

The Big Dig     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Linda Barnes
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Private Investigator
Series: Carlotta Carlyle # 9
St. Martin’s, Paperback, 8/03, 341 pages, $6.99

PI Carlotta Carlyle has been hired to work undercover searching for fraud on Boston’s Big Dig. She is to be a mild-mannered secretary working in a construction trailer. This is not what Carlotta had in mind.

She also ends up, with the help of her little sister, being hired in a missing person’s case. Veronica James left for a weekend and never came back. Now her landlady, and friend, wants Carlotta to find her. She hits one brick wall after another in her search for Veronica

Things aren’t going much better in the fraud investigation. Then a construction worker dies and Carlotta isn’t sure it was an accident.

There’s a break-in at Veronica’s. Carlotta isn’t too sure things are what they seem here as well.

Carlotta ends up putting herself in some dangerous situations to try to bring both cases to a close.

I recommend this book. I really enjoy Carlotta. I must admit this wasn’t one of my tops in this series, but it was an enjoyable read. I think people who have lived through the Big Dig in Boston relate better to this story.

Dawn Dowdle

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