One of her ten top female detectives in fiction, as shared at the Guardian:
Carlotta CarlyleRead about the other entries on the list.
(Lie Down With the Devil, A Trouble of Fools and 10 other novels by Linda Barnes)
The tall, red-headed, half-Irish, half-Jewish, ex-cop, ex-cabbie Carlyle opens each mystery with a Yiddish proverb (courtesy of her bubbe) but make no mistake – there’s nothing cosy about this series. With a distinctive voice and a world fleshed out with a vivid supporting cast that includes a mafioso lover, an eccentric tenant-slash-assistant and an “adopted” Little Sister from the Big Sisters Association, this is one of my favourite mystery series.
--Marshal Zeringue