num_pages: 207
description: It's the kind of case that has "NO!" written all over it. But ex-cop Carlotta Carlyle has a p.i. license getting moldy from disuse, so she takes on the search for a little old lady's missing brother. After all, how much trouble could an aging cabbie get into?Plenty, Carlotta learns, as she uncovers a scam of laundered money and drug running, all mixed together in that dangerously powerful brew known as Boston-Irish politics."You will be caught up in Carlotta's adventures. For she is one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit . . . . It's top-drawer all the way."-- Chicago Sun-Times
language: English
title: A Trouble of Fools
titlecomplete: A Trouble of Fools (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery #1)
genres: Mystery Thriller, Suspense, 20th Century, Contemporary, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Audiobook, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 3697
places: Boston, Massachusetts
series: Carlotta Carlyle
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Fawcett