Mystery Books

Mystery Movies

  • Basic

    Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Taye Diggs, Giovanni Ribisi. John McTiernan's double-crossing, multi-layered military thriller a

  • Solaris

    Superstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this "brilliant sci-fi movie" (New York Daily News) from Academy Award

  • Lost - The Complete First Season

    From J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, comes the action-packed adventure that became a worldwide television event. Strand

  • The Arrival

    Calling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in

  • Arlington Road

    Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins. A professor whose wife was killed during an anti-terrorist operation begins to suspect that his new nei

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Mystery Authors

Linda Barnes biography

 

 

Linda Barnes

(1949 - )

Linda Barnes (born 6 June 1949) is an American mystery writer who was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated cum laude from the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University. She then went on to become a drama teacher and director at Chelmsford and Lexington, Massachusetts schools. While teaching drama, Barnes wrote two plays, the award-winning "Wings" and "Prometheus" but went on to write highly successful mystery novels. She is best known for her series featuring Carlotta Carlyle, a 6'1" redheaded detective from Boston. Carlotta Carlyle is in the tradition of the hard-boiled female detectives created by Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky. Linda Barnes is also a poet.

Information source: wikipedia