| Carlotta Carlyle, Boston PI and occasional cabbie, begrudgingly takes on the blackmail case of suspicious Harvard professor Wilson Chaney. The blackmailer is holding love letters from Chaney to a dead woman, Denali Brinkman. A black man, Chaney is concerned that he will lose his job if his boss discovers that he had an affair with a white student. However, Carlotta finds herself drawn into not only the blackmail case, but Denali's suicide, which Carlotta feels might have been a murder. Denali's death leads Carlotta to Denali's lover, an ex-con, who also ends up dying an untimely and violent death. Carlotta, while struggling with her current relationship with the FBI agent she met on her last big job and her past relationship with mafia boss Sam Gianelli, tries to find the blackmailer, the killer, the truth, and the reason behind it all. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) Time/era of story: Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 % Crime Thriller Yes Crime plotlets: General Crime (including known murderer) Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - Female Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: Eccentric: Yes Motive of antagonist - money/treasure How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting United States Yes The US: - Northeast City? Yes City: - Boston Misc setting - fancy mansion Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references A lot of techno jargon? Yes Kind of jargon? - biology/medical Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - run over - flamed Unusual form of death? Yes Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog |
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