Kristen Lepionka's new novel is The Last Place You Look.
One of her ten top female detectives in fiction, as shared at the Guardian:
Carlotta Carlyle
(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 –