Linda Barnes' mysteries starring Carlotta Carlyle.
Linda Barnes, "Lie Down with the Devil"
Darker. Continued experimentation with different viewpoints.
ISBN 0312356455.
Linda Barnes, "Heart of the World"
Dark. First attempts at non-first-person; not sure this works.
ISBN 0312362730.
Linda Barnes, "Deep Pockets"
Good. Detailed. Bit implausible -- one character goes from being very subtle to very stupid.
ISBN 0312997280.
Linda Barnes, "Cold Case"
Possibly the best of these yet.
The sudden appearance of Internet references in the series makes the odd chronology stick out -- and Carlotta's A2000 is doing very well if she's running Netscape on it, or perhaps Sam's bought her something else...
ISBN 0340640227.
Linda Barnes, "Hardware"
This is how to do hacker culture in a non-technical book and get it right. I was a bit surprised not to see Bruce Sterling or someone listed as a contributor -- it's spot on, if a few years out of date (Frank gives Carlotta an Amiga 2000... in 1995?).
... hah -- yes -- "The Hacker Crackdown" definitely was a reference; the list of filenames near the end is quoted from there! So that's where the A2000 came from -- there's a bit in THC where a forensics expert describes it as her ideal machine.
ISBN 0312932650.
Linda Barnes, "Steel Guitar"
More Chris Smither references (which is how I got interested in the series in the first place!). Unsurprisingly, searching for the song that the book's named after turns up a cover by him...
ISBN 0312932642.
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