Heart of the World

ISBN: 0312332874

Title: Heart of the World

Author: Linda Barnes

KDL Description:

When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private
detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.

Amazon Description:

Heart of the World is Linda Barnes’s most intense, most personal, and most suspenseful Carlotta Carlyle novel yet. In it, Carlotta is awakened by a late-night phone call telling her that Paolina is missing. Fourteen-year-old Paolina was paired up with Carlotta by a mentoring program in Boston years ago, and she knows that Carlotta thinks of her more like a daughter. In fact, as Carlotta combs the streets of Boston, then Miami, and then Bogotá looking for Paolina, feeling more and more desperate, she finds herself thinking of another child she lost: a baby she bore at fifteen and gave up for adoption.

Tense, emotional, frightening, Heart of the World follows Carlotta as she herself is kidnapped by Paolina’s notorious father, drug lord Carlos Roldan, and as they team up in an unlikely bid for Paolina’s freedom. It’s a breathless, shocking read, the pinnacle of a series and an author’s career: Barnes’s best work ever