THE BIG DIG by Linda Barnes

A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery.

Carlotta Carlyle, the 6 ft tall red-headed private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big dig would be a challenging assignment.
After all, The Big Dig, the creation of the central artery tunnel running beneath crowded Boston, is an engineering marvel, the largest urban construction project in modern history, a $14 billion boondagle in the eyes of protesters.But palying a mild-mannered secretary working out of a construction trailer is not quite the thrill ride Carlotta had in mind.

She decides to moonlight, taking on a missing person case, but the search for veronica James turns up one dead end after the other. So do her fraud investigations on the Dig, and soon it looks like carlotta has dug herself into one big hole. But then a break-in at Veronica's, coupled with the mysterious death of a construction worker on one of teh sites, stirs up a storm, and soon enough, carlotta is in over her head in more ways than one...