Let's make this birthday one to remember.

75 years old (Born on December 06, 1949)

Happy Birthday to the incredible Linda Barnes! May your day be filled with intrigue, adventure, and fewer mysteries than those confronting Carlotta Carlyle. Your talent for crafting captivating twists has consistently kept readers up late into the night, cheering on one tough detective who never backed down from danger.

From "A Trouble of Fools" onward, you have brilliantly mastered suspenseful storytelling that remains as refreshing today as when you first introduced us to Carlotta and her red-haired tenacity. We celebrate your remarkable career milestone of thrilling readership worldwide—proof once again that classic noir style never goes out of fashion!