Women sleuths Books

Old habits die hard, especially when you're a former nun... When Kristin got kicked out of the convent a few years ago, she vowed never to become involved with nuns or priests again. But she's breaking that vow at every turn. And because of it, she's...

June, 1989Tensions simmerWhat begins as a reckless act of drunken car theft ends in the deaths of three local lads, a senseless tragedy that tears open the wounds of bigotry and prejudice, revealing a dark stain of racial intolerance amongst Ossett and...

The Morningstar series is a genuinely spiritual book for women and girls, portraying a tale of humanity's savage past when fear-fueled religious beliefs demonized the qualities of the once-sacred feminine. Igniting women's literature and fiction,...

The BRAND NEW installment in Kelly Oliver's brilliantly addictive Detection Club cozy mystery seriesParis, 1928: Agatha Christie and fellow writer Dorothy L Sayers board the Orient Express, bound for Constantinople. Christie in particular is looking...

A fast-paced psychological thriller with a shocking twist. During a freak car crash when she was twelve years old, Mia Germaine died alongside her father. A heart transplant from a young murder victim brought her back to life, but not...

Overcome with guilt over her estranged father's death, psychotherapist Rebecca Lev leaves her Chicago practice for the Bay Area to investigate, convinced his abusive wife killed him--but before she can find out what happened to her father, she has to...

"Mixing Romance and Mystery in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!" "A fun and spunky heroine, a plot involving an old castle in Strasbourg make this a fast-paced, delightful read." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times best-selling author "A fabulously entertaining novel,...

Like a monarch surveying her domain, the house has stood for over a hundred years in the fishing village of Apalachicola on Florida's northwest coast. She has known life. She has known passionate love. She has known brutal death. But she has guarded her...

Addie Burhan never allowed the choice she made eighteen years ago to control her life. A goal not easily accomplished in 1940, when an unplanned pregnancy left women with few options. But after hearing gossip about her former boyfriend Barry Gallatin at...

Lorsque Lady Vera Everly s'effondre sous un lustre scintillant lors de son propre gala de printemps, le village de Little Firling suppose qu'il s'agit simplement d'un accident tragique. Mais la professeure de littérature à la retraite Annabel Lennox...

Seaborne's SEVENTH novel in the DIVISIBLE MAN franchise. A Hollywood A-list actor asks Will to pilot her on a suspicious mission. A secret meeting to reveal Will's ability to vanish goes horribly wrong when the Deputy Director of the FBI assigns Will and...

Seaborne's SIXTH novel in the DIVISIBLE MAN franchise. Caught up in a series of hideous headline-generating crimes, Will Stewart confronts the question of whether to reveal himself or allow innocent lives to be lost. An old enemy surfaces. A vile night...

Seaborne's FIFTH novel in the DIVISIBLE MAN franchise. An unexpected visit from the FBI threatens Will Stewart's secret and sends Detective Andy Stewart on a collision course with her darkest impulses. A twisted road reveals how a long-buried Cold...

Seaborne's FOURTH entry in the DIVISIBLE MAN franchise. Things just have a way of happening around Will and Andy Stewart, not just because of Will's extraordinary ability to vanish and in so doing, defy gravity. In this collection of tales from Essex...

Seaborne's THIRD novel in the DIVISIBLE MAN franchise. A horrifying message turns a holiday gathering tragic. An unsolved murder hangs a death threat over Detective Andy Stewart's head. And internet-fueled hatred targets Will and Andy's friend Lane...

Jane Smith used to hate being average. With her mousy hair and watery brown eyes, she blends into the background, easily forgotten. But that's exactly what makes her a successful private investigator. While others stand out, Jane goes unnoticed,...

"The best kind of historical mystery: great history, great mystery, all wrapped up in a voice so authentic you feel it has come out of the past to whisper in your ear." -Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author "Remarkable ... Imagine the richly...

Mentre assiste a una scena del crimine nella periferia di Maidstone, la detective Kay Hunter fa una scoperta sconvolgente.La vittima è stata brutalmente fatta a pezzi e la sua identità è sconosciuta.Quando nella campagna del Kentish cominciano a spuntare...

Lorsqu'une femme mutilée est retrouvée dans une propriété isolée, la détective Kay Hunter fait face à l'une des enquêtes les plus éprouvantes de sa carrière.Le passé de la victime ne révèle aucun indice sur ce qui aurait pu provoquer un meurtre aussi...

Hollywood comes to Saint-Maurice!I, Julie Belmain, do not read the gossip magazines. But even I have heard of the four Hollywood actors - superheroes no less - who have made reservations at my newly opened hotel. They're here to tour the Beaujolais...

Ask DI Nikki Gill what happened. The words on the crumpled note sent a chill down Nikki's spine as she stared at the young woman's body at the base of the college walls. What dark connection could this Oxford student possibly have to her past?When...

A father vanishes on a quiet lake. The police call it an accident-his daughter knows better.Tilly Lafleur didn't come home to solve a mystery. She returned to Balsam Bay after her father's sudden disappearance expecting grief-not a dog she didn't ask...

Macleod on the hunt for the Forseti group. A mole passing information to a group of killers. Can Macleod manage two evils or will pandemonium reign in this bloodiest of feuds?DCI Seoras Macleod, tasked with finding the elusive Forseti group, sets his...

When four backpackers go missing near Dunk Island in North Queensland, Detective Bec Whitfield is thrust into a chilling search mission. The natural beauty masks a dark reality, and as the days pass, one body is discovered, but the others remain missing,...

Some silences are screams in disguise.In a town haunted by legacy, power, and unspoken trauma, happiness fades into mourning when a body is discovered near the old factory. From that moment, long-buried secrets begin to surface-and with them, the fragile...

Amberoanie joins the team in search of finding more evidence to bring John to justice. The more she and the team investigate, the more details of Amberoanie's previous life on the streets are brought to the surface, unraveling breathtaking events. The...

A missing child. A ruthless deadline. A family's desperate decision.When a young girl vanishes, trainee detective Nora Sommer is already deep undercover investigating a floating gentlemen's club in international waters.With her mentor out of action and...

The smallest flame can set off an explosionA routine drug bust in Little Italy goes horribly wrong when two squads of plainclothes cops start shooting at each other. When the dust clears, one of Detective Erin O'Reilly's friends in the Street Narcotics...

Step into the heart of the Bronx with Detective Amaya Storm, a razor-sharp private investigator whose knack for solving mysteries is only rivaled by her fierce loyalty to her community-and her three remarkable feline companions.When a popular Bronx...

"Don't panic, Cait. This death will not spoil our wedding. I promise."It's Cait and Bud's wedding weekend and nothing is going as planned. The weather in Wales is terrible, the "romantic" castle they chose for their destination wedding feels creepy, and...

They took her partner - grabbed him right off the streets of AnchoragePrivate investigator (and secret werewolf) Sara Flores has made a life out of rescuing people from men who think they can get away with murder. But this case is different. This time...

It was a truth universally acknowledged: Marcia Deaver's untimely death elicited very little grief from her colleagues at Valerian Hills High School. Some staff members speculate the cause of death was a heart attack, or perhaps a suicide, but Liz...

Josie Ashbury was a successful Hollywood actress with a booming career-until an on-set breakdown sends her back to her small Ohio hometown to recover. Taking a job teaching at her old high school, Josie is beginning to put the pieces of her life back...

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER... Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and disease are rampant, a young woman who worked in a local tavern lies dying. Just another number and bound for a pauper's grave in Greyfriar's kirkyardA BOY...

SINGING OPERA, SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND SOLVING MURDERS It's all in a day's work for Myra Barnett, relocated American to the Frankfurt Opera where she has started her first contract singing in the chorus. MURDER FOUL OR? A colleague is...

Someone left Jamie a prezzie and she would like to return it with a no thank you.  It all starts with a dead Robert Martin, the man who killed RM Burtchell. Jamie doesn't know how, but it's obvious he was yanked out of high security prison,...

A world of mystery and intrigue in Dundee during the year 1919. And a new sleuth unlike any other currently in print.Kirsty Campbell, former suffragette and a policewoman in Britain’s newly formed women’s police service, returns to her...

They say time and distance can heal a broken heart               - But what if time is running out?~ A Contemporary Romance, Family Mystery, with a dual timeline narrative ~Locked in...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan takes on the case of a notorious former vigilante--and finds herself embroiled in a case with far-reaching consequences where the truth is as dangerous as the lies she uncovers. . . .PI Tess...

It's murder when family come to visit.Great Aunt Sophia's in town to teach Lina all of her witchy ways.No great surprise, her eccentric great aunt's teaching methods are just as unorthodox as the lady herself. Certainly not approved by the International...

Brand New!Donut Mystery #16, BAD BITES, from New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!When Chief Martin's brother, Chester, is murdered on the day he is supposed to retire, Suzanne's boyfriend, state police inspector Jake Bishop, steps in to take...

"But can time become a clue?"Ariadne Foster, a forensic analyst, is in quarantine at home along with her boyfriend, Mark. As they adjust to this new order of reality, a case of two unsolved murders comes back to the spotlight after eighteen years...