Women sleuths Books

"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...

My faith lies in tatters after the events of the summer. I've neglected my prayers. I've avoided my priestly duties. I am questioning everything about myself--except my feelings for Helen. When my estranged sister goes missing, I fly home to look for...

 There is more than one type of storm aiming for Pearl Island! An unusually powerful winter storm is setting its sights on Pearl Island, but is the storm being powered by more than natural weather events? Another type of storm is brewing with the...

Intrigue lurks everywhere — even at Diamond Head, one of the world's most beautiful places. Ten talented people dedicated to the preservation of the Hawaiian Islands gather on the summit of the volcanic crater in Oahu for a filmmaking project...

A Fae hell-bent on Revenge. A shifter prison guard searching for answers. And a dangerous path to cross.When a family member is murdered, Avery Dubois is led to believe the murderer isn't human. But her wildly dangerous journey for the truth ends when...

The Harlan Detective Agency was the best there was when it came to finding missing people. They were also the most expensive, so it was no coincidence that they were hired to find the heir to a fortune totaling over 1.6 billion dollars.Nicholas Gladstone...

Who Murdered Mom?Toxic Mom Instigates Her DeathWhen an elderly Matriarch collapses at a local diner, nearby Samaritans rush to save her life. Then the mother's family from hell punishes the newlywed's good deed with a wrongful death lawsuit. Minerva...

The truth gets contorted when acrobats become suspects… An idyllic Hawaiian retreat turns deadly for a group of performers and designers when their director is found stabbed to death in the forest. It will be up to Pari Malik and her...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She also has the unfortunate knack of discovering the bodies of people who have been murdered. In this story, Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family...

Four witches have something in common - and must find each other before an ancient enemy harvests their magic for her own use.A powerful mass of magic was long ago shattered and dispursed to the four corners of this planet. And has found four young women...

Who Murdered My Sister?Missing Sweethearts Found in LakeWhen her sister disappears on graduation night, a small-town café owner gives up hope after twenty years. Then picnickers at Carriage Lake find two bodies inside an abandoned car...

First,  there were hedgehogs.Then there was a murder.And now, Maggie Kelburn is on the run from a killer. Maggie Kelburn is an ordinary woman who lives on an ordinary street. A quiet street where nothing unremarkable happens.Until a neighbour...

Gideon – The Final ChapterCase of the Ace of Spades – Volume 2Book 8 in the Gideon Detective SeriesBy the time the world's greatest detective figures out whodunnit… his own son could die in the electric chair in this murder and mystery...

A missing runaway.  Anonymous threats.  More disappearances.  And a charming neighborhood brimming with secrets. While visiting Mountain Quail Gardens, where Tuscan-themed homes surround a picturesque park, sleuth Pari Malik never...

Nuclear physics after years of developing the Atomic bomb hides in shame as a circus clown, but laughter turns deadly when the real anarchists stepped out from behind the masquerade. 

Old Cars, Old Costumes, and an Old reason for Murder...Megan and Aiden, along with Barney, are back to solving murders, and this one makes friends out of foes. New characters arrive at Citrus Beach to help solve the mystery, working along with the...

The Noble Rogue is a historical romance novel written by Emmuska Orczy and published in 1912. The story is set in 18th century France and follows the adventures of a daring and charming young man named Andre-Louis Moreau. Moreau is a talented actor and a...

The Mystery of the Summer House is a classic mystery novel written by Horace Gordon Hutchinson and first published in 1919. Set in the English countryside, the story follows the investigation of a murder that takes place in a secluded summer house. The...

The Doctor, His Wife And The Clock is a mystery novel written by Anna Katharine Green and published in 1895. The story revolves around a doctor named John Bell, his wife Evelyn, and a mysterious clock that seems to have a life of its own. The clock,...

The hit-and-run death of a schoolmate rocks Carol Andrews' world. The tragic accident, still unsolved, soon becomes a rallying cry for pedestrian safety in an upcoming town council election. Ignoring the advice of her husband, who points out that she...

You know what they say, you are what you eat, and Jolie and Ava are about to turn into everything they have been craving including pounds of chocolate, pizza, pickles, and ice cream.Mafia, urban sprawl, gentrification, newborn babies, and the lives of...

Welcome to Leaven—oh wait—Santo Domingo, where DEATH takes a DELICIOUS turn!Family bombshells, sibling rivalries, blackmail, and a trip that could be deadly...and the new year has only just begun! After a disastrous Thanksgiving, Jolie Tucker...

Serial killers only stop when they’re stopped. Homicide can’t catch the killer because they don’t know who he, she or they are. The deaths seem unrelated—a woman drowned, a judge crushed, a teacher bashed and an equestrian...

Finding a body washed ashore in Whitefall Cove was not how I wanted to start my day.I much preferred to face the morning with a hot strong caffeinated beverage, but alas, we can’t always have what we want. Out on a morning stroll with my familiar,...

An abandoned church in a village set in time - the ideal setting for murder. Detective Inspector Tremayne and his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, are hard pushed to solve the crime and to stay alive.'Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?' Detective...

A Heavy Metal Concert. An Island in the Harbour. The Lead Singer of One of the Bands is Murdered.Was the murderer the woman he had just made love to or a jealous paramour, or was the motive more obscure?It was an island prison in colonial days, then a...

An Old Fort in Sydney Harbour - The body of a woman missing for seventeen years, interred behind a false wall at the fort. It's murder, but after so long, can it be solved?Sergeant Natalie Campbell and Inspector Haddock are resolute that it can. But...

There's a murder in the library, a killer knight stalking victims and a nosy librarian turned sleuth. Let the mayhem begin...Xandie Meyers thought all her troubles were over when she moved to Point Muse, Maine. Instead, she inherited her great-aunt's...

Two women, from different backgrounds, met in the sport of professional wrestling. Tori Blanton and Santana Garvin formed a tag team called The American Angels; and quickly established themselves as on of America's greatest wrestling exports.But...

Introducing Jolie Tucker, an introverted yet passionate restaurant co-owner of Cast Iron Creations, who, at her best friend Ava’s request, steps out of her comfort zone. This leads her into the shade of a killer in the small, cozy village of...

Ted Palmquist's mother finds him in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor and calls an ambulance. Violently ill after a night with his high school friends, Ted's incoherent rants in the ER mention Tammi, who's been missing for six months. As the Pine...

New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for the war front. So...

Tucked away in a cozy cul-de-sac on Heraldsgate Hill, Judith McMonigle Flynn hopes for smooth sailing in her longtime role as an innkeeper. But Judith's skill in dealing with guests is matched only by her knack for coming across corpses.Mystery lovers...

"The plot of an Alafair Burke thriller doesn't just rip from the headlines. She's one step ahead of them. 212 scares you and keeps you turning the pages into the wee hours." --Harlan Coben "Burke has created a strong female protagonist in the tradition...

The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let him go; it's back in Poke's life with a vengeance, in...

Valerie Vane was an up-and-coming lifestyle reporter at a prominent New York City daily. Then she stumbled, rather publicly, and lost it all--her column, her fiancé, her access behind the city's velvet ropes. Now she's on the obituary desk writing death...

It's tough shooting for stardom when there's a war on. But Rosie's got enough pluck for two: she's willing to stumble around in a Broadway dance chorus that she has no right to be a part of, in a musical that's got "flop" written all over it. And all the...

"Santlofer's fluid, almost poetic, writing, coupled with his extraordinary artwork, places him at the forefront of cutting-edge crime fiction."--Chicago Tribune Jonathan Santlofer has brilliantly reinvented the crime novel, and he returns with his most...

The seventh book in Sujata Massey's Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start bring...

A new crime-thriller full of suspense from Sujata Massey, the acclaimed author of The Bride's Kimono and The Floating Girl. Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project tracing the story of 100...

After Senator Milton Bergman is exposed in a hotel room tryst with a woman of loose virtue, the balance of politics threatens to spiral out of control across the United States. A resignation by the Republican senator will surely impact the outcome of an...

Even in a lovely town like River Bluffs, Indiana, flipping houses can be a challenge. Especially when there's the proverbial skeleton in the closet-and a literal corpse in the driveway...House-flipper Jazzy Zanders has her work cut out for her. Her...

When their town is blanketed in suspicion and murder, it falls to the Crestwood Quilters to uncover a killer in this latest case from Sally Goldenbaum, the national bestselling author of the Seaside Knitters mysteries . . . Oliver Harrington II was one...