Women sleuths Books

When Libby Madsen hosts her first big family-and-friend Thanksgiving, she's prepared for the usual chaos that comes with relatives, last-minute surprises, and juggling a house full of guests. But when her boyfriend Greg's family finds a dead body upon...

Charli Rae Warren doesn't plan on striking it rich as the owner of an independent bookstore in Hazel Rock, Texas-especially one with a pink armadillo as its mascot. But when an ingenious advertising campaign puts her business on the map, it ropes in some...

When kindergarten teacher Charli Rae Warren hightailed it out of Hazel Rock, Texas, as a teen, she vowed to leave her hometown in the dust. A decade later, she's braving the frontier of big hair and bigger gossip once again . . . but this time, she's...

Charli Rae Warren is back home in Hazel Rock, Texas, spending her time reading, collecting, and selling books-at least, the ones that don't get eaten first by her father's pet armadillo. Running the family bookstore is a demanding job, but solving...

Louisiana hat maker Miss DuBois is making a name for herself veiling Southern brides-to-be with her sophisticated designs. She's also gaining a reputation for unveiling murderers . . .Missy is shocked when she sees the asking price for the Sweetwater...

For professional organizer Maggie McDonald, moving her family into a new home should be the perfect organizational challenge. But murder was definitely not on the to-do list . . . Maggie McDonald has a penchant for order that isn't confined to her...

Hat designer Missy DuBois opened her shop, Crowning Glory, along Louisiana's Great River Road to cater to the sophisticated Southern bride. But bless her heart, who knew creating stylish wedding veils would lead to murder? Hired to craft a veil for a...

As a professional organizer, Maggie McDonald brings order to messy situations. But when a good friend becomes a murder suspect, surviving the chaos is one tall task . . . Despite a looming deadline, Maggie thinks she has what it takes to help friends...

On the U.S./Mexico border, people disappear...Jessica Watts has gotten less picky about the booze she'll drink and the jobs she'll take. But when she's asked to find the missing daughter of a shady Mexican business mogul, the quest hits close to home for...

When she's not busy practicing medicine, Dr. Myaisha Douglas writes mysteries. She'd like to devote more time to her personal relationships, but murder intervenes. The twin sister of a Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group member dies suddenly. Myaisha...

Vera has been fragmented, like a broken vase pieced back together. Is she reinforced and stronger in those once broken places or will she fall apart again? Is Kintsugi only about broken vases or is it true about broken people too?As she struggles to...

Montana Blues is an unusual mystery-thriller, a story told from two points-of-view - a determined Black man and a spirited White woman who together face racial violence on a spectacular landscape.Dawson Koloko grew up playing football in a rough...

In the midst of a TV interview, Public Safety Officer Jane Roberts comes face to face with a man whose head looks as if it were pulsed on high in a Cuisinart. How could such an attack happen on beautiful St. Frewin's Island off the coast of Maine? On the...

Joe Mayfield is finally on his way to a weekend with Weezy Napolitani, hacker extraordinaire and his too-long-distance lover. Thanks to the deal he engineered, HelioCorp's public offering is going to be the tech finance deal of the year-cheap and...

Events in The Ways of Death occurred only a few years after 9/11 and remained untold for reasons of National Security. Many will recall the photo in the Albuquerque Journal of the woman falling from the sky at the Ballon Fiesta. Our account opens on a...

Embark on a salty voyage through a poisonous sea of envy and deceit with Celeste Ravenna when she attends the deadly wedding of her neighbor's son to a woman with questionable morals. Once Detective Brian Bahn's life is also put in jeopardy, Celeste...

Death Comes to the North CountryWelcome to Canton, NY, a small farming town nestled in the northern foothills of the Adirondack mountains. It's the 1930s, and to an outsider's eye, this looks like an idyllic village mostly untouched by the Great...

Families sure know how to bring the drama!All MC Barker wants is to make it through a week with her newfound birth family so she can spend Christmas with her closest friends. Those plans are put in peril when she stumbles over a dead body and becomes the...

In books 4-6 of this cozy mystery collection, disgraced soap opera star and amateur sleuth, Samantha Rathbone, continues to navigate her new life in a small town and solve the pesky murders that keep happening with the help of her quirky friends…...

Collette waited impatiently for Esther Rose and Patrick to return from their honeymoon so she could give them a piece of her mind for taking on the mysterious case of the murdered judge without her! Esther Rose promised never again will Collette be left...

Audra Leighton leaves behind a dark past in the city in exchange for quaint small-town living. Her plans of a quiet life are quickly derailed when she stumbles upon a journal left behind by the previous owner of her home. Through the journal, she...

Trouble brews in small towns.Accepting she's a witch isn't enough for Jess's snarky cat familiar. Not only does she have to keep the potion shop running while learning to make said potions, she has to solve another mysterious death.Jess can smell...

Digging deep into city politics gets your hands filthy dirty.When Sherry Proper takes on a case that could expose some of the most influential people in the city, she quickly finds herself in way over her head. With her assistant, Cela, and the help of...

Poitiers, Francia, 1979 Edith Bonelli es la detective líder de la agencia Bonelli, y sin embargo los criterios patriarcales de su profesión a fines de los 70 le ven relegada a pasar por la tímida asistente de su padre Stéfano, él sí internacionalmente...

A soldier's spirit trapped in his decrepit manor house begs for help. A ghostly beast returns from the past to haunt the Dark Mire. Is death stalking Misty Valley? Ebrel and her friends are called to a spooky mansion in the Dark Mire. A centuries-old...

This missing persons case hits incredibly close to home.  Kat Harper fears the worst when her friend and neighbor Janice Moseley goes missing. Worse yet, Janice's beloved Irish setter Bubbles is found wandering the apartment corridor alone. All...

A mute child holds the key in this addictive serial killer thriller for fans of Dark Places. Maggie Connolly never intended to work with the police, but Detective Reid Hanlon's latest homicide case requires the expertise of a shrink. What's a...

A group of wordsmiths, a remote hotel. Outside, the winds howl and the seas rage. But the real danger lurks within. When travel author and part-time sleuth, Giò Brando, joins a writers’ retreat in Maratea, her quaint sea town, the last...

As two young people from different worlds are joined together in marriage, the murmuring among the guests is that the relationship is doomed. But only one knows the form that doom will take.Etta and Dora, retired teachers from the South of Italy, arrive...

When T-Rock Hernandez is tossed off a ten-story building, not much is made of it because he's homeless. Oddly, he had a life insurance policy amounting to $1,000,000.Red Stick Insurance asks Niki Dupre to investigate before paying this large amount, but...

The first three books in 'Buttercup Bend Mysteries', a series of cozy mystery novels by Debbie De Louise, now available in one volume!The Case Of The Cat Crazy Lady: Cathy Carter and her brother Douglas own an animal rescue center in the small town of...

The FBI send their newest agent, Wade Dalton, to interview a girl who turned up missing from Metairie. But when someone murders the girl in the room with Wade, everything in Evergreen changes.Wade teams with the petite acting sheriff, Sam Cates, to...

Na Kanadasaga de 1779, a Expedição Sullivan incendeia uma aldeia Seneca e muitas outras, destruindo a Confederação Iroquesa. Acordados do sono, Pilan e Teka fogem de sua cabana em chamas para a floresta. Depois que a bala de um soldado impede sua fuga,...

All three books in June V. Bourgo's 'The Crossing Trilogy, now in one volume!Magnolia Tree: In Stoney Creek, Sydney Grey discovers a set of journals written by her presumed-dead mother. With the help of her grandmother, she delves into a long-hidden...

All three books in 'Sara Mason Mysteries', a series by Mary Deal, now available in one volume!River Bones: Sara Mason returns to her hometown to start anew, but is soon caught up in the terror of a serial killer who is stalking its residents. Battling...

Wenn Commissaire Girard heiratet, dann in einem typisch provenzalischen Weingut. Als die Feier im Château Bernaise in vollem Gang ist, entdeckt Capitaine Purenne einen Hilferuf auf einem edlen 1953er Grand Cru Etikett. Wer wurde im alten Gewölbe gefangen...

Die Vergangenheit darf sich nicht wiederholen. Aber es passiert wieder. Jetzt.Rebecca ertränkt Liebeskummer und Selbstzweifel in Alkohol. Dann verschwindet ihre Kollegin Mary, die kurz zuvor bei einem Treppensturz verletzt wurde. Viel zu spät entdeckt...

Im Zugersee wird eine Leiche geborgen. Die neu bei der Zuger Polizei arbeitende, unkonventionelle Ermittlerin Tabea Stocker glaubt nicht an einen Bootsunfall und gerät bei ihren teils eigenmächtigen Nachforschungen in den Sumpf kardinaler menschlicher...

From bestselling author Judy Penz Sheluk, the complete Glass Dolphin Mystery Series, now available in one cozy collection. Includes: The Hanged Man's Noose, A Hole in One, and Where There's a Will.A small town named after a nineteenth-century...

Calamity (Callie) Barnstable kijkt er niet echt van op dat ze de enige erfgenaam is van haar vaders aardse bezittingen. Ze is niettemin tot op haar schoenzolen geschokt, wanneer ze bij lezing van het testament ontdekt dat zich daaronder een huis in het...

Reg recognizes that feeling of dread.Something is disrupting the spiritual atmosphere in Black Sands, but no one else seems to be aware of its menacing presence. So Reg does her best to push it to the back of her conscious mind and to focus on new...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!It is Thanksgiving in Bald Eagle Falls and the smells of spicy new offerings waft from Auntie Clem's Bakery.Mary Lou is delighted to have Campbell home for Thanksgiving dinner, but less than thrilled with...