Women sleuths Books

Max's ArkAs a rule I'm a very hospitable sort of cat, but when the storm of a century descended upon Hampton Cove and animals from all around started flocking to our home in search of shelter from the elements, it took some adjustment on my part. And...

Ende der 1990er Jahre wird vor der neuseeländi­schen Küste die Leiche eines jungen Maori geborgen. Jahre später treffen an der Ostsee zwei Frauen aufein­ander, die ein traumatisches Ereignis zu verbinden scheint. Doch was ist es, das Einke und Letty...

'I KNOW IT WAS MURDER - PLEASE HELP ME PROVE IT!'The Duke of Chellingworth's beloved butler is grieving his brother's death...but was it a really a tragic accident, or was it - as the man's widow believes - murder? Mavis and the dowager Althea offer the...

Tick Tock. The clock is ticking. In the shadows, a killer is lurking.... A naked female corpse smashes against the rough ocean waves, fifty yards from the rocky shore.Agent Tanya Stone jumps in to retrieve it before the tide pulls it away. But an...

A woman in a man's world.An enemy she never saw coming.Police officer Kate Murphy thought she'd left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth.As problems and deceptions pile up both at home...

Replete with packet chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese, Stella Ryman paused just outside Fairmount Manor’s dining room, where she used the sleeve of her fleece warm-up suit to wipe the condensation from the streaked and fog-edged windows along...

Death is just a close shave away. It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the heads of young women, strangling them and creating a...

Wedding bells are ringing, but who invited the ghost?Everly Dupree has begun to think her wedding is cursed. First, the dresses get ruined, and the invitations are wrong. Now, a freak spring snowstorm collapsed the roof of her venue. What else could go...

Sassy's best friend and neighbor is nose-deep in plans for her daughter's wedding. But the fun of deciding on music, florists, and cake is shattered when Lottie's husband surprises her with divorce papers as well as his "new" fiancé. Brittni is a walking...

Valentine's Day in Locust Point brings love, puppies...and murder! Everyone is enchanted by Olive's new puppy-even an initially wary Taco. Thinking she might want to add a furry friend to her own home, Daisy convinces Kay to go with her on a whirlwind...

Blinding headlights behind, now beside her. Curve ahead, she slams the brakes. It misses, smashes through the rail. She hears it strike the rocks below. Silence, only the darkness. Her arms shake. In the city, headlights again. The ship, the Marines will...

His son's coach is dead. As a favor, she agrees to investigate. But are some questions too dangerous to answer?After solving a crime but losing a friend, Chicago lawyer Quille C. Davis' plans for the summer are to have fun, catch up on her law practice,...

South Regent Mansions has all the modern conveniences . . . including murderLondon, February, 1924. Discreet sleuth for the high society set, Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she's made several friends,...

A dead Baron. A missing emerald. And way too many suspects.Amateur sleuth Molly Sutton has her hands full this time! Shut out of Castillac’s latest murder case andrunning out of money, she’s praying for a brilliant scheme or at least...

A beautiful corpse. Zero clues. Peace in Castillac shattered once more. When another native of the French village is found dead, Molly and the gendarmes are stumped. Complicating matters, Ben is hired to defend Molly’s prime suspect. Uh oh,...

What if Valerie is still alive?Virtually no one in the village of Castillac holds out any hope. It has been seven years, after all. Seven years since the popular, mischievous Valerie Boutillier disappeared without a trace. The exertions of the gendarmes,...

A murder. Missing children. And the crimes have only begun.When Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield investigates the murder of a delivery man and the disappearance of his two children, she suddenly finds herself a target. Boyfriend Richie Amalfi is...

DNA Never Lies: Bending the Code - Book OneBetty Falconen: the most overqualified low-rent geneticist in Atlanta.Overwhelmed by old insecurities and struggles to pay the rent.Her dreams of cutting-edge research withering on life-support.Betty wanted more...

All that glitters... is sometimes blood. With her golden ticket buried in the ground, can she save a wrongly accused teen from the gallows? Hollywood, 1924. Promoted to lead costume designer of a star-studded film, Grace Michelle should be on top of...

In the heart of a celebration, a dark secret festers.The Dogwood Festival, held each year in the small town of Dogwood Springs, Missouri, is more than just a special event. It's a cozy haven of springtime charm, live music, and handmade crafts that draws...

“Charlie is a fabulous amateur sleuth.” –Midwest Book Review Charlie and Drake are working a helicopter job in rural Maine when a man approaches and asks for their help. At first glance, it seems he’s just an old man who...

“Charlie is a fabulous amateur sleuth.” –Midwest Book Review A cryptic message in a fortune cookie sends Charlie again to England, to visit her favorite aunt. She’s having lunch in a local café when construction...

Detective Grace Hutcherson discovers her pyschic ability is more pronounced suddenly. The dead are now calling out to her, begging for her help. In order to stop the serial killer from hunting victims here in New Orleans, Louisiana she must learn how to...

Even crafty ex-marshals need help in 2105.Agent Mina Kane discovers that her pal, ex-marshal Norm Webb, is missing. It's unusual for a highly trained agent to disappear into thin air, but that's exactly what he does. Mina tracks down an old case, a...

Can two baristas track down a gunman after the espresso shot heard ‘round the world?When Marissa witnesses an attempted murder during the 4th of July parade, it starts a battle for her independence. She is forced to hide out in a safehouse, leaving...

Book four in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery SeriesJealousy...Deception...MurderThe accident that took her father's life has always haunted Shandra Higheagle. When her dreams become too real, she knows it's time to discover the truth. It doesn't take long...

There's a new Crow in town...After the explosive events of The Copper Heart, Lydia must deal with a secret service operative with murder in his heart.The mysterious Mr Smith has sent a professional assassin after Lydia and the bonds of blood are...

A corrupt detective found dead... a senior officer with links to organised crime... and a former colleague on trial.When a detective accused of corruption is murdered, alarm bells start ringing for DI Zoe Finch and her team.Was the victim connected to...

Murder in the Caribbean...Rachel Prince joins the Coral Queen for the holiday of a lifetime accompanied by her parents and her octogenarian friend, Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe.The company is shocked when a nun who is part of an exclusive...

DISCOVER A BRILLIANT NEW MURDER MYSTERY TODAY - perfect for fans of authors like Joy Ellis and Faith Martin. In the rural English village of Heronsford, Eliza and Jay Armstrong live in the farmhouse Eliza grew up in. Her now elderly mother lives in a...

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up.Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one.How can she possibly defeat a man with so...

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares.Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race...

What if home became a place of dread?Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's as bad as she expected. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman...

Um italiano desconhecido chega a Tamarisk Bay e traz com ele mistério e intriga...Decorre o ano de 1970 e é Páscoa na cidade à beira-mar de Tamarisk Bay. A detetive amadora e bibliotecária profissional Janie Juke acabou de ser mãe e está a dedicar algum...

It's a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl's mother...

A case with no leads.A victim with no enemies.A killer with no conscience…When Detective Beth Young is called to investigate a victim with multiple broken bones, nothing prepares her for what she finds. James Sinclair is...

Josie works until her arms ache, until the paramedics arrive and pull her gently away from the woman’s cold, fragile body. Noah’s voice cracks beside her as he calls the time of death for his own, beloved mother.Arriving with her partner Noah...

Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of mystery stories written by Mildred Wirt, who went on to write the Nancy Drew Series. However, she preferred Penny Parker to Nancy Drew, her obituary reported her saying 'I always thought Penny Parker was a...

Irene Adler is enjoying a quiet, undisturbed life in Sussex when the mysterious disappearance of a local farmer named James Phillimore throws her world into turmoil and forces her to enlist the aid of her friend and former enemy Sherlock Holmes...

A gripping tale of fear, longing and determination as one woman tries to survive the world of those who also kidnapped her sister.In The Perilous Road to Her, N.L Blandford takes us on a woman's harrowing journey to find her missing sister. Olivia...

FOUR DELICIOUSLY DIFFERENT SHORT NOVELS, ONE FOR EACH SEASON OF THE YEARWINTER: The Corpse with Eight Faces - A Cait Morgan MysteryTrapped in a snowbound lodge in the Canadian countryside, Cait is faced with a corpse, and a group of eight suspects. A...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Sink your teeth into these sweet mysteries!Erin Price is a baker, not a sleuth. It's really not her fault that mysteries keep landing in her lap while she's trying to run Auntie Clem's Bakery and make a...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Fortune Cookies Favor the BoldThe baker turned sleuth is hard at work once more, trying to run her business while at the same time tracking down a missing boy. Is he missing by his own choice, as the police...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Sink your teeth into these sweet mysteries!Erin Price is a baker, not a sleuth. It's really not her fault that mysteries keep landing in her lap while she's trying to run Auntie Clem's Bakery and make a...

Before she left she carved a number in blood on his chest. But why the number 2, if this was her first murder?A woman stalks London. She kills at will. Her targets are men who have wronged her, or have they?What is behind her hatred and why is she...

Finally! Jessie and Charlie have jumped into their love affair with both feet and life is looking rosy, but nothing ever stays uncomplicated for long in Jessie's Universe. Her sister Jeanie comes to town with big dreams and a whole lot of sexual charisma...

Amateur sleuth Sloan Krause is back to brewing in this latest installment of Ellie Alexander's popular cozy mystery series, Beer and Loathing. Includes recipes and a travel guide to Leavenworth!It's ski week in everyone's favorite Bavarian village of...

Aspiring reporter Sophie Strong uncovers deadly secrets lurking in the aisles of a 1912 department store. Will she risk everything in her quest to expose a killer?In 1912 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aspiring reporter Sophie Strong yearns for a thrilling...