Women sleuths Books

"Bitte bringen Sie unsere Anna zurück", lautet der Hilferuf der Bäuerin Elisabeth Klockmann, die die Detektei Phönix mit der Suche nach ihrer Schwiegertochter beauftragt.Die junge Rechtsanwältin Charlotte Kemburg übernimmt diesen Fall und trifft bei...

Ein Serienmörder hat schon 5 Morde auf dem Gewissen. Das Bundesamt für Polizei FEDPOL in Bern schickt seine Spezialistin, Dr. Maximiliane Roth, nach St. Moritz, um die Leitung einer Soko zu übernehmen. Sie stößt dort auf Widerstand, kann aber sehr gut...

Vencer, perder ou empatar...Cendrine West não consegue uma folga. Ela está prestes a conseguir um novo emprego e as coisas estão melhorando com o delegado sexy, Tyler Gates. Tudo muda quando ela é sequestrada pela bruxa renegada, tia Pearl, que...

TENHA CUIDADO COM O QUE DESEJA... "Uma história sobrenatural enfeitiçadora. Se você gosta de mistérios divertidos, adorará Cendrine West e sua família maluca!"Cendrine West tem um segredo: ela não quer ser uma bruxa. E não é uma bruxa muito boa,...

Hoping to promote the Glass Dolphin antiques shop, co-owners Arabella Carpenter and Emily Garland agree to sponsor a hole in one contest at a charity golf tournament. The publicity turns out to be anything but positive, however, when Arabella’s...

Coma, beba e seja envenenado...Cendrine West estava ansiosa para ter uma ceia de véspera de Natal aconchegante e gostosa quando uma tempestade chega, trazendo uma enxurrada de convidados inesperados. Mas bruxas desastradas e feitiços malcriados são uma...

Luzes, câmera, assassino... Um figurão do cinema de Hollywood chega à cidade e a jornalista Cendrine West está ansiosa para conseguir um furo de reportagem. A família de bruxas dela também quer participar da ação, mas problemas com as estrelas logo...

A tornado has flattened homes in the rural town of Grindstone, and Alice Tricklebank, her grandson Henry, and Audrey the bloodhound volunteer to search for survivors. When Audrey demands entrance into a wrecked home but is stopped by police, Henry uses...

Veronica Howard has it all.  She’s an intelligent woman with a great sense of style, a quirky sense of humor, and the confidence to walk her own path.  She takes a leap of faith and rises from the secretarial pool to an advertising...

IN BOOK 24 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:Donna and Jack's hard-earned vacation on a secluded resort island turns out to be anything but that when they stumble onto a dead body-and a plot to consolidate the world's financial assets under the control of...

In a secluded cabin deep within the woods, an ominous stranger is about to change the lives of six unsuspecting teenagers forever ...When Owen ventures outside and mysteriously vanishes, Jackson and Aiden set out to find him. As night descends and the...

When evil whispers.Michael Turcotte wants nothing to do with his so-called gift—the ability to see other people’s fates simply by touching them. Michael decides to spend his summer searching for answers about his past. He can’t rest...

"These cat themed mysteries will prove to be enduringly popular . . . unreservedly recommended . . ." ~Midwest Book ReviewWhen a Prominent Canadian Politician Dies Mysteriously, Stormy the Cat and Christy Jamieson Discover the Cause in LET...

When two murders shock the active-adult community where Emily Christopher lives and her ex-husband turns out to be the prime suspect, she is put into the uncomfortable position of trying to solve the mystery. Using her contacts in the police department...

A surprise ring at the doorbell on Valentine's Day confirms Amanda Clarke's suspicions. Her friend Sophie DuBois left someone behind when she came to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies.But the happy reunion grinds...

When bodies turn up in the Reed Moore Library's book drops, the library cat, C. Auguste Dupin, goes to work to help librarian Penny Copper solve the mystery.As a library cat, Dupin receives the attention and admiration of the public, as one would...

When a woman walks into Samantha Sweet’s pastry shop, claiming to have amnesia, it’s a puzzle that seems to have nothing to do with Sam’s new commission for a fantastic one-of-a-kind order of chocolates, although "Jane Doe"...

USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton brings a bit of magic and a whole lot of chocolate to the ninth book in her cozy Sweets series. Two things are weighing on Samantha Sweet’s mind this summer—organizing the Sweet Somethings chocolate...

Revenge is often a cold dish, but in the tiny northern New Mexico town of Sembramos emotions are running decidedly hot. When Lee Rodarte and Jessie Starkey, convicted of murdering a local girl, are released from prison after serving only a few years,...

USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton throws a twist into this sixth episode in her most popular cozy mystery series. Samantha Sweet and Beau Cardwell are getting ready for their September wedding in Taos, with the whole Sweet clan about to show up...

In this seventh book in Connie Shelton’s bestselling cozy mystery series, Samantha Sweet learns that an Irish great-uncle left her an inheritance, so she and Beau change their honeymoon plans and go to the Emerald Isle. Will the gift be something...

Samantha Sweet is about to realize her dream of opening her pastry shop, Sweet's Sweets, in picturesque Taos, New Mexico. Juggling the crazy amount of work to get her new business off the ground, with her old job of breaking into houses, she's...

Just when it looks like Death Diva Jane Delaney's dormant love life is finally poised to take off, the romantic moment is interrupted by notoriously caustic advice columnist Gertrude "Peaches" Gillespey-or more accurately, by the discovery of Peaches's...

Ten years ago, everything was taken away from Raven. When the fire swept through her small hometown, it killed everything that she cared about. Not only had she lost her mother and father, she'd lost the one chance she had at true love. Coming home meant...

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she...

Good ol’ boy Carl Huggins wants to unload the Chocolate Moose, a big, brown Victorian manse on Sugar Street. Realtor Honey Ingersoll knows the abandoned old wreck will be a tough sell. Bad enough that the Moose was once the town’s bordello,...

Journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Mimi Rosen is back with her fatherMax for another action-packed tale of murder and intrigue in NewYork City's Diamond District.A Reverend from Africa has found a sparkling $20 million diamondthat he hopes will free his...

When black cats roam, and spooks are seen,Come celebrate, it's Halloween.Sinful, Louisiana, really knows how to throw a party, and it goes all out for Halloween. The weeklong celebration kicks off with a maze of horror in the park built of hay bales. And...

A controversial tourist resort. An unsolved beachside murder. Does she have the pipes to blow the whistle on a deadly conspiracy?Everyone wants a piece of Ava’s skyrocketing star power… including her serious boyfriend and her deadbeat baby...

Emma Robinson is a single woman working as an editor for Nobel Prize winner Ray West. She is on her way to work, when Ray tells her that the friendly old neighbor Natalie Woodbridge has been killed. Because the police found a blonde hair next to the...

Power. Envy. Greed. Lies. All surround amateur sleuths Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in this maze of personalities. An invitation to a private screening at a film group involves them in more than the cinematic arts.Murder and the search for a...

An escape to the country… ends in death.Summer 1933. Fresh from the discovery that she has family living nearby, Kitty Underhay has packed her carpet bag, commandeered a chambermaid and set off on a visit to stately Enderley Hall. She’s...

DEADLY SECRETS FROM A TAINTED PAST...Esme Quentin's arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Esme is troubled by the woman's final words and curious about the old photograph...

In the thin light of the moon, the woman's limp body hangs from the iron fence amongst the redwoods. Looped over the railings is the little gold locket her mother gave her when she turned sixteen. The picture of the girl inside smiles out at a future...

A PITIFUL CRIME, KEPT SECRET FOR A GENERATION... BUT TIME HAS A WAY OF EXPOSING THE TRUTHEsme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is assaulted and left unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a...

The English coast is like nowhere else on earth. The fresh sea breeze, gentle waves lapping the shore... and a body on the promenade?Newly retired Sarah Vane is completely settled in Merstairs, enjoying the quirky, quaint feel of her new home. With some...

Family ties... Buried lies... A life on the line. Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave...

You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors... My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn't be prouder of the man he's grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those years ago was the best thing I...

Riches to rags. ... Some people make plans. ... Some people change them, ... and it's chaos in the end!Doreen loves gardens, all kinds of them. In the Okanagan, situated at the tip of the desert, water-frugal gardening makes sense. When...

Riches to rags. ... Hidden guns, ... old but not forgotten wounds, ... and a buried treasure!Finding an Uzi in the urn at the shattered mausoleum is exciting and frustrating. Yet Doreen can't delve into the case, and Mack has been firm about that. She...

Riches to rags. ... Bullets start flying. ... Rage is rising, ... especially for some!When the journey to Rosemoor for a celebratory evening turns deadly, Doreen's life is flipped on her head. She can only watch in horror as Mack is shot right in front...

Riches to rags. ... Time heals all wounds, ... but old deeds still haunt, ... even for the innocent!After helping the captain solve his long overdue case, Doreen's reputation is well and truly cemented in Kelowna. That's proven out when a young woman is...

Justice is worth the riskThe death of a child is always heartbreaking, but what Kenzie Kirsch, assistant to the Medical Examiner, finds on her slab shakes her to the core. Kenzie can't help but feel a surge of anger and sadness as she examines the...

Even the law couldn't save him from an untimely death...When Bernie's business meeting turns into the discovery of her murdered lawyer, she's able to uncover facts the police can't. With the help of her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, she spies on the wife...

"Definitely another winner!" -KATE PARKER, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Deadly Mystery Series When Scott Novak, Raleigh's youngest technology mogul, is found dead in his country home strangled with a strip of yellow cloth, it's unclear...

What do you do when you discover your small town isn't the normal, boring place you'd grown up believing it was? And the flower shop you own hides some secrets? And an innocent night of fun turns into a mystery that follows you everywhere you go? August...

Private investigator Riley Reeves specializes in cases of at-risk or missing girls that often lead her into dangerous waters. On the same day that a socialite couple hires Riley to protect their teenage daughter Carmen from a mysterious stalker,...

What begins as concern for a college student from China who starts missing classes takes a more sinister turn when the body of another young Asian woman is found in a shipping crate heading overseas. Reluctant sleuths Malcom and Vinn uncover a baffling...