Women sleuths Books

Alex Evercrest Heroine SeriesThe River FrontThe Girl on the GrillMissingMaggotRacistVotive CandlesWindy CityCountry RoadPool of BloodSins of the DaughterAlex Evercrest Collection TwoBody PartsThe Skull CollectorThe VanishingThe Shadow...

In the small town of Scansansiano, Tuscany, hard-headed and impulsive ex-pat writer Leah Contarini finds herself catapulted into the investigation of a heinous and brutal murder. Stubborn, intuitive, and full of grit, Leah sets out to solve the...

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.No one believes her story.The police think she's crazy.Her therapist thinks she's suicidal.Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk.They're all right—but did she...

When a body is found in the Happy Place Animal Sanctuary, wildlife reporter Kristy Farrell is on the case. She discovers this was no accident-it was murder.Five people were present at the sanctuary when the death occurred. As Kristy digs deeper into the...

The Best Man is a Dead Man in Marriage and Mayhem, a Cozy Mystery by Jeanne GlidewellLexie's daughter, Wendy, and Stone's nephew, Andy, just want a simple wedding at The Alexandria Inn. But when the best man collapses during the ceremony,...

Amateur sleuth Trisha Carson is being watched. By a laptop that tracks her online life. By a blue-eyed athlete who guides her through an open water swim. And by Frida, her smart refrigerator. What are they looking for? A determined Trisha hunts down her...

The day Truth Diamond and her dog, Razz, find a woman’s charred hand at one the Golden West Resort’s campsites, is the day her busy life spins out of control. A search for a body turns up nothing. Truth believes her resort on Lost Girl Lake...

A talking cat, a dead magnate, and a town full of secrets-welcome to Ophelia's world.In the enchanting yet enigmatic 1950s Cicero, Illinois, Ophelia's life takes a magical turn when her beloved cat, Figaro, suddenly begins to speak. Determined to uncover...

Attorney Elizabeth Campbell and Detective Grace Donovan find themselves once again on opposite sides of a case when Elizabeth represents a young man accused of murdering an elderly woman, a case in which Grace is the lead detective. Initially, even...

Elaina Maury Curtis inherits her family's estate in Maury, Florida, and moves in to the dismay of some local citizens. They know Elaina isn't going anywhere, though. Her uncle founded the town, and she's married to Rob Curtis, the local chief of police...

Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. After a warehouse owned by the Three Sisters is destroyed under suspicious circumstances, Ava Lee travels to...

Liv, the owner of the White House Dollhouse Store in Minneapolis, strives to keep her store afloat while investigating the murder of an employee. The employee was an actress in the neighborhood production about President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson. When the...

The year is 1897. Sherlock Holmes and his lovely young American daughter Lucy James must foil a plot to destroy Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, defeating the high-ranking traitor who has eluded them in their previous adventures. If they...

In the heart of Victorian London, two intertwined quests for truth and justice come together in an enthralling tale of mystery, heritage, and fate...London, 1895: American actress Lucy James, with the soul of an explorer, arrives in London to unravel the...

After a murder at the monastery, Sister Eve may need a miracle if she is to prove a dear friend isn't a cold-blooded killer.

Phee's friend, Nellie, is in a dilly of a pickle.  Her husband, Mike, purveyor of pickles, is found drowned in a vat at his factory. It wasn't an accident, and Nellie is a suspect in his murder. Phee and her sister, Juliet, put on...

Sarah Thompson’s powerful psychic abilities have flourished after her adventures in The Gift of the Twin Houses and Secrets of Innocence.In Jackal in the Mirror, Sarah once again takes center stage in a disturbing mystery that starts the moment she...

From USA Today bestselling author Dionne Lister comes an exciting paranormal cosy mystery series.All it takes is one morning for Sydney Photographer Lily Bianchi's life to go off the rails and over a cliff. A well-dressed English woman turns up at...

A missing man. No body. No clues. And a daughter determined to find the truth.Jack Bannerman is missing after failing to meet his son-in-law to go sailing. There's no evidence of foul play and no sign of a body.Ellie thought her father trusted her with...

Bookseller-turned-amateur detective Delhi Laine is back with another atmospheric mystery--but this time, it's a family affair.Nineteen years ago, Delhi Laine's two-year-old daughter disappeared. After a frantic but inconclusive search, authorities...

Can Gwen Strong solve a 50-year-old homicide? How about two? When two dead bodies are found behind a fake wall in the basement of a pre-civil war era mansion, the grisly discovery rocks the world of centenarian Emelina Bidwell who believes her...

When Will invites Lily to meet his grandmother at the Saint Catherine Laboure care home for witches, she learns the residents have been dying at an alarming rate. Will’s grandmother is scared she’ll be next—but they put it down to the...

When she found the dead body......it ruined her day.Would they now try to ruin her life?Isabella Proctor is desperate for a normal life - her own apartment, a job that pays the bills, and maybe even a boyfriend. As a potion-witch-in-training, she's...

In Ted Oswald’s Because We Are, ten-year old Haitian orphan Libète and her best friend Jak embarked upon solving a profound mystery that changed them forever. Now, in There is a Land, Libète must flee her home and all she knows,...

Nature photographer Penelope Trigg has landed the job of her dreams: documenting the transformation of over-grazed rangeland into an eco-dude ranch and spa, owned by her boyfriend Tyler Hawkins. Then a body is found on the ranch and Ty is arrested. The...

ACONITE Queen of PoisonsBased on a True StoryThe adventures of Dr. Josephine Reva, a first woman doctor in Brooklyn, who moonlights as a detective to solve paradoxical "poison cure" crimes. It's the Roaring 20's in New York, and a feisty orphan rises...

Small Towns can be MurderEleven-year-old Matt Clark is staying in the outlying village of Ashton for the summer while his parents work out their separation. He's been told to keep his head down and to stay off social media. Labour Day has come and gone,...

A DIARY - Secrets hidden in a war diary pull Kate and Harry into a battle to halt a murderer's quest for power.With two snowstorms keeping a pregnant Kate house-bound, she feels safe in promising her mother she'll stay away from crime. But when an...

During her stay at the remote Mirna Springs cattle station, journalist Sarah Wills accidentally stumbles on a well-protected secret that places her life in serious danger, triggering a traumatic kidnapping, a dramatic escape and an epic journey of...

Leaders of drug gangs in New Mexico don’t want scientist Sara Almquist to testify at their upcoming trials for murder and racketeering. After Sara gets a package of sheep guts contaminated with the bacteria that causes the plague, FBI agents rush...

Murder, Mystery, and MunitionsEast London, January 1917:"He pulled her into his arms and kissed her long and hard before he strangled her. With a last glance at the fire, he turned and ran for the door to escape the inevitable explosion...

Gemma verlässt ihren prestigeträchtigen Job und kehrt nach Oxford zurück, um ihren Traum von einem englischen Tearoom zu erfüllen. Sie setzt ihre Ersparnisse aufs Spiel, zieht bei ihren Eltern ein und erträgt ihre herrische Mutter, die Heiratskandidaten...

Just when Lily’s settling into life in Westerham and making new friends, the Paranormal Investigation Bureau needs her help again. A witch has been misappropriating millions from unsuspecting retirees, but she’s destroyed all the evidence...

Former butler Mae Valentine accepted the risk-filled life Major Hamish Kitt led when she married him. He’s out of the field, now teaching novice spies how to be spies. Then an accident—or terrorism—drags the couple to tulip fields and...

While she's basking in love's glow, an old enemy strikes. Can a clever witch solve a mystical mystery before the wicked win?Sarah Spellwood has found the most adorable house and can't wait to share it with her gorgeous boyfriend. Except it's haunted by...

Agent RJ Rox is in charge of her first case for the clandestine organization known as Kingfisher. A ticking clock and a colleague who could make the whole assignment blow up in her face, pile on the pressure in a case that seems impossible to crack.An...

Magdalene Lynton died forty years ago: a vivacious teenager who fell victim to an obscene, accidental drowning. The coroner's office issued a verdict of death by misadventure and filed her case. The farming commune she'd lived within, splintered...