Women sleuths Books

'Tis the season for mistletoe...and murder! There will be no peace on Earth if Donna doesn't find a shipping container filled with heat-seeking missiles! Forget Santa! Terror is coming to town… 

IN BOOK 10 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:Housewife assassin Donna Stone’s green thumb–and for that matter, her trigger finger–is put to the test when it’s discovered that genetically enhanced corn containing a deadly...

IN BOOK 2 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:A nuclear arms summit, hosted by a politically connected American billionaire industrialist, provides the perfect opportunity for a rogue operative to assassinate the newly-elected Russian president on US soil...

A carnival comes to Pleasant Pond and it's murder as usual.Large Print editionMira wants her life to be a comfortable pattern of cooking at the Soup and Scoop diner and caring for her menagerie of pets.But what should have been an enjoyable week of...

In this fourth crime thriller of the Ellie Foreman series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her...

Chicago filmmaker Ellie Foreman is back, and she’s tackling her most dangerous case yet in this dark amateur sleuth thriller from critically acclaimed crime writer Libby Fischer Hellmann.An Image of Death sees Ellie in the midst of producing...

The big news story in Chicago is the murder trial of Johnny Santoro, a dock worker whose girlfriend has been killed. Most Chicagoans are betting on a quick guilty verdict, but Ellie Foreman has doubts about his complicity—Santoro is strangely...

The first novel in crime writer Libby Fischer Hellmann's popular Ellie Foreman mystery series, An Eye for Murder introduces the documentary filmmaker, single mom, and amateur sleuth in a tale that opens in Nazi-era Prague and closes on the North Shore of...

Detective Liz Boyle knows there is no crime more heinous than the murder of a child. When she and her partner, Tom Goran, are called to a new scene in an area of Cleveland known as The Flats, they find that a killer has taken that to new levels.As the...

Welcome to Wilkinson's.I'm afraid Mr Hall's running a little late, can I get you a tea or coffee while you wait?No?What if I tell you about some of the recent cases we've been involved in?The First Rung- Dot Sayers on her first job, doing background...

DI Zoe Finch is settling into her new role in Cumbria CID.She's solved her first murder with the help of her new team, averted a potential riot, and is starting to learn who she can trust inside Cumbria Police - and who she can't. But when a...

MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE'S A BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.One part jealousy. Two parts rage. Somewhere in Abby's sleepy little village, the perfect murder is brewing . . .Abby enters the...

Bookshop owner Flora Steele and writer Jack Carrington fell in love solving mysteries. Now they're taking their first steps as husband and wife... straight into their most perplexing case yet.Sussex, 1958: A radiant Flora is being twirled across the...

The chill of winter has descended on London. But for Sebastian Bell and Gemma Tate, there will be little cheer this season... Gemma Tate has a new job and a new address. She is putting her past - her memories of nursing in the Crimean war - behind...

A Famous Film Star.... A Vandalised Poster... A Hunt for a Killer...London is abuzz with the premiere of the film 'The Thief At Midnight'. The film's American stars, the beautiful Kathleen Carrington and the flirtatious Don Radcliffe, have come to...

A quiet street... A mysterious man... An old secret...After a harsh winter, 1947 has settled on Baker Street. Irene Holmes is restless and determined to find a case, no matter how big or small. When Joe Watson's girlfriend, Sarah, moves into a new house...

There's something decidedly sinister about the winner of Bath's best window display . . . Is it the hangman's noose or the dead body? Honey Driver is reluctant about judging Bath's best window display. But even she can see that the exquisite...

Honey and her detective fiancé Steve are visiting a pretty church in an idyllic English village, scouting out possible wedding venues. Trees, songbirds and the scent of flowers envelop them. But as usual when Honey is around, things are not quite as they...

Mulled wine, mistletoe . . . and murder? Honey is on the case!It's almost Christmas at the Green River Hotel. Proud owner Honey Driver is navigating the chaos that comes with hosting several Christmas parties. However the sudden murder of one of the...

It's a typical farmhouse kitchen. A large table fills the space, and in one of the chairs is the lifeless body of Doctor Magnusson. Under his feet and the dusty wooden floorboards lies the basement - and twelve therapy rooms. Behind each locked door, the...

Buried secrets, ancient graves and a murderer hiding in plain sight... Two innocent women have been brutally murdered, their bodies left at neolithic burial sites across the island of Jersey. Detective Inspector Winter Labey leads the investigation,...

Three Wealthy families... Two missing women... One big secret...When two young women go missing at a prestigious finishing school, Irene and Joe are requested to investigate the disappearance. Both students hail from wealthy families and where there's...

Kim Jackson told herself to stay out of it. She didn't listen.  All Kim Jackson wants to do is live under the radar in a town where no one knows she was once an accounting manager at a Fortune 500 company-or that she's been framed for corporate...

Why would an audit supervisor in a state tax agency be murdered? Around noon on an average summer day in Sacramento, an ambulance rolls up to the State Capitol, intent on responding to an emergency call from inside the building. Rushing in, they arrive...

Murder a physician on a golf course? Who would do such a thing? It's a charity golf outing in Green Bay, WI. Entry fees go to a good cause. This golf match has such unique golf contests as hitting a fake wooden cow in the middle of the fairway - all in...

Martin discovers a young woman with amnesia on the dock when he goes fishing one morning. In the palm of her hand, someone has written the words: many, chance, signed with DC-Minnie's younger brother's initials. Martin immediately calls Minnie. They take...

Evil always leaves a legacy.Detective Dana Capone has a sixth sense for serial killers. After all, she grew up with one.When the bound corpse of a young woman is discovered behind an Austin comedy club, Dana's instincts say this is only the warm-up act...

An international kidnapping ring took her friend's daughter. Now they know Val is helping her--and they'll stop at nothing to eliminate her as a threat.At a young age, Valorie Dawes vowed to avenge the death of her uncle, a policeman killed in...

Kate Caldwell is an actress pushing 40 hard. Out of work (again), she leaves New York for Hollywood where her husband has landed a role on the new "Law & Order" spin-off, "The Jury's Out." Kate spends her days negotiating the entertainment biz and her...

Real estate rule #1: A dead body creates buzz. A dead body in a house for sale is never the buzz you want. It isn't the first time real estate agent Helen Morrisey has found someone naked in bed while showing a...

Fraud. Deceit. All cloaked in clever financial wizardry. Anne Scott is a rising star on Wall Street who navigates the ever-changing seas of finance with deft precision. But in the high society inhabited by her boyfriend's family, she feels like a...

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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...

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...