Women sleuths Books

Sleazy strip club owner, Chaz Wellington Smith, III is at it again with an all-male revue called the Cheeky Monkey, catering to girls' nights out and bachelorette parties. Recently, his new venture has been plagued with annoying pranks that have turned...

A baffling murder. A master criminal. Have the world’s greatest detective and his intrepid American daughter finally met their match?Seven short stories published in one volume for the first time, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his long-lost...

Desperate for clues to a cold case art heist, psychic Celine Skye must turn to the dead for help. . .   Eager to help the Gardner Museum recover its stolen art, Celine Skye has finally accepted her psychic abilities. But instead of...

Small town etiquette columnist Hope Springs is the latest victim of a murder—only she isn’t the  one who died…Determined to celebrate her birthday with quiet decorum, Hope's peace is shattered when she witnesses the hit...

A colossal fortune. A secret reaper. A young woman whose drive for due process makes her the target of dangerous people...Nefi Jenkins dreams of becoming an FBI agent. After outing her parents' heartless killer, the Harvard grad focuses on getting into a...

Some secrets should be taken to the grave. Others call from the bones of those, who even in death, will not remain silent. They say time heals all wounds. If that were true, four men would still be alive, and Rhyjl Martin wouldn’t be seeing visions...

Her dear friend is dead. She finds the body. Follow Stella Kirk and Detective Aiden North as they uncover Paulina McAdams' secrets. Will a diary reveal her life story once the code is broken? In their search for answers, Stella and Aiden untangle the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

Left for dead, she is the first to pay the price for defection. There will be others less fortunate, for evil has no home so haunting yet serene as Eden."An intriguing and complex crime story with great philosophical tidbits. I like character development...

One week before her wedding a young woman strips, takes the time to fold her clothes, then calmly walks into Lake Michigan.When Sam Casey is asked to look into the death of a young mother who left her infant in a high chair, walked down the street and...

Who Dares WinsHow can any self-respecting, slightly clumsy, highly caffeinated private eye pass up a dare? Short answer, she can't. Now up I'm a certain creek trying to figure out how to live without coffee for an entire week!With my mood sour, my temper...

Book 4 in the Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cosy Mystery series. When violent crime increases in Westerham, Lily and the PIB agents have to step in to sort things out. But nothing is quite as it seems, and danger lurks in every shadow. Just...

Redcliff Marine Rescue volunteer Shiraz Jones unwittingly opens a cold case when she discovers a vintage sports car buried in a landslide.When a 1976 storm destroyed Golden Beach Village, its secrets remained entombed. Now it's up to Shiraz to unearth...

Why did Juny's mother go away? And where did she go? Fortunes Neck is a place of deep history and buried memory, a place where secrets grow up out of the earth. Among the first families of Fortunes Neck are the Weirs, Doc and his wife Jeannine. Their...

Everything Bonnie Keeler believes about life and marriage changes the day she discovers her husband's infidelity, which he says is caused by her romance writing. She feels shamed into giving up her passion - creating stories of mystery and romance;...

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Praise for A Casualty of War: "[Charles] Todd's strongest war book."--Washington Times

After dallying with sexy vampires and ingeniously reinterpreting the Dracula legend in "Insatiable" and "Overbite," #1 "New York Times" bestseller Cabot is ready to rock 'n' roll once more with the college dorm director and sometimes sleuth Heather Wells.

"Full of action and colorful characters, this genre mash-up is expertly done and will be enjoyed by fans of mysteries and fantasy alike."--Booklist (starred review)

The second instalment in The Lilly Pilly Creek Ghost Mystery series finds sisters Jones and Autumn embroiled in yet another local mystery. Jones has been assisting Iris, a bride-to-be, in creating a memory box for her wedding. But at the final dress...

Approaching 30, single, and still unsatisfied with her career as a copywriter, Jennifer Johnson obsesses about finding a boyfriend, losing weight, and chasing her dream job. In her revealing and raucous story, every thought, flaw, and neurosis is on...

With her sharp wit and riveting style, Leslie Carroll plunges us deep into the world of the overscheduled children of New York, and the oversexed, over-lipoed, overpaid people who raise them -or pay their nannies!What happens when a trophy wife gets...

From Anna Loan-Wilsey comes the first installment of a new historical mystery series featuring Hattie Davish, a traveling secretary who arrives in a small Ozark town only to discover her new employer has disappeared. . .On the eve of the heated...

Tasha Martin has recently graduated from her local college and takes an HR job at a law firm in the city, leaving the comfort of her childhood home to embark on her adult life. A self avowed introvert, this brings about challenges as she interacts with...

A new book in the Poppy McGowan mystery series!Breaking a great news story might end up breaking your neckMaybe it's a good thing that Poppy McGowan, children's TV researcher, has been seconded to the current affairs show The Daily Report for a month-at...

Heavily-tattooed and erratic, Tess hides in plain sight, off-the-grid in New Orleans. Tess is a survivor with more secrets than even she knows.  Her clearest memories are tattooed on her skin, memorials to the missing dead.No one knows who Tess...

Anne Marshall is at it again!It was the anniversary of the day her fiancé, Jason, was murdered by infamous drug lord Enrique Salvatore. As Anne reels with grief, she is hit with the news that her law partner's wife, Celia, has been accused of...

Jesse Clarke's 10-year school reunion boasted a few shocks - and that didn't include Jesse running a publicity and private investigator business. The talk of the reunion was Alex Bryson, the overweight kid who transformed himself thanks to winning a...

RJ Rox is a woman on a mission. An agent for a secret organization, she travels the world, not knowing where the next assignment might take her. The Rogue Master is the third installment in the RJ Rox Thrillers. She thought she knew who killed them. She...

Francesca Bibbo is eager to jumpstart her social life, so she joins the choir at St. Rita's. There, she discovers that the director and the pastor are locking horns over a decrepit organ, while the sopranos are vying for solos. After a rehearsal party,...

The Costumes of Covent Garden, a new traveling exhibit of costumes worn by the British Royal Opera, is making its debut at the Maine Museum of Art, and director Dulcie Chambers couldn't be more thrilled, especially since the woman in charge of the...

Somewhere over the Alaskan wilderness a plane has disappeared.As winter approaches Anchorage, flight instructor Beri Quinn races to find a student who took off in one of her planes, and hasn’t been seen since. She’s convinced he’s still...

Budapest: 1956. Newlywed Cara Walden’s brother Zoltán has disappeared in the middle of the Hungarian revolution, harboring a deadly wartime secret. Will Cara or the Soviets find him first?Cutting short her honeymoon in Paris to rescue a...

A mysterious package, a rumor about a missing painting, and a dangerous game of hide and seek…Zoe loves working as a consultant for a company that specializes in the recovery of stolen art. Her only complaint is that the jobs are few and far...

A popular marine biologist is dead. An octopus named Fred is accused of killing her. Can Xena interrogate Fred and solve the crime before more people die?Xena Cali is a somewhat overzealous investigator with a passion for poetic justice. Her latest case...