Women sleuths Books

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...

Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a "white Christmas" in Oxford... But when she's snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself stumbling on a...

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...

Poppy never imagined she'd move to the English countryside and fall in love with a smug, demanding, ginger-haired male. Of course, that was before she discovered that she'd inherited a cottage garden nursery, and before she met a certain talkative orange...

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...

Showbiz comes to Oxford in the form of Britain's hottest new talent show and tearoom owner Gemma Rose gets a peek behind-the-scenes when she's asked to cater for the event. But with the Old Biddies entering the contest as England's first "granny band",...

When Gemma's romantic holiday with her boyfriend is cancelled, the tearoom sleuth finds herself heading to Vienna instead, with her cat Muesli and the nosy Old Biddies for company. And it's not long before they stumble across a murder right in the heart...

Champagne and ball gowns, fairy lights and music... Oxford summer balls are one of the highlights of the calendar and tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to taking a break and slipping into something gorgeous for the evening. But when the night...

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...

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...