Women sleuths Books

Two Weeks. One Life-Changing Proposal.Devon, an ailing, young CEO-in-training due to inherit his dead father’s conglomerate saves the day for Jenny, an engaged young woman on her way home to see her family. To repay his kindness, she agrees to be...

Xana Bard comes home one muggy afternoon to find a murdered man in her back yard. Knowing that even with an airtight alibi she and anyone living with her will be a suspect, she warns her off-the-grid lover Thorne Ardall to stay away until the murderer is...

Whose bones lie in Caroline’s grave?A mysterious drowning. A dead person seen alive. A secret society reviving ancient rites. Rumours of smuggling, espionage and betrayal.When a handsome stranger asks Jayne for help, her quest takes her to Greece...

Eva Thorne thought facing a werewolf, betrayal, and the army of Death was bad. She learns there are all new kinds of evil—and more enemies, as well as allies, than she ever imagined. All of them have an agenda, and all of them want the one thing...

The darkest crimes can't stay hidden forever A dead journalist?A matron murdered at a children's homeA young body washed up by the river The killer is a man of power and influence.A man who believes himself beyond the reach of the law. His...

Love and suspense with a dash of Southern Gothic...From the award-winning author of Beach Rental and Kincaid's Hope ~Rachel Sevier, a lonely thirty-two year old inventory specialist, travels to Wynnedower Mansion in Virginia to find her brother who has...

Hilary Davidson's The Next One to Fall takes place three months after the events of her debut novel, the Anthony Award-winning The Damage Done. Travel writer Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with...

Packed with page-turning cliffhangers and thrilling suspense, Road to Rumour interweaves the stories of a hotel owner, a local farmer and the disappearance of his wife and child. This small town murder-mystery will keep you enthralled from beginning to...

THE SERIES:This Special Ops Force Series has one big difference...The members are ALL kickass females.They each have a reason to seek vengeance.They will cut through the frustration of red tape.Together, they will deal out justice for the victims and...

Tick Tock. Time is running out.My parents are missing in outback Australia. Only they’ve left me clues. Clues that tell me they were close to a significant discovery – the location of a copper scroll that leads to untold treasures. A scroll...

Paul isn't dead. He just meditated so much that he ascended to a new plane of consciousness. Isn't that what spiritual retreats are for? Linda's job just got harder. Not only does she need to figure out how this pain in the arse died, she...

In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely...

"Welcome to the Executive Suite. Admit what you have done, and get out alive."In the enchanting world of hospitality, Drake, Adam, Talia, and Jason are some of the most influential in their profession. Success and luxury come with a price when...

A heady mix of underwater adventure, mystery, and romance." - Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling authorA few months after a death in her family, underwater photographer Fin Fleming is ready to move on with her life when she discovers the...

"Sizzling! I read the whole thing in one day, heart pounding, totally gripped by the action. Super fantastic book. I actually had to shush my kids when they tried to talk to me in the middle of it." Dr. Eileen Sacks, General SurgeonDr. Hope Sze...

A mysterious invite, a festive party, and a murderer hiding amongst the mistletoe.Christmas in England, 1936.When Ruby Dove receives a cryptic invitation to Lady Charlesworth's swanky London soiree, Fina Aubrey-Havelock convinces her friend to attend...

When some workmen dig up a skeleton, Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield finds herself investigating a death that took place years earlier. She never imagines that it will have major repercussions on the lives of people she now cares deeply about, or...

A foggy night. A dog's bark. This one just turned personal ...Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield hopes to come to terms with her confused emotions over alluring but troubling boyfriend Richie Amalfi, but her plans quickly change when her neighbor is...

ON THE RUN. ACCUSED OF MURDER. WITH NO WAY OUT.Coroner Fenway Stevenson is accused of a homicide she didn't commit-but all the evidence points her way. Staying one step ahead of the police, she unearths one secret after another. But the victim's trail...

When Silver Hollow witch Adele Brundage curses the town with a plague of toads until her killer is found, Isolde Quinn and her cousins find themselves thrown into a dangerous world where someone will go to any lengths to keep a decades-old secret. Armed...

"Becker adds a new female detective to America's mystery landscape ... or should we say to America's rails? A good ride!"- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist PostA retired NYC Police Detective on her post-retirement train trip from New York to San Francisco...

Cass Blankenship was just released after spending ten years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. All she really wants to do now is head for sunny California, a place where nobody knows she was convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend’s...

Jeaneane Lewis is a disturbed graduate student in a crime writing program who makes a grisly discovery: in the heart of the college/prison town of New Royal, Ohio, a military widow and her two small children lay dead in a frigid garden pond, watched over...

Despite a spate of murders at the high-end Island Resort, Harriet Monroe loves her job. The resort made the coveted number one spot on Pampered Magazine's list for "must-visit" vacations and she intends to hang onto that position with her new ad...

“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)Everyone Has a Hidden TalentFor Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it.Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels,...

“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)Everyone Has a Hidden TalentFor Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it.Tonight she feels like committing it.Her live-in lover, Teddie,...

“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly Everyone Has a Hidden TalentFor Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it.Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass...

Eighteen-year-old Brittany Bingham is working as a housekeeper for posh condominiums in Park City when she discovers a body in a hot tub. Dead. Brittany’s parents are serving an LDS mission in Southern California. Whom should she call?Why, her aunt...

He turned off the flashlight and stood in the darkness, soaking up her terror as she shrieked and begged for him to return. After her screams had given way to exhausted whimpers, he continued down the overgrown woodland trail with a satisfied smile...

Late October in the Pacific Northwest foothills brings more than a change of season. Psychiatric evaluator Grace Vaccaro is on edge. A field evaluation gone wrong leads to a shooting, Grace's mother has died and ghosts from her family past are everywhere...

An NSA scientist has disappeared with a deadly plague virus. Donna and Jack must find him before it is unleashed on Fantasy island. But first they'll have to deal with a nude sunbathing serial killer, a Lord of the Flies ‘tween...

Sophie Parker's life is looking up. She's getting along with her curmudgeonly great-aunt, dating a hot airplane repo man, working part-time at the library telling fairy tales, that is until she finds her coupon queen mentor dead with coupon shears in her...

The death of a patient in a psychiatric unit leads DI Eva Wednesday closer to the world she's been trying to avoid. Attempting to separate paranoid emotions from reality proves challenging, and having her mother in the unit adds another layer of...

Alexandra Campbell’s life comes to a crashing halt the night her younger sister is killed during a convenience store robbery. Shattered by guilt, Alex distances herself from her friends and family. Months later, with the police investigation...

Finding a dead mouse in the lab is not usually such a big deal. But when the lab is a Biosafety Level-3 containment facility designed to keep things in and out, and when the mouse has a brain tumor that shines green under blue light, it's time to start...