Women sleuths Books

Join antique dealer and amateur sleuth Philomena Barker as she tackles her first case.When Chipwell antique dealer Philomena Barker spies a nineteenth-century painting of Whitby peeking out of a box of odds and sods at a York auction centre, she knows...

The Forgiveness Files is the third book in the series about Robbie Mount.On Thursday morning, Robbie learned about a family tragedy. On Friday, her family removed her from a very present danger. Then came Saturday.Robbie, the wheelchair detective, goes...

Rosie "Aunty" Lee--feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant--is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore.Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee...

For years, Ruth Carson and her friend Angie enjoyed being in the summer musical theatre productions of St. Paul's Como Pavilion Players, directed by Fritz Gerhardt. This year, however, something sinister is happening to the tight-knit amateur theatre...

A young boy murdered in a snowstorm and forgotten...A mysterious letter that sets Jenny on the trail...Secrets within secrets revealed - Nothing is as it seems...Imagine if Miss Marple were Amish!Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, Ohio, called by...

When up-and-coming comic, Kasey McCormick, attends a highly anticipated "business of comedy" seminar in Southern California, she expects to learn, network, and showcase her comedic talents. However, her excitement quickly turns to rueful disappointment...

It's Paris and it sizzles. Over four stifling August days Three women and a child are caught up in an international sting when the 4 1/2 year old refuses to let her nanny pack her Bugs Bunny suitcase for a weekend trip from Paris to Prague. At the...

One of the most heard news in recent times is about sexual harassment of women. ""Aanavam Azhiththa Aanaval"" is the story that made my heart bursting with the words of such news. Absolutely community based story. A story about a woman's struggle. Not...

Julie Pépin, une jeune Lilloise, débarque sur les îles Shetland, au nord de l'Écosse. Une nouvelle vie l'attend, loin de ses soucis. Six mois à travailler dans une ferme. À s'occuper des animaux. À...

When an abducted child died on Janelle Watkins's watch, she quit the San Francisco Police department. Now she's a private investigator chasing deadbeat dads and cheating spouses. Then two distraught women beg for Janelle's help finding a pair of...

I won't conceal the fact that when I found that inflatable pool in my backyard I was surprised to a degree. Inflatable pools, as a rule, contain water, you see, and everyone knows that cats don't like water all that much. In fact we hate it. But Odelia...

"The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange" showcases Anna Katharine Green's knack for crafting compelling mysteries with intricate plots. Violet Strange, the protagonist, is no ordinary detective. A debutante in New York high society, she...

Vanja pekade in mot skogen. Det såg ut som en hög täckt av en presenning, några stenar, granrisruskor och mossa ovanpå. Fram till högen var det upptrampat, som en stig,och Vanja följde den fram till den konstiga högen. Hon började lyfta på stenar och...

The annual Chestnut Fair brings visitors from far and wide to the sleepy village of Trecchina. This year, one will be coming to die.The moment Vanda Riccardi makes the grisly discovery in the forest, a blow to the head knocks her cold. By the time...

Bei einer Strandaufspülung am Oststrand von Langeoog kommt es zu einem grausigen Fund. Zusammengepappt mit Sand, Muscheln, Meeresschlick, spukt die Rohrleitung eines Saugbaggers die Knochenreste eines Menschen aus. Eine Frau, die vermisst, aber nie...

Die junge Privatdetektivin Alena erhält den Auftrag, den Tod einer reichen Frau aus der Oberschicht zu untersuchen. Bald schon vermutet sie, dass die Frau mithilfe von Magie ermordet worden ist. Gemeinsam mit dem Studenten Merin versucht sie, das Rätsel...

A jornalista Laura Schreiner está diante de uma decisão difícil. Ela fez perguntas demais e agora a vida de seus filhos está em perigo. Curiosamente, bem pouca gente se importa com o esclarecimento dessa catástrofe. A jovem e ambiciosa jornalista não...

When a suspicious airplane crash kills Fiona's soon-to-be ex-husband and owner of the local airfield, she becomes the number one suspect. Surrounded by antagonistic in-laws, land-hungry developers, and drug smugglers determined to get their hands on the...

Andrea "Ande" Nilson is the spunky 28-year-old owner of "Picture This on Main" photography studio in the college town of Brookings, South Dakota. The petite gal spends her days photographing everyone from her favorite subjects - pets, to her least...

Christie O'Mara is thrilled to finally be living her dream of running her own flower shop. With her grandmother's legacy guiding her, she sets out to create beautiful floral arrangements and unique gifts for the small town she calls home. But little does...

If it's not weddings, then hapless widows are expected to attending christenings... Lady Violet returns with St. Sevier to her family seat, and finds Derwent Hall at sixes and sevens upon the occasion of her nephew's christening. Other guests have...

Lady Violet has decided that life in noisy, crowded, busy London is simply not her cup of tea. Her search for a rural property to purchase must be set aside when she learns that Hugh St. Sevier has been accused of murder. Worse, the handsome physician is...

Having enjoyed her tour of the Scottish countryside, Lady Violet Belmaine is reluctant to return to London. Her escort, Hugh St. Sevier, suggests a detour to the Lakes, where his former army connections have invited him to renew old acquaintances. Violet...

The long-awaited 4th installment in the Katie Connell romantic Caribbean mystery series brings back certified hot mess Katie, her sexy husband Nick, her jumbie house Annalise, and the rest of the gang for an exotic, suspense-filled island thriller with...

Food for thought: seasoning with these berries results in a dash of murder.It's been a quiet autumn so far in the small town of Bradley, North Carolina. Or, as Myrtle would put it, a boring one. The slow pace and lingering post-summer heat are...

Alison and Jessica were the best of friends of middle and high school. Fifteen years later, Jessica, now an up-and-coming journalist, learns that Alison has been killed in a car accident. But that's not the most troubling part of this tragedy.Alison died...

"Will and Betsy Black have become two of my favorite sleuths, a married couple who solve mysteries whether in Key West ... or in this latest adventure, much of the Caribbean. Authors David and Nancy Beckwith tell an engaging story that sounds remarkably...

Katy Cross is more than Skeeterville's favorite home health nurse, she's also the lead guitarist for her weekend band, The Moonlighters. Katy and the band land their biggest gig yet at the annual Peanut Patch Festival, but things hit a sour note when she...

Ellie is right back in the thick of it. The Cliff Haven Strawberry Festival has returned after a long hiatus and the mayor is determined to make it a success. When Ellie finds herself in the middle of a Mayor for a Day race, everything seems...

Sometimes murders jump right off the pages of a book. Rylie is back in Prairie City and trying to find her new normal. With her best friend busy with wedding planning in a different country and her love life in a precarious position, she's been...

Former FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas returns in Willow Rose's most nail-biting thriller yet. Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter...

In this case, fashion is death...Bianca's determined to live a normal life in Edenville with her family, and she has no intention of getting involved in another case. While attending a fashion show, a model, also a childhood friend of her sister,...

A CLASSIC AMATEUR SLEUTH ROMP!Scrappy student Cassia Lemon plans her life perfectly. She'd locked in her plans to conquer the world.Until a disaster turns her perfect plans into a pile of metal spaghetti.So now she has to survive with no income and no...

Thirty years of silver blades, scarlet stains and the most elegant of heels.Thirty years of slipping in the knife, tightening the noose, measuring out the poison.Thirty years of whispered threats and tangled plots, of murder and mayhem.For thirty years,...

Ein nächtlicher Anruf - und schon steckt Gemma Rose, ihres Zeichens Besitzerin des Little Stables Tearooms, mitten in einem neuen Mordfall. Und diesmal ist ausgerechnet ihr guter Freund Seth der Hauptverdächtige! Alles an der blutigen Tat hinter den...

Book 12 in the bestselling, fun, magical, action-packed Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cozy Mystery series.There's a witch burglar on the loose, and they're stealing more than the usual.There's a prolific cat burglar on the loose who's stealing more...

When Mitsy Howard first moved into Appledore House, she didn't know what to expect from a residential care home other than an escape from loneliness, housework, and the daily chores. In The Enduring Curiosity of Mitsy Howard - A Walk in the Mill,...

Who is the Chameleon Killer? When you are having a really bad day, drink deep, abuse everyone around you, pass out and try again tomorrow. Trouble is; every day is bad in Rupert Fletcher's world. He threatens his ex-wife, mocks his girlfriend, abuses his...

1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air - until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters...

12 Years ago, 14 year old Sally Mitchell went missing. Last week the body of a teenage girls was found in Cuddieford Woods dressed in Sally's clothes - but it's not Sally's body. Now the police are questioning the last person to see Sally alive as they...

Murder, blackmail, and a maze. Eliza Thomson Investigates...An anonymous victim, a missing murder weapon, and a trail back to Moreton-on-Thames.An unexpected finding disrupts the church day out to Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII...

A captain's dinner to die for...Rachel Jacobi-Prince and Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe are delighted to be invited to dine at the captain's table. A pleasant dinner, shared with Marjorie's son and troublesome daughter-in-law, becomes less palatable when the...

A captain's dinner to die for...Rachel Jacobi-Prince and Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe are delighted to be invited to dine at the captain's table. A pleasant dinner, shared with Marjorie's son and troublesome daughter-in-law, becomes less palatable when the...

"If Jack Reacher were a woman, he'd be Charlie Fox." Lee ChildCharlie Fox has quit her job in close protection, been turned out of her apartment, and is apparently out of luck.House-sitting in rural New Jersey has to be the pits-TV and TV dinners. A...

A field trip ends in disaster when Morgan Iverson falls down a gulley and into a cold case. She wants to learn enough geology to keep the family rock shop in business, but suddenly the only knowledge she needs is how to survive a night in the mountains...