Women sleuths Books

Daylesford, a beautiful old village in the Victorian Highlands has just gained two new residents. Ex-nuns Audrey and Jill are about to hit town... Leaving behind them decades of convent life, they are coming to live with Audrey’s cantankerous old...

The Oasis Bed and Breakfast officially opens for business when the O'Shay Family invites the whole town of Spencer City, Connecticut to share their Thanksgiving dinner. The day is spent reminiscing with family and good friends sitting on every available...

An Air Force test pilot is accused of handing over the plans of a prototype secret missile to a Russian agent. The pilot dies during a test flight in a crash rigged by Russian agents. The actual act of espionage is accidentally witnessed by an old...

The small town of Stone, Virginia is about to get the show of its life. The president is coming for an appearance, and his aids have a surprise. When a staged assassination plot starts to unravel, Millicent Van Horn, tries to clear her brother's name,...

Ghosts are real.... They come out and play after dark at the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, the most haunted hotel in America. Worthy of its very own Grimms Fairy Tale, the massive stone structure towers above the Victorian village in Eureka Springs,...

Madison Moore has been estranged from her family for years, but when her dying father summons her home, she reluctantly makes the trip back to the place that still evokes heartache. Her family's reception is lukewarm. They still hold the strict religious...

Desperate and with a million dollars at stake, Kayla Renee turns to a private investigator for help.After her mother's mysterious death, Kayla discovers a life-changing fortune in cryptocurrency. The only problem? She doesn't have the password.Thinking...

Murder in Sin City! Samantha Olivares feels the need to get away. She's looking for adventure, but finds more than she bargains for when she joins a motorcycle club in Las Vegas. Her dreams of sightseeing and idyllic days by the pool are soon...

Elizabeth's dream to enter the world of diplomacy finally comes true when she lands a job at the prestigious Embassy of Dolos in Washington D.C. Her initial excitement over her elite social circle and sense of purpose gets tainted when a colleague dies...

Welcome to the tranquil yet precarious town of Indigo Flats, nestled in the vast expanse of west Texas. Its peaceful façade shatters when a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, unearthing a cache of guns and drugs that send shockwaves through the...

Drawing out his gun, he pushed open the door. A dark abyss glared back. He took out his torch and flashed it around... Callan's broad shoulders slumped, and he let out a breath between clenched teeth. Death had dipped its claws into Dachaigh...

Is blood thicker than magic?Summer has come to Brookhaven and Darcy is soaking it up. Her magic is stronger than it's ever been and her relationship with Maggie is blossoming. They're even taking a weekend trip away as a couple!But when she and Maggie...

Who knew a seven-foot nutcracker could be a murder weapon?Finding the body of the toy store owner Betty King is the latest in a list of reasons Michael Bellemare feels far from jolly this holiday season. Having secured jobs for two local teens at the...

Brylie's feeling the heat...an odd occurrence considering it's autumn in Reverie Springs.Brylie Scott thought she had adjusted to life in the small town of Reverie Springs-witchy great-aunt, grumpy chef best friend, and empathetic house included-but...

Love and death decisionsWill murder take a break while Elizabeth Margaret Danniher sorts out the future of KWMT-TV and her personal life?Don't count on it.A young woman comes to Elizabeth at KWMT to solve a kind of theft Elizabeth has never encountered...

Break a leg is supposed to be just an expression.It's Halloween, and Rosemary and her friend are headed to a castle in the country to watch someone be murdered!It's all in good fun, of course; Vera's theatre troupe is putting on a murder mystery weekend...

Felicity Koerber's bean to bar chocolate shop on Galveston's historic Strand is bringing in plenty of customers - in part due to the notoriety of the recent murder of one of her assistants, which she managed to solve. Things seem to be taking a turn for...

April showers bring murder!Donations are pouring in for the charity yard sale, but as Kay and her friends sort through the glassware and gently used appliances, they discover a real skull in a box of old Halloween decorations.The find re-opens a...

Hagatha Crow likes nothing more than causing trouble. When she takes on the magic of a Christmas wish made by a grief-stricken woman, Hagatha learns a lesson she won't soon forget.This is a standalone story from the Mag and Clara Balefire mysteries world...

Bah humbug!It's four days before Christmas, but Penelope Standing isn't feeling very festive. Her son is halfway around the world, her gift for Jake isn't finished, and she's still trying to figure out how to decorate the house without Brutus, their...

Nail guns have always terrified Harvey Beckett, and now she knows why.Harvey loves sharing the parking lot of her bookstore with the hardware store across the way, but when an unruly customer is killed in the lot one night, she begins to wonder if the...

Winter has come to the lost Norse village of Villmark, the wind and snow separating cozy house from cozy house like a knife breaks apart shortbread.And for the first time in her life, Ingrid Torfa lives alone. No mother, no grandmother, no roommate. Just...

Her happy holiday is about to become a dead man's funeral.College student Eve Sawyer is anticipating a fun winter vacation with her two friends until a dog sniffs out a body hanging from a tree in the yard of the house where they're staying.Implored by...

"Rae and Venters have once again spun a medical murder mystery with precision, passion, and complexity. Breaking Apart takes you on a sexy and high-stakes ride."-Patty Dann, Author of Mermaids, which was made into a movie with Cher, Winona Ryder, and...

A missing girl. Her boyfriend, gone without a trace. Can a tenacious undergrad find them both before the case becomes a homicide? Eve Sawyer is ready to wave goodbye to summer. Fresh off helping solve a puzzling beach crime, the inquisitive...

Just when Maggie May Carver thinks her life is finally going to settle into happy newlywed bliss, a very scary man finds her and asks for her help in solving a thirty-six-year-old murder.While a smart person would say no, Maggie feels compelled to at...

In den South Regent Mansions gibt es alle modernen Annehmlichkeiten … Mord eingeschlossen London, Februar 1924. Olive Belgrave, die diskrete High Society- Spürnase, freut sich über ihre neue Wohnung in den South Regent Mansions, wo...

Un omicidio nell'alta società. Una giovane detective piena di spirito. Riuscirà la protagonista a scoprire chi è l'assassino prima che un innocente venga ingiustamente incolpato?   Londra, 1923. Olive Belgrave ha...

Chasses au trésor de minuit, fêtes costumées, et meurtre au sang bleu . . .  Novembre 1923. Gigi, une ancienne camarade d'école d'Olive, l'invite à Londres. Elle va découvrir que la...

Ein opulentes Londoner Stadthaus und der Fluch einer Mumie … … und eine mutige Detektivin. Es ist Oktober 1923, und Olive Belgrave hat einen neuen Fall. Ihre Auftraggeberin, Lady Agnes, glaubt nicht an Flüche, und sie heuert Olive...

Zylinder und Frack. Nerze und Mord …November 1923. Eine Einladung zu einer Hausparty auf dem Anwesen Parkview Hall ist eine willkommene Abwechslung für Olive Belgrave, eine frischgebackene berufstätige Frau, die zur Löserin der...

Un magnifique cadavre. Aucun indice. La paix à Castillac une fois de plus brisée.Lorsqu'un autre habitant du village françcais est retrouvé mort, Molly et les gendarmes sont perplexes. Pour compliquer les choses, Ben est engagé pour défendre le principal...

Et si Valérie était encore en vie?Pratiquement personne dans le village de Castillac ne garde espoir. Après tout, cela fait sept ans. Sept ans depuis que la populaire et espiègle Valérie Boutillier a disparu sans laisser de traces. Les efforts des...

Une veuve dans un manoir. Des secrets obscurs. Et du poison, un poison mortel.Après que la détective amateur Molly Sutton tombe par hasard sur un cadavre, elle ne perd pas de temps à écouter aux portes et à s'immiscer dans les conversations partout dans...

Finalist 2022 Nancy Pearl Book AwardLark's life at fifty is a tour bus with failing brakes. Failed marriage, failed social work career, failed romance with a renaissance faire knight. If fifty is the new forty, her future doesn't bode well. A job comes...

By all accounts, everyone loves Genny. So why does someone want her dead? There's something special about Genesis Baker, owner of The Sister's popular New Beginnings Café. With her dimpled smile and twinkling blue eyes, Genny has practically the entire...

A dark secret triggers a deadly game of cat-and-mouse...When a former client reaches out to psychotherapist Kate Huntington and reveals a foreign diplomat's secret past, then dies of "natural causes" just days later, Kate isn't sure what to think. Was...

A story ripped from real-life headlines. A police detective is found in an alley, standing over the body of an unarmed African-American boy. Groggy from a concussion, he has no memory of what happened, and he is literally holding the smoking gun...

No good deed goes unpunished… Newly widowed Kate Huntington agrees to help her closest friend's elderly aunt with a problem, but the "problem" ends up dead. And Kate finds herself embroiled in a police investigation. To clear Aunt Betty, she and...

Psychotherapist Kate Huntington helps other people cope with the horrible things that have happened to them, but she herself has led a charmed life... until now. When a series of what seem like random events–a matter of being in the wrong...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot… The last year has been eventful for Marcia and husband Will. They've successfully launched their private investigation agency and completed their family with an adorable but creatively energetic baby girl...

The criminals aren't giving Chief of Police Judith Anderson much time to acclimate to Florida, or even to finish unpacking! Only two months on the job and barely recovered from a serial killer case, the newly minted C.o.P. is called out to a scene...

There's a new female cop on the scene! Judith Anderson's no-nonsense attitude and confidence served her well in her climb to homicide lieutenant in the Baltimore County PD, but that confidence is shaken when she finds herself one step behind a serial...

That's no paper cut… No matter what my bestie, PJ, says about handcrafts, scrapbooking is not a deadly occupation. Or at least it never used to be. Then one of my crafting friends is found dead by, er, die, and it looks like PJ...

Sometimes the Yuletide spirit takes an unjolly turn...My name is Sarah Braxton, and I'm a witch. It's busy season in the bookshop, plus, Seashell Cove in the middle of Solstice preparations. The last thing I need is this elf, appearing out of nowhere...