Women sleuths Books

Eve Caulton is looking forward to her first Christmas on Bramble Lane. Adding to the excitement are the new neighbours, the Merrinans, moving into Holly Cottage. Everyone is ready to welcome the family, but all is not as it seems. They've returned from...

This royal visit is going to off with a bang...Edward, the Prince of Wales, is about to step foot on Kiwi soil and Grace is frantically finishing gowns for her wealthy clients to wear at the balls thrown in his honour. But then a horrible accident and a...

Lichenwald is the newest “mushroom thriller” from Ellen King Rice. This science-based adventure delves into the vibrant diversity of the Pacific Northwest with a story of the power in lichens and their relationships.At the edge of...

Will Dead Week kill Cassandra’s career? VP of Student Affairs Cassandra Sato has a desk full of problems and it’s not even Thanksgiving break. A student’s injury and a deaf advocacy project brings national media attention to...

In Kate P. Adams' delightful first collection of short stories, featuring old friends and new from the successful Charleton House Mysteries, enjoy a world of laughs, friendship, mystery and mischief.A young woman accepts an invitation to meet her...

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive...For the first time since her engagement came to an unhappy end, catering manager and amateur sleuth Sophie Lockwood returns to London from Derbyshire to run the café for an art...

The winter bears a berry,As red as any blood...As December casts its chilly eye over Derbyshire towns bedecked in festive cheer, the skeletal remains of a forgotten man lie hidden in the cellar of the historic Black Swan pub.The glow of a million fairy...

He would make a lovely corpse...When visitors gather deep in the frozen Derbyshire countryside for a sleepover in the opulent Long Gallery of Charleton House, joined by some notable guests from the past, no one expects that by morning Charles Dickens...

When Emily Plankhurst is visited by the ghost of Gabriel Graystone, and learns he was murdered, she knows she must find justice for him. The only problem is, Gabriel was killed a hundred years ago, shortly after he broke off his engagement to the...

"An excellent mystery, intertwined with a little romance, monkey business and a travel adventure of a lifetime. A FINALIST and highly recommended." -Readers' Choice Book AwardsWhile working on a feature story on tribal arts in India, Finley and Whitt...

 “It’s a winding road of shadows and darkness… Are you still lost in it?” July, 2066. The city of Samrichts was still reeling from the terrorist attack that happened three years earlier. Surrounded by what felt like a...

Birthday Surprise Turns to Murder and Embezzlement in Ripped Off, A Cozy Mystery Adventure from Jeanne GlidewellAlbuquerque, New MexicoFull-time RVers, Rip and Rapella Ripple, arrive in Albuquerque, "Chartreuse Caboose" in tow, to surprise their...

PI Maddie Landon receives an unexpected call from her former police partner-turned-attorney, pressuring her to help him investigate the murder of his friend's wife, Claire Stevenson. Though conflicted because they were once lovers and their affair ended...

Toni Bennett’s partner Harry is in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, a former client of theirs. Toni’s first, last, and only priority is to find the evidence necessary to clear his name and set him free. The world, however, has other...

Senior citizens and full-time RVers, Rip and Rapella Ripple are spending the holidays with daughter Regina, in their hometown of Rockport, TX. When Regina's new husband, Milo Moore, becomes a suspect in an off-shore harpooning homicide, the Ripples...

When the discovery of a body on a vacant lot puts an end to Police Chief Callie Morgan’s surprise birthday party, Christmas week loses some of its charm. Not only does she know the dead man, he’s a relation . . . of sorts.Soon she’s...

Thérèse Arnaud, a.k.a. Agent C.25, is a member of the French Deuxième Bureau secret service tasked with fighting enemy spies operating in WWI France. She is a thoroughly modern woman: independent, intelligent, sure of herself and of her calling. She...

A not quite thirty-year-old divorcee and neophyte detective finds herself investigating the murder of her ex-husband's new wife.Proving her ex-husband not guilty of murder, by finding the real killer, wasn't how detective Marcie Rayner planned on...

Two new short novels featuring attorney Gail Brevard. In THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad "Connie" Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy. Retired...

The desperate, pleading eyes of the woman in her dream vision has Private Investigator, Josie Palmer in a quandary. How can she save someone whose name she doesn't even know or what city she lives in? These are the perplexing thoughts that keep running...

Bill Taylor dreams of becoming a world champion rodeo cowboy. To raise a stake toward achieving his goal, Billy follows his brother's advice to "find a rich wife to support your dream." Billy persuades Nicole to elope with him and have his baby. He hopes...

If you wanted a picture of the life of Elvis Presley, who better to paint it for you than someone who worked as his trusted cook and maid at Graceland? Someone whose daily tasks centered around keeping the 'King of Rock & Roll' happy, whose...

A rainy Christmas time in Mulbury, but that won't deter the Cracker Christmas Kid's Charity Run. When a mob of motorcyclists roar into town with panniers full of donated presents, the last thing they want to discover is a pair of bodies in the Christmas...

Two girls grow up together, best friends, and one disappears. The other girl becomes obsessed with her disappearance and does some detective work, with the help of a local Doctor.

It's summer in Niagara Falls. IT'S HOT, IT'S HUMID, IT'S DEADLY The Black Sheep walks among them, seemingly untouchable. He works, he parties, he kills. No woman is safe. They all know-HE'S CHARMING, HE'S INTELLIGENT. They just don't know-HE'S A KILLER...

B.N. Napoleon is a female Private Eye who sometimes, when the situation warrants it, becomes a male by dressing in a man's suit, shoes and wearing a false moustache. Her hair is cut short and fortunately she is under endowed. She does this when it...

Lynn Marchand, now living in the city, is the former organist for a men's prison. She is surprised when a former inmate choir member contacts her to tell her that another former inmate is looking for her. It seems that he is somehow implicated in a...

Amy Page is trying to get her life back on track, back to writing her cookbook, back to strolling around her beloved Ile Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris. Her lover, Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet, is on leave, recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in...

Paralyzed by a crime that horrifies all who live in the city of Seattle, the police department is racing against time in search of a psychopathic criminal who is focused on the most innocent of victims, children. The case brings together two women, one a...

When Florida attorney Tina Jefferson hears her mother's gasping voice on the telephone, she knows something's happened. "What's going on, Mom?" Tina asks. "You sound...worried.""Worried?" the older woman retorts. "Why, everything's wonderful, Tina, what...

A straightforward homicide inquiry; just another day at the office for Detective Inspector Bailey Troy. But her investigation is destined to uncover a murderous conspiracy of unimaginable proportions.A beautiful young woman, heiress to her father’s...

All is not OK in the H.O.A. Birdie, a struggling photographer striving to balance her finances and her creative pursuits, finds herself in a topsy-turvy situation. She is summoned back to the coastal town of Moon's Landing following the tragic...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Jacquie Biggar, comes a gripping techno-thriller, part of a multi-author series tied together by an interlocking cast of characters, all centered around the fantastic new promise of high technology and the endless...

Three books in One!  Murder in the Inn, Another Murder in the Inn and Murder in Another Inn combined into one book,  Follow Sandy Evans as she solves the murder of the former owner of the inn, (Murder in the Inn), helps unmask the murderer...

You can only run from the past for so long.Cleo Boucher knows this better than anyone.When a family tragedy forces her to return home, Cleo wants nothing more than to get in and get out as quickly as possible.But what she doesn't know is that someone has...

Private investigator Martha Holmes is falling out of love and back into her life – or so she thinks, until a decade-old missing persons case comes her way. Four teenage girls have been missing for ten years, and their families have never given up...

The Series Finale Bundle!Includes Wicked Good Witches Books 11-14:Book 11--Total Eclipse of the vampire's HeartBook 12--Guardians of the Demon SlayerBook 13--Sing a Song of Sixth-SenseBook 14--Who Wants to Witch Forever (Series Finale)Melinda Howard has...

In a dusty attic, college student Amanda discovers a letter by a Serbian uncle she never knew about. Her panicked mother pleads with her to let it go, convinced her brother was killed by an evil spirit called "the Red Dove". Dismissive of such...

Maria Kiefer ist eine 50jährige Kriminalkommissarin. Seit ihrer Scheidung ist ihr Leben eintönig und trist. Bei einer Ermittlung lernt sie den wesentlich jüngeren Polizisten Mario kennen. Mit ihm kommt wieder Spaß und Sex in ihr Leben.Maria und Mario...

Tanja Eppstein ist Inhaberin der Chocolaterie Schoko-Traum in der Heidelberger Altstadt. In Schoko-Pillen wird sie in ihren zweiten Kriminalfall verwickelt. Plötzlich steht sie selbst im Fadenkreuz der polizeilichen Ermittlungen. Und dieses Problem lässt...

Un hold-up a lieu à quelques jours de Noël dans un magasin de jouets. Une dizaine de types lourdement armés et organisés comme des militaires. Angel et Alice sont présentes et prises en otage, puis relâchées rapidement. Plus qu'intriguées, elles décident...

A friend of Virginia Davies Clark, Dr. Gail Knight, a retired professor of computer science at the University of California at Irvine, where Virginia was a student, purchased an old ranch called the Circle A near Georgetown, Texas, and is renovating it...