Women sleuths Books

'Ever heard of the Alibi Club?,' Robin asked when he was driving me home after one of the most disastrous first nights in theatrical history.When Tessa's Scotland Yard husband Robin is invited to speak at the renowned and respectable Alibi Club, she is...

'Not complaining, are you? Right up your street, I should have thought. Solving the odd murder between professional engagements is your forte.'When the rare chance occurs for Tessa Crichton and her policeman husband, Robin, to have a three week holiday...

'I'm assuming that you want to see a murderer caught and getting what he deserves?''You bet I do. In fact, I hope he gets worse than he deserves.'When a young American girl disappears from her flat and usual London haunts, her friends and family aren't...

Kat and Mouse are back! Early one morning, in the grounds of Chatsworth, a body is discovered by one of the estate groundsmen. DI Marsden and DS Granger battle through snow-covered roads to begin their investigation. Meanwhile, at the Connection...

Five years ago, Mila Carmody disappeared from her bed, and that was only the beginning. Now eight-year-old Vonnie Feinstein is missing as well. Two little girls, swallowed by darkness, never to be seen again. For Micah Ganaway, it might be the end...

When Angela Marchmont goes to Cornwall on doctor's orders she is looking forward to a nice rest and nothing more exciting than a little sea-bathing. But her plans for a quiet holiday are dashed when she is caught up in the hunt for a diamond necklace...

What if your very existence threatened those you love the most? Two years ago, her biggest concern was what the next chapter of her life entailed. The death of her childhood friend triggered a cascade of events that resulted in everyone believing...

A riveting tale of a woman's last stand against her past. In The Perilous Road to Him, the conclusion of The Road Series, N.L. Blandford takes us on Olivia Beaumont's final harrowing battle to regain herself and her son. Olivia changed her last...

A dead girl. Missing gems. Buried Treasures. Dayna reluctantly returns home. The strained relationship with her ill mother has always haunted her. Driven by her father's plea, Dayna delves into her mom's mysterious past. It leads her down a treacherous...

A murder in a man's world. A reporter determined to solve the crime. Will she end up above the fold, or get buried in the back?1948: Kingston, Canada-Charley Hall knows she's a better reporter than any man in the newsroom. Frustrated to be demoted to the...

A victim without a name. A crime the police can't find.  Corporal Faryn Steel's first job is to find her victim's identity. A woman's body in a field next to a 12 gauge promises to be an open and shut case. But every clue leads to a new mystery...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!The pie crust is tender, but the case is tough!It all starts with a body.Erin thought she'd seen and heard it all. In Bald Eagle Falls, everyone seemed not only to know everyone else's business, but to...

Fairy Tale MagicReg thought when she received the box of gemstones from the fairies that her wishes had been fulfilled and it was the end of her troubles.But it was only the beginning.What Reg had thought was a generous gift in recompense of saving...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A killer it out there.A serial killer who appears to have a personal grudge against Kenzie Kirsch.The Assistant Medical Examiner has enough on her plate dealing with a personal crisis and doesn't need the...

Death is so cryptic! In 1932, Boston's chief medical examiner, Dr. Haley Higgins is called to view bones at the crypt at King's Chapel. Finding old bones in a crypt isn't unusual, but finding new bones is! Together with her good friend and investigative...

There's a skeleton in the attic!After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic...

De la richesse à la misère... Les vieux dossiers ne meurent jamais... L'amour traverse les décennies... même quand il n'est pas réciproque !Bien que son mari - dont elle est séparée - continue de la harceler, Doreen est à la recherche...

SPIN THE WHEEL. BLACK, YOU LIVE. RED, YOU'RE DEAD.While DCI Cooper rushes to be with her grieving family, the body of a jazz singer is found buried in a giant sandcastle. DS Jack 'Tennessee' Daniel is asked to take on the investigation in Cooper's...

"A tense, gripping rollercoaster from a rising star." Shaun Baines, author of Woodcutter and Pallbearer. Pick a card. Any card. This killer wants the whole deck. When the body of a teenage girl dressed in a magician's outfit is...

Wedding bells are about to ring for Jessie Witthun and Charlie Cameron, but their summer in Toronto is about to heat up, and not in a good way! Irena Kovács, the snooty receptionist at Jessie's favourite salon, pulls DC Investigations into a dangerous...

If she can't clear her friend's name, he'll go down for murder. But it's her own past that threatens to drown them all.1948: Kingston, Canada-When reporter Charley Hall's childhood friend, Dan Cannon, is found standing over the badly beaten body of his...

A bombshell in the newspaper causes Veronica Tracey to scramble for a plan to deal with potential fallout. Then out of the blue, she steps into a minefield created by her Nana and her on-again off-again boyfriend Ben Reynolds. The blast radius touches...

Veronica Tracey, the sharp-witted former spy turned PI, is enlisted by an Australian intelligence officer to assist in the search for a vanished cryptographer in Cat Connor's "Lure the Lie," leading to a high-stakes pursuit full of twists and...

In "Nothing Happens Here," Veronica Tracey, a resourceful former spy turned PI, uses her uncanny ability to track down the most elusive targets, taking readers on a thrilling ride. With her 94-year-old Nana and the Cronies of Doom, her mad cousin's love...

Does she have the prescription to stop a murderer? Or will the cure be the death of her?1948: Kingston, Canada-A school reunion turns deadly when several of Kingston's nurses suddenly fall ill and one dies. And then it happens again. And again. Like...

Born into a once-wealthy Manhattan family, Louisa Delafield survives by doing the one thing she's suited for in the early twentieth century - writing a society column. After the death of a police matron in a bombed brownstone, Louisa is driven to write...

She's smart, gorgeous, experienced, snarky, and always gets the job done; but Sage McGuire has problems of her own. Only after Sage takes a job investigating the suicide of a man who left his wife and teenage son behind to pick up the shattered pieces of...

From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and The Third Warrior SPIRIT DAUGHTERS A treasure beyond value. Her mother's life on the line.When a murder victim falls out of a closet at Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews'...

Classic literature is at risk of disappearing from the world...When Gia accepts a job as a library archivist at a manor house in North Carolina, she has no idea what she's in for. On day one, she finds herself outside her comfort zone when she...

'When the heroine buys a crumbling family house in a small Eastern Shore town, she also buys a lot more trouble than she bargained for. From the police, the locals, and her own estranged and angry family. It kept me turning pages right up to the end....

What would you do if your husband got you the worst anniversary present ever?Mollie McGhie is hoping for diamonds for her tenth wedding anniversary. Instead, her clueless hubby presents her with a rundown boat. She's not impressed.When she discovers...

Down South Cafe owner Amy Flowers learns her chocolate truffles might not be the only things her patrons find "out of this world."When her cousin, Jackie, asks her to give a presentation to her online class, Amy thinks all she has to worry about is...

Christy Jameison's reputation is at stake when the Dean of a local college is murdered at a fundraising gala she is attending along with the wealthiest and most influential people from the community.The press has a field day when it's discovered the Dean...

Fresh off her first assignment as a travel writer, former investigative reporter Samantha "Sam" Powers is ready for a new adventure. When her editor at Carmel Today magazine instead asks her to write a travel piece about the local Monterey County...

Corey Curtis and Thayer Reynolds are more than happy to put the days of their turbulent courtship behind them. With the holidays upon them, they're looking forward to celebrating with friends and family, intimate moments alone, and festive surprises. ...

Lowcountry PI Liz Talbot returns to the streets of Charleston in the seventh installment of Susan M. Boyer’s USA TODAY bestselling mystery series.  Between an epic downpour and a King Tide, those historic streets are flooded—and...

Summer sizzles as Jennifer Shot, law student and private detective, begins her end-of-year vacation. But serial killers don't take holidays. The bodies of beautiful dead women are washing up on Tasmanian beaches. Hunter, an American mercenary, who...

Detective Kat Gonzales uses a variety of modern forensic sciences and good old-fashioned police tactics to solve high profile murders in Corpus Christi, Texas. Peace is short lived, however, as the homicide rate sky rockets and a team of cunning...

Margaret Penrose was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Lilian C. McNamara Garis (1873-1954), wrote under the Margaret Penrose and Laura Lee Hope pen names. The Campfire Girls series was a four-book series originally published as the...

Murder Comes To The VineyardGeorgann ProchaskaWhat is Alice Tricklebank Willing to Risk?How did a request for a simple bloodhound search of a vineyard leapfrog into a murder investigation?  Alice Tricklebank and her bloodhound Audrey awaken to...

New York detective Mr. Gryce employs the aid of Miss Amelia Butterworth to unravel the mystery of multiple disappearances on a particular stretch of country road. The ninth book in Green's detective series featuring Mr. Gryce and the second featuring...

A handsome young man lands the job of his life in the Metroplex of Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX.Scott Mahlon attends the company's social event and falls in love with a beautiful hostess. They are together for all of six and one-half hours which tragedy strikes....

In The Adventures of Mom, we meet thelovable Natalie Quill-mom, would-befamous writer, and overzealous supersleuth.The thirty-eight-year-old worries she'sdone nothing remarkable with her life.She's a decent wife and mother, but that'snot enough for this...

In 1925 most of the farm girls in the community of Landover, Minnesota likely expected a life filled with the familiar and white-haired children. Hester Lilje would have been one of them. But with the sudden death of the mother she adored such girlish...

There is something unusual about the trees in Oakville. An old Indian legend has it that these are spirit trees and keepers of the town's secrets. When a volunteer fundraiser for the high school's thespian group dies under mysterious circumstances, the...