Women sleuths Books

In a race against time, can a determined rookie cop outwit a cunning serial killer before another life is mercilessly taken?A year after moving out of uniform, DC Izzy Wilde wants to make an impression. But no matter how hard she tries to do things by...

As the Aurelia nears Athens, a new member of the crew is found dead in his cabin. Next to a gun and slumped over a suicide note, it appears tragic but unsuspicious.However, he's the captain's nephew, Julien, onboard for only six days and something about...

A new look for an older book - same great story, with a new jacketA deadly festive seasonA journalist who won't give up until the truth is toldWhen the curtains open on the Fenleys department store Christmas window display, there's a shock in store.A man...

When a body turns up at a glamorous séance, Mabel Canning's sleuthing skills are put to the test. Because it appears the victim died twice... London, 1921: As a winter wind blows through the streets of London, Mabel Canning is hired by the Useful...

Someone is preying on the town's teenagers. When Detective Delaney Pace is called to a local high school in her small hometown of Kearney, Wyoming, she is devastated to find the body of star football player Noah Pinehurst slumped in the changing...

Fifteen years ago I watched my father's murder.Now, having never truly recovered from losing her father all those years ago, Detective Delaney Pace is devastated when her brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash. Packing up her life she heads...

A young woman has vanished into thin air.When much-loved Annabeth Dillon is reported missing during a snow storm in Kearney, Wyoming, Detective Delaney Pace is called in. The search leads to a remote woodland cabin, and Delaney is distraught to find...

A brand-new series perfect for Richard Osman readers and all fans of a page-turning whodunnit.It was meant to be the start of quiet season in the sleepy Cornish village of Seal Bay, but not for sexagenarian librarian and wild swimming enthusiast...

1903 London is bustling and glamorous. With troubling secrets simmering and worrying signs of war Flora Maguire must solve a deadly mystery which leads right to the heart of the corridors of power.When the body of a London socialite, and leading light of...

If you love Miss Marple or Agatha Raisin, you'll love Rina!Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the...

"You are in effect replacing a dead man, Mrs Pollifax ..."When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that morning, all thoughts of her garden club tea in the afternoon have to wait. Her CIA handler is asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that...

Mrs Emily Pollifax is a 60-ish widow wanting more from life than teas and garden club meetings. In search of adventure, she decides to offer her services to the CIA - who, after all, would spot a suburban grandmother as a cold war secret agent? -...

Step into the enigmatic world of Detective Sarah Parker, where each short story unravels a new and captivating mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. With her keen intellect and unwavering determination, Detective Parker navigates the...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleMurder à la mode!There's nothing more fun than a festive holiday dinner party and Ginger Reed, the former Lady...

Murder’s Bad Karma. . .Life couldn’t be better on Eaton Square Gardens where the most prestigious families lived, until one of their own dies and it’s murder.Ginger and Basil are on the case, but it’s not a simple glass of...

A macabre discovery in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.Augusta Peel is puzzled by a mysterious customer in her bookshop. But when the encounter leads to an attack in the abbey cloisters, she finds herself entangled in a murder investigation. Who is...

Dark Loch is a dark Scottish crime novel set in the atmospheric setting of St Andrews and the haunting lochs of the Highlands of Scotland.Effie Mcmanus is a strong independent woman; a loner whose life is turned upside down when her brother dies...

He's had a troubled past... but is he a killer?When Gina Dunner's brother, Vic, is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Gina isn't surprised. Living the life of a womanizing ranch hand with questionable friends and a lifetime of bad choices had to...

Love, betrayal, and a deadly secret swirl through the icy waters of Alaska's Inside Passage...Tony Flaner's impulsive escape sends him on a thrilling adventure, where he unravels the tangled web surrounding a college crush turned murder suspect. Can he...

Private Investigator Mackenzie Love manages to get into trouble on a simple shopping trip where she finds herself at the business end of a gun. It's clear her attacker mistakes her for someone else, but who? And why is her look-alike in so much...

Jordan McAllister's brother, Danny, is in deep trouble and has been jailed in Amarillo. After a night on the town at the local cowboy bar, Danny had awakened in a seedy motel room next to a naked woman with a steak knife protruding from her chest. Since...

A car lies crashed below a Welsh mountain road. One of the young women inside it is dead, the other badly injured, with no memory of who she is or what just happened. All she has is a bus pass showing her photograph and a name she doesn’t recognize...

“Morris hits it out of the park with this third novel of her Red Queen mystery trilogy. It is smart, fast-paced, and utterly contemporary with plot lines of disturbing hate groups and higher education’s attempts to teach students how to...

She saved Carraigfaire—but can she save her friends?Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her...

Megan Crespi is back in Europe researching for a biography on "the other Mendelssohn," Felix's sister Fanny, also a prolific and until recently long overlooked composer. She is joined by three colleagues from the fields of music, museum, and photography...

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to...

When a therapist is murdered, records of his clients' dreams are stolen, along with his computer-and suspicion falls on Celeste Fortune, a rebellious member of his cult. To clear her name, Celeste and her friend Gloria set out to find the real culprit,...

When juvenile probation officer Christian Vargas attends the funeral of a friend's mother, in the coffin, she discovers her murdered teen client. She is determined to solve both murders with her handsome, hard-nosed partner, Daniel.Their crime-solving...

A dark winter night. Sophie Myerson is a staff psychologist at an out-patient mental health clinic in Washington, DC. Her workday is over, but Sophie stays late to finish writing a psychological test report. Thoughts of her upcoming wedding distract her,...

Thea Barlow has quit her Chicago job and returned to Wyoming-and her fiancé Max Holman-to work as a freelance writer.In Hog Heaven to investigate the ruins of an old rural whorehouse, Thea stumbles upon a woman's body and is fingered for murder.Now, Thea...

Thea Barlow, intrepid editor for Chicago's Western True Adventures magazine, returns to Wyoming to vacation with old flame Max Holman and to interview the 82 year old Kid Corcoran, last of the old time bandits and newly released from prison after 40...

Thea Barlow, Chicago native and newly minted editor for the city's Western True Adventures magazine, is on her first assignment: prove her worth by getting the story of Halfway Halt, a defunct whorehouse in Hijax, Wyoming.Upon arrival in Hijax, Thea is...

"An enjoyable zigzagging plot, though it's the rather sensational Holly who leaves the strongest impression." -KIRKUS REVIEWSYoung lawyer Holly Park is hired to defend teenager Naomi Linser - charged with murder in the stabbing death of the local...

Without Consent spans the world, from a little gold mining town in the mountains of California to the rugged coast of Scotland. This mystery is for readers who like a bit of murder and mayhem mixed in with their romance.Social worker Ariel Frazer...

Six months ago, if anyone would have told Em Johnson she'd end up divorced, broke, and running the dilapidated Tiki Goddess Bar on the magical North Shore of Kauai she would have told them to shove a swizzle stick up their okole.As if all that...

Probate attorney Hollis Morgan is branching out into criminal law. Pardoned after serving time for her then-husband's white-collar crime, she knows something about the workings of the criminal mind. Hollis' first criminal case quickly gets...

Paulo Ferrara, a young Portuguese man, lies comatose in the Intensive Care Unit of Timbergate Medical Center, shot in the spine. The neurosurgeon who would normally be in charge of his care has left town to attend to an injured daughter, and the only...

Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective. Until her...

Fox News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense novel that's as timely as tomorrow's headlines.While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns...

Sylvia sunk into the water seeing Blount driving the swamp truck and the screaming Chin Long sitting next to him in obvious pain from the python attack. The truck passed by her hiding spot without slowing down. Sylvia felt doomed standing alone in the...

"Mallory McGill has no idea how she got to Coney Island Creek. The last thing she remembers is traveling to the hospital to deliver her baby. Now her baby is missing, and she is being accused of committing an unspeakable crime.For Teri Cardello, a tough...

As a research assistant for a Texas detective agency, Maggie Haslo has a knack for connecting the dots. She can see that the facts don't add up in the suspicious death of her friend Mando. A history professor at the local university, Mando was killed in...

Murder is no occupation for a lady... or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she threw herself into a degree in chemistry, with...