Women sleuths Books

Paris-born Frederique Bonnaire has escaped New York City for Santa Monica, California where she faces an unknown future but one she is certain will be an improvement over what she left behind: a recent divorce and dwindling jobs as a high-end model.The...

“The Circular Study” is a 1900 detective novel by Anne Katherine Green. The story revolves around a cryptic message received by Detective Gryce that takes him to a quiet house in up-market New York City where he discovers a dead body laid out delicately...

Though Madeleine Hopkins is a widow, she is a strong, independent woman. Her rural upbringing in the hippy age gave her an open minded view of the world. As an accomplished market vendor at the local farmers market in the small northern Idaho town of...

City Clerk Donald Dingle is a pest. He's a tightwad with the city budget and criticizes the police department to the point that Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman would love to see him retire. And she did mean retire, not expire. When he dies soon after...

When the owner of the Bully Pulpit Diner decided to stop letting servers accept tips, he figured the raise he gave them would keep them happy. Apparently not. Or was a side-hustle that got Ben Addison killed?Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman's...

Would you risk your life to find a killer?"Death at Wildbough is part police mystery, part steamy romance, and will be the book readers will not be able to put down this summer. After the death of a famous violinist, Chief of Police Richard Prince and...

A thrilling mystery novel featuring Miss Frances Baird, a detective known for her sharp intellect and quick thinking.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it...

A gripping mystery novel by one of the earliest and most successful American women writers of the detective genre, featuring a female sleuth who investigates a series of murders and attempted murders in a small New York town. First published in 1901,...

A new cozy mystery by award-winning author C.C. Harrison!Viva Winter puts her sleuthing skills to the test in Death by G-String: A Coyote Canyon Ladies Ukulele Club Mystery. Can she find the truth before it’s too late?The Coyote...

After inheriting a house in Seattle, Jax O'Connell is living the life of her dreams as a glass beadmaker and jewelry designer. When she gets an offer to display her work during a bead shop's opening festivities, it's an opportunity Jax...

Before Las Vegas, Galveston, Texas was called the "Sin City of the Southwest." Real-life rival gangs fight over booze and bars during Prohibition in this soft-boiled Jazz Age mystery, inspired by actual events. Jasmine Cross, a 21-year-old...

Welcome to Maidenwell. Come for the alpaca show. Stay for the murder.The first book in a brand-new series perfect for Richard Osman readers and all fans of utterly delightful and page-turning whodunnits.In one crushing week, Gina Biletti, a 40-something...

Hypnotherapist, Roberta Law gets a fast pass to the twilight zone when a ten-year-old client, suffering from acute insomnia, appears to spontaneously regress into a past life and witness her own murder. In order to help her client, Roberta must turn...

Bab, only twenty months younger than her sister, the official debutante, rebels against her treatment by her family. Set during the pre-World War I era, when women's roles were rapidly changing, Bab determines to assert her independence through this...

A vigilante with a message. The outsider detective. A cold case they both want solved."One of the best crime mystery books I have read. ★★★★★"Amazon Bestseller. Nominated for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award.Rachael Schlank is a straight-talking...

Jack, the owner of a failing bookshop in a picture-postcard country town near London, is embezzling from a client. Thea is a philosophy lecturer with a taste for pinching cash. There's something amiss with their marriage, but an occasional spot of...

Laura living alone far into the country on a deserted lane, wanted desperately to meet her dream man and get married, but was her dream man the right one for her? Or was he a murderer? Or maybe the murderer was her neighbor? She was becoming paranoid.

Amy Tyler inherited an antique shop in Rancho Cordova, New Mexico. At30, she's a successful business woman who lacks a man in her personallife. In the past two years, she has gained weight and joins a fitnesscenter.Zack Chambers, a good looking, buffed...

A put-upon prosecutor investigates a racially charged murder in this spicy legal drama. It seems like an open-and-shut case when a Hasidic Jewish man is stabbed to death on a Brooklyn street, and his alleged assailant, identified by three witnesses, is...

Love and betrayal take center stage as Jane Sweet becomes entangled with the kooky men in her life on the day of her mother's funeral. Jane's father, her three ex-husbands, Buddha, Blade and Salty, join Jane's current lover, Dick, and Ben Kola,...

It is the year 2015. An organization of political activists called The Walking Star, who believe the Food and Drug Administration has knowledge of a cure for a deadly illness that has ravaged the American meat supply, stage a suicidal protest with 200...

Maggie Jackson, nurse and quilter, is in love. Rick is ideal, and when he proposes, she accepts. But then she gets scared. Will this be a mistake, too? She runs away, seeking solace at a quilt workshop. However, trouble finds her and when she tries to...

When tour director, Madeline Marlborough, reluctantly agrees to escort a mismatched group of American tourists to London, she has no idea she is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. After a hilarious misunderstanding at Heathrow Airport finds...

Detective Derek Strong escorts Houston heiress and industrialist, Maria Tantalia Galbreaux, to Rome, Sicily, Gaza, and Palestine on a mission of earth shaking religious, economic and political importance. The Vatican grants an annulment of her marriage,...

Maggie Bloom wants nothing more than to paint her decorative flowerpots and admire the marsh view from her Hilton Head Island home. Her idyllic life changes, however, when a yacht explodes in the famed Harbour Town Yacht Basin, and a man onboard is...

Lucy Damarus is a Vice cop, working undercover on the streets. With seventeen files of missing prostitutes and three dead bodies, Lucy must risk her life to solve the case before the numbers grow higher. As the case unfolds, she learns she is a target of...

Will Joe's body ever be found? Will they ever catch the criminals responsible? Follow Bane and her friends as they try to solve this mystery.

Multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose's new mystery series ensnares ex FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas in a confounding murder case.Every Parent's Worst Fear!When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never...

Navajo Witchery. Human Treachery.Social worker Jordan Bia finds a child who escaped her captors and a life in the sex trade, but four other girls from her small Mexican village were not so lucky. Smugglers hide their human cargo in the hoodoos of a...

A Sleeping Memory is a novel written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim and first published in 1902. The story revolves around the character of John Dene, a wealthy and eccentric businessman who has made his fortune in the oil industry. Dene is known for his...

Croaked An Athens, Georgia MysteryVictor Beardsley, proud CEO and President of the Athens Nature and Conservation Center he'd helped create, had sworn on his grave that Athens would be known for more than football and music. Little did he know how true...

It isn't every day that you find a body at your kids' school. Unless you're Jolie Gentil. Then it's more of an option. Someone broke into Sand and Sea Daycare, leaving a broken window and plenty of rain in the director's office. When Jolie hears...

The thrilling sequel and prequel to The Girl Who Talks to Ashes...It's been three years since Lilah Quinn stumbled upon the bones of her biological mother, thereby solving the mystery of Willow's long-forgotten disappearance. Since then,...

Romanzo noir che segue la storia di una detective che indaga sulle attività criminali in una città italiana. Una trama intricata che tiene il lettore impegnato dalla prima all'ultima pagina.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

When popular mystery writer Andrea Saxon is found dead in her Connecticut home, journalist Jennifer Marsh is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened. As she delves deeper into the case, Jennifer discovers a web of intrigue and betrayal...

Originally published in 1904, His Darling Sin is a thrilling tale of love, betrayal, and revenge. When a beautiful young woman is cast aside by her lover, she vows to take revenge on him in the most devastating way possible. But as the plot thickens and...

'The Mysteries of Montreal' is a classic work of Victorian-era detective fiction, written by Charlotte Fuhrer under the pseudonym Charlotte Fuhrer-Bucher. It is the story of Emily Colman, a young doctor who solves crimes in 19th-century Montreal. The...

Wild Kitty is a young woman with a wild streak and a good heart. When her friend Rosamund goes missing, she sets out to find her. Along the way she navigates a series of dangerous situations and comes face-to-face with her own past. A thrilling...