Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

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Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil (Mysterie...

Nancy Atherton

A romantic tale with echoes of A. S. Byatt's Possession and enough dreamy and ghostly wish-fulfillment to satisfy readers across several genres.' (Booklist With rain crashing down on her Range Rover, as it climbs up a steep embankmen...

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Published: Oct 2001

Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple M...

Agatha Christie

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

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Published: Sep 2000

K' is for Killer (The Kinsey Millhone...

Sue Grafton

Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign…and decides to knock on ...

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Published: Nov 2009

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

Stephanie Barron

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow wor...

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Published: Apr 2004

Mrs. Jeffries Stalks the Hunter (A Vi...

Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries, the housekeeper for Inspector Witherspoon, employs her keen skills of detection to solve the murder of Sir Edmund Leggett, who, after becoming the object of a disturbed young woman's affection, is found dead at his enga...

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Published: Oct 2004

Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysterie...

Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon is in Manhattan to look after her hospitalized sister, and explores the Statue of Liberty in her spare time. But when a teenage girl falls to her death from Liberty's ledge, Anna wonders if the suicide was actually a homic...

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Published: Oct 2010

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Jessica Beck

Just in time for the Winter Festival, a glistening layer of snow has covered the streets of April Springs, North Carolina. Of course, it reminds donut shop owner Suzanne Hart of sweet delicious frosting. But her visions of sugar plums...

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Published: Nov 2011

Legs Benedict:: A Bed-And-breakfast M...

Mary Daheim

When one of her guests turns up dead, Judith McMonigle Flynn is stunned to discover that her late roomer "Mr. Smith" was actually "Legs" Benedict, a hit man for the Ronzini family, and that virtually every guest at...

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Published: Apr 1999

Murder Among Neighbors: A Kate Austen...

Jonnie Jacobs

This dazzling murder mystery from first-time writer Jonnie Jacobs centers on Kate Austen, an irresistible sleuth. When Kate's fabulously wealthy neighbor dies, Kate becomes deeply involved in a sea of steamy secrets that bring her fac...

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Published: Aug 1995

Hiss of Death: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown

Ah, spring! The brighter days and singing birds have a way of lifting people's spirits, as well as those of their animal companions. But the season can also bring out the first blossoms of murder. As the redbuds open in Crozet, Virgin...

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Published: Jan 2012

One Grave Less: A Diane Fallon Forens...

Beverly Connor

Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon has tried to put the past behind her, establishing herself as head of the River Trail Museum of Natural History. Late one night at the museum, Diane hears terrified cries and finds an injured man-a...

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Published: Dec 2010

Trace (A Scarpetta Novel)

Patricia D. Cornwell

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he...

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Published: Jun 2005

Thugs and Kisses: An Odelia Grey Myst...

Sue Ann Jaffarian

With the class bully murdered at her 30th high school reunion and her boss, the annoying Michael Steele, missing, Odelia doesn't know which hole to poke her big nose into first. This decision is made for her as she's again swept into ...

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Published: Feb 2008

Innocent in Death (In Death #24)

J. D. Robb

The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who'd sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old gi...

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Published: Aug 2007

Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump

Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries must swim upstream to catch a killer. Successful local Michael Provost had no enemies, yet he was found dead off the Chelsea Vestry Wharf. With the help of her staff, Mrs. Jeffries dives into an investigation that leads ...

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Published: Jun 2008

Three Can Keep a Secret

Judy Clemens

A Mennonite widow burdened with grief, financial hardship, and rumors of infidelity and murder, Stella Crown gets more than she had bargained for when she hires a new farmhand to assist with her Pennsylvania dairy, including nasty in-...

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Published: Jul 2006

Haunted Ground

Erin Hart

The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detailWhen farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved head of a young w...

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Published: Mar 2005

Death, Taxes, and Green Tea Ice Cream...

Diane Kelly

Fired. Tara can't believe it. After all she's done for the IRS, a few too many shots fired from her weapon and suddenly she's public enemy number one. To add insult to injury, another agent has replaced her, and a ten-million-dollar a...

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Published: Oct 2013

Getting Old is a Disaster

Rita Lakin

Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.I. Gladdy Gold is happy to be on her Florida turf again. Especially now that she and boyfriend Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner have the yenta brigade gotten back to th...

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Published: Dec 2008

Cross Bones

Kathy Reichs

Cross BonesRead by Michele PawkWhen an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a phot...

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Published: Jun 2005

Conspiracy in Death (In Death #8)

J. D. Robb

With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable souls of the world's city streets. The first victim: a sidewalk sleeper, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of struggle. Just a laser-perfect...

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Published: Feb 2007

A Murder Hatched: Murder with Peacock...

Donna Andrews

From ducks to penguins to peacocks to parrots, Donna Andrews knows her birds! And she's channeled all her skill and winning humor into one of the most accomplished, entertaining cozy series around.It all began with Murder with Peacock...

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Published: Sep 2008

Every Crooked Nanny (Callahan Garrity...

Mary Kay Andrews

Callahan Garrity is the owner of house mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it...

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Published: Mar 2013

One for the Money

Janet Evanovich

Discover where it all began—#1 New York Timesbestselling author Janet Evanovich’s first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and fu...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway Myster...

Elly Griffiths

It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones o...

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Published: Jan 2012

A Cookie Before Dying (A Cookie Cutte...

Virginia Lowell

POn a stormy night, Olivia Greyson and her Yorkie discover the body of a man stabbed to death-which looks suspiciously like the intruder seen fleeing the local health food store The Vegetable Plate. Charlene Critch, owner of The Veget...

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Published: Dec 2011

Antiques Knock-Off

Barbara Allan

Brandy Borne is pretty sure her "charmingly eccentric" (a.k.a. "off her meds") mother, Vivian, didn't kill that viperous mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes. But there's the small matter of her guilty plea...While ...

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Published: Apr 2012

Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree (Aunt...

Nancy Atherton

The gentle spirit's sixteenth adventure is a New York Times bestseller and as "cozy and charming as a cup of Earl Grey" (Bookpage.com). After a dizzying time Down Under, Lori Shepherd returns to Finch and finds that her we...

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Published: Feb 2012

Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane ...

Stephanie Barron

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out...

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Published: Oct 2007

Dark Side of the Moon

J. Carson Black

Haunted by personal tragedy, Detective Laura Cardinal, investigating the brutal murder of two newlyweds at an Arizona campground, discovers the dark side of love when she is hurled into the middle of a high-stakes conspiracy that is t...

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Published: Jan 2006
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