Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

2011-2040 of 2095

A Body to Die For

Kate White

Kate White brings back Bailey Weggins from IF LOOKS COULD KILL to help an old friend investigate a series of murders at her country bed-and-breakfast--which will be in big trouble if the crimes aren't solved. As the situation gets mor...

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Published: Apr 2004

Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody My...

Elizabeth Peters

Amelia and her Egyptologist husband are in Dahshoor on a much-coveted burial chamber dig at the Black Pyramid. But the brazen moonlight abduction of their 8-year-old son has alerted Amelia to the presence of her arch nemesis, the Mast...

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Published: Sep 1999

Before I Say Good-bye

Mary Higgins Clark

America’s "Queen of Suspense' delivers a genuine nail biter featuring Nell MacDermott, a young congressional hopeful with psychic powers, and her husband, Adam Cauliff, a successful architect. Adam, along with a few of his ...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2000

A Perfect Evil

Alex Kava

A killer is watching . . . The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Mor...

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Published: Jul 2001

Booked for Trouble: A Lighthouse Libr...

Eva Gates

The author of By Book or By Crook returns to the Outer Banks and the Lighthouse Library, where Lucy Richardson must shed light on a shocking murder…Lucy has finally found her bliss as a librarian and resident of the Bodie Island Lig...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Nightingale Before Christmas (Meg...

Donna Andrews

Murder never takes a holiday! 'Tis the season for tree trimming, mistletoe-dangling, and a cut-throat competition that has everyone in Caerphilly on edge. Whatever happened to the simple joys and magical spirits of Christmas? Meg La...

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Published: Oct 2015

Death by Chocolate Lab

Bethany Blake

Pet sitter Daphne Templeton has a soft spot for every stray and misfit who wanders into the quaint, lakeside village of Sylvan Creek. But even Daphne doesn't like arrogant, womanizing Steve Beamus, the controversial owner of Blue ...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Curse of Tenth Grave: A Novel (Ch...

Darynda Jones

If one door closes and another one opens,your house is probably haunted. ―Bumper Sticker As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who i...

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Published: Jun 2016

Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery)...

Kerry Greenwood

It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sig...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Halloween Murder

Leslie Meier

For Lucy Stone, Halloween in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, the treats aren’t just sweet and delicious. Sometimes they’re also deadly . . . Trick or Treat Murder While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes for her town’s a...

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Published: Aug 2018

Fatal Reservations: A Key West Food C...

Lucy Burdette

In the latest Key West Food Critic mystery, Hayley Snow's beat is reviewing restaurants for Key Zest magazine. But she sets aside her knife and fork when a dear friend is accused of murder…Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Bootlegger's Daughter: A Deborah Knot...

Margaret Maron

Deborah Knott was expected to be a conventional little girl and eventually a conventional woman, worshipped on a pedestal by a conventional husband.Instead, she became an attorney, infiltrating the old boy network that still rules the...

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Published: Jun 1993

Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, The

Alexander McCall Smith

Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

Killer Research (A Library Lover's My...

Jenn McKinlay

Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses, in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of One for the Books. Spring is livening up Briar Creek after ...

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Published: Sep 2022

An Unexpected Peril (A Veronica Speed...

Deanna Raybourn

A princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. January 1889.As the newest member o...

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Published: Jan 2022

Murder of a Small -Town Honey: A Scum...

Denise Swanson

When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet-homicide....Advance praise for Murder of a Small Town Honey: 'A deli...

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Published: Jul 2000

The English Breakfast Murder (Childs,...

Laura Childs

While helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning stumbles upon the dead body of art dealer Harper Fisk whose untimely demise is linked to the sunken treasure and gold bullion that is ru...

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Published: Aug 2003

Terror on Tuesday (Lois Meade Mysteri...

Ann Purser

Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.

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Published: Aug 2004

Cover Her Face

P. D. James

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspec...

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Published: May 2001

Trouble in the Town Hall (Dorothy Mar...

Jeanne M. Dams

A lovely old building hides a nasty crime...PA Shereby resident for a year now, American Dorothy Martin is still learning her way around the charming English cathedral town.But she recognizes a dead body when she sees one. As town de...

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Published: Feb 1998

Kilt Dead (Liss Maccrimmon Mysteries)...

Kaitlyn Dunnett

As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her a...

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Published: Jul 2008

Shear Trouble: A Southern Quilting My...

Elizabeth Craig

As the leaves begin to fall in idyllic Dappled Hills, someone puts too fine a point on a local ladies' man. Fortunately, the detective skills of quilter Beatrice Coleman are a cut above the rest....  The Village Quilters of Dappled...

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Published: Aug 2014

Bitter River

Julia Keller

In the next stunning novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Keller, following the popular A Killing in the Hills, a pregnant teenager is found murdered at the bottom of a river.Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And whe...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Game: A novel of suspense featuri...

Laurie R. King

It's only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year's visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containin...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher ...

Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things - dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobel...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

Six Geese A-Slaying (Meg Langslow Mys...

Donna Andrews

Meg Langslow and Michael's house is serving as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is The Twelve Days of Christmas, and it features twelve drummers from the school's marching band, eleven bagpiper...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Dec 2017

Here Comes the Body

Maria Dirico

After her philandering husband's boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she's got a whole new life—includin...

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Published: Feb 2020

Death by Auction (An Abby McCree Myst...

Alexis Morgan

Not only did Abby McCree inherit her aunt's house in Snowberry Creek, Washington, she inherited a handsome tenant and a whole lot of trouble . . . It's hard to say no to Tripp Blackston. That's how Abby found herself on yet another ...

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Published: May 2020

The Deeds of the Disturber (An Amelia...

Elizabeth Peters

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard s untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

The Stolen Letter: A Scottish Booksho...

Paige Shelton

New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton returns with the next installment of The Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, The Stolen Letter Delaney Nichols is confident she’s doing what she loves—case in point, just one...

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Published: Mar 2021
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