Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

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Isle of Dogs

Patricia Cornwell

There's no Kay Scarpetta in Cornwell's latest, but there are plenty of laughs and lots of suspense in this dark comedy about a small island off the coast of Virginia whose zany residents (one of whom appears to be a serial killer) att...

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Published: Oct 2002

Vengeance Is Mine

Joanne Fluke

A KILLER IN THE DEAD OF WINTER…As a family clinic administrator, Michele Layton has seen her share of suffering. But never anything like this. Not here in St. Cloud, Minnesota. A local activist has been found murdered, his body froz...

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Published: Nov 2015

Holiday Buzz (Coffee House Mystery)

Cleo Coyle

Cleo Coyle writes "a foodie's delight...and a satisfyingly rich mystery" (Kirkus), and now the national bestselling author of  A BREW TO A KILL serves up a yuletide treat in her new Coffeehouse Mystery HOLIDAY BUZZ. Holida...

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Published: Nov 2012

Booking the Crook

Laurie Cass

It's all paws on deck as a librarian and her rescue cat track down a killer in the newest book in the national bestselling Bookmobile Cat mystery series.  Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michi...

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Published: Jul 2019

Someone Always Knows (A Sharon McCone...

Marcia Muller

Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That c...

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Published: Jul 2017

Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel (V.I...

Sara Paretsky

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most ...

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Published: Nov 2017

Geared for the Grave

Duffy Brown

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! Mackinac Island is a peaceful summer resort town where everyone coasts through the streets on bicycles. But after someone sends a prominent local on her final ride, it's up to one resourceful visitor to get th...

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Published: Dec 2014

The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Lad...

Susan Wittig Albert

From the national bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries—the second novel in a new series featuring the ladies of a garden club in Darling, Alabama, who also dabble in digging through clues—the Darling Dahlias. As Darli...

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Published: Jul 2012

Heart Trouble: A Novel (Callahan Garr...

Mary Kay Andrews

The fifth book in the exciting Callahan Garrity series sees the cleaning lady/sleuth tracking down the murderer of a woman whom the entire city loved to hate.Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her House Mouse cleanin...

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Published: Jan 2014

Deadly Decisions

Kathy Reichs

When innocent blood is spilled, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan deciphers the shattering truth it holds in this exciting thriller from New York Timesbestselling author Kathy Reichs.\r\n\r\nNine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint...

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Published: Apr 2020

Deceived (A Hannah Smith Novel)

Randy Wayne White

An almost twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pot-hauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been anno...

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Published: Aug 2014

Man Overboard: An Ali Reynolds Novel ...

J. a. Jance

Ali Reynolds returns in this suspenseful thriller featuring New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's signature "fast pacing, surprising plot twists, and a strong, principled heroine" (Booklist).Cybersecurity expert Rog...

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Published: Dec 2017

Steamed Open

Barbara Ross

It's summertime in Busman's Harbor, Maine, and the clamming is easy—or it was until a mysterious new neighbor blocks access to the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Clambake's supply. Julia Snowden is just one of many townspeopl...

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Published: Dec 2018

Stowed Away

Barbara Ross

It's June in Busman's Harbor, Maine, and Julia Snowden and her family are working hard to get their authentic Maine clambake business ready for summer.Preparations must be put on hold, however, when a mysterious yacht drops anchor ...

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Published: Dec 2017

Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (Aunt Dimity ...

Nancy Atherton

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece," Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has...

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Published: Mar 1998

Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries...

Patricia D. Cornwell

The decomposed remains of a stowaway lead Dr. Kay Scarpetta on an international search to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France—and on a mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward...

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Published: Aug 2000

Wild Justice: A Nadia Stafford Novel

Kelley Armstrong

The long-awaited final installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling author's Nadia Stafford series Since Kelley Armstrong wrapped up book two of the Nadia Stafford series, fans have been eager to know what happens to the tough-as-...

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Published: Nov 2013

5 Bodies To Die For (Sexy Mystery)

Stephanie Bond

The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror—especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action.And then…She's forced to take refuge in her former...

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Published: May 2009

The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary...

Rita Mae Brown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  It's mid-May and murder is once again in full bloom in Crozet, Virginia—or so it seems to Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. The trouble begins when Harry's dear friend Miranda Hogendobber takes her ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Greedy Bones (A Sarah Booth Delaney M...

Carolyn Haines

Sarah is no stranger to drama. So when this talented actress and a P.I. hears that her best friend's husband is suddenly on his deathbed back home, she snaps into "action!" and gets right on the case…Turns out others in Z...

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Published: Jun 2010

Lethal Outlook: A Psychic Eye Mystery...

Victoria Laurie

Clairvoyant private eye Abigail Cooper is excited to marry her beau, but planning the affair has never been her first love. So when Abby hears of a case involving a missing young mother, she's ready to escape the world of wedding deta...

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Published: Jun 2013

16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club)

James Patterson

FROM THE WORLD'S #1 BESTSELLING AUTHORDetective Lindsay Boxer faces a heart-stopping threat in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller.Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect--she had a beautiful child and a dot...

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Published: Dec 2017

Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

Alexander McCall Smith

The fabulous fifth installment in the bestselling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie.When Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been "disgraced" by allegations of scientific fraud, our ever curious moral philosopher finds her...

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Published: Jul 2009

Sugar and Iced

Jenn McKinlay

Sugar and spice and murderous vice. That's what pageants are made of… Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annua...

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Published: Apr 2014

Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown

There's nothing like a tail well told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faith...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Sta...

Susan Wittig Albert

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s—where the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club are anything but shrinking violets when it comes to rooting out criminals...

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Published: Sep 2014

Fearless Fourteen & Finger Lickin' Fi...

Janet Evanovich

Two of the blockbuster bestselling Stephanie Plum novels from Janet Evanovich in one In Fearless Fourteen: YOU'RE INVITED WHO: America's Favorite Bounty Hunter, Stephanie Plum, along with her sidekicks, Connie, Lula, and Grandma ...

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Published: Nov 2020

Brain Storm

Elaine Viets

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her in...

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Published: Aug 2016

Boar Island: An Anna Pigeon Novel (An...

Nevada Barr

New York Times bestseller Nevada Barr brings National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon to the wild beauty of Acadia National Park in Boar Island.

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Published: Jan 2018

Skeleton Letters (A Scrapbooking Myst...

Laura Childs

New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs sends her scrappy sleuths into New Orleans' French Quarter. /bs nothing sacred? The last thing Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava expected to bear witness to in St. Tristan's Church wa...

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Published: Oct 2012
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