Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

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Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen

INTRODUCING "A FEISTY NEW HEROINE" (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) who's thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and flat broke. From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries! Lady Victoria...

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Published: Jul 2008

Acts Of Violets: A Flower Shop Myster...

Kate Collins

During the annual Pickle Fest, Abby's boyfriend Marco inexplicably disappears for a day. When he returns, he's the main suspect in the death of a clown. It seems the cops have found Snuggles pushing up water-spurting daisies-and Marco...

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Published: Mar 2007

Stone Angel (Kathleen Mallory Novels)...

Carol O'Connell

At the end of Killing Critics, the third book in Carol O'Connell's addictive series about Mallory, a strikingly original New York City cop, Mallory is traveling south on a train. 'She carried no stitch of formal identification that...

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Published: Jul 1998

Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea

Nancy Atherton

Sent with her twin five-year-old sons to a Scottish island after her high-profile attorney husband receives death threats, Lori Shepherd begins to suspect local foul play upon her discovery of a skull on the beach, a situation that pr...

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Published: Feb 2007

Mistletoe Man

Susan Wittig Albert

Herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles is up to her ears in trouble as she tires to support a disturbed friend and reconcile the demands of a new business with affairs of the heart, all the while tracking a killer in small-town Tex...

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Published: Oct 2001

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen...

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Published: May 2010

A Stitch in Time (Needlecraft Mystery...

Monica Ferris

When a damaged tapestry is discovered in a small-town church closet, needleworkers join to stitch together the clues which lead to a crafty crime. 'Entertaining...Fans of Jessica Fletcher will devour this book.'-Rendezvous 3rd Needl...

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Published: Jul 2000

Cutwork

Monica Ferris

When murder enters the picture at the Excelsior, Minnesota, art fair, Betsy Devonshire, the owner of a needlework shop, along with her best friend, Officer Jill Cross, sets out to unravel the mystery and prove the innocence of a local...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Who Knew Too Much (Meg Lanslow My...

Donna Andrews

Meg Langslow never thought that moving into a new home with her fiancee would be easy. But a Virginia basement full of arctic penguins? And a dead body? That's just bad manners…from Meg and Michael's perspective, at least. As for Me...

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Published: Jul 2008

Tears of the Giraffe

Alexander McCall Smith

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

Knitting Bones

Monica Ferris

PICK UP A STITCH WITH THE NEW NEEDLECRAFT MYSTERY— NOW IN PAPERBACK.FREE knitting pattern included!The stitchers of the Embroiderers Guild raised over twenty thousand dollars for charity—but the representative who accepted the che...

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Published: Aug 2008

Simmer Down: A Gourmet Girl Mystery (...

Susan Conant

After a trendy club owner is bludgeoned with a food processor, Gourmet Girl Chloe Carter finds the list of suspects longer than the line to get in to Simmer, her chef boyfriend's hot new restaurant.

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Published: Mar 2008

Espresso Shot: A Coffeehouse Mystery

Cleo Coyle

Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi rarely gets steamed. But ever since her ex-husband announced his plans to remarry, she's been making some vows of her own... Roped into creating a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for her ex-husband's w...

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Published: Oct 2009

Getting Old Is the Best Revenge

Rita Lakin

Senior citizen private detective Gladdy Gold and her eccentric team of cohorts risk everything to identify the killer who has been stalking wealthy socialites when the murderer turns up aboard their Bingo cruise, in the sequel to Gett...

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Published: Mar 2006

Due or Die (A Library Lover's Mystery...

Jenn McKinlay

Answering tricky reference questions is excitement enough for library director Lindsey Norris. Until a murder is committed in her cozy hometown of Briar Creek, Connecticut, and the question of who did it must be answered before someon...

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Published: Mar 2012

Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie P...

Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series, now in paperback for the first time. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli ...

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Published: Sep 2019

Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen ...

Joanne Fluke

April is a busy time for Hannah Swensen and her bakery; the warm weather makes folks in Lake Eden, Minnesota go wild for something sweet. When Hannah hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at the town's Weekend Jaz...

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Published: Feb 2013

Nail Biter (Home Repair Is Homicide M...

Sarah Graves

Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree is up to her neck in trouble when a coven of self-styled witches takes over her Eastport, Maine, rental property for Halloween, fundamentalist preacher Gene Dibble turns up dead, rumors begin to spread about Jak...

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Published: Oct 2006

A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Mallo...

Joan Hess

Farberville, Arkansas, is playing host to its first-ever mystery convention with five major mystery writers-each representing a different subgenre of the mystery world-making the trek to the local college for 'Murder Comes to Campus.'...

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Published: Aug 2001

The Big Nap (Mommy-Track Mysteries)

Ayelet Waldman

When her son's Chasidic babysitter vanishes, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum travels from her havoc-filled home in Los Angeles to a Chasidic enclave in Brooklyn. In search of answers. In pursuit of justice. An...

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Published: Jul 2002

Firestorm

Nevada Barr

A raging fire in a national park seems an unlikely setting for a murder, but that's exactly the circumstances that crime-fighting park ranger and medic Anna Pigeon confronts in this mystery thriller. A suspicious fire breaks loose in ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Body Movers: 2 Bodies For The Price O...

Stephanie Bond

With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex—fiance back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life could...

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Published: Jul 2008

Mrs. Jeffries Learns the Trade (Victo...

Emily Brightwell

An omnibus edition containing the first three adventures featuring the adventures of the Victorian housekeeper turned sleuth includes The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries, Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues, and The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries. Ori...

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Published: Apr 2005

The Crossing Places

Elly Griffiths

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area called Saltmarsh near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants - not ...

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Published: Sep 2010

Revenge of the Spellmans

Lisa Lutz

The third hilarious Spellman novel, featuring Izzy's court-ordered therapy sessions and the ultimate question: will she return to the family business?

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Published: Feb 2010

Kalahari Typing School for Men

Alexander McCall Smith

THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT.A beguiling mystery and lyrical novel of Africa -- the fourth in a series that the L.A. ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

Dragonwell Dead: A Tea Shop Mystery (...

Laura Childs

Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalinopsis from a Bog Rose, she still enjoys Charleston's Spring Plantation Ramble, especially since she can promote her Indigo Tea Shop and her latest concoction, Dragonwell Sweet Tea. But ...

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Published: Mar 2008

C Is for Corpse

Sue Grafton

Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, f...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2001

Unmanned

Lois Greiman

Even in a city of long, tall beauties, psychologist Christina McMullen is used to getting hit on. But she’s definitely not accustomed to having a hit on her. Until the day a charming stranger shows up at her door–and someo...

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Published: Oct 2007

Paper, Scissors, Death: A Scrapbookin...

Joanna Campbell Slan

Every scraook tells a story. Memories of friends, family . . .and murder? Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has two great loves: scraooking and her young daughter, Anya. But her happy family album is ruined when her husband, George, ...

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Published: Sep 2008
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