Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

1231-1260 of 1937

Bowled Over (Maggie Kelly Mysteries)

Kasey Michaels

Mystery author Maggie Kelly had enough on her mind wondering how she was going to keep her fictional Regency Era creation from dropping to one knee with a marriage proposal. Then a murderer crosses the foul line--way too close to home...

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Published: Jul 2009

If Cooks Could Kill: An Angie Amalfi ...

Joanne Pence

With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favori...

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Published: Jan 2003

Monkey See, Monkey Die

Cynthia Baxter

Is a certain vet detective about to become an endangered species?IIt's been over a decade since Jessica Popper spoke to vet-school friend Erin Walsh. So when Erin calls out of the blue, Jess agrees to meet her. When Erin doesn't show,...

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Published: Jul 2008

Jinxed

Carol Higgins Clark

When L.A. P.I. Regan Reilly returns from her vacation in the Napa Valley, she finds that her next case takes her right back there. The daughter of one of three winery-owning siblings has vanished and, unless she can be found by Sunday...

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Published: Aug 2002

Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Nov...

Jeffery Deaver

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using th...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2009

Murder in Miniature (Miniature Myster...

Margaret Grace

A MINIATURE MYSTERY. First in a big new series. Geraldine Porter thought that being the chairwoman of the local Dollhouse and Miniatures Fair would give her leisure time to spend on her favorite craft. That was before a fellow miniat...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Moche Warrior (Archaeological Mys...

Lyn Hamilton

After finding a box of Peruvian Moche artifacts, Lara's assistant is beaten and her shop is burned by blackmarket dealers, and thinking her own life may be in danger, Lara decides to take a stand and heads for Peru, where she soon fac...

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Published: Jan 2000

Garnethill

Denise Mina

Garnethill (the name of a bleak Glasgow suburb) won the John Creasey Memorial Award for Best First Crime Novel--the British equivalent of the Edgar. IIt's a book that crackles with mordant Scottish wit and throbs with the pain of badl...

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Published: Jan 2001

The Dangerous Hour

Marcia Muller

Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she's riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only 'prob...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2004

Death in the Floating City: A Lady Em...

Tasha Alexander

The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it!  Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite soci...

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Published: Jul 2013

To Live and Die in Dixie (Callahan Ga...

Mary Kay Andrews

Mary Kay Andrews brings back cleaning lady and sleuth Callahan Garrity in the whodunit To Live and Die in Dixie.Former Atlanta police officer Callahan is known for scrubbing all kinds of muck, but she has no idea what she’s getting ...

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Published: Mar 2013

Bean There, Done That (Maggy Thorsen)...

Sandra Balzo

Heres a tip: if your ex-husbands mistress-cum-missus asks for your help in proving that he cheated on her while he was married to you, just say no. And, whatever you do, dont invite her in . . .Coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen does jus...

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Published: Mar 2009

Claws for Alarm: A Mrs. Murphy Myster...

Rita Mae Brown

Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen gets a little help from her veterinarian husband to solve the murder of a young equine vet whose death may be linked to his new clinic in Claws for Alarm, a tantalizing mystery from Rita Mae Br...

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Published: Jul 2022

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (The Fin...

Elle Cosimano

"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It. One of "The Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021" —Parade One of "The Most Anticipated Debuts ...

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Published: Jan 2022

Alpine Fury

Mary Daheim

BANK ON MURDERFor generations the venerable family-owned bank has served the old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. But suddenly Marv Peterson, bank president and family patriarch, seems unnaturally distracted; hi...

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Published: Oct 1995

Still Waters

Tami Hoag

When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood - but not the terror. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspi...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

A Tough Nut to Kill

Elizabeth Lee

Lindy Blanchard has devoted five years of her life to saving the pecan trees on her family's farm-but someone is going to deadly lengths to see that she fails… Riverville, Texas, is pecan country, and the Blanchard family farm is fa...

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Published: Feb 2014

September Fair: A Murder-by-Month Mys...

Jess Lourey

This year, the Minnesota State Fair—where the heady aroma of grease, beer, and livestock compels folks to consume anything on a stick—has become a murder scene. Someone has poisoned the newly crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dai...

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Published: Sep 2009

Gilt By Association (Den of Antiquity...

Tamar Myers

A Closetful of CorpsePetite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now s...

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Published: Dec 1996

Killing Orders: A V. I. Warshawski My...

Sara Paretsky

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of bestselling author Sara Paretsky's Killing Orders, starring renowned actress Kathleen Turner as the feisty Chicago private eye, V. I. Warshawski. Three million dollars in share certificates have ...

Abridged CD
Published: Dec 2010

The Christmas Garden Affair: A Garden...

Ann Ripley

When Bunny Bainfield, the sexy host of "Bunny in the Garden," is murdered at the First Lady's exclusive Christmas conference on native plants, Louise Eldrige, star of her own PBS garden show, must weed through a wealth of su...

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Published: Oct 2003

For Richer, For Danger (A Broken Vows...

Lisa Bork

The first book in the series, For Better, For Murder, is a finalist for the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel!Jolene Parker and her police-deputy husband Ray have found new love in their life together. They're foster parents for...

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Published: Sep 2010

Bless Her Dead Little Heart (A Southe...

Miranda James

The new series from the author of The Silence of the Library and Murder Past Due... New York Times bestselling author Miranda James returns to Athena, Mississippi, with an all-new mystery featuring Miss An'gel and Miss Dickce Ducot...

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Published: Oct 2014

Death in the Off-Season

Francine Mathews

The first Merry Folger Nantucket mysteryWhen Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Merry Folger is faced w...

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Published: Jun 2016

Confessions: The Private School Murde...

James Patterson

In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson keeps the confessions coming breathlessly as Tandy Angel delves deeper into her own tumultuous history-and proves that she can rise abo...

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Published: Sep 2014

Death At The Spring Plant Sale

Ann Ripley

Louise comes to the Bethesda Garden Club's famous spring plant sale hoping to get great footage for her public television show, Gardening with Nature. But companionable chats take a back seat to sleuthing when club president Catherine...

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Published: Aug 2004

A Toast to Murder (A Wine Lover's Mys...

Michele Scott

Pop open a new Wine Lover's mystery. The big day is swiftly approaching for Nikki Sands-Manager of the Malveaux Estates in Napa Valley-and her fiance Derek Malveaux, who owns the winery. But when they start receiving cryptic message...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Kept Woman: A Novel (Will Trent)

Karin Slaughter

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating pr...

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Published: Apr 2017

How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladie...

Alexander McCall Smith

In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects.   Precious Ramotswe loves her ...

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Published: Sep 2021

To Brie or Not to Brie

Avery Aames

Murder, revenge, and secrets: Shakespeare has arrived in Providence, Ohio... Charlotte Bessette—owner of Fromagerie Bessette, known by locals as The Cheese Shop—has a lot on her plate: setting a date with her fiance, feeding the ...

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Published: Feb 2013
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