Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state’s Cascade Mountains—home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate—has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. Her legion...

Tawas, Michigan, is all abuzz about the Civil War exhibit that’s about to open at the Iosco County Historical Museum. If only Agnes and Eleanor weren’t at odds with one another. That is, until Agnes, armed with her ghostly partner Caroline, hatch a plan. The only problem is that a body is found...

The fifth in the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award-nominated series about a fearless private investigator Izzy Spellman and her quirky, yet endearing, family of sleuths: “Lie back and enjoy this tale of intergenerational gumshoe mayhem” (Kirkus Reviews). FOR...

Silver Hills Senior and Singles Residence isn’t exactly a boring place. Home to a death predicting cat named Tolstoy, a night manager who may or may not suck blood and float above the floor, a cook with mad voodoo and pie baking powers, and a trio of nosy sleuths who are determined to get to the...

Life has been pretty sweet for witch Petunia Patterson. She's investigating crimes with her handsome neighbor Noah, her potions are working better than ever, and even Pansy has grown accustomed to being a cat. That is until Aunt Maxine can't be found anywhere. Is she missing, or did she go on a vacation? Aunt...

Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie...

Georgie Kaye lives every day as if it were a gift, because to her it is. She beat cancer, against all predictions, and is following her life's dream to draw portraits of the fur babies of the world.  When Georgie and her twin sister Aleta arrive at an art gallery that wants to show Georgie's...

The author of Bun for Your Life returns to Destiny, New York, where bakery owners and amateur sleuths Molly Tyler and Olivia Williams never crumble under pressure... ** ** While the rest of Destiny is focused on the arrival of an upper crust perfume mogul, Molly is more concerned about what’s on...

“[Rita Mae Brown] enlivens a timely tale with . . . amusing accounts of her four-legged creations and delightful descriptions of the central Virginia countryside.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown bounds to the front of the pack with Fox Tracks,...

The next scintillating novel in this acclaimed author’s delightful series featuring doggedly determined canine sleuths and their intrepid human companions.   Settling into ranch life with her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, former Wall Street trader Mags Rogers doesn’t miss the world of investment...

In this novel in the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mystery series, secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, get caught up in a case of she said, she said... ** ** When Sarah Grayson opened a secondhand shop in the quaint town of North Harbor, Maine, she was expecting...

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery. Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia—a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as the town starts to buzz over its Civil War reenactment, a popular local man disappears. No one's seen...

Missing Rolls Royces, Renaissance fair revelry—and murder: “A witty, literate and charming mystery” featuring Boston’s married art sleuths (Publishers Weekly). Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have made names for themselves tracking down stolen paintings, sculptures, and,...

A “funny and exciting” mystery in the series featuring a husband-and-wife sleuthing team in Boston (Publishers Weekly). Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn—a pair of amateur sleuths equally...