Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” (Publishers Weekly).  In Widow’s Tears, a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends… After losing her family and home in the Galveston Hurricane...

Amy-Faye Johnson’s book club, the Readaholics, enjoys guessing whodunit in mysteries like The Maltese Falcon. But when a murder happens in their midst, they discover that solving crimes is harder that reading about them… Amy-Faye has always loved her idyllic Rocky Mountain town of Heaven,...

A museum murder puts Boston’s married art sleuths to work: “The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod’s cup of tea” (Chicago Tribune). When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there...

USA TODAY Bestselling series "Midnight Louie is the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet.”—JANET EVANOVICH “FUN, FROTHY AND CHARMING” —Publishers Weekly Readers are biting their nails as the popular alphabetic Midnight Louie feline PI mystery series...

Boston’s married art sleuths are about to discover that you can’t fake a murder: “Entertaining . . . good humored . . . Sarah and Max are a winning team” (Baltimore Sun).   If she weren’t so fabulous, the Countess Lydia Ouspenska might be considered a gangster’s moll. The last...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck, Apple Stuffed Alibis, Book 37 in the Donut Mysteries! When a prominent member of the community is murdered, the list of suspects is longer than the lines during a free donut giveaway. Odd couple Suzanne and her stepfather, Phillip, dig into...

When Christy opened up Christy's Cookies bakery in the small town of Mountain Ridge, Virginia, she was ready for many new challenges in her life. What she wasn't ready for was to be forced to solve a mysterious murder of one of the town's most prominent citizens. Now Christy must band together...

Eat, Drink, and Be Poisoned... Cendrine West is looking forward to a cozy Christmas Eve dinner when a blizzard blows in, bringing with it a flurry of unexpected guests. But tipsy witches and mischievous magic spell a recipe for disaster, especially when a guest turns up dead. Cen’s sleuthing...

Lights, camera, assassin… A Hollywood movie shoot comes to town and journalist Cendrine West is eager for a scoop. Her witchy family also wants in on the action, but shenanigans with the stars soon turn to Tinseltown tragedy. Bodies are piling up faster than a coven’s worth of curses,...

A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: “If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you” (Margaret Maron). It has only been a few months since Sarah Kelling’s elderly husband passed away, and she is struggling to adapt to life as...

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... A Westwick Witches Cozy Paranormal Mystery Dead billionaires are not good for business! That's what Aunt Pearl complains to Cen when a dead body is found in the cozy family inn at Westwick Corners. Still, it's not Cen's problem. She lives an ordinary...

WIN, LOSE, OR DRAW... A Westwick Witches Cozy Mystery Cendrine West can’t catch a break. She’s close to landing a new job, and things are getting cozy with sexy sheriff Tyler Gates. All that changes when she is kidnapped by renegade witch Aunt Pearl, who is hell bent on avenging...

"Sam Thomas has created one of the most unique sleuths in modern mystery fiction." -The Plain Dealer In this thrilling new mystery from the critically acclaimed author of The Witch Hunter's Tale midwife Bridget Hodgson travels to London where she's forced into a new profession-as...

Raucous and deadly writers' awards cruise … as bodies mount, fear grips the eccentric group … murder, adventure, and shipboard shenanigans ⚓ CRUISE SHIP COZY MYSTERY! ⚓ Aspiring novelist Veronica Kennicott crosses the stormy Atlantic on a raucous and deadly awards cruise, as Hollywood film...