Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

A dead man leaves his money to his father and niece, but who is the dead man? A man’s body lies on a narrow ledge in a remote Arizona canyon, but who is he? Is the old gold mine really a mine? Why was the girl murdered behind the mountain cabin? What’s it like to be lost in a desert mountain range...

The Phantom Cooks -- Marcia Lambert, Jean Turlington, and Peggy Doyle -- those three friends in a small seaside town in Southern Maine who run a part-time catering business -- are faced with their second mystery: local citizens being boiled alive. An old-time punishment for poisoners, boiling seems...

At the tender age of 16, Lexie Murphy learns the hard way that it sucks life doesn't come with trigger warnings. The mystery-addicted insomniac is an unapologetic snoop. She's always eavesdropping and spying on neighbors while she aspires to a life somewhere between two of her literary idols: Nancy...

Eja and Demming are taking this mystery out for a spin! Munitions heir Dario Peters has a yen for competitive cycling and cash. When he suffers a fatal crash on a Cape Cod bike path, everyone calls it a tragic accident. But his doting grandma knows better. Persus Cantor begs amateur...

"Arlene Kay . . . has another winner." --Lane Stone, author of the TIARA INVESTIGATIONS MYSTERIES "Highly entertaining . . . I can't wait for the next book in the series!" --Jaye Roycraft, author of RAINSCAPE A wisecracking mystery writer and one of...

A fun romp through a small southern town solving mysteries with amateur female sleuths driving the local sheriff crazy by butting into his territory. Join Lily Gayle Lambert, Dixie Newsom, and Miss Edna as they find the clues and solve the crimes in this award-winning box set by USA Today and Wall...

A superb collection of page-turning mysteries in which fabulous female protagonists solve - and sometimes perpetrate - all kinds of crimes. Featuring cops, killers, PIs, crooks and amateur sleuths, these award-winning stories will have you on the edge of your seat, will chill your blood and sometimes make you laugh out loud.

The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne—elected county sheriff, to everyone’s amazement but her own—springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shih tzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one.    Soon...

     Sally Nimitz is in the middle of a family crisis when a local police detective turns up at her front door.  David White and Sally are not strangers.  She was the delivery nurse when his wife had a baby, and he was in charge of the investigation of the murder of Sally’s neighbor, Amelia...

One of Canada's best-loved sleuths returns in her sixth hair-raising adventure. Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of Lloyd Brugel, a ruthless criminal kingpin charged with a fatal firebombing. Shes looking forward to seeing him convicted, but when his sleazy counsel is found...

If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.  Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.  If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica. With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...

New England’s lesbian senior sleuths return in “this winning second entry in a thriller series you simply must try” (Library Journal). Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their...

How could it be? Young Aggie discovers a Brontosaurus bone at Gruesome Gorge ... but no dinosaur fossil has ever been discovered in Indiana before. This mystery leads the Quilters Club -- those lovable amateur sleuths Maddy, Bootsie, Cookie, and Lizzie -- to uncover a massive theft of museum-quality...

The Golden Girls Turn into Charlie’s Angels to Solve a Murder When the wealthiest man of the Harmony Hills Retirement Village dies in his penthouse apartment, the police rule the death accidental. But…resident Kay Powers knows it’s murder. Though having no hard evidence, she just knows...