Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

Jazz Vaughn finally gets her own nightclub.  Candy Girls has everything necessary for a good time: drinks, music and pole dancers. She's on her way to building a high-class adult party central destination.  Her pal reminds her they never recovered a load of cash hidden by Jazz's old boyfriend. That...

New England’s sexagenarian sleuths are back to solve a reality-show murder in this “fast-paced mystery with two unforgettable leading ladies” (Booklist Online). Desperate TV producer Barry Stromstein’s career depends on his latest brainstorm: “Antiques Roadshow meets The Hunger Games...

“A Golden Broomstick to [these] most unusual sleuths, a septuagenarian witch and her psychic granddaughter.” —Carolyn Hart The Seventh Witch is the seventh installment in Shirley Damsgaard’s Agatha Award-nominated Ophelia and Abby series featuring a small-town librarian with paranormal...

Lady Margaret’s quest to bring a killer to justice leads her out of her art studio to a seedy all-night cafe, a Depression-era tenement, the waterfront, and eventually to the dark underbelly of Chinatown. Inspector Monahan, the blunt-talking son of Irish immigrants has no love for the English...

Victoria Trumbull has lived most of her ninety-two years on Martha's Vineyard. The Island, its magic and its history, is part of the texture of her life. Like other Islanders, she knows the sounds of the sea in calm and stormy weather—and she knows the sounds that do not belong. One evening...

FILE “M” FOR MURDER. . . . Champion of the mystery section at a small-town Minnesota library, Karen Nash is about to embark on a dream trip to London—a literary tour inspired by every murderous intrigue, wily suspect, and ingenious crime found in the pages of the British mysteries that...

When Kim and Kelly attend a sleep over party no one thought they'd be sneaking over to an abandoned psychiatric hospital late at night.The hospital is made up of many different run-down and spooky looking buildings, all of which have a story to tell of the horrible experiments that used...

In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay . . . The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of...

A valued representative of Kauffman Real Estate and Auctioneering vanishes, and $100,000 in cash disappears from the company safe. But even more bizarre, old Friedrich Kauffman is receiving threatening notes--all skewered by antique hatpins that once belonged to his mother. To solve this baffling...

The week leading up to Christmas should be fun, but when mobile-veterinarians, Emily and Maggie encounter an angry arachnid as large as a small dog, they decide it’s no fun at all especially as the eight-legged creepy-crawly is guarding a dead body.Who hated the arrogant literary agent enough to...

If you enjoyed watching Rosemary and Thyme the TV show where two gardeners dig up a dead body in every episode you’ll love reading about Emily and Maggie, two quirky veterinarians, who travel around Australia treating animals and stumbling over unwelcome corpses.When Emily and Maggie arrive at Kangaroo...

If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James. If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love these fast paced thrill rides from award winning author Kelly Oliver. FOX was a finalist for a Silver Falchion Award for best Suspense. JACKAL is a finalist...

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...

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...