Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

Who's Telling the Truth?Holly Weston, a teenager locked down in drug rehab, claims she's never used drugs, but that her incarceration is all a plot by her parents. Why? To establish her mental incompetency so she won't discover that they've embezzled the fortune she is about to inherit. Her grandmother,...

Power. Envy. Greed. Lies. All surround amateur sleuths Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in this maze of personalities. An invitation to a private screening at a film group involves them in more than the cinematic arts. Murder and the search for a long-lost film, involve them in more hair-raising...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs amid the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, always...

The Hawaiian islands are north of the equator in the middle of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles from anywhere. North to Alaska is 3,000 miles - east to California, 2,400 miles - south to Australia, 5,000 miles and west to Japan 4,000. Maui sits midway in the chain of eight islands. On the...

The Sparrow Falls Mystery Series features irrepressible redhead Addie McRae, spunky senior citizen Tilda MacArdan, and the mysterious story keeper of the old Scots burying ground, Morwenna Goss, as they unravel clues and solve cozy mysteries revolving around the Scottish history of a small town in...

Fans of atmospheric mysteries and amateur sleuths will be swept away by Judi Culbertson's newest Delhi Laine novel. For the first time in nearly twenty years, Delhi Laine's family is whole. But that doesn't mean everything is back to normal. With no proof to condemn her daughter's kidnappers,...

Robin Light was recently named one of Booklist's Top Five Lesser-Known Female Sleuths. Soon she will have outgrown that category. --Booklist The Only Thing She'd Endangered. . . For Robin Light, running a pet store was a decent way to make a living--but solving the occasional crime was...

Two young nurses on a much needed vacation to Maui A single chance encounter propels them into a web of intrigue, murder, deceit and terror! A Mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end as you join these two amateur but determined sleuths in their dangerous island escapade to find a killer!

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Ranney - the story of a woman recuperating from tragedy only to be visited by murder. Jennifer Roberts is a survivor, not only from the car accident that changed her life, but from murder in her own neighborhood. Except that...

Neve Lass doesn’t investigate cheating spouses. She works for insurance companies, looks for missing people, and gathers information for researchers. And from time to time, she also clashes with Detective Ian “Jerk” Braich Jr.Ian would love to wring Neve’s neck. He just can’t stand...

When it looks like an accident, sounds like an accident, and moves like an accident—it's probably a murder. And, when a billion-dollar inheritance is at stake, it's probably lots more than one murder. Time to bring in the Residue Class, a diverse team of amateur sleuths—an international team of...

Dixie Marble is on a case of murders in NYC movie theaters when the Police Commissioner wants to reassign the case to his star detective, Otis Feller, an expert in serial killers. Feeling the commissioner is being discriminating because she is a woman Dixie reminds him that she caught Sugar lips Louie,...

Amber and Brandy McMillan are thirty-year-old identical twins with opposite personalities. When their parents die in a house fire, Brandy blames their Uncle Russell. She thinks he wants to kill her too, so she - the undisciplined twin - disappears by using responsible Amber’s identity. Until one...

Lyndaman Island Manor is the fourth book in the Holly Brannigan Mystery series. Holly Brannigan and her three teenage friends, Paul Castles, Ted Lumley, and her best friend, Bonnie Tilson, find themselves in a dangerous situation when they visit Lyndaman Island Manor at the invitation of multi-billionaire...