Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths

Dead, White, and Blue

Death on Demand #23

by Carolyn Hart

Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still...

Father's Day Murder

by Leslie Meier

"Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters." -Publishers Weekly

When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference,...

Restrike: Coleman and Dinah Greene Mystery No. 1

by Reba White Williams

Money and murder in the New York City art world where sleuth Coleman Greene owns ArtSmart magazine and her cousin Dinah manages a Greenwich Village print gallery. Together they show the NYPD how to solve a crime...

Picture Perfect Corpse

Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mysteries #6

by Joanna Campbell Slan

Police detective Chad Detweiler is overjoyed to learn he’s having a baby with Kiki Lowenstein. But when his estranged wife, Brenda, is found shot to death with bullets from his revolver, the proud papa-to-be...

Death's Last Run: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel

by Robin Spano

A young snowboarder turns up dead on the Blackcomb Glacier. The local police are calling it suicide, but the victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, is not convinced. At the senator’s request, the FBI sends in...

Heard it Through the Grapevine

by Lizbeth Lipperman

Sisters Tessa and Lainey Garcia weren’t on speaking terms. But now that Tessa’s dead, her wisecracking ghost is making up for lost time.

Lainey Garcia left Texas nine years ago after her sister Tessa married...

Carved in Darkness

by Maegan Beaumont

Fifteen years ago, a psychotic killer abducted seventeen-year-old Melissa Walker. For 83 days she was raped, tortured, and then left for dead in a deserted churchyard . . . but she was still alive.

Melissa begins...

Brush with Death

Gray Whale Inn Mysteries #5

by Karen Macinerney

For Natalie Barnes, the flurry of trendy artists setting up shop on Cranberry Island promises to be the perfect recipe for relaxing and enjoying the holiday season. But Natalie’s good luck is turning out to...

A Bat in the Belfry

Home Repair is Homicide #16

by Sarah Graves

When it comes to home repair, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree  is a fervent wielder of power drills and paint brushes. And when catching criminals, she’s been known to really bring down the hammer. But when a...

The Body in the Piazza

Faith Fairchild #21

by Katherine Hall Page

Faith Fairchild is going to Italy, where murder and mayhem mix with pecorino, panna cotta, and Prosecco, in the latest entry in this "highly entertaining mystery series [that] effectively mixes modern-day moral...

Kneading to Die

by Liz Mugavero

Maybe the best thing that ever happened to Kristan "Stan" Connor was losing her high-stress public relations job. Now there's plenty of time to spend in her sleepy new Connecticut town working on her dream:...

Video Kill

by Joanne Fluke

Lights. . .Camera. . .

With painstaking care, he "casts" his victims, each woman resembling an Alfred Hitchcock star, each killing echoing six of the legendary director's films. The only clue he leaves behind...

Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince

Aunt Dimity #18

by Nancy Atherton

It's a cold, dreary February in the sleepy village of Finch and Lori Shepherd has two stir-crazy seven-year-old boys on her hands. So when her good friend Bree Pym suggests an outing to Skeaping Manor, the bizarre...

Antiques Chop

Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery #7

by Barbara Allan

The quaint Midwestern town of Serenity is about to hit the small screen. Brandy Borne and her dramatically ditzy mother, Vivian, will be starring in Antique Sleuths, a reality TV show based on the duo's antiquarian...

Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble: A Novel

Miss Julia #14

by AnnB. Ross

Bestselling author Ann B. Ross cooks up a batch of fun in this latest novel in her popular series

With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves...

Malled to Death

Mall Cop Mysteries #3

by Laura DiSilverio

Get ready for a second take.

With a famous action star for a father, mall cop EJ Ferris is used to the Hollywood hullabaloo. But when her mall becomes his movie set, the cameramen aren’t the only ones who...

Make Quilts Not War

by Arlene Sachitano

Nostalgia can be deadly It's wintertime in Foggy Point, Washington, and tourists are as scarce as gold-plated thimbles at a thrift store. The denizens of the town decide that a colorful 1960s-themed festival...

Murder, She Wrote: Prescription For Murder

Murder, She Wrote #39

by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain

In the newest novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must diagnose a killer with a taste for bad medicine…

When her latest book tour brings bestselling author Jessica Fletcher to Tampa,...

A Broth of Betrayal

Soup Lover's Mystery #2

by Connie Archer

Even a town called Snowflake, Vermont, has a summer season. In August, Lucky Jamieson’s By the Spoonful serves chilled soups—celery and green onion, cream of asparagus—and salads. The shop also serves...

Oak and Dagger

White House Gardener Mysteries #3

by Dorothy St. James

When it comes to gardening, Cassandra “Casey” Calhoun isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. But when it comes to murder, she’s not the kind of gal to let any killer get away clean...

Despite cooler...