Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths

November Hunt

by Jess Lourey

November in Battle Lake, Minnesota, is cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table. It’s also deer hunting season. When Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James is hired to investigate —...

Veiled Threats

Carnegie Kincaid #1

by Deborah Donnelly

She thought she was planning a wedding.

What she got was ... Veiled Threats.

A wedding to die for....

When love is in the air, Carnegie Kincaid is not far behind. A wedding planner who works out of her Seattle...

Murder Canyon

by Joan Blacher

When the mutilated body of a beautiful and popular recent graduate of Clarion University is discovered in a desolate canyon, the nearby rural community of Chuma fears that the killer still lurks among them....

Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation

Irene Huss #2

by Helene Tursten

Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back with...

Recovering Dad: A Bianca Balducci Mystery

by Libby Sternberg

It's Bianca Balducci's junior year in high school, and she's got more than enough on her plate-impending SAT scores, college admissions, and the mixed signals of sort-of-boyfriend Doug. But when she finds out...

American Sextet

by Warren Adler

Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate the death of a beautiful young woman found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was...

Mulch

by Ann Ripley

Rooting out a killer can dig you a grave...

Amateur gardener and housewife Louise Eldridge has big plans for her family's new Sylvan Valley home, situated among the flower of suburban Washington, D.C., society....

The Witch of Watergate

by Warren Adler

Fiona FitzGerald, a senators daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is back for her fifth gripping thriller, investigating a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. When Polly Dearborn,...

The Ties That Bind

by Warren Adler

"Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered. All clues begin to point to a revered...

Senator Love

by Warren Adler

The stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. The bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered. Both share the same starling clues that point to a powerful, seductive and...

Immaculate Deception

by Warren Adler

Fiona FitzGerald, a senator's daughter and homicide detective on the Washington D.C. Police force, must investigate the mysterious death of Congresswoman Frances McGuire, whose right-to-life stance was well...

Death of a Washington Madame

by Warren Adler

Washington DC's struggling underclass and the U.S. Capitol's socially prominent and politically aggressive upper strata collide in a horrifying crime. Homicide Detective Fiona FitzGerald once again battles prejudice...

Nothing but Gossip

by Marne Davis Kellogg

In her cashmere sweater, suede pumps, and pearls, Lilly Bennett hardly looks like a hard-boiled private detective. But Lilly, a federal marshal and part-time P.I., has a sharp eye for shady doings among the...

Gem of a Ghost

A Ghost of Granny Apples #3

by Sue Ann Jaffarian

When overbearing, ultra-rich Joanna Reid demands that Emma Whitecastle get rid of the ghost of her late husband Max, a former action film star who was killed in a car accident, Emma intends to refuse. But when...

Dutch Me Deadly

by Maddy Hunter

Book 7 in the critically acclaimed, bestselling Passport to Peril Mystery series!

As a travel escort for seniors, Emily Andrew-Miceli has led her feisty Iowa clan all over the world. This time, they’re off...

Without Consent

by Virginia R Degner

Synopsis: Without Consent spans the world, from a little gold mining town in the mountains of California to the rugged coast of Scotland. This mystery is for readers who like a bit of murder and mayhem mixed...

Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder

by Chris Cavender

For once, it seems, no one is trying to pin a murder on Eleanor Swift, owner of the scrumptious pizzeria A Slice of Delight in the quiet little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina. But someone has to answer...

The Look of Love: A Piper Donovan Mystery

Wedding Cake Mysteries #2

by Mary Jane Clark

The Associated Press calls her “one of the most talented storytellers around.” Now, New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark brings readers a delicious new mystery.

The Look of Love

Piper Donovan...

What Came Before He Shot Her

Inspector Lynley #14

by Elizabeth George

The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old...

White Elephant Dead: A Death On Demand Mystery

Death on Demand #11

by Carolyn Hart

Murder is, surprisingly, not all that uncommon on timy Broward's Rock, an idyllic sea island community off the South Carolina coast. Annie Darling's popular mystery bookshop, Death on Demand, is where the locals...