Hurting is her special skill. On a snowy February morning, London art dealer Rachel Tenison goes for a jog through Holland Park. Still giddy from the previous evening, her legs wobbly from too much drink and too little sleep, she falls...
Women detectives
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Auteur:Evanovich, JanetSommaire:Presents Stephanie Plum, a gritty female detective from New Jersey.
- Auteur:King, Laurie R.Sommaire:
Under cover of night, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes have been smuggled into British-occupied Palestine to do a job for MycroftMycroft Holmes, that is, the great detective's older (and some say smarter) brother.
- Auteur:Rushford, Patricia H.Sommaire:
Helen Bradley is a journalist who uses both spiritual strength and investigative skills to uncover the facts for her articles. Now she has received an urgent request for help when the director of a prestigious convalescent home dies...
- Auteur:Albert, Susan WittigSommaire:
China Bayles is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda.
- Auteur:Meier, LeslieSommaire:
After the annual parade of Christmas presents in Tinker's Cove, Maine, has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are ready to ring in the new year in style. Elizabeth has won mother/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan...
- Auteur:Smith, JulieSommaire:
When a costumed sniper kills the Mardi Gras Rex parade's King of the Carnival--prominent Chancey St. Amant--Skip Langdon investigates the web of tangled clues and ancient secrets that culminate in danger for her and doom for the St....
- Auteur:Fox, Candice, Patterson, JamesSommaire:
When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue learns that her brother is suspected in the murders of three women, she is shocked. To make things worse, she is transferred to Perth to investigate a missing outback mine...
- Auteur:Christie, AgathaSommaire:
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The...
- Auteur:Brown, Rita Mae.Sommaire:
The hills of Virginia are home to the most elegant steeplechases. But after a competitive run, a jockey is found stabbed to death. The knife in his chest impales a queen of clubs, and when a second jockey is murdered, he is decorated...
- Auteur:Andrews, DonnaSommaire:
Sleuth and sculptor Meg Langslow investigates murder while serving as a bridesmaid for three weddings, one of them her mother's. A comic mystery.
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Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:In Murder on Washington Square, midwife Sarah Brandt and detective sergeant Frank Malloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder when a seductress falls victim to her own charades.
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Auteur:Rendon, Marcie R.Sommaire:Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. When they find themselves staring at the dead Indian lying in the field, there's a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him.
- Auteur:Brown, Rita Mae.Sommaire:
When a phony obituary for the headmaster of St. Elizabeth's School appears in the local newspaper, the people of Crozet, Virginia are surprised, but not too concerned. For a small town, Crozet has more than its share of mischief....
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Auteur:Greenwood, KerrySommaire:When the 1920s’ most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing...
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Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:Sarah Brandt, a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now she will see for the first time how the squalor of the streets can breed madness and murder.
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah.
- Auteur:Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen birth and death, suffering and joy. Now she is about to take part in something more unusual in the crime-ridden streets of the teeming city--a...
- Auteur:Childs, LauraSommaire:
It's Lights, Action, Murder as tea maven Theodosia Browning scrambles for clues in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark...
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Auteur:Greenwood, KerrySommaire:It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins: Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they...
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