Darby Piper is in shock. Samantha Porter-her mentor and business partner at Two Girls Detective Agency-has died in a car crash, and it doesn't look like an accident. In fact, the evidence is pointing toward Darby. Darby had expected to...
Women detectives
- Author:Flower, AmandaSummary:
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Phryne Fisher needs a rest. It’s summer. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast. Where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists, including a parrot...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave. The bones indicate foul play--and are much too recent to be an...
- Author:Ellis, JoySummary:
A SERIAL KILLER ON A POISONOUS MISSION PUSHES NIKKI AND HER TEAM TO BREAKING POINT. Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition and the...
- Author:Clement, BlaizeSummary:
Dixie Hemingway is a pet sitter for some of Florida's most pampered pets. But when she happens upon a man drowned in a cat's water bowl, Dixie's sleuthing powers from her time as a deputy sheriff return full-force. And as more bodies...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
Amelia Peabody, a Victorian gentlewoman of 32, inherited her father's fortune and is passionate about Egyptology. So the mummy's curse didn't make corpses of them all.
- Author:Ellis, JoySummary:
DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's got tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
Hannah Swensen, like most women in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is not a fan of Ronni Ward--the man-stealing gym bunny. So when Ronni turns up lifeless in a jacuzzi--accompanied by one of Hannah's cream puffs--the long list of suspects begins...
- Author:Castle, RichardSummary:
Marriage is a double-edged sword for Nikki Heat. Betrayal by any man is not her style. Is her husband keeping secrets? What she finds puts her investigative skills--and marriage--to the test.
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he’s roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar...
- Author:Mina, DeniseSummary:
Anna McDonald enjoys listening to podcasts-- other people's problems are much better than one's own. But today her husband tells her he's leaving her ... and the podcast is about a murdered family on a sunken yacht. Anna is convinced...
- Author:La Plante, LyndaSummary:
PI Lorraine Page of Los Angeles investigates the murder of a movie mogul, shot in his Beverly Hills swimming pool. Suspects include his abused wife and his two ex-wives. By the author of Cold Blood.
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's mysterious...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back....
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen gets a little help from her veterinarian husband to solve the murder of a young equine vet whose death may be linked to his new clinic in this tantalizing mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline...
- Author:Kappes, TonyaSummary:
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where nothing is normal. Librarian Abby Fawn is star struck when her favorite romance author, Nadine White, has rented a cozy camper at the Happy Trails Campground for the winter months. Abby is devastated...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
As December turns Lake Eden into the North Pole, the heat is on in Hannah Swensen's kitchen to honortwo Christmas promises: baking irresistible holiday cupcakes and preventing a person who attempted murder from succeeding the second...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
Christmas normally descends on Lake Eden, Minnesota, as gently as reindeer alighting on a rooftop-but this yuletide season the only thing coming down Hannah Swensen's chimney is a case of murder. The holidays have arrived, and Hannah...
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Detective Regan Pescoli investigated the "Star-Crossed Killer" case for months, only to become the next victim. Abducted and left to freeze in the wilds of Montana, Regan has little chance to survive. But her lover Nate isn't about to...
- Author:Meier, LeslieSummary:
As a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer's Chocolates. But when a local fisherman drowns suspiciously, Lucy's certain her investigative skills could be put to better use. Everyone is shocked...