Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie...
Women detectives
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Author:McDermid, Val.Summary: - Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
The author of more than a million books sold brings a gripping saga of the little girl who goes missing in 1943 and the sister who remains, forced to live with the consequences of the event for the next seventy years of her life. When...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
After Vicky Bliss stumbles over a clue to the existence of a hidden masterpiece by a late Gothic sculptor, she and her then-boyfriend, Tony, embark on a contest of will and wits to find the treasure.
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Two women who who bear an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Kacey Lambert have been murdered. Kacey believes it is nothing more than a terrible coincidence, but the deeper she digs, the more worried she becomes. Soon, more victims emerge--all...
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Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:Attorney Deborah Knott has just entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches. There couldn't be a worse time for Gayle Whitehead...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty...
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Author:La Plante, LyndaSummary:Newly promoted DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case--or a full blown murder inquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man...
- Author:Zehanat Khan, AusmaSummary:
In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: Harry, believing one of them has a gun, opens fire and Duante Young, a young Black man, is...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
In the midst of planning for her mother's wedding, Hannah Swensen accidentally hits a man with her cookie truck while driving down a country road during a storm. Though she feels guilty, she is shocked when she finds herself arrested...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Biggie is active planning the town's Pioneer Days festival when she learns of Mayor Gribbons' scheme to establish a landfill right next to her family cemetary. She meets the mayor at a local diner, but the man suddenly falls dead into...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Mailman Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks on police deputy Butch Jenkin's cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes--until Aunt Vita straight-arms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile, Biggie's 12-year-old...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table--with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Rex Barnwell's ranch is well known in Job's Crossing, Texas. Covering thousands of acres, it is the last of the big working spreads. But trouble is brewing there. Rex's young wife is turning it into a pricey resort for overweight teens...
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Author:Zaremba, EveSummary:In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, detective Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost 60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate. The Keremos mysteries was one of the first...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
The eminent Sir Lockwood Hamilton, a Member of Parlaiment, is murdered and his body is found on Westminster Bridge. Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte are just beginning to investigate when yet another member of Parlaiment is...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office...
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