Women Sleuths category: 16954 books

Living on a farm with four hundred goats and a cantankerous carnivore isn’t among vegan chef Brie Hooker’s list of lifetime ambitions. But she can’t walk away from her Aunt Eva, who needs help operating her dairy. Once she calls her aunt’s goat farm home, grisly discoveries offer ample...

“Murders multiply, but Jake proves up to the challenge. She sees through all the subterfuge and chicanery, solving a mind-boggling mystery in a burst of insight. All the characters are charmingly kooky and fun...We will be looking for more of Jake O’Hara.” – TheMysteryReader.com “[Wald]...

With her books sporting other people’s names, ghostwriter Jake O’Hara works behind the scenes. But she never expected a séance at a New York apartment to be part of her job. Jake had signed on as a ghostwriter, secretly writing for a grande dame of mystery fiction whose talent died before she...

Welcome to the Redux version of Gumshoes with two new exciting novels added. In the world of mystery fiction there are different types of detectives. Amateur sleuths, women and men, willing to put themselves on the line to solve a crime or even a murder, police detectives working the case following...

“There’s a body in my bed. A dead body.” The call from a friend staying at Sherman’s newest – okay, only – B&B starts Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher on a twisting, turning journey where appearances not only deceive, they turn deadly. When her TV reporter friend Wardell...

One of their own becomes a target… A voice on the phone says Jennifer’s best friend has tragically died in a fatal fall at a national park. Her certainty that it was no accident starts TV reporter Elizabeth Danniher, with friends Mike, Tom and Diana plus the rest of the Caught Dead in Wyoming...

Laurel Beacham made working solo a personal success story and is known for her nerve, instincts, and ability to do whatever necessary to return each priceless masterpiece safely intact. As the world’s leading art recovery expert, she’s thwarted more heists than the average law enforcement professional....

The Holidays are quickly approaching in the peaceful village of Solitude in western Pennsylvania. Amish country is rocked by the critical shooting of a beloved citizen on the first day of buck season. Dana and her Amish friend, Fannie are determined to find the shooter or shooters and bring them to...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Filled with twists and turns, action, art heists, and plenty of chemistry between the very handsome Jack Hawkes and daring narrator Laurel Beacham…rich descriptions and a discriminating tone of detail…Abstract Aliases continues an excellent collection from...

When art recovery expert Laurel Beacham’s personal and professional worlds collide, she learns no good theft goes unpunished. Incomplete intel and a missing source compel her to make a huge mistake, and she’s left with a divided team. Every retrieved masterpiece has a price—and the cost of forgeries...

California Calamity When Interior Decorator Madison Night accepts an assignment in Palm Springs with handyman Hudson James, she expects designing days and romantic nights. But after spotting a body in the river by the job site, she causes a rift in the team. Add in the strain of recurring nightmares...

"DELIGHTFULLY SOUTHERN, SURPRISINGLY EDGY, AND DELICIOUSLY UNPREDICTABLE.” A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick from The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larissa Reinhart. The second in the award-winning, Sassy and Southern Cherry Tucker humorous mystery series. "Reinhart's country-fried...

When Val Cameron, a Senior Editor with a New York publishing company, is sent to the Canadian Northwoods to sign a reclusive bestselling author or risk losing her job, she is definitely out of her element. Val is certain she can convince Charles Cable, but first she has to find him. Aided by...

“A smart, even sly, tale of relics and rituals, truth and lies, prophecy and forgery that will keep you turning pages late into the night.” — Leslie Budewitz, two-time Agatha Award winning author of the Seattle Spice Shop Mysteries “In this edgy first in a new cozy series from Costa,...