Women Sleuths

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must stop a killer lurking among a young family in the newest installment of the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries....

Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death....

Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job - working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney - and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn....

A traumatic personal crisis has left Lady Arianna bedeviled by guilt and questioning whether she has lost her nerve. Her circle of friends can't seem to help rekindle her fire....

She can write the perfect murder mystery. But can she solve one in real life....

When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead....

Hanson died quickly—with a knife in his back. Carole was next—covered with acid and tortured to death. Now it's Judd's turn—a New York pschoanalyst, he'd known them both. Two faceless executioners on a murderous mission, searching for a secret which is unknown to Judd.

When a restaurateur and serial philanderer turns up stone-cold dead, his trio of exes falls under suspicion in a sharp-witted and suspenseful short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Darling Girls.

In this laugh-out-loud murder mystery, three women dating the same man band together to get revenge, but when they discover his body, they'll need to solve his murder before they go down for it.

January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club - an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women - Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use....

When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: she is with child....

Fiona, Sue, and Daisy, three retired ladies who volunteer at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice Homes, can’t believe their favorite customer is dead....

Sawyer Davis, a chef who runs an inherited mystery bookshop, is marinating in trouble once again. While onstage and strapped to a giant bullseye, Sawyer's magician father hurls knives at her, but she's not the one who ends up dead....

When a reality show about former child stars overcoming addiction culminates in murder, their therapist must take a closer look into their lives—and her own, from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry.

Curiosity could get the best of a watchful neighbor in a chilling short story about friendship, secrets, and sneaking suspicions by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Family Money.

Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state....

A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora....

Just when successful interior designer Zoe Luce dares to dream of a normal life and a future with the man she loves, her own past starts to shadow her every step—and threatens to take her back into a nightmare....

At a summons from Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, midwife Sarah Brandt arrives at the elegant home of famed magnetic healer Edmund Blackwell to find his wife in labor....

As friends, the boisterous American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match....

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and finds that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed....

When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible....

Number 12 is an urban legend in 2060 New York City. The hot club in the 1960s, it is now reported to be haunted....

A new family moves in over the road. The new family is acting strange. This new family has some secrets....

Als Fallon Edwards nach sieben Jahren den Zeugenschutz verlassen und in ihr Leben nach New York zurückkehren darf, scheinen sie alle vergessen zu haben. Während Mason versucht mit den Umständen zurechtzukommen und einen neuen Hochzeitstermin mit seiner Verlobten Penelope zu finden, muss Fallon erkennen, dass von ihrem alten Leben nicht mehr viel übrig ist. Als sie dann auch noch Drohnachrichten auf ihrem Handy erhält, ist nicht nur ihr Herz in Gefahr.

Hamburg Wilhelmsburg - "Problemstadtteil": Ein amerikanisches Ehepaar wird tot aufgefunden, sie waren die letzten Mieter in einer alten Villa. Staatsanwältin Chastity Riley nimmt sich mit ihrem Team der Sache an und stößt schnell an Grenzen: Immobilienhaie, Baubehörde - undurchdringlicher Sumpf. Und dann ist da auch noch dieser Husten, der Chastity seit Wochen plagt. Doch nichts, wirklich gar nichts kann sie davon abhalten, selbst im dichtesten Novembernebel klare Verhältnisse zu schaffen.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm. Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend.

Als eine junge Germanistin auf Norderney Heinrich Heines literarischen Spuren nachgeht, gerät sie unbeabsichtigt in die Ermittlungen eines rätselhaften Mordfalls, der Inselpolizist Martin Ziegler verzweifeln lässt: Ein Unbekannter erlag am Kap, dem Seezeichen von Norderney, den Folgen eines Giftanschlags. Doch alle Hinweise führen ins Leere. Bald schon ziehen »Sondengänger« Zieglers Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Die Schatzsucher scheinen ein Geheimnis zu hüten. Und dann ist da noch Ruth Keiser, die derweil eine ganz persönliche Katastrophe erlebt.

Le monde entier le connaît. Personne ne sait où il est. Coup de tonnerre à Hollywood. Jabaree, l'enfant-star, disparaît lors d'une soirée de gala. Les médias s'affolent, la police patauge et le monde du cinéma est aux abois. Troublante coïncidence : 35 ans plus tôt, jour pour jour, disparaissait Shondra Wallace, une actrice de séries B totalement oubliée. Quels liens relient ces deux affaires étrangement similaires ? Est-ce l'œuvre d'un copycat, d'un déséquilibré fan de cinéma ?

Private investigator Charlotte Davidson was born with three things: looks; a healthy respect for the male anatomy; and the rather odd job title of grim reaper. Since the age of five, she has been helping the departed solve the mysteries of their deaths so they can cross. Thus, when three lawyers from the same law firm are murdered, they come to her to find their killer.

Lord Elgin's Greek marbles are the talk of London society, so when a death threat arrives, the earl hires actress Dora Fitz-Pennington and the honourable Dr Jacob Sandys to investigate. They plunge into the scandals of society's most eminent members, from the Byron circle to the secret world of collectors. As danger lurks around London's every corner, in the most exclusive ballrooms and the roughest taverns, Dora and Jacob will face not only what has been left unsaid simmering between them but the threat of silent assassins, traitorous acquaintances and the darkest of secrets...

Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time. As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person.

Since taking on a famous celebrity client, defence attorney Jane Smith has been chased down, shot at, and threatened with contempt of court. She’s a survivor. For now. Jane Smith represents a Hamptons real estate mogul with more enemies than clients. When Jane’s own life is threatened, mounting a legal defence turns into self-defence. Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence - and two Glocks.

Sonnenuntergänge und spanischer Rotwein statt Winterdepressionen und Schneematsch – darauf hoffen die digitale Nomadin Clara und ihre Mutter Anneliese, als sie sich für einige Monate in Granada einquartieren. Doch der sorglose Spanienaufenthalt nimmt mit einem Todesfall in ihrem Umfeld schon bald eine düstere Wendung, die Clara und Anneliese dazu treibt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

El pasado no perdona...y ha llegado la hora de la venganza. Cuando la detective Kim Stone llega a la escena del crimen, no hay un cadáver esperándola, sino que se encuentra con los sanitarios luchando desesperadamente por salvarle la vida. Por desgracia, muere de camino al hospital, y deja a Kim con un escenario donde todas las pruebas han sido destruidas. A simple vista, la víctima, Eric Gould, parece una persona normal y corriente, hasta que el equipo empieza a investigar su pasado.

Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it's proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren. When Hadrian's mother hires Tilda to investigate a medium who claims she can contact her late son, Tilda and Hadrian are drawn into a deadly game. Mediums across London are falling victim to the "Levitation Killer," and the murderer's chilling focus soon shifts to them both.

When the new owner of the Bone Gap Gazette drops dead faster than Aunt Hecate's soufflés, Sage finds herself at the center of yet another murder investigation. With the town buzzing louder than a hive of magical bees, she must use her wit, charm, and occasionally malfunctioning magic to uncover the truth.

Nina Reilly thought she’d seen it all. An attorney and single mother, Nina isn’t afraid to tackle the toughest cases and trickiest defenses. But she is wholly unprepared for her latest client—sixteen-year-old Nicole Zack, rebel, thief, and best friend of Nina’s teenage son, Bob. Did Nikki steal something from her uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, then kill him in cold blood? To find out, Nina calls in Paul van Wagoner, a P.I. and ex-lover whose bravado conceals a troubling personal secret.

Wild swimming in February? No, thank you. It sounds like torture to Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the retired ladies behind the counter at Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Still, no one ever died of plunging into the icy waters around the sleepy little English town of Southbourne. Until now. The body of Colin Barclay, retired PE master and wild-swimming fanatic, washes up in a secluded cove. Days later, a shifty new customer comes calling at Dogs Need Nice Homes. "Is this where you solve murders?" she asks, her eyes darting wildly round the shelves of bric-a-brac.