Women Sleuths

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders....

You don't know her. But she knows you. Rear Window meets Gone Girl in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller....

It’s been 12 years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the Sheriff of Freeport, Michigan....

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life....

It's 1932 and the remains of missing cartographer Michael Clifton are found in a former battlefield in France....

In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with a taste for medical experimentation is completing his most ambitious project yet. The media call him 'The Butcher'—and, so far, he's proved impossible to catch....

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead....

Elizabeth Roffe, only child of one of the world's richest men, has it all; beauty, intelligence, innocence and youth.....

The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house - they build one....

A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball....

Meticulous Lilly Jayne hasn't left a single petal out of place. But the picture-perfect gathering turns unruly upon the arrival of Merilee Frank, Lily's ex-husband's catty third wife. Merilee lives for trouble, so no one is surprised after she drinks too much, but then she turns up dead....

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers....

A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened....

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library....

A gripping thriller featuring Atlee Pine, FBI Special Agent, by internationally best-selling author David Baldacci....

Atlee Pine’s quest to find her missing sister reaches an explosive climax in this best-selling series from David Baldacci....

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs.... 

What a delight it is to finally be able to enjoy a simple meal again! I have been in the throes of morning sickness for the last few months as Darcy and I prepare to welcome a brand-new addition to our little family. Now that I am feeling better, I have realized I am dreadfully bored....

As a Deacon at St. Lawrence parish, Katerina Rowe enjoys a quiet life in the village of Eyam. But everything changes when she discovers the body of a man and a badly beaten woman in the alleyway behind her husband’s pharmacy....

The small, friendly town of Gladstone, Tennessee seems the ideal place to raise a family - until two teenagers are found tortured to death....

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers....

As the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, Mary Ashley becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot....

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth....

Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That's the story the world knows....

It is 30 years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children.... 

Fidelma in Lebensgefahr. Irland 672: König Colgú und Prinzessin Gelgéis wollen in wenigen Wochen heiraten. Doch kurz vor dem Fest erreicht Colgú die Nachricht, dass die Prinzessin spurlos verschwunden ist. Mit zwei Begleitern ist sie aus rätselhaftem Grund aufgebrochen - einen von ihnen hat man ermordet in den Bergen gefunden. König Colgú wendet sich an seine Schwester Fidelma und bittet sie um Hilfe. Als Pilger verkleidet, macht sie sich mit Bruder Eadulf auf die fieberhafte Suche nach der Prinzessin - und begibt sich tief hinein in Feindesland.

Frankreich um 1951 - Departement Vaucluse. In dem kleinen und beschaulichen Städtchen Roussillon ereignen sich unheimliche und merkwürdige Mordfälle. Die Polizei hat Mühe sie zu klären. In einem alten, liebevoll renovierten Landhaus lebt die pensionierte Geschichtsprofessorin Juliette Lafayette, die sich als scharfsinnige Amateurdetektivin ebenfalls an der Lösung der sonderbaren Fälle beteiligt. Unterstützt wird sie von ihrer pfiffigen Nichte Madeleine, die ab und zu bei ihr wohnt. Sehr zum Verdruss von Kommissar Alois Becuse.

In den Walliser Alpen wird eine grausam zugerichtete Leiche gefunden. Da sich der Tote als ehemaliger deutscher BKA-Beamter erweist, schaltet sich Interpol ein und schickt ihre beste Ermittlerin: Valeria Ravelli. In der eisigen Abgeschiedenheit der Berge stößt sie bei ihren Nachforschungen auf eine Mauer aus Schweigen. Ein mächtiges Areal der Wälder rund um das Dorf Steinberg ist abgeschottet und dient als privates Winterquartier für eine Gruppe schwerreicher Geschäftsleute.

Following her recovery from breast cancer, Rarity has embraced a life of healing and service in her Sedona, Arizona, community. She welcomes the opportunity to participate in the annual summer healing fair with her fittingly named new-age bookstore, The Next Chapter. The members of the Tuesday Night Survivors' Book Club are also volunteering, maintaining a cooling station for overheated festivalgoers, and hosting a Tarot card reader for entertainment. But one member, Darby, is anything but entertained when the Tarot reader pulls a Death card.

Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward came from. He is simply a character in her next book. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. His charm, his dark hair, his pen scratching out his latest literary novel . . . Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind—softly smiling, infectiously enthusiastic, and perfectly damaged. She will be the ideal heroine for his next book.

These are the dog days of August, but you won't catch the Tarzana Hookers crochet club napping. While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property. But Miami is left shorthanded when Sloan Renner, the woman helping her clean out the house ends up dead under a pile of smelly seafood.

Cara Mia thought she found a sculpture of a mermaid in the sand . . . and then it moved! Rescuing a half-drown immigrant was not what she wanted on her morning walk. Stuart, Florida. Was it the right thing to do? Will the woman survive? And if she does, will she be okay? Or was she better off dead? And where are all the other immigrants who made the perilous ocean voyage with her?

When the quaint English town of York hosts a Jane Austen Society conference, bookseller Erin Coleridge is glad to get out of Kirkbymoorside for a while—until featured speaker Barry Wolf suddenly perishes from what appears to be a heart attack. Erin is suspicious, since Barry had no history of heart disease. But who did him in? Was it the decedent's assistant, Stephen, who was observed chatting to Barry's young wife Luca earlier that night? Might it have been Barry's ex-wife Judith, who was seen arguing with her erstwhile betrothed at the bar? 

After selling a tech startup to Facebook in a multimillion-dollar deal, blogger Coco Cline has returned to her hometown of Central Shores, Delaware, to launch her own social media consulting firm. Her new clients, Sean and Olivia Chen, are ten days away from the grand opening of their specialty consignment shop when Coco stumbles across their assistant Stacy dead behind the register. Worried that a cloud of suspicion will ruin their chances of a successful business launch, the Chens ask Coco to work alongside the inexperienced Central Shores police to speed up the investigation.

Hexenjagd im Sommerparadies. Bei der Besichtigung der Festung Carlsten entdeckt eine Schulklasse ausgerechnet im angrenzenden Opferhain eine enthauptete Leiche im mittelalterlichen Gewand, und eine alte Dame muss feststellen, dass ein abgehackter Kopf ihren zauberhaften alten Klostergarten verschandelt. Laut Rechtsmedizin gehören Kopf und Körper jedoch gar nicht zusammen. Und auf Marstrand wimmelt es von seltsam gekleideten Menschen.

Un nuovo caso per Sara Malerba, il pubblico ministero del piccolo comune di Torre Piccola, nato dalla fantasia di Luigi Irdi e già protagonista di "Operazione Athena" (2020). La vittima questa volta è Liliana Malingri di Vignola, popolare fashion blogger, uccisa con un colpo al cuore sullo stesso treno che Sara Malerba prende ogni giorno per andare a lavoro.

Kinder verschwinden in der Stadt - deines könnte das nächste sein... Der 16-jährige Leon kommt von einer Party nicht nach Hause. Ist er weggelaufen? Oder ist ihm etwas zugestoßen? Die Würzburger Oberkommissarin Victoria Stahl ist schockiert - denn der vermisste Junge ist der Freund ihrer Tochter. Als wenige Tage später ein weiterer Schüler aus derselben Schule verschwindet und verstörende Fotos auftauchen, wird den Kommissaren Victoria Stahl und Daniel Freund klar, dass sie es mit einem Triebtäter und Mörder zu tun haben - und er arbeitet offenbar nicht allein.

Ein mystischer Kriminalroman aus dem Mittelalter. Schiltach im Schwarzwald, 1344. Im Städtle geht der Teufel um. Das glauben zumindest die Bewohner, nachdem an der Kinzig eine junge Magd ermordet aufgefunden wurde. Als im Gasthaus "Hirschen" jede Nacht unheimliche Geräusche zu hören sind und eine weiße Gestalt gesichtet wird, die scheinbar durch Wände gehen kann, bricht Panik aus. Wird sich der Dämon weitere Opfer holen? Kräutersammlerin Johanna und Flößer Lukas versuchen die Wahrheit zu ergründen.

Es ist Herbst in der schwedischen Universitätsstadt Lund. Während die Apfelbäume Früchte tragen und die Astern und Ringelblumen blühen, wird in einer Schrebergartensiedlung ein Mann grausam ermordet. Angeblich war der Tote bei allen beliebt – ein engagierter Sozialarbeiter und echter Musterbürger. Doch Kommissarin Sara Vallén ist skeptisch. Warum musste er sterben? Je tiefer Sara und ihre Kollegen in die Vergangenheit des Toten eintauchen, desto mehr düstere Geheimnisse kommen ans Licht. Gleichzeitig hat Sara mit eigenen Problemen zu kämpfen.

Oonagh O'Neil is back with another gloomy and heart-wrenching investigation. If only someone had listened... When the supposed suicide of famous Scottish football coach Harry Nugent hits the headlines, the tabloids are filled with tributes to a charitable pillar of the community that gave so much back to sport and to those less fortunate. But something isn't right.