Women Sleuths

The complete BBC Radio adaptations of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency featuring Botswana's only female private detective agency, run by the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe....

It was one of Eve Dallas’s earliest takedowns, back in her uniform days. A monster named Isaac McQueen had been abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body....

When Detective Erika Foster finds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met quickly rule the death from natural causes. Case closed . . . until two months later....

FBI Agent Ella Dark, 29, is given her big chance to achieve her life’s dream: to join the Behavioral Crimes Unit. Ella has a hidden obsession: She has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister....

When Athena disappeared from St. Polycarp's College at Oxford, her friends assumed she had run away...

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....

CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever - in Sinful, Louisiana....

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved....

At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball....

An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods....

Bike-shop owner Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida and her fellow book club sleuths solve a bookstore murder....

Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold....

Lady Swift has been cordially invited to a huge royal celebration in Little Buckford to toast the King’s birthday...but wait, is that a body in the village hall? But just days before the event Mr. Prestwick-Peterson, the chairman of the celebrations committee, is found dead....

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances....

Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, and betrayal—and the courage to face the past.

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....

December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest throws her new life, and the hotel, into chaos....

At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare....

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

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

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple....

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

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy....

DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally, but the documents at the house indicate her real name is Ruth Lyle.

December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her....

Schwarze Tulpen als Todesboten und Pensionswirtin Jenny auf den Spuren eines einfallsreichen Mörders. Die dritte Runde der unterhaltsamen Cosy Crime-Reihe an der Nordsee! Ein jahrelanger Dauercamper bekommt tagelang schwarze Tulpen geschickt... und am zehnten Tag wird seine Leiche gefunden. So ein merkwürdiges Verbrechen hat der kleine Küstenort noch nie gesehen. Als der Blumenhändler erneut anonyme Bestellungen für schwarze Tulpen bekommt, wendet er sich an die Polizei – und an Pensionswirtin Jenny, die für ihre Spürnase inzwischen stadtbekannt ist.

Dubiose Geschäfte, ein elitärer Geheimbund und eine junge Lokalreporterin, die in ihrer persönlichsten Story recherchiert: Was der See birgt ist der fulminante Auftakt einer neuen Reihe und ein extrem spannendes Hörvergnügen. Am Ufer des Gardasees blinken Blaulichter. Im Jachthafen von Riva wurde ein Toter gefunden. Gianna Pitti, Polizeireporterin der Lokalzeitung und der wohl größte Vasco-Rossi-Fan auf diesem Planeten, ist immer zur Stelle, wenn am See etwas passiert. Mit Entsetzen stellt sie fest, dass sie das Opfer kannte. Mehr noch: Sie war eine der Letzten, die den jungen Mann lebend gesehen hat.

Paris 1925: When news reporter Abigail Dixon trades the Chicago newsroom for the Paris fashion scene, she finds herself dazzled by the latest looks from Coco Chanel, sipping champagne at the Ritz, and interviewing a famous designer. Stepping into his luxurious atelier on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Abigail is ready to swoon over the exquisite gowns. The last thing she expects to find is her estranged stepmother lying dead on the fitting room floor–and Abigail framed as the prime suspect.

La mère de Lucien Jutras est décédée au début de la pandémie de COVID-19 et, depuis, l’adolescent se cherche. À quoi bon terminer son secondaire quand les cours sont en présentiel un jour sur deux ? Quand on sait qu’on peut mourir demain ? Sa relation avec son père, un riche entrepreneur de Québec avec lequel il ne se trouve rien en commun, se détériore de plus en plus. Tombé follement amoureux de Jacob, Lucien se sent renaître, mais cet amour déplait infiniment au très réactionnaire Marc-Aurèle Jutras.

For Evie St. Claire, life in Honeysuckle Springs isn't anything like she'd imagined. Sure, the old house is charming, and the smalltown lakeside community is picture perfect. But her kitty roommate Birdie is unpredictable, snarky, and demanding. When a ransom note shows up at Evie's backdoor, she must come clean about her aunt's stolen ashes. She'll also need to decide if she's willing to meet the ransom demands and give up her aunt's spell book, or if she'll search for the culprit herself.

Estes Park is bustling with fall tourists as Winifred and Katie deck out the Cozy Corgi Bookstore and Bakery, while corgi mascot, Watson, helps in his own special way—snacking, napping, and being his adorable grumpy self.

When a shocking murder rocks the picture-perfect English village of Raven’s Edge, erstwhile amateur detective Milla Graham finds herself right at the centre of the mystery. Still reeling from her recent breakup with local police officer Ben Taylor, Milla sets her sights on solving the case, hoping to win Ben back. But when the evidence begins to point to Milla’s old friend and former paramour Lorcan Black, she must choose between her loyalties to the past and the possibilities of the future.

Handsome, grumpy local policeman Ben Taylor doesn't believe in coincidences, and he doesn’t think mysterious newcomer Milla Graham is as innocent as she seems. Why is she really here in Raven’s Edge, and how come she keeps turning up at his crime scenes, causing trouble? Can he solve this murder case without losing himself–or his heart–to the rather distracting Miss Graham?

Newlyweds Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and John Tomasetti are happily spending their honeymoon at a beautiful Lake Erie cabin that was once part of an historic Amish settlement. But when a violent storm suddenly erupts, Lovina Nisley, the Amish owner of the cabin, goes missing. Lovina is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, so it initially appears the elderly woman simply took the wrong path, but her disappearance takes an ominous turn when her husband reveals that a developer has been threatening them if they refuse to sell him their home.

Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim’s Storyboard, which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs—someone who isn’t the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she’s out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident—or something else? Her sister wants to know.

Everyone told Cara Shelly that she was crazy to set up a café in the shadow of eccentric Kentish stately home Tanton Towers. But three years later, the Happy Huffkin café is thriving, and Cara considers the Tanton Towers staff - and its eccentric owners, Max and Alison - to be like family. But one summer evening, Alison comes hurtling down to the café to beg her for help. Daphne Hanson, queen of the Towers' costume-clad dancing troupe is lying dead in the orangery. Strangled! But by whom? And why?

Costumer Joey Jessop is working on a movie set in 1930s Hollywood and starring two of the world’s biggest stars. The male lead is also a dedicated social activist, and the female lead, Gillian Best, is known for her lifestyle brand. After a hit-and-run near the set, Joey realizes that the car involved belongs to Gillian, and she begins to wonder if the actress has more to hide than her Botox appointments. Her suspicions deepen when Gillian’s personal assistant, Rita, vows to get revenge for Gillian replacing her and is found dead shortly after.

Zoe loves working as a consultant for a company that specializes in the recovery of stolen art. Her only complaint is that the jobs are few and far between, so when she meets an eccentric collector who is on the hunt for a painting of a blue butterfly that might—or might not—exist, she jumps at the chance to look for it. She comes across shady dealers and a confusion of clues as her search for the elusive painting takes her from tropical destinations to the cobblestone streets of Madrid.

London, present day. Art recovery specialist Zoe Andrews really needs a break. And all that stands in the way of a well-deserved romantic getaway is an open-and-shut case tracking down a valuable painting’s origin. But Zoe’s vacation plans unravel when the priceless piece is lifted from the gallery, throwing her headlong into a media frenzy.

Portugiesisches Flair trifft mörderische Ambitionen: Ermittlungen an der Atlantikküste! Während Ria Almeida mit ihrem Umzug von Stuttgart nach Torreira beschäftigt ist, geht ein Notruf auf der örtlichen Polizeiwache ein: Bei einer Exkursion in ein nahegelegenes Naturschutzgebiet sind Studierende auf eine männliche Leiche gestoßen. Ria und Dorfpolizist João haben alle Hände voll damit zu tun, den Tatort zu sichern und sich die Umweltschützer vom Hals zu halten. Als Ria Comisario Baptista um Unterstützung bittet, ist der jedoch bei Gericht, wo sich die Verhandlung verzögert, weil der Richter fehlt. Der Richter, der tot zu Rias Füßen liegt.