Women sleuths Books

Brilliant! Another cracking book in this series, done it in a day looking forward to the next one. Charlie When a wheelchair-bound woman is discovered in her home by a neighbour, flat on her back, eyes wide and staring at the ceiling, it soon...

Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation.PI Sunny Randall owes a favour. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened...

In a shocking act of violence, an apparently unassuming man is ruthlessly murdered with no discernible motive. Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel and her team find themselves stumped, until a breakthrough occursâ€"the victim's body yields DNA evidence...

Set in London in 1968, A CURTAIN TWITCHER’S BOOK OF MURDER follows the lives of the inhabitants of a suburban London street. But this is no ordinary road. London, 1968. A suburban London street. But this is no ordinary road.“Ask anyone on Atbara...

FROM ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING AUTHORS IN THE WORLD'Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page' - The Sunday Times Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in this new exciting...

'It's wise, warm and compelling' Daily Mail‘This standout read is both dark and uplifting’ Fabulous * * *Ever since her beloved Jed died, all Virginia wants is to be left alone. But the little girl who lives down the street is so sweet, that even in...

Don’t miss the brand-new installment in the fantastic Stamford Mysteries series! Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman. Who knew a harmless town fair could be so polarising – or so deadly?When auctioneer Felicia Grant’s best friend, Stamford...

**Don't miss out on the gripping new thriller featuring Laughton Rees and Tannahill Khan, THE CLEARING – OUT NOW** ‘Count to three,’ her mother told her, the last words she would ever speak. An Impossible Crime Scene A wealthy woman is found brutally...

SOON TO BE ADAPTED FOR TV! The first in a gripping new mystery series introducing Detective Tess Fox and her con-artist sister Sarah Jacobs ’A tasty whodunnit’ The Sun’Three deviously clever impossible crimes’ Gigi Pandian, Edgar-award winning author’A...

A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman! Murder stalks the cobbles in England’s finest Georgian town…When an accident forces Felicia Grant back to her family’s auction house in Stamford, she vows it’ll only be a...

A love greater than war. A beautiful woman lost. A mystery unsolved ... until now. The epic new saga from one of Australia's best loved storytellers. 2000: the wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia's...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD * 'Perfection … this is a story about family, friendship, love, and sacrifice … with a big dose of jazz! I loved it!' Reader review ‘Louise Hare is becoming one of my must-buy must-read authors and this...

A grand old London hotelA series of alarming coincidencesDanger lurking down every corridor Impeccable service. Luxurious rooms. Eccentric guests. There are worse places for Canon Pennyfather to find himself stranded than Bertram’s Hotel.But when he...

Two trainsSide by side for a brief momentIn that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a man strangling a woman to death.But it was only the merest glimpse through a carriage window as the trains drew parallel.She is the only...

A shocking crimeA mansion filled with suspects Ruth Van Rydock can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to her sister at Stonygates house.Her old school friend Jane Marple decides it’s time to pay a visit.But this grand...

This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls’ boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final page is turned.Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all...Female friendship is intense and that intensity can erupt into dangerous passions when...

THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNS WITH A DARK AND TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER.‘Truly exceptional…twists and turns that I didn't see coming, a unique concept, and brilliant characters…simply captivating.’ JOHN MARRS ...

After that night, nothing was ever the same again ...The unmissable new thriller in the Will Trent series - now a major TV adaptation. Watch Will Trent on Disney+! After that night, nothing was ever the same again ...Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's...

'One of the best books ever, in one of the best series ever! It is THAT good!’ NetGalley Reviewer‘A master of horror and suspense’ NetGalley Reviewer‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths A MISSING DETECTIVEDCI Matilda Darke has been...

Seven high profile guests An island cut off by a storm Will there be a murder before the weekend is out? After six long months with no new cases for her Cornish detective agency, Donna ‘Deadly’ Nightshade jumps at the chance to spend a weekend...

The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.‘This is crime writing of the very highest order’ The Times Introducing Kate Brannigan, Manchester’s most-loved private detective – a woman who won’t...

The #1 Australian bestseller from the author of The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls 'A novel that sets the standard for psychological thriller writing. Rarely in fiction have the past and the present collided with such force and in such a distinctive and...

A grand old London hotelA series of alarming coincidencesDanger lurking down every corridor Impeccable service. Luxurious rooms. Eccentric guests. There are worse places for Canon Pennyfather to find himself stranded than Bertram’s Hotel.But when he...

DI Kelly Porter knows his death was no accident.The body of a man is found at the bottom of a quarry. His appearance, and physical evidence, rule out the chance he travelled there unaided: he was put there.DI Kelly Porter is tasked to investigate and...

‘The rural crime fiction wave continues with this brilliant new arid drama.’ - Australian Women's Weekly‘The writing is generous and whip-smart, with sentences that will stop readers in their tracks to savour them ... Heart-racing twists propel...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the centre of a Washington, D.C., arson investigation that spawns...

In the latest novel in the beloved Highland Bookshop Mystery Series, a murder at a baronial manor leads to a poisonous game of cat and mouse—with the women of Yon Bonnie Books playing to win.After 93 well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is ready to...

#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTION NOW A NUMBER ONE NETFLIX SERIES'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena 'Impressive' The Times 'Gripping' Observer 'Sensational’ Clare MackintoshA...

The extraordinary novel from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair BurkeFive years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart. She and Jeffrey had already battled through sickness and health, although their...

An addictive and cozy crime novel about female rage.Diana Parks is a beautician with a temper, and she's not the only member of Ottersea WI who's had enough of bullies and slimeballs. When the body of lecherous landlord Raj Sumal washes up on the beach,...

Finding a dead body feels like Dj vu to Maggie McManus. Her first-semester teaching at PSU was already off to a "deadly start." While taking her students on a field trip to the River Town Hotel and Conference Center, Maggie discovers the dead body of the...

Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan takes off on a short break to the fabulous Tsar! Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas with her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson. But before they can start celebrating Bud's birthday in style at the...

When her hippie mother Edi goes missing the same week Sky Richard is assaulted at work-Sky wants to run away from everything. Instead, Sky goes looking for her mother and finds an estranged grandmother, the cult she was born in, and an unlikely ally. But...

In the sequel to Femicide, two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman.With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the...

Good breeding simply doesn't pay the rent anymore.And while Miss Melville has bucketloads of breeding, she finds herself somewhat...lacking, shall we say, when it comes to finances. Distinctly lacking. Her rich friends are no help; they think...

When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers ask the mysterious detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don't know is that Luella van Horn is actually a woman...

Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's...

Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of a profound personal change - until a newsworthy case puts both her career and her safety in jeopardy...Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case...

The rich and famous are converging on the iconic Savoy Hotel in swinging '60s London - including a famous Broadway producer with anger issues, a demanding Indian raja, and a gorgeous film star with certain kinky predilections. All is as it should be -...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs returns to a pair of her readers' favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad, who must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases-before the crime's sole survivor is...

When a series of women's bodies is discovered in the heart of rural Hamptonshire with a pentagram carved on their chests, DCI Helen Lavery is forced into a cat-and-mouse chase with a murderer who ultimately turns the tables and targets her.Meanwhile, she...

Amid a mountain of rain-soaked donations to the Ohnita Harbor Public Library rummage sale, Gabriela Domenici finds a small box that contains an odd-looking cross. When the carved center turns out to be ivory and a clue links the cross to Catherine of...

Maddie Wells' life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back...

A dead girl, dressed in a tattered mermaid costume and a harpoon jutting from her chest, washes ashore on a world-renowned beach in Florida, bringing with it a nightmare of evil the City of Sarasota has never known. Chief Homicide Detective Miranda...

Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is GeorgiaO'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was...

The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange, finds her married, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But violent death dogs her footsteps even in apparently tranquil Middleburn. It's...