Women Sleuths

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell.

Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb.

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer.

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace....

This gripping psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell follows a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.

Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend.

Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead.

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s no longer the terrified teenager a rapt audience saw on television, emerging in handcuffs from the quiet suburban home the night her family was massacred....

A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors.

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.

Lisbeth is at home in Stockholm, looking to fill the void her last lover left behind. When she discovers that fellow hacker Plague has been kidnapped and taken up North, and finds her niece, Svala, on her doorstep, she has no choice but to return to Gasskas—with Mikael Blomkvist at her side.

The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.

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....

Contains all three books in The Jane Harper Trilogy: The Sentinel, The Raven, and The Host.

She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls....

SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.

Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help.

Vera is determined to solve Xander's murder. After all, doing so would surely be a big favor to Selena, and there is nothing she wouldn't do for her future daughter-in-law.

Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case....

When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbors from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her, and enlists the help of Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm. But Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers.

Ten years ago, three little girls went missing from their tiny mountain town. While one was returned, the others were never seen again. After all this time without answers, the brother of one of the girls wants to hire an outsider, and he wants Annie. While she may not be from his town, she gets mountain towns. Mountain people. Driving back into the hills for a case this old—it might be a fool’s errand. But Annie needs to put money in the bank and she can’t turn down a case. Not even one that dredges up her own painful past.

Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline’s boss is persistent, and as Zoë attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she’s never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he’s found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?

Terwijl brigadier Lindsay Boxer bevalt van haar dochter, vindt er een moord plaats. De hoofdverdachte; een aanstormend football-talent. Nauwelijks een week later roept deze moord Lindsay terug naar de werkvloer en wordt ze benaderd door een professor. Hij zegt afschuwelijk realistische nachtmerries te hebben. Lindsay hecht er geen waarde aan, totdat er een schietpartij plaatsvindt die tot in detail overeenkomt met wat de professor haar heeft verteld... Als de zaken zich ontwikkelen zoals de professor die voorspeld heeft, zouden de gevolgen niet te overzien zijn.

Tory Van Dyne is the most down-to-earth member of a decidedly eccentric old-money New York family. For one thing, as book conservator at Manhattan’s Mystery Guild Library, she actually has a job. Plus, she’s left up-town society behind for a quiet life downtown. So she’s not thrilled when she discovers a woman in the library’s Christie Room who calmly introduces herself as Agatha Christie, politely requests a cocktail, and announces she’s there to help solve a murder—that has not yet happened.

Kari Sharpe never expected to return to Maine. Law school and the Navy JAG Corps pulled her out of the dead-end Maine promised for her future. But Kari’s past turns out to be hard to escape. When her last living relative spirals out of control, Kari gives up everything to save him. Leaving her position as partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm, Kari struggles to build a new law practice in Maine. Unfortunately, her name means nothing in Portland—nothing good. The Sharpe family curse is a shackle she can’t shake as she grapples with her brother’s addiction.

There’s usually a chill in the air when Halloween arrives—but in these three novellas by beloved cozy mystery authors Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Liz Ireland, the crimes are even colder than the haunted climate....

The houses in Willow Tree Court are sleek and modern—the kind designed to harbor happy families and laughing children. No one would guess the secrets that lurk beyond the neat lawns and beautiful facades. Molly Dennehy is trying to fit in to her new surroundings, though her neighbors are clearly loyal to her husband's ex-wife. But that's the least of Molly's worries. Her stepson's school has been rocked by a brutal slaying, and a psychopath known as the Cul-de-Sac Killer is murdering families in Seattle homes. Homes just like Molly's.

In this timely and terrifying thriller for listeners of Janelle Brown, Karin Slaughter, Stacy Willingham, and Jennifer Hillier, a woman with a side gig offering relationship advice on Twitch learns just how dangerous online anonymity can be....

Rose is a dedicated wife and mother to her husband Grant and her son James. Having recently moved to a grand mansion in Florida, Rose is keen for James to fit in with his new life and hires a tutor. Isabel is young, smart and beautiful, and not only gets along with James, but she gets results. But when Isabel starts to get too close for comfort, Rose can't help but think that Isabel is looking for more than just tutoring. Can Rose uncover who exactly she has let into her house, or will this lesson be deadly?

Miss Penelope Monckton, just returned from nursing with Florence Nightingale's in Crimea, has come to the country estate of one of the most scandalous men in England, Lord Rickarby—nicknamed Rakerby—to collect a bequest from his late wife, her childhood friend Millie. But something about Millie's death doesn't sit right with Penny. A celebrated painter, Joss, Lord Rickarby, knows Miss Penelope Monckton only from the letters she sent to his late wife during her time nursing in a war zone.

On the dark streets of Edinburgh, a killer is waiting. When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there will be seven more. In the city’s hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving. Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously – and now he’s coming for her too. Edinburgh’s police are desperate. After one body comes another, and then another. The brutal deaths are all seemingly unconnected, yet DS Lively and forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine know they are dealing with a serial killer – they just need to prove it.

After a long, snowy winter on Daybreak Island, Maddie and her cat cafe crew are finally ready to embrace the spring, though life is anything but calm. With Val and Ethan's wedding taking center stage, Maddie finds herself juggling wedding plans alongside a new and unexpected venture—a generous donation has made her the co-owner of a traveling cat cafe truck. To kick off the new chapter, she seizes the chance to take the truck on its inaugural trip to a cat literary festival in Provincetown, accompanied by her family and some of the shelter crew.

In a town that has repackaged its trauma into a tourist trap, the past is never truly dead. For journalist Audra Doyle, a new assignment in Salem is a chance to redeem her career after a disastrous misstep. Her podcast, “The Unsettled Truth,” thrives on the dark corners of American towns, but Salem in October is a whole new level of performance. When a local activist is found dead, staged in a grotesque reenactment of the colonial witch trials, Audra is plunged into a story that is far more than true-crime catnip. Her only lead is Dr. Julian Croft, the city’s brilliant, guarded, and ...

Sarah Olmes es una inspectora de policía con una increíble capacidad de deducción… que solo ha servido para ganarse la enemistad de toda la comisaría. Desterrada a un despacho sin ventanas —y sin futuro—, se plantea si debería dimitir y dedicarse a repartir propaganda. Hasta que su comisario, el inaguantable José Demás, se deshace de ella enviándola a un nuevo, y en apariencia resuelto, caso: el accidente de un célebre cocinero durante la décima edición del International Competition for Torreznos Unique from Soria.

Two dead students. A coded reference to Shakespeare. And the promise of darker things to come. Near a small college campus, a student is found strangled in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with a message they don't understand.

Nicole Stewart moved to Twin Lakes, Minnesota, to give her seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, an idyllic childhood. Surrounded by a good community, friends, and family, it was the perfect place to raise her daughter. But when Rachel is abducted at a park, the veil on the ideal community is pulled back. As mysterious packages and cryptic messages arrive at Nicole’s doorstep, she is resolved to solve the kidnapper’s mystery. And in this neighborhood, everyone is a suspect.

She planned the perfect revenge against her cheating husband. She never suspected someone was hunting her. I thought I was the smartest person in the room. A therapist who could read people like open books. So when I started building evidence that my husband was having an affair with my best friend, I planned the perfect revenge. I would disappear for two days, let them think I was dead, then return with "recovered memories" of their betrayal. I'd destroy them both with the same precision they'd used to destroy me. But when I woke up three days later, more confused than I'd planned to be, ...

When Maya Chen returns to her hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, to investigate the brutal murder of her childhood best friend, she discovers she's walking into a killer's trap fifteen years in the making. The Gamecock Killer targets successful USC alumni who left home and returned—making Maya the ultimate prize. As bodies pile up during football season, each murder timed to USC traditions and marked with garnet ribbons, Maya realizes she's not just investigating a serial killer—she's the centerpiece of a domestic terrorism plot that threatens everything she holds dear. From the ...

"Twist and turn and twist again, and I am not talking about dance steps, but the latest DCI Tara Jones mystery. Just when you think "Ah, that's what it's all about", AJA Gardiner pulls the rug from under your feet and surprise, you are wrong again, which is just the frustrating way I like my mysteries!" Goodreads reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She’s hunting a hitman. But nothing about this case is what it seems. When drug barons start turning up dead in Aberdeen, DCI Tara Jones is handed a case that makes her skin crawl — not just because someone is assassinating gangsters with military ...

Ten years after vanishing without a trace, a once-famous author finally breaks her silence—with a letter sent to Samantha. But it’s not just a plea for help. It’s a trail of breadcrumbs leading into a tangled web of stalking, betrayal, blackmail, and deadly secrets that refuse to stay buried. What begins as a search for answers spirals into an investigation involving coded journals, mob ties, hidden surveillance, and a publishing empire built on manipulation. With each revelation, Samantha and her team uncover truths no one was meant to find—truths someone is still desperate to ...

When Ginny Hampton inherits a charming bookshop in the Devon village of Millfield, she expects her biggest challenge will be learning to make a proper cup of tea. What she doesn't expect is finding a body among the rare manuscripts.When a despised local historian turns up dead, suddenly Ginny is the prime suspect. With her inheritance on the line and locals eyeing her with suspicion, she's determined to clear her name and save the bookshop her great-aunt entrusted to her. Armed with her mystery novel knowledge, two mischievous Welsh Corgis named Austen and Hardy, and the reluctant help of ...

For ten years, Bailey has been haunted by the unsolved mystery of her sister's disappearance. Her life is a quiet echo of that single, shattering moment during a remote family vacation, a psychological landscape of unresolved grief that has defined her entire adult life. What if you could return to the scene of your deepest trauma, not to change the past, but to finally understand the truth? In a twist of fate, Bailey is thrown back in time—a woman with a decade of sorrow trapped in her teenage body on the eve of that fateful trip. The isolated mountain lodge becomes a locked room mystery...

Oboist Sara Baron expects to spend the first weeks of her maternity leave nesting, baking Christmas cookies, and napping on the couch with her beloved cat. Her plans take a horrifying turn when her friend’s car plows through the window of the coffee shop where they agreed to meet. The police deem it an accident, but Sara isn’t convinced. She expects this was murder! Just an hour before her tragic death, her friend claimed someone was out to kill her. She was right! Now her friend’s newborn baby will grow up without her mom. Even worse, Sara suspects the baby’s father, a successful ...