Category: Women Sleuths

By Claire Rayner

ISBN-10: 0708989756

ISBN-13: 9780708989753

The gossipmongers at London's Royal jap health facility are operating extra time. 3 deaths in as many days one of the employees? Worse, 3 suicides? anything needs to be very improper. Dr George Bamabas, now not one to face for any nonsense, may have informed them that the deaths have been not at all all suicides, yet acidental loss of life is rather a lot much less attention-grabbing for the hearsay mill ...Yet while a fourth individual approximately dies, one among George's personal lab employees, now not even she will be able to calm issues down. For this doesn't even seem like an coincidence: it really is tried homicide, and George herself, unbelievably, comes lower than suspicion. She hasn't ever wanted a lot incentive to do a little sleuthing; this time she has the most powerful cause of all ...

By Laurie R. King

ISBN-10: 0307567559

ISBN-13: 9780307567550

An acclaimed grasp of suspense creates a heroine you'll always remember during this fantastically chilling novel of a lady who starts off a determined venture which could remodel her life--or finish it.

WHAT occurs in the event that your WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL on your MIND?

Rae child is a girl at the area: at the fringe of sanity, at the fringe of tragedy, and now at the fringe of the area. She has moved to an island on the some distance reaches of the continent to revive the home of an both haunted determine, her mysterious great-uncle; yet as her lifestyles starts off to rebuild itself besides the home, his tale starts off to wrap round hers. robust forces are stirring, yet Rae can't see the place her fact leaves off and his destiny begins.

Fifty-two years previous, Rae needs to conflict the emotions that experience lengthy tormented her--panic, depression, and a skin-crawling experience of watchers at the back of the bushes. prior to she got here right here, she believed that almost all of the issues she feared existed in basic terms in her brain. And who can say, as anxious incidents multiply, if any of the watchers on Folly Island will be genuine? Is Rae paranoid, as her relatives and the police think, or is the hazard genuine? Is the island alive with promise--or with hazards?

With Folly, award-winning writer LAURIE R. KING once more powerfully redefines mental suspense on a cosmopolitan and harrowing new point, and proves why legions of readers and reviewers have named her a grasp of the style.

By James Carlos Blake

ISBN-10: 0060542438

ISBN-13: 9780060542436

ISBN-10: 0061368970

ISBN-13: 9780061368974

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the child, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the unfastened nation of Galveston," who're prospering via illicit pleasures in the middle of the good melancholy. Raised on an remoted West Texas ranch that he used to be compelled to escape at age eighteen following the violent breakup of his foster kin, Jimmy has discovered a house and a occupation in Galveston -- and a mentor in Rose Maceo. Looming over Jimmy's tale like an historical curse is the threat of his fearsome father. Their ties of blood, glaring in view that Jimmy's boyhood, were drawn tighter over the years. Then an odd and gorgeous woman enters his lifestyles and a speedy and terrifying series of occasions is determined in movement. Jimmy needs to pass the border and pass deep into the brutal and cruel kingdom of his ancestors -- the place the story's harrowing climax closes a circle of future a long time within the making.

By Susan Kandel

ISBN-10: 0060581085

ISBN-13: 9780060581084

ISBN-10: 0061841692

ISBN-13: 9780061841699

Biographer and beginner sleuth Cece Caruso freely admits that she spent her formative years idolizing woman detective Nancy Drew, a delusion that definitely inspired her grown-up activity writing biographies of lifeless secret writers. yet as Cece will realize using down the street in her Jackie O. sun shades and a borrowed baby-blue Cadillac, a few fantasies die more durable than others.

Researching the lifetime of Carolyn Keene, the pseudonymous writer of the Nancy Drew mysteries, Cece meets a flamboyant collector of "Blue Nancys," the unique books with blue covers. while he reveals out that she is taking a street journey to Palm Springs to snoop round on the annual Nancy Drew fan conference, he deals her using his swanky holiday condo. however the very last thing Cece expects to discover mendacity round the swimming pool is one very lifeless body.

In a race opposed to time that takes her from a mystery enclave of restored Victorians close to downtown L.A. to the driest stretches of California desolate tract, Cece should channel her former idol after which a few to unmask a sly killer -- prior to he comes after her. in fact, it is helping to have a knockout number of classic garments, notwithstanding Cece prefers Azzedine Alaïa semigloss knits and Halston silver sequined berets to Nancy's prim fits and gloves.

Filled with wit, power, and shrewdpermanent twists, let alone one shrewdpermanent, hip heroine, Not a lady Detective is natural entertainment.

By Carolyn G. Hart

ISBN-10: 0307574555

ISBN-13: 9780307574558

By Elizabeth Lynn Casey

ISBN-10: 1101545518

ISBN-13: 9781101545515

While Tori Sinclair's philandering ex turns up lifeless, the police leader believes it was once murder-and that Tori can have been concerned. Now, in simple terms the women from the stitching circle can be capable of aid hold her existence from coming aside on the seams...

By Livia J. Washburn

ISBN-10: 0758236972

ISBN-13: 9780758236975

Not anyone is shocked whilst feisty Delilah Dickinson opens her literary shuttle organization in Atlanta after her divorce. yet in the course of her first group's travel of an previous plantation modelled after Tara from long past with the Wind, she reveals herself in the midst of a homicide secret while the actor enjoying Clark Gable taking part in Rhetr Butler is located useless. shortly, the police have where lower than lockdown.Delilah unearths herself taking on the research whilst their number 1 suspect is her son-in-law Luke-the not-so-bright husband of her daughter, Melissa. yet lifestyles starts off imitating paintings while the actors commence taking their roles a bit too seriously-believing they really are Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O'Hara, and Melanie.With all of the drama of Margaret Mitchell's epic tale all of sudden coming to alarming lifestyles, Delilah's purely likelihood to move off a not-so-Civil battle is to trace down and confront the deranged assassin. yet she needs to stream fast and extremely quietly - or danger turning into the following sufferer of a killer who frankly does not supply a rattling.

By Kathy Hogan Trocheck

ISBN-10: 0061092568

ISBN-13: 9780061092565

ISBN-10: 0061666785

ISBN-13: 9780061666780

Refusing to think that her cousin's mysterious loss of life were an coincidence, specialist housecleaner Callahan Garrity starts a deepest research of Atlanta's internal urban and the shady offers of her cousin's husband. Reprint. PW.

By Margaret Miles

ISBN-10: 0553578642

ISBN-13: 9780553578645

The lifeless inform no tales....

It is the summer time of 1765, and Charlotte Willett is having fun with the balmy languor of Bracebridge along with her cultured neighbor, Richard Longfellow. yet their peaceable regimen shatters with the coming of Richard's based buddy from abroad.

Known as Il Colombo--the Dove--Gian Carlo Lahte is an Italian singer who quickly holds the neighborhood girls spellbound. no longer even Charlotte is proof against his charms. notwithstanding he turns out to hold greater than a touch of scandal with him, at the day he arrives tavern speak in Bracebridge turns to a extra homegrown secret: a corpse came across at the Boston road--his physique reeking of liquor, his id unknown.

Charlotte can not help yet ask yourself why Signore Lahte is so shaken via the sight of the victim--and why the lifeless man's boots and buttons are fast stolen! As she and Longfellow think about those concerns, additional arrivals rework their rustic oasis right into a level for turbulent drama--where any player's functionality can be a lethal swan song....

By Elizabeth Lynn Casey

ISBN-10: 0425237893

ISBN-13: 9780425237892

The individuals of South Carolina's candy Briar women Society stitching circle are as unswerving and close-knit because the day is lengthy. but if the richest and meanest lady on the town turns up murdered, the recent Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair reveals that a few threads can bind dangerously tight.