Category: Women Sleuths

By Joanna Campbell Slan

ISBN-10: 0738728861

ISBN-13: 9780738728865

Dumpster diving for her misplaced paycheck is well the low element of Kiki Lowenstein's day―that is, until eventually she unearths a severed leg thrown in with the trash. Who'd toss a physique half within the rubbish outdoors the scrapbook crafts shop the place Kiki works?

Accompanying the grisly "gift" is a creepy automatic voice message, a caution to the store's "rich and snotty" woman consumers. Kiki quickly discovers that the leg belonged to Cindy Gambrowski, a client with a tyrannical and violent husband―who's now harassing Kiki. Combing via Cindy's scrapbook tasks for hidden clues, Kiki attempts to discover the killer. used to be it against the law of marital malice, or did another person beat Cindy's husband to the punch?

Includes holiday-themed initiatives and recipes!

Praise:

“The characters are so good constructed that every installment leaves the reader craving for the next." ―Kirkus Reviews

"This author's craft mysteries are topically correct and chock-full of aspect tales. examine with Clare O'Donohue's sometime Quilts sequence for women's empowerment topics."―Library Journal

"There are chuckle-out-loud moments in addition to incredible scrapbooking counsel and recipes scattered through the book."―RT e-book Reviews 

By Allison Lassieur

By Robert Burton Robinson

ISBN-10: 146103082X

ISBN-13: 9781461030829

SWEET GINGER POISON - Ginger Lightley secret sequence, e-book One - 39,000 words.

Ginger investigates the demise of a tender guy who died after consuming one of many muffins from her bakery.

Virginia "Ginger" Lightley is the landlord of Coreyville espresso tarts, a well-liked bakery in East Texas. clients force from miles away to go to the little store for a style of her unique creations. it is a surprise to the complete neighborhood while a tender guy drops useless throughout city after consuming one in all her well-known cakes.

The newly appointed police leader grants to unravel the case speedy. And Ginger desires to aid him--until he accuses one in every of her staff of homicide. She rejects the crime state of affairs laid out by means of the younger police leader and secretly determines to unravel the crime herself.

Praise for Robert Burton Robinson's candy GINGER POISON:

"...absolutely in love together with your writing! i'm up at 4AM simply to end interpreting the realization to candy Ginger Poison. maintain writing. i'm an avid reader and that i have not stayed up lots of the evening to learn a narrative in different years." - MJ

"Wow. i've got had many guesses, each one alterations with the plot. loads of authors make it so easy to foretell the top in their tales, yet all I did used to be saved on studying yours. So dynamic and addictive. you actually mastered the artwork of puzzle novels. good done!" - Aida Rosni, UK

"Very stable booklet. now not as predictable as I initially idea it to be. i've got loved every thing that i've got prepared via you! i'll suggest you to others." - Niki

"This was once a true sturdy tale. i am hoping to learn many extra. sustain the great work." - Pat Sandlin

"Very relaxing! simply the kind of tale i admire. Love the 'domino membership' girls. humorous! i glance ahead to interpreting extra from you. Now i must move discover a bakery lol." - Linda Steuer

"Great booklet. entire it in 2 days. sustain the great work." - Terri

"I stayed up past due final evening to complete interpreting this, and loved each moment." - Toby

"Great tale. It had a mixture of every thing, humor, romance and secret. simply my cup of tea. i actually loved it." - Kathy Vekassy

"Enjoyed it. It has secret, romance, humour and it was once fast." - Julie

By Nina Siegal

ISBN-10: 006124290X

ISBN-13: 9780061242908

ISBN-10: 0061580570

ISBN-13: 9780061580574

Valerie Vane used to be an up-and-coming way of life reporter at a sought after manhattan urban day-by-day. Then she stumbled, really publicly, and misplaced it all—her column, her fiancé, her entry in the back of the city's velvet ropes. Now she's at the obituary table writing demise notices, and it appears like a lifeless finish.

However, whilst she writes a couple of lately deceased once-famous graffiti artist, the telephone calls begin. A mysterious voice at the different finish of the road tells her the artist's dying was once a murder—and if she have been a true reporter, she'd examine.

But can Valerie exchange her stilettos for gumshoes?

By Sarah Graves

ISBN-10: 0553582267

ISBN-13: 9780553582260

While ex—Wall Streeter Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree received an enthralling 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured she’d additionally acquired herself a tranquil, enjoyable lifestyles. yet Jake quickly realized that appearances might be deceiving, and that even small cities have their proportion of darkish secrets and techniques — together with murder.Wreck The HallsPeople not often lock their doorways in Eastport. So while Jake and her top buddy, Ellie, arrive at Faye Anne Carmody’s kitchen door, they knock and stroll correct in. yet notwithstanding Christmas is simply weeks away, what they locate is way from festive: a dazed Faye Anne lined with blood, and her no-good husband — town butcher, Merle — nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that's, till Jake discovers his physique — tidily wrapped in his personal butcher paper.... It doesn’t take lengthy for information of the homicide to race throughout the small city, and with reference to each person has a idea in regards to the grisly crime that has robbed Eastport of its least-liked citizen. yet whereas police leader Bob Arnold considers it an open-and-shut case, Jake and Ellie aren’t confident of Faye Anne’s guilt. Jake has sufficient occurring in her lifestyles with no attempting to examine a homicide. in spite of everything, she’s simply married her longtime love, Wade, and the pair plan to spend the iciness rehabilitating the paint-encrusted home windows in Jake’s outdated residence. yet Jake has to confess that there are various information that don’t upload up: for instance, Faye Anne’s criticism that she was once being stalked, and blood-splattered facts on the crime scene that simply doesn’t make experience. Then there's the diary that Faye Anne’s mystery, someday boyfriend claims is hidden someplace in her apartment. may well Faye Anne’s personal magazine be the main to unlocking a fair extra fiendish homicide plot, or is her double-crossing lover attempting to body her?When yet one more Eastport citizen turns up lifeless, Jake realizes the murderer’s path started lengthy earlier than the evening Merle Carmody died. yet what retains eluding her and Ellie is the rationale in the back of the secret. actually so shut, they could nearly flavor it — yet can they cease the sensible killer ahead of he chisels one other victim’s identify onto a tombstone?

By Stephanie Bond

ISBN-10: 0060820578

ISBN-13: 9780060820572

Begin With undesirable Mojo ... there is something unusual afoot within the small city of Mojo, Louisiana. but while the once a year voodoo competition will get underway, Penny Francisco, who runs a wellbeing and fitness foodstuff enterprise, refuses to think in black magic. Her brain is on celebrating her divorce from her mendacity, dishonest husband Deke. upload a Pinprick of Revenge ... Fueled by means of run-ins along with her ex-mother-in-law and Deke's busty mistress, Penny is keen for the "emancipation celebration" her neighbors plan. while she gets a Deke voodoo doll as a gag present, she sticks it with a pin as a funny story. but if Deke lands up fatally stabbed, the police should not giggling. And Watch issues Boil Over ... A junk-food junkie P.I. bargains his companies, and even if Penny is cautious of the attractive Cajun's factors (and his diet), she's determined. Dodging a media sideshow and a looming homicide rap, Penny realizes that by some means she's landed herself In Deep Voodoo.

By Linda McFadden

Delightfultole portray styles with directions. well illustrated, beautiful designs.

By Susan Conant

Useless and Doggone

By Sarah Graves

ISBN-10: 0553585770

ISBN-13: 9780553585773

Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree left her high-powered occupation for a dilapidated fixer-upper and the dream of a quiet life within the old fashioned city of Eastport, Maine. yet she stumbled on that regardless of how rigorously you rework your existence, homicide can soak up place of dwelling anywhere.It’s Eastport’s such a lot infamous landmark: the previous Harlequin condo. Named for the disgraced health professional Chester Harlequin, it used to be used as a hideout for gunshot gangsters and their molls in the course of Prohibition’s heyday. Now fixer-upper fanatic Jake Tiptree and Harlequin’s purely dwelling descendant, Ellie White, are refurbishing the mansard-roofed mansion to host the neighborhood old Society’s upcoming gala. but if stripping down outdated wallpaper unearths a mystery door to a room containing no longer one yet corpses, Jake and Ellie once more locate domestic fix resulting in homicide.One of the our bodies is a skeleton wearing Twenties flapper stylish. however the different is that of real-estate wealthy person Hector Gosling, and in his pocket is a paper bearing the one be aware “Guilty.” The less-than-scrupulous magnate has been poisoned, and while it’s discovered that the offending substance is the poison that Ellie’s husband George has been utilizing to kill pink ants, he's instantly taken into custody. Then it develops that George had lately accused Gosling of a scheme to rip-off George’s susceptible previous aunt out of her lifestyles savings—and George out of his inheritance. With George held for homicide, Jake and a pregnant Ellie swing into motion. In among Ellie’s Lamaze periods, child showers, and CPR periods taught by way of Jake’s ex-husband Victor, the 2 beginner sleuths needs to sift their method via a path of doubtless contradictory clues. Then one other corpse surfaces and without notice Jake and Ellie detect they need to locate this killer quick. A smart offender isn't just development an hermetic case opposed to Ellie’s husband. He—or she—is making plans to nail everybody who stands within the way.From the Hardcover version.

By Edie Swihart

ISBN-10: 0595523897

ISBN-13: 9780595523894

Together with her fledgling ads company brief on money, Leigh Koslow made up our minds to her homegrown veterinary assistant talents to moonlight on the neighborhood zoo-- basically to stumble onto a grisly crime scene at the back of the tiger show. while she realizes that the sufferer was once her boyfriend's frightening ex, issues appears to be like undesirable. but if the police become aware of that the deceased used to be additionally Leigh's highschool nemesis, issues get a lot worse!"A witty story peopled with very fun characters"-- Romantic Times"Solid plotting and fascinating characters. Twists and turns abound."-- citadel Lauderdale solar Sentinel"Never Sorry is especially entertaining."--Margaret Maron