women detectives

When a murder mystery game is announced in the personal column of the village newspaper, all the residents of Little Paddocks plan to attend, but the parlor game quickly goes terribly wrong, prompting a visit from Miss Marple.

Miss Jane Marple, a deceptively demure spinster, investigates when an unpopular magistrate and church warden is discovered shot through the head.

Detective Aimee Leduc has reason to believe that her mother belongs to a group of terrorists resembling the 1960s Red Terror gang.

When Paris detective Aimee Leduc discovers a dead body with a swastika carved on its forehead, she and her partner set out to solve the crime and become entangled in web of modern politics and old war crimes.

As detective Aimee Leduc pursues terrorists who are part of an underground North African network in Paris, she narrowly escapes being killed in a car bombing.

Joe was on a date when she got the call. A man's body was found beside the picnic tables in a local park. He has abrasions on his knuckles and several cuts on his palms and forearms. The victim defended himself but his opponent brought a gun to a fistfight. At first, it looks like a simple case, but as Joe quickly discovers, it's not. The victim lives almost a thousand miles away. HIs wife says he's in town to fish and camp, but he didn't bring fishing tackle or a tent. He came for an altogether different purpose. As Joe investigates, she finds herself drawn into a dangerous world steeped in lies and deception. With every insight she gains and every clue she finds, she comes closer to solving her case. But with every second that passes, the people she's hunting draw closer to their prey. It's a race with innocent victims as the prize. If Joe wins, she saves the day. If she loses, many will die ... including her.

"Agatha Christie's legendary sleuth, Jane Marple, returns to solve twelve baffling cases in this . . . collection, penned by a host of . . . authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder"--Provided by publisher.

"Three victims, three bullets, three cities. The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes?"--OCLC.

"Nineteen year old Charlotte Grote has her whole life ahead of her; headed straight to Oxford and a future as a real detective--until she's framed for murder! Given the choice between going to jail basically forever or joining the police, Lottie decides to hit the beat, all while trying to find the real murderer. Lottie may have been running rings about the police since her 9th birthday, but she's never been on this side of the security tape. Could the future of law enforcement be 5'2" with an extremely strong bangs game? Yes. Very yes"--Provided by publisher.

Traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggles in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie had used as an undercover officer.