women private investigators

Miss Marple, on holiday on the island of St. Honore, is drawn into the investigation of the death of Major Palgrave, a man found murdered shortly after regaling her with boring stories of a murderer he once knew.

Maisie Dobbs finds herself drawn back into the Great War when she begins investigating a recent crime.

Aleutian private detective Kate Shugak joins Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin in investigating two brutal attacks against residents of Niniltna Park in southeast Alaska which occurred in the midst of controversy over proposed oil drilling in a nearby wildlife preserve.

The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private detective, and she soon has more business than she expected, including a disturbing case involving a missing child.

Kinsey investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths: the first of a local, shady PI, the second a John Doe on the beach.

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fianc?, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

Robin runs an exotic pet store and, to help pay the bills, works in a bar. It's at the bar that she meets Freddy, who then turns up dead and Robin, who owes someone a favor, must investigate his death.

Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle pulls out all the stops when Paolina, the now-teenage girl she has mentored for years, disappears without a trace, and as her search continues, Carlotta begins to suspect Paolina has been snatched by her biological father--a Columbian drug lord believed by many to be dead.

Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle, unable to get anyone to share information about why her mob-connected boyfriend Sam Gianelli has been indicted for a murder that is keeping him out of the country, decides to take a simple job checking out a fiance for a nervous bride-to-be, but when the young woman is found dead, Carlotta suddenly finds herself under suspicion and in over her head.

Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.