women private investigators

Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, having decided to work as a bartender instead of a private investigator and struggling with personal issues, is thrown back into the world of spying when she agrees to help a customer find out if his wife is cheating.

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are en route to California to settle her family's estate. Once they arrive, a series of mysterious deaths leads them from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent's marriage and the tragic accident that Mary alone survived. She discovers that even a forgotten past never dies and that it can kill again.

Stephanie Plum, a New Jersey fugitive apprehension agent, is met with a plethora of challenges, family-related and otherwise, as Christmas approaches--not the least of which is the appearance of a strange, sexy man in her kitchen.

Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter, thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan Beckwith.

A woman seeks an explanation for her mother's mysterious disappearance 34 years earlier.

Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe and her assistant open an adjunct business--a men's typing school--which helps Mma Makutsi find a man and also helps financially when some arrogant investigative competition arrives in town; meanwhile, Precious's adopted son hits puberty at full speed.

Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, wonders about the direction of her relationship with her boyfriend, while investigating the suitors of a wealthy entrepreneur in an attempt to determine whether they are after the woman's heart or her money.

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.

Private investigator Regan Reilly and her policeman husband Jack decide to celebrate their one year anniversary by spending four days at his parents' beachfront home on Cape Cod, but a violent storm demolishes their plans for a quiet, romantic vacation, and they are called to duty when an elderly neighbor disappears.