women private investigators

In a dystopian Argentine Antarctica, the only female private investigator is Eliana Gomez, who's boyfriend Diego happens to be a runner for organized crime lord Ignacio Cabrera. When Elaina accepts an assignment with a local aristocrat with a dark secret, she'll face deadly conflict with her own boyfriend as the local drones threaten an uprising for independence.

"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter. Notoriously tricky to pronounce: think xylophone. X: The twenty-fourth letter in the English alphabet. Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim"--.

In the days just prior to September 11th, Maxine Tarnow, a former fraud investigator and current Manhattan mom with an ex-husband, digs into the finances of a computer-security firm and its CEO and quickly finds herself in grave danger.

While private investigator Scarlet Moreno tries to clear her friend, who is a suspect in a murder, and deals with a mysterious detective who thinks she is interferring with the case, her partner, Krista Hart, tracks down the soul witness to a murder just one day before the trial and agrees to work with sexy investigator R.J. Flynn in order to find the person.

When famous pop singer Molly Metropolis disappears, a journalist and Molly's personal assistant join together to find her, following clues the singer left behind in her journals and songs.

While alien huntress Mia Snow investigates a series of killings, her partner is suddenly left fighting for his life and Mia turns to a stranger for help. The stranger, an Arcadian, is a wanted alien murder suspect, and yet Mia has no choice but to trust him if she wants to keep her partner alive.

"The second Veronica Mars novel, in which she investigates a mysterious crime at The Neptune Grand hotel" --.

In a strange room in Morocco, Mary Russell is trying to solve the mystery of who she is. She has awakened to find blood and soldiers pounding on the door. She finds she is clothed like a man and armed only with her wits and a scrap of paper containing a mysterious Arabic phrase. As she flees to the streets she finds herself strangely adept in the skills of the underworld. Meanwhile, in the ancient city of Fez, Sherlock Holmes finds himself pulled into the growing war between France, Spain, and the Rif Revolt, which is led by a man who may be a Robin Hood or a power-mad tribesman. As Holmes searches for Mary, and Mary searches for herself, each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late.

Jade del Cameron sets off for Africa determined to forget the horrors of World War I and fulfill a man's dying wish, and is forced to draw upon all her ingenuity and courage to find a killer and live to complete her mission.

Aleut sleuth Kate Shugak puts herself and her teenage charge Johnny Morgan--the son of her dead lover--in danger after her investigation of the murder of a local handyman turns up details of a secret life the killer does not want revealed.