women private investigators

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum discovers she is being stalked by a crazed woman and sets out to find the mysterious woman and uncover her connection to a dangerous murderer.

Private investigator Jane Kelly is hired by Violet Purcell, who is the prime suspect in her ex-husband's murder, so Jane and her pug, Binky, set out to prove Violet's innocence and find the real killer, which turns out to be a bigger problem than Jane imagined when new suspects turn up at every turn.

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum wades into the middle of a confusing case of stolen race horses and dirty money when her Grandma Mazur finds a duffle bag full of cash on St. Patrick's Day, buys a Winnebago, and heads to Atlantic City.

Apprentice private investigator Jane Kelly becomes caught up in a web of greed, mental illness, deception, betrayal, and lies when Orchid, the elderly, slightly dotty matriarch of Lake Chinook's wealthy Purcell family, is murdered in the midst of Jane's efforts to convince her to give up control of the family fortune.

Sofie Metropolis, a private detective in Queens, New York, is hired by the neighborhood vampire to prove he is not responsible for a string of killings, while her mother Thalia volunteers her to look for a missing woman Thalia has adopted in absentia, and bounty hunter Jake Porter and Greek baker Dino vie for her attention.

Part-time private investigator Kate Shugak helps her boyfriend, state trooper Jim Chopin, investigate two deaths connected to the mining of gold in an Alaskan national park.

Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.

Private investigator V.I. Warshawski agrees to help her friend uncover the secret his family is hiding from him, but as V.I. learns more about the past, the terror of the Holocaust comes back to haunt her.

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.