women detectives

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women detectives

10th anniversary

2011
Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the brutal beating of a teenage girl and the disappearance of her newborn and finds the pressure of the case interfering with her new marriage, while her friend, assistant district attorney Yuki Castellano, chooses between following up on evidence that might cause her to lose the biggest case of her career or ignoring it and possibly sending an innocent woman to prison.

11th hour

2012
Detective Lindsay Boxer must investigate a murder that could include any of her friends as the killer. At the same time she is under attack in the press and must also take care of her unborn child.

"D" is for deadbeat

a Kinsey Millhone mystery
1987
An ex-con turns up dead after he hires Kinsey to locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000.

"F" is for fugitive

a Kinsey Millhone mystery
1989
Kinsey Millhone takes on a case that comes alive again after seventeen years.

Nemesis

1971
Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young girl.

Jane and the unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

being the first Jane Austen mystery
1996
A mystery novel that casts Jane Austen as a sleuth who is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of the Earl of Scargrave, but the matter becomes urgent when the widow is accused of orchestrating her husband's death because of her love for his nephew.

Chutes and adders

1994
When amateur detective Robin Light becomes a prime murder suspect, she unearths unsavory information about her late husband.

"A" is for alibi

a Kinsey Millhone mystery
1982
Kinsey Millhone, a female private detective, is hired by a wife who did time for her husband's murder to find out who really killed him.

7th Heaven

2008

The 6th target

a novel
2007
The members of the Women's Murder Club are thrown into turmoil when one of them is injured in a shooting incident on a crowded ferry, and homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer has her hands full trying to find out who tried to kill her friend while at the same time investigating the kidnappings of children from well-to-do families, along with their nannies.

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