women detectives

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of sexy vice cop Joe Morelli, when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.

Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.

Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.

Anneke Haagen, only days from her wedding, still finds time to work on her computer games and chat on-line with a group of computer gamers, and when one of the members of her mailing list is murdered, Anneke decides that the perfect way to solve the crime is to turn it into a murder game that all the prime suspects can play.

When his high school sweetheart is killed in a car accident, police sergeant Tom McGowan suspects foul play and hires Dr. Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist, to help him find the truth.

Something tells psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase to stay away from the search for her boyfriend's ex-fiancee who disappeared two years earlier into the cult-like Bliss Project, but is not until she poses as an initiate in the community that Elizabeth realizes how much she should have listened to her instincts.

V.I. Warshawski, private investigator, uncovers a network of corruption when she goes back to her old neighborhood in Chicago.

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes.