Crime and mystery: women sleuths

Discover the page-turning Hopgood Hall Cozy Mystery series from bestselling author E V Hunter'An enthralling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages.

'Captivating and chilling, with an ending I didn't see coming!

A tension packed, chilling story of long-awaited revenge from Top 10 Bestselling author Keri BeevisPassion.

Detective Eugenie Auf der Maur is about to discover: in Hera, the female of the species really is more deadly.

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.

'Unputdownable' 5* reader review 'An intriguing story from a brilliant writer' 5* reader review'A rattling good read' 5* reader review*******************************************************Seattle Homicide Detective Alice Madison is bound to jailed murderer John Cameron and attorney Nathan Quinn by a nightmare that changed their lives forever.

'Had me gripped right til the end' 5* reader review'An excellent, absorbing and gritty read' 5* reader review'Best page-turner I've read' 5* reader review****************************************************Twenty-five years ago in the woods by the Hoh River near Seattle, three boys were kidnapped.

On the gulf of Thailand, the Juree family are managing their run-down beach resort for the second year - still stalked by disaster.

Sabrina D'Avalos's father was murdered by the mafia.

Lola Jost is busy fending off boredom with a jigsaw puzzle when she hears the news.

A lawyer who specialises in French-African relations is found brutally murdered after suffering 'the torture of Father Lebrun' - a burning tyre is placed around his neck until he suffocates.

On the one hand, there's Lola.

A gritty, page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S.

THE FIRST FOUR TITLES IN THE ACERBIC, ECCENTRIC AND HILARIOUS AGATHA RAISIN SERIES AT A BARGAIN PRICE.

'Just the thing to chase the blues away.

Agatha has fallen in love - again.

An atmospheric and gripping mystery set in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.

One of Lady Antonia Fraser's gripping Jemima Shore mysteries, set in a secluded nunnery.

An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.

An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.

An atmospheric and gripping mystery set in Oxford - perfect for fans of MORSE and ENDEAVOURLord Saffron, one of the young bloods at Oxford University, is heir to a considerable fortune.

'We don't want to hurt her.

'As he turned .

Summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary but then a rising young Conservative politician.

From treachery in the Caribbean to mischief in the Mediterranean, from murderous drama to sleek black comedy, from a baffling number of suspects to a single confrontation with a maniacal rapist, here is a tantalising and varied excursion round motives and methods in the realm of crime - a collection of wittily told and deftly turned stories, with a twist.

'The screams came again: by now they sounded quite blood-curdling to the girl alone in the small room - or was it that they were getting nearer?

Professor Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit unearth some shocking findings when they re-examine a 10-year-old murder case.

The unexpected arrival of a long-lost granddaughter leads to mystery and mayhem in the thoroughly entertaining new Gladdy Gold mystery.

A tragic death leads Claire Clairmont to be haunted by her past and the 'summer of 1816' she shared with Byron and Shelley in this first in an intriguing new historical trilogy.

A secret mission.

When she unearths the bones of a young child, Beverly Vernon's life is transformed in ways she never expected.

Introducing private investigator Kate Weller in the first of the brand-new Marked for Retribution mystery series.

An old enemy from the past spells trouble for a young PI and her enigmatic cat in this dystopian noir mystery from the author of The Ninth Life.

Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery.

A local reporter discovers murder amid the debris of a Montana mountain fire in this thriller series debut by the author of the Sarah Burke Mysteries.

A daughter seeks Naomi Blake's help in proving her artist father was murdered.

A trip to Denver to research legalized marijuana turns into a murder case: "e;Very entertaining.

A brown leather briefcase containing priceless family jewels brings chaos and carnage to Bea's ordered life in the latest lively Abbot Agency mystery.

A desperate phone call from an old acquaintance plunges forensic psychiatrist Claire Roget into an explosive situation with echoes in her own past.

Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are baffled as to motive when the body of a young man is discovered.

Introducing feisty Asian-American private investigator Maya Mallick in the first of an intriguing new mystery series.

1920s script girl Jessie Beckett investigates the murder of a movie projectionist in this absorbing historical mystery.

Could Graham Pugh really be involved in a murder?

The capable, quick-witted Bea handles the insufferable suspects with Mary Poppinslike aplomb.

Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are facing their most challenging cold case yet: the year-old murder of a female student.