Crime and mystery: women sleuths

In Creeklaw County the bodies are piling up.

A Victorian gentleman .

When will Fran Varady learn to trust her instincts?

Steering a path between police duties and family loyalty is not easy .

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss.

Crime in the Cotswolds just got deadly.

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

There's trouble ahead for Fran Varady.

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We followed the fresh blood even though every molecule in my body was screaming for me to run.

I am back in St Louis and trying to live a normal life - as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a US Marshal.

Once you tell someone certain things, like, say, you got mailed a human head in a box, they tend to think you're crazy.

'The ardeur made me a sort of living vampire who fed off sex, but with the downsides came some interesting upsides.

'They will play with us, then destroy us.

'It was the middle of November, I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves and vampires.

MICAH'Raising the dead is easy.

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel'The bride was a witch who solved preternatural crimes.

'People don't like dealing with people who raise the dead.

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel'Something in the look on my face must have frightened him, because his eyes widened, and I saw something like human fear cross his reptilian face.

'I was covered in blood, but it wasn't mine, so it was okay.

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel'Richard was an alpha werewolf.

'You can't trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters.

'These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.

'When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body.

'You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires.

'Most women complain that there are no single straight men left.

'The older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it.

'I don't date vampires.

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I'll murder three strangers.

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