Crime and mystery: women sleuths

Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont -- the Fairchilds' favorite getaway since Faith's husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a toddler.

Santlofers fluid, almost poetic, writing, coupled with his extraordinary artwork, places him at the forefront of cutting-edge crime fiction.

The search for her estranged father in Mexico leads a young woman into danger and intrigue in this classic mystery from a New York Times bestseller.

Chilling surprises await a grad student when she visits her family's secluded estate in this classic gothic mystery by a New York Times-bestselling author.

Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it.

Pickled.

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Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells.

At Bertrams Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.

At first glance, it appears to be an accident .

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to doespecially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile peace.

The third electrifying book in #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottolines Rosato Associates series has criminal lawyer Marta Richter in a race to prove one mans innocence.

A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon.

Life has hit some sour notes as of late for BB hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin Renie.

**Winner of a Lefty Award for Best Mystery****Edgar Award and Anthony Award Finalist**'Stand-out' Caz Frear'Razor-sharp'Laura Lippman'Sharp and sassy'HeatShe found out her sister was back in New York from Instagram.

THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK Deliciously dark and utterly addictive my favourite Ruth Ware yet' LUCY FOLEYEveryone wanted her lifeSomeonewanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago.

Ophelia and Abby investigate a murder-and search for their missing friend-in Shirley Damsgaard's paranormal mystery The Witch is Dead.

Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch.

Small-town librarian Ophelia Jensen is finally starting to embrace her lot as one of the "e;chosen"e;-a psychic and folk magick practitioner, a.

An aspiring actress and part-time detective must play it cool when her boss turns up dead in this historical mystery debut set in WWII-era NYC.

If ever a book was a mood-lifter, it's this one.

Unholy MatrimonyAsk not for whom the wedding bell tolls, it tolls for Judith McMonigle Flynn's son Mike--and the Hillside Manor bb is packed to the rafters with relatives.

The second page-turning instalment in the acclaimed mystery series featuring striking, sarcastic antique dealer Molly Doyle, set in picturesque Carmel, California.

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A bum hip has bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn limping off to Good Cheer Hospital -- a questionable "e;haven of healing"e; where two recent patients didn't make the cut after routine surgery.

Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good uselike when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager.

With grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanne challenged the status quo -- and won.

A local landscaper finds herself in the weeds of multiple murder investigations as this cozy mystery series continues.

USA Today bestselling mystery maven Mary Daheim brings us another intriguing tale in her cherished Bed-and-Breakfast mystery series in which a trip down memory lane brings Judith and Renie back to their old neighbourhood, and they are drawn to a seemingly deserted house that is much more than meets the eye.

In Agatha Christies They Do It with Mirrors, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents.

Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently deceased tycoon Mr.

When Judith and her cousin Renie go on vacation in a remote and possibly haunted Scottish castle owned by a rich whiskey distillery baron strange things start occurring.

For Sale: Luxury Condos, Corpse IncludedJust a stone's throw from Judith McMonigle Flynn's thriving Hillside Manor, workmen are busy renovating the elegantly decrepit Alhambra Arms into pricey condominiums.

There's snow place like homicideBB hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's ready to hang up her oven mitts, but irrepressible Cousin Renie needs help catering the telephone company's annual winter retreat at secluded Mountain Goat Lodge.

In Agatha Christies classic,Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.

Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York Collegea career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits.

Heather Wells Rocks!

"e;[Jance] continues to grow in her art.

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisementand Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.

Lizzie Nichols has a problem: she can't keep anything to herself.

Ex-nurse-turned-insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol's willing to risk anything to put a bad doc out of businesseven her best friend Goldie's near-perfect proboscis!

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christies classic detective story, The Moving Finger.

It's a deadly winter for archaeologist Emma Fielding as she tracks a killer in an old New Hampshire hotel, in this fifth mystery from real-life archaeologist Dana Cameron.

Now afilm forHallmark Movies Mysteries,starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and James Tupper!

The New York Times bestselling J.

Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert.

Valerie Vane was an up-and-coming lifestyle reporter at a prominent New York City daily.

Saralee Rosenberg's compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love.