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By Alexander McCall Smith. 2003
Mma Ramotswe, daughter of the late Obed Ramotswe, is now the announced fiancée of Mr J L B Matekoni. It…
is a fine match: she is the founder and owner of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency and he is the proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. But Precious Ramotswe is not as happy as she should be under the circumstances. The Detective Agency is struggling with its finances and Mr J L B Matekoni is unusually low and neglecting his garage. Sequel to "Tears of the giraffe". 2003. (Precious Ramotswe ; 3). (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)By Anne Perry. 2014
In New York, at the turn of the century, where new American money and old English aristocracy collide, a young…
bride's secret past could destroy her future. Thomas Pitt's daughter Jemima, in America as a chaperone until her friend's wedding, is instead drawn into the crisis, and must decide whom to trust, and how to thread her way through the dangerous streets of this cold, brash new city. 2014.By Sue Grafton. 2002
The 18-year-old murder of an unidentified young woman has never been solved by the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department. Two…
of the original detectives, now elderly and ill, decide to try once more to identify the "Jane Doe" and discover who killed her. Kinsey Millhone agrees to help, little knowing that the old murder will touch on her own past and put her life in danger. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 17)By Minette Walters. 2000
November 1978. Somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned…
but for the young woman who finds her and who believes that Annie was murdered, for the police record the death as a simple hit and run. 2000.By Minette Walters. 1997
Wealthy architect Amanda Powell discovers that homeless Billy Blake has died in her garage. Journalist Michael Deacon is puzzled by…
Powell's interest in Blake, especially after learning her husband has been missing for five years. He teams up with an odd colleague and with a friend of Blake's to find out more about the man. Some strong language.By Sue Grafton. 1987
When ex-con John Daggett hires Kinsey Millhone to deliver a cheque for $25,000 to a teenage boy, Kinsey is swept…
up in a tangled web of hate, violence and murder. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987.By Janet Evanovich. 1999
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is searching for Maxine Nowicki, who jumped bail after stealing her ex-boyfriend's car. Suspecting that Maxine…
is running from more than just the law, Stephanie enlists the help of a neighbour's cross-dressing musician nephew to decode messages left by Maxine. Sequel to "Three to get deadly". 1999.By Minette Walters. 1993
When writer Roz Leigh stops working after a personal tragedy, she is given an ultimatum by her publisher: write a…
book about convicted murderer Olive Martin or lose her job. Initially repulsed by obese Olive, who has admitted to butchering her mother and sister for ignoring her birthday, Roz is soon trying to prove that Olive is lying to protect someone. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. 1993.By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2006
Homicide detective Lindsay Boxer and her colleagues in the Women's Murder Club investigate suspicious deaths at the San Francisco Municipal…
Hospital, where patients in recovery are suddenly dying at an alarming rate. Clues include buttons on the corpses' eyes. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2006. (Women's Murder Club mystery ; 5)By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2007
San Francisco. When a mass shooting on a ferry wounds Women's Murder Club member Claire Washburn, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer investigates…
and attorney Yuki Castellano prosecutes. Lindsay also delves into a child kidnapping case involving a dead nanny. Bestseller. 2007.By Janet Evanovich. 2003
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is assigned by her cousin Vinnie to track down guest worker Samuel Singh,…
who was expected to return to India. When Singh's acquaintances begin to be murdered, Plum's search leads her and skip-tracer Ranger to Las Vegas. Strong language and some violence. Sequel to "Hard eight" (EB74891), followed by "Ten big ones". 2003. (Stephanie Plum novel ; 9)By Martin Amis. 1997
"I worked one hundred murders," says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. "In my time I have come in on…
the aftermath of maybe a thousand deaths, most of which turn out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds. So I've seen them all. But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me, in my gut, like the body of Jennifer Rockwell." Detective Hoolihan investigates when the body of Jennifer Rockwell is discovered.By Janet Evanovich. 1996
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a killer who has just shot his best friend.…
Mancuso is fresh out of the army and suspiciously wealthy. He is also distantly related to Joe Morelli, a vice cop with ethics that lean toward the grey zone and a habit of interfering with Stephanie's investigations. Sequel to "One for the money" (EB69676). Followed by "Three to get deadly" (EB67675). 1996. (Stephanie Plum novel ; 2)By Jacqueline Winspear. 2010
England, 1932. An American couple hires investigator Maisie Dobbs after the body of their son Michael Clifton is discovered in…
France, buried in a collapsed Great War trench. The Cliftons want to find Michael's girlfriend, an English nurse. But after the parents are attacked, Maisie uncovers murder and larceny. 2010.By Agatha Christie. 2016
One minute, Heather had been gabbling on at her movie idol, Marina Gregg, the next, Heather suffered a massive seizure.…
But for whom was the poison really intended? Marina's frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for evidence, Jane Marple conducted a different investigation, one into human nature. 2016.By Meg Cabot. 2006
To keep her Greenwich Village flat, former pop idol Heather Wells balances two jobs: working for her PI housemate Cooper…
Cartwright (her secret crush) and serving as an assistant college dorm director. When a female freshman dies suspiciously, Heather undertakes another vocation--spunky girl detective. Some strong language. Followed by "Size 14 is not fat either". 2006.By Elizabeth Peters. 2004
Egypt, 1907. Archaeologist family headed by Amelia Peabody and husband Emerson accepts a hazardous mission to Lost Oasis to save…
their friend Prince Tarek, suffering from a strange sickness. They encounter constant deceptions and dangers on the desert trek, ultimately finding themselves victims of a ruse to dethrone the prince. Sequel to "Children of the storm", followed by "The serpent on the crown". 2004.By Jacqueline Winspear. 2017
1939. Dr. Francesca Thomas, a senior Secret Service agent, has an urgent assignment for Maisie Dobbs: find the killer of…
a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier. Within days, another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war," a new kind of refugee - an evacuee from London - appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie’s home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie’s search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Bestseller. Sequel to "Journey to Munich". 2017.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2014
It’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and while she’s enjoying a leisurely morning, a man is shot dead…
five minutes from her house. It looks like the work of a serial sniper. And when her pursuit of the sniper takes Scarpetta to a shipwreck off the Florida coast, she comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her niece Lucy, Scarpetta’s very own flesh and blood. 2014.By Jacqueline Winspear. 2011
England, 1932. At the request of the secret service, Maisie Dobbs goes undercover at a college devoted to peace. Originally…
assigned to keep an eye on the school's founder, the seditious children's book author Greville Liddicote, Maisie shifts her attention when she encounters a murder. 2011.