Crime & mystery: women sleuths

How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems?DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide - yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side?It's...

When the wedding of her oldest friend ends with a shocking murder, Dr Nell Ward is once again caught up in a web of subterfuge, secrets and lies... Dr Nell Ward is delighted when her childhood friend Percy announces she's engaged to handsome businessman Hawke McAnstruther - and rashly offers to h...

When an eye-witness testimony paints the killer as a green skinned monster, with swollen red eyes and goblin ears, even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer, the trail suggests something even more disturbing: someone is playing at science. Two exclusive J.D. Robb short stories.Possession ...

DI Kelly Porter knows some people will risk everything to get ahead. But when the truth comes out deadly prices are paid... After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns to her home turf in the Lake District. Crimes in the Cumbrian constabulary tend to be of the minor sort, b...

Family secrets are hiding a legacy of lies. Can DI Kelly Porter get to the truth before innocent lives are left?When the seventh Earl of Lowesdale is found hanging from the rafters at Wasdale Hall, everyone assumes the aging aristocrat finally had enough of chasing the glory of his youth. But whe...

As undertaker Drew Slocombe drove to Greta Simmonds' burial deep in the heart of the Cotswolds, the last thing he was worried about was becoming a murder suspect. But Thea Osbourne becomes Drew's unlikely defender when the council worker opposing the burial is found dead just minutes from the hou...

Bath police officer Josie Masters is forced to contend with a childhood memory of a potential abduction involving a sinister clown when a body looking like that of the abducted surfaces. The common fear of clowns makes for chilling terrain in this essential for Peter James and Karin Slaughter fan...

Following the success of Caroline Dunford's engaging Euphemia Martins mysteries, comes a brand new historical crime series featuring Euphemia's wise and witty daughter, Hope Stapleford. With war approaching, innocence is the first casualty 'A Sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagon...

A young girl. A hidden treasure. A dark family secret. 'A future classic' Veronica Henry'Beautiful, dark, haunting' Edward Carey'A bewitching read' Woman & Home A young girl.A hidden treasure.A dark family secret.`Evocative and enchanting - a future classic' Veronica Henry`An extraordinary debut....

This psychological thriller revolves around a smart, self-determined woman living in New York City, whose life is thrown into turmoil following a number of murders in her neighbourhood. * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * 'Imagine Gon...