Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives

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  • Open Road Media Grey Mask: A Miss Silver Mystery

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  • Open Road Media Eternity Ring

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  • Open Road Media Ladies' Bane

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  • Open Road Media The Case Is Closed

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  • Open Road Media In the Balance

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  • Open Road Media The Chinese Shawl

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  • Open Road Media She Came Back

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  • Open Road Media Latter End

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  • Open Road Media Through the Wall

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  • Open Road Media The Deeds of the Disturber

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  • Open Road Media Steel Guitar

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    Book SynopsisA Boston PI tries to help a musician friend—and find a murderer—in this “gripping” mystery by an Anthony Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly). Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). She may be Boston’s most tenacious private detective, but by night, Carlotta Carlyle is just another cab driver hustling for an honest buck. When blues superstar Dee Willis climbs into her cab, Carlotta isn’t starstruck—she’s shocked. The two women were friends in college, right up until the day Dee ran off with Carlotta’s husband. Now Dee is back in town to play a sold-out concert and Carlotta is too surprised to introduce herself—or to wonder why her old pal is asking to be dropped off in one of Boston’s roughest neighborhoods. After saving the blues diva from being ripped to shreds, Carlotta agrees to help her track down an old friend. Soon, a blackmail plot concerning stolen song lyrics is uncovered and a corpse is found in Dee’s hotel room. Carlotta will have to work fast to keep her old friend from becoming yet another casualty of the blues. Steel Guitar is the 4th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Trade Review“Another of Barnes’s superb mixes of warmth, enthusiasm, clever plotting, vivid characters, and overall brio.” —Kirkus Reviews “The most refreshing, creative female character to hit mystery fiction since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.” —People “Cleverly plotted and zestfully related. . . . A characteristically gripping tale, packed with taut, energy-charged images.” —Publishers Weekly “Carlotta—tall, vivacious, sensitive—unravels all the knots with breathtaking verve, leaving the reader gasping for more. Super.” —Library Journal “Carlotta is terrific company.” —The New York Times

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  • Open Road Media Cold Case

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    Book SynopsisHired to find a missing novelist, Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle gets tangled up in a cutthroat political campaign Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published her first novel at age fourteen, shocking the upper crust of Boston with her frank depiction of blue-blooded indiscretions, and she seemed to have a magnificent career ahead of her. But before Thea could publish her follow-up novel, she mysteriously disappeared and was eventually named as a victim of a serial killer. Twenty-four years later, an admirer of Thea’s comes to Carlotta claiming to have evidence that Thea is alive—and still writing. He begs Carlotta to find the onetime prodigy, but there are powerful people, including Thea’s prominent family of Boston politicians, who want Thea’s second book to stay buried. As a take-no-prisoners gubernatorial race speeds to its climax, Carlotta discovers a secret that could upend the campaign, endanger people’s lives, and rewrite literary history.Cold Case is the 7th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Trade Review“With a stylish pro like Barnes doing the plotting, this chilling case won’t leave you cold.” —People “An intricate, whodunit-and-why…Barnes is an adroit storyteller and she makes her large cast of interesting characters come alive.” – Chicago Tribune “Absorbing . . . Barnes keeps readers flipping pages.” —Orlando Sentinel “Barnes is a master storyteller, and her latest—in a series that just keeps getting better—is a riveting read that is at once poignant, funny, sad, suspenseful, and hopeful. A must for every mystery fan!” —Booklist “A satisfying, complex tale.” —Entertainment Weekly

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Crossing Danger: A Shelby Nichols Adventure

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Taste of Honey

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Two Birds with One Stone

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  • Kensington Publishing The Puppy Who Knew Too Much

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  • Kensington Publishing A Riesling to Die

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  • Kensington Publishing Puzzling Ink

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Girl with a Past

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform No Hiding Place

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform So Many Boots, So Little Time: A Southern chick-lit mystery

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Dead Freaks Tell No Tales

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Painting Lessons: a Bella Sarver Mystery

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Conviction: Book 3 of the Detective Ryan Series

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Off the Record: An Avery Rich Mystery

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Blown To Pieces

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  • The 20th Victim

    Grand Central Publishing The 20th Victim

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  • The 23rd Midnight: If You Haven't Read the

    Grand Central Publishing The 23rd Midnight: If You Haven't Read the

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  • Grand Central Publishing The Bullet

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    £999.99

  • Vision The 17th Suspect

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  • The First Lady

    Grand Central Publishing The First Lady

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  • Grand Central Publishing The 18th Abduction

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  • 21st Birthday

    Grand Central Publishing 21st Birthday

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  • 22 Seconds

    Grand Central Publishing 22 Seconds

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform A Crane Christmas: The Morelville Mysteries - Book 6

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Hannah's Hope: The Morelville Mysteries - Book 8

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Murder at the Office: A Mother Daughter Mystery

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Murder at the Office: Large Print: A Mother Daughter Mystery

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Moon Dance

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Turkey Tussle

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform From Fear to Eternity

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  • Sourcebooks, Inc One Perfect Shot

    £11.52

  • Bella Books The Wombat Strategy

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  • Bella Books Murder Undercover

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    £12.30

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