Crime and mystery: women sleuths
To Those Who Killed Me
Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check--until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons ...
The Adventures of Isabel
Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective.
“Candas Jane Dorsey’s terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Frank ...
Skyjack: a full-throttle hijacking thriller that never slows down
"ACTION-PACKED THRILL RIDE." --KARIN SLAUGHTER
"SENSATIONAL." --LEE CHILD
"HIGH STAKES, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE REALISM, AND NONSTOP ACTION." --KAREN DIONNE
In the follow-up to her exhilarating debut, The Freedom ...
Plots
A welcome follow-up to Flush, Robin MacFarland, a smart, funny, self-deprecating journalist who works for the Home and Garden section of a major Toronto newspaper, continues to grapple hilariously with ...
When the Flood Falls
When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits. With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal ...
The Trickster's Lullaby
A winter camping trip turns deadly as two missing teenagers, a twisted love triangle, and the spectre of radicalism create turmoil in the remote Laurentian wilderness.
Amanda Doucette’s cross-Canada ...
Fire in the Stars
A former aid worker returns home haunted by her time in Africa and channels her pain into a murder investigation that’s all too personal.
After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid ...
Playing With Fire
Sometimes we can't see what's right in front of us.
Small-town journalist Claire Abbott has a sixth sense, what the fire chief calls a “radar for crime. ” When a string of suspicious fires breaks ...
The Two Sisters of Borneo
The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner Ian Hamilton.
Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. She has also set up an investment company with May ...
The Scottish Banker of Surabaya
The fifth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series exposes the dark world of money laundering and the Italian mob.
Ava begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail ...