women detectives

"Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything ... ESPECIALLY solving crimes. But her totally-in- control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but- not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind"--Back of cover.

Amelia returns to the Nile for the 1895 to 1896 season with a small and significant pyramid to excavate, but she is interrupted by the brilliant Master Criminal, a looter of both the living and the dead.

San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon the members of the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of violent incidents puts police on the trail of a killer or killers intent on murdering someone every three days, and the investigation becomes urgent when Boxer learns one of her friends is a target.

Harlem sleuth Mali Anderson is called upon to clear the name of the young, suave Kendrick, after he is accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend Thea, a popular waitress at the Half-Moon Bar.

Private Investigator Ivy Gamble takes a murder case at the last place she wants to be--the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages. Years ago, when Ivy?s sister, Tabitha, began developing magical powers and Ivy didn't, a great wedge formed between them. Now Tabitha teaches at the Osthborne Academy, leaving Ivy no choice but to face her again after years of silence. As she delves deeper into the tight-knight magical community, not only does she try to solve a murder where students and faculty alike are suspects, but heal the relationship with her estranged sister as well.

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women's Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city?.

Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.

Detective Lindsay Boxer must investigate a murder that could include any of her friends as the killer. At the same time she is under attack in the press and must also take care of her unborn child.

Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the brutal beating of a teenage girl and the disappearance of her newborn and finds the pressure of the case interfering with her new marriage, while her friend, assistant district attorney Yuki Castellano, chooses between following up on evidence that might cause her to lose the biggest case of her career or ignoring it and possibly sending an innocent woman to prison.

New York City, 1894. When the suspected murderer they are investigating is killed and Pamela's ward is wrongfully accused of the murder, private investigators Pamela Thompson and Harry Miller must find the real killer to save an innocent girl --.