Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Women Sleuths

Animal photographer Janet MacPhail is training for her cat Leo's first feline agility trial when she gets a frantic call about a "kidnapping". When Janet and her Australian Shepherd Jay set out to track down the missing party, they quickly find themselves drawn into the volatile politics of feral cat colonies and endangered wetlands.

When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track - to track down a murderer.

Rügen sehen und sterben - Romy Becarre glaubt, auf Rügen ein wenig zur Ruhe zu kommen. Doch kaum hat sie sich auf ihrer neuen Dienststelle eingerichtet, hat sie ihren ersten Fall. Nach einem anonymen Anruf findet die Polizei auf dem Gelände einer Fischfabrik im Sassnitzer Hafen die Leiche des seit anderthalb Tagen vermissten Kai Richardt. Der 45-jährige Geschäftsmann, Familienvater und Triathlet aus Bergen, verlor im Keller eines Lagerhauses sein Leben.

A call from an ex-husband is never welcome. For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah. Her ex wants a favor. His "friend" and co-worker, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Anne's ransacked apartment - complete with blood-sprayed walls - gives Jill the chilling feeling that her ex may be up to his arrogant neck in murder. Now Jill's out with the street people of Berkeley and the crazies of People's Park to uncover the fate of a welfare worker. But her best suspect is her ex: the former "significant other" who still pushes her buttons.

Schwarzhumorig, bissig und herrlich unkorrekt. Violetta Morgenstern, pensionierte Lehrerin und Auftragsmörderin im Namen des Staates, hat ihre mörderische Berufung an den Nagel gehängt und genießt den Ruhestand. Doch dann wird sie für einen letzten Auftrag vom Killerministerium "Tell" zurückgeholt: Ihr Ex-Kollege Miguel Schlunegger hat ohne ersichtlichen Grund einen Menschen umgebracht. Nun sitzt er im Gefängnis, schweigt eisern – und soll bald eliminiert werden. Morgenstern versucht verzweifelt herauszufinden, warum er gemordet hat.

When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost 30 years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is stunned when a young woman approaches her at the funeral service and slips something into her pocket. A note suggesting that Paula’s husband was not all that he seemed....

Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren's unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem - Lauren's parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective.

Londres, 1929. Maisie Dobbs abre una oficina como flamante investigadora privada en el centro de Londres y se convierte en una de las primeras mujeres detective de la época. Su primer caso, la investigación de la supuesta infidelidad dela esposa de un hombre de la alta sociedad, la lleva a un lugar conocido como El Retiro, un refugio de convalecientes de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet - homicide....

Eine Villa nur für Frauen - für Frauen, die vor ihren Männern fliehen mussten, das ist aus dem Erbe geworden, das ihr Lover Thierry Isabelle Bonnet in Fragolin hinterlassen hat. Die Kommissarin ist glücklich, dass sie Thierrys Hinterlassenschaft so einem guten Zweck zuführen konnte. Doch dann entpuppt sich der wahr gewordene Traum als Albtraum, denn aus der "Villa des Friedens" verschwindet eines Tages eine der Bewohnerinnen spurlos - mitsamt ihrem Kind. Und sie wird nicht die Einzige bleiben.

Saint-Tropez hat Brigitte Bardot. Fragolin dagegen den Film- und Gesangsstar Colette Gaspard - auch wenn kaum einer weiß, dass die Diva hier geboren wurde. Schließlich hat sie das provenzalische Dorf schon in jungen Jahren verlassen. Einziger Kontakt zu ihrem Geburtsort ist ihre Zwillingsschwester Yvonne, die noch immer in Fragolin lebt. Genauso wie die Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet.

When Clyde the cat travels 200 miles back home only to find his former owner dead, the story makes national news. While everyone seems eager to tell Clyde's incredible tale, someone needs to step up to care for him. Because the media attention is creating chaos at the local shelter, cat quilter Jillian Hart agrees to foster the loyal orange tabby, hoping his location is kept secret. But while the media circus around Clyde continues, Jillian learns the real story behind his owner's death - he was murdered.

In the fourth installment of the best-selling Serenity's Plain Secrets series, Serenity must work with US marshals to uncover the truth behind a shockingly brutal 15-year-cold murder. Desperate for answers, Serenity finds herself in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she unravels secrets that threaten to tear her and Daniel apart. But digging up the past is dangerous, and the quaint Amish settlement isn't as safe as it seems.

Whispers from the Dead is the powerful and thrilling sequel to Lamb to the Slaughter in the Amish mystery series, Serenity's Plain Secrets. Sheriff Serenity Adams and Daniel Bachman are once again partnered up in a criminal investigation, when they travel to a northern Amish settlement that has been riddled by arsons for the past two decades.

When Harley and her boyfriend, Cole, receive a contract to provide local security for singing sensation, Mitzi Monroe, Harley thinks it’ll be a quick and easy job. Mitzi is visiting a top Notting Hill salon for a style and a photo shoot. But it quickly becomes more complicated when the singer is tragically killed. The singer’s management company have millions of dollars sunk into her career, and need to salvage what they can of their reputation.

For the first time ever, super sleuth Harley Hill is due to meet her mysterious parents, but when a young girl sees an interview with Harley on TV about her crime solving skills, Harley is torn. Should she go to America to meet her parents, or stay to help the young girl who appears homeless and desperate in the search for her own missing father? Torn, Harley decides she can manage both. But when she and her business partner, Cordelia Silvers, and their two sleuthing pets, Monty and Max, start their investigations, they soon realize that this is no ordinary missing persons case.

Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.

When ex–Vegas showgirl and local business owner Bunny Reid starts an online dating service called Cupid’s Cat’s Meow, out-of-town visitors flock to her bowling alley for the speed dating and cat show events that she hosts to bring in extra cash. Bunny’s scheme sounds harmless enough, but school psychologist Skye Denison knows all too well that an influx of strangers in Scumble River always spells trouble….

With Christmas just around the corner, Samantha Moon finds herself taking on a very strange case. A mysterious family treasure has been stolen, something priceless that's been passed down through the generations, something buried in secrets. Samantha's reward is simple: she gets half of whatever it is... if she can find it first. And just as the holidays threaten to consume her, Samantha is approached by a very mysterious man, someone who knows all her secrets, a man who might not be a man at all.

In Vampire Fire, private investigator Samantha Moon's new client asks her to find a dead guy - a dead guy she knew. It doesn't take Sam very long to figure out that something wicked this way comes - very, very wicked - but there's no way she can walk away from this case...However, Sam's client doesn't want the guy's body - he wants his soul. And if Sam fails, then two others will die. Now Sam must track down the spirit of a dead man who's hiding from his destiny and hand him over.