Showing results by publisher "Avon" in Women Sleuths

When former Detective Inspector Jessica Hirsch boards the London Underground, it should be just a few short stops home at the end of another long day. But as the tube barrels from Baker Street, it’s brought to an abrupt stop – there is an electrical fault, leaving the train stranded. And then she hears the scream.

Haunted after being attacked by a serial killer just weeks before, specialist forensic experts Jayne and Steelie return to work shaken. When a body is uncovered in a nearby college campus, they’re drafted in by local police to identify the young man, and both women are determined to get answers quickly and efficiently. But his identity isn’t all they uncover. All the clues they find point to a serial killer.

When former Detective Inspector Jessica Hirsch boards the London Underground, it should be just a few short stops home at the end of another long day. But as the tube barrels from Baker Street, it’s brought to an abrupt stop – there is an electrical fault, leaving the train stranded. As the lights go out, Jessica pushes through into the driver’s cabin. There, she finds his lifeless body, a knife embedded deep in his back. But if nobody could get into the cabin from the outside, and nobody could get into the front carriage, the realization strikes hard—there's a murderer among them

Jayne and Steelie founded Agency 32/1 with one purpose in mind: using their specialist forensic skills to help police solve crimes. When a bundle of frozen body parts fall out of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record post-mortem. But to everyone’s horror, Jayne and Steelie quickly determine the parts aren’t from one body. The body parts are from multiple bodies.

London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky. But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s world. She longs to prove herself as an officer in the London Metropolitan Police, yet she’s stuck intervening in domestics and making tea for her male colleagues. Then Harri Schroder arrives, seconded from Hamburg to the Met.

A school for the deaf takes an overnight trip to the snowy woods. Five teenagers go to sleep, but only four wake up. Leon is missing, and a teacher’s body is found in the forest.... Sign-language interpreter Paige Northwood is brought in to help with interrogations. Everyone at the school has a motive for murder - but they all have an alibi.

If someone was in your house, you’d know...wouldn’t you? But the Hunter family are deaf and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare: the murder of their daughter. The police call Paige Northwood to the scene to interpret for the witnesses. They’re in shock, but Paige senses the Hunters are hiding something. One by one, people from Paige’s community start to fall under suspicion. But who would kill a little girl?