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Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)
by (shelved 55 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,117 ratings — published 2024
Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,357 ratings — published 2016
The Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,150 ratings — published 2024
The Golden Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.47 — 56,554 ratings — published 2023
The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)
by (shelved 40 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.54 — 23,602 ratings — published 2023
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,497 ratings — published 2023
The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.79 — 172,091 ratings — published 2023
The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,805 ratings — published 2022
The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,823 ratings — published 2021
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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] (Vera Wong, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.15 — 84,583 ratings — published 2025
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.54 — 83,266 ratings — published 2021
Murder Takes a Vacation (Mrs. Blossom Mystery #1)
by (shelved 34 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.47 — 23,713 ratings — published 2025
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (Antique Hunter’s, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.37 — 22,748 ratings — published 2024
An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,526 ratings — published 2008
Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,414 ratings — published 2023
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.93 — 127,561 ratings — published 2003
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.68 — 74,982 ratings — published 2000
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,943 ratings — published 2014
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,950,909 ratings — published 2019
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.25 — 857,443 ratings — published 2020
Silent Scream (DI Kim Stone, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.07 — 48,075 ratings — published 2015
Land of Shadows (Detective Elouise Norton, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,017 ratings — published 2014
Scared to Death (Detective Kay Hunter, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,478 ratings — published 2016
Blood Orchids (Paradise Crime Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,765 ratings — published 2011
Deadly Gamble (Charlie Parker, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,502 ratings — published 1995
Spying in High Heels (High Heels, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,259 ratings — published 2006
Axeman's Jazz (Skip Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,613 ratings — published 1991
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.04 — 589,084 ratings — published 1994
That Touch of Ink (Mad for Mod Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,018 ratings — published 2013
Still Life in Brunswick Stew (A Cherry Tucker Mystery Book 2)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,058 ratings — published 2013
Front Page Fatality (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,789 ratings — published 2013
Game Theory (Katerina Carter Fraud, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.72 — 182 ratings — published 2012
Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,749 ratings — published 1999
Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,734 ratings — published 2008
Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.10 — 44,101 ratings — published 2005
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.23 — 53,959 ratings — published 2024
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.10 — 183,161 ratings — published 1996
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.01 — 243,630 ratings — published 2023
The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.80 — 91,530 ratings — published 2021
The Verifiers (Claudia Lin, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.49 — 17,427 ratings — published 2022
The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.27 — 26,179 ratings — published 2020
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,938 ratings — published 1982
Connections in Death (In Death, #48)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,343 ratings — published 2019
Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,274 ratings — published 2018
Night Broken (Mercy Thompson, #8)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.42 — 70,187 ratings — published 2014
X (Kinsey Millhone, #24)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,354 ratings — published 2015
Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.13 — 209,025 ratings — published 1995
Will to Live (Detective Kay Hunter, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,460 ratings — published 2017
A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,115 ratings — published 1994
Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as female-sleuth)
avg rating 4.13 — 32,523 ratings — published 2009
“He held out his hand. “Dante Gabriel Rossetti,” he said. “You will have heard of me.”
Jo shook his hand and frowned. “No, but you obviously think I should have.”
At his crestfallen expression, she smiled. Everyone had heard of Rossetti.”
― Murder at an Exhibition
Jo shook his hand and frowned. “No, but you obviously think I should have.”
At his crestfallen expression, she smiled. Everyone had heard of Rossetti.”
― Murder at an Exhibition
“My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people.”
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