Aided by her Aunt Peg, Melanie enters the dog show world. Melanie Travis is a special education teacher, divorced mother, and new owner of a standard poodle. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave ManorĪuthor Carrie Bebris was inspired to reimagine some of Jane Austen’s most enduring characters as amateur detectives in Regency England in her Mr.This mystery series features Jane Austen as detective in Regency England. Stephanie Barron is the pseudonym of former C.I.A. In each book, she has been assigned to a different national park, including one in Texas and one on Lake Superior. Six-foot-one red-head Carlotta Carlyle, former Boston cop and sometimes cabbie, sets herself up as an independent private investigator ready to deal with anything from lost pets to grand larceny.Īnna Pigeon is a National Park Service Ranger. Single mother Brodie Ferrell starts her own search service, "Looking for Something?," in Dimmock, England. Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angelīallard also writes a humorous supernatural mystery series featuring guardian angel August Goodnight.Longtime first-grade teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick solves crimes and helps with heartache and rationing in World War II era Elderberry, Georgia. Gertie Johnson is a sixty-six-year-old grandmother who upholds the law in Michigan’s rural Upper Penisula. Pauline Sokol leaves the nursing profession to become a fraud investigator for the Scarpello & Tonelli Insurance Company. Lori Shepard relies on the supernatural skills of Aunt Dimity, her now-dead benefactor, to solve puzzles on both sides of the grave in this cozy series. But she finds that navigating the Anglo-Saxon elite and the wilds of the savannah hide many dangers and opportunities for murder. This humorous series features Eloise "Weezie" Foley, who forms her own antique business after a bitter divorce.įollowing the trauma of World War I, Jade del Cameron moves to East Africa to find peace and fulfill a dying man's wish. Tannie Maria is a middle-aged Afrikaans widow who writes an advice column in the Klein Karoo Gazette in rural South Africa. In the remote nineteenth-century Russian countryside, Sister Pelagia uses methodical investigations to unravel tightly knotted mysteries. Lady Emily Ashton’s status in upper-crust Victorian London gives her access to the murmurings of society gossip and high-powered connections-both handy for this amateur detective. Herb lore and a portrait of a modern small town being reshaped by big city refugees are important features of this series. This is not an exhaustive list of women sleuths, but a collection of notable series owned by Madison Public Library.Ī | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U| V | W | X | Y | ZĬhina Bayles is a Pecan Springs, Texas herb store owner and former attorney. Titles are listed in the order in which they were published, through November 2019. See also Retired Women Sleuths for series that have ended. She may occasionally use her physical strength or a weapon in the course of her crime-solving more often, she uses her intelligence, her expertise in a specific area, and her understanding of human nature to reach a solution. She may be a police officer, a private detective, an office worker, a professor, an attorney, a nun, or even a librarian, but she is always tenacious and self-reliant. The past few years have shown an increase in the number of mysteries featuring a woman sleuth.