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Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things: dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance.

When Casey Maldonado and Death hitch a desperate ride away from one disaster, they throw themselves right into the middle of another. The semi in which they are traveling crashes.

A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family’s Welsh fortress. In the winter of 1271, Death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border.

"Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in

Alan Saxon is helping to design a golf course at a new hotel in Bermuda. When his daughter, Lynette, agrees to spend a week on the island with him, he envisages an idyllic holiday.

A funeral in the family forces Alan Saxon to go home after a gap of many years to confront the father he hates. Old wounds are reopened and he beats a hasty retreat but escape is illusory.

In the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match.

Mexico City independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants.

Before her Wall Street dream is again within her grasp, Cynthia Jakubek will come to appreciate Robert F.

A well-seasoned 69-years-old, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands the foibles of the human condition.

Ellen McKenzie and her fiancé, Chief of Police Dan Dunham, are on their way to the very upscale Harvest Festival Dinner, hosted by Ellen's niece, Sabrina, and her husband, Mark Tortelli.

Picture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll. It’s the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew.

On the same evening that a body is found in Picketsville’s urgent care clinic, a mysterious break-in occurs at the house of one of Callend University’s faculty.

It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant.