The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or, On The Segregation Of The Queen
Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1100
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), private investigators, women detectives [X], young women, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), england, readers rule, russell, mary (fictitious character), russell, mary (fictional character), historical fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, mystery fiction [X]
Miss Marple
Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), detective and mystery stories, english, women detectives [X], marple, jane (fictional character), great britain, england, short stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X]
A Thousand Cuts
Detective Inspector Lucia May investigates the case of Samuel Szajkowski, a new history teacher who gunned down three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself, resisting her supervisor's pressure to make it an open-and-shut case as she uncovers a toxic school culture that contributed to the teacher's violent breakdown.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: school shootings, suicide, homicide, criminal investigation, women detectives [X], teachers, murder, mystery fiction, suicidal behavior, mystery fiction [X]
3rd Degree
San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon the members of the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of violent incidents puts police on the trail of a killer or killers intent on murdering someone every three days, and the investigation becomes urgent when Boxer learns one of her friends is a target.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], women in the professions, female friendship, terrorism, san francisco (calif.), mystery fiction, friendship, mystery fiction [X]
The Body In The Library
Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), women detectives [X], marple, jane (fictional character), mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X]
2nd Chance
Detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon her friends in the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of seemingly unrelated killings jolt the San Francisco area, but the women soon find they are in over their heads, and even worse, have made themselves targets of the murderer.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], women in the professions, female friendship, san francisco (calif.), detectives, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, friendship, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X]
They Do It With Mirrors
Miss Jane Marple is called out to a country estate to check on her rich friend Carrie, who has turned her mansion into a reform school for juvenile delinquents, and finds herself investigating a strange murder that points toward the workings of magic.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), juvenile detention homes, women detectives [X], marple, jane (fictional character), england, homicide, murder, large type books, large print books, mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X]
Stalker
Cynthia Decker, a first-year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, has not made a lot of friends due to her Ivy League education, famous father, and smart-mouthed attitude, so when she begins to sense she is being followed she believes it may be a prank played by fellow officers--a lapse of judgment that almost costs Cindy her life.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: decker, peter (fictitious character), lazarus, rina (fictitious character), stalker, women detectives [X], policewomen, los angeles (calif.), police, stalking victims, police spouses, mystery fiction [X]
Missing, Presumed
"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], missing persons, women college students, fiction / literary, fiction / mystery & detective / traditional british, fiction / crime, mystery fiction [X], suspense fiction
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
Realizing that she is too old to travel, Miss Jane Marple decides she is through with crime detection, but a murder that happens almost on her doorstep changes her mind.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: marple, jane (fictional character), women detectives [X], homicide, mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Mystery Of The Jeweled Moth
Our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jewel thieves, theft, women detectives [X], upper class, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction
Goldie Vance, Volume One
When in-house detective Charlie comes up against a case he can't crack, he calls upon sixteen-year-old Goldie, who uses her skills, smarts, and connections to solve the case.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], hotels, house detectives, teenage girls, florida, mystery fiction [X]
Maisie Dobbs
Maisie Dobbs, a one-time maid who was encouraged by her employer to seek an education, becomes a private investigator after serving at the front as a nurse during World War I, but her first case brings back disturbing memories of the war when her inquiries lead her to The Retreat, a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers from which no one ever seems to emerge.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women private investigators, large type books, world war, 1914-1918, women detectives [X], large print books, veterans, historical fiction, mystery fiction, london (england), historical fiction, mystery fiction [X]
11th Hour
Investigating the murder of a millionaire who was killed with a weapon linked to the deaths of four San Francisco criminals, pregnant detective Lindsay Boxer is horrified to realize that the killer could be among her closest friends.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women's murder club (imaginary organization), women detectives [X], murder, police corruption, man-woman relationships, rich people, pregnant women, female friendship, san francisco (calif.), suspense fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Trespasser
"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], police, dublin (ireland), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)