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The Woman Detective

Check out one of these books featuring leading lady detectives solving the mystery and saving the day! Then head to "The Woman Detective in Popular Culture" program on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the McKinley Room at the Main Library to learn more about the history of lady detectives in popular culture.

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  • "It's a dark and stormy night when three sleuthing little girls get pulled into a web of mystery. They have mistakenly uncovered a secret society of some of the most famous female spies in history. A glamorous spy named Josephine Baker enlists the…
    Book, 2021New York : Viking, 2021. — J E MAN
  • Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, so slow in fact that for the first time in her estimable career Precious Ramotswe has reluctantly agreed to take a holiday. The promise of a week of uninterrupted peace is short-lived, however,…
    Book, 2016New York : Anchor Books, a division of Pengunin Random House, 2016. — F MYS MCC
  • Reňe Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be…
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — F MYS CON
  • "Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are tapped to cater the elegant wedding of Bettina and Jamie. Theodosia and Drayton are setting up when they hear a crash from the greenhouse. Shockingly, they discover that part of the…
    Large Print, 2025[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025. — LP F MYS CHI
  • Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block! Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a…
    Graphic Novel, 2016Los Angeles, CA : BOOM!Box, c2016. — YA GRAPHIC GOLDIE LAR v.01
  • "Someone's passed their expiration date in this thrilling new mystery in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths uncover a rotten scam to…
    eBook, 2020New York : Bantam Books, [2020]
  • "Kira Drake has come to Paris with her highly trained golden retriever Mack to investigate the horrific bombing of a museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. What she doesn't know is that one powerful man has a special reason to find the person…
    Book, 2024New York : Grand Central, 2024. — F MYS JOH
  • 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day... and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — F MCA
  • "SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married.…
    Large Print, 2024New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — LP F MYS PAT
  • "In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what…
    Kit, J F HAN