Showing results for "Siren" in Women Sleuths

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner of the Trinity Shelter, one of three on the city's great open space—Parker's Piece. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke searches the body and finds no wallet or papers, save for a cinema ticket dated six months earlier.

It's Valentine's Day in Winterspell, but not everyone appears to be feeling the love. And no, I'm not talking about my dateless self. Instead of being wooed by candlelight, I'm working in a candle shop. Cora Hearth, Winterspell's magical chandler, has teamed up with Sugar Shack to create party favors for the lucky couples, and they're counting on us to spark some magic for their special night. So, when a thief breaks into my delivery van and swipes the goodies, Cora and I-and her persnickety talking cat-have to join forces to track down the culprit in time to save Valentine's Day.

In the sweltering summer heat of the Louisiana delta, internationally famous stage-magician turned FBI consultant, Sophie Quinn, is closing in on the man who murdered her sister. The River Killer. But just when Sophie thinks she’s ahead, a new player appears to make her wonder if all the progress in her investigation hasn’t been part of someone else’s game. Messages and clues embedded in the crime scenes of a new string of killings make Sophie question her own sanity and wonder if the ghosts of her past are much, much closer than she’d feared.

In a triumph for Mia's catering business and cooking school, Mia's Morsels is chosen to host a fall festival event in their Idaho mountain town-which means managing a bunch of stage moms and their social-media obsessed daughters as they get ready for the big beauty contest. There's a lot riding on the results of the Harvest Moon Festival-it's where the local coven leader is chosen for the following year.

Moira Wicked is up to her eyeballs in wedding plans, thanks to her nosy but well-meaning family. With every witch and warlock in town invited to witness her fated union with Liam Good, she's resigned herself to destiny's wild ride. She might've wished for a distraction. She didn't mean a siren. When a fishing boat runs aground off the coast, the crew swears they were lured by a woman's haunting song—straight out of myth and legend. Cue the magical chaos.

Kate Richards, a bookstore owner and published author, thought things had calmed down after discovering that her family is fey keepers, people with abilities to protect the fey from humans and humans from the fey. She even had to save her sister from dark fey who wanted her.

In Malibu, California, Shannon Saunders becomes an overreaching television news reporter who investigates the mysterious disappearance of her former high school classmate, Raymond Fitzgerald. As she delves deeper into the case, Shannon discovers Raymond's connection to a unique form of therapy involving psilocybin. This gripping tale explores the intersection of memory, trauma, and the power of hallucinations, offering a fresh perspective on healing and self-discovery.