Female Dectective Mysteries

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Female characters
• Mysteries
• Elizabeth Peters read-alikes
  

Sick of Shadows
By Sharyn McCrumb
MYSTERY MCCRUMB
Elizabeth is a spunky heroine, intelligent but quirky. She’s a forensic anthropologist, and her studies lead her to exotic locales, where she confronts dangers (including centuries-old Anthrax spores) and romance. The action may be less swashbuckling, but these are certainly amusing reading. Sick of Shadows is the first.

Aunt Dimity’s Death
By Nancy Atherton
MYSTERY ATHERTON
The Aunt Dimity series features a young American woman with an inherited fortune. After moving to England into a quaint old-fashioned cottage and marrying a rich barrister, she begins solving mysteries with the help of an old, supernatural diary left behind by her wealthy benefactress—the aforementioned, Aunt Dimity. Read the first – Aunt Dimity’s Death.

Death on Demand
By Carolyn Hart
MYSTERY HART
If you want a more contemporary series, try Carolyn Hart’s series that features bookstore owner Annie Laurance and husband Max Darling. Death on Demand is the first.

The Thin Man
By Dashiell Hammett
MYSTERY HAMMETT
Husband and wife detective teams may also appeal to Peters’ fans. Try the classic The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, with the incomparable banter between sleuths Nick and Nora Charles.

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
By Dorothy Gilman
MYSTERY GILMAN
The grooviest grandma ever to turn C.I.A. agent, Mrs. Pollifax is now assigned to spring a double agent, one Magda Ferenci-Sabo, from Istanbul. As usual, Mrs. Pollifax manages to pick up a number of unlikely helpers along the way. First in series.