The Best Female Characters in Fiction - Mystery and Romance
Discover the best female characters in fiction, featuring captivating heroines from mystery and romance novels. Explore strong, inspiring women who define these beloved genres.
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Sizzling Sixteen
by Janet Evanovich
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds intrepid sleuth Stephanie Plum, her grandmother and her other companions struggling to outmaneuver a killer who is targeting Vinnie, a case that is further complicated by Lula's involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme.
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The Bodyguard and the Snitch
by Christy Tillery French
Natasha risks more than her life when she guards a defense attorney targeted by the Mafia. Protection specialist Natasha Chamberlain thinks guarding a defense attorney from a disgruntled client should be a fairly normal job, but when she learns he's been targeted by the mafia, she's ready to call it quits. However, the attorney holds her to their contract and Natasha finds her own life placed in danger along with her bodyguard cohorts, Pit and Bigun. Natasha's fianc Jonce Striker is fit to be tied when he learns this, which only confirms to him that the bodyguard field is too dangerous for his love. After Natasha is shot trying to protect her client, Striker delivers the final ultimatum: leave the bodyguard field or lose him. Natasha makes her choice but will she live to regret it?
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Knit the Season
by Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club continues with plans for a wedding, new romance and holiday visits.
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Lover Mine
by J. R. Ward
Unaware of the attraction he holds for Xhex, vampire John Matthew is taken in by The Brotherhood who have no knowledge of his history or true identity, in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A Magical love story that is as sad as it is joyous.
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Deadly Deals
by Fern Michaels
After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal baby-selling ring.
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Bullet
by Laurell K. Hamilton
"Necromancer Anita Blake must try to stop the assassins that are coming to kill her, master vampire, Jean-Claude and werewolf, Richard Zeeman, fearing they have all grown too powerful, in this new novel in the #1 best-selling series. "
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An Echo in the Bone
by Diana Gabaldon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The seventh book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . . . adventure, history, romance, fantasy.”—The Arizona Republic Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the barrel of a gun. Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it. Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles—as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
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The 9th Judgment
by James Patterson
After an assailant guns down a mother and her infant at a mall and a cat burglar kills the wife of an A-list actor, Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich must pick up the pieces, but not before one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her life on the line.
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
by Alexander McCall Smith
Traveling to northern Botswana where they are impressed by the natural beauty of the Okavango Delta, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit a safari lodge where they encounter discontented locals and struggle with untimely wedding issues.