Crime Stoppers Let's hear it for enterprising and intelligent female sleuths. Maggie Messina and her Black Sheep knitters are willing to pitch in and work as a team to solve a crime in Anne Canadeo's A Stitch Before Dying. Ex-nun Giulia Falcone fights off her sense of failure after leaving the nunnery to help her new employer investigate a stalker in Alice Loweecey's Force of Habit. In Julia Spencer-Fleming's heart-wrenching One Was a Soldier, Clare Fergusson runs her church, fights the addiction she acquired in Iraq, and strengthens her relationship with Russ Van Alstyne: The vote for best all-around new female problem solver is Lucky O'Toole, the star of Deborah Coonts's Lucky Stiff, who has a casino job working for her father while doing favors for Mafia dons and mentoring a young police detective.
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