Step into the world of femme fatales and sharp-witted sleuths with this Amazing Book Challenge category: Dame Detectives. From amateur detectives to real-life spies, these stories follow fierce female detectives as they navigate the world of crime with brains, grit, and style.

To see the full list of recommendations and the other categories in the 2025 Amazing Book Challenge, visit www.naperville-lib.org/ABC.

“The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first l

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