Five top books about sleuths

Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe are married, and the Supernormal Sleuthing Service series is their first writing collaboration. Among their five favorite bookish sleuths, as shared at Tor.com:

A Spy in the House (and the rest of The Agency series) by YS Lee

Oh, how I [Gwenda] love this series! How about an alternate Victorian England where a secret women’s detective agency, with a girl’s school attached, natch, exists? Yes, right. So much yes. Main character Mary Quinn has secrets of her own and like most of my favorite sleuths has a knack for getting in over her head and then coming out on top anyway.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue