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href="#See_also">See also</a></li> <li><a href="#References">References</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Laura Ackroyd is an investigative reporter who solves crimes in <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> with her boyfriend DCI Michael Thackery in a book series begun by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Hall_(novelist)" title="Patricia Hall (novelist)">Patricia Hall</a> (Maureen O’Connor) in 1994.</li> <li>Abigail Adams, <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Adams" title="Abigail Adams">future first lady</a>, detects in 1770s <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Hambly" title="Barbara Hambly">Barbara Hambly</a> (as Barbara Hamilton) began in 2009.</li> <li>Hilda Adams is a nurse who takes jobs to investigate, in series by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart" title="Mary Roberts Rinehart">Mary Roberts Rinehart</a>, begun in 1914 with <a href="/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart#Series" title="Mary Roberts Rinehart">The Buckled Bag</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> film, Miss Pinkerton (1932). Rinehart then adopted this movie nickname for use in her Adams stories.<a href="#cite_note-French-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Portia Constance Adams is a Canadian amateur detective who mysteriously inherits the <a href="/wiki/221B_Baker_Street" title="221B Baker Street">221B Baker Street</a> townhouse in 1930 in a book series by Canadian <a href="/wiki/Angela_Misri" title="Angela Misri">Angela Misri</a> launched 2014.<a href="#cite_note-Kustanczy-2">[2]</a></li> <li>Riley Adams <a href="/wiki/CSI_(franchise)" title="CSI (franchise)">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irene_Adler" title="Irene Adler">Irene Adler</a> is an opera singer in the short story "<a href="/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia" title="A Scandal in Bohemia">A Scandal in Bohemia</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a> begun in 1891; later appeared as a <a href="/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinkerton National Detective Agency">Pinkerton</a> detective in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Carole_Nelson_Douglas" title="Carole Nelson Douglas">Carole Nelson Douglas</a> begun in 1990, played by <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Rampling" title="Charlotte Rampling">Charlotte Rampling</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_New_York" title="Sherlock Holmes in New York">Sherlock Holmes in New York</a> (1976 film); by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Baxter" title="Anne Baxter">Anne Baxter</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Masks_of_Death" title="The Masks of Death">The Masks of Death</a> (1984 TV movie); by <a href="/wiki/Gayle_Hunnicutt" title="Gayle Hunnicutt">Gayle Hunnicutt</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series)" title="Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)">Sherlock Holmes</a> (1984 TV series pilot); by <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Fairchild" title="Morgan Fairchild">Morgan Fairchild</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Leading_Lady" title="Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady">Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady</a> (1992 TV movie); by <a href="/wiki/Rachel_McAdams" title="Rachel McAdams">Rachel McAdams</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2009_film)" title="Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)">Sherlock Holmes</a> (2009 film); by <a href="/wiki/Lara_Pulver" title="Lara Pulver">Lara Pulver</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series)" title="Sherlock (TV series)">Sherlock</a> (TV series, 2010–); by <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Dormer" title="Natalie Dormer">Natalie Dormer</a> in <a href="/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series)" title="Elementary (TV series)">Elementary</a></li> <li>Adelia Aguilar is a medieval forensic specialist in a series by Diana Norman (writing as <a href="/wiki/Diana_Norman#Writing_as_Ariana_Franklin" title="Diana Norman">Ariana Franklin</a>) (2006–2010).</li> <li>Bilqees "Bobby" Ahmed is a fictional Indian female detective from Hyderabad, as portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Vidya_Balan" title="Vidya Balan">Vidya Balan</a> in the 2014 Indian comedy film <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jasoos" title="Bobby Jasoos">Bobby Jasoos</a>.</li> <li>Flavia Albia spin-off book series of <a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Davis" title="Lindsey Davis">Lindsey Davis</a>' successful series featuring private investigator <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Didius_Falco" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Didius Falco">Marcus Didius Falco</a>. Flavia Albia, his adopted daughter, has grown from a troubled teenager to a feisty widow and who is an investigator in her own right. The series begins in 89AD, shifting the background from the reign of jovial Vespasian to the darker time of his paranoid son Domitian.</li> <li>Louisa May Alcott, not yet a <a href="/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott" title="Louisa May Alcott">famous writer</a>, takes to sleuthing in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Mackin" title="Jeanne Mackin">Jeanne Mackin</a> (writing as 'Anna Maclean') begun in 2004.</li> <li>Claire Aldington is an <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopalian</a> priest and <a href="/wiki/Psychologist" title="Psychologist">psychologist</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in a five-book series by <a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Holland" title="Isabelle Holland">Isabelle Holland</a> (1984–1990).</li> <li>Finny Aletter is a <a href="/wiki/Stockbroker" title="Stockbroker">stockbroker</a> in two books by Yvonne Montgomery (1987–1990).</li> <li>Nikki Alexander is a <a href="/wiki/Forensic_anthropologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Forensic anthropologist">forensic anthropologist</a>/ pathologist played by <a href="/wiki/Emilia_Fox" title="Emilia Fox">Emilia Fox</a> (2004–) in the BBC thriller series <a href="/wiki/Silent_Witness" title="Silent Witness">Silent Witness</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nigel_McCrery" title="Nigel McCrery">Nigel McCrery</a> (1996–).</li> <li>Jaime Allen is a patrolwoman/undercover cop in <a href="/wiki/Dark_Blue_(TV_series)" title="Dark Blue (TV series)">Dark Blue (TV series)</a> (2009–10).</li> <li>Becky Altringer is a private investigator in California and New Mexico who exposed the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Association of America">Motion Picture Association of America</a> in <a href="/wiki/This_Film_is_not_yet_Rated" class="mw-redirect" title="This Film is not yet Rated">This Film is not yet Rated</a>, and technical consultant for <a href="/wiki/Stumptown" title="Stumptown">Stumptown</a>.</li> <li>Angela Amalfi is a <a href="/wiki/Food_critic" title="Food critic">food critic</a> in a culinary mystery series by <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Pence" title="Joanne Pence">Joanne Pence</a> begun in 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Ames" title="Cherry Ames">Cherry Ames</a> is a nurse in 27 mysteries (1943–1968), some by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Wells" title="Helen Wells">Helen Wells</a> and others by <a href="/wiki/Julie_Campbell_Tatham" title="Julie Campbell Tatham">Julie Campbell Tatham</a>. The nurse theme was inspired by <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.</li> <li>Anaya is an Asari detective in Nos Astra on the planet Illium in the video game <a href="/wiki/Mass_Effect_2" title="Mass Effect 2">Mass Effect 2</a>.</li> <li>Leanne "Pepper" Anderson (played by <a href="/wiki/Angie_Dickinson" title="Angie Dickinson">Angie Dickinson</a>) is a police detective on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> <a href="/wiki/Police_Woman_(TV_series)" title="Police Woman (TV series)">Police Woman (TV series)</a> (1974–1978).</li> <li>Angela Anderson (played by <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Spencer" title="Abigail Spencer">Abigail Spencer</a>) is an FBI agent on <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime TV">Lifetime TV</a> series <a href="/wiki/Angela%27s_Eyes" title="Angela's Eyes">Angela's Eyes</a> (2006).</li> <li>Karen Andersen is a London PI who goes undercover to investigate Jihadi brides in a series by <a href="/wiki/Louise_Burfitt-Dons" title="Louise Burfitt-Dons">Louise Burfitt-Dons</a> starting with "The Missing Activist" in 2018</li> <li>Mici Anhalt is an investigator for the NYC Crime Victims Compensation Board in three novels by <a href="/wiki/Lillian_O%27Donnell" title="Lillian O'Donnell">Lillian O'Donnell</a> beginning with "Aftershock" in 1977.</li> <li>Anne is the youngest and most likely to be frightened member of the group of kids in <a href="/wiki/Enid_Blyton" title="Enid Blyton">Enid Blyton's</a> <a href="/wiki/Famous_Five" class="mw-redirect" title="Famous Five">Famous Five</a> series.</li> <li>Callie Anson is an <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> cleric in novels by US-born and UK-based <a href="/wiki/Kate_Charles" title="Kate Charles">Kate Charles</a> begun in 2005, after having debuted in a 2002 short story.</li> <li>Susanna, Lady Appleton is a 16th-century gentlewoman and <a href="/wiki/Herbalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbalist">herbalist</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Lynn_Emerson" title="Kathy Lynn Emerson">Kathy Lynn Emerson</a> begun in 1997.</li> <li>Katherine Ardleigh is a sleuth in Victorian England in a series by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Wittig_Albert" title="Susan Wittig Albert">Susan Wittig Albert</a> and Bill Albert (writing as 'Robin Paige') begun in 1994.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Armstrong" title="Sarah Armstrong">Sarah Armstrong</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Criminal_profiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal profiler">criminal profiler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division" title="Texas Ranger Division">Texas Ranger</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Casey" title="Kathryn Casey">Kathryn Casey</a> begun in 2008.</li> <li>Jessie Arnold is a champion Alaskan dog sled racer who solves crimes with boyfriend Alex Jensen, a state trooper, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Sue_Henry" title="Sue Henry">Sue Henry</a> begun in 1991.</li> <li>Carol Ashton is an Australian Detective Inspector in a series by <a href="/wiki/Claire_McNab" title="Claire McNab">Claire McNab</a> begun in 1988.</li> <li>Lady Emily Ashton (later Lady Emily Hargreaves) is a Victorian aristocrat in a series by <a href="/wiki/Tasha_Alexander" title="Tasha Alexander">Tasha Alexander</a> begun in 2005.</li> <li>Kate "Ash" Ashurst (played by <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Catz" title="Caroline Catz">Caroline Catz</a>) is a Detective Inspector on <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> series <a href="/wiki/Murder_in_Suburbia" title="Murder in Suburbia">Murder in Suburbia</a> (2004–05).</li> <li>Beth Austen is an <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> English professor appearing in <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> novels by <a href="/wiki/Edith_Skom" title="Edith Skom">Edith Skom</a> (1989–1998).</li> <li>Jane Austen, the novelist, is a sleuth in a series by <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Barron" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephanie Barron">Stephanie Barron</a> (a.k.a. Francine Mathews),<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> begun in 1996.</li> <li>'Cat' Fortunati Austen is a Sicilian-American <a href="/wiki/Jersey_Shore" title="Jersey Shore">Jersey Shore</a> entertainment reporter, a cop's widow and baby sister to six brothers – five cops and one priest – in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Rubino" title="Jane Rubino">Jane Rubino</a> begun in 1995.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Molly Morganthau Babbits is an amateur detective who picks up clues in her job as switchboard operator (The Girl at Central, 1915) and subsequently occasionally works as an undercover private eye for a team of lawyers in books by <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Bonner" title="Geraldine Bonner">Geraldine Bonner</a>.</li> <li>Kate Baeier is a journalist and private investigator in London in a series by <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Slovo" title="Gillian Slovo">Gillian Slovo</a> begun in 1984.</li> <li>Renée Ballard is an LAPD detective who works "the late show" out of the Hollywood Station in a series by novelist <a href="/wiki/Michael_Connelly" title="Michael Connelly">Michael Connelly</a>. The series includes <a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_(novel)" title="The Late Show (novel)">The Late Show</a> (2017), <a href="/wiki/Dark_Sacred_Night" title="Dark Sacred Night">Dark Sacred Night</a> (2018), and <a href="/wiki/The_Night_Fire" title="The Night Fire">The Night Fire</a> (2019).</li> <li>Lily Bard is a cleaning woman and karate expert in Shakespeare, <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris" title="Charlaine Harris">Charlaine Harris</a> begun in 1996.</li> <li>Natalie Barnes is the owner manager of a Bed and Breakfast on an island off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> in a cozy series by <a href="/wiki/Karen_MacInerney" title="Karen MacInerney">Karen MacInerney</a> begun in 2006.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Barek" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolyn Barek">Carolyn Barek</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Annabella_Sciorra" title="Annabella Sciorra">Annabella Sciorra</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> detective in the Major Case Squad on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a>, 2005–06.</li> <li>Temple Barr is a public-relations consultant and amateur detective in the <a href="/wiki/Midnight_Louie" title="Midnight Louie">Midnight Louie</a> series by <a href="/wiki/Carole_Nelson_Douglas" title="Carole Nelson Douglas">Carole Nelson Douglas</a> begun in 1992.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicki_Barr_(books)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicki Barr (books)">Vicki Barr</a>, flight stewardess, is the heroine in a series of 16 mystery books for girls, published 1947–1964, by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Wells" title="Helen Wells">Helen Wells</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julie_Campbell_Tatham" title="Julie Campbell Tatham">Julie Campbell Tatham</a>.</li> <li>Hercule Barton (エルキュール・バートン Erukyūru Bāton?), named after Hercule Poirot, is one of four girl detectives at the Milky Holmes Detective Agency. Her special gift ("Toy") is superhuman strength. They work to combat people who use their gifts for evil in various products by the <a href="/wiki/Tantei_Opera_Milky_Holmes" title="Tantei Opera Milky Holmes">Tantei Opera Milky Holmes</a> <a href="/wiki/Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">media franchise</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friday_Barnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Friday Barnes">Friday Barnes</a>.</li> <li>Alma Bashears is an attorney called home to <a href="/wiki/Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachia</a> after her brother is arrested for murder, at the outset of the Appalachian Trilogy (published 1997–2003) by <a href="/wiki/Tess_Collins" title="Tess Collins">Tess Collins</a>.</li> <li>Bast is a graphic artist by day, and an active urban Witch in her private life, who solves murders within the Pagan community in a series of three books by <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Edghill" title="Rosemary Edghill">Rosemary Edghill</a>, beginning in 1994.</li> <li>Lucille "Lucy" Bates is an Eastern city police officer (later sergeant) played by <a href="/wiki/Betty_Thomas" title="Betty Thomas">Betty Thomas</a> on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues" title="Hill Street Blues">Hill Street Blues</a> from 1981 to 1987.</li> <li>China Bayles is an herbalist and ex-lawyer in a series by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Wittig_Albert" title="Susan Wittig Albert">Susan Wittig Albert</a> begun in 1992.</li> <li>Madeline Bean is a Hollywood caterer who solves murders in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jerrilyn_Farmer" title="Jerrilyn Farmer">Jerrilyn Farmer</a> begun in 1998.</li> <li>Amanda and Lutie Beagle are spinster sisters who inherit a detective agency in two books (1940 and 1941) by Torrey Chansler (writing as <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Torrey" title="Marjorie Torrey">Marjorie Torrey</a>) better known as a children's author and illustrator.</li> <li>Olivia Beaumann is an amateur sleuth in an Australian culinary series by <a href="/wiki/Goldie_Alexander" title="Goldie Alexander">Goldie Alexander</a> begun in 2002.</li> <li>Danielle "Dani" Beck portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Connie_Nielsen" title="Connie Nielsen">Connie Nielsen</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> detective in the Manhattan Special Victims unit on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a>, 2006.</li> <li>Jo Beckett is a ‘deadshrinker’ or forensic psychiatrist brought in to examine the lives of murder victims to look for reasons for their deaths, in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Meg_Gardiner" title="Meg Gardiner">Meg Gardiner</a> begun in 2008.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Beckett" title="Kate Beckett">Kate Beckett</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Stana_Katic" title="Stana Katic">Stana Katic</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> homicide detective on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)" title="Castle (TV series)">Castle</a>, 2009–2016.</li> <li>Jane Bee is a housemaid in the Royal Household in three books by Douglas Whiteway (writing as C.C. Benison) begun in 1996.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trixie_Belden" title="Trixie Belden">Trixie Belden</a> is a girl-detective starring in a multi-author series created by <a href="/wiki/Julie_Campbell_Tatham" title="Julie Campbell Tatham">Julie Campbell Tatham</a> (debuted 1948; last book 1986).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ironside_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironside (TV series)">Fran Belding</a> is a detective (played by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Baur" title="Elizabeth Baur">Elizabeth Baur</a>) on <a href="/wiki/Ironside_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironside (TV series)">Ironside</a> (1971–75).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annika_Bengtzon" title="Annika Bengtzon">Annika Bengtzon</a> is a crime reporter in a series by Swedish writer <a href="/wiki/Liza_Marklund" title="Liza Marklund">Liza Marklund</a> begun in 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennet_family" title="Bennet family">Mary Bennet</a> from <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a> acts as a spy for the British government in The Secret Life of Mary Bennet series by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Cowley" title="Katherine Cowley">Katherine Cowley</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Benson" title="Olivia Benson">Olivia Benson</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Mariska_Hargitay" title="Mariska Hargitay">Mariska Hargitay</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective & later promoted to Sergeant, Lieutenant & Captain for the Manhattan Special Victims Unit of the NYPD on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a> 1999–.</li> <li>Tuppence Beresford solves crimes with husband Tommy in a series of novels and short-stories by <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> debuting in 1922. <a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Adversary" title="The Secret Adversary">The Secret Adversary</a>, the book which introduced the detectives, became a <a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Adversary#Die_Abenteurer_GmbH" title="The Secret Adversary">silent film in 1929</a>, filmed in German and with character names changed – Tuppence became Lucienne Fereoni, played by <a href="/wiki/Eve_Gray" title="Eve Gray">Eve Gray</a>. Tuppence was subsequently played by <a href="/wiki/Francesca_Annis" title="Francesca Annis">Francesca Annis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Partners_in_Crime" title="Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime">Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime</a> (1983–1984); by <a href="/wiki/Greta_Scacchi" title="Greta Scacchi">Greta Scacchi</a> in a 2006 episode of <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Marple" title="Agatha Christie's Marple">Agatha Christie's Marple</a> where the detectives join forces; and by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Frot" title="Catherine Frot">Catherine Frot</a> in French film adaptations <a href="/wiki/Mon_petit_doigt_m%27a_dit..." title="Mon petit doigt m'a dit...">2005</a> and 2008.</li> <li>Fredrika Bergman is a civilian working with a police unit in Sweden in this series by <a href="/wiki/Kristina_Ohlsson" title="Kristina Ohlsson">Kristina Ohlsson</a>. Books in the series are: Unwanted, Silenced, The Disappeared and Hostage.</li> <li>Siri Bergman is a psychologist with problems of her own in this series by sisters <a href="/wiki/Camilla_Grebe" title="Camilla Grebe">Camilla Grebe</a> and Asa Traff. Set in Sweden, books in the series are: Some Kind of Peace and More Bitter Than Death.</li> <li>Myka Ophelia Bering is a Secret Service agent (played by <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Kelly" title="Joanne Kelly">Joanne Kelly</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/Syfy" title="Syfy">Syfy</a> series <a href="/wiki/Warehouse_13" title="Warehouse 13">Warehouse 13</a> (2009–).</li> <li>Jill Bernhardt is a Deputy DA and one of the four women crime solvers in 'The Women's Murder Club' books by <a href="/wiki/James_Patterson" title="James Patterson">James Patterson</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Laura_Harris" title="Laura Harris">Laura Harris</a> on the 2007–2008 <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Murder_Club_(TV_series)" title="Women's Murder Club (TV series)">Women's Murder Club</a>.</li> <li>Mirabelle Bevan is an ex-Secret Service agent turned debt collector who solves mysteries in a series set in 1950s Brighton by Scottish author <a href="/wiki/Sara_Sheridan" title="Sara Sheridan">Sara Sheridan</a> begun in 2012.</li> <li>Verity Birdwood is a TV researcher who solves murders in six books by Australian <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Rowe" title="Jennifer Rowe">Jennifer Rowe</a> (1987–1995).</li> <li>Eleanor Raye "Ellie" Bishop a former analyst for the NSA and who is now a Probationary Agent with NCIS played by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Wickersham" title="Emily Wickersham">Emily Wickersham</a> on <a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="NCIS (TV series)">NCIS</a> (2013–21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modesty_Blaise" title="Modesty Blaise">Modesty Blaise</a> retires from the underworld and puts her unusual skills to work assisting British Intelligence and others in a comic series (1963–2001), three films (1966, 1982, 2003), and a series of novels and short stories beginning in 1965.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Blake" title="Anita Blake">Anita Blake</a> is a vampire hunter in a <a href="/wiki/Anita_Blake:_Vampire_Hunter" title="Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter">fantasy series</a> by <a href="/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton" title="Laurell K. Hamilton">Laurell K. Hamilton</a> begun in 1993.</li> <li>Clare Blake is the Commander of a detective murder squad (played by <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Burton" title="Amanda Burton">Amanda Burton</a>) in the British TV series <a href="/wiki/The_Commander_(TV_series)" title="The Commander (TV series)">The Commander</a> on <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> (2003–2008).</li> <li>Eliza Blake is a TV anchor and sleuth is a series by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Jane_Clark" title="Mary Jane Clark">Mary Jane Clark</a> begun in 1998.</li> <li>Naomi Blake is a blind ex-policewoman who solves crimes with her policeman husband, Alex, in a British series by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Adams_(writer)" title="Jane Adams (writer)">Jane Adams</a> begun in 2005.</li> <li>Ursula Blanchard is a young widow and lady-in-waiting at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Anand" title="Valerie Anand">Valerie Anand</a> (writing as Fiona Buckley) begun in 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torchy_Blane" title="Torchy Blane">Torchy Blane</a> is a spunky girl detective, played by Glenda Farrell, in a series of 1930s movies.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicky_Bliss" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicky Bliss">Vicky Bliss</a> is an art historian in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Peters">Barbara Mertz</a> beginning in 1973 with Borrower of the Night.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochelle_Majer_Krich#Molly_Blume_series" title="Rochelle Majer Krich">Molly Blume</a> is an Orthodox Jewish true-crime reporter and author who appears in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Rochelle_Majer_Krich" title="Rochelle Majer Krich">Rochelle Majer Krich</a> (2002–2005).</li> <li>Kensi Blye is an <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Service" title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">NCIS</a> Special Agent (played by <a href="/wiki/Daniela_Ruah" title="Daniela Ruah">Daniela Ruah</a>) on <a href="/wiki/NCIS:_Los_Angeles" title="NCIS: Los Angeles">NCIS: Los Angeles</a> (2009–).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judy_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="Judy Bolton">Judy Bolton</a> is a "girl-detective" in a series created by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Sutton" title="Margaret Sutton">Margaret Sutton</a> in 1932. She has been called a "more complex and believable role model for girls." While never quite as popular as Nancy Drew, the series lasted through 1968 with 38 sequential titles/adventures.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stella_Bonasera" class="mw-redirect" title="Stella Bonasera">Stella Bonasera</a> is a crime scene investigator (played by <a href="/wiki/Melina_Kanakaredes" title="Melina Kanakaredes">Melina Kanakaredes</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_NY" title="CSI: NY">CSI: NY</a> (2004–2010).</li> <li> Lacy Bond is a detective played by <a href="/wiki/Sondra_Currie" title="Sondra Currie">Sondra Currie</a> in the 1974 film <a href="/wiki/Policewomen_(film)" title="Policewomen (film)">Policewomen</a>.</li> <li>Theolinda<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> "Dol" Bonner was a private detective in <a href="/wiki/The_Hand_in_the_Glove" title="The Hand in the Glove">The Hand in the Glove</a> and several <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a> mysteries created by <a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a> (debuted in 1937). Her first name is really Theodolinda, from which the Dol comes. See "Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street" by William S. Baring-Gould, Viking 1969.</li> <li>Laura Bow is a <a href="/wiki/Tulane_University" title="Tulane University">Tulane University</a> student and daughter of a detective in the 1920s, and the <a href="/wiki/Player_character" title="Player character">player character</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sierra_On-Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Sierra On-Line">Sierra On-Line</a>'s 1989 computer game "<a href="/wiki/The_Colonel%27s_Bequest" title="The Colonel's Bequest">The Colonel's Bequest</a>" and its 1992 sequel "<a href="/wiki/The_Dagger_of_Amon_Ra" title="The Dagger of Amon Ra">The Dagger of Amon Ra</a>."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Boxer" title="Lindsay Boxer">Lindsay Boxer</a> is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> police Inspector in the <a href="/wiki/James_Patterson#Women's_Murder_Club" title="James Patterson">Women's Murder Club</a> series by <a href="/wiki/James_Patterson" title="James Patterson">James Patterson</a> (debuted 2001). Later portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Angie_Harmon" title="Angie Harmon">Angie Harmon</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Murder_Club_(TV_series)" title="Women's Murder Club (TV series)">Women's Murder Club</a>, 2007–2008.</li> <li>Rosemary Boxer is a gardener and amateur sleuth with her business partner Laura Thyme in the UK television series <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_and_Thyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosemary and Thyme">Rosemary and Thyme</a> (2003–2006).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joanna_Brady" title="Joanna Brady">Joanna Brady</a> is a sheriff in Cochise County, <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/J._A._Jance" title="J. A. Jance">J. A. Jance</a> begun in 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrs_Bradley" title="Mrs Bradley">Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley</a> is an elderly private detective and <a href="/wiki/Polymath" title="Polymath">polymath</a> psychoanalyst in a series of 65 novels by <a href="/wiki/Gladys_Mitchell" title="Gladys Mitchell">Gladys Mitchell</a> begun in 1929. <a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a> starred in a 1998–1999 <a href="/wiki/The_Mrs_Bradley_Mysteries" title="The Mrs Bradley Mysteries">BBC television series based on the books</a>.</li> <li>Bo Bradley is a bipolar child abuse investigator in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California">San Diego, California</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Padgett" title="Abigail Padgett">Abigail Padgett</a> (1993–1997).<a href="#cite_note-Linda_2007-5">[5]</a></li> <li>Nell Bray is a suffragette in a series by <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Linscott" title="Gillian Linscott">Gillian Linscott</a> begun in 1991.</li> <li>Aya Brea is a New York City police detective in the 1998 video game <a href="/wiki/Parasite_Eve_(video_game)" title="Parasite Eve (video game)">Parasite Eve</a> and its 2000 sequel <a href="/wiki/Parasite_Eve_II" title="Parasite Eve II">Parasite Eve II</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temperance_Brennan" title="Temperance Brennan">Temperance Daesee Brennan</a> is a forensic anthropologist in a <a href="/wiki/Temperance_Brennan#The_Temperance_Brennan_novels" title="Temperance Brennan">series of novels</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Reichs" title="Kathy Reichs">Kathy Reichs</a> begun in 1997; Later portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Deschanel" title="Emily Deschanel">Emily Deschanel</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/Bones_(TV_series)" title="Bones (TV series)">Bones</a>, 2005–2017.</li> <li>Amy Brewster is an upper class, overweight lawyer and financier who solves crimes for her friends in three books by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Merwin_Jr." title="Sam Merwin Jr.">Sam Merwin Jr.</a> (1945–46).</li> <li>Lily Brewster runs a guest house in New York with her brother Robert in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jill_Churchill" title="Jill Churchill">Jill Churchill</a> begun in 1999.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Bristow" title="Sydney Bristow">Sydney Bristow</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Garner" title="Jennifer Garner">Jennifer Garner</a>) is a clandestine <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> officer on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Alias_(TV_series)" title="Alias (TV series)">Alias</a>, 2001–2006.</li> <li>Charlotte Brontë, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">the author</a>, sleuths in a series by <a href="/wiki/Laura_Joh_Rowland" title="Laura Joh Rowland">Laura Joh Rowland</a> begun in 2008.</li> <li>Loveday Brooke is an early "lady detective" created by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Louisa_Pirkis" title="Catherine Louisa Pirkis">Catherine Louisa Pirkis</a> (debuted 1894). In the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> adaptation of the story "The Redhill Sisterhood", she was played by Gayanne Potter and in "The Mystery of Redstone Manor" (an original story by Chris Harrald) on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> series The Rivals she was played by <a href="/wiki/Honeysuckle_Weeks" title="Honeysuckle Weeks">Honeysuckle Weeks</a>.</li> <li>Verity Browne is a left-wing journalist who sleuths with Lord Edward Corinth in a 10-book cosy series set in the period between WWI and WW2 by <a href="/wiki/David_Roberts_(novelist)" title="David Roberts (novelist)">David Roberts</a> (2001–2009).</li> <li>Anita Burgess is an operative with the Douglass Detective Agency in the novella Sign Of The Dragon by <a href="/wiki/C._M._Eddy,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="C. M. Eddy, Jr.">C. M. Eddy, Jr.</a> published by Mystery Magazine<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> in 1919.</li> <li>Sarah Burke is a Tucson homicide detective in a police procedural series by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Gunn_(author)" title="Elizabeth Gunn (author)">Elizabeth Gunn</a> begun in 2008.</li> <li>Aiden Burn portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Ferlito" title="Vanessa Ferlito">Vanessa Ferlito</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective and forensic scientist on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_NY" title="CSI: NY">CSI: NY</a>, 2004–05.</li> <li>Mary Louise Burrows is a 15-year-old who sets out to prove her grandfather not guilty of treason, in Mary Louise (1916) by <a href="/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" title="L. Frank Baum">L. Frank Baum</a> (author of The Wizard of Oz) under the pseudonym <a href="/wiki/Edith_Van_Dyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Edith Van Dyne">Edith Van Dyne</a>. This was the first in a series of ten stories for adolescents known as <a href="/wiki/The_Bluebird_Books" title="The Bluebird Books">The Bluebird Books</a> in which Mary Louise and her friend Josie O'Gormon take on tough challenges.</li> <li>Amelia Butterworth is a nosy society spinster who assists Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force in "That Affair Next Door" (1897) and three other novels by detective fiction pioneer <a href="/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green" title="Anna Katharine Green">Anna Katharine Green</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Chamki Detective is Chamki's alter ego from <a href="/wiki/Galli_Galli_Sim_Sim" title="Galli Galli Sim Sim">Galli Galli Sim Sim</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>'s version of <a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a>. As Chamki Detective, she loves to find and solve interesting mysteries on the Galli.</li> <li>Christine Cagney portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Sharon_Gless" title="Sharon Gless">Sharon Gless</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective later promoted to Detective Sergeant and lieutenant on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" title="Cagney & Lacey">Cagney & Lacey</a> 1982–1988. Reprised for 4 Cagney & Lacey made-for-TV movies in 1994, 1995 & 1996.</li> <li>Jenny Cain is the director of a philanthropic foundation in a series by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pickard" title="Nancy Pickard">Nancy Pickard</a> begun 1984–1995.</li> <li>Miranda Callendar is a detective on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> <a href="/wiki/Jekyll_(TV_series)" title="Jekyll (TV series)">Jekyll</a> 2007.</li> <li>Anna Cameron is a Glasgow police sergeant in a series by Scottish <a href="/wiki/Karen_Campbell" title="Karen Campbell">Karen Campbell</a> begun 2008.</li> <li>Letitia 'Tish' Carberry was embroiled in comic adventures in short stories in the <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturday Evening Post">Saturday Evening Post</a>, and from 1911 in books, by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart" title="Mary Roberts Rinehart">Mary Roberts Rinehart</a>.</li> <li>Carlotta Carlyle is a 6'1" former Boston city cop turned private detective in a series by <a href="/wiki/Linda_Barnes_(writer)" title="Linda Barnes (writer)">Linda Barnes (writer)</a> begun 1987.</li> <li>Caroline Carmichael is a <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> intelligence analyst in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Francine_Mathews" title="Francine Mathews">Francine Mathews</a> who held such a job herself for some years.</li> <li>Mary Carner is a store detective in five books by <a href="/wiki/Zelda_Popkin" title="Zelda Popkin">Zelda Popkin</a> 1938–1942.</li> <li>Sandra Carpenter (<a href="/wiki/Lucille_Ball" title="Lucille Ball">Lucille Ball</a>) is an American dancer in London who helps police investigate the death of a friend in film <a href="/wiki/Lured" title="Lured">Lured</a> 1947.</li> <li>CeCe Caruso is an LA based biographer of crime writers and film makers who becomes involved in mysteries in the course of her work, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Kandel" title="Susan Kandel">Susan Kandel</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Smith_(writer)" title="Helen Smith (writer)">Emily Castles</a> is an amateur sleuth in a British mystery series by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Smith_(writer)" title="Helen Smith (writer)">Helen Smith</a>.</li> <li>Jordan Cavanaugh portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Jill_Hennessy" title="Jill Hennessy">Jill Hennessy</a>) is a forensic pathologist working for the <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> Medical Examiner in the NBC series <a href="/wiki/Crossing_Jordan" title="Crossing Jordan">Crossing Jordan</a> 2001–2007.</li> <li>Lady Grace Cavendish is a 13-year-old girl at Queen Elizabeth I's court, in a series for children by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Finney" title="Patricia Finney">Patricia Finney</a>, but with author credit given to 'Lady Grace'.</li> <li>Laura Caxton is a Pennsylvania State Trooper turned vampire hunter in a <a href="/wiki/David_Wellington_(author)#Vampire_Series" title="David Wellington (author)">fantasy series</a> by <a href="/wiki/David_Wellington_(author)" title="David Wellington (author)">David Wellington</a> (debuted 2006).</li> <li>Lois Cayley is an adventurous young woman in an early mystery novel by <a href="/wiki/Grant_Allen" title="Grant Allen">Grant Allen</a> (1899).</li> <li>Catherine Chandler is a NYPD detective played by <a href="/wiki/Kristin_Kreuk" title="Kristin Kreuk">Kristin Kreuk</a> in <a href="/wiki/Beauty_%26_the_Beast_(2012_TV_series)" title="Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series)">Beauty & the Beast</a>.</li> <li>Corinna Chapman runs a bakery in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> and solves neighbourhood puzzles in a series commenced 2004 by Australian <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Greenwood" title="Kerry Greenwood">Kerry Greenwood</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_and_Nora_Charles" title="Nick and Nora Charles">Nora Charles</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Nob_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Nob Hill">Nob Hill</a> heiress married to Nick Charles, a retired <a href="/wiki/Pinkerton_detective" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinkerton detective">Pinkerton detective</a>. The pair solves a crime in <a href="/wiki/The_Thin_Man" title="The Thin Man">The Thin Man</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett" title="Dashiell Hammett">Dashiell Hammett</a> and in the successful movie of the book, starring <a href="/wiki/William_Powell" title="William Powell">William Powell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a>. Five movie sequels to "The Thin Man" were made, followed by radio and television series. Witty banter between husband and wife was a hallmark of the book and films.</li> <li>Annabeth Chase is a criminal prosecutor, played by <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Finnigan" title="Jennifer Finnigan">Jennifer Finnigan</a>, in the television series <a href="/wiki/Close_to_Home_(2005_TV_series)" title="Close to Home (2005 TV series)">Close to Home</a>, broadcast on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> 2005–2007.</li> <li>Lydia Chin is a private detective in New York City with partner Bill Smith in a series of books by American novelist <a href="/wiki/S._J._Rozan" title="S. J. Rozan">S. J. Rozan</a> (debuted 1994).<a href="#cite_note-Linda_2007-5">[5]</a></li> <li>Denise Cleever is an undercover agent in a series of books by Australian crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Claire_McNab" title="Claire McNab">Claire McNab</a> (debuted 2000).</li> <li>Nancy Clue is an amateur detective and lesbian parody of <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew" title="Nancy Drew">Nancy Drew</a> in a series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Mabel_Maney" title="Mabel Maney">Mabel Maney</a> (debuted 1992).</li> <li>Phyl Coe was a 'beautiful lady detective' in Philco's Mysteries of the Air, a radio program sponsored by Philco Radio Tubes in 1936. The next season the detective was changed to a man, Phil Coe.<a href="#cite_note-French-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Nikki Collins is a debutante and detective story enthusiast, played by <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Durbin" title="Deanna Durbin">Deanna Durbin</a>, who sees a murder from a train in the comedic mystery film <a href="/wiki/Lady_on_a_Train" title="Lady on a Train">Lady on a Train</a> (1945).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kat_Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Kat Colorado">Kat Colorado</a> is a private investigator in <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento, California</a> in a series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Karen_Kijewski" title="Karen Kijewski">Karen Kijewski</a> (debuted 1989).</li> <li>Harper Connelly is an investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris#Harper_Connelly_Series" title="Charlaine Harris">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris" title="Charlaine Harris">Charlaine Harris</a> (debuted 2005).</li> <li>Gail Connor is an attorney based in Miami, Florida who works cases with her lover Anthony Quintana. The series was written by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Parker_(writer)" title="Barbara Parker (writer)">Barbara Parker</a> and first appeared in 1994.</li> <li>Natalie Cook (<a href="/wiki/Cameron_Diaz" title="Cameron Diaz">Cameron Diaz</a>) is a private detective in the 2000 film <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels_(2000_film)" title="Charlie's Angels (2000 film)">Charlie's Angels</a> and sequel <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels:_Full_Throttle" title="Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle">Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle</a> 2003.</li> <li>Bertha Cool is a private investigator in the <a href="/wiki/Cool_and_Lam" title="Cool and Lam">Cool and Lam</a> series by American <a href="/wiki/Erle_Stanley_Gardner" title="Erle Stanley Gardner">A. A. Fair</a> 1939–1970; <a href="/wiki/Jane_Darwell" title="Jane Darwell">Jane Darwell</a> in a lost 1955 TV show based on 1939 debut The Bigger They Come; <a href="/wiki/Benay_Venuta" title="Benay Venuta">Benay Venuta</a> in pilot based loosely on Turn On The Heat 1958, perhaps never aired.</li> <li>Alexandra Cooper is a Manhattan prosecutor in a series by American <a href="/wiki/Linda_Fairstein" title="Linda Fairstein">Linda Fairstein</a> begun 1996.</li> <li>Beka (Rebekah) Cooper is a King's Provost Guard who can talk to spirits, polices the fantasy kingdom <a href="/wiki/Tortall" class="mw-redirect" title="Tortall">Tortall</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Provost%27s_Dog" title="Provost's Dog">Provost's Dog</a> trilogy by <a href="/wiki/Tamora_Pierce" title="Tamora Pierce">Tamora Pierce</a> 2006–2011.</li> <li>Iris Cooper is a flapper-era college student in Oregon who solves crimes with journalist Jack Clancy in three books 1984–1989 by <a href="/wiki/K._K._Beck" title="K. K. Beck">K. K. Beck</a> (also writes Jane Da Silva series).</li> <li>Miranda Corbie is a private investigator in San Francisco, California in the 1940s in a series by American <a href="/wiki/Kelli_Stanley" title="Kelli Stanley">Kelli Stanley</a> begun 2010.</li> <li>Meg Corey is an amateur sleuth whose adventures start after she inherits a colonial house and apple orchard in a series by <a href="/wiki/Sheila_Connolly" title="Sheila Connolly">Sheila Connolly</a> begun 2008.</li> <li>Maureen Coughlin is a former Staten Island native who becomes a police officer in New Orleans in a series by Bill Loehfelm begun 2006.</li> <li>Miranda "Randy" Craig is an amateur sleuth who solves mysteries related to academe in <a href="/wiki/Edmonton" title="Edmonton">Edmonton</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Janice_MacDonald" title="Janice MacDonald">Janice MacDonald</a> begun 1994.</li> <li>Bess Crawford is the daughter of military man and a battlefield nurse in World War I in a series by <a href="/wiki/Caroline_and_Charles_Todd" title="Caroline and Charles Todd">Charles Todd</a> begun 2009.</li> <li>Lady <a href="/wiki/Lara_Croft" title="Lara Croft">Lara Croft</a> is an English archaeologist explorer who finds missing artifacts and fights danger in <a href="/wiki/Tomb_Raider" title="Tomb Raider">Tomb Raider</a> games begun 1996 and <a href="/wiki/Lara_Croft:_Tomb_Raider" title="Lara Croft: Tomb Raider">Lara Croft: Tomb Raider</a> films begun 2001.</li> <li>Alexa Crowe is a New Zealand native with dual NZ/Australian citizenship, who is played by <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Lawless" title="Lucy Lawless">Lucy Lawless</a> in the TVNZ show <a href="/wiki/My_Life_Is_Murder" title="My Life Is Murder">My Life Is Murder</a>. Alexa is a former detective, now retired, who still consults on very difficult cases of murder. The first season is set in Melbourne, but the pandemic caused subsequent seasons to be moved to Auckland.</li> <li>Stella Crown a biker and dairy farmer in Pennsylvania solves mysteries in a series by <a href="/wiki/Judy_Clemens" title="Judy Clemens">Judy Clemens</a>.</li> <li>Florence Cusack is a young lady detective in stories by <a href="/wiki/L._T._Meade" title="L. T. Meade">L. T. Meade</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Eustace" title="Robert Eustace">Robert Eustace</a> 1899–1900; played by Elizabeth Conboy in the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> adaptation of the story "Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Daisy Dalrymple is a journalist, married to a Detective Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, in a historical mystery series commenced 1994 by <a href="/wiki/Carola_Dunn" title="Carola Dunn">Carola Dunn</a>.</li> <li>Jean and Louise Dana, <a href="/wiki/The_Dana_Girls" title="The Dana Girls">The Dana Girls</a>, are adventurous orphaned sisters living in a boarding school, in a series 1934–1979 by the <a href="/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate" title="Stratemeyer Syndicate">Stratemeyer Syndicate</a> most famous for creating the <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew" title="Nancy Drew">Nancy Drew</a> mysteries.</li> <li>Kathryn Dance is an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation and an expert in body language, in <a href="/wiki/Monterey,_California" title="Monterey, California">Monterey, California</a>, in two novels 2006 and 2007 by <a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Deaver" title="Jeffery Deaver">Jeffery Deaver</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Danville" class="mw-redirect" title="Jo Danville">Jo Danville</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Sela_Ward" title="Sela Ward">Sela Ward</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective and former <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> agent on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_NY" title="CSI: NY">CSI: NY</a> 2010–2013.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziva_David" title="Ziva David">Ziva David</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Cote_de_Pablo" title="Cote de Pablo">Cote de Pablo</a>) is a former Israeli Intelligence officer (<a href="/wiki/Mossad" title="Mossad">Mossad</a>) and a current agent of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Service" title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">Naval Criminal Investigative Service</a> on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="NCIS (TV series)">NCIS</a> 2005–2013. Reprised for a 4 episode guest arc, 2020.</li> <li>Charmian Daniels is a detective in a series of books by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Gwendoline_Butler" title="Gwendoline Butler">Jennie Melville</a> (debuted 1962).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eve_Dallas" class="mw-redirect" title="Eve Dallas">Eve Dallas</a> is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police lieutenant in the 21st century in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E2%80%A6In_Death&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="…In Death (page does not exist)">…In Death</a> series of books by American novelist <a href="/wiki/J._D._Robb" class="mw-redirect" title="J. D. Robb">J. D. Robb</a> (debuted 1995).</li> <li>Mrs Elizabeth Darcy (née Bennet) from <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a> sleuths with her husband is a series by <a href="/wiki/Carrie_A._Bebris" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrie A. Bebris">Carrie A. Bebris</a> debuted 2004 with "Pride and Prescience".</li> <li>Elizabeth Darcy is a sleuth in the 2011 novel Death Comes to Pemberley by <a href="/wiki/P._D._James" title="P. D. James">P. D. James</a>.</li> <li>Phoebe Daring is a 16-year-old who sets out to prove her twin brother Phil is innocent of bank fraud in <a href="/wiki/The_Daring_Twins" title="The Daring Twins">The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk</a> (1911) by <a href="/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" title="L. Frank Baum">L. Frank Baum</a> and likewise defends another innocent man in <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Daring" title="Phoebe Daring">Phoebe Daring</a> (1912).</li> <li>Jane Da Silva is an expatriate lounge singer and widow who returns to Seattle after her uncle leaves her money on the condition that she solves hopeless cases, in a book series started 1993 by <a href="/wiki/K._K._Beck" title="K. K. Beck">K. K. Beck</a> who also wrote the Iris Cooper and Jack Clancy series.</li> <li>Dorcas Dene is a young lady detective who works with a private investigator to support her mother and husband in two series of short stories by George R Sims, 1897 and 1898.</li> <li>Chloe Decker/Jack Monroe portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Lauren_German" title="Lauren German">Lauren German</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> Police Detective in the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Lucifer_(TV_series)" title="Lucifer (TV series)">Lucifer</a>, 2016–2021.</li> <li>Hailey Dean is a prosecutor in the novel The Eleventh Victim by American television commentator <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Grace" title="Nancy Grace">Nancy Grace</a> (debuted 2009).</li> <li>Kate Delafield is a lesbian LAPD homicide detective in an occasionally romantic eight-book series by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest" title="Katherine V. Forrest">Katherine V. Forrest</a> (debuted 1984).</li> <li>Evan Delaney is a lawyer turned freelance journalist in a series by <a href="/wiki/Meg_Gardiner" title="Meg Gardiner">Meg Gardiner</a> commenced 2002 with "China Lake".</li> <li>Sarah Booth Delaney is a modern, impoverished, southern belle in a series by <a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Haines" title="Carolyn Haines">Carolyn Haines</a>, commenced 1999 with Them Bones.</li> <li>Jade del Cameron, an American rancher's daughter who has served as an ambulance driver in WWI, is the protagonist of <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Arruda" title="Suzanne Arruda">Suzanne Arruda</a>'s historical mystery series set in 1920s Africa.</li> <li>Elena Delgado is an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> agent played by <a href="/wiki/Roselyn_Sanchez" class="mw-redirect" title="Roselyn Sanchez">Roselyn Sanchez</a> on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a> from 2005 to 2009.</li> <li>Candace ‘C.D.’ DeLorenzo portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Tracey_Needham" title="Tracey Needham">Tracey Needham</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Police Inspector in the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series, <a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>, 2001–2003.</li> <li>Flavia de Luce is the curious, brilliantly scientific, morbid youngest daughter of motherless three girls in Buckshaw manor, who gets caught up in murders near the 1950s English village of Bishop's Lacey, aged 11 when <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bradley_(writer)" title="Alan Bradley (writer)">Alan Bradley</a> began a proposed six-book series with <a href="/wiki/The_Sweetness_at_the_Bottom_of_the_Pie" title="The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie">The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</a> in 2009.</li> <li>Sister Mary Teresa (Emtee) Dempsey detects in a series by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_McInerney" title="Ralph McInerney">Ralph McInerney</a>, author of the <a href="/wiki/Father_Dowling" class="mw-redirect" title="Father Dowling">Father Dowling</a> mysteries, writing as 'Monica Quill', begun 1981.</li> <li>Bo Dennis, portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Anna_Silk" title="Anna Silk">Anna Silk</a>) a bisexual succubus that helps fight crime between the light and dark on the Canadian Sci-Fi/Fantasy television series <a href="/wiki/Lost_Girl" title="Lost Girl">Lost Girl</a>, 2010–2016.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denver_Doll" title="Denver Doll">Denver Doll</a> called the "Detective Queen" is a dime novel hero by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lytton_Wheeler" title="Edward Lytton Wheeler">Edward Lytton Wheeler</a> beginning in 1882 in Beadle's Dime Novels.</li> <li>Anna Detroyer a Native American detective based in Miami, Florida, who investigates <a href="/wiki/Urban_fantasy" title="Urban fantasy">urban fantasy</a> cases, created by <a href="/wiki/Lela_E._Buis" title="Lela E. Buis">Lela E. Buis</a>.</li> <li>Claire De Witt is a pot smoking PI who uses dreams and omens to find the truth in New Orleans, by <a href="/wiki/Sara_Gran" title="Sara Gran">Sara Gran</a>, the start of a new series begun 2011.</li> <li>Eve Diamond is an LA Times reporter in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Denise_Hamilton" title="Denise Hamilton">Denise Hamilton</a> begun 2001.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosa_Diaz" title="Rosa Diaz">Rosa Diaz</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Beatriz" title="Stephanie Beatriz">Stephanie Beatriz</a>) is a bad-ass, openly bisexual <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective in Brooklyn's 99th precinct on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Broadcasting Network">Fox Broadcasting Network</a> comedy show <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine" title="Brooklyn Nine-Nine">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</a>, 2013–2021.</li> <li>Mary DiNunzio is a Philadelphia area attorney in the all female Rosato law firm<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> headed by her mentor Bennie Rosato.</li> <li>Trixie Dixon, girl detective, is the fearless, hot and sassy partner—in banter and in business—of <a href="/wiki/Black_Jack_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Jack Justice">Black Jack Justice</a>, created by <a href="/wiki/Decoder_Ring_Theatre" title="Decoder Ring Theatre">Decoder Ring Theatre</a> writer Gregg Taylor. "When it comes to detective work, Jack and Trixie agree on the facts. Clients cry, clients lie, clients dicker over the bill. But if they can cut to the happy ending without cutting each other's throats, it'll be a miracle!"<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs" title="Maisie Dobbs">Maisie Dobbs</a> takes over a London private investigation agency after her mentor retires, familiar with psychology from his training and her nursing in WWI 1910–1929 for the <a href="/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maisie Dobbs (novel)">Maisie Dobbs (novel)</a> series by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Winspear" title="Jacqueline Winspear">Jacqueline Winspear</a> begun in 2003.</li> <li>Piper Donovan is a wedding caterer is a series by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Jane_Clark" title="Mary Jane Clark">Mary Jane Clark</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Drake_(Ashes_to_Ashes)" title="Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes)">Alex Drake</a> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Keeley_Hawes" title="Keeley Hawes">Keeley Hawes</a> is a police Detective Inspector (DI) and psychologist in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(British_TV_series)" title="Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)">Ashes to Ashes</a> 2008–2010.</li> <li>Frankie Drake portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Lee_Smith" title="Lauren Lee Smith">Lauren Lee Smith</a> is the head of a private detective agency in prohibition-era <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> from the <a href="/wiki/CBC_Television_News" class="mw-redirect" title="CBC Television News">CBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Drake_Mysteries" title="Frankie Drake Mysteries">Frankie Drake Mysteries</a> 2017–.</li> <li>Jessie Drake is a divorced homicide detective in a series of novels by <a href="/wiki/Rochelle_Majer_Krich" title="Rochelle Majer Krich">Rochelle Majer Krich</a> begun 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew" title="Nancy Drew">Nancy Drew</a> is one of the best-known "female detectives", starring in a multi-authored <a href="/wiki/List_of_Nancy_Drew_books" title="List of Nancy Drew books">series of books</a> created by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Stratemeyer" title="Edward Stratemeyer">Edward Stratemeyer</a> in 1930. Portrayed in film by <a href="/wiki/Bonita_Granville" title="Bonita Granville">Bonita Granville</a> in Nancy Drew – Detective (1938), <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew..._Reporter" title="Nancy Drew... Reporter">Nancy Drew... Reporter</a> (1939), Nancy Drew: Trouble Shooter (1939), and <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew_and_the_Hidden_Staircase_(1939_film)" title="Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939 film)">Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase</a> (1939); by <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Sue_Martin" title="Pamela Sue Martin">Pamela Sue Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Janet_Julian" title="Janet Julian">Janet Louise Johnson</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys/Nancy_Drew_Mysteries" title="The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries">The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries</a> from 1977 to 1978; by <a href="/wiki/Tracy_Ryan_(actress)" title="Tracy Ryan (actress)">Tracy Ryan</a> in the 1995 syndicated series; by <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Lawson" title="Maggie Lawson">Maggie Lawson</a> in the 2002 television movie Nancy Drew;by <a href="/wiki/Emma_Roberts" title="Emma Roberts">Emma Roberts</a> in the 2007 film <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew_(2007_film)" title="Nancy Drew (2007 film)">Nancy Drew</a> and by <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_McMann" title="Kennedy McMann">Kennedy McMann</a> in the <a href="/wiki/CW_Television_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="CW Television Network">CW Television Network</a> series, 2019–2023.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meg_Duncan" title="Meg Duncan">Margaret "Meg" Duncan</a> is a girl mystery solving series under publisher pseudonym Holly Beth Walker, illustrated by Cliff Shule 1967–1972.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Duncan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabrina Duncan">Sabrina "Bree" Duncan</a> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Kate_Jackson" title="Kate Jackson">Kate Jackson</a> is a private detective on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels" title="Charlie's Angels">Charlie's Angels</a> 1976–1979.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Dunham" title="Olivia Dunham">Olivia Dunham</a> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Torv" title="Anna Torv">Anna Torv</a> is an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> agent on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)" title="Fringe (TV series)">Fringe (TV series)</a> 2008–2013.</li> <li>Constance Dunlap is a reformed thief and detective in a series of short stories by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Arthur_B._Reeve" title="Arthur B. Reeve">Arthur B. Reeve</a> begun 1913.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calleigh_Duquesne" class="mw-redirect" title="Calleigh Duquesne">Calleigh Duquesne</a> <a href="/wiki/Emily_Procter" title="Emily Procter">Emily Procter</a> is a crime scene investigator in the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_Miami" title="CSI: Miami">CSI: Miami</a> 2002–2012.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Eames" title="Alexandra Eames">Alexandra Eames</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Erbe" title="Kathryn Erbe">Kathryn Erbe</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective, later promoted to Lieutenant on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>/<a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a> 2001–2010. She reprised her role for a 2 episode arc on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a>, 2014.</li> <li>Puck Ekstedt is a literature student from Stockholm in several novels by <a href="/wiki/Maria_Lang" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Lang">Dagmar Lange</a> and the TV-series <a href="/wiki/Crimes_of_Passion_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crimes of Passion (TV series)">Crimes of Passion (TV series)</a>.</li> <li>Robin Ellacott is a London-based temp-turned-investigator in the <a href="/wiki/Cormoran_Strike" title="Cormoran Strike">Cormoran Strike</a> series by <a href="/wiki/J.K._Rowling" class="mw-redirect" title="J.K. Rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> writing as Robert Galbraith.</li> <li>Jinny Exstead portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Nancy_McKeon" title="Nancy McKeon">Nancy McKeon</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Police Inspector on the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series ‘’<a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>’’ 2001–2004.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Doran Fairweather is an antique dealer and amateur detective in a series of books by English novelist <a href="/wiki/Mollie_Hardwick" title="Mollie Hardwick">Mollie Hardwick</a> (debuted 1986).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nola_Falacci" class="mw-redirect" title="Nola Falacci">Nola Falacci</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Alicia_Witt" title="Alicia Witt">Alicia Witt</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> police detective in the Major Crimes Bureau on the <a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a>, 2007.</li> <li>Erica Falck is a biographer who teams up with her police detective husband in this Swedish series by <a href="/wiki/Camilla_Lackberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Camilla Lackberg">Camilla Lackberg</a>. Books in the series are: The Ice Princess, The Preacher, The Stonecutter, The Gallows Bird, The Hidden Child, The Drowning, The Lost Boy and Buried Angels.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Fansler" title="Kate Fansler">Kate Fansler</a> is a literature professor and amateur sleuth in a series of books 1964–2002 by <a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun" title="Carolyn Gold Heilbrun">Amanda Cross</a>.</li> <li>Brodie Farrell is a "finder" of lost objects in a <a href="/wiki/Jo_Bannister#Brodie_Farrell_novels" title="Jo Bannister">series of books</a> by British crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Jo_Bannister" title="Jo Bannister">Jo Bannister</a> (debuted 2001).</li> <li>Clare Fergusson is an ex-army helicopter pilot and Episcopalian minister who solves crimes in a series by <a href="/wiki/Julia_Spencer-Fleming" title="Julia Spencer-Fleming">Julia Spencer-Fleming</a>, commenced 2002.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister_Fidelma" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister Fidelma">Sister Fidelma</a> is a lawyer and religieuse in 7th-century Ireland in a series of books by "<a href="/wiki/Peter_Berresford_Ellis" title="Peter Berresford Ellis">Peter Tremayne</a>" (debuted 1994).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phryne_Fisher" title="Phryne Fisher">Phryne Fisher</a> is a wealthy aristocratic jazz age detective in a <a href="/wiki/Phryne_Fisher#The_books" title="Phryne Fisher">series of books</a> by Australian crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Greenwood" title="Kerry Greenwood">Kerry Greenwood</a> (debuted 1991).</li> <li>Josephine Flanagan is an ex-junkie hired to track down a college girl in <a href="/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen,_Manhattan" title="Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan">Hell's Kitchen</a> in the 1950s, in <a href="/wiki/Sara_Gran" title="Sara Gran">Sara Gran</a>'s Dope (2006).</li> <li>Flavia Gemina portrayed by (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Francesca_Isherwood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francesca Isherwood (page does not exist)">Francesca Isherwood</a>) is a rich girl/amateur sleuth in ancient Rome in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> TV series <a href="/wiki/Roman_Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Mysteries">Roman Mysteries</a>, 2007–2008 based on <a href="/wiki/The_Roman_Mysteries" title="The Roman Mysteries">The Roman Mysteries</a> book series debuted 2001 by British author, <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Lawrence" title="Caroline Lawrence">Caroline Lawrence</a>.</li> <li>Flavia Nubia is an African girl, and former slave, in ancient Rome in <a href="/wiki/The_Roman_Mysteries" title="The Roman Mysteries">The Roman Mysteries</a> book series debuted 2001 by Caroline Lawrence and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Mysteries_(TV_series)" title="Roman Mysteries (TV series)">BBC television series</a> first broadcast 2007.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Fletcher" title="Jessica Fletcher">Jessica Fletcher</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a>) is an author and amateur detective on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Murder,_She_Wrote" title="Murder, She Wrote">Murder, She Wrote</a>, 1984–1996.</li> <li>Meredith "Merry" Folger is a <a href="/wiki/Nantucket" title="Nantucket">Nantucket</a> police officer appearing from 1994 in a series of novels by <a href="/wiki/Francine_Mathews" title="Francine Mathews">Francine Mathews</a>.</li> <li>Marianne Folkesson is a civil servant whose job it is to take care of the belongings of people who die without any next of kin. She appears in the standalone novel Shadow by author <a href="/wiki/Karin_Alvtegen" title="Karin Alvtegen">Karin Alvtegen</a>. Set in Sweden.</li> <li>Solange Fontaine is a private investigator in short stories by <a href="/wiki/F._Tennyson_Jesse" title="F. Tennyson Jesse">F. Tennyson Jesse</a> (1888–1958), also the author of <a href="/wiki/A_Pin_to_See_the_Peepshow" title="A Pin to See the Peepshow">A Pin to See the Peepshow</a> and Murder and its Motives.</li> <li>Maggie Forbes is a police Inspector in London, played by <a href="/wiki/Jill_Gascoine" title="Jill Gascoine">Jill Gascoine</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Gentle_Touch" title="The Gentle Touch">The Gentle Touch</a>, a British TV series 1980–1984, as well as its follow-up <a href="/wiki/C.A.T.S._Eyes" title="C.A.T.S. Eyes">C.A.T.S. Eyes</a>, 1985–1987.</li> <li>Ellie Foreman is a documentary filmmaker in Chicago in a series debuted 2002 by <a href="/wiki/Libby_Fischer_Hellmann" title="Libby Fischer Hellmann">Libby Fischer Hellmann</a>.</li> <li>Malin Fors is a 30-something divorced mother of a teenage daughter, and an ambitious detective inspector, in Linköping, Sweden in a series commenced 2007 by <a href="/wiki/Mons_Kallentoft" title="Mons Kallentoft">Mons Kallentoft</a>.</li> <li>Sarah Fortune is a solicitor and freelance unpaid sex therapist who unravels mysteries that she finds around her in a series commenced 1989 by <a href="/wiki/Frances_Fyfield" title="Frances Fyfield">Frances Fyfield</a>.</li> <li>Diana Fowley portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Mimi_Rogers" title="Mimi Rogers">Mimi Rogers</a>) is an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> agent on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a>, 1998–1999.</li> <li>Charlie Fox is a personal protection agent and de facto detective in the book series written by British novelist Zoe Sharp.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></li> <li>Nea Fox is a private investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Amelia_Ellis#Work" title="Amelia Ellis">series of books</a> by British-German crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Amelia_Ellis" title="Amelia Ellis">Amelia Ellis</a> (debuted 2005).</li> <li>Dame Frevisse is a Benedictine nun in 15th-century Oxfordshire in a <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Frazer#Dame_Frevisse_Series" title="Margaret Frazer">series of books</a> by "<a href="/wiki/Margaret_Frazer" title="Margaret Frazer">Margaret Frazer</a>" (debuted 1992).</li> <li>Joe Frye is a female detective first appearing in 2005 and now playing a leading role in <a href="/wiki/P.J._Parrish" class="mw-redirect" title="P.J. Parrish">P.J. Parrish</a>'s Louis Kincaid series.</li> <li>Erika Furudo is an amateur detective in the <a href="/wiki/Umineko_no_Naku_Koro_ni" class="mw-redirect" title="Umineko no Naku Koro ni">Umineko no Naku Koro ni</a> series of visual novels (debuted 2009).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Garrett_(Charlie%27s_Angels)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kelly Garrett (Charlie's Angels)">Kelly Garrett</a> portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Jaclyn_Smith" title="Jaclyn Smith">Jaclyn Smith</a> is a private detective on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Charlie%E2%80%99s_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie’s Angels">Charlie’s Angels</a>, 1976–1981 & reprised in the 2003 film <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels:_Full_Throttle" title="Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle">Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle</a>.</li> <li>Angela Gennaro is a private detective with partner Patrick Kenzie in Boston, MA in a series of books by American novelist <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Lehane" title="Dennis Lehane">Dennis Lehane</a> (debuted 1994).<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></li> <li>Georgina (usually called "George") is a tomboyish, courageous and hot-tempered member of the group of kids in <a href="/wiki/Enid_Blyton" title="Enid Blyton">Enid Blyton's</a> <a href="/wiki/Famous_Five" class="mw-redirect" title="Famous Five">Famous Five</a> series.</li> <li>Carol Ann Gibson is an attorney in <a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a> who becomes involved in investigations in a series of four books by <a href="/wiki/Penny_Mickelbury" title="Penny Mickelbury">Penny Mickelbury</a>, commenced 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stella_Gibson" title="Stella Gibson">Stella Gibson</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Gillian_Anderson" title="Gillian Anderson">Gillian Anderson</a>) is a Detective Superintendent (DS) in the British-Irish crime drama series <a href="/wiki/The_Fall_(TV_series)" title="The Fall (TV series)">The Fall</a>.</li> <li>Mrs Gladden is the protagonist in <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Forrester" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Forrester">Andrew Forrester</a> Jr's The Female Detective (1864).</li> <li>Cordelia Glauca (コーデリア・グラウカ Kōderia Gurauka?) is a girl detective who can see and her things others cannot, working with the Milky Holmes Detective Agency to combat evil doers in various products of the <a href="/wiki/Tantei_Opera_Milky_Holmes" title="Tantei Opera Milky Holmes">Tantei Opera Milky Holmes</a> <a href="/wiki/Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">media franchise</a>.</li> <li>Gabriele "Gaby" Glockner (called "Pfote" by her friends) is the only female member of the detective group in the series <a href="/wiki/TKKG" title="TKKG">TKKG</a>. She is animal-loving, smart and the owner of the group's mascot, the <a href="/wiki/Cocker_Spaniel" title="Cocker Spaniel">cocker spaniel</a> Oskar.</li> <li>Gladys 'Gladdy' Gold is an ex-librarian and murder mystery fan, retired to Florida, who takes up sleuthing in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Rita_Lakin" title="Rita Lakin">Rita Lakin</a> commenced 2005.</li> <li>Rachel Gold is a St. Louis-turned-Chicago defense attorney, series begins 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginny_Gordon" title="Ginny Gordon">Ginny Gordon</a> is a teenaged girl in a series of books 1948–1956 by <a href="/wiki/Julie_Campbell_Tatham" title="Julie Campbell Tatham">Julie Campbell Tatham</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beverly_Gray" title="Beverly Gray">Beverly Gray</a> is the protagonist of the Beverly Gray Mystery Stories by <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Gray#Clair_Blank" title="Beverly Gray">Clair Blank</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordelia_Gray" title="Cordelia Gray">Cordelia Gray</a> is private investigator in the 1972 novel <a href="/wiki/An_Unsuitable_Job_for_a_Woman" title="An Unsuitable Job for a Woman">An Unsuitable Job for a Woman</a> and its 1982 sequel <a href="/wiki/The_Skull_Beneath_the_Skin" title="The Skull Beneath the Skin">The Skull Beneath the Skin</a>, both by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/P._D._James" title="P. D. James">P. D. James</a>. Gray was first played by <a href="/wiki/Pippa_Guard" title="Pippa Guard">Pippa Guard</a> in the 1982 British film adaptation, and later by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Baxendale" title="Helen Baxendale">Helen Baxendale</a> in the jointly-produced ITV/PBS television adaptation, the first series broadcast 1997 and the second in 1999.</li> <li>Hazel Green is a resourceful girl in four books for children 1999–2003, by <a href="/wiki/Odo_Hirsch" title="Odo Hirsch">Odo Hirsch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-colleenmondor-11">[11]</a></li> <li>Sophie Greenway is the detective in a <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Hart#Sophie_Greenway_series" title="Ellen Hart">culinary mystery series</a> of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Hart" title="Ellen Hart">Ellen Hart</a> (debuted 1994).</li> <li>Lady Julia Grey is a sleuth in Victorian Britain in historical mysteries by <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Raybourn" title="Deanna Raybourn">Deanna Raybourn</a> commenced 2007.</li> <li>Tammy Gregorio portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Ferlito" title="Vanessa Ferlito">Vanessa Ferlito</a>) is an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> Special Agent in the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/NCIS:_New_Orleans" title="NCIS: New Orleans">NCIS: New Orleans</a>, 2016–2021.</li> <li>Thóra Gudmundsdóttir is an Icelandic lawyer and detective in a <a href="/wiki/Yrsa_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir#Crime_novels" title="Yrsa Sigurðardóttir">series of books</a> by Icelandic crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Yrsa_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir" title="Yrsa Sigurðardóttir">Yrsa Sigurðardóttir</a> (debuted 2005).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="Jane Halifax">Jane Halifax</a> <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Gibney" title="Rebecca Gibney">Rebecca Gibney</a> is a forensic psychiatrist on the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> series <a href="/wiki/Halifax_f.p." title="Halifax f.p.">Halifax f.p.</a> 1994–2002.</li> <li>Grace Hanadarko <a href="/wiki/Holly_Hunter" title="Holly Hunter">Holly Hunter</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Police_Department" title="Oklahoma City Police Department">Oklahoma City</a> police detective in <a href="/wiki/TNT_(U.S._TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="TNT (U.S. TV network)">TNT</a> series <a href="/wiki/Saving_Grace_(TV_series)" title="Saving Grace (TV series)">Saving Grace</a> 2007–2010.</li> <li>Emily Hanson is a geologist and amateur investigator in a series of books by American geologist and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Andrews_(author)" title="Sarah Andrews (author)">Sarah Andrews</a> begun 1994.</li> <li>Sigrid Harald is a police lieutenant in New York City in a <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Maron#Sigrid_Harald_series" title="Margaret Maron">series of books</a> by American crime writer <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Maron" title="Margaret Maron">Margaret Maron</a> begun 1981.</li> <li>Myrtle Hardcastle is a 12-year-old amateur sleuth and aspiring detective in 1890s Victorian England in the series of novels by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_C._Bunce" title="Elizabeth C. Bunce">Elizabeth C. Bunce</a>, first appearing in Premeditated Myrtle in 2020. She solves murder mysteries partnering with her governess Ada Judson and cat Peony.</li> <li>Stella Hardesty is a middle-aged woman in rural Missouri who runs a sewing shop and helps women with abusive husbands and boyfriends, having killed her own husband a few years before by Sophie Littlefield begun 2009.</li> <li>Benni Harper is a folk art museum curator and amateur detective in San Celina, California in a book series by American writer <a href="/wiki/Earlene_Fowler" title="Earlene Fowler">Earlene Fowler</a> begun 1994.<a href="#cite_note-Murdock_2007_128-12">[12]</a></li> <li>Nikki Harper is a realtor in Hollywood who becomes an amateur sleuth to help a friend in trouble, in The Bad Always Die Twice by <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Crane" title="Cheryl Crane">Cheryl Crane</a>.</li> <li>Grace Hart <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Bullock" title="Sandra Bullock">Sandra Bullock</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> agent in film <a href="/wiki/Miss_Congeniality_(film)" title="Miss Congeniality (film)">Miss Congeniality</a> 2000, and sequel <a href="/wiki/Miss_Congeniality_2:_Armed_and_Fabulous" title="Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous">Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous</a> 2005.</li> <li>Ellie Haskell is an amateur detective in a <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Cannell#Ellie_Haskell_Series" title="Dorothy Cannell">series of books</a> by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Cannell" title="Dorothy Cannell">Dorothy Cannell</a> begun 1984.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Havers" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbara Havers">Barbara Havers</a> is a policewoman in a <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_George#Fiction-Inspector_Lynley" title="Elizabeth George">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_George" title="Elizabeth George">Elizabeth George</a> begun 1988; played by <a href="/wiki/Sharon_Small" title="Sharon Small">Sharon Small</a> on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Inspector_Lynley_Mysteries" title="The Inspector Lynley Mysteries">The Inspector Lynley Mysteries</a> 2001–2007.</li> <li>Julie Hayes is a young woman mixed up in dramas on the seedy side of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, in a series of four books by <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Salisbury_Davis" title="Dorothy Salisbury Davis">Dorothy Salisbury Davis</a> 1976–1987.</li> <li>Madelyn "Maddie" Hayes (<a href="/wiki/Cybill_Shepherd" title="Cybill Shepherd">Cybill Shepherd</a>), private investigator, owns Blue Moon Detective Agency with detective David Addison Jr (<a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a>) <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> <a href="/wiki/Moonlighting_(TV_series)" title="Moonlighting (TV series)">Moonlighting (TV series)</a> 1985–1989.</li> <li>Tamara Hayle is an ex-policewoman and private investigator in Newark, N.J. in a series by <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Wilson_Wesley" title="Valerie Wilson Wesley">Valerie Wilson Wesley</a> begun 1994.</li> <li>Judy Hill is a policewoman in a <a href="/wiki/Jill_McGown#Series_novels" title="Jill McGown">series of books</a> by British crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Jill_McGown" title="Jill McGown">Jill McGown</a> (1947–2007) begun 1983.</li> <li>Nikki Hill is a prosecutor in Los Angeles in a series by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Darden" title="Christopher Darden">Christopher Darden</a> and Dick Lochte begun 1999.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikki_Heat" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikki Heat">Nikki Heat</a> is a fictional homicide detective in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)#Tie-in_works" title="Castle (TV series)">series of books</a> inspired by NYPD homicide detective <a href="/wiki/Kate_Beckett" title="Kate Beckett">Kate Beckett</a>, partner to fictional murder mystery author <a href="/wiki/Richard_Castle" title="Richard Castle">Richard Castle</a>, a character on the <a href="/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)" title="Castle (TV series)">Castle (TV series)</a>, begun 2009.</li> <li>Abbess Helewise of Hawkenlye is a 12th-century abbess who solves crimes with the help of knight Josse d'Acquin in a series by <a href="/wiki/Alys_Clare" title="Alys Clare">Alys Clare</a> begun 1999.</li> <li>Dixie Hemingway is an ex-policewoman and pet sitter in Sarasota Florida in a series by <a href="/wiki/Blaize_Clement" title="Blaize Clement">Blaize Clement</a> (1932–2011) begun 2005.</li> <li>Dido Hoare is an antique bookseller and amateur detective in a <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Macdonald#Work" title="Marianne Macdonald">series of books</a> by Canadian crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Macdonald" title="Marianne Macdonald">Marianne Macdonald</a> begun 1996.</li> <li>Vicky Holden is an <a href="/wiki/Arapaho" title="Arapaho">Arapaho</a> lawyer in the Wind River Reservation book series by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Coel" title="Margaret Coel">Margaret Coel</a> begun 1995.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Hollis" title="Emma Hollis">Emma Hollis</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> Special Agent played by <a href="/wiki/Klea_Scott" title="Klea Scott">Klea Scott</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/Millennium_(TV_series)" title="Millennium (TV series)">Millennium</a> 1998–1999.</li> <li>Barbara Holloway is an attorney in <a href="/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</a>, in a mystery series by <a href="/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm" title="Kate Wilhelm">Kate Wilhelm</a> begun 1991.</li> <li>Patricia Anne Hollowell is a retired school teacher in <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> in the 'southern sisters' series by <a href="/wiki/Anne_George_(writer)" title="Anne George (writer)">Anne George</a> (died 2001) 1996–2001.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Holmes" title="Charlotte Holmes">Charlotte Holmes</a> attributes her detective activities to a mythical brother "Sherlock" in a historical mystery romance series by <a href="/wiki/Sherry_Thomas" title="Sherry Thomas">Sherry Thomas</a> beginning with <a href="/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet_Women" title="A Study in Scarlet Women">A Study in Scarlet Women</a>, 2016.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enola_Holmes_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Enola Holmes (character)">Enola Holmes</a> is the 14-year-old sister of <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes" title="Mycroft Holmes">Mycroft Holmes</a> and has run away from boarding school to make a living as a finder of missing persons in as book series for children grades 6–9 by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Springer" title="Nancy Springer">Nancy Springer</a> begun 2007. She is also the protagonist of the 2020 Netflix film, <a href="/wiki/Enola_Holmes_(film)" title="Enola Holmes (film)">Enola Holmes</a></li> <li>Shirley Holmes is the great-grandniece of <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> and a 12-year-old amateur sleuth in the Canadian mystery television series <a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Shirley_Holmes" title="The Adventures of Shirley Holmes">The Adventures of Shirley Holmes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Romanko_2016_16-13">[13]</a></li> <li>Laura Holt is the head of the <a href="/wiki/Remington_Steele" title="Remington Steele">Remington Steele</a> Agency, played by <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Zimbalist" title="Stephanie Zimbalist">Stephanie Zimbalist</a> in the TV series <a href="/wiki/Remington_Steele" title="Remington Steele">Remington Steele</a> 1982–1987.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elfie_Hopkins" title="Elfie Hopkins">Elfie Hopkins</a> played by <a href="/wiki/Jaime_Winstone" title="Jaime Winstone">Jaime Winstone</a> is an aspiring teen detective who isn't afraid to fight violence with violence in the 2012 film of the same name.</li> <li>Lili Hoshizawa is an energetic 13 year old who uses horoscopes and astrology to solve crimes, and sometimes transforms into 'Detective Spica', in the manga <a href="/wiki/Zodiac_P.I." title="Zodiac P.I.">Zodiac P.I.</a> 2001–2003.<a href="#cite_note-colleenmondor-11">[11]</a></li> <li>Jeri Howard is a private investigator in <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Janet_Dawson" title="Janet Dawson">Janet Dawson</a> begun 1990.</li> <li>Robin Hudson is a "third-string correspondent" and amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Sparkle_Hayter#Robin_Hudson_series" title="Sparkle Hayter">series of books</a> by Canadian journalist and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Sparkle_Hayter" title="Sparkle Hayter">Sparkle Hayter</a> 1994–2002.</li> <li>Irene Huss is a police detective in novels by Swedish writer <a href="/wiki/Helene_Tursten" title="Helene Tursten">Helene Tursten</a> 1998–2007. Books in the series are: Detective Inspector Huss, The Torso, The Glass Devil, Night Rounds, The Golden Calf, The Fire Dance and The Beige Man</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Sonya Iverson is a NYC news producer in a <a href="/wiki/Elsa_Klensch#Fiction" title="Elsa Klensch">series of books</a> by Australian fashion journalist <a href="/wiki/Elsa_Klensch" title="Elsa Klensch">Elsa Klensch</a> begun 2004.</li> <li>Bonnie Indermill is a NYC office temp series by <a href="/wiki/Carole_Berry" title="Carole Berry">Carole Berry</a> begun 1987.</li> <li>Dr. Maura Isles is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Chief Medical Examiner and a forensic expert working at the Boston Police Department in books by <a href="/wiki/Tess_Gerritsen" title="Tess Gerritsen">Tess Gerritsen</a> begun The Apprentice 2002; played by <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Alexander" title="Sasha Alexander">Sasha Alexander</a> on TV <a href="/wiki/Rizzoli_%26_Isles" title="Rizzoli & Isles">Rizzoli & Isles</a> 2010–2016.</li> <li>Hannah Ives is a <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> area breast-cancer survivor in series by <a href="/wiki/Marcia_Talley" title="Marcia Talley">Marcia Talley</a> begun 1999.</li> <li>Kate Ivory is an Oxford romance writer in series by <a href="/wiki/Veronica_Stallwood" title="Veronica Stallwood">Veronica Stallwood</a> begun 1994.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Jill Jackson is a <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a> police officer in a series by <a href="/wiki/Leah_Giarratano" title="Leah Giarratano">Leah Giarratano</a> begun in 2007.</li> <li>Gemma James is a <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> detective in a series by American <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Crombie" title="Deborah Crombie">Deborah Crombie</a> begun 1993.</li> <li>Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is an isolated woman, who doesn't accept the police conclusion that a neighbour boy's death is accidental and investigates it herself, in Danish author <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hoeg" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hoeg">Peter Hoeg</a>'s Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992).</li> <li>Mrs Jeffries is a housekeeper to Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon in Victorian England who leads the staff to solve his cases in a series by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Brightwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Brightwell">Emily Brightwell</a> begun 1993.</li> <li>Jane Jeffry is a Chicago widow with three children who solves murders in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jill_Churchill" title="Jill Churchill">Jill Churchill</a> begun 1989.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Leigh_Johnson" title="Brenda Leigh Johnson">Brenda Leigh Johnson</a> portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Kyra_Sedgwick" title="Kyra Sedgwick">Kyra Sedgwick</a>) is a Deputy Chief in the Major Crimes Division of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> Police Department on the <a href="/wiki/TNT_(American_TV_network)" title="TNT (American TV network)">TNT</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Closer" title="The Closer">The Closer</a> 2005–2012.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Johnson_(Without_a_Trace)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vivian Johnson (Without a Trace)">Vivian Johnson</a> portrayed by(<a href="/wiki/Marianne_Jean-Baptiste" title="Marianne Jean-Baptiste">Marianne Jean-Baptiste</a>) is an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> agent on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a>, 2002–2009.</li> <li>Casey Jones is an unlicensed PI and ex-con, tough and brash, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Katy_Munger" title="Katy Munger">Katy Munger</a> (co-creator of sexual <a href="/wiki/Tart_Noir" title="Tart Noir">Tart Noir</a>) begun 1997.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Jones" title="Jessica Jones">Jessica Jones</a> portrayed by (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Krystten_Ritter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Krystten Ritter (page does not exist)">Krystten Ritter</a>) in the self-titled <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> series & the <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> series/<a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comic" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Comic">Marvel Comic</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Defenders_(miniseries)" title="The Defenders (miniseries)">The Defenders</a> is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> private detective, journalist and former somewhat hesitant superhero & the main protagonist of the <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel</a> series <a href="/wiki/Alias_(comics)" title="Alias (comics)">Alias</a> (2001–04) and <a href="/wiki/The_Pulse_(comics)" title="The Pulse (comics)">The Pulse</a> (2004–06). She has also appeared in <a href="/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" title="Avengers (comics)">The Avengers</a> and other titles.</li> <li>Lena Jones is a private investigator and former policewoman in western U.S. in a series by <a href="/wiki/Betty_Webb" title="Betty Webb">Betty Webb</a> begun 2001.</li> <li>Jimm Juree is a Thai crime reporter forced to return to a rural area to look after her mother and the rest of her family, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Cotterill" title="Colin Cotterill">Colin Cotterill</a> begun 2011.</li> <li>Charlotte Justice is an African-American Los Angeles Police Department Detective in a series by African-American <a href="/wiki/Paula_L._Woods" title="Paula L. Woods">Paula L. Woods</a> begun 1999.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Jareau" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennifer Jareau">Jennifer Jareau</a>, portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/A.J._Cook" class="mw-redirect" title="A.J. Cook">A.J. Cook</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paramount%2B" title="Paramount+">Paramount+</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a>, 2005–2020 rebooted 2022–.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Julia Kalas is a poorly reformed criminal sent to central Texas by Federal Witness Protection in Nine Days and South of Nowhere by <a href="/wiki/Minerva_Koenig" title="Minerva Koenig">Minerva Koenig</a>. The series debuted in 2013.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Keate" title="Sarah Keate">Sarah Keate</a>, a nurse by profession, is the only recurring sleuth created by longtime, prolific mystery novelist Mignon G. Eberhart. (Susan Dare, a fictional mystery author who appears in a collection of Eberhart short stories, is generally not considered a "recurring" character.) Keate is featured in Eberhart's first five novels, beginning in 1929, and also appears in some 1930s Hollywood films. In the mid-1930s, Eberhart shifted her focus to standalone mysteries, and she brought back Keate only twice in the remaining 55 years of her career.</li> <li>Sarah Kelling is a <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Boston" title="Beacon Hill, Boston">Beacon Hill, Boston</a> amateur in The Family Vault (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #1) by <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_MacLeod" title="Charlotte MacLeod">Charlotte MacLeod</a> begun 1979.</li> <li>Irene Kelly is a reporter in Goodnight Irene by <a href="/wiki/Jan_Burke" title="Jan Burke">Jan Burke</a>, begun 1992.</li> <li>Kitty Keene is a former chorus girl in <a href="/wiki/Kitty_Keene,_Inc." title="Kitty Keene, Inc.">Kitty Keene, Inc.</a> a radio show first broadcast 1937 in Chicago. Played successively by: Beverly Younger, Gail Henshaw and <a href="/wiki/Fran_Carlon" title="Fran Carlon">Fran Carlon</a>.</li> <li>Kylie Kendall lesbian, former Australian bartender, inherits a private LA detective agency in The Wombat Strategy 2004 by <a href="/wiki/Claire_McNab" title="Claire McNab">Claire McNab</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Kylie1McNab-14">[14]</a> also known for Claire Ashton and Denise Cleever series.</li> <li>Maeve Kerrigan is an Irish police detective on the London Metropolitan Police force in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Casey" title="Jane Casey">Jane Casey</a>. The series debuted in 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joanne_Kilbourn" title="Joanne Kilbourn">Joanne Kilbourn</a> is a Saskatchewan political advisor, later political science prof and commentator by <a href="/wiki/Gail_Bowen" title="Gail Bowen">Gail Bowen</a> begun 1990. Six of the books were made into movies for television, by <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Films" title="Shaftesbury Films">Shaftesbury Films</a> and <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sally_Kimball" title="Sally Kimball">Sally Kimball</a> was bodyguard and assistant to <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brown" title="Encyclopedia Brown">Encyclopedia Brown</a> in the children's book series by <a href="/wiki/Donald_J._Sobol" title="Donald J. Sobol">Donald J. Sobol</a>, which began in 1963.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Keyes" title="Sammy Keyes">Sammy Keyes</a> is the protagonist of the mystery series Sammy Keyes, by Wendelin Van Draanen.</li> <li>Samantha Kinsey is young owner of a mystery bookshop, and amateur sleuth, played by <a href="/wiki/Kellie_Martin" title="Kellie Martin">Kellie Martin</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Woman" title="Mystery Woman">Mystery Woman</a>, a US series of made for TV movies debuted 2003.</li> <li>Jacqueline Kirby is a librarian, then romance novelist, in four books by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Peters">Barbara Mertz</a> published 1971, 1974, 1984 and 1989.</li> <li>Kyoko Kirigiri is the Ultimate, or Super Highschool Level Detective in the <a href="/wiki/Visual_novel" title="Visual novel">visual novel</a> series <a href="/wiki/Danganronpa" title="Danganronpa">Danganronpa</a>, started in 2010 with <a href="/wiki/Danganronpa:_Trigger_Happy_Havoc" title="Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc">Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc</a>.</li> <li>Jill Kirkendall is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Thompson" title="Andrea Thompson">Andrea Thompson</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> from 1996 to 2000.</li> <li>Abby Knight runs a flower shop in Indiana in a cozy series by <a href="/wiki/Kate_Collins_(author)" title="Kate Collins (author)">Kate Collins</a>, commenced 2004.</li> <li>Micky Knight is a New Orleans lesbian private investigator in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jean_M._Redmann" title="Jean M. Redmann">Jean M. Redmann</a>, commenced 1990 with Death by The Riverside.</li> <li>Wendy Knight is a female detective in the Knight & Culverhouse series of books by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Croft" title="Adam Croft">Adam Croft</a>, commenced 2011 with Too Close For Comfort.</li> <li>Deborah Knott is a judge and daughter of a <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> bootlegger in a <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Maron#Judge_Deborah_Knott_series" title="Margaret Maron">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Maron" title="Margaret Maron">Margaret Maron</a> (debuted 1992).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Magdalene La Batarde is a whoremistress in 12th century London in books by <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Gellis" title="Roberta Gellis">Roberta Gellis</a> also writer of historical romances.</li> <li>Mary Beth Lacey (<a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a>) is a New York City police detective on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" title="Cagney & Lacey">Cagney & Lacey</a> 1982–1988.</li> <li>Raquel Laing is an Inspector with the SFPD Cold Case Unit In <a href="/wiki/Laurie_R._King" title="Laurie R. King">Laurie R. King</a>'s Back to the Garden (2022). The presence of Al Hawkin provides a link to King's <a href="/wiki/Kate_Martinelli" title="Kate Martinelli">Kate Martinelli</a> series.</li> <li>Skip Langdon is a former debutante turned New Orleans police officer in a series by <a href="/wiki/Julie_Smith_(novelist)" title="Julie Smith (novelist)">Julie Smith (novelist)</a>, begun New Orleans Mourning 1990.</li> <li>Meg Langslow is a Yorktown Virginia blacksmith in a comic murder <a href="/wiki/Donna_Andrews_(author)#The_Meg_Langslow_series" title="Donna Andrews (author)">series of books</a> by <a href="/wiki/Donna_Andrews_(author)" title="Donna Andrews (author)">Donna Andrews (author)</a> begun 1999.</li> <li>Charlotte La Rue 59, is a New Orleans house cleaner in a series by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Colley" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbara Colley">Barbara Colley</a> begun 2002.</li> <li>Lauren Laurano is a lesbian New York PI in Everything You Have is Mine #1<a href="#cite_note-Lauren1Scoppettone-15">[15]</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Scoppettone" title="Sandra Scoppettone">Sandra Scoppettone</a> 1991–1999.</li> <li>Jane Lawless is a restaurateur and amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Hart#Jane_Lawless_series" title="Ellen Hart">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Hart" title="Ellen Hart">Ellen Hart</a> begun 1989.</li> <li>Loretta Lawson is an amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Joan_Smith_(writer)#Loretta_Lawson_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan Smith (writer)">series of books</a> by English journalist and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Joan_Smith_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan Smith (writer)">Joan Smith</a> begun 1987.</li> <li>Aimee Leduc is a French-American private investigator in contemporary Paris in a series by <a href="/wiki/Cara_Black" title="Cara Black">Cara Black</a> begun 1998.</li> <li>Anna Lee is a private investigator in a series of books by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Liza_Cody" title="Liza Cody">Liza Cody</a> (debuted 1980); <a href="/wiki/Imogen_Stubbs" title="Imogen Stubbs">Imogen Stubbs</a> in <a href="/wiki/London_Weekend_Television" title="London Weekend Television">LWT</a> <a href="/wiki/Anna_Lee_(TV_series)" title="Anna Lee (TV series)">Anna Lee (TV series)</a> 1993–94.</li> <li>Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous stripper, is also an amateur sleuth, in two books 1941 and 1942 by <a href="/wiki/Craig_Rice_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Craig Rice (author)">Craig Rice</a>, nom de plume of Georgianna Ann Randolph.</li> <li>Judith Lee was a teacher of the deaf who used lip reading skills and jujitsu to help her investigations by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Marsh_(author)" title="Richard Marsh (author)">Richard Marsh</a> begun 1916.</li> <li>Madison Lee (<a href="/wiki/Demi_Moore" title="Demi Moore">Demi Moore</a>) is a former private detective in the film <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels:_Full_Throttle" title="Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle">Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle</a> 2003.</li> <li>Adrienne Lesniak is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Justine_Miceli" title="Justine Miceli">Justine Miceli</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> 1994–1996.</li> <li>Catherine LeVendeur is a novice in a convent in 12th Century France who appears in a series of historical mystery novels by <a href="/wiki/Sharan_Newman" title="Sharan Newman">Sharan Newman</a>.</li> <li>Ingrid Levin-Hill is 13 year-old who is mixed up in mysteries in her home town of Echo Falls, in a book series for children aged 10+ debuted 2006 by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Abrahams_(American_author)" title="Peter Abrahams (American author)">Peter Abrahams</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janice_Licalsi" title="Janice Licalsi">Janice Licalsi</a> (<a href="/wiki/Amy_Brenneman" title="Amy Brenneman">Amy Brenneman</a>) is a New York City detective on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> 1993–94.</li> <li>Marie Lightfoot is a Florida true-crime author in three books by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pickard" title="Nancy Pickard">Nancy Pickard</a> 2000–2002.</li> <li>Gemma Lincoln runs a Sydney Australia security firm in a series by <a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Lord" title="Gabrielle Lord">Gabrielle Lord</a> begun 1999.</li> <li>Sarah Linden see Sarah Lund.</li> <li>Ann Lindell is a Swedish police inspector in series by <a href="/wiki/Kjell_Eriksson" title="Kjell Eriksson">Kjell Eriksson</a> begun 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erin_Lindsay" title="Erin Lindsay">Erin Lindsay</a> is a detective in the Chicago Police Department's Intelligence Unit on <a href="/wiki/Chicago_P.D._(TV_series)" title="Chicago P.D. (TV series)">Chicago P.D.</a> (2014–present)</li> <li>Carol Lipton (<a href="/wiki/Diane_Keaton" title="Diane Keaton">Diane Keaton</a>) is a middle-aged Manhattan resident who drags her husband Larry and friends into investigating the supposed death of a neighbour in <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Murder_Mystery" title="Manhattan Murder Mystery">Manhattan Murder Mystery</a> 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Lisbon" title="Teresa Lisbon">Teresa Lisbon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Robin_Tunney" title="Robin Tunney">Robin Tunney</a>) is a senior agent detective that works for <a href="/wiki/California_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="California Bureau of Investigation">California Bureau of Investigation</a> in TV series <a href="/wiki/The_Mentalist" title="The Mentalist">The Mentalist</a> 2008–2015.</li> <li>Lolita Lobosco is a Bari Police Commissioner, an attractive woman in her forties who runs an all-male police station, investigating murder cases. Created by <a class="external text" href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Genisi">Gabriella Genisi</a>, the Italian TV series <a class="external text" href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_indagini_di_Lolita_Lobosco">Le indagini di Lolita Lobosco</a>(<a class="external text" href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa%20Ranieri">Luisa Ranieri</a>) was based on his books. 2010-2022.</li> <li>Dr Eve Lockhart is a forensic pathologist assigned to a cold case squad in the British TV series <a href="/wiki/Waking_the_Dead_(TV_series)" title="Waking the Dead (TV series)">Waking the Dead</a>, subsequently the lead character in <a href="/wiki/The_Body_Farm_(TV_series)" title="The Body Farm (TV series)">The Body Farm</a>, a spin-off series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Lockley" title="Kate Lockley">Kate Lockley</a> was a Los Angeles police detective played by <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_R%C3%B6hm" title="Elisabeth Röhm">Elisabeth Röhm</a> on the WB television network series <a href="/wiki/Angel_(1999_TV_series)" title="Angel (1999 TV series)">Angel</a> from 2000 to <a href="/wiki/2001_in_television" title="2001 in television">2001.</a></li> <li>Sarah Lund is a police Detective Inspector, played by <a href="/wiki/Sofie_Gr%C3%A5b%C3%B8l" title="Sofie Gråbøl">Sofie Gråbøl</a>, in a 2007 Danish television series <a href="/wiki/The_Killing_(Danish_TV_series)" title="The Killing (Danish TV series)">The Killing</a> (Forbrydelsen) in which each episode covers a day in the investigation of a murder. A second Danish series was broadcast in 2009. The series was re-made in English for AMC and broadcast in 2011 with Mireille Enos playing the lead detective, renamed Sarah Linden, with the story transposed to Seattle.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Lupo" class="mw-redirect" title="Jo Lupo">Josefina "Jo" Lupo</a> is a former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Rangers" title="United States Army Rangers">US Army Ranger</a> and Eureka town deputy played by <a href="/wiki/Erica_Cerra" title="Erica Cerra">Erica Cerra</a> on the 2006–2012 <a href="/wiki/Syfy" title="Syfy">Syfy</a> series <a href="/wiki/Eureka_(2006_TV_series)" title="Eureka (2006 TV series)">Eureka</a>.</li> <li>Lucy Lutz is a LAPD detective played by various actors in the <a href="/wiki/WitchCraft_Horror_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="WitchCraft Horror Series">WitchCraft Horror Series</a>, She appears in the seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth movies of the series as a supporting character and is the lead in the tenth movie.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Marti MacAllister is an <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> police detective in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Taylor_Bland" title="Eleanor Taylor Bland">Eleanor Taylor Bland</a> (debuted 1992).</li> <li>Jo Martinez is a NYPD detective in the 2014 ABC television series Forever</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitin_Masi" title="Mitin Masi">Mitin Masi</a> is a fictional female detective character created by Indian writer <a href="/wiki/Suchitra_Bhattacharya" title="Suchitra Bhattacharya">Suchitra Bhattacharya</a></li> <li>Charlene Mack is an African-American, lesbian private investigator from Detroit. The Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Series by <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_A._Head" title="Cheryl A. Head">Cheryl A. Head</a> debuted in 2016.</li> <li>Mackenzie is a private detective who becomes part of the "Great Detective Society", in the <a href="/wiki/Touch_Detective" title="Touch Detective">Touch Detective</a> series of video games, developed by BeeWorks.</li> <li>Rory Mackenzie is an attorney who returns to her hometown of Ransom River, California, and finds herself in hostage drama in a thriller by <a href="/wiki/Meg_Gardiner" title="Meg Gardiner">Meg Gardiner</a>, who also writes two series featuring Jo Beckett, and Evan Delaney.</li> <li>Catherine Macleod is an investigative reporter in the western United States in a series debuted 2008 by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Coel" title="Margaret Coel">Margaret Coel</a>.</li> <li>Rhona MacLeod is a forensic scientist in a <a href="/wiki/Lin_Anderson#Rhona_MacLeod_series" title="Lin Anderson">series of books</a> by Scottish crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Lin_Anderson" title="Lin Anderson">Lin Anderson</a> (debuted 2003).</li> <li>Kate McCafferty portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Bedelia" title="Bonnie Bedelia">Bonnie Bedelia</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Police Captain in the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>. 2001–2004</li> <li>D.D. McCall is an L.A. police detective and partner of the title character, played by <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Kramer" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephanie Kramer">Stephanie Kramer</a> from 1985 to 1991 on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Hunter_(1984_American_TV_series)" title="Hunter (1984 American TV series)">Hunter (1984 American TV series)</a>.</li> <li>Blue McCarron is a reclusive lesbian social psychologist appearing in two novels by <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Padgett" title="Abigail Padgett">Abigail Padgett</a>, who also writes a series featuring Bo Bradley.</li> <li>Claire McCarron is a private investigator in New York in the 1987 CBS television series <a href="/wiki/Leg_Work" title="Leg Work">Leg Work</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Burton_Smith_TV-16">[16]</a></li> <li>Jessica McCay is a detective played by <a href="/wiki/Simone_McAullay" title="Simone McAullay">Simone McAullay</a> on the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Strip_(Australian_TV_series)" title="The Strip (Australian TV series)">The Strip</a>.</li> <li>Sharon McCone is a California private detective in a series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Marcia_Muller" title="Marcia Muller">Marcia Muller</a> (debuted 1977).</li> <li>Ali McCormick is a <a href="/wiki/Detective" title="Detective">detective</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">sergeant</a>, played by <a href="/wiki/Julie_Stewart" title="Julie Stewart">Julie Stewart</a>, leading a task force of Canadian homicide detectives investigating unsolved cases in the <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a> series <a href="/wiki/Cold_Squad" title="Cold Squad">Cold Squad</a> (aired 1998–2005).</li> <li>Connie McDowell is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Ross" title="Charlotte Ross">Charlotte Ross</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> from 1998 to 2004.</li> <li>Sally McMillan solved crimes with husband police commissioner 'Stewart McMillan' in the TV series <a href="/wiki/McMillan_%26_Wife" title="McMillan & Wife">McMillan & Wife</a> which starred <a href="/wiki/Rock_Hudson" title="Rock Hudson">Rock Hudson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Susan_St_James" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan St James">Susan St James</a> and aired 1971–1977.</li> <li>Maxine McNab is a widow in her 60s, travelling in her Winnebago with her miniature dachsund, Stretch, in books by <a href="/wiki/Sue_Henry" title="Sue Henry">Sue Henry</a>.</li> <li>Andy McNally is a Police Officer in the 15th Division, played by <a href="/wiki/Missy_Peregrym" title="Missy Peregrym">Missy Peregrym</a> in a Police drama TV series <a href="/wiki/Rookie_Blue" title="Rookie Blue">Rookie Blue</a> debuted 2009 airing on <a href="/wiki/NBC_Universal_Global_Networks" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Universal Global Networks">NBC Universal Global Networks</a> in Canada.</li> <li>Elizabeth McPherson is a detective in a series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Sharyn_McCrumb" title="Sharyn McCrumb">Sharyn McCrumb</a> (debuted 1984).</li> <li>Stoner McTavish is a lesbian travel agent in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a> in droll humored mystery books with a bit of the macabre, 1985–1997 by <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dreher" title="Sarah Dreher">Sarah Dreher</a> (1937–2012).</li> <li>'Madame Liu-Tsong is a Chinese art dealer and detective, in <a href="/wiki/The_Gallery_of_Madame_Liu-Tsong" title="The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong">The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong</a>. The television series ran for one season in 1951 and starred Asian actress <a href="/wiki/Anna_May_Wong" title="Anna May Wong">Anna May Wong</a>. The show, produced by Dumont, is perhaps the first TV detective show featuring a woman, and it certainly was the first American TV show to star an Asian American in the leading role. Sadly, all copies of the show were destroyed.</li> <li>Maddie Magellan is a pushy and impatient reporter and crime writer who starts investigations which magician Jonathan Creek resolves, in the BBC series <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Creek" title="Jonathan Creek">Jonathan Creek</a> 1997–2009. Maddie is played by <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Quentin" title="Caroline Quentin">Caroline Quentin</a>.</li> <li>Gianna Maglione is a lesbian police detective in charge of a Washington D.C. hate crimes unit in a series by <a href="/wiki/Penny_Mickelbury" title="Penny Mickelbury">Penny Mickelbury</a> commenced 1994.</li> <li>Katie Maguire is an Irish police detective who gains a reputation for catching Cork's killers, often at great personal cost in a series by <a href="/wiki/Graham_Masterton" title="Graham Masterton">Graham Masterton</a> commenced 2003.</li> <li>Lady Harriet Makepeace is policewoman in an elite unit of London's Metropolitan Police, working with a male partner from a very different background in the NYPD, in the British television series <a href="/wiki/Dempsey_and_Makepeace" title="Dempsey and Makepeace">Dempsey and Makepeace</a>, aired 1984–86, and played by <a href="/wiki/Glynis_Barber" title="Glynis Barber">Glynis Barber</a>.</li> <li>Casey Maldonado and her companion the Grim Reaper investigate murders in a series by <a href="/wiki/Judy_Clemens" title="Judy Clemens">Judy Clemens</a>.</li> <li>Kathleen Mallory is a police sergeant with a dark past in New York City in a series of books by novelist <a href="/wiki/Carol_O%27Connell" title="Carol O'Connell">Carol O'Connell</a> (debuted 1994).<a href="#cite_note-Murdock_2007_128-12">[12]</a></li> <li>Munch Mancini is an auto mechanic and amateur sleuth with a dark past in Los Angeles, California in a series of books published 1995–2005 by deceased novelist <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Seranella" title="Barbara Seranella">Barbara Seranella</a> (1956–2007).<a href="#cite_note-Murdock_2007_128-12">[12]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Marple" title="Miss Marple">Jane Marple</a> is an elderly amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Miss_Marple#Novels_featuring_Miss_Marple" title="Miss Marple">dozen books</a> by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> (debuted 1930). Played by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Rutherford" title="Margaret Rutherford">Margaret Rutherford</a> in <a href="/wiki/Murder,_She_Said" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder, She Said">Murder, She Said</a> (1961), <a href="/wiki/Murder_at_the_Gallop" title="Murder at the Gallop">Murder at the Gallop</a> (1963), <a href="/wiki/Murder_Most_Foul_(film)" title="Murder Most Foul (film)">Murder Most Foul</a> (1964), and <a href="/wiki/Murder_Ahoy!" title="Murder Ahoy!">Murder Ahoy!</a> (1964); by <a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Mirror_Crack%27d" title="The Mirror Crack'd">The Mirror Crack'd</a> (1980); by <a href="/wiki/Ita_Ever" title="Ita Ever">Ita Ever</a> in <a href="/wiki/A_Pocket_Full_of_Rye#Film,_TV_or_theatrical_adaptations" title="A Pocket Full of Rye">A Pocket Full of Rye</a> (1983); and by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a> in A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1984). Played by <a href="/wiki/Joan_Hickson" title="Joan Hickson">Joan Hickson</a> on the 1984–1992 <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> series <a href="/wiki/Miss_Marple_(TV_series)" title="Miss Marple (TV series)">Miss Marple</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veronica_Mars_(character)" title="Veronica Mars (character)">Veronica Mars</a> is a teenage amateur detective played by <a href="/wiki/Kristen_Bell" title="Kristen Bell">Kristen Bell</a> on the 2004–2007 <a href="/wiki/UPN" title="UPN">UPN</a>/<a href="/wiki/The_CW_Television_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="The CW Television Network">CW</a> series <a href="/wiki/Veronica_Mars" title="Veronica Mars">Veronica Mars</a>.</li> <li>Cat Marsala is a freelance investigative reporter in Chicago in a series by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_D%27Amato" title="Barbara D'Amato">Barbara D'Amato</a> commenced 1990.</li> <li>Lizzy Martin is a doctor's daughter in Victorian England who becomes a <a href="/wiki/Lady%27s_companion" title="Lady's companion">lady's companion</a> after her father dies with large debts. She investigates crimes with the help of policeman Ben Ross, in a series commenced 2006 by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Granger" title="Ann Granger">Ann Granger</a>.</li> <li>Rina Martin is a former actress, who played a PI on television, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Adams_(writer)" title="Jane Adams (writer)">Jane Adams</a>, debuted 2007.</li> <li>Saz Martin is a private investigator who starts her business with government funding for the unemployed, in a series started 1994 by <a href="/wiki/Stella_Duffy" title="Stella Duffy">Stella Duffy</a>.</li> <li>Kate Martinelli is a police officer in San Francisco, California in a <a href="/wiki/Laurie_R._King#Kate_Martinelli_mysteries" title="Laurie R. King">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Laurie_R_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurie R King">Laurie R King</a> (debuted 1993).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forever_(2014_TV_series)#Main" title="Forever (2014 TV series)">Jo Martinez</a> is a NYPD homicide detective on the 2014–2015 US TV show <a href="/wiki/Forever_(2014_TV_series)" title="Forever (2014 TV series)">Forever</a>.</li> <li>Rebecka Martinsson is a lawyer in Sweden in this series of psychological thrillers by <a href="/wiki/Asa_Larsson" class="mw-redirect" title="Asa Larsson">Asa Larsson</a>. Books in the series are: Sun Storm (also published as The Savage Altar), The Blood Spilt, The Black Path, Until Thy Wrath Be Past and The Second Deadly Sin.</li> <li>Sister Mary Helen is an elderly crime solving nun in San Francisco, debuted 1984 in a series by <a href="/wiki/Sister_Carol_Anne_O%27Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister Carol Anne O'Marie">Sister Carol Anne O'Marie</a> (1933–2009), a nun in the order of St Joseph of Carondelet.</li> <li>Daphne Matthews is a forensic psychologist in a <a href="/wiki/Ridley_Pearson#Boldt_/_Matthews" title="Ridley Pearson">series of books</a> by American suspense novelist <a href="/wiki/Ridley_Pearson" title="Ridley Pearson">Ridley Pearson</a> (debuted 1988).</li> <li>Cassie Mayweather is a homicide detective played by <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Bullock" title="Sandra Bullock">Sandra Bullock</a> in 2002 film <a href="/wiki/Murder_by_Numbers" title="Murder by Numbers">Murder by Numbers</a>.</li> <li>Patricia "Paddy" Meehan is <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glaswegian</a> journalist and investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Denise_Mina#Patricia_"Paddy"_Meehan_novels" title="Denise Mina">series of books</a> by Scottish crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Denise_Mina" title="Denise Mina">Denise Mina</a> (debuted 2005).</li> <li>Carlotta Milburn is a <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a> socialite who, with her husband Tony, must solve a mystery which happened the night before in a wild party, in a mystery comedy film of 1935, <a href="/wiki/Remember_Last_Night%3F" title="Remember Last Night?">Remember Last Night?</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Constance_Cummings" title="Constance Cummings">Constance Cummings</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinsey_Millhone" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinsey Millhone">Kinsey Millhone</a> is a private investigator and former policewoman Santa Teresa, California in the "<a href="/wiki/Kinsey_Millhone#Kinsey_Millhone_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinsey Millhone">alphabet mystery</a>" series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Sue_Grafton" title="Sue Grafton">Sue Grafton</a> (debuted 1982).</li> <li>Perveen Mistry is a Parsi lawyer and detective in British India in the book series by <a href="/wiki/Sujata_Massey" title="Sujata Massey">Sujata Massey</a></li> <li>Mirette is a 10-year-old girl who travels the world and takes part in investigations in the <a href="/wiki/Mirette_Investigates" title="Mirette Investigates">Mirette Investigates</a> book and animated television series.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></li> <li>Anna Mironova (Aleksandra Nikiforova) is a young Russian spiritualist sought by locals and the recently deceased to solve crimes, leading her to cross paths with the town's police inspectors, in the late 19th century period television series Detective Anna 2016–2017.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li> <li>Tess Monaghan is a private investigator and former journalist in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> in a series of books by American journalist and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Laura_Lippman" title="Laura Lippman">Laura Lippman</a> (debuted 1997).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Monroe" class="mw-redirect" title="Lindsay Monroe">Lindsay Monroe</a> is a New York City detective and crime scene investigator played by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Belknap" title="Anna Belknap">Anna Belknap</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Broadcasting_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Broadcasting Company">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_NY" title="CSI: NY">CSI: NY</a> 2005–2013.</li> <li>Victoria Moretti is deputy sheriff to Walt Longmire, Wyoming sheriff, in a book series commenced 2004 by <a href="/wiki/Craig_Johnson_(author)" title="Craig Johnson (author)">Craig Johnson</a>, and in the <a href="/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series)" title="Longmire (TV series)">TV series</a> played by <a href="/wiki/Katee_Sackhoff" title="Katee Sackhoff">Katee Sackhoff</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debra_Morgan" title="Debra Morgan">Debra Morgan</a> is a police detective in the Dexter series of books by American crime novelist "<a href="/wiki/Jeff_Lindsay_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeff Lindsay (writer)">Jeff Lindsay</a>" (debuted 2004); played by <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Carpenter" title="Jennifer Carpenter">Jennifer Carpenter</a> on the 2006–2013 <a href="/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)" title="Showtime (TV network)">Showtime</a> series <a href="/wiki/Dexter_(TV_series)" title="Dexter (TV series)">Dexter</a>.</li> <li>Alex Morrow is <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glaswegian</a> detective in a <a href="/wiki/Denise_Mina#Alex_Morrow_novels" title="Denise Mina">series of books</a> by Scottish crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Denise_Mina" title="Denise Mina">Denise Mina</a> (debuted 2009).</li> <li>Margaret Moss is an actress turned private detective in this Swedish series by <a href="/wiki/Kjersti_Scheen" title="Kjersti Scheen">Kjersti Scheen</a>. The only book translated to English so far is Final Curtain.</li> <li>Nora Mulcahaney is a NYC police detective appearing in 17 books by <a href="/wiki/Lillian_O%27Donnell" title="Lillian O'Donnell">Lillian O'Donnell</a>, beginning in 1972.</li> <li>Kate Mulcay is a reporter in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta, Georgia">Atlanta, Georgia</a> in books by reporter <a href="/wiki/Celestine_Sibley" title="Celestine Sibley">Celestine Sibley</a>. Kate first appeared in 1958 in The Malignant Heart, as Katy Kincaid, along with her future husband, policeman Lieutenant Mulcay. Her character returned to solve mysteries in five books published 1991–1997.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alex_Munday&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alex Munday (page does not exist)">Alex Munday</a> is a private detective played by <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Liu" title="Lucy Liu">Lucy Liu</a> in the 2000 film <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels_(2000_film)" title="Charlie's Angels (2000 film)">Charlie's Angels</a> and 2003 sequel <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels:_Full_Throttle" title="Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle">Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jill_Munroe" class="mw-redirect" title="Jill Munroe">Jill Munroe</a> is a private detective played by <a href="/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett" title="Farrah Fawcett">Farrah Fawcett</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels" title="Charlie's Angels">Charlie's Angels</a> 1976–1977.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kris_Munroe" class="mw-redirect" title="Kris Munroe">Kris Munroe</a> is a private detective played by <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Ladd" title="Cheryl Ladd">Cheryl Ladd</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels" title="Charlie's Angels">Charlie's Angels</a> 1977–1981.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Murphy_(NYPD_Blue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Laura Murphy (NYPD Blue)">Laura Murphy</a> is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Somerville" title="Bonnie Somerville">Bonnie Somerville</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> 2004–2005.</li> <li>Molly Murphy is a private detective in 19th century New York City in a series of books by English crime novelist "<a href="/wiki/Janet_Quin-Harkin" title="Janet Quin-Harkin">Rhys Bowen</a>" (debuted in 2001).</li> <li>Ruby Murphy is a museum worker and accidental investigator in a series of books by American poet and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Estep" title="Maggie Estep">Maggie Estep</a> (debuted in 2003).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Nakimura" class="mw-redirect" title="Grace Nakimura">Grace Nakimura</a> is an assistant and eventually investigator for titular protagonist <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Knight" title="Gabriel Knight">Gabriel Knight</a> in adventure game series created by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Jensen" title="Jane Jensen">Jane Jensen</a> from 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_%22Vicki%22_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria "Vicki" Nelson">Victoria "Vicki" Nelson</a> is a medically retired police officer turned private investigator in <a href="/wiki/Tanya_Huff" title="Tanya Huff">Tanya Huff</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Blood_Ties_(TV_series)" title="Blood Ties (TV series)">Blood Ties</a> series 2007–08.</li> <li>Elizabeth "Lizzie" Newton is the title character of the Korean <a href="/wiki/Manhwa" title="Manhwa">manhwa</a> <a href="/wiki/Lizzie_Newton:_Victorian_Mysteries" title="Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries">Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries</a>. In the 1864 London universe of Sherlock Holmes, she is a mystery writer under the male pseudonym of Logica Docens. She solves actual mysteries aided by Edwin White, her steward, fiancé and former barrister.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thursday_Next" title="Thursday Next">Thursday Next</a> is a Literatec, literary detective in an alternate England by <a href="/wiki/Jasper_Fforde" title="Jasper Fforde">Jasper Fforde</a> in series begun 2001.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saga_Nor%C3%A9n" title="Saga Norén">Saga Norén</a></li> <li>Pam North is wife of publisher Jerry and solves murders with him, in: newspaper vignettes and short stories written in the 1930s; a Broadway play and a film in the early 1940s; novels 1940–1963; and TV dramas 1946 and 1952–1954. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lockridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lockridge">Richard Lockridge</a> created newspaper pieces and short stories, and co-wrote novels with wife <a href="/wiki/Frances_Louise_Lockridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Frances Louise Lockridge">Frances</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Mr._and_Mrs._North" title="Mr. and Mrs. North">Mr. and Mrs. North</a> series had solvable puzzles, a humorous domestic environment, New York locale, and socio-political commentary.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Brandy O'Bannon is a reporter in a series set in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Turner_Cook" title="Ann Turner Cook">Ann Turner Cook</a>, commenced 2001.</li> <li>Siobhan O'Brien is a private detective in a series set in <a href="/wiki/Upstate_New_York" title="Upstate New York">Upstate New York</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sung_J._Woo" title="Sung J. Woo">Sung J. Woo</a>, commenced 2020.</li> <li>Kate O'Donnell is a photographer working in 1960s London in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Hall_(novelist)" title="Patricia Hall (novelist)">Patricia Hall</a>, the first appearing in 2011.</li> <li>Maureen O’Donnell is an engaging survivor in three books set in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> by <a href="/wiki/Denise_Mina" title="Denise Mina">Denise Mina</a>.</li> <li>Shay O'Hanlon is a coffee shop owner drawn into various capers in a series set in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jessie_Chandler" title="Jessie Chandler">Jessie Chandler</a>, commencing in 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Doctors_characters_(2021)#Inspector_Zoya_Okoro" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Doctors characters (2021)">Zoya Okoro</a> is an inspector in the <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> soap opera <a href="/wiki/Doctors_(2000_TV_series)" title="Doctors (2000 TV series)">Doctors</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juliet_O%27Hara" title="Juliet O'Hara">Juliet O'Hara</a> is a police detective in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Barbara,_California" title="Santa Barbara, California">Santa Barbara, California</a> played by <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Lawson" title="Maggie Lawson">Maggie Lawson</a> on the 2006–2014 <a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/Psych" title="Psych">Psych</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariadne_Oliver" title="Ariadne Oliver">Ariadne Oliver</a> is a detective novelist who attempts to assist and guide <a href="/wiki/Hercule_Poirot" title="Hercule Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a> in some of <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a>'s novels, but who usually gets things thoroughly wrong. A lot of her books are parodies of Agatha's own work.</li> <li>Christie Opara is a police detective in New York City in a trilogy of books by American crime novelist and former police detective <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Uhnak" title="Dorothy Uhnak">Dorothy Uhnak</a> (debuted 1968; last book 1970).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rita_Ortiz" class="mw-redirect" title="Rita Ortiz">Rita Ortiz</a> is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Obradors" title="Jacqueline Obradors">Jacqueline Obradors</a> on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> from 2001 to 2005.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Mrs. Pargeter is a widow with a shadowy past who solves uncanny mysteries in a <a href="/wiki/Simon_Brett#Mrs_Pargeter" title="Simon Brett">series of books</a> by English crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Simon_Brett" title="Simon Brett">Simon Brett</a> begun 1986. Pargeter is the real surname of <a href="/wiki/Cadfael" title="Cadfael">Cadfael</a> creator <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellis Peters">Ellis Peters</a>.</li> <li>Dex Parios is a private investigator working in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Greg_Rucka" title="Greg Rucka">Greg Rucka</a>'s comic book <a href="/wiki/Stumptown_(comics)" title="Stumptown (comics)">Stumptown</a>.</li> <li>Audrey Parker is an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> agent played by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Rose_(actress)" title="Emily Rose (actress)">Emily Rose</a> on <a href="/wiki/Syfy" title="Syfy">Syfy</a> <a href="/wiki/Haven_(TV_series)" title="Haven (TV series)">Haven (TV series)</a> 2010–2015.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penny_Parker" title="Penny Parker">Penny Parker</a> is a high school detective in a series by <a href="/wiki/Mildred_Benson" title="Mildred Benson">Mildred A. Wirt Benson</a> (also authored some <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Drew" title="Nancy Drew">Nancy Drew</a>) 1939–1947.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amelia_Peabody" title="Amelia Peabody">Amelia Peabody</a> is a Victorian spinster in 1884 whose interest in Egyptology leads to marry Emerson and live among pyramids, solving crimes in the <a href="/wiki/Amelia_Peabody_series" title="Amelia Peabody series">Amelia Peabody series</a> by American <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Mertz" title="Barbara Mertz">Elizabeth Peters</a> begun 1975.<a href="#cite_note-Amelia1Croc-19">[19]</a></li> <li>Delia Peabody is a NYC cop under <a href="/wiki/Eve_Dallas" class="mw-redirect" title="Eve Dallas">Eve Dallas</a> in the futuristic ...<a href="/wiki/In_Death" title="In Death">in Death</a> series by American <a href="/wiki/J._D._Robb" class="mw-redirect" title="J. D. Robb">J. D. Robb</a> begun 1995.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Peel" title="Emma Peel">Emma Peel</a>* (<a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a>) is Steed's detective assistant on the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> Series: <a href="/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)" title="The Avengers (TV series)">The Avengers</a> 1967–1968.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister_Pelagia" title="Sister Pelagia">Sister Pelagia</a> is an Orthodox nun and teacher in 1890s provincial Russia girls' school in three novels by <a href="/wiki/Boris_Akunin" title="Boris Akunin">Boris Akunin</a>.</li> <li>Professor Karen Pelletier is an amateur sleuth in a college setting in a series by <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Dobson" title="Joanne Dobson">Joanne Dobson</a> begun 1997.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucinda_Pierce_Mystery_series" title="Lucinda Pierce Mystery series">Lucinda Pierce</a> is a homicide detective in Virginia in a book series of the same name by true-crime writer <a href="/wiki/Diane_Fanning" title="Diane Fanning">Diane Fanning</a> begun 2008.</li> <li>Anna Pigeon is a park ranger in a <a href="/wiki/Nevada_Barr#Anna_Pigeon_series" title="Nevada Barr">series of books</a> by American <a href="/wiki/Nevada_Barr" title="Nevada Barr">Nevada Barr</a> begun 1993.</li> <li>Melinda Pink is a magistrate and climber in a series of books by British climber and crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Gwen_Moffat" title="Gwen Moffat">Gwen Moffat</a> begun 1973.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Plum" title="Stephanie Plum">Stephanie Plum</a> is a New Jersey bounty hunter in a comic mystery series by American <a href="/wiki/Janet_Evanovich" title="Janet Evanovich">Janet Evanovich</a> begun 1994; acted by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Heigl" title="Katherine Heigl">Katherine Heigl</a> in comedy murder mystery <a href="/wiki/One_for_the_Money_(film)" title="One for the Money (film)">One for the Money (film)</a> 2012.</li> <li>Emily Pollifax is an elderly widow who volunteers for the CIA and has to solve mysteries to get out of trouble in series by <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Gilman" title="Dorothy Gilman">Dorothy Gilman</a> begun 1966.<a href="#cite_note-Pollifax1Unexpected-20">[20]</a> Played by <a href="/wiki/Rosalind_Russell" title="Rosalind Russell">Rosalind Russell</a> in Mrs Pollifax - Spy 1971; by <a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a> in The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax 1999.<a href="#cite_note-LansburyFilm-21">[21]</a></li> <li>Eugenia Potter in recipe-based three books by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pickard" title="Nancy Pickard">Nancy Pickard</a> 1992–2001.</li> <li>Beatrix Potter, the children's author, is a solver of mysteries in a series by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Wittig_Albert" title="Susan Wittig Albert">Susan Wittig Albert</a>.</li> <li>Eleanor 'Nell' Pratt is an amateur sleuth in a cozy series set in the world of museums by <a href="/wiki/Sheila_Connolly" title="Sheila Connolly">Sheila Connolly</a> begun 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Prentiss" title="Amy Prentiss">Amy Prentiss</a> was a young female Chief of Detectives in the San Francisco Police Department, in a short-lived TV series of the same name, screened 1974–75 as part of NBC Mystery Movie.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Prentiss" title="Emily Prentiss">Emily Prentiss</a> dark haired and down to earth profiler in <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a></li> <li>Josie Prescott is an antiques appraiser in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Cleland" class="mw-redirect" title="Jane Cleland">Jane Cleland</a> begun 2000.</li> <li>Sandra Pullman, played by <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Redman" title="Amanda Redman">Amanda Redman</a>, is a Detective Superintendent in charge of UCOS (Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad) in BBC <a href="/wiki/New_Tricks_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Tricks (TV series)">New Tricks</a> begun 2005.<a href="#cite_note-UKMirrorNewTricks-22">[22]</a></li> <li>Lucy Pym is a <a href="/wiki/Popular_psychology" title="Popular psychology">popular psychologist</a> who puzzles out a crime in a physical training college for girls in Lucy Pym Disposes 1946 by <a href="/wiki/Josephine_Tey" title="Josephine Tey">Josephine Tey</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Pym1Tey-23">[23]</a> more famous for her series on Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant.</li> <li>Miss Fisher is an Australian detective in the series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' set in the 1949 Melbourne.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Faye Quick is a 1943 Manhattan secretary who takes over a detective agency when her boss is drafted, in This Dame for Hire by <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Scoppettone" title="Sandra Scoppettone">Sandra Scoppettone</a>, published 2005.<a href="#cite_note-Faye1Scoppettone-24">[24]</a></li> <li>Sarah and Meg Quilliam are sisters, owner and chef of an Inn in Hemlock Falls in a cozy series by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Stanton" title="Mary Stanton">Claudia Bishop</a> begun 1993.</li> <li>Nina Quinn is a landscaper in a series by <a href="/wiki/Heather_Webber_(author)" title="Heather Webber (author)">Heather Webber</a> that begun in 2004.</li> <li>Imogen Quy is a nurse at St Agatha's College, Oxford in a series by <a href="/wiki/Jill_Paton_Walsh" title="Jill Paton Walsh">Jill Paton Walsh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agatha_Raisin" title="Agatha Raisin">Agatha Raisin</a> is an impatient and nosy retired London PR agent who starts her own detective agency in Carsley, Cotswald, an English village. The book series begun 1992 by English author MC Beaton (<a href="/wiki/Marion_Chesney" title="Marion Chesney">Marion Chesney</a>), also the author of <a href="/wiki/Hamish_Macbeth" title="Hamish Macbeth">Hamish Macbeth</a> series. Agatha is played by <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Keith" title="Penelope Keith">Penelope Keith</a> in some BBC radio adaptations and <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Jensen" title="Ashley Jensen">Ashley Jensen</a> in the television adaptation for <a href="/wiki/Sky1" class="mw-redirect" title="Sky1">Sky1</a>.</li> <li>Gwen Ramadge is a private investigator in books by <a href="/wiki/Lillian_O%27Donnell" title="Lillian O'Donnell">Lillian O'Donnell</a>.</li> <li>Magdalena ‘Magda’ Ramirez portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Lisa_Vidal" title="Lisa Vidal">Lisa Vidal</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Police Inspector in the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>, 2001–2004.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Precious_Ramotswe" class="mw-redirect" title="Precious Ramotswe">Precious Ramotswe</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Tswana_people" title="Tswana people">Batswana</a> private detective in <a href="/wiki/The_No._1_Ladies%27_Detective_Agency" title="The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency">The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</a> series by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_McCall_Smith" title="Alexander McCall Smith">Alexander McCall Smith</a> begun 1998; <a href="/wiki/Jill_Scott_(singer)" title="Jill Scott (singer)">Jill Scott</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_No._1_Ladies%27_Detective_Agency_(TV_series)" title="The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series)">The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</a> 2008–2009.</li> <li>Sonie "Sunny" Randall is a private investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Parker#Sunny_Randall_novels" title="Robert B. Parker">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Parker" title="Robert B. Parker">Robert B. Parker</a> begun 1999.</li> <li>Sheila Ray is a private investigator in a series of novels and stories by Indian English novelist <a href="/wiki/Ashok_K._Banker" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashok K. Banker">Ashok K. Banker</a> begun 1992 and credited as the first Indian PI in fiction.</li> <li>Angela Reide portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Lela_Rochon" title="Lela Rochon">Lela Rochon</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Police Inspector in season one of the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series, <a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>, 2001.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monica_Reyes" title="Monica Reyes">Monica Reyes</a> is an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> agent played by <a href="/wiki/Annabeth_Gish" title="Annabeth Gish">Annabeth Gish</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a>, 2001–2002.</li> <li>Ali Reynolds goes home to <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> after her job and husband are taken by younger women, and finds trouble in a book series by <a href="/wiki/J._A._Jance" title="J. A. Jance">J. A. Jance</a> begun 2006.</li> <li>Louise Rick is Detective Inspector in <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> in a series by <a href="/wiki/Sara_Bl%C3%A6del" title="Sara Blædel">Sara Blædel</a> begun 2005.</li> <li>Jane Rizzoli portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Angie_Harmon" title="Angie Harmon">Angie Harmon</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> Police Detective in the <a href="/wiki/TNT_(American_TV_network)" title="TNT (American TV network)">TNT</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Rizzoli_%26_Isles" title="Rizzoli & Isles">Rizzoli & Isles</a>; 2010–2016 and in a series of books from American novelist <a href="/wiki/Tess_Gerritsen" title="Tess Gerritsen">Tess Gerritsen</a> originally written in the 2001 book, <a href="/wiki/The_Surgeon_(novel)" title="The Surgeon (novel)">The Surgeon</a>.</li> <li>Molly Robertson-Kirk was the head of the "Female Department" of <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Lady_Molly_of_Scotland_Yard" title="Lady Molly of Scotland Yard">series of short stories</a> by British novelist <a href="/wiki/Baroness_Emma_Orczy" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroness Emma Orczy">Emma Orczy</a> (debuted 1910).</li> <li>Anne Rodway is a poor needlewoman who investigates the death of her friend from a blow to the head, in a story in diary form by <a href="/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" title="Wilkie Collins">Wilkie Collins</a> first published in Dickens' <a href="/wiki/Household_Words" title="Household Words">Household Words</a> in 1856.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amanda_Rollins" title="Amanda Rollins">Amanda Rollins</a> is a detective from <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a> who transferred from Atlanta to SVU. She has been on the show since the 13th season's premiere in 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, the real <a href="/wiki/First_Lady" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lady">First Lady</a>, is an amateur sleuth in a string of books 1985–2005 by Eleanor Roosevelt's son <a href="/wiki/Elliot_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliot Roosevelt">Elliot Roosevelt</a>.</li> <li>Bennie Rosato is an attorney in an all-female law firm in <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Scottoline" title="Lisa Scottoline">Lisa Scottoline</a>'s series of <a href="/wiki/Legal_thriller" title="Legal thriller">legal thrillers</a> set in Philadelphia. Benny is the lead character in the first book Legal Tender, and in Think Twice and Dead Ringer; other lawyers in the firm lead in the other books, including Mary DiNunzio and Judy Carrier.</li> <li>Lillian Rose is an aspiring actress and mannequin at Sinclair's department store in 1909 London where she and her group of friends solve various mysteries in a series of books by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Woodfine" title="Katherine Woodfine">Katherine Woodfine</a>.</li> <li>Ruby Rothman is a rabbi's widow in Eternal, Texas, who solves crimes in a series by Sharon Kahn, begun 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilly_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="Lilly Rush">Lilly Rush</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Cold_case_(criminology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold case (criminology)">cold case</a> detective in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Police_Department" title="Philadelphia Police Department">Philadelphia</a>; <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Morris" title="Kathryn Morris">Kathryn Morris</a> on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Cold_Case" title="Cold Case">Cold Case</a> 2003–2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Russell_(NYPD_Blue)" title="Diane Russell (NYPD Blue)">Diane Russell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kim_Delaney" title="Kim Delaney">Kim Delaney</a>) is a New York City detective in <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a> 1995–2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Russell_(fictional)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Russell (fictional)">Mary Russell</a> is an amateur detective and wife of <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> in a series of books by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Laurie_R._King" title="Laurie R. King">Laurie R. King</a>, begun 1994.</li> <li> Maggie Ryan first appears as a student in <a href="/wiki/P.M._Carlson" class="mw-redirect" title="P.M. Carlson">P.M. Carlson</a>'s Audition for Murder, first in an eight-book series placed in the 1960s and 1970s. 1985–1991.</li> <li> Samantha (Sam) Ryan is a forensic pathologist in the BBC TV series Silent Witness, which began in 1996.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lisbeth_Salander" title="Lisbeth Salander">Lisbeth Salander</a> is a computer hacker and private investigator in the <a href="/wiki/Millennium_Trilogy" class="mw-redirect" title="Millennium Trilogy">Millennium Trilogy</a> by Swedish journalist and novelist <a href="/wiki/Stieg_Larsson" title="Stieg Larsson">Stieg Larsson</a> begun 2005; (<a href="/wiki/Noomi_Rapace" title="Noomi Rapace">Noomi Rapace</a>) in <a href="/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_(2009_film)" title="The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film)">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Played_with_Fire_(film)" title="The Girl Who Played with Fire (film)">The Girl Who Played with Fire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Kicked_the_Hornets%27_Nest_(film)" title="The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film)">The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest</a>.</li> <li>Dylan Sanders portrayed by (<a href="/wiki/Drew_Barrymore" title="Drew Barrymore">Drew Barrymore</a>) is a private detective in the feature films; <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels_(2000_film)" title="Charlie's Angels (2000 film)">Charlie's Angels</a>, 2000 and sequel <a href="/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels:_Full_Throttle" title="Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle">Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle</a>, 2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Santiago" title="Amy Santiago">Amy Santiago</a> detective and later sergeant of Brooklyn's 99th precinct in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine" title="Brooklyn Nine-Nine">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Scarlet_and_The_Duke" title="Miss Scarlet and The Duke">Eliza Scarlet</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kate_Phillips" title="Kate Phillips">Kate Phillips</a>) works in the TV series as detective in Victorian London with William Wellington a.k.a. 'The Duke'</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Scarpetta" title="Kay Scarpetta">Kay Scarpetta</a> is the Chief Medical Examiner for Virginia in a <a href="/wiki/Kay_Scarpetta#Novels" title="Kay Scarpetta">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Cornwell" title="Patricia Cornwell">Patricia Cornwell</a> begun 1990.</li> <li>Goldy Schulz is a caterer and amateur detective in <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> in a series of books by American <a href="/wiki/Diane_Mott_Davidson" title="Diane Mott Davidson">Diane Mott Davidson</a> begun 1992.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abby_Sciuto" title="Abby Sciuto">Abby Sciuto</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pauley_Perrette" title="Pauley Perrette">Pauley Perrette</a>) is a forensic specialist working for the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigation_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval Criminal Investigation Service">Naval Criminal Investigation Service</a> in the CBS series <a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_Series)" class="mw-redirect" title="NCIS (TV Series)">NCIS</a>, first broadcast 2003.</li> <li>Ann Scotland (<a href="/wiki/Arlene_Francis" title="Arlene Francis">Arlene Francis</a>) was a private investigator in <a href="/wiki/The_Affairs_of_Ann_Scotland" title="The Affairs of Ann Scotland">The Affairs of Ann Scotland</a>, a radio show produced in Hollywood October 1946 – Jan 1947.<a href="#cite_note-French-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins (<a href="/wiki/Lisa_Faulkner" title="Lisa Faulkner">Lisa Faulkner</a>) is a detective sergeant <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> series <a href="/wiki/Murder_in_Suburbia" title="Murder in Suburbia">Murder in Suburbia</a> 2004–2005.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dana_Scully" title="Dana Scully">Dana Katherine Scully</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gillian_Anderson" title="Gillian Anderson">Gillian Anderson</a>) is an FBI agent on <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a> 1993-2002/2016-2018, and <a href="/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe" title="The X-Files: I Want to Believe">The X-Files: I Want to Believe</a> film 2008.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Seeton" title="Miss Seeton">Emily D. Seeton, a.k.a. Miss Seeton or MissEss</a>, is a retired art teacher who provides insights to the police in a humorous British cosy series begun 1968 by <a href="/wiki/Heron_Carvic" title="Heron Carvic">Heron Carvic</a> and continued by two other authors.</li> <li>Mary Shannon (<a href="/wiki/Mary_McCormack" title="Mary McCormack">Mary McCormack</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">United States Marshal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Albuquerque,_New_Mexico" title="Albuquerque, New Mexico">Albuquerque, New Mexico</a> on the <a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/In_Plain_Sight" title="In Plain Sight">In Plain Sight</a> 2008-now.</li> <li>Wollie Shelley is a small business owner and greeting card designer mixed up in FBI and other cases for a 'Dating' themed series by <a href="/wiki/Harley_Jane_Kozak" title="Harley Jane Kozak">Harley Jane Kozak</a>, begun 2004.</li> <li>Sherlock "Sheryl" Shellingford (シャーロック・シェリンフォード Shārokku Sherinfōdo) is a detective with the gift of telekinesis in the Milky Holmes Detective Agency – staffed by four girls – in the <a href="/wiki/Tantei_Opera_Milky_Holmes" title="Tantei Opera Milky Holmes">Tantei Opera Milky Holmes</a> media franchise.</li> <li>Jun Shibata is a quirky and gifted police detective, played by <a href="/wiki/Miki_Nakatani" title="Miki Nakatani">Miki Nakatani</a>, who deals with unsolved cases in the TV drama and film <a href="/wiki/Keizoku" class="mw-redirect" title="Keizoku">Keizoku</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rei_Shimura" title="Rei Shimura">Rei Shimura</a> is an antiques expert and amateur detective in a series of books by English-American novelist <a href="/wiki/Sujata_Massey" title="Sujata Massey">Sujata Massey</a> (debuted 1997).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naoto_Shirogane" title="Naoto Shirogane">Naoto Shirogane</a> is a young detective in the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_video_game" title="Role-playing video game">role-playing video game</a> <a href="/wiki/Persona_4" title="Persona 4">Persona 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jemima_Shore" title="Jemima Shore">Jemima Shore</a> is an investigative reporter and amateur detective in a series of books by Irish novelist <a href="/wiki/Antonia_Fraser" title="Antonia Fraser">Antonia Fraser</a> begun 1977; <a href="/wiki/Maria_Aitken" title="Maria Aitken">Maria Aitken</a> in <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> miniseries <a href="/wiki/Quiet_as_a_Nun#Television_adaptation" title="Quiet as a Nun">Quiet as a Nun</a> 1978, and <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Hodge" title="Patricia Hodge">Patricia Hodge</a> on <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> series Jemima Shore Investigates 1983.</li> <li>Kate Shugak is a former District Attorney in <a href="/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage, Alaska</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Kate_Shugak_Mystery_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Kate Shugak Mystery series">series of books</a> by American <a href="/wiki/Dana_Stabenow" title="Dana Stabenow">Dana Stabenow</a> begun 1992.</li> <li>Jo Beth Sidden is a trainer of bloodhounds in a series set in southern USA by <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Lanier" title="Virginia Lanier">Virginia Lanier</a> (1930–2003) 1995–2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sara_Sidle" class="mw-redirect" title="Sara Sidle">Sara Sidle</a> is a crime scene investigator played by <a href="/wiki/Jorja_Fox" title="Jorja Fox">Jorja Fox</a> on the 2000–2015 <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation" title="CSI: Crime Scene Investigation">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Silver" title="Miss Silver">Maud Silver</a> is a retired governess turned amateur detective in a <a href="/wiki/Miss_Silver#Novels" title="Miss Silver">series of books</a> by British crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Wentworth" title="Patricia Wentworth">Patricia Wentworth</a> (debuted 1928).</li> <li>Georgia Skeehan is a fire marshall in a series by <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Chazin" title="Suzanne Chazin">Suzanne Chazin</a>, commenced 2001.</li> <li>Ema Skye is a detective in the 2007 <a href="/wiki/Visual_novel" title="Visual novel">visual novel</a> <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a> <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Justice:_Ace_Attorney" title="Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney">Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney</a>.</li> <li>Ruby Skye is the teenage namesake of <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Skye_PI_(web_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruby Skye PI (web series)">Ruby Skye P.I.</a></li> <li>Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson were two elderly sisters, played by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mildred_Natwick" title="Mildred Natwick">Mildred Natwick</a>, who solved mysteries in <a href="/wiki/The_Snoop_Sisters" title="The Snoop Sisters">The Snoop Sisters</a>, a five episode TV series aired 1972–1974 as part of the <a href="/wiki/NBC_Mystery_Movie" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Mystery Movie">NBC Mystery Movie</a>.</li> <li>Anna Southwood is a detective in a series of books by Australian crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Jean_Bedford" title="Jean Bedford">Jean Bedford</a> (debuted 1990).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samantha_Spade_(Without_a_Trace)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samantha Spade (Without a Trace)">Samantha Spade</a> is an FBI agent played by <a href="/wiki/Poppy_Montgomery" title="Poppy Montgomery">Poppy Montgomery</a> on the 2002–2009 <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a>.</li> <li>Diana Spaulding is a late 19th-century journalist in a book series debuted 2004 by <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Lynn_Emerson" title="Kathy Lynn Emerson">Kathy Lynn Emerson</a>.</li> <li>Isabel Spellman is a member of a family who run a private investigation agency in San Francisco in novels by <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Lutz" title="Lisa Lutz">Lisa Lutz</a> (debuted 2007).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sookie_Stackhouse" title="Sookie Stackhouse">Sookie Stackhouse</a> is a telepath with a vampire boyfriend in <a href="/wiki/The_Southern_Vampire_Mysteries" title="The Southern Vampire Mysteries">The Southern Vampire Mysteries</a> by American mystery novelist <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris" title="Charlaine Harris">Charlaine Harris</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Paquin" title="Anna Paquin">Anna Paquin</a> on the 2008–present <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> series <a href="/wiki/True_Blood" title="True Blood">True Blood</a>.</li> <li>Vera Stanhope is a police Detective Chief Inspector in a book series commenced 1999 by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Cleeves" title="Ann Cleeves">Ann Cleeves</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> series <a href="/wiki/Vera_(TV_series)" title="Vera (TV series)">Vera</a> adapted from the books, first broadcast May 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarice_Starling" title="Clarice Starling">Clarice Starling</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> agent in the 1988 novel <a href="/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(novel)" title="The Silence of the Lambs (novel)">The Silence of the Lambs</a> and its 1999 sequel <a href="/wiki/Hannibal_(Harris_novel)" title="Hannibal (Harris novel)">Hannibal</a>, both by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Harris" title="Thomas Harris">Thomas Harris</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> in the 1991 film <a href="/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)" title="The Silence of the Lambs (film)">The Silence of the Lambs</a>, and by <a href="/wiki/Julianne_Moore" title="Julianne Moore">Julianne Moore</a> in the 2001 sequel <a href="/wiki/Hannibal_(2001_film)" title="Hannibal (2001 film)">Hannibal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serena_Stevens" class="mw-redirect" title="Serena Stevens">Serena Stevens</a> is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Saffron_Burrows" title="Saffron Burrows">Saffron Burrows</a> on the <a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a> 2010–present.</li> <li>Roberta Steel is a detective inspector in a <a href="/wiki/Stuart_MacBride#Logan_McRae_Novels" title="Stuart MacBride">series of books</a> by Scottish crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Stuart_MacBride" title="Stuart MacBride">Stuart MacBride</a> begun 2005.</li> <li>Michaela Stone is a New York City detective in <a href="/wiki/Manifest_(TV_series)" title="Manifest (TV series)">Manifest</a>.</li> <li>Rosika Storey is a flapper era private investigator in a series of magazine articles published 1922 to 1935 by Canadian writer <a href="/wiki/Hulbert_Footner" title="Hulbert Footner">Hulbert Footner</a>.</li> <li>Violet Strange is a debutante and amateur detective in a series of stories by American poet and novelist <a href="/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green" title="Anna Katharine Green">Anna Katharine Green</a> begun 1878; <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Gallagher" title="Teresa Gallagher">Teresa Gallagher</a> in <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> adaptation of "The Golden Slipper".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_A._Sullivan" title="Mary A. Sullivan">Mary Sullivan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Betty_Garde" title="Betty Garde">Betty Garde</a>) was an NYPD officer in Policewoman, an ABC radio drama 1946–47.<a href="#cite_note-French-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Lady Rose Summer is an independent-minded Edwardian debutante from a wealthy family in a series by <a href="/wiki/Marion_Chesney" title="Marion Chesney">Marion Chesney</a> begun 2003.</li> <li>Anita Sundstrom is a Swedish police detective in this series by <a href="/wiki/Torquil_MacLeod" title="Torquil MacLeod">Torquil MacLeod</a>. Books in the series are: Meet Me in Malmo, Murder in Malmo, Missing in Malmo and Midnight in Malmo.</li> <li>Cassie Swann is an expert <a href="/wiki/Contract_bridge" title="Contract bridge">bridge</a> player and amateur detective in a <a href="/wiki/Susan_Moody#Cassie_Swann_series" title="Susan Moody">series of books</a> by "<a href="/wiki/Susan_Moody" title="Susan Moody">Susan Moody</a>" begun 1993.</li> <li>Nell Sweeney is a governess in Boston after the Civil War, in a series by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Ryan_(author)" title="Patricia Ryan (author)">P B Ryan</a> begun 2003.</li> <li>Hannah Swensen is the owner of The Cookie Jar with "slay-dar", radar for murder, in Lake Eden, Minnesota for the <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Fluke" title="Joanne Fluke">Joanne Fluke</a> murder-romance-recipe mysteries begun 2003.</li> <li>Casey Shraeger is a New York City police played by <a href="/wiki/Amber_Tamblyn" title="Amber Tamblyn">Amber Tamblyn</a> on the ABC series <a href="/wiki/The_Unusuals" title="The Unusuals">The Unusuals</a> 2009.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Laetitia Talbot is an archeologist in 1920s Europe in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Cleverly" title="Barbara Cleverly">Barbara Cleverly</a>.</li> <li>Sophie Taylor-Cavendish is a shopgirl who works in fictional department store Sinclair's in 1909 London, where with the help with her friends she solves various mysteries in the book series by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Woodfine" title="Katherine Woodfine">Katherine Woodfine</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Todd" title="Caitlin Todd">Caitlin Todd</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Service" title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">Naval Criminal Investigative Service</a> agent played by <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Alexander" title="Sasha Alexander">Sasha Alexander</a> on the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="NCIS (TV series)">NCIS</a> from 2003 to 2005.</li> <li>Aurora Teagarden is a small town librarian and mystery novel fan in the <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris#Aurora_Teagarden" title="Charlaine Harris">first mystery series</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charlaine_Harris" title="Charlaine Harris">Charlaine Harris</a>, debuted 1990.</li> <li>Alison Temple ('Alison Wonderland') is a private detective who joins an all-female detective agency in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> in two books by British novelist <a href="/wiki/Helen_Smith_(writer)" title="Helen Smith (writer)">Helen Smith</a>.</li> <li>Jane Tennison is a Detective Chief Inspector at <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> played by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> in the <a href="/wiki/ITV_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="ITV Network">ITV</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Suspect" title="Prime Suspect">Prime Suspect</a> series, aired between 1991 and 2006. In the 2011 American television remake (broadcast on <a href="/wiki/National_Broadcasting_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="National Broadcasting Company">NBC</a>), she is a New York City police detective played by <a href="/wiki/Maria_Bello" title="Maria Bello">Maria Bello</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sue_Thomas_(agent)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sue Thomas (agent)">Sue Thomas</a> is a deaf FBI agent played by <a href="/wiki/Deanne_Bray" title="Deanne Bray">Deanne Bray</a> on the 2002–2005 <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a>/<a href="/wiki/ION_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="ION Television">PAX</a> series <a href="/wiki/Sue_Thomas:_F.B.Eye" title="Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye">Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye</a>.</li> <li>Laura Thyme played by <a href="/wiki/Pam_Ferris" title="Pam Ferris">Pam Ferris</a>, is Rosemary Boxer's (<a href="/wiki/Felicity_Kendal" title="Felicity Kendal">Felicity Kendal</a>) partner in their landscaping business and their many investigations in the TV show <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_%26_Thyme" title="Rosemary & Thyme">Rosemary & Thyme</a>. The daughter of a farmer and a home gardener; she was a Woman Police Constable (WPC) in North Kensington and a member of "The CADS" (The Coppers' Amateur Dramatic Society) until she had children (Matthew, a policeman and Helena, a sculptor). After twenty-seven years of marriage, her policeman husband abandoned her for a younger woman he met at work.</li> <li>Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian ex-cop who lives in the US. This three book (so far) series by Nicola Griffith began in 1998</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Tracey" title="Kay Tracey">Kay Tracey</a> is a Nancy Drew—like 16-year-old girl detective in a series published 1934–1942 under the name Frances K Judd, a house pseudonym of the <a href="/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate" title="Stratemeyer Syndicate">Stratemeyer Syndicate</a>. The books were revised and re-issued several times after initial publication, most recently in the 1980s.</li> <li>Melanie Travis is a school teacher and amateur dog-show detective in a <a href="/wiki/Laurien_Berenson#Melanie_Travis_murder_mystery_series" title="Laurien Berenson">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Laurien_Berenson" title="Laurien Berenson">Laurien Berenson</a> (debuted 1995).</li> <li>Anna Travis is a Detective Inspector in a series of books 2004–2009 by English writer <a href="/wiki/Lynda_La_Plante" title="Lynda La Plante">Lynda La Plante</a> adapted for television as <a href="/wiki/Above_Suspicion_(TV_drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Above Suspicion (TV drama)">Above Suspicion</a> which screened from 2009 with <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Reilly" title="Kelly Reilly">Kelly Reilly</a> playing Travis.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ms._Tree_(comic_book)" title="Ms. Tree (comic book)">Michael Tree ('Ms. Tree')</a> takes on her husband's investigation business after he is murdered, in a comic book series 1981–1993 by <a href="/wiki/Max_Allan_Collins" title="Max Allan Collins">Max Allan Collins</a> and in his 2007 novel, Deadly Beloved.</li> <li>Elizabeth Tucker is a baker in contemporary <a href="/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts" title="Salem, Massachusetts">Salem, Massachusetts</a>, in the paranormal-themed "Unmentionables" cosy series begun 2010 by <a href="/wiki/Janet_Evanovich" title="Janet Evanovich">Janet Evanovich</a>.</li> <li>Frances "Frankie" Tully is a detective played by Vanessa Gray on the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Strip_(Australian_TV_series)" title="The Strip (Australian TV series)">The Strip</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: V">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Claudia Valentine is a Sydney PI in a series by Australian <a href="/wiki/Marele_Day" title="Marele Day">Marele Day</a> begun 1988.</li> <li>Mary Vance (<a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a>) inherits her uncle's detective agency and works with a police detective (<a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell" title="Dick Powell">Dick Powell</a>). in Miss Pinkerton, Inc. a radio program from 1941.<a href="#cite_note-French-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Vane" title="Harriet Vane">Harriet Vane</a>, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is first a suspect then wife of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey" title="Lord Peter Wimsey">Lord Peter Wimsey</a> in short stories and four books by <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Sayers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothy Sayers">Dorothy Sayers</a> 1998–2010 (by <a href="/wiki/Jill_Paton_Walsh" title="Jill Paton Walsh">Jill Paton Walsh</a> based on an uncompleted manuscript by Sayers); played by <a href="/wiki/Constance_Cummings" title="Constance Cummings">Constance Cummings</a> in <a href="/wiki/Busman%27s_Honeymoon" title="Busman's Honeymoon">Busman's Honeymoon</a> 1941 (Haunted Honeymoon in U.S.) and by <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Walter" title="Harriet Walter">Harriet Walter</a> in <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> adaptations begun 1997.</li> <li>Tessa Vance is a young female homicide detective in two books by Australian <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Rowe" title="Jennifer Rowe">Jennifer Rowe</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Bell" title="Lucy Bell">Lucy Bell</a> in Australian TV series <a href="/wiki/Murder_Call" title="Murder Call">Murder Call</a> 1997–2000.</li> <li>Emma Victor is a lesbian San Francisco PI in series by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wings" title="Mary Wings">Mary Wings</a>, begun 1986.</li> <li>Johanna Vik is a former FBI profiler returned home to Norway, working with Adam Stubo in a series by Norwegian <a href="/wiki/Anne_Holt" title="Anne Holt">Anne Holt</a> begun 2006.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: W">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Hilda Wade is a nurse who solves crimes with a medical theme in stories by <a href="/wiki/Grant_Allen" title="Grant Allen">Grant Allen</a> (early 20th century).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hetty_Wainthropp" class="mw-redirect" title="Hetty Wainthropp">Hetty Wainthropp</a> is a retiree and amateur investigator played by <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Routledge" title="Patricia Routledge">Patricia Routledge</a> on the 1996–1998 <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> series <a href="/wiki/Hetty_Wainthropp_Investigates" title="Hetty Wainthropp Investigates">Hetty Wainthropp Investigates</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renee_Walker" title="Renee Walker">Renee Walker</a> is an FBI agent played by <a href="/wiki/Annie_Wersching" title="Annie Wersching">Annie Wersching</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/24_(TV_series)" title="24 (TV series)">24</a> from 2009 to 2010.</li> <li>Linda Wallander, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Henning_Mankell" title="Henning Mankell">Henning Mankell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Wallander" title="Kurt Wallander">Kurt Wallander</a>, just beginning her own police career, has center stage in <a href="/wiki/Before_the_Frost" title="Before the Frost">Before the Frost</a> (2004), translated from Swedish Innan frosten (2002). Also taking part are Kurt Wallander himself and Stefan Lindman (from Mankell's <a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Dancing_Master" title="The Return of the Dancing Master">The Return of the Dancing Master</a>).</li> <li>Rachel Walling is an FBI agent in five books – <a href="/wiki/The_Poet_(novel)" title="The Poet (novel)">The Poet</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Narrows_(Connelly_novel)" title="The Narrows (Connelly novel)">The Narrows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Echo_Park_(novel)" title="Echo Park (novel)">Echo Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Overlook" title="The Overlook">The Overlook</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Scarecrow_(Michael_Connelly_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Scarecrow (Michael Connelly novel)">The Scarecrow</a> – by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Michael_Connelly" title="Michael Connelly">Michael Connelly</a> (debuted 1996).</li> <li>Penny Wanawake is a model and amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Susan_Moody#Penny_Wanawake_series" title="Susan Moody">series of books</a> by British crime novelist "<a href="/wiki/Susan_Moody" title="Susan Moody">Susan Moody</a>" (debuted 1984).</li> <li>D D Warren is a police detective in Boston is a series debuted 2005 by <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Gardner" title="Lisa Gardner">Lisa Gardner</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._I._Warshawski" title="V. I. Warshawski">Victoria Iphigenia "Vic" Warshawski</a> is a private investigator in Chicago in a <a href="/wiki/V._I._Warshawski#Novels" title="V. I. Warshawski">series of books</a> by American crime novelist <a href="/wiki/Sara_Paretsky" title="Sara Paretsky">Sara Paretsky</a>; played by <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Turner" title="Kathleen Turner">Kathleen Turner</a> in the 1991 film <a href="/wiki/V.I._Warshawski_(film)" title="V.I. Warshawski (film)">V.I.Warshawski</a>.</li> <li>Stella Warwick is a young widow who travels to New Guinea to learn more about her husband's death, in the 1952 <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> winning novel <a href="/wiki/Beat_Not_the_Bones" title="Beat Not the Bones">Beat Not the Bones</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Jay" title="Charlotte Jay">Charlotte Jay</a>.</li> <li>Raina Washington (<a href="/wiki/Taraji_P._Henson" title="Taraji P. Henson">Taraji P. Henson</a>) is a San Francisco Police Inspector in the <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> series, <a href="/wiki/The_Division" title="The Division">The Division</a>, 2002–2004.</li> <li>Amelia Watson is the second wife of <a href="/wiki/Dr._Watson" title="Dr. Watson">Dr. Watson</a>, and an amateur sleuth, in two novels and many short stories by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Mallory" title="Michael Mallory">Michael Mallory</a> (debuted 1995).</li> <li>Joan Watson, a former <a href="/wiki/Surgeon" title="Surgeon">surgeon</a> turned <a href="/wiki/Sober_companion" title="Sober companion">sober companion</a> appointed to monitor the recovery of former <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> addict <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> and assist him in solving cases in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Played by <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Liu" title="Lucy Liu">Lucy Liu</a> in the 2012 CBS series <a href="/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series)" title="Elementary (TV series)">Elementary</a>.</li> <li>Bailey Weggins is a true crime writer for magazines in a book series debuted 2004, by magazine editor <a href="/wiki/Kate_White" title="Kate White">Kate White</a>.</li> <li>Laurène Weiss (<a href="/wiki/Suliane_Brahim" title="Suliane Brahim">Suliane Brahim</a>) is the police chief investigating a spree of mysterious murders and disappearances in the remote wilderness surrounding the fictional French town of Villefranche, from the television series <a href="/wiki/Black_Spot_(TV_series)" title="Black Spot (TV series)">Black Spot</a> (Zone Blanche) 2017–.</li> <li>Daisy Wellsis an English boarding school girl during the 1930s in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Robin_Stevens_(author)" title="Robin Stevens (author)">Robin Stevens</a> is the president of the Wells and Wong detective society she established with her friend Hazel Wong.</li> <li>Maria Wern is a police detective in Sweden in this series by <a href="/wiki/Anna_Jansson" title="Anna Jansson">Anna Jansson</a>. Books translated to English are: Killer's Island and Strange Bird.</li> <li>Helen West is a driven prosecutor with a keen sense of justice in a book series 1988–1996 by <a href="/wiki/Frances_Fyfield" title="Frances Fyfield">Frances Fyfield</a>, twice adapted for television, with Helen played firstly by <a href="/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson" title="Juliet Stevenson">Juliet Stevenson</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> and then by <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Burton" title="Amanda Burton">Amanda Burton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honey_West" title="Honey West">Honey West</a> is a private detective in a series of eleven books by "G. G. Fickling" (debuted 1957); played by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Francis" title="Anne Francis">Anne Francis</a> on the 1965–1966 <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <a href="/wiki/Honey_West_(TV_series)" title="Honey West (TV series)">Honey West</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megan_Wheeler" class="mw-redirect" title="Megan Wheeler">Megan Wheeler</a> is a New York City detective played by <a href="/wiki/Julianne_Nicholson" title="Julianne Nicholson">Julianne Nicholson</a> on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>/<a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA</a> series <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a> from 2006 to 2009.</li> <li>Blanche White is a domestic worker who investigates mysteries in a series commenced 1992 by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Neely" title="Barbara Neely">Barbara Neely</a>.</li> <li>Lace White is a sleuth created by Jeannette Covert Nolan, appearing in a handful of mysteries from the 1930s to the 1950s. White is an unusual character, a low-key retired schoolmarm who is also a special criminal investigator with credentials issued by the governor of Indiana.</li> <li>Jane Whitefield is a detective in a <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Perry_(author)#Jane_Whitefield_Series" title="Thomas Perry (author)">series of books</a> by American mystery novelist <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Perry_(author)" title="Thomas Perry (author)">Thomas Perry</a> (debuted 1995).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ironside_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironside (TV series)">Eve Whitfield</a> is a detective (played by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Anderson_(actress)" title="Barbara Anderson (actress)">Barbara Anderson</a>) on <a href="/wiki/Ironside_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironside (TV series)">"Ironside"</a> (1967–71)</li> <li>Hanne Wilhemsen is a Norwegian police inspector and closeted lesbian in a book series debuted 1993 by Norwegian <a href="/wiki/Anne_Holt" title="Anne Holt">Anne Holt</a>. Books in the series are: Blind Goddess, Blessed are Those Who Thirst, 1222, Death of the Demon, What is Mine, What Never Happens, Fear Not, and Death in Oslo.</li> <li>Lila Wilkins is a former reporter, employed by literary agency, in Buried in a Book (2012), the first book in a proposed series by Lucy Arlington.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Willows" title="Catherine Willows">Catherine Willows</a> is a crime scene investigator played by <a href="/wiki/Marg_Helgenberger" title="Marg Helgenberger">Marg Helgenberger</a> on the 2000–2015 <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> series <a href="/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation" title="CSI: Crime Scene Investigation">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hildegarde_Withers" title="Hildegarde Withers">Hildegarde Withers</a> is a school teacher and amateur investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Hildegarde_Withers#Hildegarde_Withers_novels_by_Stuart_Palmer" title="Hildegarde Withers">series of books</a> by American mystery novelist <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Palmer_(author)" title="Stuart Palmer (author)">Stuart Palmer</a> (debuted 1931). Played by <a href="/wiki/Edna_May_Oliver" title="Edna May Oliver">Edna May Oliver</a> in the films <a href="/wiki/The_Penguin_Pool_Murder" title="The Penguin Pool Murder">The Penguin Pool Murder</a> (1932), <a href="/wiki/Murder_on_the_Blackboard" title="Murder on the Blackboard">Murder on the Blackboard</a> (1934), and <a href="/wiki/Murder_on_a_Honeymoon" title="Murder on a Honeymoon">Murder on a Honeymoon</a> (1935); by <a href="/wiki/Helen_Broderick" title="Helen Broderick">Helen Broderick</a> in Murder on a Bridle Path (1936); by <a href="/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts" title="ZaSu Pitts">ZaSu Pitts</a> in The Plot Thickens (1936) and Forty Naughty Girls (1937); and by <a href="/wiki/Eve_Arden" title="Eve Arden">Eve Arden</a> in A Very Missing Person (1972).</li> <li>Hannah Wolfe is a private investigator in a <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dunant#Hannah_Wolfe" title="Sarah Dunant">trilogy of novels</a> – Birth Marks, Fatlands, and Under My Skin – by English novelist <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dunant" title="Sarah Dunant">Sarah Dunant</a> (debuted 1991).</li> <li>Hazel Wong (real name: Wong Fung Ying) is a Chinese schoolgirl who attends an English boarding school in the book series Murder Most Unladylike by <a href="/wiki/Robin_Stevens_(author)" title="Robin Stevens (author)">Robin Stevens</a> where as vice-president and Secretary of a Detective Society she solves various murder mysteries with the help of her friend the Honourable Daisy Wells.</li> <li>April Woo is a Chinese-American New York police detective in a book series by <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Glass_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Glass (author)">Leslie Glass (author)</a> including Burning Time, Hanging Time, etc.</li> <li>Shelby Woo is the title teen detective on <a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_Files_of_Shelby_Woo" title="The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo">The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo</a> which screened 1996–1998 on <a href="/wiki/Nickelodeon" title="Nickelodeon">Nickelodeon</a>.</li> <li>Persephone Wright, the protagonist of the <a href="/wiki/Suffrajitsu:_Mrs._Pankhurst%27s_Amazons" title="Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons">Suffrajitsu</a> graphic novel series, moonlights as a detective in The Isle of Dogs, a novella by Michael Lussier.</li> <li>Sheil B. Wright created by Ann Morven is a dunce at deduction but well versed in human folly. These whodunits blend chills and chuckles (2012) The Right Royal Bastard, Murder Piping Hot, The Seventh Petal, and The Killing of Hamlet.</li> <li>Xie Yaohuan (谢瑶环) is a fictional member of the court of the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Empress</a> <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a> who originally appeared in <a href="/wiki/Tian_Han" title="Tian Han">Tian Han</a>'s Xie Yaohuan eponymous 1961 Peking opera <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegorically</a> condemning the <a href="/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward" title="Great Leap Forward">Great Leap Forward</a>, where she was ultimately forced to sacrifice herself as a matter of principle.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> The character was subsequently rebooted as the heroine of <a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_of_Empress_Wu" title="The Shadow of Empress Wu">The Shadow of Empress Wu</a> (Riyue Lingkong), broadcast from 2007 to 2008 on <a href="/wiki/China_Central_Television" title="China Central Television">CCTV</a>, and of Imperial Tang Female Inspector (<a href="/wiki/Da_Tang_N%C3%BC_Xun_An" title="Da Tang Nü Xun An">Da Tang Nü Xun An</a>), first broadcast on <a href="/wiki/Dragon_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragon TV">Dragon TV</a> in 2011. In all three, she is tasked with investigating various problems and uncovering provincial malfeasance for the imperial court.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Y">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bubbles_Yablonsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Bubbles Yablonsky">Bubbles Yablonsky</a> is a high-energy beautician and rookie journalist who supplies beauty product recipes in screwball mysteries by <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Strohmeyer" title="Sarah Strohmeyer">Sarah Strohmeyer</a> begun 2001</li> <li>Rachel Young is an FBI Special Agent and Dr. Jacob Hood's handler in The Eleventh Hour (2008–09)</li> <li>Nero Yuzurizaki (譲崎ネロ Yuzurizaki Nero?) is a girl detective with the gift of controlling machines through use of a piece of metal – and is an operative of the Milky Holmes Detective Agency in various products by the <a href="/wiki/Tantei_Opera_Milky_Holmes" title="Tantei Opera Milky Holmes">Tantei Opera Milky Holmes</a> media franchise.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Z">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Charlie Zailer is a policewoman in psychological crime novels by <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Hannah" title="Sophie Hannah">Sophie Hannah</a>, debuted 2006 with Little Face. Charlie was played by <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Williams" title="Olivia Williams">Olivia Williams</a> in a 2011 two part television drama, Case Sensitive, based on Hannah's 2008 novel The Point of Rescue.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_authors" class="mw-redirect" title="Lists of authors">Lists of authors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mystery_writers" title="List of mystery writers">List of mystery writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_thriller_authors" class="mw-redirect" title="List of thriller authors">List of thriller authors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_detective/mystery_writers" title="List of female detective/mystery writers">List of female detective/mystery writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_detective_teams" title="List of fictional detective teams">List of fictional detective teams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_male_detective_characters" title="List of male detective characters">List of male detective characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">Detective fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whodunit" title="Whodunit">Whodunit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisters_in_Crime" title="Sisters in Crime">Sisters in Crime</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_detective_characters&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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