This is a list of fictional female investigators from novels, short stories, radio, television, films and video games. Contents. A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. Type of detective; See also; References. Veronica Slate is a Florida radio talk show host in the books, Kill Cue, .. Carlotta Carlyle is a 6'1" former Boston city cop turned private.
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But who — or what — is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. Quant works to narrow his list of suspects, only to find the number of victims growing. As Quant penetrates the truth of the Boogeyman, he finds himself on a perilous suspension bridge between idyllic childhood and grown-up violence.
A John Cardinal Mystery. Autumn is gorgeous in Algonquin Bay, but this year its beauty is tinged with something sinister. A young girl appears in a series of unspeakable photos being traded online among sexual predators, and background elements indicate she may live in Algonquin Bay. Lise Delorme has to find the girl before she suffers more abuse. As Delorme closes in on one predator, Cardinal receives a string of menacing letters and finds himself tracking a killer so ingenious that the accepted bounds of criminal justice do not apply.
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Living in the shadow of greatness can be difficult. When her father, the renowned writer J. Caesar Fortune, is found murdered inside the Faculty of Arts building, there is no shortage of people who carried a grudge. In a household pummeled by the dual forces of addiction and narcissism, Desdemona must face the fact that her father has hurt those closest to him.
Now, as the new head of a once illustrious family, she must do whatever is necessary to save her only living sister from the far-reaching influence of an immortal. Terry Carroll, Body Contact. When Tracy Hewitt goes missing, police officer and amateur goalie Carl North has enormous difficulty believing team-mate Rick Hewitt might be guilty of murdering his wife. William Deverell, April Fool. As this sequel to Trial of Passion opens, Arthur is married to Margaret, happily — except she is 50 feet up on a platform on an old-growth Douglas fir, saving the rain forest.
Eggleton, Murder Makes Mischief. What looks like an accidental mass poisoning at a local bank is quickly shown to be a cover for murder. The victim is Cynthia Harmon, a woman who enjoyed making enemies. No one shows much concern with the details of her death. That changes as the investigation progresses and secrets are exposed. The first is missing money: Along the way, relationships end, change, and maybe start. All of which becomes irrelevant when a third body shows up.
Only then do the shadows from long ago lead to the truth. Praise for Stan's first mystery, Seaweed on the Street: Rick Gadziola, Drawing Dead: A Jake Morgan Mystery. Subsequently, she gets him caught in the crossfire between two groups of dirty cops out to kill each other as he tries to help her stay alive. The attempts on his life seem to multiply as he gets closer to what he prays is not the ugly truth. Could he be on the wrong side? When he tries to walk away from Laura, Jake Morgan is placed in the crosshairs of an adversary who will not be denied.
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He…manages to run the table with a full house of entertaining characters. Lina Gardiner, Grave Illusions. New York City is in the grasp of a deadly, unseen enemy. At least, that is, unseen by normal society. Lieutenant Jess Vandermire is uniquely specialized to fight this threat.
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Team members have to be tough and they have to be expendable. When Jess tells John Brittain, ex-cop and team member, the truth about herself, will he stay and fight or turn against her and not only threaten their lives, but destroy the fragile relationship developing between them? Lee Goldberg, Diagnosis Murder: Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital's I.
He learns that he was run down in the street while investigating a series of mysterious deaths, all of whom were patients recently recovered from life-threatening illnesses and accidents. Mark resumes his investigation, only to realize that his "accident" was no accident and that there is little time left to prevent another murder — his own.
All Gloria Trevisi wants is a peaceful family Christmas, as she fills the pages of the Plattsford Sun and finds the perfect gift for her perfect, but absent, mate. What she will get, however, is a series of painful needles, several threatening phone calls, uncomfortable confrontations with the past, a nasty dog bite, and the discovery of a grisly corpse or two. And the holiday edition of the Sun must hit the streets on time Dan Kalla, Rage Therapy. Joel Ashman, a young widowed psychiatrist, narrates two interwoven stories. One follows the fatal beating of his mentor Stanley Kolberg, and the other the suicide of a tragic young patient, Angela Connor.
A year apart, the deaths are seemingly unrelated. But as the investigation into Kolberg's murder wades into an ugly world of sadomasochism and patient abuse, the relevance to the death of Joel's patient grows. And after the murder of a second psychiatrist, Joel realizes he is on a crash course with someone willing to do anything to conceal the past. A very good read.
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Rene Natan, The Jungfrau Watch. The collapse of the Soviet Union leaves two prominent members of the Red Brigades without funds, without a job, and without a cause. They both find asylum, under false identities, in Canada. One continues in his criminal activities; the other wants to make a break from his past. Years later, their paths cross again. When the prototype of the Jungfrau Watch is stolen, Alesh Sinkovich is hired to establish a fake laboratory based on the production of efficient fuel cells.
Soon after a project is stolen from the lab, providing a major breakthrough. Louise Penny, Dead Cold: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery. It's winter in the idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines. Snow is gently falling and the residents are preparing their Christmas celebrations. But someone is preparing something far more sinister — murder.
But as he investigates, something old and cold is creeping up behind Gamache himself. Dead Cold is the second in the Armand Gamache series. Louise Penny, Still Life: But slowly the village gives up its secrets, some going back half a century. Radical Association of Criminal Ethnicities is a group on the verge of creating a new illegal drug, called Nex.
When several veteran officers are sidelined by corruption charges, an error in his police file qualifies parking officer Jon Rupret for membership in an elite squad — Operation Anti-R. Jon is partnered with jaded detective Phillip Beadsworth, who's none too thrilled with the situation. The story follows the criminals' desperate attempts to bully chemists into creating the ultimate drug, and the police, as they attempt to track them down. David Russell, Deadly Lessons. Winston Patrick, a successful but dissatisfied criminal defence lawyer, thought he had left the law behind him, trading in the courtroom for the classroom at a rough East Vancouver high school.
But soon a fellow teacher seeks his legal help after a student threatens to expose a lurid teacher-student love affair. Reluctantly, Winston has agreed to provide legal defense when the case takes an uglier turn: Winston and his best friend, Detective Andrea Pearson, find themselves immersed in a murder investigation that could cause an international incident Tokuda plans to satisfy the bushido oath he made at the ruins of his ancestors' Hiroshima shrine. Michael Slade , Swastika.
Swastika embroils the Mounties, Pentagon hit men, and Nazi psychopaths in a modern puzzle concerning the long-kept secret of what crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in The scenes in Hitler's bunker and the V2 rocket factory are so descriptive that it's difficult to know where historical fact leaves off and fiction begins. Swastika will please Slade's legion of fans and anyone who enjoys a good thriller with a historical bent.
Sharon Wildwind, First Murder in Advent: Death and brutal winter weather surround the convent where they have taken refuge. Caught in a curious battle, with Catholic nuns on one side and a military think- tank on the other, they have little time to celebrate Advent, the solemn pre-Christmas season.
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Lou Allin, Murder, Eh?: A Belle Palmer Mystery. Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer is showing a mansion when she discovers the owner dead in her bathtub. When the boy disappears, Belle hooks up with a bumbling P.
Linwood Barclay, Bad Guys: A Zack Walker Mystery. Already trying to deal on the home front with a mysterious man who may be stalking his daughter, Zack Walker — newspaper writer, obsessive dad, compulsive worrier, and reluctant hero — writes a feature article on a P. Jeff Buick, African Ice. The diamonds embedded in the kimberlite pipe have the potential to change the diamond industry as we know it — to bring down the diamond cartels that carefully control the prices we pay for the stones. Her knowledge is worth untold millions. But Samantha knows that once the location is compromised, her life is over.
The list of people who want her dead is long and dangerous, and the only way to survive, is to go after those trying to kill her. Vicki Delany, Burden of Memory. But the past is to be found in more than old boxes and musty letters, and Elaine discovers that memories can kill. Vicki Delany, Scare the Light Away. A complex novel interweaving two generations of strong women — an English war bride and her Canadian daughter — into a quilt of old betrayals, modern mystery, and contemporary redemption. Monk Goes to Hawaii. Obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk becomes an uninvited guest on his beleaguered assistant Natalie's dream vacation to Hawaii, where he ruins her best friend's wedding, stumbles onto the perfect murder, and matches wits with a world-famous medium who can talk to the dead.
Grant, Race Without Rules 2 nd Edition: Book I of the Race Series. Megan Brodie crosses paths with a mysterious neighbour and is pitched headlong into a chilling plot that races from Canada to Brazil. Linda Hall, Dark Water: A Fog Point Mystery. Jake Rikker has been hired to find a stalker. Up-and-coming jewellery designer Elise St. Dennis wants him to find the menacing ex-con who has traced her to the small town of Fog Point. But as they draw ever closer to their prey, it becomes terrifyingly clear that they have become not the hunters but the hunted.
Lyn Hamilton, The Orkney Scroll: Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch finds her reputation tarnished when one of her wealthiest clients buys a rare writing cabinet on her word, only to learn it's a fake. Then Lara finds the dealer who sold it to him dead, with an axe lodged in his head. Lara's client is arrested for the murder, but something doesn't feel right. To save her reputation and prove her client's innocence, Lara heads for the Orkney Islands off the northeast coast of Scotland.
Here she is pulled into a centuries-old Viking saga, and a troubling quest that leads to danger…and yet another murder. Crystal meth is both incredibly addictive and incredibly dangerous to make — a two-fisted toxic whammy that has police, politicians and addiction experts grasping for solutions.
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Dave Hugelschaffer, Day Into Night: A Porter Cassel Mystery. But Cassel also has a tragedy in his past, which the killer uses to frame him for murder. I liked the realistic descriptions of the work and an interesting plot. Maureen Jennings, Vices of My Blood: A Detective Murdoch Mystery. The sixth in the Detective Murdoch series set in Toronto of finds Murdoch investigating the savage murder of Reverend Charles Howard, a well-liked pastor of a Toronto Presbyterian church. Nobody will speak ill of the dead man, but somebody hated him enough to kill him.
In the course of his investigation, Murdoch enters the House of Industry disguised as a pauper and is forced to defend his own life. On the romantic side of things, Murdoch falls in love. The first three books in this series have been adapted for television by Shaftesbury Films. Lina Lopez, a young Seattle epidemiologist, is determined to find out why a drug addict died of a flesh-eating disease caused by bacteria resistant to every known antibiotic. Graham Kilburn watches helplessly as two previously healthy patients die from massive untreatable infections.