Women detectives and cops in SF: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 19:25, 28 November 2010

Catherine Chandler in TV series Beauty and the Beast (lawyer and investigator with DA's office)
Olivia Dunham, FBI investigator in Fringe
Lola Galley, an officer (sometimes cop, sometimes social worker/lawyer kinda person) in the dept. for regulating lycanthropic activity (DORLA?) in Bareback by Kit Whitfield
Audrey Hanson, an FBI agent in "Heroes" (played by Clea DuVall)
Emma Hollis in Millennium (TV series) (FBI)
Doré Konstantin from Dervish Is Digital by Pat Cadigan
Brawne Lamia from "The Detective's Tale: The Long Good-Bye" in Dan Simmons' Hyperion
Kate Lockley from Angel
Lara Means in Millennium (TV series) (Millennium Group investigator)
The "Ty Merrick" series by Denise Vitola
Vicki Nelson from Tanya Huff's Blood novels, and the TV series adapted from them.
Sara Pezzini, homicide detective - from Witchblade (comics & TV series)
Monica Rambeau (Marvel universe), a harbor patrol investigator before she gained superpowers
Dana Scully in The X-Files (FBI)

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 * Nancy Clueless parody series by Mabel Maney (some supernatural elements)
 * Veronica Mars in eponymous TV series (but not SF)
+==References and further reading==
+* ''[[The Lady Investigates|The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction]]'' by [[Patricia Craig]] and [[Mary Cadogan]]. ISBN 0-19-281938-0.  (1981)
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