Women detectives and cops in SF

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By Author

• Keith Hartman. The Gumshoe, The Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (1999)
• Melissa Scott. Several of her novels

By Character Name

• 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)

Classic non-SF "girl sleuths"

• Nancy Drew
• Honey West
• 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: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction by Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan. ISBN 0-19-281938-0. (1981)