Mysteries featuring female investigators have been popular for years, and for good reason. They offer viewers strong and capable women who are not only solving crimes but also challenging traditional gender roles.
Here's a selection of movies, TV shows, games, and more featuring prominent female investigators.
The Philadelphia Homicide Division's lone female detective, Lilly Rush, finds her cal...
Midnight in Singapore. Your contact’s a no show, your client wants answers and your ...
Bones is a crime procedural television series that follows Dr. Temperance "Bones" Bre...
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cyberne...
The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California co...
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a police detective who transfers from Atlan...
Criminal Minds revolves around the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit), a team of FBI prof...
A man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past race to stop the worst crim...
Richard "Rick" Castle is a millionaire playboy who recently killed off his main chara...
The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series following the story of ...
Paris in the Fall... a brutal murder at the Palais Royale. When Nico Collard is invit...
Professional mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect...
Clarice Starling, a gutsy young FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an...
Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers. She's gotten so cl...
The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes gri...
Twelve year old Tui Mitcham, daughter of the local drug lord, is pulled from the free...
When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's sister) discovers that her mother has gone missing on h...
A pocket-sized heroine on a big quest for justice! Jenny is a brilliant young detecti...
Based on James Patterson's best selling novels, Women's Murder Club is a drama series...
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who h...
Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the wealthy seasi...
When Nancy Drew begins to investigate a potential poisoning at the botanical garden k...
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist accepts an invitation to surreptitiously invest...
Kate Walker, a young ambitious lawyer from New York, is handed what seems a fairly st...
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapp...