Female investigators

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.

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The Philadelphia Homicide Division's lone female detective, Lilly Rush, finds her cal...

Released:
2003
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Midnight in Singapore. Your contact’s a no show, your client wants answers and your ...

Released:
2022

Bones is a crime procedural television series that follows Dr. Temperance "Bones" Bre...

Released:
2005
Episodes:
245
Streaming on:
Hulu

Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cyberne...

Released:
2019

The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California co...

Released:
2002

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a police detective who transfers from Atlan...

Released:
2005
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Criminal Minds revolves around the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit), a team of FBI prof...

Released:
2005
Streaming on:
Paramount+

A man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past race to stop the worst crim...

Released:
2015
Episodes:
10

Richard "Rick" Castle is a millionaire playboy who recently killed off his main chara...

Released:
2009
Episodes:
173
Streaming on:
Hulu

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series following the story of ...

Released:
2013
Episodes:
206
Streaming on:
Netflix

Paris in the Fall... a brutal murder at the Palais Royale. When Nico Collard is invit...

Released:
2010

Professional mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect...

Released:
1984
Episodes:
264
Streaming on:
Peacock

Clarice Starling, a gutsy young FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an...

Released:
1991
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers. She's gotten so cl...

Released:
1995

The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes gri...

Released:
2018
Episodes:
18
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Twelve year old Tui Mitcham, daughter of the local drug lord, is pulled from the free...

Released:
2013
Episodes:
13
Streaming on:
Hulu

When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's sister) discovers that her mother has gone missing on h...

Released:
2020
Streaming on:
Netflix

A pocket-sized heroine on a big quest for justice! Jenny is a brilliant young detecti...

Released:
2019

Based on James Patterson's best selling novels, Women's Murder Club is a drama series...

Released:
2007
Episodes:
13

Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who h...

Released:
2016

Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the wealthy seasi...

Released:
2004
Episodes:
72
Streaming on:
Hulu

When Nancy Drew begins to investigate a potential poisoning at the botanical garden k...

Released:
2021

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist accepts an invitation to surreptitiously invest...

Released:
2011

Kate Walker, a young ambitious lawyer from New York, is handed what seems a fairly st...

Released:
2002

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapp...

Released:
2021
Episodes:
21
Streaming on:
Hulu