Looking for series with female detectives

[David]

Lisa wrote: "If you don't mind a man being thrown into the mix, David Baldacci has a series of novels featuring the male/female pairing of Detectives King and Maxell. The team are ex-secret service agents and t..."

The first one in the series is Split Second.

[Lisa]

I'm looking forward to checking out the show. Baldacci is, to me, a genius- I'm anxious to see the characters come to life! I watched "Absolute Power" with Clint Eastwood the other night - another one of Balcacci's books. I started with the Camel Club series and never looked back!

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what is the name of the tv series? sounds interesting.

[Diane]

Australian writer Jennifer Rowe wrote a couple
of books featuring Tessa Vance. It's been a
while since I have read them, there were only a
couple if I remember rightly but they were made
into a fantastic TV series called "Murder Call".
Even though set in present day (1990s) Sydney they
had a very noirish look to them. The actress looked
very 1940s, the lighting always seemed to be
amber tinted and always through venetian blinds.
A feature was that Tessa always seemed to put
"two and two" together in the wee small hours
and that usually involved a frantic call to her
partner (he was a "by the book" detective, Tessa
went by her intuition). Great show and the books
were pretty good as well.

[Jan C]

Lisa wrote: "If you don't mind a man being thrown into the mix, David Baldacci has a series of novels featuring the male/female pairing of Detectives King and Maxell. The team are ex-secret service agents and t..."

I liked the series this summer. Am trying Split Second sample on my kindle.

[Lisa]

Ward wrote: "what is the name of the tv series? sounds interesting."

The series is King and Maxwell -

[Miss M]

I like Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series about a young police constable in London.
Jane Casey

[Lisa]

Jan C wrote: "Lisa wrote: "If you don't mind a man being thrown into the mix, David Baldacci has a series of novels featuring the male/female pairing of Detectives King and Maxell. The team are ex-secret service..."

good book - not my absolute favorite Baldacci - but, a very good one!

[Scott]

I second the Katherine Reichs Temperance Brennan series...a forensic anthropologist and detective rolled into one. Also...on a completely different side...I read a few of Joanna Flukes books. The protaganist is a baker turned detective (I'll wait for the snickering to stop). They are light, fun books and she has an amusing twist where the series contain recipes of the things she bakes...and some pf the recipes are really good.

[Ann]

I love the Tempe Brennan /Kathy Reichs.
I also really like The Womens Murder Club series by James Patterson.. Lindsay Boxer is great! The first book is 1st to Die.

[Barbara]

Diane Mott Davidson's series features a sleuthing caterer named Goldy. The mysteries are filled with interesting characters including Goldy's psycho abusive ex-husband Dr. Richard Korman, her best friend Marla(another ex-wife of Richard Korman), and her young son Archie. The books also have lots of recipes that look good (I don't really cook so I haven't tried them). Series starts with Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Diane wrote: "Australian writer Jennifer Rowe wrote a couple
of books featuring Tessa Vance. It's been a
while since I have read them, there were only a
couple if I remember rightly but they were made
into a fan..."

My husband and I loved that show. We called Tessa's breakthrough a "Tessa moment" and we still call that kind of ah ha reasoning a Tessa moment.

Liked Water Rats too.

[Erin]

JT Ellison's Taylor Jackson series is really good. The first one is .

[Linda]

Robert B Parker, who did the Spenser series, wrote a series with Sunny Randall as protagonist/private eye (left police force).