List of Female Detective Characters - G

G

  • Ruth Galloway is a university-based forensic archaeologist in the UK who assists police in a book series by Elly Griffiths commenced 2009.
  • Gale Gallagher heads a detective agency and narrates two novels written by Will Ousier and Margaret Scott under this pen name, in 1947 and 1949.
  • Kelly Garrett is a private detective played by Jaclyn Smith on the 1976-1981 ABC series Charlies Angels and the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
  • Nora Gavin is a university-based M.D. and anatomy professor in Ireland who assists archaeologists uncovering human remains from peat bogs in a series by Erin Hart commenced 2003.
  • Angela Gennaro is a private detective with partner Patrick Kenzie in Boston, MA in a series of books by American novelist Dennis Lehane (debuted 1994).
  • Carol Ann Gibson is an attorney in Washington D.C. who becomes involved in investigations in a series of four books by Penny Mickelbury, commenced 1998.
  • Kate Gillespie is a homicide detective in San Francisco in a book series by Robin Burcell, commenced 1998.
  • Mrs Gladden is the protagonist in Andrew Forrester Jr’s “The Female Detective” (1864).
  • Dr Alexandra Gladstone inherits her father’s medical practice in a seaside town in Victorian England and solves mysteries in a series by Paula Paul, commenced 2002.
  • Cordelia Glauca (コーデリア・グラウカ Kōderia Gurauka?) is a girl detective who can see and her things others cannot, working with the Milky Holmes Detective Agency to combat evil doers in various products of the Tantei Opera Milky Holmes media franchise.
  • Gladys ‘Gladdy’ Gold is an ex-librarian and murder mystery fan, retired to Florida, who takes up sleuthing in a book series by Rita Lakin commenced 2005.
  • Elizabeth Goodweather is a young widow and herb farmer in Appalachia in a series by Vicky Lane, debuted with Signs in the Blood (2005).
  • Ginny Gordon is a teenaged girl in a series of books 1948-1956 by Julie Campbell Tatham.
  • Cordelia Gray is private investigator in the 1972 novel An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and its 1982 sequel The Skull Beneath The Skin, both by English crime novelist P. D. James.
  • Stacy Graysin is a champion ballroom dancer in a cosy series commenced 2011 by 'Ella Barrick' (Laura DiSilvio).
  • Hazel Green is a resourceful girl in four books for children 1999-2003, by Odo Hirsch.
  • Sophie Greenway is the detective in a culinary mystery series of books by American crime novelist Ellen Hart (debuted 1994).
  • Lady Julia Grey is a sleuth in Victorian Britain in historical mysteries by Deanna Raybourn commenced 2007.
  • Mother Lavinia Grey is an Epsicopal priest in Fisherville, New Jersey, in novels by Kate Gallison, beginning 1995.
  • Odelia Grey is a middle-aged plus-sized paralegal in a book series by Sue Ann Jaffarian, commenced with "Too Big to Miss" (2006).
  • Thóra Gudmundsdóttir is an Icelandic lawyer and detective in a series of books by Icelandic crime novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (debuted 2005).
  • Mercy Gunderson is a former army sniper who has returned to her family ranch in South Dakota, in a series commenced 2010 by Lori Armstrong.

Read more about this topic:  List Of Female Detective Characters