List of Female Detective Characters - K

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• Sarah Kelling is an amateur investigator in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts in a series of books by American mystery novelist Charlotte MacLeod (debuted 1980).
• Virginia Kelley is an amateur detective in a series of books by crime novelist Nikki Baker (debuted 1991).
• Irene Kelly is an investigative reporter in a series by Jan Burke, commenced 1992 with Goodnight Irene.
• Kitty Keene was a detective and former chorus girl in Kitty Keene, Inc. a radio show first broadcast 1937 in Chicago. Kitty was played by, successively, Beverly Younger, Gail Henshaw and Fran Carlon.
• Kylie Kendall is a former Australian bartender pursuing an LA private detective career after inheriting a private detective agency in a series of books by Claire McNab (debuted 2004).
• Helen Keremos is a private investigator using her lesbian, gay and feminist contacts in novels by Polish born Canadian Eve Zaremba, beginning with “A Reason to Kill” (1978).
• Joanne Kilbourn is a political advisor, later political science professor and commentator, in books set in Saskatchewan by Gail Bowen, staring 1990. Six of the books were made into movies for television, by Shaftesbury Films and CTV.
• Carnegie Kincaid is a wedding planner in Seattle, Washington state, in a series by Deborah Donnelly, commenced with Veiled Threats (2002).
• Samantha Kinsey is young owner of a mystery bookshop, and amateur sleuth, played by Kellie Martin, in Mystery Woman, a US series of made for TV movies debuted 2003.
• Jacqueline Kirby is a librarian, then romance novelist, in four books by Barbara Mertz published 1971, 1974, 1984 and 1989.
• Jill Kirkendall is a New York City detective played by Andrea Thompson on the ABC series NYPD Blue from 1996 to 2000.
• Abby Knight runs a flower shop in Indiana in a cozy series by Kate Collins, commenced 2004.
• Micky Knight is a lesbian private investigator in a series by Jean M. Redmann, commenced 1990 with Death by The Riverside.
• Deborah Knott is a judge and daughter of a North Carolina bootlegger in a series of books by American crime novelist Margaret Maron (debuted 1992).