List of Female Detective Characters - R

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• Agatha Raisin is an impatient and nosy retired publicist who becomes a private investigator in an English village in a book series by MC Beaton (Marion Chesney) who also wrote the Hamish Macbeth series. Some of the Agatha Raison books have been adapted as BBC radio dramas with Penelope Keith playing Agatha.
• Precious Ramotswe is a Batswana private detective in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of book by Alexander McCall Smith (debuted 1998); played by Jill Scott on the 2008-2009 BBC One series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
• Sonie "Sunny" Randall is a private investigator in a series of books by American crime novelist Robert B. Parker (debuted 1999).
• Monica Reyes is an FBI agent played by Annabeth Gish on the Fox series The X-Files from 2001 to 2002.
• Ali Reynolds goes home to Arizona after her husband leaves her for a younger woman and she loses her job in broadcasting to a 'younger face', and becomes embroiled in trouble in a book series commenced 2006 by J. A. Jance.
• Louise Rick is Detective Inspector in Copenhagen in a series commenced 2005 by Sara Blaedel.
• Jane Rizzoli is a homicide detective in Boston in a series of books by American crime novelist Tess Gerritsen (debuted 2001) and the subsequent TV series Rizzoli & Isles, premiered 2010.
• Rebecca Robbins is an amateur sleuth whose adventures begin after she inherits a small town roller skating rink, in a series of humorous mysteries debuted 2010 by Joelle Charbonneau.
• Molly Robertson-Kirk was the head of the "Female Department" of Scotland Yard in a series of short stories by British novelist Emma Orczy (debuted 1910).
• Anne Rodway is a poor needlewoman who investigates the death of her friend from a blow to the head, in a story in diary form by Wilkie Collins first published in Dicken’s Household Words in 1856.
• Eleanor Roosevelt, the real First Lady, is an amateur sleuth in a string of books 1985 to 2005 by Eleanor Roosevelt’s son. Elliot Roosevelt.
• Benny Rosato is an attorney in an all-female law firm in Lisa Scottoline's series of legal thrillers set in Philadelphia. Benny is the lead character in the first book Legal Tender, and in Think Twice and Dead Ringer; other lawyers in the firm lead in the other books.
• Ruby Rothman is a rabbi's widow in Eternal, Texas, who solves crimes in a series by Sharon Kahn, commenced 1998 with Fax me a Bagel,which was nominated for an Agatha Award for best first novel.
• Trudy Roundtree is a police officer who returns from Atlanta to work in her small hometown, in a cosy mystery series by Linda Berry, commenced 1998.
• Lillian Rush is a cold case detective in Philadelphia played by Kathryn Morris on the 2003-2010 CBS series Cold Case.
• Diane Russell is a New York City detective played by Kim Delaney on the ABC series NYPD Blue from 1995 to 2003.
• Mary Russell is an amateur detective and wife of Sherlock Holmes in a series of books by American crime novelist Laurie R. King (debuted 1994).