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• Laetitia Talbot is an archeologist in 1920s Europe in a book series by Barbara Cleverly.
• Lulu Taylor is a restaurant owner in Memphis, Tennessee, in a culinary mystery series debuted 2010 by Riley Adams.
• Caitlin Todd is a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent played by Sasha Alexander on the CBS series NCIS from 2003 to 2005.
• Aurora Teagarden is a small town librarian and mystery novel fan in the first mystery series by Charlaine Harris, debuted 1990.
• Jane Tennison is a Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard played by Helen Mirren in the ITV Prime Suspect series, aired between 1991 and 2006. In the 2011 American television remake (broadcast on NBC), she is a New York City police detective played by Maria Bello.
• Lizzie Thomas is a Welsh widow in an English village who solves crime with the help of a retired policeman in a series by Anthony Oliver.
• Sue Thomas is a deaf FBI agent played by Deanne Bray on the 2002-2005 CTV/PAX series Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.
• Maggie Thorsen is a coffee shop owner in Wisconsin in a culinary mysteries series debuted 2004, by Sandra Balzo.
• Kay Tracey is a Nancy Drew -like 16 year old girl detective in a series published 1934-1942 under the name Frances K Judd, a house pseudonym of the Stratemeyer syndicate. The books were revised and re-issued several times after initial publication, most recently in the 1980s.
• Ruth Traill is the first female detective in English fiction, in a penny-dreadful of 1862, by Edward Ellis.
• Melanie Travis is a school teacher and amateur dog-show detective in a series of books by American crime novelist Laurien Berenson (debuted 1995).
• Anna Travis is a Detective Inspector in a series of books 2004-2009 by English writer Lynda La Plante adapted for television as Above Suspicion which screened from 2009 with Kelly Reilly playing Travis.
• Michael Tree (‘Ms. Tree’) takes on her husband's investigation business after he is murdered, in a comic book series 1981-1993 by Max Allan Collins and in his 2007 novel, Deadly Beloved.
• Hannah Trevor is a nurse midwife in colonial America in three historical mysteries published 1995-1998 by Margaret Lawrence.
• Alafair Tucker is a farmwife and mother of ten in Oklahoma in the 1910s in a book series started 2005 by Donis Casey.
• Elizabeth Tucker is a baker in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts, in the paranormal-themed "Unmentionables" cosy series begun 2010 by Janet Evanovich.
• Frances "Frankie" Tully is a detective played by Vanessa Gray on the 2008 Nine Network series The Strip.