
28 Mystery Series with a Lady Lead, Chosen By You
This riot recommendation of favorite mystery series with a lady lead is sponsored by Poisoned Pen Press, bringing you Thomas Kies’s Darkness Lane.
The newshound in reporter Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. She is a very human protagonist who stumbles while striving. During the chilling end game she comes to the horrible realization that she’s in over her head. The second novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, hurtles along at a breakneck speed where nothing is what it seems, and where art and reality collide in a terrifying climax.
I don’t think it’s any secret that we here at the Riot have a whole lot of love for Jessica Fletcher. Since yet another month has come and gone without Netflix restoring “Murder, She Wrote” to their catalog, we turned to you to help fill that void. We asked for your favorite mystery series with a lady lead, and you didn’t disappoint us. The following women are just some of the sleuthing dames Riot readers can’t get enough of: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Vicky Bliss, and Jacqueline Kirby Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway Robin Stevens’ Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells Steph Cha’s Juniper Song Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy Schulz Cara Black’s Aimee Leduc J. D. Robb’s Eve Dallas Denise Mina’s Maureen O’Donnell Lisa Gardener’s D. D. Warren Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt Rachel Howzell Hall’s Eloise Norton Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Tamar Myers’ Magdalena Yoder M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin Laurie R. King’s Kate Martinelli Deanna Raybourn’s Lady Julia Grey Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe Kristi Belcamino’s Gia Santella Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Elizabeth George’s Barbara Havers Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski Julie Smith’s Skip Langdon
I don’t think it’s any secret that we here at the Riot have a whole lot of love for Jessica Fletcher. Since yet another month has come and gone without Netflix restoring “Murder, She Wrote” to their catalog, we turned to you to help fill that void. We asked for your favorite mystery series with a lady lead, and you didn’t disappoint us. The following women are just some of the sleuthing dames Riot readers can’t get enough of: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Vicky Bliss, and Jacqueline Kirby Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway Robin Stevens’ Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells Steph Cha’s Juniper Song Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy Schulz Cara Black’s Aimee Leduc J. D. Robb’s Eve Dallas Denise Mina’s Maureen O’Donnell Lisa Gardener’s D. D. Warren Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt Rachel Howzell Hall’s Eloise Norton Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Tamar Myers’ Magdalena Yoder M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin Laurie R. King’s Kate Martinelli Deanna Raybourn’s Lady Julia Grey Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe Kristi Belcamino’s Gia Santella Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Elizabeth George’s Barbara Havers Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski Julie Smith’s Skip Langdon