Riot Recommendation

Riot Recommendation: What’s Your Favorite Mystery Series with a Lady Lead?

Come tell us about your favorite female-led mystery series, and check back next week for a reader-generated reading list.

María Cristina García Lynch

Staff Writer

María Cristina García lives in New York with her favorite spouse, her favorite toddler, her favorite cat, and her second-favorite cat. When not ranking members of her household, she's catching up on Supergirl, strumming her mandolin, or trying to beat the clock on her library loans. Twitter: @MeowyCristina Blog: MeowyCristina.com

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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 another month has come and gone without Netflix restoring “Murder, She Wrote” to their catalog, we’re turning to you: please tell us your favorite mystery series with a lady lead! Bring on the sleuthing dames. We’re so ready.