I don’t have one favorite, but my top contenders are:[ul][]Deputy U.S. Marshall Mary Shannon (In Plain Sight)[]Lieutenant Eve Dallas, NYPSD (J.D. Robb’s -in Death series)[]Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD (Castle)[]Detective Carson O’ Connor, NOPD (Dean Koontz’s Frankensten trilogy)And one who isn’t tough at all, but still on my favorites list: Bail Agent Stephanie Plum, of Trenton NJ, (series by Janet Evanovich), the most hilariously amateur bounty hunter on the East Coast.[/ul]
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[li]And one who isn’t tough at all, but still on my favorites list: Bail Agent Stephanie Plum, of Trenton NJ, (series by Janet Evanovich), the most hilariously amateur bounty hunter on the East Coast.[/list][/li][/QUOTE]
Yep, she’s my favorite.
I’ll add Faith Yokas, NYPD, from Third Watch.
DCI Jane Tennison, Prime Suspect
V I Warshovsky, but I might be misspelling the name. Very hard boiled.
Gag me and lay me - Cagney and Lacey
Myka from Warehouse 13 makes my list, but the Diva of the genre is Angie Dickinson as “Pepper” in Police Woman.
My penis just puked. not semen, actual vomit!
Karrin Murphy of the Dresden Files ( novels ).
Fisher of Simon Green’s Hawk and Fisher series.
Private detective Victoria Nelson of Tanya Huff’s Blood series.
She was awesome.
OK, you win the prize for Most Bizarre Post I’ve Seen Today. I totally don’t get what you’re saying here…you think Pepper was unattractive? Why?
Ziva David(NCIS), hands down.
In my mind I see Robert Blake with a blonde wig slapped on top.
Does Clarice Starling count? If so, she’s my pick.
I third Faith Yokas from NYPD Blue. She was my favorite.
I’m proud to be the first to mention Emma Peel.
And don’t forget Honey West.
When she kicks real high! - Al Bundy.
No one can hold a candle to the goddess that is Lt. Van Buren.
I get it. Even by the time of that show she was pretty long in the tooth. She looked like she had plastic surgery, and I don’t even know if plastic surgery was around back then. She also looked like a 50 year old dressing like a 20 year old.
Sergeant Angua, Ankh-Morpork Watch. She’d be one if the toughest even if she weren’t a werewolf.
Does Batgirl count?