Dead Husband (2103). Irene Huss is a police detective in novels by Swedish writer Helene Tursten 1998–2007. Books in the series are: Detective Inspector Huss, The Torso, The Glass Devil, Night Rounds, The Golden Calf, The Fire Dance and The Beige Man I Sonya Iverson is a NYC news producer in a series of books by Australian fashion journalist Elsa Klensch begun 2004. Bonnie Indermill is a NYC office temp series by Carole Berry begun 1987. Dr. Maura Isles is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Chief Medical Examiner and a forensic expert working at the Boston Police Department in books by Tess Gerritsen begun The Apprentice 2002; played by Sasha Alexander on TV Rizzoli & Isles 2010–2016. Hannah Ives is a Chesapeake Bay area breast-cancer survivor in series by Marcia Talley begun 1999. Kate Ivory is an Oxford romance writer in series by Veronica Stallwood begun 1994. J Jill Jackson is a Sydney cop in series by Leah Giarratano begun 2007. Bella James is an actress/amateur sleuth in a series of books by Canadian author Alexis Koetting begun 2015. Gemma James is a Scotland Yard detective in a series by American Deborah Crombie begun 1993. Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is an isolated woman, who doesn't accept the police conclusion that a neighbour boy's death is accidental and investigates it herself, in Danish author Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992). Mrs Jeffries is a housekeeper to Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon in Victorian England who leads the staff to solve his cases in a series by Emily Brightwell begun 1993. Jane Jeffry is a Chicago widow with three children who solves murders in a series by Jill Churchill begun 1989. Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) is the Deputy Chief in the Major Crimes Division at Los Angeles TNT series The Closer 2005–2012. Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is an FBI agent on the CBS series Without a Trace 2002–2009. Casey Jones is an unlicensed PI and ex-con, tough and brash, in a series by Katy Munger (co-creator of sexual Tart Noir) begun 1997. Jessica Jones is a New York private detective and journalist and former superhero, the main protagonist of the Marvel comic series Alias (2001–04) and The Pulse (2004–06), and has subsequently appeared in The Avengers and other titles. She is married to Luke Cage. It is notable that most of her back-story is retconned into the history of other characters such