A modern nurse detective is British nurse Kate Kinsella, in the series by Christine Green. Kate opens an investigation agency (her late, rather dim boyfriend was a detective, so how hard can it be?), optimistically expecting to function as "a cross between Mata Hari and a young version of Miss Marple" (Deadly Errand).

Kate frequently feels a financial pinch and works part-time as a nurse to pay the bills when the snoop business isn't booming. She rents an office above a funeral parlor, and her landlord, undertaker and foot fetishist Hubert Humberstone, frequently helps in her investigations. Kate is thirty-ish and red-haired, single, and can often be found downing a pint at the local pub.

Deadly Errand, 1991
Kate investigates the stabbing murder of an unpopular and secretive young nurse at run-down St. Dymphna's Hospital, where she takes takes a temporary nursing job to snoop for suspects, with help from Hubert Humberstone. [Available at Amazon.com]

Deadly Admirer, 1992
The police think she's unstable and paranoid, so frightened nurse Vanessa Wootten hires Kate to track down the stalker she claims has been threatening her--a task that involves delving into family secrets. [Available at Amazon.com]

Deadly Practice, 1994
After the dead body of a young nurse is found bundled into a car trunk, Kate does double duty--stepping into the nurse's job at a doctors' office and looking for the murderer, who's responsible for more than just one corpse. [Available at Amazon.com]

Deadly Partners, 1996
A phone call sends Kate to look for a missing man last seen at the hotel he owned with a partner on the Isle of Wight; on the way there, Kate meets a woman eager to help in the investigation--until she's inconveniently bludgeoned to death early one morning. [Available at Amazon.com]

Deadly Bond, 2002
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Deadly Echo, 2003
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