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The Lucas Davenport novels by John Sandford.
Lucas Davenport is the Assistant Chief of Police in Minneapolis. While in college, he was into board games and developed his own games. While a beat cop, he designed and sold a video police training program making him wealthy. He started his own video game business and sold it for $40 million. He remained a cop and takes on the most difficult cases in the city.

The Kendra Michaels series by Iris Johansen. Kendra was born blind and when she was a teenager her mother, a professor at UC Dan Diego, was able to get Kendra into a stem cell test program, in England, which gave her her vision. Kendra's new vision led her to a hedonistic lifestyle but after a couple of years she obtained a degree in psychology. What sets her apart is Kendra sees things others miss and as a result the police asks her to help them with their cases. During an investigation, she meets an FBI agent and slowly they fall in love. This is a crime mystery series and Kendra's abilities makes for humorous and insightful observations.