Law & Order creator Dick Wolf has been handed the green light to make a pilot for NBC, Variety reports.

Lost And Found is based around an offbeat female detective with a knack for identifying anonymous murder victims.

Chris Levinson, a veteran of the Law & Order franchise, will script the pilot. She is also acting as executive producer with Wolf, Nena Rodrigue and Peter Jankowski.

Levinson has also worked on Charmed, Tru Calling and Dawson's Creek.