Bubbles Yablonsky: hairdresser and journalist in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, by Sarah Strohmeyer

Li Yan: Chinese detective, and Margaret Campbell, an American pathologist, in Beijing, China, by Peter May

MacLaren Yarbrough: business-owner turned magistrate in Hopemore, Georgia, in the Thoroughly Southern mysteries, by Patricia Houck Sprinkle

Gil Yates: private investigator, alias Malvin Stark, a nerdy, unsuccessful real estate agent, in Los Angeles, California, by Alistair Boyle

Mike Yeadings: police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, by Clare Curzon

Conrad Yeats, an archeaologist, and Vatican linguist Sister Serena Serghetti, involved in international intrigue, in the Atlantis trilogy by Thomas Greanias

Jane Yeats: Harley-riding journalist and crime writer, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Liz Brady

Giles Yeoman: scientist reluctantly working with British intelligence, by Martin Woodhouse

Magdalena Yoder: owner and manager of a Mennonite Inn in Hernia, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries, by Tamar Myers

Annie Young: 30-someting contract technical writer born in the US, living mostly in Europe, in the Third-Culture Kid mysteries by D-L Nelson

Campbell Young: racetrack-loving homicide detective, later a private investigator, and his friend Priam Harvey, a racetrack journalist, mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by J.D. Carpenter

Simon Young: British businessman and intelligence officer struggling with Chinese and Russian agents, in Hong Kong, by John Trenhaile

Cecil Younger: alcoholic private investigator in Sitka, Alaska, by John Straley

Jack Yu: police detective in Chinatown, New York City, by Henry Chang

Manabu Yukawa (“Detective Galileo”), a brilliant physics professor, and police detective Kusanagi, in Tokyo, Japan, by Keigo Higashino

Shan Tao Yun: Chinese bureaucrat imprisoned in a Himalayan labor camp, by Eliot Pattison