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Paranormal
Ghosts, Psychics, etc.
(see also Vampires) |
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| Ben Aaronovitch |
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Peter Grant: police constable, apprentice wizard, and all round nice guy, in London, England, in the Rivers of London urban fantasy series |
| P.J. Alderman |
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Jordan Marsh: prime
suspect in her husband’s murder, who leaves Los Angeles to restore
a Victorian house with two ghosts, in fictional Port Chatham, Washington |
| Madelyn Alt |
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Maggie O’Neill:
antique shop clerk, and her employer Felicity Dow, in Stony Mill,
Indiana, in the Bewitching mysteries |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
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Dan Shamble: zombie private investigator at Shamble & Die (Chambeaux & Deyer) Investigations, in the Big Uneasy |
| Barbra Annino |
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Stacy Justice: 20-something reluctant witch working as a reporter, and her Great Dane Thor, in fictional Amethyst, Illinois |
| Nancy Atherton |
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Aunt Dimity: romantic ghost in England |
| Juliet Blackwell |
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Lily Ivory: a witch running a vintage clothing store, Aunt Cora’s Closet, in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the Witchcraft mysteries |
| Heather Blake (Heather Webber) |
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Carly Bell Hartwell: owner of Little Shop of Potions in Hitching Post, Alabama, in the Magic Potion mysteries |
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Darcy Merriweather, from a long line of witches who can cast spells by making a wish, in the Enchanted Village section of Salem, Massachusetts, in the Wishcraft mysteries |
| Susan M. Boyer |
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Liz Talbot: private investigator with a ghostly sidekick, in fictional Stella Maris, South Carolina |
| Barbara Bretton |
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Chloe Hobbs: half-human, half-sorceress, owner of a knitting shop, in Sugar Maple, Vermont |
| Jim Butcher |
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Harry Dresden: the
only wizard listed in the yellow pages in Chicago, Illinois, in the
Dresden Files |
| Meg Cabot |
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Meena Harper:
young soap opera writer who can foresee how people will die, in New
York City |
| Mike Carey |
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Felix Castor: free-lance
exorcist, in supernatural fantasy thrillers set in London, England |
| Bailey Cates (Cricket McRae) |
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Katie Lightfoot, a novice witch and professional baker working at her aunt and uncle's bakery, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magical Bakery mysteries |
| Helen Chappell |
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Hollis Ball: reporter,
and Sam Wescott, her ex-husband’s ghost, in Maryland |
| Manning Coles (written as Francis Gaite) |
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Charles and James
Latimer: ghosts of English and American cousins
killed in the Franco-Prussian War (1870s) |
| J.J. Cook (Joyce & Jim Lavene) |
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Stella Griffin: a former Chicago fire fighter, now the fire chief for Sweet Pepper, Tennessee, along with the ghost of former fire chief Eric Gamlyn, in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade mysteries |
| E.J. Copperman (Jeffrey Cohen) |
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Alison Kerby:
guesthouse owner with two unexpected guests (ghosts) in her newly
acquired Jersey Shore Victorian, in the Haunted Guesthouse mysteries |
| Catherine Dain |
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Mariana Morgan: psychic healer, in Los Angeles, California, in
the New Age mysteries |
| Shirley Damsgaard |
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Ophelia Jensen: a
reluctant witch who is a librarian, and her grandmother Abby, in
a small town in Iowa |
| Casey Daniels |
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Pepper Martin: tour
guide at a cemetery, who can talk with a mob boss ghost, in Cleveland,
Ohio |
| Jana DeLeon |
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Maryse Robicheaux:
a botanist researcher whose husband absconded, the wisecracking ghost
of her mother-in-law Helena Henry, and her friend Sabine LeVeche,
in Mudbug, Louisiana, in the Ghost-in-Law Mystery Romance series |
| Laurel Dewey |
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Jane Perry: police detective, later a private investigator dealing with hauntings and demons, in Denver and elsewhere in Colorado |
| Alice Duncan |
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Daisy Gumm Majesty:
medium to the rich and famous in 1920s Pasadena, California |
| Rosemary Edghill |
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Karen Hightower:
(aka Bast), a white witch and graphic designer in New York City |
| Christy Fifield (Christina F. York) |
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Glory Martine, inheriting her great-uncle’s souvenir shop, including ghosts, in Keyhole Bay, Florida, in the Haunted Souvenir Shop mysteries |
| Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily |
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Ariel Quigley:
college English teacher with psychic powers, in Alexandria, Virginia |
| Amanda Flower |
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Fiona Knox, after losing her fiancé and her flower shop, inherits her godfather’s cottage and magical garden, in Duncreigan, Scotland, in the Magic Garden mysteries |
| Yasmine Galenorn |
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Emerald O’Brien: tea shop owner and psychic, in the Chintz’n
China Mysteries |
| Randall Garrett |
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Lord Darcy: Chief
Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, in contemporary times of an
alternative history Anglo-French empire where the laws of magic prevail |
| David L. Golemon |
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Jack Collins,
and other operatives in the Event Group, the most secret US agency
ever, in a science fiction–paranormal–thriller series |
| Heather Graham |
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The Flynn Brothers:
private investigators inheriting a haunted mansion in New Orleans,
Louisiana |
| Andrew M. Greeley |
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Nuala Anne
McGrail: young Irish immigrant psychic and singer in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Kate Green |
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Theresa Fortunato: tarot-reading
psychic, and Oliver Jardine, a police detective, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Jackie Griffey |
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Maggie Murphy: recently
widowed 24-year-old, whose dead husband’s ghost Horace hangs
around, and patrolman Joe Driver, in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Charlaine Harris |
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Harper
Connelly: lightning survivor who can find
bodies, and her stepbrother Tolliver, in Sarne, Arkansas |
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Sookie
Stackhouse: cocktail waitress and telepath, and her vampire
boyfriend, Bill, in small town Louisiana, in the Southern Vampire
mysteries |
| Carolyn Hart |
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Bailey Ruth
Raeburn, who
dies during a storm and then returns as a ghost to help solve crime
in her hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma |
| Daniel Hecht |
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Cree Black: parapsychologist
with a haunted past in Seattle, Washington |
| Patty G. Henderson |
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Brenda Strange:
lesbian private investigator of the weird, in Tampa, Florida |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian |
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Emma
Whitecastle: a divorced mom, and the ghost of her pie-baking
great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples, amateur sleuths |
| Darynda Jones |
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Charlotte “Charley” Davidson:
part-time private investigator helping the police with her ability
to contact the dead in her full-time role as the Grim Reaper, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a paranormal romantic suspense series |
| Sofie Kelly |
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Kathleen Paulson, a
librarian from Boston, and two stray cats with special powers, Owen
and Hercules, in fictional Mayville Heights, Minnesota, in the Magical
Cats mysteries |
| Alice Kimberly |
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Penelope
Thornton-McClure: bookshop owner, and Jack Shepard, the store’s
resident ghost-sleuth, in Quindicott, Rhode Island, in the Haunted
Bookshop mysteries |
| Dean R. Koontz |
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Odd Thomas: fry cook
who can communicate with the dead, in the fictional small town of
Pico Mundo, California |
| Jayne Ann Krentz |
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Arcane Society:
secret organization devoted to paranormal research |
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Zoe Luce: psychic interior decorator in Whispering Springs, Arizona |
| Victoria Laurie |
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Abby Cooper: “Psychic
Eye” in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, later Austin, Texas |
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M.J. Holliday:
medium and ghostbuster, and her partner Gilley, in the Ghost Hunter
mysteries |
| Joyce and Jim Lavene |
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Dae O’Donnell:
the mayor of the small town of Duck, North Carolina, who runs a collectible
shop and uses her psychic abilities to find lost things, in the Missing
Pieces mysteries |
| Martha Lawrence |
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Dr. Elizabeth Chase:
Stanford-trained parapsychologist turned private investigator, in
San Diego, California |
| Maria Lima |
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Keira Kelly:
half-breed descendant of a powerful paranormal family
living among humans in Rio Seco, Texas |
| Lizbeth Lipperman |
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Elaina (Lainey) Garcia: talk-show host, and the ghost of her sister Tessa, in Grapevine, Texas, in the Dead Sister Talking mysteries |
| T.J. MacGregor |
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Mira Morales:
bookstore owner and psychic, in Tango Key, Florida |
| Molly MacRae |
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Kath Rutledge: a textile preservationist, inheriting her grandmother’s wool shop, along with a depressed ghost, in fictional Blue Plum, Tennessee, in the Haunted Yarn Shop series |
| P.D. Martin |
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Sophie Anderson: transplanted
Australian who has premonitions working as an FBI profiler, based
in Quantico, Virginia |
| Judi McCoy |
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Ellie Engleman: professional
dog walker who communicates psychically with dogs, her adopted Yorkie
Rudy, and her sometime boyfriend police detective Sam Ryder, in Manhattan,
New York City, in the Dog Walker mysteries |
| Chaz McGee (Katy Munger) |
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Kevin Fahey,
a dead former second-rate cop, mediocre husband, and absent father,
in the Dead Detective series |
| Barbara Michaels (Elizabeth Peters) |
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Books of
suspense, often with supernatural overtones |
| Laura Morrigan |
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Grace Wilde: animal behaviorist who can communicate psychically with animals, in Florida, in the Call of the Wilde series |
| Kris Neri |
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Samantha Brennan: fake
psychic, and Annabelle Haggerty, FBI agent and true psychic, in Los
Angeles, California |
| Sharon Pape |
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Rory (Aurora) McCain:
former police sketch artist, now a private investigator sharing a
house with the ghost of Federal Marshal Zeke (Ezekiel) Drummond in
Huntington, Long Island, New York, in the Portrait of Crime mysteries |
| Don Pendleton |
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Aston Ford:
former naval intelligence officer, now a psychic private investigator |
| Leigh Perry (Toni L.P. Kelner) |
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Georgia Thackery: English professor who moves back into her parents’ house with her teenaged daughter and discovers a skeleton named Sid already in residence, in the Family Skeleton mysteries |
| Manjiri Prabhu |
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Sonia Someth: owner
of Stellar Investigations Detective Agency, and a master of Verdic
astrology, in Pune, India |
| Dolores Stewart Riccio |
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Cass (Cassandra)
Shipton: owner of Earthlore Herbal Preparations and Cruelty-Free
Cosmetics, and a member of a study group turned coven, in Plymouth,
Massachusetts |
| Kat Richardson |
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Harper Blaine: private
investigator who can see ghosts, zombies, and the like, after being
dead for two minutes, in Seattle, Washington, in the Greywalker series |
| Wendy Roberts |
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Sadie Novak: former
teacher now running Scene-2-Clean, a cleaning company specializing
in cleaning up death scenes, in Seattle, Washington, in the Ghost
Dusters series |
| Michelle Rowen |
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Sarah Dearly: a fledgling vampire working with master vampire Thierry de Bennicoeur, an agent of the Ring, policing vampires worldwide, in the Immortality Bites mysteries |
| Elena Santangelo |
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Pat Montella:
whose sleuthing is aided by her ability see and hear ghosts, on an
estate near Fredericksburg, Virginia |
| Shari Shattuck |
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Greer Sands:
psychic and massage therapist with a teenage son, in fictional Shadow
Hills, in the mountains above Los Angeles, California |
| George D. Shuman |
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Sherry Moore: blind
psychic who can relive a murder victim’s last moments, based
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Clea Simon |
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Dulcie Schwartz:
Harvard doctoral candidate living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
the ghost of her cat Mr. Grey |
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Pru Marlowe:
animal psychic returning to her hometown in the Berkshires, New York |
| Rochelle Staab |
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Liz Cooper: clinical psychologist who is skeptical about the paranormal, in Los Angeles, California, in the Mind for Murder mysteries |
| Mary Stanton (Claudia Bishop) |
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Brianna Winston-Beaufort:
a lawyer who inherits a haunted law firm, in Savannah, Georgia, in
the Beaufort & Co. series |
| Simone St. James |
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Non-series historical ghost stories set in 1920s England |
| Jane Tesh |
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David Randall: private
detective, and his psychic friend Camden, in Parkland, North Carolina,
in the Grace Street mysteries |
| Maggie Toussaint |
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Baxley Powell: landscaper and pet-sitter with “dreamwalking” powers, assisting the county sheriff, in Georgia, in the Dreamwalker mysteries |
| Kari Lee Townsend |
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Sunny Meadows: fortune teller leaving New York City for rural Divinity, in upstate New York, in the Fortune Teller mysteries |
| Peggy Webb |
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Elvis Presley: reincarnated
as a basset hound, Callie Valentine Jones, a hairdresser at her Uncle
Charlie’s mortuary, and Lovie, a caterer, near Tupelo, Mississippi,
in the Southern Cousins mysteries |
| Heather Webber |
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Lucy Valentine:
the black sheep of a psychic matchmaking family, now running the
family business, Valentine, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Carolyn Wells |
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Pennington “Penny” Wise:
psychic private investigator, and his female sidekick Zizi, in
New York City and New England |
| Karen White |
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Melanie Middleton: inheriting an historic home with ghosts, in Charleston, South Carolina |
| Collin Wilcox |
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Stephen Drake:
newspaper reporter with ESP in San Francisco, California |
| Sarah Zettel |
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Charlotte Caine: chef
running Nightlife, a restaurant serving the undead in New York City,
in the Vampire Chef mysteries |
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