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Pets
(also see Pet Sitters)

Cats | Dogs | Other | Genre Index


Cats

Garrison Allen
  • Penelope Warren: ex-Marine mystery bookstore owner, and Mycroft (Big Mike), a 25 pound Abyssinian, in Empty Creek, Arizon

Marian Babson
  • Non-series mysteries featuring cats

Lilian Jackson Braun
  • Jim Qwilleran: journalist, with cats Koko and Yum Yum in Pickax, northeast central United States

Rita Mae Brown
  • Mary Minor Haristeen: postmistress and her cat, Mrs. Murphy, in Crozet, Virginia

Susan Conant
  • Felicity Pride: author of a mystery series about cats, in Massachusetts

Carole Nelson Douglas
  • Temple Barr: public relations freelancer, and Midnight Louie, tomcat sleuth, in Las Vegas, Nevada

Evan Marshall
  • Jane Stuart: widowed literary agent, and Winky the cat, in Shady Hills, New Jersey

Alex Matthews
  • Cassidy McCabe: psychotherapist, and her calico cat Starshine, in Oak Park, Illinois

Shirley Rousseu Murphy
  • Joe Grey: cat and private investigator

Clea Simon
  • Theda Krakow: cat-loving, freelance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Dogs

Barbara Allan (Barbara and Max Allan Collins)
  • Brandy Borne: recently divorced, now back in her hometown in Iowa, with Sushi, her blind Shih Tzu, in the Trash ’n’ Treasures mysteries

Donna Ball
  • Raine Stockton: retired tracker, and her golden retriever Cisco, in the Smoky Mountains of Hanover County, North Carolina

Carol Lea Benjamin
  • Rachel Alexander: private investigator and dog trainer, and Dashiell, her pit bull, in New York City

Laurien Berenson
  • Melanie Travis: special education teacher who shows her standard poodles in dog shows, in Connecticut

Todd Borg
  • Owen McKenna: ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private investigator, and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at Lake Tahoe, California, and Nevada

Nancy Bush
  • Jane Kelly: reluctant private investigator, and her pug, The Binkster, in Lake Chinook, Oregon

Ann Campbell
  • Annie O’Hara: owner of an antique shop, and Claudius, “the Hound from Hell”

Melissa Cleary
  • Jackie Walsh: professor of film studies, and her ex-police dog, Jake, in Palmer, Ohio

Susan Conant
  • Holly Winter: dog trainer and magazine columnist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Dog Lovers mysteries

Evelyn David
  • Mac Sullivan: retired cop, and Whiskey, his Irish Wolfhound partner, along with Rachel Brenner, a 40-something divorcee and mother of a teenaged son, in Washington, DC

Patricia Guiver
  • Delilah Doolittle: British widow and pet detective, and Watson, her Doberman pinscher, in fictional Surf City (Huntington Beach), California

Gerald Hammond
  • John Cunningham: hunting dog breeder in Scotland

Sue Henry
  • Jessie Arnold: dog sled racer, and Sergeant Alex Jensen, a state trooper, in Anchorage, Alaska,
  • Maxine “Maxie” McNab: 60-something Alaskan widow, exploring the USA in her Winnebago with her faithful companion, miniature dachshund Stretch

Lee Charles Kelley
  • Jack Field: former NYPD detective, retired to run a kennel in Maine

Frank King (Lydia Adamson)
  • Sally Tepper: unemployed actress with five dogs in New York City

Virginia Lanier
  • Jo Beth Sidden: bloodhound trainer and tracker in Georgia

Larry Maness
  • Jake Eaton: private investigator, and Watson, his super-dog, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Leslie O’Kane (Leslie Caine)
  • Allida Babcock: dog therapist in Boulder, Colorado

William Sanders
  • Taggart Roper: freelance writer, living in a trailer with his dog, and moonlighting as a petty criminal, in Oklahoma

Ted Wood
  • Reid Bennett: a police chief, and Sam, a German Shepard, in Murphy’s Harbour, Ontario, Canada

Sue Owens Wright
  • Elsie "Beanie" MacBean: freelance writer and member of the Washoe Tribe, and her basset hound, Cruiser, in South Tahoe, Nevada


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Other

Barbara Block
  • Robin Light: pet store owner in Syracuse, New York

Marie Celine
  • Kitty Karlyle: gourmet chef for pets, in Los Angeles, California

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