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| Arnaldur Indridason |
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Erlendur Sveinsson: detective inspector, and his colleagues Sigurdur
Oli and Elinborg, in Reykjavik, Iceland |
| A.C. Baantjer |
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Jurrian De Cock (DeKok in US publications): detective inspector
in the police department, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Giles Blunt |
| • |
John Cardinal: detective
near Algonquin Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Stephen Booth |
| • |
Detective Constable Ben
Cooper: trying to fill his police sergeant father’s shoes,
and new partner, Diane Fry, recently transferred to Edendale’s
force, in the Peak District in England |
| Michael Connelly |
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Harry Bosch:
homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Deborah Crombie |
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Duncan Kincaid:
Scotland Yard superintendent, and Gemma James, a sergeant, in London,
England |
| K.J. Erickson |
| • |
Marshall “Mars” Bahr,
nicknamed Candy Man, a detective who serves as a special investigator
reporting directly to the chief of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Jasper Fforde |
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Thursday Next: agent
of the Special Operations Network, Literary Division, in Great Britain |
| • |
Detective Jack Spratt:
investigator in the Nursery Crimes Division, in Reading, England |
| Elizabeth George |
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Thomas Lynley:
Scotland Yard inspector and eighth Earl of Asherton, Sergeant Barbara
Havers, forensic pathologist Simon Allcourt-St. James, his wife Deborah,
and lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England |
| Lee Goldberg |
| • |
Adrian Monk:
obsessive-compulsive police detective, in San Francisco, California,
in the Monk TV novelizations |
| John Harvey |
| • |
Will Grayson:
detective inspector, and Helen Walker, a detective sergeant, in Cambridge,
England |
| • |
Charlie Resnick: jazz-loving
police detective in Nottingham, England |
| Steven F. Havill |
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Bill Gastner: insomniac
undersheriff, and Estelle Reyes-Guzman, later the new undersheriff,
in Posadas County, New Mexico |
| P.D. James |
| • |
Adam Dalgliesh:
critically acclaimed poet and Scotland Yard commander, in London,
England |
| Craig Johnson |
| • |
Walt Longmire: veteran
sheriff in Absaroka, Wyoming |
| Laurie R. King |
| • |
Kate Martinelli:
lesbian homicide detective, and her partner Alonzo Hawkin, in San
Francisco, California |
| Barry Maitland |
| • |
Kathy Kolla: young
Scotland Yard detective, and David Brock, her mentor, in London,
England |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn:
second son of a baronet and police inspector in London, England |
| Archer Mayor |
| • |
Joe Gunther: police detective in Brattleboro, Vermont |
| Brian McGilloway |
| • |
Benedict Devlin:
Garda detective inspector, in the borderlands of Ireland |
| Jo Nesbø |
| • |
Harry Hole: police detective
in Oslo, Norway |
| Håkan Nesser |
| • |
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren:
veteran of 30 years of police work who appreciates fine food and
drink, in a country that resembles Sweden |
| Robert B. Parker |
| • |
Jesse Stone: homicide
detective in Paradise, Massachusetts |
| Louise Penny |
| • |
Armand Gamache: Chief
Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec, in the village
of Three Pines, in southern Quebec, Canada |
| Qiu Xiaolong |
| • |
Chen Cao: Inspector
in the Shanghai, China, Police Department |
| Ian Rankin |
| • |
John Rebus: detective
sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Peter Robinson |
| • |
Alan Banks: Eastvale
detective chief inspector, in Yorkshire, England |
| Andrew Saville (Andrew Taylor) |
| • |
Jim Bergerac:
detective sergeant in the Bureau des Etrangers, on the island of
Jersey in the English Channel, in novelizations of the BBC TV series |
| Jeffrey Siger |
| • |
Andreas Kaldis: former
Athens homicide detective, now the new police chief on Mykonos Island,
Greece |
| Georges Simenon |
| • |
Inspector Maigret:
police inspector in Paris, France, and Madame Maigret, his wife |
| Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
| • |
Martin Beck: police
inspector in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Dana Stabenow |
| • |
Liam Campbell:
Alaskan State Trooper in Newenham, Alaska |
| Michael Stanley |
| • |
David Bengu: large
assistant police superintendent known as “Kubu” (hippopotamus),
in Botswana |
| Josephine Tey |
| • |
Alan Grant:
Scotland Yard Inspector |
| Collin Wilcox |
| • |
Frank
Hastings: Sergeant (later, Lieutenant) co-commander of SFPD
homicide in San Francisco, California |
| • |
McCloud:
New Mexico marshal in New York City |
| R.D. Wingfield |
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Jack Frost: detective
inspector in Denton, England |
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