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France Mysteries
Marvin Albert
  • Pete (Pierre-Ange, Stone Angel) Sawyer: French-American private investigator in Paris, France

Delano Ames
  • Dagobert Brown: sometime researcher and writer and his wife Jane, living in southern France

Cara Black
  • Aimee Leduc: owner of a detective agency specializing in corporate security, in Paris, France

Norman Bogner
  • Michel Danton: police detective in the south of France

Michael Bond
  • Aristide Pamplemousse: gourmet restaurant guide inspector, and his bloodhound Pommes Frites, in Paris, France

Gyles Brandreth
  • Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France

John Dickson Carr
  • Henri Bencolin: juge d’instruction (examining magistrate) in Paris, France

Barbara Cleverly
  • Leatitia Talbot: archeologist based in post-WWI France

Carole Nelson Douglas
  • Irene Adler: opera star and sleuth in 19th Century France

Quinn Fawcett (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett)
  • Mme. Victoire Vernet: the French wife of a Napoleonic gerdarme

Alan Furst
  • Jean Casson: film producer caught up in the Resistance during WWII, in German-occupied Paris, France

Bruce Graeme
  • William Stevens, a Scotland Yard inspector in London, England, and Pierre Allain, an agent in the Sûreté in Paris, France

David Graeme (Bruce Graeme)
  • Monsieur Blackshirt: Richard Verrell’s 17th-century ancestor in France

Mark Hebden
  • Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel: Chief Inspector of the Brigade Criminelle of the Police Judiciaire, in Burgundy, France (series continued by daughter Juliet Hebden)

Jane Jakeman
  • Cecil Galant: examining magistrate in Cannes, France

J. Robert Janes
  • Jean-Louis St. Cyr: officer in the French Sûreté Nationale, and Herman Kohler, a Gestapo agent, based in 1940s Paris, France
Marne Davis Kellogg
  • Kick Keswick: who worked for an auction house in London, England, for 30 years, and was a master jewel thief, now retired to Provence, France

Pierre Magnan
  • Commissaire Laviolette: police detective in Provence, France
  • Séraphin Monge: orphan returning to his hometown after WWI, in Provence, France

Peter May
  • Enzo Macleod: Scottish biologist based in France

Tom Mitcheltree
  • Grant Reynolds: former Boston homicide detective, now a field investigator for the U.S. Legal Attaché office, in Paris, France

Sharan Newman
  • Catherine LeVendeur: novice and scholar in 12th century France

Charles O’Brien
  • Anne Cartier: ex-vaudeville actress, then a tutor for deaf children, in England and France on the eve of the French Revolution

Martin O’Brien
  • Daniel Jacquot: former rugby player, now a homicide chief inspector, in Marseilles, France
Anna Shone
  • Ulysses Finnegan Donaghue: Shakespeare scholar and private eye in Provence, France

Georges Simenon
  • Inspector Maigret: police inspector in Paris, France, and Madame Maigret, his wife

Fred Vargas
  • Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg: commissioner of police (chief inspector), in Paris, France
  • Marc Vandoosler, Lucien Devernois, and Matthias Delamarre, three students, and ex-policeman Ludwig Kelweihler, in France

Michelle Wan
  • Mara Dunn: French-Canadian interior decorator, relocated to the Dordogne region in southwestern France

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