|
| Sparkle Abbey |
| • |
Caro Lamont, a pet therapist, and her cousin Melinda Langston, owner of The Bow Wow Boutique, in Laguna Beach, California, in the Pampered Pets mysteries |
| Alex Abella |
| • |
Charlie Morell: Cuban-American
private investigator turned lawyer in Los Angeles, California |
| J. L. Abramo |
| • |
Jake Diamond: private
investigator who is more over-easy than hard-boiled, in San Francisco,
California |
| Cleve F. Adams |
| • |
Rex McBride: private
eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Kevin Allman |
| • |
Kieran O’Connor:
freelance journalist in Hollywood, California |
| Cynthia G. Alwyn |
| • |
Brenna Scott:
head of a search team that uses specially trained dogs in Sacramento,
California |
| Jeff Andrus |
| • |
John Tracer: family-man
sleuth in Monterey, California |
| David Anthony |
| • |
Stanley Bass: professional
gambler in southern California |
| Jennifer Apodaca |
| • |
Samantha Shaw:
suburban housewife and soccer mom in Southern California |
| Miles Archer |
| • |
Doug McCool: Vietnam
vet and process server in San Francisco, California |
| William Babula |
| • |
Jeremiah St. John:
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Lise S. Baker |
| • |
Cal Brantley: female
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| John Ball |
| • |
Virgil Tibb: homicide
detective in Pasadena, California |
| Dallas Barnes |
| • |
John Stryker: detective
sergeant in Los Angeles, California |
| Richard Barre |
| • |
Wil Hardestyl:
Vietnam Vet private investigator in Los Angles, California |
| Joan Bartlett |
| • |
Berrien Gamble: co-owner
of the Nice Skates Ice Arena and an amateur sleuth, in the fictitious
costal town of Portugal, 40 miles south of San Francisco, California |
| Dan Barton |
| • |
Biff Kincaid: stand-up
comedian turned amateur sleuth in Los Angeles, California (right
below the Hollywood sign) |
| Milton Bass |
| • |
Vinnie Altobelli: ex-cop
coronary survivor P.I. in San Bernadino, California |
| • |
Benny Freedman:
private eye in San Diego, California in San Bernadino, California |
| Karen Grigsby Bates |
| • |
Alex (Alexa) Powell: African-American newspaper columnist
in Los Angeles, California |
| George Baxt |
| • |
Jacob Singer: 1940s
Hollywood private eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Maegan Beaumont |
| • |
Sabrina Vaughn: homicide detective (and former teenage abduction victim) in San Francisco, California |
| David Berlinski |
| • |
Aaron Asherfield: cynical investigator with 3 ex-wives in San Francisco, California |
| Karin Berne |
| • |
Ellie Gordon: law
firm office manager in Orange County, California |
| Baron R. Birtcher |
| • |
Mike Travis:
newly retired cop, building a charter sailing business in Los Angeles,
California |
| Paul Bishop |
| • |
Fey Croaker: a 40-something
homicide cop in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Calico Jack Walker:ex-patrol
cop, and Tina Tamiko, his former rookie partner, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Saul Black |
| • |
Valerie Hart: homicide detective in San Francisco, California |
| Juliet Blackwell |
| • |
Lily Ivory: a
witch running a vintage clothing store, Aunt Cora’s Closet,
where she can feel vibrations of the past, in San Francisco, California,
in the Witchcraft mysteries |
| Meredith Blevins |
| • |
Annie Szabo:writer
and mother, and Madam Mina, a fortune-teller and head of Annie’s late husband’s gypsy clan, in California |
| Jack Bludis |
| • |
Brian Kane: private
eye in Hollywood, California |
| Todd Borg |
| • |
Owen McKenna: ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private
investigator, and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at Lake Tahoe,
California, and Nevada |
| Mark Bouton |
| • |
Rick Dover: homicide
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Alistair Boyle |
| • |
Gil Yates: private
investigator, alias Malvin Stark, a nerdy, unsuccessful real estate
agent in Los Angeles, California |
| Jon Breen |
| • |
Jerry Brogan: track announcer
at Surfside Meadows in California |
| • |
Rachel Hennings:
bookstore owner in Los Angeles, California |
| Kate Bryan |
| • |
Maggie Maguire: ex-Pinkerton
agent in 1870s San Francisco, California |
| Carter Brown |
| • |
Larry Baker:
screenwriter, and his perpetually drunk partner Boris
Slivka, in Hollywood, California |
| • |
Rick Holman:
private investigator, in Hollywood, California |
| • |
Randy Roberts:
lawyer in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Al Wheeler:
sheriff’s
homicide investigator, in fictional Pine County, near Los Angeles,
California |
| Jan Burke |
| • |
Irene Kelly:
newspaper reporter in southern California |
| Max Byrd |
| • |
Mike Halle: private
eye specializing in missing persons in San Francisco, California |
| Hamilton T. Caine (Stephen Smoke) |
| • |
Ace Carpenter:
private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| James Calder |
| • |
Bill Damen: filmmaker
turned sleuth in Santa Clara, California |
| Robert Campbell |
| • |
Whistler:
sentimental private eye in Hollywood, California |
| Stephen J. Cannell |
| • |
Shane Scully: police sergeant in Los Angeles, California |
| Taffy Cannon |
| • |
Roxanne Prescott:
in Williamsburg, Virginia, and then San Diego, California |
| • |
Nan Robinson:
State Bar Investigator in California |
| Kate Carlisle |
| • |
Brooklyn Wainwright:
a rare book expert in San Francisco, California, in the Bibliophile
mysteries |
| Grace Carroll (Carol Culver) |
| • |
Rita Jewel, selling clothes and accessories to socialites at Dolce's Boutique, in San Francisco, California, in the Accessories mysteries |
| Sally Carpenter |
| • |
Sandy Fairfax: a ’70s teen idol, now 38 years old and making a comeback, in 1990s southern California |
| Michael Castleman |
| • |
Ed Rosenberg: newspaper reporter for the Foghorn, in San Francisco, California |
| Marie Celine |
| • |
Kitty Karlyle:
gourmet pet chef in Los Angeles, California |
| Peter Chambers |
| • |
Mark Preston: private
investigator in Monkton City, California |
| David Champion |
| • |
Bomber Hanson: ace
trial lawyer, and his son and investigator, Tod, based in fictional
Angleton, on the central coast of California |
| Raymond Chandler |
| • |
Philip
Marlowe: private eye on the “mean streets” of Los
Angeles, California |
| Leonard Chang |
| • |
Allen Choice: Korean-American
Silicon Valley investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Sally Chapman |
| • |
Juliet Blake: computer
fraud investigator in Silicon Valley, California |
| Carol Culver |
| • |
Hanna Denton, returning home to take over her grandmother’s pie shop, in fictional Crystal Cove, California, in the Pie Shop mysteries |
| James Hadley Chase |
| • |
Vic Malloy:
private investigator in California |
| Thomas Chastain |
| • |
Perry Mason, defense attorney in Los Angeles, California |
| Margaret Chittenden |
| • |
Charlie Plato:
country-western tavern owner in San Francisco, California |
| Carol Higgins Clark |
| • |
Regan
Reilly: private eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Marcia Clark |
| • |
Rachel Knight: 30-something
deputy DA in the Special Trials Unit, in Los Angeles, California |
| Mark Coggins |
| • |
August Riordan:
jazz bass-playing private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Jodi Compton |
| • |
Hailey Cain: 23-year-old
West Point dropout, San Francisco bike messenger, later second in
command in a gang in Los Angeles, California |
| Michael Connelly |
| • |
Harry Bosch:
homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Mickey Haller:
lawyer in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Terry McCaleb:
former FBI man recuperating from a heart transplant, in Los Angeles,
California |
| • |
Jack McEvoy:
reporter, and Rachel Walling, an FBI agent, in Denver, Colorado,
and Los Angeles, California |
| Rick Copp |
| • |
Jarrod Jarvis: former child-star and gay amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California, and London, England |
| Basil Copper |
| • |
Mike Faraday: hard-boil
private eye who quotes Herrick in Los Angeles, California |
| Lucha Corpi |
| • |
Gloria Damasco:
Hispanic detective in San Francisco Bay area in California Brown Angel Mystery |
| Miles Corwin |
| • |
Ash Levine: former Israeli paratrooper and top detective in the elite LAPD Felony Squad, in Los Angeles, California |
| Elizabeth Cosin |
| • |
Zen Moses: private
investigator and cancer survivor in Santa Monica, California |
| Matt Coyle |
| • |
Rick Cahill: former Santa Barbara cop falsely accused of killing his wife, now a private investigator in the San Diego suburb, La Jolla, California |
| Michael Craft |
| • |
Claire Gray:
theatrical director in Palm Springs, California |
| Cheryl Crane |
| • |
Nikki Harper: celebrity realtor and amateur sleuth, in Hollywood, California |
| John Crowe (Dennis Lynds) |
| • |
Lee Beckett:
private investigator in Buena Costa County, California |
| Laura Crum |
| • |
Gail McCarthy: veterinarian
in the Santa Cruz Equine Practice, in Santa Cruz, California |
| E.V. Cunningham |
| • |
Masao Masuto:
private investigator in Beverly Hills, California |
| Stan Cutler |
| • |
Rayford Goodman: jaded, once-famous private investigator, and Mark Bradley, a gay writer of celebrity biographies, in Los Angeles, California |
| Carol Culver |
| • |
Hanna Denton, returning home to take over her grandmother’s pie shop, in fictional Crystal Cove, California, in the Pie Shop mysteries |
| Don Dahler |
| • |
Huck Doyle: pro golfer
and non-practicing lawyer working as a private investigator, in Los
Angeles, California |
| Catherine Dain |
| • |
Faith Cassidy: actress-turned-therapist,
in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Mariana Morgan: psychic healer, in Los Angeles, California |
| Christopher Darden |
| • |
Nicolette
(Nikki) Hill: 30-something black prosecutor in Los Angeles,
California (by Dick Lochte and Christopher Darden) |
| Kenn Davis |
| • |
Carver Bascombe: black
poet and private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
| Kyra Davis |
| • |
Sophie Katz: half-Black, half-Jewish mystery writer, in San Francisco, California |
| Thomas D. Davis |
| • |
Dave Strickland:
private investigator in San Jose, California |
| Janet Dawson |
| • |
Jeri Howardi: private
investigator in Oakland, California |
| Dianne Day |
| • |
Fremont Jones: owner
of a typewriter service in San Francisco, California at the turn
of the century |
| David Debin |
| • |
Albie Marx: ex-60's
radical and a columnist for a radical magazine in the 90s in Los
Angeles, California |
| John DeCure |
| • |
J. Shepard: lawyer
who surfs in Christianitos, California |
| Kathleen Delaney |
| • |
Mary McGill: retired school teacher and her cocker spaniel Millie, in a small town in California |
| • |
Ellie McKenzie: newly certified real estate agent returning to
her old hometown of Santa Louisa, California |
| Daniel Depp |
| • |
David Spandau: former
movie stuntman, now a private investigator who specializes in serving
Hollywood’s elite, in Los Angeles, California |
|
| Thomas B. Dewey |
| • |
Mac: ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois, and later in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Pete Schofield: private investigator, and his wife Jeannie, in Los Angeles, California |
| Alice Duncan |
| • |
Mercy Allcutt: former
Boston Brahmin, working for a down-on-his luck private investigator,
in 1920s Hollywood, California |
| • |
Daisy Gumm Majesty:
medium to the rich and famous in 1920s Pasadena, California |
| Susan Dunlap |
| • |
Vejay Haskell:
Pacific Gas & Electric meter reader, in northern California |
| • |
Darcy Lott:
movie stuntwoman and Zen practitioner, in northern California |
| • |
Kiernan
O’Shaughnessy: former San Francisco medical examiner
turned private investigator in La Jolla California |
| • |
Jill Smith: homicide
detective in Berkeley, California |
| Joan M. Drury |
| • |
Tyler Jones: lesbian
feminist newspaper columnist, based in San Francisco, California |
| Lesley Egan (Elizabeth Linington) |
| • |
Jesse Falkenstein:
lawyer in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Vic
Varallo: small-town cop who moves to Glendale, California |
| Robert Ellis |
| • |
Lena Gamble: young
police detective just promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division,
in Los Angeles, California |
| James Ellroy |
| • |
Lloyd Hopkins:
detective sergeant in Los Angeles, California |
| Ron Ely |
| • |
Sands, Jake: retired
salvage agent and finder of lost things in Santa Barbara, California |
| Dianne Emley |
| • |
Nan Vining: homicide
detective along with her partner, Jim Kissick, and single mom to
Emily, in Pasadena, California |
| Robert Eversz |
| • |
Nina Zero: smart,
sexy photographer in California |
| Terence Faherty |
| • |
Scott Elliott:
1940s failed actor turned PI in Hollywood, California |
| Jerrilyn Farmer |
| • |
Madeline Bean: caterer
in Hollywood, California |
| Christa Faust |
| • |
Angel Dare: retired
porn star running Daring Angels, an adult modeling agency, in Van
Nuys, California |
| G.G. Fickling |
| • |
Honey West: private eye combination of Marilyn Monroe and Mike Hammer, mostly in southern California |
| Anthony Flacco |
| • |
Shane Nightingale:
12-year-old orphaned in the 1906 earthquake, and Randall Blackburn,
a homicide detective who adopts him, in San Francisco, California |
| Elaine Flinn |
| • |
Molly Doyle: antique
dealer in Carmel, California |
| Katherine V. Forrest |
| • |
Kate Delafield:
lesbian homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Rebecca Forster |
| • |
Josie Baylor-Bates:
criminal defense lawyer in greater Los Angeles, California, in the
Witness series |
| Earlene Fowler |
| • |
Albenia “Benni” Harper:
ex-rancher and folk art museum curator in San Celina, California |
| • |
Ruby McGavin, inheriting a ranch in fictional Tokopah County, California, in a suspenseful family saga |
| Sunny Frazier |
| • |
Christy Bristol:
amateur astrologer who works as a secretary in a sheriff’s
substation, in the San Joaquin Valley of California |
| Gwen Freeman |
| • |
Fifi Cutter: bi-racial,
20-something, freelance insurance investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| James N. Frey |
| • |
Joe Zanca: ex-boxer
private investigator working for The Agency, in San Francisco, California |
| Scott Frost |
| • |
Alex Delillo: police detective lieutenant in Pasadena, California |
| Dale Furutani |
| • |
Ken Tanaka:
computer programmer in Los Angeles, California |
| Eric Garcia |
| • |
Vince Rubio: velociraptor
and private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Meg Gardiner |
| • |
Jo Beckett: forensic
psychiatrist in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Evan Delaney:
adventurous young woman in Santa Barbara, California |
| Erle Stanley Gardner |
| • |
Perry Mason:
defense attorney in Los Angeles, California |
| William Campbell Gault |
| • |
Brock
(The Rock) Callahan: former professional football player turned
upscale private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Joe Puma:
big, tough private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Daryl Wood Gerber |
| • |
Jenna Hart: avid reader, admitted foodie, and owner of a cookbook store in the fictional coastal town of Crystal Cove, California, in the Cookbook Nook mysteries |
| Tony Gibbs |
| • |
Neal Donahoe: Harbor
Patrol Officer in Santa Barbara, California |
| • |
Tory Lennox: U.S.
Coast Guard Lieutenant in Santa Barbara, California |
| Jaqueline Girdner |
| • |
Kate Jasper:
gag-gift wholesaler in Marin County, California |
| Hal Glatzer |
| • |
Katy Green: violin
player in the Ultra Belles, an all-girl swing band in 1940s California |
| Lee Goldberg |
| • |
Adrian Monk:
obsessive-compulsive police detective, in San Francisco, California, in the Monk TV novelizations |
| • |
Dr. Mark Sloan: Chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital who consults with the LAPD, in Los Angeles, California, in the Diagnosis Murder TV novelizations |
| • |
Charlie Willis:
ex-cop turned studio security agent, in Los Angeles, California |
| Leonard Goldberg |
| • |
Dr. David Ballineau: Los Angeles emergency room chief and Special Forces veteran, and his girlfriend, nurse Carolyn Ross |
| Leonard S. Goldberg |
| • |
Joanna Blalock:
forensic pathologist in Los Angeles, California |
| Nadia Gordon |
| • |
Sunny McCoskey:
chef in wine country, Napa Valley, California |
| The Gordons |
| • |
D.C. Randall: a Persian
cat in Los Angeles, California |
| Steven Gore |
| • |
Graham Gage: cop turned
private investigator, caught up in international intrigue, based
in San Francisco, California |
| Ron Goulart |
| • |
John Easy:
private investigator in Hollywood, California |
| • |
Groucho Marx:
movie star in Hollywood, California |
| Linda Grant |
| • |
Catherine Sayler:
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Chuck Greaves |
| • |
Jack MacTaggart: lawyer with Henley & Hargrove, the oldest and snobbiest law firm in Pasadena, California |
| Kate Green |
| • |
Theresa Fortunato: tarot-reading
psychic, and Oliver Jardine, a police detective, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Stephen Greenleaf |
| • |
John Marshall
Tanner: non-practicing attorney and private eye in San Francisco,
California |
| Lois Greiman |
| • |
Christina McMullen: cocktail waitress turned professional psychologist, and homicide detective Jack Rivera, in Los Angeles, California |
| Terris McMahan Grimes |
| • |
Theresa Galloway:
a personnel officer in Sacramento, California |
| Patricia Guiver |
| • |
Delilah Doolittle:
British widow and pet detective and her Doberman pinscher named Watson
in fictional Surf City
(Huntington Beach), California |
| Rebecca M. Hale |
| • |
Rebecca, running
an antique shop inherited from her Uncle Oscar, and her cats Rupert
and Isabella, in San Francisco, California, in the Cats and Curios
mysteries |
| Mary Bowen Hall |
| • |
Emma Chizzit:
salvage dealer in Sacramento, California |
| Gemma Halliday |
| • |
Tina Bender: gossip
columnist with the L.A. Informer, the premier tabloid magazine in
Los Angeles, California, in the Hollywood Headlines series |
| • |
Maddie Springer:
shoe designer turned crime fighter, in Los Angeles, California,
in the High Heels romantic mysteries |
| Timothy Hallinan |
| • |
Junior Bender: high-end burglar who moonlights as a private eye for crooks, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Simeon Grist:
four-degreed private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Lorie Ham |
| • |
Alexandra Walters:
gospel singer in the fictional town of Donlyn in the San Joaquin
Valley of California |
| Denise Hamilton |
| • |
Eve Diamond:
reporter for the LA Times, in Los Angeles, California |
| Laurell K. Hamilton |
| • |
Meredith
Gentry: mortal Faerie princess hiding in Los Angeles,
California |
| Dashiell Hammett |
| • |
The Continental
Op: operative with the Continental Detective Agency, based in
San Francisco, California |
| Joseph Hansen |
| • |
Hank Bohannon: ex-sheriff,
owner of a horse ranch and crime fighter in Central California |
| • |
Dave Brandstetter: gay death-claims investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Paul Harper (David Lindsey) |
| • |
Marten Fane:
retired police detective in San Francisco, California |
| William Harrington |
| • |
Columbo: homicide
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Will Harriss |
| • |
Cliff Dunbar: former
English professor turned private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Jeanne Hart |
| • |
Carl Pedersen: police
detective in fictional Bay Cove, California |
| Gar Anthony Haywood |
| • |
Aaron Gunner:
black private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Richard Helms |
| • |
Eamon Gold: private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Randall Hicks |
| • |
Toby Dillon: adoption attorney in California |
| Bonnie Hearn Hill |
| • |
Kit Doyle: radio talk show host and amateur sleuth in California |
| • |
Newspaper reporters,
including Geri LaRue, a hearing-impaired 20-something, in San Francisco,
and elsewhere in California |
| Betty Hechtman |
| • |
Molly Pink: 40-something
widow coordinating events in a bookstore, including the Tarzana Hookers,
a crochet group in California, in the Crochet mysteries |
| Naomi Hirahara |
| • |
Mas Arai: Japanese-American Hiroshima survivor, gardener in Los
Angeles, California, and sleuth |
| • |
Ellie Rush: Japanese-American rookie LAPD bicycle cop in Los Angeles, California |
| Tami Hoag |
| • |
Tony Mendez: Sheriff's
detective in mid-1980s Oak Knoll, California, in the Deeper than
the Dead series |
| Dorothy Howell |
| • |
Haley Randolph:
20-something obsessed with handbags and working part-time at Holt’s
Department Store in Los Angeles, California |
| Roy Huggins |
| • |
Stuart Bailey: private
investigator based in Los Angeles, California |
| David Hunt (William Bayer) |
| • |
Kay Farrow:
color-blind photojournalist in San Francisco, California |
| Morgan Hunt |
| • |
Tess Camillo: single,
middle-aged lesbian amateur sleuth who lives with a straight housemate,
in San Diego, California |
| Robert Irvine |
| • |
Vicki Garcia,
television reporter in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Kevin Manwaring:
field producer in Los Angeles, California |
| Jonnie Jacobs |
| • |
Kate Austen: single mother
in Walnut Hills, California |
| • |
Kali O’Brien:
attorney in Gold Country, California |
| Nancy Baker Jacobs |
| • |
Quinn Collins: reporter for the Hollywood Star, in Hollywood, California |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian |
| • |
Odelia Grey:
plus-sized, middle-aged paralegal, in southern California |
| • |
Madison Rose:
waitress in Los Angeles, California, in the Fang-in-Cheek vampire
mysteries |
| Brèni James |
| • |
Gunnar Matson: police
sergeant in San Francisco, California |
| Nancy Lynn Jarvis |
| • |
Regan McHenry:
real estate agent in Santa Cruz, California |
| Claire M. Johnson |
| • |
Mary Ryan: pastry
chef in San Francisco, California |
| Linda O. Johnston |
| • |
Kendra Ballantyne:
attorney and freelance pet sitter in Los Angeles,
California |
| • |
Lauren Vancouver:
head of HotRescues, a no-kill animal shelter, north of Los Angeles,
California, in the Pet Rescue mysteries |
| R.T. Jordan |
| • |
Polly Pepper: an aging,
legendary TV actress from the golden age, in Hollywood, California |
| Cady Kalian |
| • |
Maggie Mars: struggling screenwriter and former investigative journalist, in Los Angeles, California |
| Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| • |
Toby
Peters: 1940s Hollywood PI in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
James
Rockford: low-rent detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Susan Kandel |
| • |
Cece Caruso:
40-something biographer of dead mystery writers and fan of vintage fashions, in Southern California |
| Faye Kellerman |
| • |
Rina Lazarus:
wife of LAPD detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Jonathan Kellerman |
| • |
Petra Connor: cop in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Alex
Delaware: child psychologist in Los Angeles, California |
| Jerry Kennealy |
| • |
Nick Polo: private
eye in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Carroll Quint:
entertainment critic for a newspaper in San Francisco, California |
| Karen Kijewski |
| • |
Kat Colorado: bar-tending private investigator, in Sacramento, California |
| Lee Killough |
| • |
Garreth Mikaelian:
vampire cop, first in San Francisco, California and later in Baumen,
Kansas |
| Laurie R. King |
| • |
Kate Martinelli:
lesbian homicide detective, and her partner Alonzo Hawkin, in San
Francisco, California |
| Peter King |
| • |
Jack London: the
author in 1890s (before his famous novels) in San Francisco, California |
| Ellen Kirschman |
| • |
Dot Meyerhoff: psychologist for the Kenilworth Police Department in northern California |
| Mary Kittredge |
| • |
Charlotte Kent: freelance writer in fictional Pelican Rock, Mendocino County, California |
| Andrew Klavan |
| • |
Scott Weiss: ex-cop
owner of Weiss Investigations, and Jim Bishop, an operative at Weiss
Investigations with a penchant for violence and a mysterious military
past, in San Francisco, California |
| Dean R. Koontz |
| • |
Odd Thomas: fry cook
who can communicate with the dead, in the fictional small town of
Pico Mundo, California |
| Harley Jane Kozak |
| • |
Wollie Shelley: greeting-card artist in Los Angeles, California |
| Gabrielle Kraft |
| • |
Jerry Zalman: Beverly
Hills lawyer and deal-maker, in Los Angeles, California |
| Joyce Krieg |
| • |
Shauna J. Bogart: serious
radio talk show host in Sacramento, California |
| Rochelle Krich |
| • |
Molly Blume: true-crime
writer in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Jessie Drake:
homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Ken Kuhlken |
| • |
Tom Hickey: private
investigator, in California and Nevada, and the next generation,
Clifford Hickey |
| Carroll Lachnit |
| • |
Hannah Barlow: ex-cop
turned lawyer in Orange County, California |
| Bette Golden Lamb & J.J. Lamb |
| • |
Gina Mazzio: registered nurse at Ridgewood General Hospital, in San Francisco, California |
| Mercedes Lambert |
| • |
Whitney Logan: 20-something attorney in Los Angeles, California |
| Barry Lancet |
| • |
Jim Brodie: bilingual part-owner of Brodie Investigations, a detective agency founded by his father in Tokyo, and the operator of a Japanese art and antique gallery in San Francisco, California |
| Kelly Lange |
| • |
Maxi Poole: reporter
for a large television station in Los Angeles, California |
| Josh Lanyon |
| • |
Adrien English: mystery writer and bookseller in Los Angeles, California |
| M.A. Lawson |
| • |
Kay Hamilton: DEA agent in San Diego, California |
| Janet La Pierre |
| • |
Port Silva mysteries, coastal California |
| Lynda La Plante |
| • |
Lorraine Page: down-on-her-luck ex-cop in Los Angeles, California |
| Charles Larson |
| • |
Nils-Frederik Blixen:
TV producer and amateur sleuth, mostly in Los Angeles, California |
| Martha Lawrence |
| • |
Dr. Elizabeth Chase:
Stanford-trained parapsychologist turned P.I. in San Diego, California |
| Patrick Lee |
| • |
Sam Dryden: former Special Forces operative retired to a small town on the coast of southern California, in a series of high-tech thrillers |
| Elmore Leonard |
| • |
Chili Palmer: entertainment entrepreneur in Los Angeles California |
| John Lescroart |
| • |
Dismas Hardy:
ex-cop bartender and ex-Assistant District Attorney turned defense
attorney, and Abe Glitsky, a black, Jewish cop, in San Francisco,
California |
| Laura Levine |
| • |
Jaine Austen: freelance
writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Robert S. Levinson |
| • |
Neil Gulliver:
former newspaper crime reporter, and former spouse Stevie Marriner,
a soap opera star, in Los Angeles, California |
| Elliott Lewis |
| • |
Fred Bennett: ex-cop,
unlicensed private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Robert K. Lewis |
| • |
Mark Mallen: former undercover cop with drug problems, estranged from his wife and daughter, in San Francisco, California |
| Elizabeth Linington |
| • |
Ivor
Maddox: sergeant at the Wilcox Avenue Station in Hollywood,
California |
| Dick Lochte |
| • |
Serendipity Dahlquist:
gum-snapping 15-year-old girl, and Leo Bloodworth, a grumpy 50-something
private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Nicolette
(Nikki) Hill: 30-something black prosecutor in Los Angeles,
California (by Dick Lochte and Christopher Darden) |
| Sheila Lowe |
| • |
Claudia
Rose: handwriting analyst, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Richard A. Lupoff |
| • |
Hobart Lindsey:
insurance claims adjuster for valuable collectibles, and Marvia Plum,
a black homicide detective, in Berkeley, California |
| Lisa Lutz |
| • |
Isabele “Izzy” Spellman:
28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation
firm, in San Francisco, California |
| D.P. Lyle |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Cody: former
LAPD officer, now a sheriff’s deputy in Mercer Corner, California |
| Jack Lynch |
| • |
Peter Bragg: former
reporter turned private investigator and part-time bartender, in
Sausalito and San Francisco, California, and elsewhere |
| Arthur Lyons |
| • |
Jacob Asch: Jewish-Episcopal
ex-reporter P.I. in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Dr. Eric Parker:
chief coroner for Los Angeles County, in California |
| J.T. MacCargo (Peter Rabe) |
| • |
Joe Mannix: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California, in “Mannix” TV
series novelizations |
| Ross MacDonald |
| • |
Lew Archer: ex-cop and
private eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Bethany Maines |
| • |
Nikki Lanier: linguist
working with the Carrie Mae Foundation, the supposed philantropic
arm of a cosmetics company, but really a secret international organization
devoted to helping women, based in Santa Clarita, California |
| Tim Maleeny |
| • |
Sam McGowan: ex-cop
in San Francisco, California: |
| • |
Cape Weathers: reporter turned private investigator, in San Francisco,
California |
| Lindsay Maracotta |
| • |
Lucy Freers:
children’s film animator in Los Angeles, California |
| Paul D. Marks |
| • |
Duke Rogers: private investigator in early 1990s Los Angeles, California |
| Lia Matera |
| • |
Laura Di
Palma: a corporate lawyer in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Willa Jansson: law student, then lawyer, and a child of
idealistic, left-wing parents, in San Francisco, California |
| Cody McFadyen |
| • |
Smoky Barrett: FBI
agent who was badly scarred by a serial killer, in Los Angeles, California |
| Nora McFarland |
| • |
Lilly Hawkins: TV news photographer in Bakersfield, California |
| Christine McGuire |
| • |
Kathryn Mackay:
prosecuting attorney in northern California |
| Bridget McKenna |
| • |
Caley Burke: 30-something
private investigator, in northern California |
| G. A. McKevett |
| • |
Savannah Reid:
ex-cop and owner of a new detective agency in southern California |
| Neil McMahon |
| • |
Carroll Monks:
emergency-room doctor in San Francisco, California |
| Claire McNab |
| • |
Kylie Kendall:
lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia inherits
51% of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles, California |
| Judy Mercer |
| • |
Ariel Gold: amnesiac
television newsmagazine producer in Los Angeles, California |
| Ken Mercer |
| • |
Will MacGowen, whose
heroin addiction cost him his job as narcotics detective with the
LAPD, now police chief in the fictional rural town of Haydenville,
California |
| F.M. Meredith (Marilyn Meredith) |
| • |
Doug Milligan:
police detective in the fictional beach community of Rocky Bluff,
California |
| Marilyn Meredith |
| • |
Tempe Crabtree:
woman deputy of Bear Creek, California, torn between her Native American
(Yanduchi) traditions and her loyalty to Hutch, her minister husband |
| John A. Miller |
| • |
Claude McCutcheon:
laid-back bachelor lawyer in the San Francisco-Bay Area, California |
| Wade Miller |
| • |
Max Thursday: ex-cop
private investigator, and Austin Clapp, a police lieutenant, in San
Diego, California |
| Marlys Millhiser |
| • |
Charlie Greene: female literary agent in Hollywood, California |
| Rick Mofina |
| • |
Ted Reed: crime
reporter, and Walt Sydowski, a homicide inspector, in San Francisco,
California |
| Walter Mosley |
| • |
Socrates Fortlow:
philosophical ex-con in California |
| • |
Easy Rawlins:
black WWII veteran living in 1940s–1950s Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Paris Minton: Watts bookstore owner, and the dangerous but principled
Fearless Jones, in 1950s Los Angeles, California |
| L.A. Morse |
| • |
Sam Hunter: crude private
investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Eddie Muller |
| • |
Billy Nichols: boxing
columnist for the Inquirer newspaper, in late 1940s San Francisco,
California |
| Marcia Muller |
| • |
Sharon McCone:
legal investigator/private eye in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Elena Oliverez:
Director of Museum of Mexican Arts in Santa Barbara, California |
| • |
Joanna Stark:
Art Security Expert in San Francisco, California |
| Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini |
| • |
Sabina Carpenter: a former Pinkerton operative, and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, in late 1890s San Francisco, California |
| William Murray |
| • |
Shifty Lou Anderson:
professional magician and horseplayer in southern California |
| Jonathan Nasaw |
| • |
E.L. Pender: retirement-aged FBI Special Agent, in Oregon, California, and the Virgin Islands |
| Michael Nava |
| • |
Henry Rios: gay
criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles, California |
| Kris Neri |
| • |
Samantha Brennan: fake
psychic, and Annabelle Haggerty, FBI agent and true psychic, in Los
Angeles, California |
| Helen Nielsen |
| • |
Simon Drake: Chicago
lawyer transplanted to southern California |
| William F. Nolan |
| • |
Black Mask Boys:
1930s detective heroes in California |
| • |
Bart Challis:
hard-boiled private investigator, and his half-brother Nick, in Los
Angeles, California |
| Maxine O’Callaghan |
| • |
Delilah West:
private investigator in Orange County, California |
| Diana O’Hehir |
| • |
Carla Day:
20-something, and her elderly father, an accomplished Egyptologist suffering from Alzeimer’s, in California |
| Diana Orgain |
| • |
Kate Connolly: office
manager, private investigator, and new mother, in San Francisco,
California, in the Maternal Instincts series |
| Denise Osborne |
| • |
Queenie Davilov:
struggling screenwriter and investigator in Hollywood, California |
| Orland Outland |
| • |
Doan McCandler:
gay private investigator. and Binky Van de Kamp, his sidekick. in
San Francisco, California |
| Abigail Padgett |
| • |
Barbara
Joan “Bo” Bradley: former court investigator,
who works as an advocate for the mentally ill and lives with her
own manic-depression, in San Diego, California |
| • |
Blue McCarron:
independent social psychologist and private investigator living outside
San Diego, California |
| Robert B. Parker |
| • |
Philip Marlowe:
private eye on the “mean streets” of Los Angeles, California |
| T. Jefferson Parker |
| • |
Charles Hood:
sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County, California |
| • |
Merci Rayborn:
sheriff’s deputy in Orange County, California |
| James Patterson |
| • |
Lindsay Boxer:
homicide inspector, Cindy Thomas, a reporter, Jill
Bernhardt, an Assistant District Attorney, and Claire Washburn, a
medical examiner — founding members of The Women’s Murder
Club, in San Francisco, California |
| Joanne Pence |
| • |
Angelina Amalfi:
food columnist and restaurant reviewer in San Francisco, California |
| Don Pendleton |
| • |
Joe Copp: private
investigator in Hollywood, California |
| Thomas Perry |
| • |
Jack Till: retired LAPD homicide detective, now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Linda Lee Peterson |
| • |
Maggie Fiore:
magazine writer and editor in San Francisco, California |
| David M Pierce |
| • |
Vic Daniel: 6-foot-7+ cut-rate private investigator, driving a Nash Metropolitan, in Los Angeles, California |
| Elizabeth Pincus |
| • |
Nell Fury: lesbian
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Clyde Phillips |
| • |
Jane Candiotti:
homicide inspector in San Francisco, California |
| Gary Phillips |
| • |
Ivan Monk: African-American
private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Robert L. Pike (Robert L. Fish) |
| • |
Jim Reardon: no nonsense, honest cop in San Francisco, California,
an incarnation of the character in the Bullitt movie |
| Richard Prather |
| • |
Shell Scott:
6'2" ex-Marine private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Michael Prescott |
| • |
Abby Sinclair:
freelance security consultant who hunts stalkers, and Tess McCallum,
FBI special agent, in Los Angeles, California |
| Dianne G. Pugh (Dianne Emley) |
| • |
Iris Thorne: investment
counselor in Los Angeles, California |
| Keith Raffel |
| • |
Ian Michaels: Silicon
Valley entrepreneur, in Palo Alto, California, in the Silicon Valley
mysteries |
| T.R. Ragan |
| • |
Lizzy Gardner: private investigator who was once terrorized by a serial killer, in Sacramento, California |
| Misa Ramirez |
| • |
Lola Cruz: budding
private investigator at Camacho and Associates, in Sacramento, California |
| Robert J. Ray |
| • |
Matt Murdock: hard-boiled
private investigator based in Newport Beach, California |
| Philip Reed |
| • |
Harold Dodge:
50-ish, overweight former car salesman, in Los Angeles, California |
| Robert Reeves |
| • |
Cellini Smith:
accountant for the Mob in New York, New York, turned honest private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Robert Reginald |
| • |
Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom of 1930s-40s fame), drawn out of retirement, in 1950s southern California, in the Phantom Detective Agency mysteries |
| Linda L. Richards |
| • |
Madeline Carter:
former stockbroker in New York, turned day trader in Los Angeles,
California |
| • |
Kitty Pangborn:
secretary to private eye Dexter J. Theroux, in 1930s
Los Angeles, California |
| Gillian Roberts |
| • |
Emma Howe:
50-something owner of a private detective agency, and Billie August,
a young single mother, in Tiburon (Marin County), California |
| Les Roberts |
| • |
Saxon: actor
and private eye in Los Angeles, California |
| Lillian M. Roberts |
| • |
Andi Pauling:
veterinarian in Palm Springs, California |
| Lora Roberts |
| • |
Liz Sullivan: freelance
writer and organic gardener in Palo Alto, California |
| Charles Rosenberg |
| • |
Robert Tarza and his protégée Jenna James, attorneys at the Marbury Marfan, in Los Angeles, California |
| Nancy Taylor Rosenberg |
| • |
Lily
Forrester: Assistant District Attorney in Southern California |
| • |
Carolyn Sullivan:
part-time law student and overworked probation officer in Ventura
County, California |
| Clive Rosengren |
| • |
Eddie Collins: part-time actor and part-time sleuth, in Hollywood, California |
| Erik Rosenthal |
| • |
Dan Brodsky: an unemployed mathematician who pays the rent as a private investigator, based in San Francisco, California |
| Rebecca Rothenberg |
| • |
Claire Sharples:
microbiologist in the San Joaquin Valley, California |
| Robert Rotstein |
| • |
Parker Stern: trial lawyer who has developed stage fright, in Los Angeles, California |
| Alan Russell |
| • |
Am Caulfield: hotel
detective in San Diego, California |
| • |
Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius, sole members of the LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Stuart Winter:
private eye in San Francisco, California |
| Kirk Russell |
| • |
John Marquez: an
ex-DEA agent, now an undercover warden with the California Department
of Fish and Game |
| • |
Ben Raveneau: an older
homicide detective, and his ambitious young partner, Elizabeth la
Rosa, in San Francisco, California |
| Mark Sadler (Dennis Lynds) |
| • |
Paul Shaw: private investigator and partner in Thayer, Shaw and
Delaney, in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California |
| Cindy Sample |
| • |
Laurel McKay: recently divorced soccer mom working at Hangtown Bank, in the gold country town, Placerville, California |
| Pamela Samuels-Young |
| • |
Vernetta Henderson:
African-American attorney at a large law firm in Los Angeles, California |
| Stephen Santogrossi |
| • |
Tim Ryder:
carpenter in Palm Springs, California |
| Elise Sax |
| • |
Gladie Burger: a matchmaker-in-training, and her eccentric Grandma Zelda, in fictional Cannes, California, in the Matchmaker series |
| Dylan Schaffer |
| • |
Gordon Seegerman:
reluctant public defender by day and an enthusiastic lead singer
for a Barry Manilow cover band by night, in Northern California |
| Michele Scott |
| • |
Nikki Sands: in the Napa Valley, California,
in the Wine Lover’s Mysteries |
| Stephen Jay Schwartz |
| • |
Hayden Glass:
detective in the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division, who also suffers
from a sexual addiction, in Los Angeles, California |
| Barbara Seranella |
| • |
Munch Mancini:
1970s ex-druggie and jailbird in Los Angeles, California |
| Diane K. Shah |
| • |
Paris Chandler: wealthy
young widow, gossip reporter, and sleuth, in 1947 Los Angeles, California |
| Barry Shannon |
| • |
Revelations St. Jones:
private investigator in the manner of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe,
in San Francisco, California |
| Dell Shannon (Elizabeth Linington) |
| • |
Luis
Mendoza: lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department in
California |
| John Shannon |
| • |
Jack Liffey: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| William Shatner |
| • |
Jack Cardigan: 22nd century ex-cop private investigator in Los
Angeles, California |
| Shari Shattuck |
| • |
Greer Sands:
psychic and massage therapist with a teenage son, in fictional Shadow
Hills, in the mountains above Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Callaway (Cally) Wilde: wealthy socialite, and LAPD detective Evan Paley, in Los Angeles, California |
| Johnny Shaw |
| • |
Jimmy Veeder: semi-reformed brawler in the desert of Southern California, near the Calexico/Mexicali border |
| Jeff Shelby |
| • |
Noah Braddock: surfer
and private investigator in San Diego, California |
| David J. Sherman |
| • |
Jack Murphy:
ex-cop turned private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Bill Shoemaker |
| • |
Coley Killebrew:
ex-jockey turned restaurant owner in Lexington, Kentucky |
| Barry Siegel |
| • |
Mike Daley: ex-partner
in a prestigious law firm, establishing a practice on the wrong side
of town, in San Francisco, California |
| Sheldon Siegel |
| • |
Mike Daley: lawyer
and ex-priest, in San Francisco, California |
| Roger L. Simon |
| • |
Moses Wine: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Elizabeth Sims |
| • |
Rita Farmer: aspiring
actress and single mother, in Los Angeles, California |
| L.V. Sims |
| • |
Dixie T. Struthers: detective
sergeant in the early days of Silicon Valley (late 1980s), in San
José, California |
| Murray Sinclair |
| • |
Ben Crandel: pornographic
novel author and amateur detective, in Los Angeles, California |
| Shelley Singer |
| • |
Barrett Lake:
history teacher turned private investigator in Berkeley, California |
| • |
Jake Sands: ex-cop,
and Rosie Vicente, a carpenter, in Berkeley, California |
| David Skibbins |
| • |
Warren Ritter: formerly
in the Weather Underground, now a tarot card reader, in Berkeley,
California, in the Tarot Card mysteries |
| Kit Sloane |
| • |
Margot O’Banion:
a film editor, and Max Skull, a movie director, based in Los Angeles,
California |
| Patricia Smiley |
| • |
Tucker Sinclair:
30-something divorcee and financial adviser, in Los Angeles, California |
| April Smith |
| • |
Ana Grey: FBI agent in California |
| Julie Smith |
| • |
Paul MacDonald:
ex-reporter and mystery writer in San Francisco. California |
| • |
Rebecca Schwartz:
Jewish feminist lawyer in San Francisco, California |
| Lachlan Smith |
| • |
Leo Maxwell: newly minted lawyer emulating his brother, a criminal defense attorney, beginning in 1999 San Francisco, California |
| Stephen Smoke |
| • |
Derek Cheney: recently
retired LAPD chief of detectives, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
E.L. Nash: police
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Keith Snyder |
| • |
Jason Keltner:
composer and ex-spy in Los Angeles, California |
| C. J. Songer |
| • |
Meg Gillis: security
officer in Los Angeles, California |
| Rochelle Staab |
| • |
Liz Cooper: clinical psychologist who is skeptical about the paranormal, in Los Angeles, California, in the Mind for Murder mysteries |
| Kelli Stanley |
| • |
Miranda Corbie:
private investigator, Spanish Civil War nurse, and ex-escort, in
1940s San Francisco, California |
| Domenic Stansberry |
| • |
Dante Mancuso:
private investigator, AKA the Pelican, in the North Beach area of San Francisco, California |
| Janice Steinberg |
| • |
Margo Simon:
California Public Radio reporter in San Diego, California |
| Jim Stinson |
| • |
Spencer Churchill (Stoney)
Winston: filmmaker at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain,
screenwriter, and film workshop teacher, in Los Angeles, California |
| David Sundstrand |
| • |
Frank Flynn: Bureau
of Land Management agent, in the Mojave Desert of southern California,
in the Desert Sky mysteries |
| Shirley Tallman |
| • |
Sarah Woolson:
attorney in 19th century San Francisco, California |
| Elizabeth Atwood Taylor |
| • |
Maggie Elliott:
ex-filmmaker and private eye in San Francisco, California |
| Jean Taylor |
| • |
Maggie Garret: young,
lesbian private investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Joseph Telushkin |
| • |
David Winter:
rabbi in West LA (Los Angeles), California |
| Terri Thayer |
| • |
Dewey Pellicano: who
inherits her mother’s quilt shop Quilter Paradiso, in San Jose,
California, in the Quilting mysteries |
| Steven M. Thomas |
| • |
Robert Rivers:
burglar and stickup man in Orange County and Los Angeles, California |
| L.L. Thrasher |
| • |
Lizbet Lange: heiress
and ex-waitress in California |
| Ronald Tierney |
| • |
Carly Paladino:
private investigator formerly with a large security firm, and Noah
Lang, a streetwise PI, in San Francisco, California |
| Nichelle D. Tramble |
| • |
Maceo Redfield:
disillusioned baseball star and college dropout, in Oakland, California |
| Robert Upton |
| • |
Amos McGuffin: hard-drinking,
golf-playing private investigator, based in San Francisco, California
(also in Los Angeles and New York City) |
| Deborah Valentine |
| • |
Katharine Craig:
a sculptor, and Kevin Bryce, an ex-sheriff’s detective, in
Lake Tahoe, California |
| Jack Vance |
| • |
Joe Bain: sheriff in fictional San Rodrigo County, California |
| Marcos M. Villatoro |
| • |
Romilia Chacón: young bilingual cop in Nashville, Tennessee, later an FBI agent in Los Angeles, California |
| Ayelet Waldman |
| • |
Juliet Applebaum:
public defender turned stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles, California |
| Patricia Wallace |
| • |
Sydney Bryant:
private investigator in San Diego, California |
| Nathan Walpow |
| • |
Joe Portugal:
actor and plant lover in Los Angeles, California |
| Haley Walsh (Jeri Westerson) |
| • |
Skyler Foxe: a gay high school English teacher in Redlands, California, in a romantic mystery series |
| Joseph Wambaugh |
| • |
Nathan Weiss (Hollywood
Nate): a cop dreaming of movie stardom, and a cast of characters
centered around LAPD’s Hollywood Division, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Wayne Warga |
| • |
Jeffrey Dean: ex-CIA
courier and journalist, now a rare book dealer, in Los Angeles, California |
| Penny Warner |
| • |
Presley Parker: former
abnormal psychological university professor who opens a party planning
business in San Francisco, California, in the Party Planning mysteries |
| • |
Connor Westphal:
newspaper publisher in Flat Skunk, California |
| Stan Washburn |
| • |
Toby Parkman:
quietly heroic cop in San Francisco, California |
| Betty Webb |
| • |
Theodora “Teddy” Bentley:
zookeeper living on a houseboat on the central coast of California,
in the Zoo mysteries |
| Pat Welch |
| • |
Helen Black: ex-cop lesbian private investigator, based in Berkeley, California |
| Melinda Wells (Linda Palmer) |
| • |
Della Carmichael:
owner of a cooking school and star of “Della Cooks,” a
cable TV cooking show, in Santa Monica, California |
| Robert Westbrook |
| • |
Nicky
Rachmaninoff: reluctant
cop, divorced father, and jazz pianist, in Beverly Hills, California,
in the Left-Handed Policeman mysteries |
| Carolyn Weston |
| • |
Casey Kellogg: ex-surfer
college-grad detective, teamed with Al Krug, a seasoned cop of the
old school, in Santa Monica, California |
| Collin Wilcox |
| • |
Alan
Bernhardt: actor-director private investigator in San Francisco,
California |
| • |
Stephen
Drake: newspaper reporter with ESP in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Frank
Hastings: Sergeant (later, Lieutenant) a co-commander of SFPD
homicide in San Francisco, California |
| John Morgan Wilson |
| • |
Benjamin Justice:
gay crime reporter and writer in Los Angeles, California |
| John Morgan Wilson & Peter Duchin |
| • |
Phil Damon: bandleader playing jazz in 1963 San Francisco, California |
| Mary Wings |
| • |
Emma Victor: private
investigator in San Francisco, California |
| Don Winslow |
| • |
Boone Daniels: private
investigator who would rather be surfing, in San Diego, California |
| Paula L. Woods |
| • |
Charlotte Justice:
black woman homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Stuart Woods |
| • |
Rick Barron:
head of security at the Centurion Movie Studio, in 1939 Los Angeles,
California |
| Edward Wright |
| • |
John Ray Horn: former
B-movie cowboy star and ex-con turned debt-collector, in 1940s Los
Angeles, California |
| Wade Wright |
| • |
Paul Cameron:
private investigator in southern California |
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| • |
Charles Spotted
Moon: attorney and Ojibway tribal shaman in San Francisco,
California |
| Sheila York |
| • |
Lauren Atwill, a screenwriter, and private investigator Peter Winslow, based in 1940s Hollywood, California |
| Merla Zellerbach |
| • |
Hallie Marsh: publicist, breast cancer survivor, and accidental detective, based in San Francisco, California |
| Bruce Zimmerman |
| • |
Quinn Parke: phobia
therapist and wealthy amateur sleuth, in San Francisco, California |
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