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| Carl Brookins |
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Sean “NMI” Sean: private investigator in Hennepin County,
Minnesota |
| Jessie Chandler |
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Shay O’Hanlon: co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool coffee shop, and amateur sleuth, along with JT Bordeaux, her cop girlfriend, in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Jodi Compton |
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Sarah Pribek: missing
persons detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Carol Nelson Douglas |
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Kevin Black: psychiatrist in Minnesota |
| Jan Dunlap |
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Bob White: expert
birder and counselor at Savage High School, near the Twin Cities
in Minnesota, in the Birder Murder mysteries |
| L.L. Enger |
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Gun Pedersen: ex-major-league
ballplayer and recluse, mostly in the north woods of Minnesota |
| K.J. Erickson |
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Marshall “Mars” Bahr: nicknamed Candy Man, a detective who serves
as a special investigator reporting directly to the chief of police in
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Joanne Fluke |
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Hannah Swensen: manager of The
Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota |
| David Fingerman |
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Louise Miller: a lesbian police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Elizabeth Gunn |
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Jake Hine:
police detective in Rutherford, Minnesota |
| Ellen Hart |
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Sophie Greenway: magazine editor and food
critic for Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the Culinary Mysteries |
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Jane Lawless: lesbian restaurateur in
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Tami Hoag |
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Sam Kovac: hard-boiled
police detective, and his wisecracking partner Nikki Liska, in
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| David Housewright |
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Rushmore McKenzie: former St. Paul cop who becomes a smart-talking
and unlicensed PI, in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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Holland Taylor: ex-cop turned private investigator in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Nancy Baker Jacobs |
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Devon MacDonald: private investigator in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| 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 |
| Annie Knox (Wendy Lyn Watson) |
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Izzy McHale: owner of the Trendy Tails Pet Boutique, in fictional Merryville, Minnesota, in the Pet Boutique series |
| Julie Kramer |
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Riley Spartz: investigative
TV reporter, in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| William Kent Krueger |
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Cork O’Connor:
a three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Ojibwe
ex-sheriff in Aurora, Minnesota |
| Owen Laukkanen |
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Kirk Stevens: veteran Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent, and Carla Windermere, a young FBI special agent, based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota |
| Jess Lourey |
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Mira James: assistant
librarian and part-time reporter, in Battle Lake, Minnesota, in
the Murder-by-Month mysteries |
| Theresa Monsour |
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Paris Murphy: homicide detective in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| John Sandford |
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Lucas Davenport: police detective and war
games designer in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Virgil Flowers: thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) |
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Kidd:
computer whiz and LuEllen, a thief in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Vidar Sundstøl |
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Lance Hansen: Forest Service officer and the grandson of Norwegian immigrants, in Cook County, Minnesota, on the north shore of Lake Superior, in the Minnesota Trilogy |
| L.A. Taylor |
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J.J. Jamison: computer
engineer and investigator with CATCH (Committee for Analysis of
Tropospheric and Celestial Happenings), in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Richard A. Thompson |
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Herman Jackson:
bail bondsman and former Detroit bookie, in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| P.J. Tracy |
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Grace MacBride: founder of
Monkeewrench, a game software company in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| J.F. Trainor |
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Angela Biwaban: ex-embezzler Anishinabe princess in Minnesota |
| Christopher Valen |
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John Santana: homicide detective originally from Colombia, in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Marilyn Victor & Michael Allan Mallory |
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Lavender (Snake) Jones,
a zookeeper, and her husband Jeff, an Aussie herpetologist, in
Minnesota |
| Stanley Gordon West |
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Cal Grant: in the late 1940s, in St. Paul
and Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| R.D. Zimmerman |
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Todd Mills: a gay T.V. news reporter in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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