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| Avery Aames |
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Charlotte Bessette: proprietor
of Fromagerie Bessette, in fictional Providence, Ohio, in the Cheese
Shop mysteries |
| Isaac Adamson |
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Billy Chaka: ace reporter for Cleveland’s hottest-selling Asian teen magazine |
| David Anthony |
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Morgan Butler: Korean
War veteran who worked for a San Francisco detective agency, now farming
and sleuthing in Ohio and West Virginia |
| Franklin Bandy |
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Kevin MacInnes:
the “Lie King”, a free-lance lie detector and private
investigator, in Ohio and elsewhere |
| Elizabeth Becka |
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Evelyn James: forensic
expert in the medical examiner’s office, in Cleveland, Ohio |
| John Billheimer |
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Lloyd Keaton: local sportswriter with a gambling addiction, in fictional Menkenburg, a city in east-central Ohio |
| Lisa Black (Elizabeth Becka) |
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Theresa MacLean:
forensic scientist, in Cleveland, Ohio |
| D.B. (Della) Borton |
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Cat Caliban: 60-something
PI-in-training, in Cincinnati, Ohio |
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Gilda Liberty:
a small-town movie theater proprietor in Eden, Ohio |
| Lillian Stewart Carl |
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Rebecca Reid: historian, and Michael Campbell, a Scottish professor, in Ohio and later in Scotland |
| Linda Castillo |
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Kate Burkholder:
female chief of police in the Amish town of Painters Mill, Ohio |
| Melissa Cleary |
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Jackie Walsh:
Jackie Walsh, a professor of film studies, and her ex-police dog,
Jake, in Palmer, Ohio |
| Max Allan Collins |
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Eliot Ness:
1930s public safety officer in Cleveland, Ohio |
| C.R. Corwin |
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Dolly Madison (Maddy) Sprowls:
60-something newspaper archivist for the Herald-Union, and cub reporter
Aubrey McGinty, in Hannawa, Ohio, in the Morgue Mama mysteries |
| Casey Daniels |
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Pepper Martin:
tour guide at a cemetery, who can talk with a mob boss ghost, in
Cleveland, Ohio |
| Thomas B. Dewey |
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Singer Batts: a Shakespearean scholar running a hotel in a small
town in Ohio |
| L.T. Fawkes |
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Terry Saltz: who
lost his job, wife, truck, and mobile home, starting over as a pizza
delivery driver in Spencer, Ohio |
| Amanda Flower |
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Kelsey Cambridge: director of Barton Farm, a living history museum in Ohio, in the Living History Museum series |
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India Hayes: artist,
and librarian at Martin College in Stripling, Ohio |
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Chloe Humphrey: 24-year-old computer whiz moving to Appleseed Creek, in the Amish country of Ohio |
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Bailey King, leaving New York to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents’ candy shop, in Harvest, Ohio, in the Amish Candy Shop mysteries |
| Paul L. Gaus |
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Michael Branden: a
college professor in Amish country in Ohio |
| Karen Harper |
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Sarah Kauffman: an
artist who paints murals on barns in her Amish community, and Nate
MacKensie, an Ohio state arson inspector, in the Home Valley Amish
series |
| Lynn S. Hightower |
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Sonora Blair:
homicide detective in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Jeffrey Marks |
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General Ulysses Grant:
returning to his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, after the Civil War |
| James E. Martin |
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Gil Disbro: young, conservative, non-drinking private investigator, in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Richard Montanari |
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John Paris:
homicide detective in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Bill Pomidor |
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Calista Marley: a
forensic pathologist, and Plato Marley, a family physician, in Cleveland,
Ohio |
| Mike Resnick |
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Eli Paxton: former Chicago cop now barely making it as a private investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Emilie Richards |
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Aggie Sloan-Wilcox: the wife of the minister of the Consolidated
Community Church, in Emerald Springs, Ohio, in the Ministry
Is Murder series |
| John Maddox Roberts |
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Gabe Treloar: a
burned-out LAPD veteran on the way to a PI job in Cleveland, ending
up in his old hometown, Monticello, Ohio |
| Les Roberts |
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Milan Jacovich: blue-collar Slovenian private eye with a master's degree
in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Ona Russell |
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Sarah Kaufman: Jewish
probate court official in 1920s Toledo, Ohio, later visiting Dayton,
Tennessee |
| Jon Talton |
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Will
Borders: former homicide detective, in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Jonathan Valin |
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Harry Stoner: private investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Heather Webber |
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Nina Quinn: the
owner of Taken By Surprise a landscaping firm specializing in surprise
garden makeovers, in Ohio |
| Patricia Tichenor Westfall |
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Molly West: 50-something rural activist in southern Ohio |
| Sally S. Wright |
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Ben Reese: a 1960s
university archivist in Ohio |
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