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| Douglas Adams |
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Dirk Gently (alias
of Svlad Cjelli), a holistic detective who investigates based on the
fundamental interconnectedness of all things, in London, England, in
this comic, sci-fi mystery series |
| Susan Wittig Albert |
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China Bayles: herbalist
and former attorney, in Pecan Springs, Texas |
| Garrison Allen |
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Penelope Warren:
ex-Marine mystery bookstore owner, and Mycroft (Big Mike), a 25-pound
Abyssinian, in Empty Creek, Arizona |
| Donna Andrews |
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Meg Langslow: decorative blacksmith in a southern town |
| Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck) |
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Eloise “Weezie” Foley:
a recently divorced antique dealer,
and BeBe Loudermilk, a triple-divorced restaurant owner, in Savannah,
Georgia |
| Sandra Balzo |
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Maggy Thorsen: 40-something divorcée running a coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds, with two women friends in the small fictional town of Brookhills, Wisconsin |
| Colin Bateman |
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Dan Starkey: journalist in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Cynthia Baxter |
| • |
Jessica Popper: veterinarian in Long Island, New York, in the
Reigning Cats & Dogs mysteries |
| M.C. Beaton |
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Hamish Macbeth: police constable in Scotland |
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Agatha Raisin: London advertising retiree living in the Cotswolds, England |
| Mike Befeler |
| • |
Paul Jacobson:
an 80-something amateur sleuth, in the Geezer-Lit
series |
| Nancy Bell |
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Biggie Weatherford,
a grandmother, and J.R. Weatherford, her grandson, in Job’s
Crossing, Texas |
| William Bernhardt |
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Ben Kincaid:
attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Susan M. Boyer |
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Liz Talbot: private investigator with a ghostly sidekick, in fictional Stella Maris, South Carolina |
| Lilian Jackson Braun |
| • |
Jim Qwilleran: journalist with cats Koko and Yum Yum, in Pickax,
northeast central United States |
| Steve Brewer |
| • |
Bubba Mabry: private
investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Dorothy Cannell |
| • |
Ellie Haskell: interior decorator, Ben Haskell, a writer and chef, and occasionally Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency |
| Sarah Caudwell |
| • |
Hilary Tamar:
medieval law professor in Oxford, England |
| Meg Chittenden |
| • |
Charlie Plato: country-western tavern owner, in San Francisco,
California |
| Jill Churchill |
| • |
Jane Jeffry: suburban housewife and sleuth in Chicago, Illinois |
| Edie Claire |
| • |
Leigh Koslow:
ad copywriter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Blaize Clement |
| • |
Dixie Hemingway:
former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional pet sitter, in
Sarasota, Florida |
| Harlan Coben |
| • |
Myron Bolitar: injured
basketball player turned sports agent in New York City |
| Tim Cockey |
| • |
Hitchcock Sewell and
his Aunt Billie, certified morticians in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Jeffrey Cohen |
| • |
Elliot Freed: recently divorced writer and proprietor of an old
movie theater, in New Jersey, in the Double Feature mysteries |
| Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) |
| • |
Dittany
Henbit Monk:
garden club member, and her husband Osbert
Monk, an author, in Lobelia Falls, Ontario, Canada, in the Grub-and-Stakers
series |
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Madoc Rhys:
Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector, and his wife
Janet Rhys, in New Brunswick, Canada |
| Bill Crider |
| • |
Dan Rhodes: laid-back sheriff with a motley crew of deputies,
in Blacklin County, Texas |
| Casey Daniels |
| • |
Penelope “Pepper” Martin:
tour guide at a cemetery,
who can talk with a mob boss ghost, in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Diane Mott Davidson |
| • |
Goldy Bear:
single mom and caterer, in Aspen Meadow, Colorado |
| Jo Dereske |
| • |
Helma Zukas: librarian
in Washington state |
| Denise Dietz |
| • |
Ellie Bernstein: a diet
group leader, and homicide Lt. Peter Miller, in Colorado Springs,
Colorado |
| James D. Doss |
| • |
Charlie Moon: Ute police
officer in Grant Creek, Colorado |
| Ruth Dudley Edwards |
| • |
Robert Amiss: retired civil servant in England |
| Selma Eichler |
| • |
Desiree Shapiro: 5' 2" queen-sized private investigator
in New York City |
| Janet Evanovich |
| • |
Stephanie Plum: bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey |
| Liz Evans |
| • |
Grace Smith: private investigator in Seatoun, England |
| Nancy Fairbanks |
| • |
Carolyn Blue: a food writer in El Paso,
Texas, in the
Culinary Food Writer series |
| Jerrilyn Farmer |
| • |
Madeline Bean:
caterer in Hollywood, California |
| Jasper Fforde |
| • |
Thursday Next: agent of the Special Operations Network, Literary Division, in Great Britain a funny sci-fi, alternate history series |
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Detective Jack Spratt: investigator in the Nursery Crimes Division, in Reading, England |
| Bill Fitzhugh |
| • |
Bob Dillon, a pest exterminator in Queens, New York, and Klaus Müller, an assassin, in the Assassin Bug thrillers |
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Rick Shannon: FM rock disc jockey and private investigator in the
Mississippi Delta |
| Joanne Fluke |
| • |
Hannah Swensen: manager
of The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota |
| G.M. Ford |
| • |
Leo Waterman: wisecracking
private eye in Seattle, Washington |
| Gwen Freeman |
| • |
Fifi Cutter: bi-racial, 20-something, freelance insurance investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Christy Tillery French |
| • |
Natasha Chamberlain:
young investigator, and Jonce Striker, founder of Investigative
Services, Inc., in Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Kinky Friedman |
| • |
Kinky Friedman: country-western singer turned sleuth, in New York City |
| Eric Garcia |
| • |
Vince Rubio: velociraptor and private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Anne George |
| • |
Patricia Anne “Mouse” Hollowell: retired English teacher, and Mary Alice “Sister” Crane,
who out-lived
three husbands, in Alabama, in the Southern Sisters mysteries |
| Dorothy Gilman |
| • |
Mrs. Pollifax: grandmother and CIA agent in New Jersey |
| Chris Grabenstein |
| • |
John Ceepak: veteran of the Iraq war, and his sidekick Danny Boyle, in Sea Haven, New Jersey |
| Parnell Hall |
| • |
Cora Felton:
crossword creator with a nationally-syndicated column
in Bakerhaven, Connecticut, in the Puzzle Lady mysteries |
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Stanley Hastings: actor and private investigator in New York City |
| Timothy Hallinan |
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Junior Bender: high-end burglar who moonlights as a private eye for crooks, in Los Angeles, California |
| Janice Hamrick |
| • |
Jocelyn Shore: a high school teacher from Austin, Texas |
| David Handler |
| • |
Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag: celebrity ghostwriter in the
United States, and his faithful basset hound, Lulu |
| Rosemary Harris |
| • |
Paula Holliday:
30-ish former TV executive who opens a landscaping-gardening business
in Springfield, Connecticut, in the Dirty Business mysteries |
| Jamie Harrison |
| • |
Jules Clement:
archaeologist turned sheriff, in Blue Deer, Montana |
| Carolyn Hart |
| • |
Annie Laurance:
mystery book store owner, and Max Darling, investigator, in Broward’s
Rock, South Carolina, in the Death on Demand series |
| Sparkle Hayter |
| • |
Robin Hudson: cable
news reporter in New York City |
| Gabriella Herkert |
| • |
Sara Townley: investigator for a law firm in Seattle, Washington, in the Animal Instinct mysteries |
| Joan Hess |
| • |
Arly Hanks: small-town
police chief in Maggody, Arkansas |
| • |
Claire Malloy:
small-town bookstore owner in Farberville, Arkansas |
| Steve Hockensmith |
| • |
Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” in 1890s Montana, who become interested in being detectives after reading a Sherlock Holmes story, in the Holmes on the Range series |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila
Malory:
writer of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| David Housewright |
| • |
Rushmore (Mac) McKenzie:
former St. Paul cop who becomes a smart-talking and unlicensed
prirate investigator, in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian |
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Odelia Grey: plus-sized, middle-aged paralegal, in southern California |
| Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| • |
Toby Peters: 1940s
Hollywood private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Marne Davis Kellogg |
| • |
Lilly Bennett:
ex-cop private investigator in Roundup, Wyoming |
| Laura Levine |
| • |
Jaine Austin: freelance writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Rita Lakin |
| • |
Gladdy Gold: Florida’s
Oldest Private Eye and her gang of retirees, in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida |
| Liz Lipperman |
| • |
Jordan McAllister: substitute culinary reporter in the fictional small town of Ranchero, Texas, in the Clueless Cook mysteries |
| Dick Lochte |
| • |
Serendipity Dahlquist:
gum-snapping 15-year-old girl, and Leo Bloodworth, a grumpy 50-something
private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Jess Lourey |
| • |
Mira James: assistant
librarian and part-time reporter, in Battle Lake, Minnesota, in the
Murder-by-Month mysteries |
| Lisa Lutz |
| • |
Isabele “Izzy” Spellman: 28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation firm, in San Francisco, California |
| Charlotte MacLeod |
| • |
Max Bittersohn:
art detective, and his socially connected wife, Sarah
Kelling, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Peter Shandy: college
botany professor, and Helen Marsh Shandy, a librarian, in Balaclava
County, Massachusetts |
| Mary Jane Maffini |
| • |
Camilla MacPhee: who
runs an advocacy agency for victims of violent crime, in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada |
| Tim Maleeny |
| • |
Cape Weathers: reporter
turned private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
| Susan McBride |
| • |
Andrea “Andy” Kendricks:
30-something webmaster who escaped her formal debut for art school
in Chicago, returning to Dallas, Texas, in the Debutante Dropout
mysteries |
| G.A. McKevett |
| • |
Savannah Reid: plus-sized private investigator in southern California |
| Patrick McManus |
| • |
Bo Tully: sheriff
of Blight County, Idaho |
| Fidelis Morgan |
| • |
Lady Ashby de la Zouche, Countess of Clapham, a 60-something former
mistress of the deceased Charles II, fallen on hard times, and her
former maid Alpiew, around 1700 in London, England |
| Katy Munger |
| • |
Casey Jones:
unlicensed private eye in North Carolina |
| Tamar Myers |
| • |
Magdalena Yoder: owner
and manager of a Mennonite Inn in Hernia, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania-Dutch
mysteries |
| Kris Neri |
| • |
Samantha
Brennan: fake psychic, and Annabelle Haggerty, FBI agent and true
psychic, in Los Angeles, California |
| Leslie O’Kane |
| • |
Molly Masters: cartoonist
and greeting card entrepreneur, in Albany, New York |
| J. Michael Orenduff |
| • |
Hubert Schuze:
pot hunter and owner of a shop selling Native American pottery in
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Joanne Pence |
| • |
Angelina Amalfi: food
columnist and restaurant reviewer, in San Francisco, California |
| Marissa Piesman |
| • |
Nina Fischman: public
service lawyer for the elderly in New York City |
| Malcolm Pryce |
| • |
Louie Knight: private
investigator in Aberystwyth, Wales, in a comic Welsh noir series |
| Ben Rehder |
| • |
John Marlin: game warden,
and Herbert Mackey, a sheriff, in Blanco County, Texas |
| David Rosenfelt |
| • |
Andy Carpenter:
irreverent defense attorney in Paterson, New Jersey |
| Ian Sansom |
| • |
Israel Armstrong: Jewish
vegetarian from London, in charge of a mobile library in the village
of Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, in the Mobile Library mysteries |
| Tom Schreck |
| • |
Duffy Dombrowski: Elvis-loving
boxer and social worker, and his basset hound, Al, in a town near
New York City |
| Mark Schweizer |
| • |
Hayden Konig: police
chief, choir director, and organist at St. Barnabas Episcopal
Church, in the Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North Carolina |
| Julie Smith |
| • |
Rebecca Schwartz: Jewish
feminist lawyer in San Francisco, California |
| Sarah Strohmeyer |
| • |
Bubbles Yablonsky: hairdresser
and journalist in Lehigh, Pennsylvania |
| Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
| • |
Asey Mayo:
former sailor and auto racer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Kathy Hogan Trocheck |
| • |
Callahan Garrity:
cleaning business owner in Atlanta, Georgia |
| L.C. Tyler |
| • |
Ethelred Tressider: a
mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle,
in West Sussex, England |
| Elaine Viets |
| • |
Helen Hawthorne:
who gave up her affluent lifestyle for a series of minimum-wage jobs
in Florida, in the Dead End Job series |
| • |
Josie Marcus:
undercover store spy in St. Louis, Missouri, in the
Mystery Shopper series |
| Donald E. Westlake |
| • |
John Dortmunder: criminal master planner in New York City |
| Charlie Williams |
| • |
Royston Blake: head
doorman at Hopper’s Wine Bar & Bistro, in the
town of Mangel, in the West Country of England |
| R.D. Wingfield |
| • |
Jack Frost: detective
inspector in Denton, England |
| Brian M. Wiprud |
| • |
Garth Carson: taxidermy dealer based in New York City |
| Sue Owens Wright |
| • |
Elsie “Beanie” MacBean:
freelance writer and member of the Washoe Tribe, and her basset
hound, Cruiser, in South Tahoe, Nevada, in the Beanie and Cruiser
series |
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