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| Kenneth Abel |
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Danny Chaisson: former ADA, now bagman for crocked state senator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Kelley Armstrong |
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Nadia Stafford: ex-cop
turned hitwoman, in Ontario, Canada |
| Jake Arnott |
| • |
Harry Starks: charismatic
homosexual gangster in 1960s London, England |
| Philip Atlee |
| • |
Joe (Joseph Liam) Gall:
free-lance soldier of fortune and contract killer for the CIA around
the world |
| Rosemary Aubert |
| • |
Ellis Portal: former lawyer and judge convicted of a crime in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| David Baldacci |
| • |
Will Robie: hit man employed by the US government when all else fails |
| Tom Benn |
| • |
Henry Bane: gang fixer and loanshark, in mid-1990s Manchester, England |
| Raymond Benson |
| • |
Judy Cooper: 1950s costumed female vigilante known as the Black Stiletto |
| Lou Berney |
| • |
Charles “Shake” Bouchon: professional wheelman who walks out of prison after a three-year sentence for grand theft auto determined to change his life and become a chef |
| Kyril Bonfiglioli |
| • |
Charlie Mortdecai:
dishonest art dealer who consorts with international crooks, and
his sidekick Jock Strapp, in England |
| Tony Broadbent |
| • |
Jethro: cat burglar recruited by MI5, in post-WWII London, England |
| Daniel Broun |
| • |
Harry Egypt: thief
and soldier of fortune with a sinister master plan |
| Mark Burnell |
| • |
Stephanie Patrick:
druggie and prostitute turned government assassin, in Europe and
elsewhere |
| Chelsea Cain |
| • |
Gretchen Lowell: serial
killer who tortured and released Archie Sheridan, a police detective,
in Portland, Oregon |
| Tom Cain |
| • |
Samuel Carver: former
British marine, now a hitman who arranges accidents for bad guys
around the world |
| Austin S. Camacho |
| • |
Felicity O’Brian: Irish jewel thief, and Morgan Stark,
a black mercenary soldier |
| Mary Andrea Clarke |
| • |
Georgiana Grey:
young, independent gentlewoman, and a highwayman, the Crimson Cavalier,
in late 18th century London, England |
| Brian Cleeve |
| • |
Sean Ryan: ex-Irish revolutionary, recruited from prison to infiltrate groups whose plans threaten the security of England |
| Martina Cole |
| • |
Patrick Kelly who has underworld connections, and Kate Burrows,
a detective inspector, in the East End of London, England |
| • |
Maura Ryan: who joins the family “firm” and becomes the young queen of the criminal underworld, in the East End of London, England |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
Nolan: aging thief in Iowa |
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Quarry: psychotic Vietnam vet and hired killer in Iowa |
| Richard Condon |
| • |
Charley Partanna:
gourmet cook and hit man for the Prizzi crime family, in New York
City |
| John Creasey |
| • |
The Toff: high-living, villain-hating, law-bending Honorable Richard Rollison |
| Eric Dezenhall |
| • |
Jonah Eastman: pollster
and spin doctor for hire, with family gangster connections, mostly
revolving around New Jersey |
| Garry Disher |
| • |
Wyatt: thief in Melbourne, Australia |
| Richard Doetsch |
| • |
Michael St. Pierre:
master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe |
| Barry Eisler |
| • |
John Rain: freelance assassin in Tokyo, Japan |
| Loren D. Estleman |
| • |
Peter Macklin: hit man for the mob in Detroit, Michigan |
| Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg |
| • |
Nick Fox: international thief and con man, and Kate O’Hare, FBI agent and former Navy Seal, in the Fox & O’Hare mysteries |
| Mary Anna Evans |
| • |
Faye Longchamp: black archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market on her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast |
| Chris Ewan |
| • |
Charlie Howard: mystery
writer and professional thief, in Europe |
| E.X. Ferrars |
| • |
Felix Freer: thief, and Virginia Freer, a physiotherapist, in London, England |
| Robert L. Fish |
| • |
Kek Huuygens: Polish smuggler using a Dutch name and an American passport in Europe |
| Bill Fitzhugh |
| • |
Bob Dillon, a pest exterminator in Queens, New York, and Klaus Müller, an assassin, in the Assassin Bug thrillers |
| Alan Furst |
| • |
Roger Levin: 1970s marijuana dealer and shrewd operator who does for others what they would prefer not to do themselves |
| Jonathan Gash |
| • |
Lovejoy: antiques expert and forger in East Anglia, England |
| Brent Ghelfi |
| • |
Alekei “Volk” Volkovoy:
wounded Chechnya veteran, now
a gangster and covert military operative, in Russia |
| Joseph Mark Glazner |
| • |
Billy Nevers:
operating in the dangerous world of high finance, high crime, and
expensive women, in New York City and elsewhere |
| Bruce Graeme |
| • |
Richard Verrell: known as Blackshirt, a self-educated foundling who becomes a respected mystery author, and burgles for the fun of it, in England |
| • |
Series continued by Roderic
Graeme (Roderic
Jeffries) |
| Lesley Grant-Adamson |
| • |
Jim Rush: American on the run from British police in England |
| Sarah Graves |
| • |
Jacobia Triptree: onetime financial advisor to the Mob, now living in Eastport, Maine, in the Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries |
| Mark Greaney |
| • |
Court Gentry (The
Gray Man): former CIA operative, now an international hired assassin |
| Derek Haas |
| • |
Columbus (The Silver
Bear): world-weary international hired assassin |
| Timothy Hallinan |
| • |
Junior Bender: high-end burglar who moonlights as a private eye for crooks, in Los Angeles, California |
| Steve Hamilton |
| • |
Nick Mason: released from prison after serving five years of a 25-to-life term by a Chicago crime boss who wants his services |
| June Hampson |
| • |
Daisy Lane, caught up in gangster life starting in 1960s London and Gosport, England |
| Elizabeth Hand |
| • |
Cass “Scary” Neary: amoral speedfreak kleptomaniac murderous alcoholic bisexual heavily-tattooed American female photographer |
| Chris Haslam |
| • |
Martin Brock: stoned-out small-time drug dealer who fled Britain |
| Patricia Highsmith |
| • |
Tom Ripley: charming forger and psychopath in England |
| Matt Hilton |
| • |
Joe Hunter: ex-counterterrorism
operative raised in Manchester, England, now a vigilante for hire
in the USA |
| Edward D. Hoch |
| • |
Nick Velvet: thief who steals only valueless things |
| James Patrick Hunt |
| • |
Dan Bridger:
elite professional thief on the run from the cops and the Mob |
| Selwyn Jepson |
| • |
Eve Gill: young
sleuth frequently dealing with problems caused by her liquor-smuggling
father, in England |
| Bett Reece Johnson |
| • |
Cordelia Morgan: lesbian hit artist turned sleuth, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado |
| Jessie Keane |
| • |
Annie Bailey, later Annie Carter, on the streets of London, a gangster’s moll, and more, in early 1970s London, England |
| Marne Davis Kellogg |
| • |
Kick Keswick: master jewel thief who worked for an auction house
in London, England for 30 years, now retired to Provence,
France |
| Adam Kennedy |
| • |
Roy Tucker: in prison
for murdering his wife, is offered freedom by a mysterious government
agency to assassinate a politician |
| Mike Knowles |
| • |
Wilson: mob enforcer
who double-crosses his mafia boss, in Hamilton, Ontario, later on
Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| Roberta Kray |
| • |
Gangland novels in
London, England |
| Michael Kurland |
| • |
Professor
Moriarty: the Napoleon of Crime and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes,
in 1890s London, England |
| Jens Lapidus |
| • |
Teddy, an ex-con trying to reform, and Emelie, a new lawyer, in Stockholm, Sweden |
| • |
The criminal underground in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Stockholm Noir trilogy |
| Janice Law |
| • |
Anna Peters: reformed blackmailer and oil company researcher turned security expert, in Connecticut |
| Maurice Leblanc |
| • |
Arsène Lupin: young, handsome, brave, and roguish Prince of Thieves, who sometimes helped the police in Paris, France |
| Hailey Lind |
| • |
Annie Kincaid: reformed
art forger now in the faux finishing business, in the Art Lover’s
mysteries |
| Jeff Lindsay |
| • |
Dexter Morgan: blood spatter technician for Miami Dade Police Department, and sociopathic serial killer in Florida |
| Howard Linskey |
| • |
David Blake: white-collar criminal, working for gangster Bobby Mahoney, in Newcastle, England |
| Malcolm Mackay |
| • |
Frank MacLeod: aging underground hit man in Glasgow, Scotland, in the Glasgow Trilogy |
| Dan J. Marlowe |
| • |
Earl Drake:
bank robber, killer, and part-time tree surgeon, later a secret
agent |
| Nancy Martin |
| • |
Roxana “Roxy” Abruzzo:
an independent-minded niece of a Mafia boss with a teenage daughter,
owner of Bada Bling Architectural Salvage, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Andrew Masterson |
| • |
Joe Panther:
drug dealer, killer, messiah, and private investigator, in Melbourne,
Australia |
| Frank McAuliffe |
| • |
Augustus Mandrell:
of the one-man professional killer firm Mandrell, Ltd., during and
after WWII |
| Patrícia Melo |
| • |
Maiquel: criminal and contract killer in a poor part of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Anthony Morton (John Creasey) |
| • |
The Baron: John Mannering, ex-jewel thief and antiques dealer |
| Francis M. Nevins |
| • |
Milo Turner:
con-man and private investigator in St. Louis, Missouri |
| Harri Nykänen |
| • |
Raid: a hit man in Finland |
| Raymond Obstfeld |
| • |
Harry Gould:
small-time grifter in New York City |
| Frank Packard |
| • |
Jimmie Dale: wealthy
dilettante and safecracker by night as the Robin-Hoodish Gray Seal,
in New York City |
| Frank Parrish (Roger Erskine Longrigg) |
| • |
Don Mallett:
thief and poacher, in Medwell Fratorum, England |
| Eliot Pattison |
| • |
Duncan McCallum: Scottish prisoner transported to Colonial America |
| Ritchie Perry |
| • |
Philis: Brazilian smuggler turned British intelligence agent in Brazil |
| Gary Phillips |
| • |
Martha Chainey: courier for the corporate mob in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Peter Rabe |
| • |
Daniel Port: gangster
who leaves a midwest syndicate and travels the country helping others
go straight |
| Robert Reeves |
| • |
Cellini Smith:
accountant for the Mob in New York City, turned honest private investigator
in Los Angeles, California |
| Sax Rohmer |
| • |
Fu Manchu: pursuer of world dominance |
| • |
Sumuru: master plotter working towards world dominance |
| William Sanders |
| • |
Taggart Roper: freelance writer, living in a trailer with his dog, and moonlighting as a petty criminal, in Oklahoma |
| John Sandford |
| • |
LuEllen: a thief, and Kidd, a computer whiz, in Minneapolis, Minnesot |
| Barbara Seranella |
| • |
Munch Mancini: ex-druggie and jailbird in 1970s Los Angeles, California |
| Simon Shaw |
| • |
Philip Fletcher:
British thespian and killer in London, England |
| Evelyn E. Smith |
| • |
Susan Melville: spinster art teacher and painter who becomes
a freelance assassin, in New York City |
| Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) |
| • |
Alan Grofield: actor and part-time bank robber, in New York City |
| • |
Parker: cold-blooded professional thief in New York City |
| Wallace Stroby |
| • |
Crissa Stone: a professional criminal with a lover in prison and a daughter she’d like to get back |
| Donald Thomas |
| • |
Sonny Tarrant:
gangster in 1930s-1940s London, England |
| Steven M. Thomas |
| • |
Robert Rivers:
burglar and stickup man in Orange County and Los Angeles, California |
| Will Thomas |
| • |
Thomas Llewelyn: ex-student and ex-thief, now assistant to Cyrus
Barker, a private detective, in Victorian London,
England |
| J.F. Trainor |
| • |
Peter Benington: retired jewel thief, and Benny Ashe, a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida, in the Old Gang of Mine series |
| Andrew H. Vachss |
| • |
Burke:
outlaw soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City |
| Michael Van Rooy |
| • |
Monty Haaviko:
semi-reformed ex-convict prowling the mean streets of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada |
| Jess Walter |
| • |
Vince Camden: member of the witness-protection program, manager
of a donut shop by day, and a gambler and thief by night, in Spokane,
Washingto |
| Richard F. West |
| • |
Peter Benington: retired jewel thief, and Benny Ashe, a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida, in the Old Gang of Mine series |
| Donald E. Westlake |
| • |
John Dortmunder: criminal master planner in New York City |
| Alan Williams |
| • |
Charles Pol: Marxist
bandit and lingerie shop owner, in Paris, France |
| Don Winslow |
| • |
Neal Carey: youthful
pickpocket turned private investigator, in New York City |
| Tom Wood |
| • |
Victor the Assassin: the world’s deadliest hit man for hire, later working for the CIA |
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