|
| Anthony Abbot |
| • |
Thatcher Colt: police
commissioner in New York City |
| Lynn Abercrombie (Walter Sorrells) |
| • |
Mechelle
Deakes: African-American police detective demoted to
the cold case unit, in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Alvin Abram |
| • |
Gabe Garshowitz: Jewish
homicide detective, and his beautiful young partner, Iris Forester,
a detective constable, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Richard K. Abshire |
| • |
Charlie Gants: ex-homicide detective in Texas |
| Jane Adams |
| • |
Naomi Blake: blind ex-policewoman
in the Midlands of England |
| • |
Mike Croft: detective
inspector in Norfolk, England |
| • |
Ray Flowers: former
police sergeant, now a private investigator, in England |
| M.J. Adamson |
| • |
Balthazar
Marten: NYPD homicide detective, and
Sixto Cardenas, a Puerto Rican cop, in Puerto Rico |
| Jussi Adler-Olsen |
| • |
Carl Mørck:
homicide detective in Department Q, and his assistant
Assad, in Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Peter Alding (Roderic Jeffries) |
| • |
Constable John
Kerr:
and inspector Robert Fusil in the fictious seaside Fortrow, England |
| Bruce Alexander |
| • |
Sir John Fielding:
blind magistrate and founder of the first police force in 1700s
London, England |
| Gary Alexander |
| • |
Luis Balam: ex-traffic
cop turned tour operator in the Yucatán,
México |
| • |
Bamson Kiet: police
superintendent in an imaginary country in the Far East |
| Michael Allegretto |
| • |
Jacob Lomax: ex-cop turned private investigator, in Denver,
Colorado |
| Kate Allen |
| • |
Alison Kaine: lesbian
police officer in Denver, Colorado |
| Lou Allin |
| • |
Holly Martin:
corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on Vancouver Island,
British Columbia, Canada |
| Doug Allyn |
| • |
Lupe Garcia: homicide
detective in Detroit, Michigan |
| Angela Amato & Joe Sharkey |
| • |
Gerry Conte: undercover
cop turned defense attorney in New York City |
| Delano Ames |
| • |
Juan Llorca: sergeant in the Civil Guard in Spain |
| Russell Andrews (David Handler and Peter Gethers) |
| • |
Justin Westwood: former Providence, RI, cop, retreating to the
local police department in East End Harbor, Long Island, New York |
| Anne Argula |
| • |
Quinn: ex-cop turned private investigator, in Spokane and Seattle,
Washington |
| Campbell Armstrong (Campbell Black) |
| • |
Frank Pagan: detective from Special Branch, Scotland Yard, in London, England, combating international spies and terrorists |
| • |
Lou Perlman: Jewish police detective in Glasgow, Scotland |
| David Armstrong |
| • |
Frank Kavanagh:
detective inspector, and later, detective constable Jane Salt, in
Birmingham, England |
| Vivien Armstrong |
| • |
Roger Hayes: detective chief inspector and former classical pianist, in the village of Newton Greys, Oxfordshire, England |
| • |
Judith Pullen: a detective sergeant, often assisted by her former chief inspector, Ralph Arnott, in England |
| Arnaldur Indridason |
| • |
Erlendur Sveinsson: detective inspector, and his colleagues Sigurdur
Oli and Elinborg, in Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Gordon Ashe (John Creasey) |
| • |
Patrick Dawlish:
who works with British Intelligence and later at
Scotland Yard |
| David Ashton |
| • |
James McLevy: police inspector in 1880s Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Pieter Aspe |
| • |
Pieter Van In: police inspector, in Bruges, Belgium |
| Pierre Audemars |
| • |
Monsieur Pinaud: inspector in the Sûreté, a conscientious family man, and the greatest detective in France |
| A.C. Baantjer |
| • |
Jurrian De Cock: (DeKok in US publications), detective inspector
in the police department, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Jacqueline Babbin |
| • |
Clovis Kelly:
ex-NYPD homicide detective and TV crime consultant,
in New York City |
| George Bagby (Aaron Marc Stein) |
| • |
Inspector Schmidt: colorless cop with a brilliant mind, in
New York City |
| John Ball |
| • |
Jack Tallon: Los Angeles
police sergeant who becomes police chief in Whitewater, Washington |
| • |
Virgil Tibbs: black homicide
detective based in Pasadena, California |
| Jean-Luc Bannalec |
| • |
Georges Dupin: former Paris detective, now a police Commissaire exiled to Brittany, France |
| Alex Barclay |
| • |
Joe Lucchesi: police detective in New York City |
| Robert Barnard |
| • |
Charlie Peace:
young black Scotland Yard detective first in London
and then in Leeds, England |
| • |
Perry Trethowan:
Scotland Yard inspector in London, England |
| Dallas Barnes |
| • |
John Stryker: detective
sergeant in Los Angeles, California |
| Trevor Barnes |
| • |
Blanche Hampton:
detective superintendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| James Barnett |
| • |
Owen Smith: detective
chief superintendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Nancy Bartholomew |
| • |
Stella Valocchi: ex-Florida cop, now a private investigator in
Chester County, Pennsylvania |
| Milton Bass |
| • |
Vinnie Altobelli: ex-cop coronary survivor and private investigator,
in San Bernadino, California |
| Colin Bateman |
| • |
Jimmie Murphy: undercover police officer in London, England |
| George Baxt |
| • |
Pharoah Love: gay,
black police detective in New York City |
| • |
Max Van Larsen: a
police detective, and Sylvia Plotkin, an author and teacher, in New
York City |
| William Bayer |
| • |
Frank Janek: NYPD
homicide detective in New York City |
| Gregory Bean |
| • |
Harry Starbranch:
burned-out Denver cop turned small-town police
chief, in Victory, Wyoming |
| Maegan Beaumont |
| • |
Sabrina Vaughn: homicide detective (and former teenage abduction victim) in San Francisco, California |
| James Becker (Peter Stuart Smith) |
| • |
Chris Bronson: detective sergeant, later working undercover for the Metropolitan Police, based in London, England, in an historical conspiracy thriller series |
| Rose Beecham |
| • |
Jude Devine: lesbian
ex-FBI agent, now a Montezuma County Sheriff’s detective in
Utah |
| • |
Amanda Valentine:
lesbian detective inspector in Wellington, New
Zealand |
| Sophie Belfort |
| • |
Nick Hannibal:
homicide detective, and Molly Rafferty, a history professor
at Scattergood College, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Josephine Bell |
| • |
Inspector Steven Mitchell:
of Scotland Yard, Claude Warrington-Reeve,
barrister, and Dr. David Wintringham, in England |
| Pauline Bell |
| • |
Benny Mitchell: brash detective constable in Cloughton, Yorkshire,
England |
| George Bellairs |
| • |
Thomas Littlejohn: police inspector, later Superintendent, mostly
in England |
| James R. Benn |
| • |
Billy Boyle: Boston cop from a family of Boston cops, on the
staff of distant relative, General Eisenhower, during WWII |
| Ira Berkowitz |
| • |
Jackson Steeg: suspended
cop with a drinking problem, in Hell’s Kitchen,
New York City |
| William Bernhardt |
| • |
Susan Pulaski: police profiler who struggles with alcoholism,
in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Linda Berry |
| • |
Trudy Roundtree: the
only woman on the Ogeechee police force in Ogeechee, Georgia |
| Margaret Bevege |
| • |
Elizabeth Ludowski:
detective appointed to the Police Commissioner’s Special Assignment
Squad, in Queensland, Australia |
| Earl Derr Biggers |
| • |
Charlie Chan:
police detective based in Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Mark Billingham |
| • |
Tom Thorne: middle aged detective inspector in London, England |
| Harry Bingham |
| • |
Fiona Griffiths: young detective constable with a philosophy degree from Cambridge, in Cardiff, Wales |
| Baron R. Birtcher |
| • |
Mike Travis: newly retired cop building a charter sailing business,
in Los Angeles, California |
| Paul Bishop |
| • |
Fey Croaker: 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 |
| Samuel Bjørk |
| • |
Holger Munch: veteran homicide detective, and his suicidal former partner, Mia Krüger, in Oslo, Norway |
| Ethan Black (Bob Reiss) |
| • |
Conrad Voort: NYPD’s
richest detective, in New York City |
| Ingrid Black |
| • |
Grace Fitzgerald: Detective Chief Superintendent with the murder
squad, and Saxon, a former US FBI agent turned true-crime writer,
in Dublin, Ireland |
| Michael A. Black |
| • |
Francisco (Frank)
Leal: a half-Hispanic sergeant with the Cook County Sheriff’s
Department, and Olivia Hart, a female bodybuilder and officer,
in Chicago, Illinois |
| Saul Black |
| • |
Valerie Hart: homicide detective in San Francisco, California |
| Tony Black |
| • |
Rob Brennan: detective inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland |
| Sara Blaedel |
| • |
Louise Rick: detective
inspector (later chief inspector), and her friend Camilla Lind, a
journalist, in Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Peggy Blair |
| • |
Ricardo Ramirez: police inspector and head of the Major Crimes Unit in Havana, Cuba |
| Al Blanchard |
| • |
James Callahan: homicide
detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Eleanor Taylor Bland |
| • |
Marti MacAlister:
widowed black police detective in Lincoln Prairie,
Illinois |
| Giles Blunt |
| • |
John Cardinal: detective
near Algonquin Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Johnny D. Boggs |
| • |
Daniel Killstraight:
young Comanche sent off to the Carlisle School for seven years before
returning to the Comanche Nation to serve as a policeman |
| Norman Bogner |
| • |
Michel Danton: police
detective in the south of France |
| Janie Bolitho |
| • |
Ian Roper: Detective
Chief Inspector, in Rickenham, England |
| S.J. Bolton |
| • |
Lacey Flint: a young detective constable in London, England |
| Hilary Bonner |
| • |
Karen Meadows: detective inspector with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, and John Kelly, a former Fleet Street reporter with addiction problems, in England |
| • |
Rose Piper: detective chief inspector with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, in England |
| Stephen Booth |
| • |
Detective Constable Ben
Cooper: trying to fill his
police sergeant father’s shoes, and new partner, Diane Fry,
recently transferred to Edendale’s force, in the Peak District
in England |
| Todd Borg |
| • |
Owen McKenna: ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private
investigator, and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at lake Tahoe,
California and Nevada |
| James O. Born |
| • |
Bill Tasker: agent
of the Department of Law Enforcement in Florida |
| Mark Bouton |
| • |
Rick Dover: homicide
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Peter Bowen |
| • |
Gabriel Du Pré:
Métis (Cree and French, maybe a little English)
cattle inspector and sometimes sheriff, in Montana |
| Rhys Bowen |
| • |
Evan Evans: village
constable in Llanfair, Wales |
| Laura Bradford |
| • |
Mitch Burns: police detective, and Elise Jenkins, a reporter
for the Ocean Point Weekly, in Ocean Point, New Jersey |
| Mel Bradshaw |
| • |
Paul Shenstone: police detective in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Conor Brady |
| • |
Joe Swallow: detective sergeant in 1880s Dublin, Ireland |
| John Brady |
| • |
Felix Kimmel: police
inspector in rural Austria |
| • |
Matt Minogue: police
sergeant detective in Dublin, Ireland |
| Don Bredes |
| • |
Hector Bellevance: a
disgraced Boston cop rebuilding his life as a constable in his childhood
home of Tipton, in northeast Vermont |
| Jørgen Brekke |
| • |
Odd Singsaker: police inspector in Trondheim, Norway |
| Emily Brightwell |
| • |
Inspector
Witherspoon: policeman, and Mrs. Jeffries, his housekeeper,
in London, England, in the Victorian mysteries |
| D.C. Brod |
| • |
Quint McCauley: ex-cop turned private investigator in a Chicago
suburb in Illinois |
| Janet Brons |
| • |
Liz Forsyth: RCMP Inspector based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Stephen Hay, a Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| P.J. Brooke |
| • |
Max Romano: half-Scottish,
half-Spanish police detective (sub-inspector) in Granada, Spain |
| Christopher Brookmyre |
| • |
Angelique De
Xavier: police officer in Glasgow, Scotland |
| • |
Catherine McLeod, a detective superintendent, and Jasmine Sharp, a former actress, now a private investigator, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Grace Brophy |
| • |
Alessandro Cenni: maverick state police commissario, in Assisi, Umbria, Italy |
| Carter Brown |
| • |
Al Wheeler: sheriff’s homicide investigator, in fictional
Pine County, near Los Angeles, California |
| Marshall Browne |
| • |
Anders: one-legged
police inspector, specializing in anti-terrorism, in Italy |
| Alison Bruce |
| • |
Gary Goodhew: detective
constable at Parkside Station, in Cambridge, England |
| Leo Bruce |
| • |
Sergeant Beef: beer-and-darts-loving
common man in England |
| Edna Buchanan |
| • |
Craig Burch: sergeant
in the police Cold Case Squad, in Miami, Florida |
| • |
Michael Venturi:
deputy U.S. marshall involved in running the Federal Witness Protection
Program |
| Robin Burcell |
| • |
Kate Gillespie:
homicide inspector in San Francisco, California |
| Alafair Burke |
| • |
Ellie Hatcher:
detective for the NYPD in New York City |
| James Lee Burke |
| • |
Hack Holland:
hard-drinking lawyer, Korean War POW, progressive
Democrat, now a sheriff, in Texas |
| • |
Dave Robicheaux:
deputy sheriff in New Iberia, Louisiana |
| W.J. Burley |
| • |
Charles Wycliffe: area
CID superintendent in West Country, England |
| Rex Burns |
| • |
Gabe Wager: homicide
detective in Denver, Colorado |
| Steve Burrows |
| • |
Domenic Jejeune: a former Canadian police officer newly installed as Detective Chief Inspector in the town of Saltmarsh, Norfolk, England, in the Birder Murder mysteries |
| Miles Burton (John Rhode) |
| • |
Henry Arnold:
Scotland Yard inspector, and Desmond Merrion, a military intelligence
officer who becomes a private detective, in England |
| Roger Busby |
| • |
Leric: detective inspector
for Scotland Yard in London, England |
| • |
Tony Rowley: detective
inspector for Scotland Yard in London, England |
| Gwendoline Butler |
| • |
John Coffin:
police inspector rising through the ranks to Commissioner, and his
wife, Stella Pinero, an actress, in south London, England |
| • |
William Winter:
police inspector, later superintendent, in south
London, England |
| Alan Caillou |
| • |
Cabot Cain: 6-foot
7-inch tall athletic genius with multiple degrees, working with Interpol
around the world |
| Chelsea Cain |
| • |
Archie:
a police detective, and Gretchen Lowell, a serial killer
who tortured and released him, in Portland, Oregon |
| Karen Campbell |
| • |
Anna Cameron: police
sergeant, later Chief Inspector, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Alexander Campion |
| • |
Capucine LeTellier, a police detective specializing in white-collar crime, and her husband Alexandre, a portly food critic, in Paris, France, in the Capucine Culinary mysteries |
| Stephen J. Cannell |
| • |
Shane Scully: police sergeant in Los Angeles, California |
| Lillian Stewart Carl |
| • |
Alasdair Cameron: police detective, and Jean Fairbairn, working
for an Edinburgh-based history and travel magazine, in Scotland |
| P.M. Carlson |
| • |
Marty Hopkins: deputy
sheriff in Nichols County, Indiana |
| J.R. Carroll |
| • |
Dennis Gatz: homicide
detective in Melbourne, Australia |
| Terry Carroll |
| • |
Carl North: small-town
cop and amateur hockey goalie, in Belleford and then St. Thomas,
Ontario, Canada |
| Alan Carter |
| • |
Cato Kwong: Detective
Senior Sergeant in Western Australia |
| Maureen Carter |
| • |
Bev Morriss:
lippy but loveable detective sergeant in Birmingham, England |
| • |
Sarah Quinn: detective
inspector in Birmingham, England, by Maureen Carter |
| Tania Carver (Martyn & Linda Waites) |
| • |
Philip Brennan:
detective inspector in the Major Incident Squad, and Marina Esposito,
a psychologist, in Colchester, England |
| Jane Casey |
| • |
Maeve Kerrigan: ambitious
young detective constable, in London, England |
| Kathryn Casey |
| • |
Sarah Armstrong:
criminal profiler lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, and a recently
widowed mother, based in Houston, Texas |
| Richard Castle |
| • |
Nikki Heat: tough,
sexy, professional NYPD homicide detective, in New York City |
| Linda Castillo |
| • |
Kate Burkholder:
female chief of police in the Amish town of Painters Mill, Ohio |
| Karen Rose Cercone |
| • |
Milo Kachigan:
policeman, and Helen Sorby, a social worker, in 1905 Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania |
| Cassandra Chan |
| • |
Jack Gibbons: detective
sergeant at Scotland Yard, and Phillip Bethancourt his rich friend,
man-about-town from university days, in London, England |
| Henry Chang |
| • |
Jack Yu: police detective
in Chinatown, New York City |
| Brenda Chapman |
| • |
Kala Stonechild: First Nations police recruit, and detective Jacques Rouleau, in Ottawa, later Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Kate Charles |
| • |
Mark Lombardi:
police officer, DI Neville Stewart, and Callie Anson, a newly ordained
Anglican cleric, in London, England |
| J.D. Carpenter |
| • |
Campbell Young: racetrack-loving
homicide detective, later a private investigator, and his friend
Priam Harvey, a racetrack journalist, mostly in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
| Paul Charles |
| • |
Christy Kennedy: Irish-born
Detective Inspector of Camden CID in England |
| • |
Inspector Starrett:
of the Garda Serious Crime Unit, in County Donegal,
Ireland |
| Thomas Chastain |
| • |
Max Kauffman: NYPD inspector, and J.T. Spanner, a private investigator,
in New York City |
| Jerome Charyn |
| • |
Isaac Sidel: deputy police commissioner, later Mayor, in New
York City |
| James Church |
| • |
Inspector O: state security officer, in North Korea |
| Douglas Clark |
| • |
George Masters: Scotland
Yard DCI and later Chief Superintendent, and Bill Green, a Detective
Inspector and later DCI, in London, England |
| Lowen Clausen |
| • |
Seattle police trilogy:
variously featuring Sam Wright, Katherine Murphy, and Grace Stevens,
in Seattle, Washington |
| Jon Cleary |
| • |
Scobie Malone: family-man
and a police inspector in Sydney, Australia |
| Ann Cleeves |
| • |
Jimmy Perez: police
detective inspector in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, in
the Shetland Island Quartet |
| • |
Stephen Ramsey: impulsive
police inspector in Northumberland, England |
| • |
Vera Stanhope: detective
inspector in East Yorkshire, England |
| Blaize Clement |
| • |
Dixie Hemingway: former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional
pet sitter, in Sarasota, Florida |
| Andrew Coburn |
| • |
James Morgan: police
chief in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tucker Coe (Donald E. Westlake) |
| • |
Mitch Tobin: ex-cop private investigator in Queens, New York |
| Gabriel Cohen |
| • |
Jack Leightner:
homicide detective in Brooklyn, New York |
| Julian Cole |
| • |
Sam Rounder: a plump
detective chief inspector, and his younger brother Rick Rounder,
an ex-cop private investigator, in York, England |
| Martina Cole |
| • |
Kate Burrows:
detective inspector, and Patrick Kelly, her lover with underworld
connections, in the East End of London, England |
| Chris Collett |
| • |
Tom Mariner: detective
inspector in Birmingham, England |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
CSI:
Crime scene investigators (TV Tie-in), in either Las Vegas, Nevada,
or Miami, Florida |
| • |
Eliot Ness:
1930s public safety officer in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Jodi Compton |
| • |
Sarah Pribek: missing
persons detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Michael Connelly |
| • |
Harry Bosch:
homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| John Connor |
| • |
Karen Sharpe: detective
constable, later detective sergeant, in 1990s Yorkshire, England |
| K.C. Constantine |
| • |
Mario Balzic:
small-town police chief in Rocksburg, Pennsylvania |
| Thomas H. Cook |
| • |
Frank Clemons:
homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later a
private eye in New York City |
| Susan Rogers Cooper |
| • |
Milt Kovak:
sheriff in Prophesy County, Oklahoma |
| Patricia Cornwell |
| • |
Judy Hammer: Chief of Police, Deputy Virginia West, and Andy Brazil,
a young reporter turned rookie cop, in North Carolina and Virginia |
| John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington |
| • |
Ralph “Rat” Trapp:
black homicide detective captain, in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Miles Corwin |
| • |
Ash Levine: former Israeli paratrooper and top detective in the elite LAPD Felony Squad, in Los Angeles, California |
| Roberto Costantini |
| • |
Michele Balistreri: police commissario in charge of World Cup security, in 2006 Rome, Italy, in the “Evil” trilogy [Trilogia del Male] reaching into the past |
| S.H. Courtier |
| • |
Digger Haig: police
inspector, in Australia |
| • |
Ambrose Mahon: police
inspector, later superintendent, in Australia |
| Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) |
| • |
Madoc Rhys: Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector, and his
wife Janet Rhys, in New Brunswick, Canada |
| James Craig |
| • |
John Carlyle: inspector in the Metropolitan Police, in London, England |
| David Cray (Stephen Solomita) |
| • |
Julie Brennan:
NYPD detective in New York City |
| Bill Crider |
| • |
Dan Rhodes:
laid-back sheriff with a motley crew of deputies in Blacklin County,
Texas |
| • |
Ted Stephens:
homicide detective sergeant in Houston, Texas (written with
Clyde Wilson) |
| Freeman Wills Crofts |
| • |
Joseph French:
inspector at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Deborah Crombie |
| • |
Duncan Kincaid:
Scotland Yard superintendent, and Gemma James, a sergeant, in London,
England |
| Lonnie Cruse |
| • |
Joe Dalton: sheriff in Metropolis, Illinois |
| E.V. Cunningham |
| • |
John Comaday: police
commissioner, and Larry Cohen, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney,
in New York City |
| • |
Harvey Krim: police
detective in New York City |
| • |
Masao Masuto:
Detective Sergeant in Beverly Hills, California |
| Thomas Rendell Curran |
| • |
Eric Stride:
police inspector with the Newfoundland Constabulary, in late 1940s
St. John’s, Newfoundland, before confederation with Canada |
| Clare Curzon |
| • |
Mike Yeadings: police
superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley,
England |
| Judith Cutler |
| • |
Fran Harman:
Detective Chief Superintendent nearing retirement in Kent, England |
| Carroll John Daly |
| • |
Satan Hall:
police detective in New York City |
| Freda Davies |
| • |
Keith Tyrell: detective inspector in Gloucestershire, England |
| William L. DeAndrea |
| • |
Lobo
Blacke: crippled ex-frontier lawman, and Quinn
Booker, his biographer in Le Four, Wyoming |
| Vicki Delany |
| • |
Molly Smith: rookie constable, and Sergeant John Winters, in
the mountain town Trafalgar, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nelson DeMille |
| • |
John Corey:
NYPD detective in Long Island, New York |
| • |
Joe Keller:
NYPD homicide detective in New York City |
| • |
Joe Ryker:
NYPD homicide detective in New York City |
| Eileen Dewhurst |
| • |
Neil Carter: Scotland
Yard detective, in London, England |
| • |
Tim LePage: detective
inspector, and Anna Weston, a veterinarian, on the island of Guernsey,
UK |
| Peter de Jonge |
| • |
Darlene O’Hara, a homicide detective in the 7th precinct, and her partner, Serge “K.” Krekorian, in New York City |
| Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) |
| • |
Colonel March:
head of Scotland Yard’s fictitious Department D-3, the Department
of Queer Complaints |
| Michael Dibdin |
| • |
Aurelio Zen:
Italian police inspector in Rome, Italy |
| Peter Dickinson |
| • |
James Pibble: Scotland
Yard Superintendent, later a private investigator, in London, England |
| Denise Dietz |
| • |
Ellie Bernstein: diet group leader, and homicide Lt. Peter Miller,
in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Eilís Dillon |
| • |
Mike Kenny: police
inspector in Dublin, Ireland |
| Garry Disher |
| • |
Hal Challis: Detective
Inspector on the Peninsula south-east of Melbourne, Australia |
| Doris Miles Disney |
| • |
Jim O’Neill:
police officer in Connecticut |
| Hildegarde Dolson |
| • |
James McDougal:
homicide inspector,
and Lucy Ramsdale, a widowed artist, in Wingate, Connecticut |
| James D. Doss |
| • |
Charlie Moon: Ute police
officer in Grant Creek, Colorado |
| Donald McNutt Douglass |
| • |
Bolivar Manchenil:
police captain, and grandson of a freed slave, on an unnamed island
in the Caribbean |
| Nick Drake |
| • |
Rai Rahotep: young chief
detective in the Thebes Division, in ancient Egypt (14th century
BCE) |
| Charles Drummond (Kenneth Giles) |
| • |
Bob Reed:
a police sergeant under a disciplinary cloud, used for odd jobs by
Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Susan Dunlap |
| • |
Jill Smith: homicide
detective in Berkeley, California |
| John Dunning |
| • |
Cliff Janeway: cop
and rare book expert in Denver, Colorado |
| Michael Allen Dymmoch |
| • |
John Thinnes:
cop, and Jack Caleb, a gay psychiatrist, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Don Easton |
| • |
Jack Taggart: undercover Mountie, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Marjorie Eccles |
| • |
Gil Mayo: police
detective in the Midlands, England |
| • |
Herbert Reardon: detective inspector in late 1920s Shropshire, England |
| A.E. Eddenden |
| • |
Albert V. Tretheway:
Inspector, and Jake Small, Constable, 1940s Canadian police officers
in Fort York, Ontario |
| Paul Eddy |
| • |
Grace Flint: undercover
British police inspector involved in international intrigue |
| Loren D. Estleman |
| • |
Page Murdock:
deputy US Marshal in 1880s American West (and Canada) |
| Åke Edwardson |
| • |
Jonathan Wide: divorced
ex-policeman turned private detective, in Gothenburg, Sweden |
| • |
Erik Winter: jazz-loving
Chief Inspector of police, in Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Lesley Egan (Elizabeth Linington) |
| • |
Vic Varallo:
small-town cop who moves to Glendale, California |
| Aaron Elkins & Charlotte Elkins |
| • |
Graham Sheldon:
cop, and Lee Ofsted, struggling woman golfer |
| Kate Ellis |
| • |
Wesley Peterson: detective
sergeant, and Gerry Heffernan, his boss, in South Devon, England |
| • |
Joe Plantagenet:
detective inspector in Eborby, North Yorkshire,
England |
| Robert Ellis |
| • |
Lena Gamble: young
police detective just promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division,
in Los Angeles, California |
| J.T. Ellison |
| • |
Taylor Jackson:
homicide lieutenant, and her lover, FBI profiler John Baldwin,
in Nashville, Tennessee |
| James Ellroy |
| • |
Lloyd Hopkins:
detective sergeant in the Rampart Division in Los
Angeles, California |
| P.S. Elsner |
| • |
Nick Dallas: young but
retired cop, now a private investigator in 1950s Detroit, Michigan |
| P.S. Elsner |
| • |
Nick Dallas: young but
retired cop, now a private investigator in 1950s Detroit, Michigan |
| Dianne Emley |
| • |
Nan Vining: homicide
detective along with her partner, Jim Kissick, and single mom to
Emily, in Pasadena, California |
| John Enright |
| • |
Apelu Soifua: detective sergeant, formerly with the San Francisco Police Department, now back home in Pago Pago, American Samoa, in the Jungle Beat mysteries |
| Margaret Erskine |
| • |
Septimus Finch:
large, bland detective inspector, later Chief Inspector, in England |
| Stanley Evans |
| • |
Sergeant Decker:
frontier lawman in 1860s British Columbia, Canada |
| • |
Silas Seaweed: a
Coast Salish Aboriginal beat cop on the streets of Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada |
| Colin Falconer |
| • |
Madeleine Fox: detective
inspector in London, England |
| Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert) |
| • |
Edmund Blackstone: Bow Street runner in early 19th-century London, England |
| Diane Fanning |
| • |
Lucinda Pierce: homicide
detective lieutenant back on the job after losing an eye in a domestic
violence case, in Virginia |
| John Farrow (Trevor Ferguson) |
| • |
Emile Cinq-Mars:
detective sergeant of French and Indian extraction, in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada |
| Ron Faust |
| • |
Dan Shaw: former military
policeman, now a cop going to night law school and studying for the
bar exam, in the Florida Keys |
| Lyndsay Faye |
| • |
Timothy Wilde: ex-bartender and officer in the newly organized police force, in 1845 New York City |
| Ruth Fenisong |
| • |
Gridley Nelson: rich,
Princeton-educated homicide lieutenant, later captain, in New York
City |
| Dan Fesperman |
| • |
Vlado Petric: police
investigator in war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Jasper Fforde |
| • |
Thursday Next: agent
of the Special Operations Network, Literary Division, in Great Britain |
| • |
Detective Jack Spratt:
investigator in the Nursery Crimes Division, in Reading, England |
| Tricia Fields |
| • |
Josie Gray: police chief in the small border town of Artemis, Texas |
| Conor Fitzgerald |
| • |
Alec Blume: American
ex-patriot police commissario, in Rome, Italy |
| Scott Flander |
| • |
Eddie North: police
sergeant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Richard Fliegel |
| • |
Shelly Lowenkopf:
Jewish police sergeant, later a private investigator, in the Bronx,
New York |
| Kate Flora |
| • |
Joe Burgess: crusty, but big-hearted, homicide detective sergeant,
in Portland, Maine |
| Pat Flower |
| • |
Bert Swinton: intuitive
detective inspector in Sydney, Australia |
| Raymond Flynn |
| • |
Robert Graham: detective
inspector in Eddathorpe, England |
| C.B. Forrest |
| • |
Charlie McKelvey: 30-year
veteran police detective whose runaway son was murdered, starting
in 1999 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Katherine V. Forrest |
| • |
Kate Delafield:
lesbian homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Barbara Fradkin |
| • |
Michael Green:
police inspector in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Anthea Fraser |
| • |
David Webb: detective
chief inspector in Wiltshire, England |
| Sara Fraser |
| • |
Thomas Potts: reluctant constable of Tardebrigge parish, in 1820s Worcestershire, England |
| Nicolas Freeling |
| • |
Henri Castang:
police detective in Brussels, Belgium |
| • |
Piet
Van Der Valk: police inspector, and his
wife Arlette Van Der Valk, a gourmet cook, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| David Frome (Leslie Ford) |
| • |
Evan Pinkerton: Welshman in England helping his friend Inspector
Bull of Scotland Yard |
| Scott Frost |
| • |
Alex Delillo: police detective lieutenant, in Pasadena, California |
| Émile Gaboriau |
| • |
Monseiur Lecoq:
police detective with the Sûreté, in Paris, France |
| Gillian Galbraith |
| • |
Alice Rice: detective
sergeant (later inspector) in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Leighton Gage |
| • |
Mario Silva: chief
inspector for criminal matters of the federal police, in Brazil |
| Lisa Gardner |
| • |
Bobby Dodge: state
police sniper, and D.D. Warren, a police detective, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
The ensemble cast
of Pierce Quincy, an ex-FBI profiler, Lorraine “Rainie” Conner,
a cop, and/or FBI rookie Kimberly Quincy |
| Brian Garfield |
| • |
Sam Watchman: Navajo
state trooper in Arizona |
| Michael Genelin |
| • |
Jana Matinova:
police commander in Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Elizabeth George |
| • |
Thomas Lynley:
Scotland Yard inspector and eighth Earl of Asherton,
Sergeant Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist Simon Allcourt-St.
James, his wife Deborah, and lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London,
England |
| Kathleen George |
| • |
Richard Christie: homicide detective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Phiippe Georget |
| • |
Gilles Sebag: police detective based in Perpignan, in the Catalan area of France |
| Carin Gerhardsen |
| • |
Conny Sjöberg: police detective in the Hammarby police station in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Shane Gericke |
| • |
Emily Thompson: starting
as a 40-year-old rookie cop, and Martin Benedetti, detective commander
in the sheriff’s office, in Naperville, Illinois |
| Leah Giarratano |
| • |
Jill Jackson: police
detective sergeant, and childhood rape victim, in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia |
| Kenneth Giles |
| • |
Harry James: detective
sergeant, later inspector at Scotland Yard, based in London, England |
| Bartholomew Gill |
| • |
Peter McGarr:
police officer in Dublin, Ireland |
| Noreen Gilpatrick |
| • |
Kate MacLean:
police detective in the Seattle, Washington area |
| Alicia Giménez-Bartlett |
| • |
Petra Delicado:
ex-lawyer police inspector, and her sidekick, sergeant Fermín
Garzón in Barcelona, Spain |
| Michele Giuttari |
| • |
Michele Ferrara:
Chief Superintendent of the Squadra Mobile, in Florence, Italy |
| Leslie Glass |
| • |
April Woo: police
officer in New York City |
| Friedrich Glauser |
| • |
Jakob Studer: police sergeant (Wachtmeister) in 1930s Bern, Switzerland |
| Lee Goldberg |
| • |
Adrian Monk:
obsessive-compulsive police detective, in San Francisco, California,
in the Monk TV novelizations |
| Kat Goldring |
| • |
Quannah Lassiter:
Lakota-speaking special
investigator for the Texas Rangers, and Willi Gallagher, a part-time
English teacher, looking into her American Indian background,
in Nickleberry, Texas |
| Jane R. Goodall |
| • |
Briony Williams:
rookie police officer, later a detective, in London, later Oxford,
England |
| Paula Gosling |
| • |
Luke Abbott: cop
in England |
| • |
Matt Gabriel: sheriff
in Blackwater Bay, Michigan |
| • |
Jack Stryker:
homicide cop, and Kate Trevorne, an English professor, in Michigan |
| James Grady |
| • |
Devlin Rourke: police
detective sergeant in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Bruce Graeme |
| • |
Robert Mather:
detective sergeant with the Bretton Police, in England |
| • |
William Stevens: Scotland Yard inspector in London, England,
and Pierre Allain, an agent in the Sûreté in Paris,
France |
| Caroline Graham |
| • |
Tom Barnaby: chief
inspector in England |
| Mark Graham |
| • |
Wilton McCleary: Civil War veteran and policeman in 1870s Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
| Ann Granger |
| • |
Jess Campbell: a police
inspector, and Ian Carter, the new superintendent, in the Cotswolds,
England, by Ann Granger |
| • |
Alan Markby: detective
inspector, and Meredith Mitchell, a Foreign Service officer, in the
Cotswolds, England |
| Jan Grape |
| • |
Zoe Barrow: police
officer in Austin, Texas |
| Alex Gray |
| • |
DCI Lorimer and Dr. Soloman Brightman, a psychologist and criminal
profiler, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Alan Green |
| • |
John Hugo: police lieutenant
in Florida |
| Christine Green |
| • |
Connor O’Neill:
chief inspector, and Fran Wilson, detective sergeant, in Fowchester,
England |
| • |
Thomas Rydell: Village
Chief Inspector, and Sergeant Denise “Denni” Caldecote,
in Marston, England |
| Kate Green |
| • |
Oliver Jardine: police
detective, and Theresa Fortunato, a
tarot-reading psychic, in Los Angeles, California |
| Linda Greenlaw |
| • |
Jane Bunker: former
Florida police detective, now a marine insurance investigator and
later a sheriff’s deputy in coastal Green Haven, Maine |
| John Greenwood (John Buxton Hilton) |
| • |
Inspector
Mosley:
in Lancashire and Yorkshire border country in England |
| Lois Greiman |
| • |
Jack Rivera: homicide detective, and Christina McMullen, a cocktail
waitress turned professional psychologist, in Los Angeles, California |
| Leonard Gribble |
| • |
Anthony Slade: Superindendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Jackie Griffey |
| • |
Cas Larkin: sheriff in fictional Pine County, Tennessee, in the
Maryville series |
| Nicola Griffith |
| • |
Aud Torvingen: half-American, half-Norwegian lesbian ex-Atlanta
cop and self-defense teacher |
| Elly Griffiths |
| • |
Harry Nelson:
detective chief inspector, and Dr. Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist,
in the Saltmarsh area near Norfolk, England |
| Martha Grimes |
| • |
Richard Jury:
Scotland Yard investigator based in London, England |
| Lucretia Grindle |
| • |
H.W. Ross: detective
superintendent in England |
| Andrew Gross |
| • |
Ty Hauck: police
lieutenant in Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Paul Grossman |
| • |
Willi Kraus, a decorated soldier in WWI, and the most celebrated Jewish detective in Weimar Germany |
| Michael Gruber |
| • |
Iago “Jimmy” Paz:
Cuban-American cop, in Miami, Florida, and elsewhere |
| Elizabeth Gunn |
| • |
Sarah Burke: recently
divorced police detective, in Tucson, Arizona |
| • |
Jake Hines: police
detective in fictional Rutherford, Minnesota |
| Peter Guttridge |
| • |
Robert Watts:
disgraced chief constable in mid-1930s Brighton, England, in the
Brighton trilogy |
| Wolf Haas |
| • |
Simon Brenner: police detective, the Columbo of Austria |
| Micah S. Hackler |
| • |
Cliff Lansing:
single father and part-time rancher-sheriff, and
Gabe Hanna, his deputy, in New Mexico |
| Jean Hager |
| • |
Molly Bearpaw: major
crimes investigator and advocate for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma |
| • |
Mitch Bushyhead: police
chief in Buckskin, Oklahoma |
| Patricia Hall |
| • |
Michael Thackeray:
police inspector,
and Laura Ackroyd, a reporter, in Yorkshire, England |
| Lotte & Søren Hammer |
| • |
Konrad Simonsen: detective inspector in Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Gerald Hammond |
| • |
Honey Laird: detective sergeant, then inspector, in Edinburgh,
Scotland |
| David Handler |
| • |
Desiree “Des” Mitry:
black police detective, and Mitch
Berger, a New York film critic, in Dorset, Connecticut |
| Lauren Haney |
| • |
Lieutenant Bak: ex-charioteer, head of the Medjay police, in
ancient Egypt |
| Sophie Hannah |
| • |
Simon Waterhouse:
detective constable, and Charlie Zailer, a detective sergeant,
in rural England |
| Jim Michael Hansen |
| • |
Bryson Coventry:
homicide detective in Denver, Colorado |
| Joseph Hansen |
| • |
Hank Bohannon: ex-sheriff, owner of a horse ranch, and crime fighter
in Central California |
| Rick Hanson |
| • |
Adam McCleet: ex-cop turned sculptor in Portland, Oregon |
| Richard Harper |
| • |
Tom Ragnon: cop
living in a trailer in Arizona |
| William Harrington |
| • |
Columbo: homicide
detective in Los Angeles, California (TV tie-in) |
| Fred Harris |
| • |
Okie Dunn: appointed sheriff in 1930s Vernon, Oklahoma |
| Lee Harris |
| • |
Jane Bauer: detective
in the NYPD unsolved crimes department, in New York City |
| Oliver Harris |
| • |
Nick Belsey: detective constable in London, England |
| Jamie Harrison |
| • |
Jules Clement:
archaeologist turned sheriff, in Blue Deer, Montana |
| Ray Harrison |
| • |
Joseph Bragg, a down-to-earth
detective sergeant, and James Morton, an upper-crust constable, in
1890s London, England |
| Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
| • |
Bill Slider:
police inspector at Shepherd’s Bush CID, in
London, England |
| Jeanne Hart |
| • |
Carl Pedersen: police
detective in fictional Bay Cove, California |
| Roy Hart |
| • |
Douglas Roper: detective
superintendent in Dorset, England |
| James Neal Harvey |
| • |
Ben Tolliver:
police lieutenant in New York City |
| John Harvey |
| • |
Will Grayson:
detective inspector, and Helen Walker, a detective sergeant, in Cambridge,
England |
| • |
Charlie Resnick: jazz-loving
police detective in Nottingham, England |
| Steven F. Havill |
| • |
Bill Gastner:
insomniac undersheriff, and Estelle Reyes-Guzman, later
the new undersheriff, in Posadas County, New Mexico |
| James Hawkins |
| • |
David Bliss: Detective
Inspector in the C.I.D. in Hampshire, England |
| Michael A. Hawley |
| • |
Leah Harris:
police detective sergeant, in Seattle, Washington |
| Mo Hayder |
| • |
Jack Caffery: troubled
police detective in London, England |
| J.M. Hayes |
| • |
English: known as Englishman,
a divorced, single-father sheriff of Benteen County, and Mad Dog,
his part Cheyenne half-brother, in Buffalo Springs, Kansas |
| James Hayman |
| • |
Mike McCabe: former
NYPD homicide detective, now a detective sergeant living with his
13-year-old daughter in Portland, Maine |
| S.T. Haymon |
| • |
Ben Jurnet: detective
inspector, raised a Unitarian, perhaps of Jewish descent, in Norfolk,
England |
| Mark Hebden |
| • |
Clovis Pel:
Chief Inspector of the Brigade Criminelle of the Police
Judiciaire, in Burgundy, France |
| • |
series continued by daughter Juliet Hebden |
| William Heffernan |
| • |
Paul Devlin:
police detective in New York City |
| Keith Heller |
| • |
George Man: 18th
century parish watchman in London, England |
| Richard Helms |
| • |
Judd Wheeler:
chief of police in the fictional town of Prosperity, North Carolina |
| Peter Helton |
| • |
Liam McLusky: detective
inspector transferred from Southampton to Bristol, England |
| Jarad Henry |
| • |
Rubens McCauley: maverick
detective in the Criminal Investigation Unit in St. Kilda, a suburb
of Melbourne, Australia |
| Sue Henry |
| • |
Sergeant Alex Jensen:
state trooper, and Jessie Arnold, a dog sled racer, in Anchorage,
Alaska |
| Nancy Herndon (Nancy Fairbanks) |
| • |
Elena Jarvis: wise-cracking
police detective in Los Santos, Texas |
| Joan Hess |
| • |
Arly Hanks: small-town
police chief in Maggody, Arkansas |
| Michael Hiebert |
| • |
Abe Teal, the young narrator, and his mother Leah, a widowed police officer, in late 1980s fictional Alvin, Alabama |
| Kati Hiekkapelto |
| • |
Anna Fekete: senior detective constable of Yugoslav-Hungarian extraction in northern Finland |
| Jack Higgins |
| • |
Nick Miller:
sergeant detective at Central Division, in London,
England |
| Lynn S. Hightower |
| • |
Sonora Blair:
homicide detective in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| • |
David Silver:
homicide cop, and String, an alien Elaki partner,
in the USA |
| Kathleen Hills |
| • |
John McIntire:
retired military intelligence officer and newly
appointed township constable, in 1950s St. Adele, on the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan |
| John Buxton Hilton |
| • |
Thomas Brunt:
CID inspector in the hill country of Northern England |
| • |
Simon Kenworthy:
hard-working detective inspector, later superintendent, with Scotland
Yard, in London, England |
| James Hime |
| • |
Jeremiah Spur: retired white Texas Ranger, and Clyde Thomas,
the first black deputy sheriff, in Brenham, Texas |
| Naomi Hirahara |
| • |
Ellie Rush: Japanese-American rookie LAPD bicycle cop in Los Angeles, California |
| Tami Hoag |
| • |
Elena Estes: ex-cop turned
horse trainer, in Palm Beach, Florida |
| • |
Sam Kovac: hard-boiled
police detective, and his wisecracking partner Nikki Liska, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota |
| • |
Tony Mendez: Sheriff's
detective in mid-1980s Oak Knoll, California, in the Deeper than
the Dead series |
| Anne Hocking |
| • |
William Austen: chief
inspector, later Superintendent, at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Timothy Holme |
| • |
Achille Peroni: (“the
Rudolph Valentino of Italian police”), a Neopolitan police
commissario who once spent some months at Scotland Yard, on assignment
in northern Italy |
| Anne Holt |
| • |
Adam Stubø: detective
inspector, and Johanne Vik, an Oslo University psychology professor
and former FBI profiler, in Oslo, Norway |
| • |
Hanne Wilhelmsen: lesbian
police officer in Oslo, Norway |
| Hugh Holton |
| • |
Larry Cole: police
commander in Chicago, Illinois |
| Kay Hooper |
| • |
Trey Fortier: homicide
detective, and Lane Montana, a finder of lost things, in Atlanta,
Georgia |
| Jørn Lier Horst |
| • |
William Wisting: chief inspector of police and head of CID, in Larvik, Norway |
| Lesley Horton |
| • |
John Handford: Detective Inspector, and Detective Sergeant Khalid
Ali, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Lesley Horton |
| • |
John Handford: Detective Inspector, and Detective Sergeant Khalid
Ali, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Victoria Houston |
| • |
Lewellyn Ferris:
fly fishing wonder and the Chief of Police in Loon Lake, Wisconsin |
| Katherine Howell |
| • |
Ella Marconi,
a police detective and a revolving cast of ambulance paramedics,
in Sydney, Australi |
| S.W. Hubbard |
| • |
Frank Bennett: police
chief in Trout Run, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York |
| Fergus Hume |
| • |
Octavius Fanks: detective
at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| • |
Samuel Gorby and Kilsip,
police detectives, and Calton, a leading lawyer, in Melbourne, Australia |
| James Patrick Hunt |
| • |
George Hastings:
police lieutenant in St. Louis, Missouri |
| • |
Evan Maitland:
, a former police detective, now running an antique
business and moonlighting as a bounty hunter, based in Chicago, Illinois |
| Alan Hunter |
| • |
George Gently: police
inspector, later Chief Superintendent, based in East Anglia, England |
| Fred Hunter |
| • |
Jeremy Ransom: homicide
detective, and Emily Charters, his adopted grandmother, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Graham Hurley |
| • |
Joe Faraday: detective inspector in Portsmouth, England, recently
promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team |
| Ewart Hutton |
| • |
Glyn Capaldi: half-Italian, half-Welsh detective sergeant exiled to mountainous mid-Wales |
| Peter Inchbald |
| • |
Franco Corti: detective
inspector in the London Art and Antiques Squad, working mainly in
Italy |
| Michael Innes |
| • |
John Appleby: inspector
at Scotland Yard in London, England |
| Roy Innes |
| • |
Mark Coswell: homicide inspector in Vancouver, and Paul Blakemore, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in British Columbia, Canada |
| Graham Ison |
| • |
Harry Brock:
a world-weary detective chief inspector, and Dave Poole, a scruffy
detective sergeant, in London, England |
| • |
Tommy Fox: Detective
Chief Superintendent, and the raffish, cockney head of the Flying
Squad, in London, England |
| • |
John Gaffney: Detective
Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, and
Harry Tipper, a detective chief inspector, in London, England |
| • |
Ernest Hardcastle:
divisional detective inspector, head of CID for the Whitehall Division
of the Metropolitan Police, during World War I, in London, England |
| Jean-Claude Izzo |
| • |
Fabio Montale: cop who goes out on his own in Marseilles, France |
| Lee Jackson |
| • |
Decimus Webb: Scotland
Yard inspector in 1870s London, England |
| Michael Jahn |
| • |
Bill Donovan: Chief
of Special Investigations in New York City |
| Bill James |
| • |
Colin Harpur:
detective chief superintendent, and Desmond Iles, assistant
chief constable in an English seaport |
| Brèni James |
| • |
Gunnar Matson: police
sergeant in San Francisco, California |
| P.D. James |
| • |
Adam Dalgliesh:
critically acclaimed poet and Scotland Yard commander,
in London, England |
| Peter James |
| • |
Roy Grace: Detective Superintendent of the CID, in Sussex, England |
| J.A. Jance |
| • |
J.P. Beaumont:
homicide detective in Seattle, Washington |
| • |
Joanna Brady:
deputy sheriff's widow, now elected sheriff in Cochise
County, Arizona |
| • |
Brandon Walker:
ex-sheriff,
and Diana Ladd, an award winning author, in Tucson, Arizona |
| J. Robert Janes |
| • |
Jean-Louis
St. Cyr: officer in the French
Sûreté Nationale, and Herman Kohler, a Gestapo agent,
based in 1940s Paris, France |
| Anna Jansson |
| • |
Maria Wern: police detective in the town of Visby, on Gotland island, Sweden |
| Quintin Jardine |
| • |
Robert Skinner:
high-ranking cop in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| H. Paul Jeffers |
| • |
John Bogdanovic:
police sergeant and aide to the NYPD Chief of Detectives, in New
York City |
| Maureen Jennings |
| • |
William Murdoch: police detective in 1890s Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
| Matti Joensuu |
| • |
Timo Harjunpää: detective sergeant in the Criminal Investigation Department, in Helsinki, Finland |
| Katherine John |
| • |
Trevor Joseph: a depressed police sergeant, later inspector, of the Serious Crimes Squad, in medical thrillers set in England and Wales |
| Craig Johnson |
| • |
Walt Longmire: veteran sheriff in Absaroka, Wyoming |
| E. Richard Johnson |
| • |
Tony Lonto:
police detective in the United States |
| Solomon Jones |
| • |
Mike Coletti: homicide
detective in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Stan Jones |
| • |
Nathan Active: Inupiak
Alaska State Trooper assigned to his village of birth after being
raised by a white couple in Anchorage, Alaska |
| Mari Jungstedt |
| • |
Anders Knutas: police
inspector on Gotland island, Sweden |
| Mons Kallentoft |
| • |
Malin Fors: 30-something
divorced mother of a teenage daughter, and an ambitious detective
inspector, in Linköping, Sweden |
| Dan Kavanagh |
| • |
Nick Duffy: bisexual
ex-cop turned private investigator in London, England |
| H.R.F. Keating |
| • |
Ganesh Ghote:
police inspector in
Bombay, India |
| • |
Harriet Martens:
detective superintendent in Greater Birchester, England |
| Faye Kellerman |
| • |
Peter Decker:
LAPD detective, and his wife Rina Lazarus, in Los Angeles,
California |
| Jonathan Kellerman |
| • |
Petra
Connor: cop in Los Angeles, California |
| Lee Charles Kelley |
| • |
Jack Field: former NYPD detective, retired to run a kennel in
Maine |
| Mary Kelly |
| • |
Brett Nightingale: detective
inspector (later chief inspector), in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Susan B. Kelly |
| • |
Gregory Summers:
police superintendent in the Thames Valley, England |
| • |
Nick Trevellyan:
detective
inspector, and Alison Hope, a software designer, in Hop Valley,
England |
| Marne Davis Kellogg |
| • |
Lilly Bennett: ex-detective private investigator in Roundup,
Wyoming |
| Bill Kent |
| • |
Louis Monroe: Don
Quixote-style cop, in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Graeme Kent |
| • |
Ben Kella: police sergeant and hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, and Sister Conchita, a 20-something American nun, in 1960s Solomon Islands |
| Jim Kelly |
| • |
Peter Shaw, detective
inspector, and George Valentine, detective sergeant, in Norfolk,
England |
| Lars Kepler |
| • |
Joona Linna: detective
inspector in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Yasmina Khadra |
| • |
Brahim Llob: police inspector in Algiers, Algeria |
| M.G. Kincaid |
| • |
Seth Mornay: a former
Royal Marine, now a detective sergeant in the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Grampian Police Force, in northeast Scotland |
| Jonathon King |
| • |
Max Freeman: cop
from Philly who shot and killed a 12 year-old, quit, and moved to
the edge of the Florida Everglades |
| Laurie R. King |
| • |
Kate Martinelli:
lesbian homicide detective, and her partner Alonzo
Hawkin, in San Francisco, California |
| Charles Kipps |
| • |
Conor Bard: homicide
detective in New York City |
| Hans Hellmut Kirst |
| • |
Konstantin Keller:
retiring detective inspector, in Munich, Germany |
| Bill Kirton |
| • |
Jack Carston: detective
chief inspector in Cairnburgh, near Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Henry Kisor |
| • |
Steve “Two Crows” Martinez:
Lakota Indian by birth, eastern white by upbringing, and deputy sheriff
in Porcupine City, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan |
| Bill Kitson |
| • |
Mike Nash: detective
inspector in Yorkshire, England |
| Marek Krajewski |
| • |
Eberhard Mock: police detective, and university classics dropout, starting in 1919 Breslau (now Wroclaw, in Poland) |
| William Krasner |
| • |
Sam Birge: homicide
detective captain in a big city somewhere |
| Rochell Krich |
| • |
Jessie Drake: homicide
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| William Kent Krueger |
| • |
Cork O’Connor: Native American ex-sheriff in Aurora, Minnesota |
| Richard Kunzmann |
| • |
Jacob Tshabalala: detective inspector, in Johannesburg, South
Africa |
| Carroll Lachnit |
| • |
Hannah Barlow: ex-cop lawyer in Orange County, California |
| Camilla Läckberg |
| • |
Patrik Hedstrom:
police detective, and Erica Falck, a writer, in the fishing town
of Fjällbacka, Sweden |
| Ed Lacy |
| • |
Lee Hayes: black
police detective in New York City |
| • |
Dave Wintino: brash new
cop in New York City |
| Thomas Laird |
| • |
Jimmy Parisi: lieutenant
in the Police Department, Homicide Division, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Hans Olav Lahlum |
| • |
Kolbjorn Kristiansen (K2), a detective inspector, and his wheelchair-bound assistant Patricia, starting in late 1960s, Oslo, Norway, in the K2 and Patricia series |
| John J. Lamb |
| • |
Brad Lyon: retired San Francisco homicide inspector, and his
wife Ashleigh, teddy bear collectors in the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia, in the Bear Collector’s mysteries |
| Jon Land |
| • |
Ben Kamal: member of
the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank, and Danielle Barnea,
a Shin Bet (Israel’s FBI) agent in Israel |
| • |
Caitlin Strong:
fifth-generation Texas Ranger, sometimes working as a psychological
therapist, in San Antonio, Texas |
| Hilary Landon (George Bellairs) |
| • |
Timothy Dewer:
police inspector in England |
| Christopher Lane |
| • |
Ray Attla: Inupiat
police officer who returns to his native home after growing up in
Anchorage, Alaska |
| Edwin Lanham |
| • |
Vern Gray: police
lieutenant in Connecticut |
| • |
Madigan: police lieutenant
in New York City |
| Janet LaPierre |
| • |
Vince Gutierrez: police chief, and his wife Meg Halloran, a teacher,
or Patience and Verity Mackellar,
mother and daughter private investigators, and others, in the Port
Silva (California) mysteries |
| Lynda La Plante |
| • |
Lorraine Page:
down-on-her-luck ex-cop in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Jane Tennison:
detective chief inspector in London, England |
| • |
Anna Travis: rookie detective, in London, England |
| Joyce and Jim Lavene |
| • |
Sharyn Howard: Sheriff
in Diamond Springs, North Carolina |
| • |
Glad Wycznewski: 40-something
ex-cop from Chicago, and his new wife Ruby, on the NASCAR racing
circuit, in the Stock Car Racing mysteries |
| David Lawrence |
| • |
Stella Mooney: Detective Sergeant in London, England |
| John Lawton |
| • |
Frederick Troy: police
sergeant and later Chief Inspector, from the late 1940s to the 1960s,
in London, England |
| Stephen Leather |
| • |
Dan “Spider” Shepherd: former SAS trooper turned
undercover cop, based in London, England |
| John Le Beau |
| • |
Franz Waldbaer: Bavarian Kommissar of Police, assisted by CIA operational specialists, in Germany and elsewhere |
| Deborah J Ledford |
| • |
Steven Hawk:
sheriff’s deputy in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina |
| Leena Lehtolainen |
| • |
Maria Kallio: police inspector in Espoo, Finland |
| Pierre Lemaître |
| • |
Camille Verhoeven: short, pugnacious police commandant (detective chief inspector), in Paris, France |
| John Lescroart |
| • |
Abe Glitsky: black
Jewish cop, and Dismas Hardy, ex-cop bartender and ex-Assistant District
Attorney turned defense attorney, in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Devin Juhle:
homicide detective, and Wyatt Hunt, a private investigator, part
of the Hunt Club, in San Francisco, California |
| Machael Z. Lewin |
| • |
Leroy Powder:
police lieutenant and friend of Albert Samson, middle-aged, low-key
private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Kenneth R. Lewis |
| • |
Kevin Kearnes: chief
of police of the fictional coastal town of Cutter Point, Oregon,
near the California border, and later an agent with Homeland Security
in Portland, Oregon, and Thud Compton, a police sergeant, later chief |
| Kevin Lewis |
| • |
Stacey Collins: single
mother, detective inspector who grew up in the slums of London, England |
| Roy Lewis |
| • |
John Crow: British
police inspector in England |
| • |
Eric Ward: policeman
turned solicitor in England |
| Ed Lin |
| • |
Robert Chow: NYPD Chinatown
beat cop in 1976 New York City |
| N.J. Lindquist |
| • |
Paul Manziuk: Detective
Inspector with homicide, and Jacqueline (Jackie) Ryan, a black cop
recently promoted to Detective, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| David L. Lindsey |
| • |
Stuart Haydon: homicide
detective in Houston, Texas |
| Elizabeth Linington |
| • |
Ivor Maddox: sergeant at the Wilcox Avenue Station in Hollywood, California |
| Joan Lock |
| • |
Ernest Best: detective sergeant, later inspector, starting in 1870s London, England |
| Richard & Frances Lockridge |
| • |
Merton Heimrich:
lieutenant for the New York State Police Bureau
of Criminal Identification, in The Corners, Putnam County, New York |
| • |
Paul Lane:
detective working out of the 19th Precinct in New York City |
| • |
Jerry and Pam North,
along with Bill Weigand and Sergeant Mullins, police officers, in
New York City |
| • |
Nathan Shapiro:
Jewish cop usually working in homicide under Bill
Weigand, in New York City |
| Mary Logue |
| • |
Claire Watkins: police officer, widow, and mom to 10-year-old Meg,
in Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin |
| Jon Loomis |
| • |
Frank Coffin: burned
out Baltimore homicide detective, returning to his hometown, Provincetown,
Massachusetts |
| E.C.R. Lorac (Carol Carnac) |
| • |
Robert MacDonald:
London Scot, Inspector and later Superintendent,
in England |
| Carlo Lucarelli |
| • |
Commissario De Luca:
former commander in Mussolini’s political police, in northern
Italy in 1945 |
| • |
Grazia Negro:
young female detective assigned to a special task
force designed to catch serial killers, in Bologna, Italy |
| Richard A. Lupoff |
| • |
Marvia Plum:
black homicide detective, and Hobart Lindsey, an insurance
claims adjuster for valuable collectibles, in Berkeley, California |
| Francis Lyall |
| • |
Alan Mason: police
superintendent, and his sidekick Ian Crawford, based in the town
of Greyhavens, Scotland |
| D.P. Lyle |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Cody: former
LAPD officer, now a sheriff’s deputy in Mercer Corner, California |
| Stuart MacBride |
| • |
Logan McRae: detective sergeant in Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Ross MacDonald |
| • |
Lew Archer:
ex-cop and private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| T.J. MacGregor |
| • |
Aline Scott: homicide detective in Tango Key, Florida |
| Donald MacKenzie |
| • |
John Raven: tough
Scotland Yard detective inspector, later an unlicensed private investigator
living on a houseboat, mostly in England |
| Adrian Magson |
| • |
Lucas Rocco:
police inspector in the 1960s, formerly in Paris, now in Poissons-les-Marais,
in rural northern France |
| Barry Maitland |
| • |
Harry Belltree: homicide detective in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| • |
Kathy Kolla: young
Scotland Yard detective, and David Brock, her mentor, in London,
England |
| Mallock (Jean-Denis Bruet-Ferreol) |
| • |
Amédée Mallock: police commissioner in Paris, France, in the Barbarian Chronicles |
| Lou Manfredo |
| • |
Joe Rizzo: veteran
police detective, in Brooklyn, New York City |
| Paul Mann |
| • |
George Sansi: half- English, half-Indian police inspector, in
Bombay, India |
| Antonio Manzini |
| • |
Rocco Schiavone: deputy prefect of police exiled from Rome to Aosta, a small touristy town in the Italian Alps |
| Jean Marcy |
| • |
Sarah Lindstrom: police detective, and Meg Darcy, a working-class
lesbian private investigator,
in St. Louis, Missouri |
| David Mark |
| • |
Aector McAvoy: detective sergeant in Hull, East Yorkshire, England |
| Petros Markaris |
| • |
Costas Haritos: former prison guard, now inspector in the CID
in Athens, Greece |
| Magaret Maron |
| • |
Sigrid Harald:
police lieutenant in New York City |
| J.J. Marric (John Creasey) |
| • |
George Gideon: Commander of Scotland Yard’s Criminal Investigation
Department |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn:
second son of a baronet and police inspector in London, England |
| William Marshall |
| • |
Felix Elizalde:
detective lieutenant in the Weston District Bureau, in the Philippines |
| • |
Harry Feiffer:
chief inspector of Yellowthread Street station in Hong Kong, China |
| • |
Tillman and Muldoon:
policemen in 1880s New York City |
| Edward Marston |
| • |
Jonathan Bale:
constable, and Christopher Redmayne, an architect,
in 1600s London, England |
| • |
Robert Colbeck:
former attorney now serving as an inspector in the fledging Scotland
Yard in 1851 London, England |
| • |
Inspector Harvey
Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy: metropolitan police in 1915
London, England |
| Faith Martin |
| • |
Hillary Greene: detective
inspector with the Thames Valley Police, in Oxfordshire, England |
| Lee Martin (Anne Wingate) |
| • |
Deb Ralston:
police detective mom in Fort Worth, Texas |
| Priscilla Masters |
| • |
Joanna Pierce:
detective inspector in Staffordshire, England |
| Francine Mathews |
| • |
Merry Folger:
police officer on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts |
| Peter May |
| • |
Fin Macleod: detective inspector in Edinburgh who returns to his birthplace, the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, in the Lewis trilogy |
| • |
Li Yan: Chinese detective, and Margaret Campbell, an American
pathologist, in Beijing, China |
| Archer Mayor |
| • |
Joe Gunther: police
detective in Brattleboro, Vermont |
| Susan McBride |
| • |
Detective Maggie Ryan: former member of the Dallas P.D. who recently
left the big city for the suburban enclave of Litchfield, Texas |
| Janet McClellan |
| • |
Tru North: lesbian
police detective in Kansas City, Missouri |
| James McClure |
| • |
Tromp Kramer: Afrikaner
police detective, and Mickey Zondi, a Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg,
South Africa |
| Vincent McConnor |
| • |
Chief Inspector Damiot of
the Paris police, and his dog Fric-Frac, in Paris and elsewhere in
France |
| Nigel McCrery |
| • |
Mark Lapslie: detective
chief inspector, and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, in Essex, England |
| Colleen McCullough |
| • |
Carmine Delmonico:
police lieutenant in a fictional mid-1960s college town, Holloman,
Connecticut |
| Philip McCutchan |
| • |
Simon Shard: Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, in London,
England |
| Geoffrey McGeachin |
| • |
Charlie Berlin:
ex-bomber pilot and POW in World War II, rejoining the police force
in 1947 Victoria, Australia |
| Iain McDowall |
| • |
Frank Jacobsen: detective
chief inspector, and detective sergeant Ian Kerr, in Crowby, in the
Midlands of England |
| Paul McElroy |
| • |
James “Mack” McCray: federal undercover cop in Stuart,
Florida, in the Treasure Coast mystery series |
| Michael McGarrity |
| • |
Kevin Kerney: ex-chief of detectives in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| James McGee |
| • |
Matthew Hawkwood: former English army officer, now a Bow Street Runner, in early 19th century London, England |
| Brian McGilloway |
| • |
Benedict Devlin:
Garda detective inspector, in the borderlands of Ireland |
| William McIlvanney |
| • |
Jack Laidlaw:
police detective in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Gary McKinney |
| • |
Gavin Pruitt: the Sheriff of Willapa County and a fan of the Grateful Dead since the ’60s, in southwest Washington |
| Adrian McKinty |
| • |
Sean Duffy: detective sergeant in 1980s Northern Ireland, in the Troubles Trilogy |
| Patrick F. McManus |
| • |
Bo Tully: Sheriff
of Blight County, Idaho |
| Claire McNab |
| • |
Carol Ashton: lesbian
detective inspector in Sydney, Australia |
| Evan McNamara |
| • |
Bill Tatum: former
Army sniper and current Deputy Sheriff of Mineral County in Dumont,
Colorado |
| Mardi Oakley Medawar |
| • |
David Lameraux: police chief on the Red Cliff Reservation,
in Wisconsin |
| James Melville |
| • |
Tetsuo Otani: Superintendent
of Police in Kobe, Japan |
| Jennie Melville (Gwendoline Butler) |
| • |
Charmian
Daniels: police detective in Deerham Hills,
England |
| 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:
deputy of Bear Creek, California, torn between her Native American
(Yanduchi) traditions and her loyalty to Hutch, her minister husband |
| Deon Meyer |
| • |
Benny Griessel: aging,
alcoholic police inspector in Capetown, South Africa |
| Penny Mickelbury |
| • |
Gianna Maglione:
lesbian police lieutenant, and Mimi Patterson, a reporter, in Washington
DC |
| John Miles (Jack Bickham) |
| • |
Johnelle “Johnny” Baker:
blonde former actress made sheriff as a publicity stunt in Tenoclock,
Colorado |
| Danny Miller |
| • |
Vince Treadwell: young
police detective sent in 1964 from London to Brighton, England |
| John Ramsey Miller |
| • |
Winter Massey:
deputy U.S. Marshal (later an ex-marshal), in New
Orleans, Louisiana, and elsewhere in the South |
| Maryann Miller |
| • |
Sarah Kingsly: a
white homicide detective, and her new partner Angel Johnson, a black
detective, in Dallas, Texas |
| Wade Miller |
| • |
Austin Clapp: police
lieutenant, and Max Thursday, an ex-cop private investigator, in
San Diego, California |
| John Milne |
| • |
Jimmy Jenner: pensioned-off
cop with a wooden leg in the Stoke Newington section of London, England |
| Denise Mina |
| • |
Alex Morrow:
detective inspector in Glasgow, Scotland |
| John Misak |
| • |
John Keegan: a homicide
detective in New York City |
| Kay Mitchell |
| • |
John Morrissey: chief
inspector and family man in Malminster, England |
| Tom Mitcheltree |
| • |
Grant Reynolds: former Boston homicide detective, now a field
investigator for the U.S. Legal Attaché office, in Paris,
France |
| Rick Mofina |
| • |
Walt Sydowski: homicide inspector, and Tom Reed, a crime reporter,
in San Francisco, California |
| Frédérique Molay |
| • |
Nico Sirsky: chief of the criminal investigation division, La Crim’, in Paris, France, in the Paris Homicide series |
| Brent Monahan |
| • |
John Le Brun: a
retired sheriff in 1890s Brunswick, Georgia |
| Theresa Monsour |
| • |
Paris Murphy: homicide detective in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Richart Montanari |
| • |
Kevin Byrne:
detective, and his new partner, Jessica Balzano, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
| • |
John Paris:
homicide detective in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Harker Moore |
| • |
James Sakura: Japanese-American
NYPD lieutenant in New York City |
| Margaret Moore |
| • |
Richard Baxter:
chief inspector in Cambridge, England |
| Keith Moray |
| • |
Torquil McKinnon: bagpipe-playing, motorcycle-riding police inspector with the Hebridean Constabulary, on the fictional Outer Hebridean island of West Uist, Scotland |
| R.N. Morris |
| • |
Porfiry Petrovich: the
police inspector in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,
in 1860s St. Petersburg, Russia |
| • |
Silas “Quick-fire” Quinn: Detective Inspector in charge of the Special Crimes Unit of Scotland Yard, beginning in 1914, by R.N. Morris |
| Patricia Moyes |
| • |
Henry Tibbett: Scotland
Yard Inspector in London, England |
| T. Frank Muir |
| • |
Andy Gilchrist: detective inspector in St. Andrews, Scotland |
| Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
| • |
Ishmael: African American police detective in Madison, Wisconsin, teaming with O (David Odhiambo), a police detective in Nairobi, Kenya |
| Amy Myers |
| • |
Peter Marsh: wheelchair-bound
ex-policeman, and his daughter Georgia, who investigate unsolved
murders in Kent, England |
| Reggie Nadelson |
| • |
Artie Cohen: Moscow-born NYPD cop, later a private investigator,
based in New York City |
| Janet Neel |
| • |
John McLeish: DCI, and
Francesca Wilson, a civil servant turned housewife, in London, England |
| Jo Nesbø |
| • |
Harry Hole: police detective
in Oslo, Norway |
| Håkan Nesser |
| • |
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren:
veteran of 30 years of police work who appreciates fine food and
drink, in a country that resembles Sweden |
| Nele Neuhaus |
| • |
Oliver von Bodenstein, Kriminalhauptkommissar (chief superintendant), and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff, a police detective, in the Tanus mountain region of Germany |
| Stuart Neville |
| • |
Jack Lennon: detective
inspector in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Christopher Newman |
| • |
Joe Dante: maverick
cop in New York City |
| G.F. Newman |
| • |
Terry Sneed: unscrupulous
Scotland Yard inspector, based in London, England |
| Hilary Norman |
| • |
Sam Becket: African-American
homicide detective, and wife Grace Lucca, a child psychologist, in
Miami Beach, Florida |
| Gil North |
| • |
Caleb Cluff: a stubborn police sergeant in the small town of Gunnarshaw, in Yorkshire, England |
| Michael Norman |
| • |
Sam Kincaid: chief
of the Special Investigations Branch of the Department of Corrections,
and Lt. Kate McConnell, a homicide detective, in Salt Lake City,
Utah |
| Harri Nykänen |
| • |
Ariel Kafka: police inspector in the Violent Crime Unit and one of only two Jewish cops in the country, in Helsinki, Finland, by Harri Nykänen |
| Martin O’Brien |
| • |
Daniel Jacquot:
former rugby player, now a homicide chief inspector in Marseilles,
France |
| Thomas O’Callaghan |
| • |
John W. Driscoll: homicide detective lieutenant in New York City |
| Ed O’Connor |
| • |
John Underwood: a detective
inspector, and Alison Dexter, a detective sergeant, in New Bolden,
Cambridgeshire, England |
| Niamh O’Connor |
| • |
Jo Birmingham: detective inspector and single mother in Dublin, Ireland |
| Kristina Ohlsson |
| • |
Fredrika Bergman:
investigative analyst with a special unit of the federal police in
Sweden |
| Nick Oldham |
| • |
Henry Christie: a hard-drinking
detective inspector, later DCI, in Blackpool, England |
| Marc Olden |
| • |
Manny Decker:
detective sergeant with martial arts skills, in New York City |
| Susan Oleksiw |
| • |
Joe Silva: police
chief in Mellingham, Massachusetts |
| Roger Ormerod |
| • |
Richard Patton:
retired Detective Inspector in England |
| • |
Oliver Simpson:
Detective Inspector, and Philipa Lowe, an amateur sleuth, in England |
| Arimasa Osawa |
| • |
Samejima: maverick police detective, in Tokyo, Japan |
| Håkan Östlundh |
| • |
Fredrik Broman: police detective on the island of Gotland, Sweden |
| Charlie Owen |
| • |
D Group: ensemble
cast of police in a fictional 1970s town north of Manchester, England |
| Barry Ozeroff |
| • |
Ben Geller: sniper
with the Special Emergency Response Team, in Stratton, Oregon |
| Leonardo Padura |
| • |
Mario Conde: police inspector in Havana, Cuba, in the Havana
Quartet and others |
| Emma Page |
| • |
Kelsey: detective inspector,
later chief inspector, and detective Lambert, in a village somewhere
in England |
| Frank Palmer |
| • |
“Jacko” Jackson: detective inspector of the East Midlands Combined Constabulary, in Leicester, England |
| • |
Phil “Sweeney” Todd: police superintendent in Nottingham, England |
| Robert B. Parker |
| • |
Spenser: ex-boxer,
ex-state cop turned private eye, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Jesse Stone: homicide
detective in Paradise, Massachusetts |
| T. Jefferson Parker |
| • |
Charles Hood:
sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County, California |
| • |
Merci Rayborn:
sheriff’s deputy in Orange County, California |
| Jean-François Parot |
| • |
Nicolas Le Floch:
young policeman from Breton, beginning in 1761 during the reign of
Louis XV, in pre-revolutionary Paris, France |
| P.J. Parrish |
| • |
Joe Frye: the
only female homicide detective in the Miami-Dade Police Department
(and Louis Kincaid’s lover), in Miami, Florida |
| • |
Louis Kincaid: biracial
cop in Loon Lake, Michigan |
| Julie Parsons |
| • |
Michael McLoughlin: detective inspector, later retired, in Dublin,
Ireland |
| James Patterson |
| • |
Lindsay Boxer:
homicide inspector, Cindy Thomas, a reporter, Jill
Bernhardt, an Assistant District Attorney, and Claire Washburn, a
medical examiner — members of The Women’s Murder
Club, in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Alex Cross:
psychiatrist and homicide cop in Washington DC |
| Barbara Paul |
| • |
Marian Larch: police
officer in New York City |
| William Paul |
| • |
David Fyfe: detective chief inspector in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Stuart Pawson |
| • |
Charlie Priest:
art school graduate turned police detective in Yorkshire, England |
| Michael Pearce |
| • |
Garth Owen: (Mamur
Zapt) the British head of Cairo’s Political CID in Cairo, Egypt |
| • |
Sandor Pelczynski Seymour:
multilingual officer with England’s Special
Branch in the early 1900s |
| Iain Pears |
| • |
Flavia di Stefano: of the Art Theft Squad, and Jonathan Argyll,
an English art dealer, in Rome, Italy |
| Ridley Pearson |
| • |
Lou Boldt:
detective, and Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist in Seattle,
Washington |
| • |
Walt Fleming:
sheriff in Sun Valley, Idaho |
| John Penn (Palma Harcourt & Jack H. Trotman) |
| • |
Dick Tansey:
Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley police, in England |
| • |
George Thorne:
Detective Superintendent in the Thames Valley police,
in England |
| Louise Penny |
| • |
Armand Gamache: Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec,
in the village of Three Pines, in southern Quebec, Canada |
| Tom Philbin |
| • |
Joe Lawless: commander of the Felony Squad, and an ensemble cast at Fort Siberia, the Bronx, the toughest precinct in New York City |
| Clyde Phillips |
| • |
Jane Candiotti:
homicide inspector in San Francisco, California |
| Robert L. Pike (Robert L. Fish) |
| • |
Lieutenant Clancy:
no nonsense, honest cop in New York City |
| • |
Jim Reardon:
nonsense, honest cop in San Francisco, California,
an incarnation of the character in the “Bullitt” movie |
| Stefanie Pintoff |
| • |
Simon Ziele: former
New York City police detective starting in 1905 Dobson, Westchester
County, New York |
| Joyce Porter |
| • |
Wilfred Dover: fat
lout of a Chief Inspector in England |
| Jeremy Potter |
| • |
Sergeant Hiscock (later
inspector) of the CID, in London, England |
| Maurice Procter |
| • |
Philip Hunter:
detective superintendent, in fictional Yoreborough (York), England |
| • |
Harry Martineau:
detective inspector, later Detective Chief Inspector,
in fictional Granchester, “Metropolis of the North”,
England |
| Mary Monica Pulver (Monica Ferris) |
| • |
Peter Brichter:
police detective, and Kori Price Brichter, a horse breeder, in Illinois |
| E.R. Punshon |
| • |
Inspector Carter and
Sergeant Bell, a tortoise and hare team of Scotland Yard detectives,
in London, England |
| • |
Bobby Owen, an Oxford
graduate, starting as a police constable, later a detective sergeant
then Commander of Scotland Yard, mostly in London, England |
| Ellery Queen (Talmage Powell) |
| • |
Tim Corrigan:
one-eyed cop in New York City |
| Qiu Xiaolong |
| • |
Chen Cao: Inspector in the Shanghai, China, Police Department |
| Patrick Quentin |
| • |
Timothy Trant:
Princeton-educated police lieutenant in New York City |
| Sheila Quigley |
| • |
Lorraine Hunt: detective
inspector in Houghton-le-Spring, northeast England |
| Anthony J. Quinn |
| • |
Celcius Daly: Catholic detective inspector, in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Ann Quinton |
| • |
Nick Holroyd: detective
inspector in Dorset, England |
| • |
James Roland:
detective inspector and Patrick Mansfield, a detective
sergeant in Suffolk, England |
| Jonathan Rabb |
| • |
Nikolai Hoffner:
police detective starting in 1919, continuing into the Weimar period
in Berlin, Germany |
| Sheila Radley |
| • |
Douglas Quantrill:
detective chief inspector, and Hilary Lloyd, a police sergeant, in
East Anglia, England |
| Sheila Radley |
| • |
Douglas Quantrill:
detective chief inspector, and Hilary Lloyd, a police sergeant, in
East Anglia, England |
| Hugh C. Rae |
| • |
McCaig: detective inspector,
later superintendent, in Scotland |
| Caro Ramsay |
| • |
Colin Anderson: detective inspector, and Winifred “Freddie” Costello, a detective sergeant, along with an ensemble of cops at Partickhill Station in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Robert J. Randisi |
| • |
Joe Keough: NYPD
detective who moves to St. Louis, Missouri |
| • |
Dennis McQueen:
detective sergeant in New York City |
| Ian Rankin |
| • |
Malcolm Fox: cop working
for the Complaints, the police internal affairs division, in Edinburgh,
Scotland |
| • |
John Rebus: detective
sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Jon Redfern |
| • |
Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, in early 1840s London, England |
| Dolores Redondo |
| • |
Amaia Salazar: 30-year-old police inspector in the Basque region of Spain, in the Baztan trilogy |
| John Reeves |
| • |
Andrew Coggin: detective
inspector, and sergeant Fred Sump, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Ben Rehder |
| • |
Herbert Mackey: sheriff,
and John Marlin, game warden, in Blanco County, Texas |
| Helen Reilly |
| • |
Christopher McKee,
known as the “Scotsman,” a police inspector, later head
of Manhattan’s homicide squad, mostly in New York City |
| Maggie Rennert |
| • |
Guy Silvestri: police
detective in Massachusetts |
| John Lawrence Reynolds |
| • |
Joe McGuire:
detective lieutenant in Boston, Massachusetts, who drops out to the
Bahamas from time to time |
| Nicholas Rhea (Peter Walker) |
| • |
Constable Nick:
policeman in Aidensfield, North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Mark Pemberton:
Detective Superintendent in North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Montague Pluke:
Detective Inspector in North Yorkshire, England |
| Michael Ridpath |
| • |
Magnus Jonson:
born in Iceland, raised in Boston, back working as a homicide detective
in Iceland, in the Fire and Ice series |
| Cynthia Riggs |
| • |
Victoria Trumbull:
astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, in
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts |
| Todd Ritter |
| • |
Kat Campbell: police
chief and single-mom in peaceful Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania |
| J.D. Robb |
| • |
Eve Dallas: homicide
lieutenant in futuristic New York City |
| John Maddox Roberts |
| • |
Gabe Treloa: burned-out LAPD veteran on the way to a PI job
in Cleveland, ending up in his old hometown, Monticello, Ohio |
| Lora Roberts |
| • |
Paul Drake and Bruno Morales: police detectives, and Liz Sullivan,
freelance writer and organic gardener, in Palo Alto, California |
| Craig Robertson |
| • |
Rachel Narey: a detective sergeant, and Tony Winter, a police photographer, and others, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Kel Robertson |
| • |
Bradman (Brad) Chen:
5th-generation Chinese-Australian ex-rugby star and inspector with
the Australian Federal Police, in Canberra, Australia |
| Peter Robinson |
| • |
Alan Banks: Eastvale
detective chief inspector, in Yorkshire, England |
| Michael Robotham |
| • |
Vincent Ruiz: detective inspector, and Joseph O’Loughlin,
a psychologist, in London, England |
| Linda Rodriguez |
| • |
Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion: a half-Cherokee ex-Kansas City homicide detective, now chief of the campus police force at Chouteau University, in Brewster, Missouri |
| Robert Rosenberg |
| • |
Avram Cohen:
police officer in Jerusalem, Israel |
| Roslund-Hellström |
| • |
Ewert Grens,
a detective inspector, and Sven Sundkvist, a police officer, in Stockholm,
Sweden |
| David Rotenberg |
| • |
Zhong Fong:
head of the Special Investigation Unit, in Shanghai, China |
| Betty Rowlands |
| • |
Sukey Reynolds:
police photographer and crime scene investigator, in England |
| Pauline Rowson |
| • |
Andy Horton: detective
inspector, and his sidekick sergeant Barney Cantelli, in Portsmouth,
England, in the Marine mysteries |
| Jane Rubino |
| • |
Victor Cardenas: police
detective, and Cat Austen, a single-mom reporter, in Atlantic City,
New Jersey |
| Alan Russell |
| • |
Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius, sole members of the LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, in Los Angeles, California |
| Craig Russell |
| • |
Jan Fabel:
Scottish-German police detective (Kriminalhauptkommissar),
in Hamburg, Germany |
| Kirk Russell |
| • |
Ben Raveneau: an older
homicide detective, and his ambitious young partner, Elizabeth la
Rosa, in San Francisco, California |
| Michael Russell |
| • |
Stefan Gillespie: Garda detective sergeant in 1930s Dublin, Ireland |
| William Ryan |
| • |
Alexei Korolev: captain
in the militia’s Criminal Investigation Division under Stalin,
in 1930s Moscow, Russia |
| Medora Sale (Caroline Roe) |
| • |
John Sanders:
police detective, and Harriet Jeffries, a photographer, in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada |
| James Sallis |
| • |
John Turner: ex-cop, ex-con, ex-psychotherapist, now deputy
sheriff in Cripple Creek, Tennessee |
| John Sandford |
| • |
Lucas Davenport: police detective and war games designer in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| • |
Virgil Flowers: thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) |
| Eve K. Sandstrom |
| • |
Mike Svenson: police
officer, and Nell Matthews, a newspaper reporter, in Grantham, Oklahoma |
| • |
Sam Titus:
sheriff, and Nicky Titus, photographer and wife, in
Holton, Oklahoma, in the Down Home mysteries |
| Jonathan Santlofer |
| • |
Nate Rodriguez:
talented NYPD police sketch artist in New York
City |
| Eric Sauter |
| • |
Patrick Paige: police
detective in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Andrew Saville (Andrew Taylor) |
| • |
Jim
Bergerac: detective sergeant in the Bureau des
Etrangers, on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, in
novelizations of the BBC TV series |
| Raymond Sawkins (Colin Forbes) |
| • |
John Snow: young,
retired superintendent of Scotland Yard |
| Margaret Scherf |
| • |
Lt Ryan: cop in
New York City |
| Aileen Schumacher |
| • |
David Alvarez:
police detective, and Tory Travers, a structural
engineer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in El Paso, Texas |
| Stephen Jay Schwartz |
| • |
Hayden Glass:
detective in the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division, who also suffers
from a sexual addiction, in Los Angeles, California |
| Mark Schweizer |
| • |
Hayden Konig: police
chief, and choir director and organist at St. Barnabas Episcopal
Church, in the Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North Carolina |
| Lisa See |
| • |
Liu Hulan: Chinese police inspector, and David Stark, an American
attorney, combining talents to solve mysteries in China |
| L.J. Sellers |
| • |
Wade Jackson: homicide
detective in Eugene, Oregon |
| Francis Selwyn (Donald Thomas) |
| • |
William Verity:
detective sergeant mostly in mid-19th century London, England |
| David Serafin |
| • |
Luis Bernal: police
superintendent in Spain |
| Dell Shannon (Elizabeth Linington) |
| • |
Luis Mendoza:
police lieutenant in Los Angeles, California |
| Shari Shattuck |
| • |
Evan Paley: LAPD detective , and Callaway (Cally) Wilde, a wealthy
socialite, in Los Angeles, California |
| William Shaw |
| • |
Cathal Breen: detective sergeant, and WPC Helen Tozer, of the Metropolitan Police, in the late ’60s music scene, in London, England |
| Jean Sheldon |
| • |
Kerry Grant: police
detective and computer guru, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Lloyd Shepherd |
| • |
Charles Horton: Thames River Police Chief, and John Harriott, a River Police magistrate, in 1810s London, England |
| Stav Sherez |
| • |
Jack Carrigan, a detective inspector, and Geneva Miller, a detective sergeant, in London, England |
| David J. Sherman |
| • |
Jack Murphy: ex-cop
turned private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Steve Sherman |
| • |
Hugh Quint: ex-cop private investigator in New Hampshire |
| Mel Sherratt |
| • |
Allie Shenton: detective sergeant in Stoke-on-Trent, England |
| Kieran Shields |
| • |
Archie Lean, newly appointed deputy marshal, and Perceval Grey, a part-Indian Pinkerton agent, in 1890s Portland, Maine |
| Jeffrey Siger |
| • |
Andreas Kaldis: former
Athens homicide detective, now the new police chief on Mykonos Island,
Greece |
| Linda Kay Silva |
| • |
Delta Stevens:
lesbian police officer in River Valley, California, near Los Angeles |
| Georges Simenon |
| • |
Inspector Maigret:
police inspector in Paris, France, and Madame Maigret, his wife |
| Chris Simms |
| • |
Iona Khan: feisty detective constable in the Counter Terrorism Unit in Manchester, England |
| • |
Jon Spicer: detective
inspector in Manchester, England |
| Michael Simon |
| • |
Dan Reles: the only
Jewish homicide detective in 1980s Austin, Texas |
| Sheila Simonson |
| • |
Rob Neill: sheriff’s
investigator, and Meg McLean, a librarian, in the Latouche County
mysteries |
| Dorothy Simpson |
| • |
Luke Thanet: police
inspector in Kent, England |
| John Worsley Simpson |
| • |
Harry Stark:
curmudgeonly homicide detective who listens to jazz and has a reclusive
cat, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| George Sims |
| • |
Ed Buchanan: member
of the police Special Branch, in London, England |
| L.V. Sims |
| • |
Dixie T. Struthers: detective
sergeant in the early days of Silicon Valley (late 1980s), in San
José, California |
| Jarkko Sipilä |
| • |
Kari Takamäki:
supervising detective in the Violent Crimes Unit, in Helsinki, Finland,
in the Helsinki Homicide series |
| Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
| • |
Martin Beck: police
inspector in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Josef Škvorecký |
| • |
Josef Boruvka:
sensitive police lieutenant coping with bureaucracy and Soviet invasion
in 1960s Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Sean Slater |
| • |
Jacob Striker: homicide detective in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Susan Slater |
| • |
Tommy Spottedhorse: tribal police officer, and Benson (Ben)
Pecos, a reservation medical investigator from Tewa Pueblo, in New
Mexico |
| Bob Sloan |
| • |
Lenny Bliss: homicide detective in Manhattan, New York City |
| Frank A. Smith |
| • |
Neil Paget: crotchety
DCI in Shropshire, England |
| • |
Ian
Pepper:
police superintendent in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Julie Smith |
| • |
Skip Langdon:
policewoman in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Martin Cruz Smith |
| • |
Arkady Renko:
chief homicide inspector for the prosecutor’s office, in Moscow,
Russia |
| Shelley Smith |
| • |
Jacob Chaos:
police inspector in England |
| Tom Rob Smith |
| • |
Leo Demidov: secret
police officer in 1950s Moscow, Russia |
| Julie Smith-Levin |
| • |
Starletta Duvall:
black homicide lieutenant in Brookport, Massachusetts |
| Stephen Smoke |
| • |
Derek Cheney: recently
retired LAPD chief of detectives, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
E.L. Nash: police
detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Stephen Solomita |
| • |
Stanley Moodrow:
cop turned private investigator, in New York City |
| Robin Spano |
| • |
Clare Vengel: rookie police officer who goes undercover, starting out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Sally Spencer (Alan Rustage) |
| • |
Charlie Woodend:
detective chief inspector in a village in England |
| • |
Monika Paniatowski:
detective chief inspector, Charlie Woodend’s protégé and
successor, in a village in England |
| Julia Spencer-Fleming |
| • |
Russ Van Alystyne:
Chief of Police, and Clare Fergusson, a newly-ordained
Episcopal priest, in Millers Kill, New York |
| Dana Stabenow |
| • |
Liam Campbell:
Alaskan State Trooper in Newenham, Alaska |
| Susannah Stacey |
| • |
Robert
Bone:
widowed British police Superintendent |
| Bill Stackhouse |
| • |
Ed McAvoy: police
chief in Ulster County, New York |
| Cath Staincliffe |
| • |
Janine Lewis:
single mother pregnant with her 4th child and the first woman Detective
Chief Inspector in Greater Manchester, England |
| • |
Janet Scott: straight-laced detective constable, and Rachel Bailey, a detective constable from a deprived childhood, in Manchester, England |
| Michael Stanley |
| • |
David Bengu: large
assistant police superintendent known as “Kubu” (hippopotamus),
in Botswana |
| Marta Stephens |
| • |
Sam Harper:
homicide detective in Chandler, Massachusetts |
| Thomas Sterling |
| • |
Rizzi: police captain
in Venice, Italy |
| Richard Martin Stern |
| • |
Johnny Ortiz:
half-Apache, half-Chicano, police lieutenant around Santa Fe, New
Mexico |
| Jonathan Stone |
| • |
Julian Palmer:
police lieutenant, and Winston Edwards, a former
cop, in Troy, New York |
| Marc Strange |
| • |
Orwell Brennan: police
chief in rural Dockerty, Ontario, Canada |
| Carsten Stroud |
| • |
Nick Kavanaugh: a cop with a dark side, and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old southern Niceville family |
| Cristina Sumners |
| • |
Tom Holder: overweight
40-something police chief, and Reverend Kathryn Koerney, in the affluent
university town of Harton, New Jersey |
| Thomas Swan |
| • |
Jack Oxby: Scotland
Yard art forgery investigator in London, England |
| Howard Swindle |
| • |
Jeb Quinlin: homicide investigator and recovering alcoholic,
in Dallas, Texas |
| Therese Szymanski |
| • |
Shawn Donnelly:
police detective, in Detroit, Michigan |
| Jon Talton |
| • |
David Mapstone: ex-cop, now unemployed college history teacher
back in law enforcement, in Phoenix, Arizona |
| Andrew Taylor |
| • |
Lydmouth
series: an ensemble cast including Richard Thornhill, a detective
inspector, and Jill Francis, a journalist, in Lydmouth, England,
in the 1950s |
| Nancy Tesler |
| • |
Ted Brodsky: homicide
cop, and Carrie Carlin, a biofeedback specialist, in New Jersey |
| Josephine Tey |
| • |
Alan Grant:
Scotland Yard Inspector |
| Donald Thomas |
| • |
Alfred Swain: detective
inspector at Scotland Yard in late 19th century England |
| Graham Thomas |
| • |
Erskine Powell:
Detective-Chief Superintendent of New Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| James Thompson |
| • |
Kari Vaara: police
chief in the town of Kittilä, Lapland, later a homicide inspector
in Helsinki, Finland |
| June Thomson |
| • |
Jack Rudd: detective
inspector in Essex, England |
| Scott Thornley |
| • |
MacNeice: homicide detective superintendant, who likes jazz and classical music, in fictional Dundurn (Hamilton), Ontario, Canada |
| L.L. Thrasher |
| • |
Lizbet Lange: heiress and ex-waitress, who can see murdered undercover
police officer Charlie Bilbo, in California |
| Aimee and David Thurlo |
| • |
Ella Clah: former
FBI agent now with Navajo police in Shiprock, New Mexico |
| • |
Lee Nez: nightwalker
(vampire) police officer in New Mexico |
| Peter Tickler |
| • |
Susan Holden: detective inspector in Oxford, England, in the Blood in Oxford mysteries |
| Mark Timlin |
| • |
Nick Sharman: hard-living
ex-cop private eye in London, England |
| Charles Todd |
| • |
Ian Rutledge: shell-shocked
World War I veteran returning to his job at Scotland Yard, in London,
England |
| Simon Tolkien |
| • |
William Trave: detective
inspector, and Adam Clayton, a detective constable, in late 1950s-1960s
Oxford, England |
| Kerry Tombs |
| • |
Samuel Ravenscroft:
detective inspector with the Whitechapel Constabulary, in the late
1880s in Worcestershire, England |
| Sandra Tooley |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Casey:
Native American detective sergeant who can hear the dead speak, in
Chasen Heights, Illinois |
| Rebecca Tope |
| • |
Den Cooper: determined
policeman in Devon, England |
| Morley Torgov |
| • |
Hermann Preiss: police inspector dealing with the likes of Robert & Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner in mid-19th century Düsseldorf and Munich, Germany |
| Leonard Tourney |
| • |
Matthew Stock:
17th century town constable and clothier in Chelmsford, England |
| Lawrence Treat |
| • |
Commander Bill Decker, Mitch Taylor, a veteran police officer,
and his sidekick Jub Freeman, police detectives in New York City |
| Peter Turnbull |
| • |
George Hennessey:
chief inspector, and Detective Sergeant Yellich, with the Vale of
York police, in England |
| • |
The
"P" Division of Glasgow, Scotland |
| • |
Harry Vicary:
detective inspector and recovering alcoholic, in London, England |
| Lisa Turner |
| • |
Billy Able: police detective in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Helene Tursten |
| • |
Irene Huss: detective
inspector in the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden |
| Michael Underwood |
| • |
Nick Atwell:
police sergeant at Scotland Yard, and detective constable
Clare Reynolds, in London, England |
| • |
Simon Manton: police inspector, later superintendent, in London,
England |
| Christopher Valen |
| • |
John Santana: homicide detective originally from Colombia, in St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Jack Vance |
| • |
Joe Bain: sheriff in fictional San Rodrigo County, California |
| Peter Van Greenaway |
| • |
Francis Cherry:
Scotland Yard inspector, in London, England |
| John Verdon |
| • |
Dave Gurney: recently
retired 40-something NYPD homicide detective with a reputation for
catching serial killers, in rural upstate New York |
| Marco Vichi |
| • |
Bordelli: police inspector (commissario) in 1960s Florence, Italy |
| Domingo Villar |
| • |
Leo Caldas: police
inspector in Galicia, an autonomous region in northwest Spain |
| Marcos M. Villatoro |
| • |
Romilia Chacón: young bilingual cop in Nashville, Tennessee, later an FBI agent in Los Angeles, California |
| Dan Waddell |
| • |
Nigel Barnes: genealogist
working with Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster, in London, England |
| Jan Costin Wagner |
| • |
Kimmo Joentaa:
police detective in Turku, Finland, whose wife recently died from
Hodgkin’s disease |
| Karin Wahlber |
| • |
Claes Claesson: detective, later Police Commissioner, and his wife Veronika Lundborg, a surgeon, in Oskarshamn, Sweden |
| Peter Walker |
| • |
Carnaby: police detective
with the CID in North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Jock Patterson:
constable in England |
| Robert W. Walker |
| • |
Alastair Ransom:
inspector, and Jane Francis Tewes, a doctor, in the 1890s in Chicago,
Illinois |
| • |
Lucas Stonecoat:
police officer, and Meredyth Sanger, a police
psychiatrist, in Houston, Texas |
| Jo Walton |
| • |
Peter Carmichael: Scotland
Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in 1949 Britain,
where WWII ended with a truce in 1941 |
| 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 |
| Stan Washburn |
| • |
Toby Parkman: quietly
heroic cop in San Francisco, California |
| Colin Watson |
| • |
Walter Purbright:
police inspector in England, in the Flaxborough Chronicles |
| Kate Watterson |
| • |
Ellie MacIntosh: homicide detective in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Hillary Waugh |
| • |
Fred Fellows:
chief of police in a small town, Stockford, Connecticut |
| • |
Frank Sessions:
homicide detective lieutenant, Manhattan North,
in New York City |
| Martha G. Webb (Anne Wingate) |
| • |
Smoky O’Donnell:
small-town narcotics officer, in Farmer's Mound, Texas |
| Jason Webster |
| • |
Max Cámara:
chief inspector in the Spanish National Police, in Valencia, Spain |
| Lee Weeks |
| • |
Johnny Mann: half-Chinese, half-English police detective, in Hong Kong |
| Charlene Weir |
| • |
Susan Wren: police
chief in Hampstead, Kansas |
| Jan Merete Weiss |
| • |
Natalia Monte: captain in the Carabinieri, in Naples, Italy |
| Tobias Wells (Stanton Forbes) |
| • |
Knute Severson:
police detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theodora Wender |
| • |
Alden Chase: chief
of police, and Glad Gold, an English professor, in Wading River,
Massachusetts |
| Patricia Wentworth |
| • |
Ernest Lamb: police inspector in London, England |
| Christopher West |
| • |
Wang Anzhuang:
Public Security Bureau inspector in Beijing, China |
| 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 |
| Neil White |
| • |
Laura McGanity, a detective constable, and her boyfriend, reporter Jack Garrett, relocated from London to Lancashire, England |
| Barbara Whitehead |
| • |
Robert Southwell:
detective chief inspector in York, England, in the York Cycle mysteries |
| Stella Whitelaw |
| • |
Jordan Lacey:
ex-cop, start-up private investigator, in Latching, England |
| Collin Wilcox |
| • |
Frank
Hastings: Sergeant (later, Lieutenant) co-commander of SFPD
homicide in San Francisco, California |
| • |
McCloud:
New Mexico marshal in New York City |
| Timothy Williams |
| • |
Piero Trotti:
commissario of police in a city on the river Po, in northern Italy |
| Penelope Williamson |
| • |
Daman Rourke:
ex-WWI flying ace and police detective in 1927 New Orleans, Lousiana |
| Laura Wilson |
| • |
Ted Stratton: detective
inspector in 1940s London, England |
| David Wiltse |
| • |
Billy Tree: ex-Secret Service agent, now a deputy sheriff in
a small town in Nebraska |
| Darryl Wimberley |
| • |
Barrett “Bear” Raines:
first black detective in an all-white police force in Deacon Beach,
Florida |
| Anne Wingate |
| • |
Mark Shigata: Japanese-American
ex-FBI agent turned police chief, in Bayport, Texas |
| R.D. Wingfield |
| • |
Jack Frost: detective
inspector in Denton, England |
| Don Winslow |
| • |
Art Keller: DEA agent dealing with a large cast of characters in the drug trade based in Mexico |
| Pauline Glen Winslow |
| • |
Merle Capricorn:
former vaudeville magician turned police superintendent in England |
| Ben H. Winters |
| • |
Hank Palace: police detective living under the threat of an impending asteroid collision, in Concord, New Hampshire |
| K.J.A. Wishnia |
| • |
Filomena Buscarsela:
NYPD cop from Ecuador, who becomes an apprentice private eye, in
New York City |
| Dick Wolf |
| • |
Jeremy Fisk: detective in the NYPD intelligence division, in New York City |
| Inger Ash Wolfe |
| • |
Hazel Micallef:
60-something detective inspector in the small town of Port Dundas,
Ontario, Canada |
| Ted Wood |
| • |
Reid Bennett: police
chief and Sam, a German Shepard in Murphy’s Harbour, Ontario,
Canada |
| Daniel Woodrell |
| • |
Rene Shade: ex-boxer,
now a police detective, in the bayou town St. Bruno, Louisiana |
| James García Woods (Alan Rustage) |
| • |
Inspector Paco Ruiz:
at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in Madrid, Spain |
| Paula L. Woods |
| • |
Charlotte Justice:
black woman homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
| Stuart Woods |
| • |
Holly Barker:
former military police commander turned police chief of small town
Orchid Beach, Florida |
| • |
Stone Barrington:
ex-cop and attorney, in New York City |
| • |
Rick Barron:
demoted Beverly Hills, California, police detective |
| Reavis Z. Wortham |
| • |
Ned Parker: farmer and part-time constable, in mid-1960s Center Springs, Lamar County, Texas, in the Red River mysteries |
| Eric Wright |
| • |
Mel Pickett:
60-something retired Toronto cop in Larch River, Canada |
| • |
Charles Salter:
40-something police inspector in Toronto, Canada |
| Keith Wright |
| • |
David Stark: police
inspector in England |
| L.R. Wright |
| • |
Karl Alberg:
staff sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Sechelt, British
Columbia, Canada |
| • |
Edwina “Eddie” Henderson:
woman officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in Sechelt, British
Columbia, Canada |
| Felicity Young |
| • |
Stevie Hooper: a mother and a detective sergeant in the Sex Crimes unit, in Perth, Western Australia |
| Scott Young |
| • |
Matteesie Kitologitok, “the
great brain of Arctic crime,” an Inuit inspector in the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, based in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
| Thomas Zigal |
| • |
Kurt Muller: ex-hippie sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado |
| Mark Richard Zubro |
| • |
Paul Turner:
gay police detective in Chicago, Illinois |
| William Shaw |
| • |
Cathal Breen: detective sergeant, and WPC Helen Tozer, of the Metropolitan Police, in the late ’60s music scene, in London, England |
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