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| Gilbert Adair |
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Evadne Mount: formidable whodunit author, in a trilogy re-imagining Agatha Christie |
| Susan Wittig Albert |
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Beatrix Potter: author and illustrator in the Lake District in 1900s England |
| Bevan Amberhill |
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Jean-Claude Keyes:
actor, writer, and amateur sleuth, at the Shakespeare Festival
in Stratford, Ontario, Canada |
| Eric Ambler |
| • |
Charles Latimer: British university lecturer turned detective novelist, in Turkey |
| Delano Ames |
| • |
Dagobert Brown: sometime researcher and writer and his wife Jane, living in southern France |
| Christine Andreae |
| • |
Lee Squires: English professor and poet in Montana |
| Jo Bannister |
| • |
Dr. Clio Rees: physician and mystery writer, and Harry Marsh, a chief inspector, in England |
| Linwood Barclay |
| • |
Zack Walker: science fiction writer and reporter |
| Stephanie Barron |
| • |
Jane Austen: the famous author in England |
| George Baxt |
| • |
Sylvia Plotkin: author and teacher, and Max Van Larsen, a police detective, in New York City |
| Cynthia Baxter |
| • |
Mallory Marlowe:
recent widow with a new career as a travel writer |
| Tonino Benacquista |
| • |
Fred Blake:
writing a history of the WWII Normandy landings — actually
Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-Mafia boss in the FBI Witness Protection
Program — and his family in Cholong-sur-Avre, Normandy, France |
| Alan Beechey |
| • |
Oliver Swithin:
children’s book author in Great Britain |
| Anthony Berkeley |
| • |
Roger Sheringham: writer and obnoxious sleuth, in London, England |
| Ingrid Black |
| • |
Saxon: former US FBI agent turned true-crime writer, and Grace Fitzgerald, Detective Chief Superintendent with the murder squad, in Dublin, Ireland |
| Meredith Blevins |
| • |
Annie Szabo: writer and mother, and Madam Mina, a fortune-teller and head of Annie’s late husband’s gypsy clan, in California |
| Michael Bond |
| • |
Aristide Pamplemousse: gourmet restaurant guide inspector, and his bloodhound Pommes Frites, in Paris, |
| David Bowker |
| • |
Billy Dye: struggling author, and Rawhead, an assassin and Dye’s childhood friend, in Manchester, England |
| Gyles Brandreth |
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Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France |
| Herbert Brean |
| • |
William Deacon:
magazine writer |
| • |
Reynold Frame:
young freelance writer and photographer, and amateur sleuth, in
New York City and New England |
| Toni Brill |
| • |
Midge Cohen: children’s author fluent in Russian, in Brooklyn, New York |
| Luisa Buehler |
| • |
Grace Marsden: writer of children’s books in Pine Marsh, Illinois |
| Christopher Bush |
| • |
Ludovic Travers:
wealthy writer and amateur sleuth, later proprietor of the Broad
Street Detective Agency, along with Scotland Yard Superintendant
George Wharton and later Chief Inspector Jewle, in London, England |
| Meg Cabot |
| • |
Meena Harper:
young soap opera writer who can foresee how people will die, in
New York City |
| Kenneth Cameron (Gordon Kent) |
| • |
General Denton:
expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff turned
novelist, in turn of the 20th century London, England |
| Anna Clarke |
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Paula Glenning: professor and writer, in London, England |
| Mary Clayton |
| • |
John Reynolds, formerly an inspector with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, retired to write detective novels, in Cornwall, England |
| Jeffrey Cohen |
| • |
Aaron Tucker: former investigative reporter and aspiring screenwriter, in New Jersey |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
Mallory: small-town student mystery
writer in Iowa |
| Susan Conant |
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Holly Winter: dog trainer and magazine columnist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Dog Lovers mysteries |
| Natasha Cooper |
| • |
Willow King: romance novelist in London, England |
| Susan Rogers Cooper |
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E.J. Pugh: housewife-mom romance writer in Black Cat Ridge, Texas |
| Alisa Craig |
| • |
Osbert Monk: author, and his wife Dittany Henbit Monk, a garden club member, in Lobelia Falls, Ontario, Canada |
| Blake Crouch |
| • |
Andrew Thomas: successful horror writer, in North Carolina |
| Stan Cutler |
| • |
Mark Bradley: gay writer of celebrity biographies, and Rayford Goodman, a jaded, once-famous private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
| Elizabeth Daly |
| • |
Henry Gamadge: author, bibliophile, and forgery expert, in New York City |
| Gloria Dank |
| • |
Bernard Woodruff:
curmudgeonly author of children’s books, and his brother-in-law,
Arthur “Snooky” Randolph, in Connecticut |
| Gloria Dank |
| • |
Bernard Woodruff:
curmudgeonly author of children’s books, and his brother-in-law,
Arthur “Snooky” Randolph, in Connecticut |
| Emma Darcy |
| • |
K.C. Gordon: successful
romance novelist in Australia |
| Kyra Davis |
| • |
Sophie Katz: half-Black, half-Jewish mystery writer, in San Francisco, California |
| William L. DeAndrea |
| • |
Quinn Booker: biographer of Lobo Blacke, a crippled ex-frontier lawman, and in Le Four, Wyoming |
| Lillian De La Torre |
| • |
Dr. Sam. Johnson: the real-life 18th-century lexicographer and sage, in London, England |
| Mary Devlin |
| • |
Geoffrey Chaucer:
poet and detective in the late 1300s, in England |
| Harry Dolan |
| • |
David Loogan: mystery
magazine editor in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Margaret Duffy |
| • |
Ingrid Langley: novelist and British Agent, and Patrick Gillard, a British army major |
| Francis Durbridge |
| • |
Paul Temple: crime writer turned private investigator, in London, England |
| Chris Ewan |
| • |
Charlie Howard:
mystery writer and professional thief, in Europe |
| Nancy Fairbanks |
| • |
Carolyn Blue, food writer, and her husband Jason, a scientist specializing in how to clean toxins from the environment, in El Paso, Texas |
| Robert L. Fish |
| • |
Carruthers, Simpson, and Biggs: elderly down-on-their-luck mystery writers, putting their plots into action, in The Murder League Trilogy |
| Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain |
| • |
Jessica Fletcher: mystery writer in Cabot Cove, Maine, in the “Murder, She Wrote” series |
| Richard Forrest |
| • |
Lyon Wentworth: children’s book author, and Bea Wentworth, a state senator, in Connecticut |
| Anthea Fraser |
| • |
Rona Parish: biographer
and amateur sleuth, in England |
| Mickey Friedman |
| • |
Georgia Lee Maxwell:
disaffected Florida society editor who moves to Paris to write
a magazine column, in Paris, France |
| Sally Goldenbaum |
| • |
Po Paltrow:
writer and quilter, and the Queen Bees quilting group,
in the fictitious college town of Crestwood, Kansas |
| Dolores Gordon-Smith |
| • |
Jack Haldean:
former Royal Flying Corps pilot and mystery writer, in early 1920s
England |
| Bruce Graeme |
| • |
Richard Verrell,
known as Blackshirt, a self-educated foundling who becomes a respected
mystery author, and burgles for the fun of it, in England |
| Martha Grimes |
| • |
Paul Giverney: suspense novelist dealing with cut-throat publishers in New York City |
| Adam Hall |
| • |
Bishop: author
of books about personality under stress and an observer of other
people’s problems, and his Oxford-educated assistant, Vera
Gorringe, based in London, England |
| Oakley Hall |
| • |
Ambrose Bierce: journalist,
and his sidekick Tom Redmond in 1880s San Francisco, California |
| Timothy Hallinan |
| • |
Poke Rafferty: “rough-travel” writer living with Rose,
a former go-go dancer, in Bangkok, Thailand |
| David Handler |
| • |
Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag: celebrity ghostwriter in the United States, and his faithful basset hound, Lulu |
| Clay Harvey |
| • |
Tyler Vance: ex-operative, free-lance writer, and gun expert, in North Carolina |
| Simon Hawke |
| • |
Will Shakespeare: young writer, and Tuck Smythe, an aspiring actor, the Elizabethan era’s answer to Holmes and Watson, in London, England |
| L.C. Hayden |
| • |
Dan Springer: writer for a magazine in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Peter J. Heck |
| • |
Mark Twain: 19th century American author, and Wentworth Cabot, his secretary, in the USA |
| Tim Hemlin |
| • |
Neil Marshall: graduate student in creative writing, struggling poet, and part-time chef and caterer, in Houston, Texas |
| Sara J. Henry |
| • |
Troy Chance: freelance writer in Lake Placid, New York |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila Malory: writer of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| Greg Iles |
| • |
Penn Cage: lawyer and writer, in Natchez, Mississippi |
| Dean James |
| • |
Simon Kirby-Jones: gay American writer who became a vampire in Houston, now living in Snupperton Mumsley, a small village in England |
| P.D. James |
| • |
Adam Dalgliesh: critically acclaimed poet and Scotland Yard commander, in London, England |
| Paul Johnston |
| • |
Matt Wells:
British crime writer caught up in a web of intrigue, murder, satanism,
and mind control |
| Jennifer Jordan |
| • |
Barry Vaughan: history lecturer and spoofy crime writer, and Dee Vaughan, an office temp wife, in Woodfield, England |
| Cady Kalian |
| • |
Maggie Mars: struggling screenwriter and former investigative journalist, in Los Angeles, California |
| Susan Kandel |
| • |
Cece Caruso: 40-something biographer of dead mystery writers and fan of vintage fashions, in Southern California |
| Susan Kelly |
| • |
Liz Connors: former English professor and freelance crime writer, in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Bill Kent |
| • |
Shep Ladderback: aging obituary writer for a tabloid, and his assistant Andrea “Andy” Cosicki, who also writes the Mr. Action consumer column, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nina Killham |
| • |
Jasmine March: cookbook author and gourmand specializing in rich recipes in Georgetown, Washington, DC |
| Peter King |
| • |
Jack London: the author in the 1890s (before his famous novels) in San Francisco, California |
| Mary Kittredge |
| • |
Charlotte Kent: freelance writer in fictional Pelican Rock, Mendocino County, California |
| Rochelle Krich |
| • |
Molly Blume: true-crime writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Mary Kruger |
| • |
Brooke Cassidy: mystery writer, and Matt Devlin, a private eye, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island |
| Camilla Läckberg |
| • |
Erica Falck:
writer, and Patrik Hedstrom, a police detective, in the fishing
town of Fjällbacka, Sweden |
| Josh Lanyon |
| • |
Adrien English: mystery
writer and bookseller, in Los Angeles, California |
| • |
Christopher (Kit) Holmes:
gay bestselling mystery writer in decline, and J.X. Moriarity,
a former cop and bestselling novelist |
| Janet Laurence |
| • |
Darina Lisle: caterer-chef and food writer in West Country, England |
| Bernie Lee |
| • |
Tony Pratt: middle-aged mystery writer and former advertising executive, and his wife Pat, a financial consultant, based in Oregon |
| Laura Levine |
| • |
Jaine Austen: freelance
writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Jackie Lewin |
| • |
Grace Beckmann: middle-aged mother and freelance writer in Colorado |
| Lawrence Light |
| • |
Karen Glick: feature writer for a Wall Street magazine, in New York City |
| Anna Maclean |
| • |
Louisa May Alcott:
amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author, in pre-Civil War
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Lauren Maddison |
| • |
Connor Hawthorne: lesbian mystery novelist and former district attorney |
| Mary Jane Maffini |
| • |
Fiona Silk: talent-challenged romance writer, in the bilingual tourist town St. Aubaine, Quebec, Canada |
| Jaye Maiman |
| • |
Robin Miller: lesbian romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator, in New York City |
| Valerie Malmont |
| • |
Tori Miracle: ex-New York City crime writer turned novelist, in Pennsylvania |
| Amy Patricia Meade |
| • |
Marjorie McClelland:
a smart and sassy mystery writer, and rich British expat Creighton
Ashcroft, in 1930s Ridgebury, Connecticut |
| Sharyn McCrumb |
| • |
Jay Omega:
college professor and science-fiction author |
| Craig McDonald |
| • |
Hector Lassiter:
legendary crime novelist who writes what he
lives and lives what he writes, in the 1930s-1950s |
| Neil McGaughey |
| • |
Kyle Malachi: who publishes mystery book reviews under the pseudonym Stokes Moran |
| Hope McIntyre |
| • |
Lee Bartholomew:
ghostwriter in London, England, and then Long
Island, New York |
| Annette Meyers |
| • |
Olivia Brown: bohemian poet and women’s rights advocate in 1920s Greenwich Village, New York |
| Kasey Michaels |
| • |
Maggie Kelly: writer of historical romances, dumped by her publisher, starts writing mysteries, in New York City |
| Lisa Miscione |
| • |
Lydia Strong: true-crime writer in New York City, with side trips to New Mexico and Florida |
| Paul Nathan |
| • |
Bert Swain: divorced
middle-aged writer and head of public relations at a Manhattan
medical research center, in New York City |
| Kris Neri |
| • |
Tracy Eaton: mystery
writer and sleuth, in New York City |
| Denise Osborne |
| • |
Queenie Davilov: struggling screenwriter and investigator, in Hollywood, California |
| Robin Paige |
| • |
Kathryn Ardleigh: American author who moves to Victorian Dedham, England, and Sir Charles Sheridan, a landed peer and amateur scientist |
| Ellen Pall |
| • |
Juliet Bodine: successful writer of Regency novels and ex-professor of English literature at Barnard in New York City |
| Linda Palmer |
| • |
Morgan Tyler: 30-year-old widow, the head writer of the daytime drama “Love of My Life” in New York City |
| Tony Perona |
| • |
Nick Bertetto: freelance writer and stay-at-home dad, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Elizabeth Peters |
| • |
Jacqueline Kirby: librarian turned romance novelist, in New York |
| Audrey Peterson |
| • |
Jane Winfield: British journalist and music writer, in London, England |
| Linda Lee Peterson |
| • |
Maggie Fiore: magazine writer and editor in San Francisco, California |
| W.R. Philbrick |
| • |
J.D. Hawkins: wheelchair-bound
mystery writer, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| T.J. Phillips |
| • |
Joe Wilder: playwright and novelist in New York City |
| William J. Reynolds |
| • |
Jay Omega:
college professor and science-fiction author |
| Robert Richardson |
| • |
Augustus Maltravers:
journalist turned playwright and novelist, in fictional Vercaster,
England |
| Lora Roberts |
| • |
Liz Sullivan: freelance
writer and organic gardener, and Police Detectives Paul Drake and
Bruno Morales in Palo Alto, California |
| Betty Rowlands |
| • |
Melissa Craig: British crime novelist in the Cotswolds, England |
| Patricia H. Rushford |
| • |
Helen Bradley: ex-cop travel-writer in Lincoln City, Oregon |
| William Sanders |
| • |
Taggart Roper: freelance writer, living in a trailer with his dog, and moonlighting as a petty criminal, in Oklahoma |
| Walter Satterthwait |
| • |
Kate Ivory: novelist turned amateur detective in Oxford, England |
| Harold Schechter |
| • |
Edgar Allan Poe:
in the 1830s-1840s, in Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, and
Massachusetts |
| Michael W. Sherer |
| • |
Emerson Ward: freelance writer in Chicago, Illinois |
| Beth Sherman |
| • |
Anne Hardaway: ghostwriter in Oceanside Heights, New Jersey, in the Jersey Shore mysteries |
| Clea Simon |
| • |
Theda Krakow: cat-loving, freelance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| E. Joan Sims |
| • |
Paisley Sterling: author of children’s books, in Rowan Springs, Kentucky |
| Murray Sinclair |
| • |
Ben Crandel:
pornographic novel author and amateur detective,
in Los Angeles, California |
| Edward Sklepowich |
| • |
Urbino Macintyre: American expatriate writer and amateur sleuth, and his friend Barbara, Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, in Venice, Italy |
| Barbara Burnett Smith |
| • |
Jolie Wyatt: radio station reporter and aspiring writer, in Purple Sage, Texas |
| Julie Smith |
| • |
Paul MacDonald: ex-reporter and mystery writer, in San Francisco, California |
| • |
Talba Wallis: (AKA Baroness de Pontalba), black poet and computer expert, in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Troy Soos |
| • |
Marshall Webb: freelance reporter for Harper’s Weekly (who secretly pens dime novels), beau of Rebecca Davies, a child of privilege running a home for desperate women |
| Veronica Stallwood |
| • |
Kate Ivory: novelist turned amateur detective in Oxford, England |
| J.B. Stanley |
| • |
Molly Appleby: writer for Collector's Weekly magazine, in North Carolina and Virginia, in the Collectible mysteries |
| David Stukas |
| • |
Robert Wilsop: recovered Catholic and copywriter for feminine hygiene products,
in New York |
| Maureen Tan |
| • |
Jane Nichols: secret agent turned mystery writer, in Savannah, Georgia |
| Alice Tilton |
| • |
Leonidas Witherall: retired academic and secret pulp fiction author, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| L.C. Tyler |
| • |
Ethelred Tressider:
a mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle,
in West Sussex, England |
| Lisa Unger (Lisa Miscione) |
| • |
Ridley Jones: freelance writer in New York City |
| Nicola Upson |
| • |
Josephine Tey: the
mystery writer in 1930s Britain |
| Mary Willis Walker |
| • |
Mollie Cates: true-crime writer and reporter, in Texas |
| Kate White |
| • |
Bailey Weggins: true crime author, in Warren, Massachusetts |
| John Morgan Wilson |
| • |
Benjamin Justice:
gay crime reporter and writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Matt Witten |
| • |
Jacob Burns: at-home dad and part-time scriptwriter, in Saratoga Springs, New York |
| Sue Owens Wright |
| • |
Elsie "Beanie" MacBean: freelance writer and member of the Washoe Tribe, and her basset hound, Cruiser, in South Tahoe, Nevada |
| Joyce Yarrow |
| • |
Jo Epstein: private
investigator and performance poet, based in Brooklyn, New York |
| R.D. Zimmerman |
| • |
Alex Phillips: technical writer and his sister, Maddy Phillips, a blind forensic psychiatrist, on an island in Lake Michigan |
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