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        | Charlaine Harris | 
       
      
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        Lily Bard: housecleaner
          in Shakespeare, Arkansas | 
       
      
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        Harper Connelly:
          lightning survivor who can find bodies, and her stepbrother Tolliver,
          in Sarne, Arkansas | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Joan Hess | 
         
        
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          Arly Hanks:
            small-town police chief in Maggody, Arkansas | 
         
        
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          Claire Malloy:
            small-town bookstore owner in Farberville, Arkansas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Stephen Hunter | 
         
        
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          Earl Swagger, WWII hero hired to clean up a corrupt gambling town
            in his home state of Arkansas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jackie Lynn | 
         
        
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          Rose Franklin, who
            leaves her cheating husband and, when her car breaks down, settles
            in Shady Grove campsite in West Memphis, Arkansas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Radine Trees Nehring | 
         
        
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          Carrie McCrite:
            a widow in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, in the Something
            to Die for Mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ami Elizabeth Reeves | 
         
        
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          Sally Brown:
            a marathoner in Delight, Arkansas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Grif Stockley | 
         
        
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          Gideon Page: defense
            attorney in Arkansas | 
         
       
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