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| Glynn Marsh Alam |
| • |
Luanne Fogarty:
scuba diver in northern Florida swamp country (Tallahassee), Florida |
| Marvin Albert (writing as Anthony Rome) |
| • |
Tony Rome: gambler
and private eye in Miami, Florida |
| E. C. Ayres |
| • |
Tony Lowell: photographer and private investigator on the Gulf
Coast of Florida |
| Nancy Bartholomew |
| • |
Sierra Lavotini: exotic
dancer and amateur sleuth in Panama City, Florida |
| James O. Born |
| • |
Bill Tasker: special
agent of the Department of Law Enforcement in Florida |
| Edna Buchanan |
| • |
Craig Burch, a sergeant in Miami Police Department’s Cold Case
Squad |
| • |
Britt Montero: newspaper
crime reporter in Miami, Florida |
| Lucy Burdette (Roberta Isleib pseudonym) |
| • |
Hayley Snow: 20-something food critic for Key Zest magazine, in Key West, Florida, in the Food Critic mysteries |
| Thomas B. Cavanagh |
| • |
Mike Garrity: 40-something
retired police detective, now a private investigator, with a brain
tumor named Bob, in Orlando, Florida |
| Nora Charles (Noreen Wald) |
| • |
Kate Kennedy:
a senior citizen in south Florida |
| Blaize Clement |
| • |
Dixie Hemingway:
former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional pet sitter, in
Sarasota, Florida |
| Nancy Cohen |
| • |
Marla Shore: beauty
salon owner in southern Florida in the Bad Hair Day Mysteries |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
CSI: Crime scene investigators in Miami, Florida |
| Tom Corcoran |
| • |
Alex Rutledge: freelance photographer in Key West, Florida |
| Tim Dorsey |
| • |
Serial killer Serge Storms
and others appear in these satirical Florida thrillers |
| Mary Anna Evans |
| • |
Faye Longchamp: a black
archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market on
her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast |
| 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 |
| Christy Fifield (Christina F. York) |
| • |
Glory Martine, inheriting her great-uncle’s souvenir shop, including ghosts, in Keyhole Bay, Florida, in the Haunted Souvenir Shop mysteries |
| Steven M. Forman |
| • |
Eddie Perlmutter:
tough Jewish former Boston cop in his late 50s, now retired to Boca
Raton, Florida |
| Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
| • |
Lupe Solano: private investigator in Miami, Florida |
| Alan Green |
| • |
John Hugo: police lieutenant
in Florida |
| H. Terrell Griffin |
| • |
Matt Royal: retired
trial lawyer living on Longboat Key, off the gulf coast of Florida |
| James Grippando |
| • |
Jack Swyteck:
a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, Florida |
| Michael Gruber |
| • |
Iago “Jimmy” Paz:
Cuban-American cop, in Miami, Florida, and elsewhere |
| James W. Hall |
| • |
Thorn: eco-avenger
PI in Key Largo, Florida |
| Michael Haskins |
| • |
Mick Murphy: journalist in Key West, Florida, with ties to Boston, Massachusetts |
| Patty Henderson |
| • |
Brenda Strange: private investigator of the weird in Tampa, Florida |
| Vicki Hendricks |
| • |
Non-series noir erotica set in Florida |
| Tami Hoag |
| • |
Elena Estes: ex-cop turned horse trainer, in Palm Beach, Florida |
| Jilliane Hoffman |
| • |
C. J. Townsend.:
an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida |
| Hialeah Jackson (Polly Whitney) |
| • |
Annabelle
Hardy-Maratos: deaf president of a large Miami security
firm, and Dave the Monkeyman, her sidekick and main ASL signer,
in Miami, Florida |
| Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| • |
Lew Fonesca:
investigator for local attorneys in Sarasota, Florida |
| Jonathon King |
| • |
Max Freeman: cop from Philly who shot and killed a 12 year-old, quit, and moved
to the edge of the Everglades in Florida |
| Christine Kling |
| • |
Seychelle Sullivan:
owner and operator of a 46-foot salvage ship near Fort Lauderdale,
Florida |
| Michael Koryta |
| • |
Markus Novak: private investigator working for a Florida law firm that specializes in exonerating death row inmates |
| Mary Kennedy |
| • |
Maggie Walsh: Manhattan
psychologist who takes a job as a radio talk show host on WYME in
the fictional south Florida town of Cypress Grove, in the Talk Radio
mysteries |
| Rita Lakin |
| • |
Gladdy Gold: Florida’s Oldest Private Eye and her gang of
retirees, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| John Lantigua |
| • |
Willie Cuesta: private
investigator based in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida |
| Vincent Lardo |
| • |
Arch McNally: playboy
private investigator in Palm Beach, Florida (series continued by
Vincent Lardo after Lawrence Sanders’ death) |
| John Leslie |
| • |
Gideon Lowry: a 50-something,
piano-playing private detective in Key West, Florida |
| Barbara Levenson |
| • |
Mary Magruder Katz:
half Jewish, half Southern Baptist criminal defense attorney, in
Miami, Florida |
| Paul Levine |
| • |
Jake Lassiter:
ex-linebacker turned lawyer in Miami, Florida |
| • |
Steve Solomon: Coconut Beach bum, and Victoria Lord, a Miami blue blood, squabbling law partners in Florida |
| Terry Lewis |
| • |
Ted Stevens: hard-luck
attorney, and his law partner Paul Morganstein, in Tallahassee, Florida |
| Jeff Lindsay |
| • |
Dexter Morgan:
blood spatter technician for Miami Dade Police Department and sociopathic
serial killer |
| Michael Lister |
| • |
John Jordan:
prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida |
| • |
Jimmy Riley, working
as a private detective in 1940s Panama City, Florida, after losing
an arm while on the police force |
| Tom Lowe |
| • |
Sean O’Brien: recently
widowed former Miami homicide detective, now living with his dachshund
Max on the St. John’s River, in Florida |
| John Lutz |
| • |
Fred Carver: private investigator in Del Moray, Florida |
| John D. MacDonald |
| • |
Travis McGee:
adventurer, philosopher and private eye in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| Michael McClister |
| • |
Elmo Finn: a
Vietnam Vet, retired from the CIA on Longboat Key in Sarasota, Florida |
| Carlene Miller |
| • |
Lexy Hyatt: crime
reporter in Florida |
| Laura Morrigan |
| • |
Grace Wilde: animal behaviorist who can communicate psychically with animals, in Florida, in the Call of the Wilde series |
| Bob Morris |
| • |
Zack Chasteen: former
Miami Dolphin linebacker, in Florida and the Caribbean |
| Geoffrey Norman |
| • |
Morgan Hunt: Vietnam
vet, ex-con, private investigator working for a crusading lawyer,
in Pensacola, Florida |
| Hilary Norman |
| • |
Sam Becket: African-American
homicide detective, and wife Grace Lucca, a child psychologist, in
Miami Beach, Florida |
| Barbara Parker |
| • |
Gail Connor: corporate
attorney in Miami, Florida |
| P.J. Parrish |
| • |
Joe Frye: the
only female homicide detective in the Miami-Dade Police Department
(and Louis Kincaid’s lover), in Miami, Florida |
| Allan Pedrazas |
| • |
Harry Rice: 30-something
tavern owner and part-time sleuth, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| W.R. Philbrick |
| • |
T.D. Stash:
unlicensed private investigator, in Florida |
| Rhonda Pollero |
| • |
Finley Anderson Tanner:
youngish paralegal with an interest in discount shopping, in West
Palm Beach, Florida |
| Talmage Powell |
| • |
Ed Rivers: private investigator in Tampa, Florida |
| Kevin Robinson |
| • |
Stick Foster: paraplegic
newspaper reporter in Orlando, Florida |
| Kinley Roby |
| • |
Harry Brock: private investigator, as well as an amateur painter and naturalist, on an island in southwest Florida |
| Anthony Rome (Martin Albert) |
| • |
Tony Rome, gambler
and private eye in Miami, Florida |
| Lawrence Sanders |
| • |
Archy McNally:
playboy private eye in Palm Beach, Florida (series continued by
Vincent Lardo after Lawrence Sanders’ death) |
| Laurence Shames |
| • |
Non-series books set in Florida |
| Deborah Sharp |
| • |
Mace Bauer: middle
daughter of Mama, who’s been married at least four times, in
rural Florida |
| James Sheehan |
| • |
Jack Tobin: prominent trial lawyer formerly in Miami, now crusading for justice in rural Florida |
| Phyllis Smallman |
| • |
Sherri Travis:
self-proclaimed “white trash” and a bartender in the
small beach town of Jacaranda, Florida |
| Les Standiford |
| • |
John Deal: building contractor in Miami, Florida |
| Nick Stone |
| • |
Max Mingus: ex-cop private investigator, in Miami, Florida, and Haiti |
| Randy Striker (Randy Wayne White) |
| • |
Dusky MacMorgan: ex-Navy SEAL, in Florida |
| James Swain |
| • |
Jack Carpenter:
former head of Broward County (Florida) Missing Persons Unit, now
a private investigator in south Florida |
| Matt & Bonnie Taylor |
| • |
Palmer Kingston:
Pulitzer-winning reporter for the Marlinsport Tribune, and Alice
Jane (A.J.) Egan, his lover who writes for the competing New Seville
Times, set mostly in Florida |
| Elaine Viets |
| • |
Helen Hawthorne: who gave up her affluent lifestyle for a series of minimum-wage jobs in Florida, in the Dead End Job series |
| Ann Waldron |
| • |
McLeod Delaney: Pulitzer-Prize-winning
journalist from Tallassee, Florida, comes to Princeton University
as a visiting lecturer in Princeton, New Jersey in the Big Crime
on Campus mysteries |
| Richard F. West |
| • |
Benny Ashe: a retired
Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida in the The Old Gang of Mine series |
| • |
Peter Benington:
a retired jewel thief in Coral Sands, Florida in the The Old Gang
of Mine series |
| Randy Wayne White |
| • |
Doc Ford: ex-operative
marine biologist in Sanibel Island, Florida |
| • |
Hannah Smith: fishing guide in Florida |
| Karen Ann Wilson |
| • |
Samantha Holt:
a veterinary technician in Paradise Cay, Florida |
| Darryl Wimberley |
| • |
Barrett “Bear” Raines:
the first black detective in an all-white police force in Deacon
Beach, Florida |
| Sherryl Woods |
| • |
Holly Dewitt:
a film producer and single mother in Miami, Florida |
| Stuart Woods |
| • |
Holly Barker: former military police commander turned police
chief of small town Orchid Beach, Florida |
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