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        | Lynn Abercrombie (Walter Sorrells)  | 
       
      
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        Mechelle Deakes:  African-American police detective demoted to the cold case unit, in Atlanta, Georgia | 
       
     
       
      
      
        | Mary  Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck) | 
       
      
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        Eloise “Weezie” Foley: recently divorced antique dealer, and BeBe Loudermilk, a triple-divorced  restaurant owner, in Savannah, Georgia | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Mignon F. Ballard | 
         
        
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          Miss Dimple
              Kilpatrick: a longtime first-grade teacher during World War
              II, in Elderberry, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
      
        | Linda Berry | 
       
      
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        Trudy Roundtree:  the only woman on the Ogeechee  police force in Ogeechee,
    Georgia | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Ruth Birmingham (Walter Sorrells)  | 
         
        
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          Sunny Child: private investigator with Peachtree Investigations in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sallie Bissell | 
         
        
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          Mary Crow: half Cherokee assistant district attorney in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Stephanie Bond | 
         
        
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          Carlotta Wren:
            former rich girl now working in Neiman Marcus after her parents skip
            to avoid prosecution for white-collar crime, in Atlanta, Georgia,
            in the Body Movers series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Duffy Brown | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Reagan Summerside: running her consignment shop The Prissy Fox with her Aunt KiKi, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Consignment Shop mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Bailey Cates (Cricket McRae) | 
         
        
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          Katie Lightfoot, a novice witch and professional baker working at her aunt and uncle's bakery, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magical Bakery mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Thomas H. Cook | 
         
        
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          Frank Clemons: homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia (later  a private eye in New York, New York) | 
         
       
      
        
          | Lila Dare (Laura DiSilverio) | 
         
        
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          Grace Ann Terhune:
            recently divorced beautician working in her mother's salon in the
            tourist town of St. Elizabeth, Georgia, in the Southern Beauty Shop
            series | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Phillip DePoy | 
         
        
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          Fever  Devilin: folklorist and native of the Georgia Appalachians | 
         
        
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          Flap Tucker:  finder of lost things and a private investigator who uses
    meditation instead of a gun in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Nicola Griffith | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Aud Torvingen: half-American, half-Norwegian  lesbian ex-Atlanta cop and self-defense teacher | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Kay Hooper | 
         
        
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          Trey Fortier: homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Hagen,
      government agent in the USA | 
         
        
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          Lane  Montana: finder of lost things, in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Takis and Judy Iakovou | 
         
        
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          Julia Lambros: cafe owner and part-time speech pathologist in Delphi, Georgia | 
         
        
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          Nick Lambros: Greek immigrant and cafe owner in Delphi, Georgia | 
         
       
      
        
          | Lelia Kelly | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Laura Chastain:  assistant district attorney in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Virginia Lanier | 
         
        
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          Jo Beth Sidden: bloodhound trainer and tracker in Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | John Logue | 
         
        
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          John Morris: Associated
            Press sportswriter focusing on golf and football, and his love interest
            Julia Sullivan, based in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Brent Monahan | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          John Le Brun:  retired
      sheriff in 1890s in  Brunswick, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Gail Oust | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Piper Prescott: transplanted Yankee running a spice shop, in fictional Brandywine Creek, Georgia, in the Spice Shop mysteries | 
         
       
      
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Karin Slaughter | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dr. Sara Linton:  pediatrician and coroner in Grant County, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Mary Stanton (Claudia Bishop) | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Brianna Winston-Beaufort:
            a lawyer who inherits a haunted law firm, in Savannah, Georgia, in
            the Beaufort & Co. series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Fran Stewart | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Biscuit McKee: librarian,
            and her cat, Marmalade, in Martinsville, a small town in northern
            Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Maureen Tan | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jane Nichols:  secret agent turned mystery writer in Savannah, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Maggie Toussaint | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Baxley Powell: landscaper and pet-sitter with “dreamwalking” powers, assisting the county sheriff, in Georgia, in the Dreamwalker mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Kathy Hogan Trocheck | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Callahan Garrity: cleaning business owner in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Robert W. Walker | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Marcus Rydell:
            retired police detective working as a private investigator, and Dr.
            Katrina “Kat” Holley, in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | H.O. Ward | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Aramus P. Limpkin: professor
            of history at a college in Georgia, and Dr. Galimatias, a semi-retired
            physician based in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Livia J. Washburn | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Delilah
              Dickenson: owner of a travel agency in Atlanta, Georgia, in
              the Literary Tour mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Tina Whittle | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tai Randall, running a Confederate-themed gun shop, and Trey Seaver, a corporate security expert, in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
 
      
        
          | Amanda Kyle Williams | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Keye Street:
            Chinese-American private investigator, booted out of the FBI for
            alchoholism, in Atlanta, Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sherryl Woods | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Amanda  Roberts:  investigative reporter in Atlanta,
    Georgia | 
         
       
      
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