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| Barbra Annino |
| • |
Stacy Justice: 20-something reluctant witch working as a reporter, and her Great Dane Thor, in fictional Amethyst, Illinois |
| Kelley Armstrong |
| • |
Olivia Taylor Jones, from a prominent Chicago family, finds out she’s the adopted daughter of notorious serial killers, in Cainsville, Illinois, in the Cainsville trilogy |
| Nikki Baker |
| • |
Virginia Kelly: black lesbian stockbroker in Chicago, Illinois |
| Bill S. Ballinger |
| • |
Barr Breed: private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
| Ronald H. Balson |
| • |
Catherine Lockhart, a lawyer, and Liam Taggart, a private investigator, based in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael Biehl |
| • |
Karen Haye: staff lawyer for Shoreview Memorial Hospital in Illinois |
| 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 |
| • |
Ron Shade: tough-guy
private investigator with a soft heart, and a martial arts expert,
in Chicago, Illinois |
| Eleanor Taylor Bland |
| • |
Marti MacAlister: widowed black
police detective in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois |
| Noah Boyd (Paul Lindsay) |
| • |
Steve Vail: renegade
FBI agent who leaves the bureau to work as a bricklayer in Chicago,
and FBI deputy assistant director Kate Bannon who enlists his help |
| D. C. Brod |
| • |
Robyn Guthrie: freelance writer in Illinois |
| • |
Quint McCauley: ex-cop turned private investigator in a Chicago suburb in
Illinois |
| Fredric Brown |
| • |
Ed Hunter: a young
Chicago teenager, and his uncle Ambrose Hunter, a carny worker |
| Howard Browne |
| • |
Paul Pine: former
DA’s investigator, now a private investigator, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Luisa Buehler |
| • |
Grace Marsden: writer of
children’s books in a lovely reclaimed marsh compound called Pine
Marsh, Illinois |
| Jim Butcher |
| • |
Harry Dresden: the only wizard listed in yellow pages in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Laura Caldwell |
| • |
Izzy McNeil: young
entertainment lawyer in Chicago, Illinois |
| Robert Campbell |
| • |
Jimmy Flannery: sewer inspector and Democratic precinct captain in Chicago, Illinois |
| Charlotte Carter |
| • |
Cassandra Lisle: college student in late-1960s
Chicago, Illinois, in the Cook County mysteries |
| Joelle Charbonneau |
| • |
Rebecca Robbins:
Chicago mortgage broker inheriting a roller skating rink from her
mother, in fictional Indian Falls, Illinois |
| Sean Chercover |
| • |
Ray Dudgeon: former
newspaper reporter turned private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Jill Churchill |
| • |
Jane Jeffry: suburban housewife and sleuth in Chicago, Illinois |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
Nate Heller: 1930s ex-cop turned private eye in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael Cormany |
| • |
Dan Kruger: 30-something
ex-cop and former rock musician, now a private investigator, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Michael Craft |
| • |
Mark Manning: gay journalist in Chicago, Illinois |
| Lonnie Cruse |
| • |
Joe Dalton:
sheriff in Metropolis, Illinois |
| William Diehl |
| • |
Martin Vail: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois |
| Wayne D. Dundee |
| • |
Joe Hannibal: blue-collar
private investigator based in Rockford, Illinois |
| Michael Allen Dymmoch |
| • |
John Thinnes:
a cop, and Jack Caleb, a gay psychiatrist, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| P.N. Elrod |
| • |
Jack Fleming: 1930s reporter turned vampire in Chicago, Illinois |
| Paul Engleman |
| • |
Phil Moony:
ex-fireman private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| • |
Mark Renzler: ex-baseball
player private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Crabbe Evers |
| • |
Duffy House: ex-sportswriter turned investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
| David Everson |
| • |
Robert (Bobby) Miles:
minor league baseball player turned private investigator and troubleshooter
for the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives |
| Sharon Fiffer |
| • |
Jane Wheel: was laid off from her advertising job and is working as an
antique picker to make ends meet in Chicago, Illinois |
| Barbara Fister |
| • |
Anni Koskinen: ex-cop
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Jack Fredrickson |
| • |
Vlodek “Dek” Elstrom:
private investigator with a failed marriage and battered reputation,
in Chicago, Illinois |
| 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 |
| Joseph Glass |
| • |
Dr. Susan Shader: psychiatrist and criminal profiler in Chicago, Illinois |
| Ellen Godfrey |
| • |
Janet Barkint: high school dropout in Evanston, Illinois, in the Women’s
Rescue Co. mysteries |
| Robert Goldsborough |
| • |
Steve “Snap” Malek:
police reporter for the Tribune, in 1930s–1940s Chicago, Illinois |
| Ed Gorman |
| • |
Dev Conrad: political
consultant in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael Harvey |
| • |
Michael Kelly: ex-cop
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Libby Fischer Hellmann |
| • |
Georgia Davis:
ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| • |
Ellie Foreman: recently
divorced suburban mom who makes video documentaries in Chicago, Illinois |
| Hugh Holton |
| • |
Larry Cole: police commander in
Chicago, Illinois |
| James Patrick Hunt |
| • |
Evan Maitland:
former police detective, now running an antique business and moonlighting
as a bounty hunter, based in Chicago, Illinois |
| Fred Hunter |
| • |
Jeremy Ransom: homicide
detective, and Emily Charters, his adopted grandmother, in Chicago,
Illinois |
| • |
Alex Reynolds: accidental spy in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Jerry Jenkins |
| • |
Margo Franklin: waitress, and Philip Spence, an artist, in Chicago, Illinois |
| • |
Jennifer Grey: newspaper reporter and columnist in Chicago, Illinois |
| D.J.H. Jones |
| • |
Nancy Cook: Chaucer
scholar and professor at Yale University |
| Michael A. Kahn |
| • |
Rachel Gold: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois then St. Louis, Missouri |
| Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| • |
Abe Lieberman: 60-something Jewish
police detective in Chicago, Illinois |
| Thomas Laird |
| • |
Jimmy Parisi: lieutenant in the Homicide
Division, Chicago Police Department, in Chicago, Illinois |
| K.J. Larsen |
| • |
Cat DeLuca: private investigator
operating the Pants On Fire Detective Agency specializing in cheating
spouses, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Jonathan Latimer |
| • |
Bill Crane: private detective in Chicago, Illinois |
| Kylie Logan (Constance Laux) |
| • |
Josie Giancola:
leading expert on buttons with a button shop in Chicago, Illinois,
in the Button Box mysteries |
| Phillips Lore (Terrence Lore Smith) |
| • |
Leo Roi:
lawyer and criminal investigator, in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago,
Illinois |
| Alex Matthews |
| • |
Cassidy McCabe: psychotherapist and
a calico cat in Oak Park, Illinois |
| John McEvoy |
| • |
Jack Doyle: failed
ad-man and reluctant sleuth working in the horse-racing world, based
in the Chicago, Illinois area |
| Frances McNamara |
| • |
Emily Cabot: one
of the first female graduate students, in sociology in the 1890s
at the University of Chicago, Illinois |
| Catherine O’Connell |
| • |
Pauline Cook,
a widowed socialite and world traveller, in Chicago, Illinois, in
the High Society series |
| Milton K. Ozaki |
| • |
Androcles Caldwell:
psychology professor at North University, his “Watson,” Bendy
Brinks, and Lt. Percy Phelan, a homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Sara Paretsky |
| • |
V. I. Warshawski: attorney turned private eye in Chicago, Illinois |
| Diane Petit |
| • |
Kathryn Bogert: owner of Good Buys, an estate sale business, and Charli, a Brittany spaniel, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Mary Monica Pulver (Monica Ferris) |
| • |
Peter Brichter:
police detective, and Kori Price Brichter, a horse
breeder, in Illinois |
| Lynne Raimondo |
| • |
Mark Angelotti: psychologist who became blind due to a genetic disorder, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael Raleigh |
| • |
Paul Whelan: 40-something cop turned private investigator in
Chicago, Illinois |
| Sam Reaves |
| • |
Cooper MacLeish: taxi driver and
Vietnam vet in Chicago, Illinois |
| Andrew Rosenheim |
| • |
Jimmy Nessheim: young FBI agent beginning in late 1930s Chicago, Illinois |
| Robert O. Saber (Milton K. Ozaki) |
| • |
Carl Good:
hort 40-something private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Jean Sheldon |
| • |
Kerry Grant: police
detective and computer guru, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael W. Sherer |
| • |
Emerson Ward: freelance writer in Chicago, Illinois |
| Edith Skom |
| • |
Beth Austin: English
professor at Midwestern University in 1940s Illinois |
| Charles Merrill Smith |
| • |
Reverend C.P. “Con” Randollph:
a former professional football quarterback, now minister of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, housed in a skyscraper where the penthouse
serves as the manse, in Chicago, Illinois |
| T. A. Stone |
| • |
Jonathan Kraag: former FBI profiler now a PI, Director of Security,
ADMS in Ravensburg, Illinois |
| Denise Swanson |
| • |
Skye Denison: school
psychologist in Scumble River, Illinois |
| Kate Sweeney |
| • |
Kate Ryan: middle-aged, accident prone, ex-private investigator, who later returns to Ryan, Costello, and Winfield Investigations, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Sandra Tooley |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Casey: Native
American detective sergeant in
Chasen Heights, Illinois, who can hear the dead speak |
| David J. Walker |
| • |
Dugan: lawyer in Chicago,
Illinois |
| • |
Malachy P. Foley: jazz piano-playing private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
| • |
Kirsten, owner of the Wild Onion, Ltd, a
private detective agency in Chicago, Illinois |
| Robert W. Walker |
| • |
Alastair Ransom:
an inspector, and Jane Francis Tewes, a doctor,
in the 1890s in Chicago, Illinois |
| John Wessel |
| • |
Harding:
unlicensed private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
| Michael Wiley |
| • |
Joe Kozmarski: private
investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
| Mark Richard Zubro |
| • |
Tom Mason:
a gay teacher, and his lover, Scott Carpenter, a baseball
player, in Chicago, Illinois |
| • |
Paul Turner: gay police detective in Chicago, Illinois |
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