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        | Kenneth Abel | 
       
      
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        Danny Chaisson:  former Assistant District Attorney, now bagman for crocked state senator in New Orleans,
    Louisiana | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Ace Atkins | 
         
        
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          Nick Travers, ex-football star,  part-time detective, and full-time expert on blues in New Orleans,  Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Jacklyn Brady (Sherry Lewis) | 
         
        
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          Rita Lucero:
            pastry chef in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Piece of Cake mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Joy Castro | 
         
        
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          Nola Céspedes: ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Laura Childs | 
         
        
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          Carmela Bertrand:  owner of a scrapbooking shop in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington | 
         
        
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          Ralph “Rat” Trapp:
            black homicide detective captain, in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
      
        
          | Rex Dancer (Michael Kilian)  | 
         
        
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          Andy Derain: burned out New York fashion photographer, in New
            Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Jana DeLeon | 
         
        
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          Maryse Robicheaux:
            a botanist researcher whose husband absconded, the wisecracking ghost
            of her mother-in-law Helena Henry, and her friend Sabine LeVeche,
            in Mudbug, Louisiana, in the Ghost-in-Law Mystery Romance series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | D.J. Donaldson | 
         
        
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          Andy  Broussard:  medical examiner in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
        
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          Kit Franklyn: criminal psychologist in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Sophie Dunbar | 
         
        
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          Clair Claiborne: beauty salon owner in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Jimmy Fox | 
         
        
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          Nick Herald:  professional genealogist in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | David Fulmer | 
         
        
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          Valentin St. Cyr:
            Creole private detective in the early 20th century, in the Storyville
            district of New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Heather Graham | 
         
        
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          The Flynn Brothers:
            private investigators inheriting a haunted mansion in New Orleans,
            Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sara Gran | 
         
        
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          Claire DeWitt: the world’s
            foremost private investigator, in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Barbara Hambly | 
         
        
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          Ben January: surgeon and music teacher in 1833 New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Charlaine Harris | 
         
        
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          Sookie Stackhouse:  cocktail waitress and her vampire boyfriend, Bill, in
    small town Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Richard Helms | 
         
        
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          Pat Gallegher:  failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist and jazz
    musician in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Greg Herren | 
         
        
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          Scotty Bradley:  gay private detective and former go-go dancer at the boys' bars, in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
        
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          Chanse MacLeod:  gay private
      investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
      
        
          | Ed Kovacs | 
         
        
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          Cliff St. James: a former cop, martial arts expert, and private investigator, in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Dick Lochte | 
         
        
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          Terry Manion: private eye in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
   
       
      
        
          | Bill Loehfelm | 
         
        
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          Maureen Coughlin:
            29-year-old cocktail waitress on Staten Island, New York, later a cop in New Orleans, Louisianak | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | David Lyons | 
         
        
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          Jock Boucher: federal judge of Cajun background, in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | John Ramsey Miller | 
         
        
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          Winter Massey:
            deputy U.S. Marshal (later an ex-marshal), in New Orleans, Louisiana,
            and elsewhere in the South | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | George Ogan | 
         
        
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          Johnny Bordelon: former
            New Orleans cop, now a private investigator, in Louisiana | 
         
       
      
        
          | J.M. Redmann | 
         
        
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          Micky Knight: female private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | James Sallis | 
         
        
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          Lew Griffin: black private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Malcolm (M.K.) Shuman | 
         
        
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          Micah Dunn: a private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
        
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          Alan Graham: contract archaeologist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Robert Skinner | 
         
        
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          Wesley Farrel: passing for white, a nightclub owner in 1930s New Orleans,
    Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Julie Smith | 
         
        
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          Skip Langdon: policewoman in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
        
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          Talba  Wallis:  (AKA Baroness de Pontalba), black poet and computer
    expert in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jessica Speart | 
         
        
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          Rachel Porter:  U.S. Fish & Wildlife agent in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | H.O. Ward | 
         
        
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          Dr. Galimatias: semi-retired
            physician based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Aramus P. Limpkin,
            professor of history at a college in Georgia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Penelope Williamson | 
         
        
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          Daman Rourke:
            ex-WWI flying ace and police detective in 1927 New Orleans, Lousiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Chris Wiltz | 
         
        
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          Neal Rafferty: third-generation
            cop turned private investigator, in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Steve Womack | 
         
        
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           Jack Lynch: public relations man and problem
    solver in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Daniel Woodrell | 
         
        
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          Rene Shade: ex-boxer,
            now a police detective, in the bayou town St. Bruno, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
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