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          | Jennie Bentley | 
         
        
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          Avery Baker: New
            York textile designer turned home renovator, and her boyfriend and
            business partner, handyman Derek Ellis, in fictional Waterfield,
            Maine, in the Do-It-Yourself mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Gerry Boyle | 
         
        
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          Brandon Blake: a loner
            who lives on an old wooden cruiser, on the waterfront of Portland,
            Maine | 
         
        
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            Jack McMorrow: small-town editor in  Androscoggin, Maine | 
         
         
         
      
        
          | David A. Crossman | 
         
        
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            Winston Crisp:  retired National Security code-breaker, in Penobscot
      Island, Maine, in the Maine Island Mysteries | 
         
         
        
         
        
          
            | Claire Donally (Bill McCay) | 
           
          
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            Sunny Coolidge: former New York City newspaper reporter returning with her cat Shadow to Kittery Harbor, Maine, in the Sunny & Shadow mysteries | 
           
         
 
        
          
            | Vicki Doudera | 
           
          
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            Darby Farr: real
              estate agent returning from California to her old hometown of Hurricane
              Harbor, Maine | 
           
         
         
        
          
            | Kaitlyn Dunnet (Kathy Lynn Emerson) | 
           
          
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            Liss MacCrimmon:
              20-something dancer forced into early retirement by a knee injury,
              helping at her aunt’s Scottish store, in Moosetookalook,
              Maine | 
           
         
         
        
        
          | Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain | 
         
        
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            Jessica Fletcher: mystery writer in Cabot Cove,  Maine, in the “Murder, She Wrote” series | 
         
         
         
        
          
            | Linda Greenlaw | 
           
          
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            Jane Bunker: former
              Florida police detective, now a marine insurance investigator and
              later a sheriff’s deputy in coastal Green Haven, Maine | 
           
         
         
      
        
          | Sarah Graves | 
         
        
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            Jacobia Triptree: onetime financial advisor to the Mob, now living in Eastport, Maine | 
         
         
         
      
        
          | Linda Hall | 
         
        
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          The  Coast of Maine series | 
         
        
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          Teri Blake-Addison: private investigator in Maine | 
         
        
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          Jake Rikker: private investigator, kayak  adventurer, and whale-watching tour guide specializing in salvage operations,  in the mostly Christian town of Fog Point, Maine | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | James Hayman | 
         
        
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          Mike McCabe: former
            NYPD homicide detective, now a detective sergeant living with his
            13-year-old daughter in Portland, Maine | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | B.B. Haywood | 
         
        
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          Candy Holliday, running
            a blueberry farm with her dad Henry “Doc” Holliday, near
            the fictional seaside town of Cape Willington, Maine | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lee Hollis (Rick Copp & Holly Simason) | 
         
        
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          Hayley Powell: single mother writing the food column for the Island Times, in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the Food and Cocktails mysteries | 
         
       
      
        
          | Lee Charles Kelley | 
         
        
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            Jack Field:  former NYPD detective, retired to run a kennel in Maine | 
         
         
       
      
        
          | Allison Kingsley (Kate Kingsbury) | 
         
        
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          Clara Quinn, returning home from New York City to work in Raven’s Nest Bookstore owned by her cousin Stephanie, in rural Maine | 
         
       
 
        
          
            |  Eleanor Kuhns | 
           
          
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            Will Rees: former soldier in the American Revolution, working as a traveling weaver in 1790s Maine | 
           
         
 
      
        
          | Margaret Lawrence | 
         
        
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            Hannah Trevor: midwife in Rufford, Maine just after the Revolutionary War | 
         
         
         
        
          
            | Jenifer LeClair | 
           
          
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            Brie Beaumont: wounded Minneapolis homicide detective, recovering on the coast of Maine, in the Windjammer mysteries | 
           
         
 
        
          
            | Karen MacInerney | 
           
          
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            Natalie Barnes:
              inn proprietor on Cranberry Island, Maine, in the Gray Whale Inn
              mysteries | 
           
         
         
      
        
          | Leslie Meier | 
         
        
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            Lucy Stone: sleuthing wife and mother of four in Tinker’s Cove, Maine | 
         
         
         
        
          
            | Tom Mitcheltree | 
           
          
            |   • | 
            Paul Fischer:
              college professor in Oregon and Maine | 
           
         
        
         
      
       
      
        
          | Barbara Ross | 
         
        
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          Julia Snowden, returning to her hometown to run the Snowden Family Clambake Company, in fictional Busman’s Harbor, Maine, in the Maine Clambake mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Kieran Shields | 
         
        
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          Archie Lean, newly appointed deputy marshal, and Perceval Grey, a part-Indian Pinkerton agent, in 1890s Portland, Maine | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | William  G. Tapply | 
         
        
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          Stoney Calhoun: works at a bait and tackle shop rural Maine | 
         
         
       
      
          
            | Lea Wait | 
         
          
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            Maggie Summer:  owner of the  antique print business named Shadows
      in Maine | 
         
         
       
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