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          | Ron and Janet Benrey | 
         
        
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          Pippa Hunnechurch: owner of her own executive recruiting firm in Ryde, Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Helen Chappell | 
         
        
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          Hollis Ball:
            reporter, and Sam Wescott, her ex-husband’s
            ghost, in Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Tim Cockey | 
         
        
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          Hitchcock Sewel:
            and his Aunt Billie, certified morticians in Baltimore,
            Maryland | 
         
       
      
        
          | Kit Ehrman | 
         
        
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          Steve Cline: young stable hand in Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | James Grady | 
         
        
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          Devlin  Rourke: police detective sergeant in Baltimore, Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Mary Ellen Hughes | 
         
        
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          Jo McAllister:
            proprietor of Jo’s Craft Corner, in the
            small town of Abbotsville, Maryland, in the Craft Corner mysteries | 
         
        
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          Maggie Olenski:  young high school math teacher  in Baltimore,
    Maryland | 
         
       
      
        
          | Barbara Lee | 
         
        
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          Eve Elliott: real estate agent in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Laura Lippman | 
         
        
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          Tess Monaghan: private investigator in Baltimore, Maryland | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Virginia Lowell | 
         
        
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          Olivia Greyson:
            owner of the Gingerbread House in her Victorian home in fictional
            Chatterley Heights, on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, in the
            Cookie Cutter Shop series | 
         
       
       
      
      
        
          | Preston Pairo III | 
         
        
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          Jimmy (Griff) Griffin: ex-cop investigator for the city attorney, in Baltimore, Maryland | 
         
        
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          Dallas Henry: lawyer turned beachcombing motel manager, in Ocean City, Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Judith Skillings | 
         
        
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          Rebecca Moore: former reporter who runs a classic
            car restoration shop in rural Maryland | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Marcia Talley | 
         
        
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          IHannah Ives: breast-cancer survivor and a down-sizing victim in Annapolis,
    Maryland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Maggie Toussaint | 
         
        
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          Cleopatra Jones:
            accountant, golfer, and divorced mother of two, in Hogan’s
            Glen, Maryland | 
         
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