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| Nathan Aldyne |
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Clarisse Lovelace: straight
half-owner of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts |
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Dan Valentine: gay half-owner
of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Irene Allen |
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Elizabeth Elliot:
60-something widowed Quaker meeting clerk Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Mark Arsenault |
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Eddie Bourque: investigative reporter in the mill town of Lowell,
Massachusetts |
| Sydney Bauer |
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David Cavanaugh: criminal
defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Sophie Belfort |
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Nick Hannibal:
homicide detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Heather Blake (Heather Webber) |
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Darcy Merriweather, from a long line of witches who can cast spells by making a wish, in the Enchanted Village section of Salem, Massachusetts, in the Wishcraft mysteries |
| Nero Blanc |
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Annabella Graham: crossword
puzzle editor for the Newcastle Evening Crier in Newcastle, Massachusetts |
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Rosco Polycrates: private
eye in Newcastle, Massachusetts |
| Al Blanchard |
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Steve Asher: public
school teacher in Massachusetts |
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James Callahan: homicide
detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Michelle Blake |
| • |
Lily Connor: Episcopalian
priest in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Anne Canadeo |
| • |
Maggie Messina: owner
of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop and a circle of knitters, in Plum
Harbor, Massachusetts, in the Black Sheep Knitting mysteries |
| Carolyn Coker |
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Andrea Perkins:
art historian and restorer in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Susan Conant |
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Holly Winter:
writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Chloe Carter: boy-crazy 20-something gourmand, in Brighton, Massachusetts |
| Sheila Connolly |
| • |
Meg Corey: taking
over her mother’s colonial home and apple orchard, in fictional
Granford, Massachusetts |
| Patricia Cornwell |
| • |
Win Garano:
mixed-race state investigator, and Monique Lamont,
District Attorney, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| George Harmon Coxe |
| • |
Jack “Flashgun” Casey: crime photographer in Boston, Massachusetts |
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Kent Murdock: hard-drinking crime photographer, and frequent co-star, tough guy Jack Fenner, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| David Daniel |
| • |
Alex Rasmussen: wise-cracking ex-cop private investigator in
Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Dicey Deere |
| • |
Torrey Tunet: 28
year old translator from Boston, Massachusetts , stuck in Ballynaugh,
Ireland |
| Vicki Delany |
| • |
Gemma Doyle: transplanted Englishwoman returning to run her Great Uncle Arthur’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, along with Moriarty the cat, in West London on Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Terry Devane (Jeremiah Healy) |
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Sheldon Gold:
lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, Mairead O’Clare’s mentor |
| • |
Mairead O’Clare:
a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Doris Miles Disney |
| • |
Jeff DiMarco:
insurance investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
| John F. Dobbyn |
| • |
Michael Knight: a young
attorney who gets a job with his mentor, legendary trial attorney
Lex Devlin, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Joanne Dobson |
| • |
Karen Pelletier:
English professor in Enfield, Massachusetts |
| Jerome Doolittle |
| • |
Tom Bethany: former political consultant and wrestler who now
works as a private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Sarah Dreher |
| • |
Stoner McTavish:
lesbian travel agent in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Bill Eidson |
| • |
Jack Merchant, an ex-DEA agent, living on his retirement plus his
photography on the sloop Lila, in Charlestown (a Boston suburb)
Massachusetts |
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Sarah Ballard: running her father’s business repossessing
boats for banks, in Charlestown (a Boston suburb) Massachusetts |
| G.H. Ephron |
| • |
Dr. Peter Zak: Jewish
psychologist in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Terence Faherty |
| • |
Owen Keane: ex-seminarian
and law firm researcher in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Kate Flora |
| • |
Thea Kozak: educational
consultant in Massachusetts |
| Timothy Fuller |
| • |
Jupiter Jones:
Harvard fine arts instructor and amateur sleuth, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Lisa Gardner |
| • |
Bobby Dodge: state police sniper, and D.D. Warren, a police detective,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tess Gerritsen |
| • |
Jane Rizzoli: detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Sally Goldenbaum |
| • |
Isabel “Izzy” Chambers:
lawyer who leaves Boston to open the Seaside Knitting Studio, in
Sea Harbor, Massachusetts |
| Barbara Hamilton (Barbara Hambly) |
| • |
Abigail Adams,
the future first lady, married to a rebellious lawyer, in mid-1770s
Massachusetts Colony |
| Sherry Harris |
| • |
Sarah Winston: former Air Force wife, now divorced from the police chief in Ellington, Massachusetts, in the Garage Sale mysteries |
| Jeremiah Healy |
| • |
John Francis Cuddy:
Army police lieutenant turned PI in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Lynne Heitman |
| • |
Alex Shanahan: general
manager of Majestic Airlines, in Boston, Massachusetts, and elsewhere,
sometimes undercover investigator in the airline industry, and later
a private investigator |
| Rosemary Herbert |
| • |
Liz Higgins: reporter
for the tabloid The Beantown Banner, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| George V. Higgins |
| • |
Jerry Kennedy:
criminal defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts |
| David Hosp |
| • |
Scott Finn: lawyer in
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Marshall Jevons |
| • |
Henry Spearman:
economics professor at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Jamie Katz |
| • |
Dan Kardon: Boston attorney who uncovers corruption and murder
in a deceptively quiet, working-class community near Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Susan Kelly |
| • |
Liz Connors: former
English professor and freelance crime writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Toni L.P. Kelner |
| • |
Tilda Harper: celebrity journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts,
in the “Where Are They Now?” mysteries |
| Harry Kemelman |
| • |
David Small: rabbi
sleuth in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts |
| Doug Kiker |
| • |
Mac McFarland: burned-out
reporter in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Nicholas Kilmer |
| • |
Fred Taylor: art
historian in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Zachary Klein |
| • |
Matt Jacob: former social worker, now a private investigator with a drug problem, in Boston, Massachussets |
| Kathleen Moore Knight |
| • |
Elisha
Macomber: 70-something Chairman of the Board
of Selectmen of Penberthy Township, and proprietor of a fish market,
in fictional Penberthy Island, Massachusetts |
| Kathryn Lasky Knight |
| • |
Calista Jacobs:
illustrator of children’s books in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Mary Kruger |
| • |
Ariadne “Ari” Evans: 29-year-old owner of Ariadne’s
Web, a knitting shop in Freeport, Massachusetts |
| J. Dayne Lamb |
| • |
Teal Stewart: Certified
Public Accountant in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Jane Langton |
| • |
Homer Kelly: professor
in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Marie Lee |
| • |
Marguerite Smith: retired
science teacher in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Wendi Lee |
| • |
Angela Matelli: ex-Marine
turned private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Harry Paul Lonsdale (H. Paul Jeffers) |
| • |
Nick Chase:
retired NYPD homicide detective now running a cigar store called
The Happy Smoking Ground, in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Jon Loomis |
| • |
Frank Coffin: burned
out Baltimore homicide detective, returning to his hometown, Provincetown,
Massachusetts |
| Anna Maclean |
| • |
Louisa May Alcott: amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author,
in pre-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts |
| Charlotte MacLeod |
| • |
Max Bittersohn:
part of an investigative couple in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Sarah Kelling:
part of an investigative couple in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Peter Shandy:
college botany professor and husband in Balaclava County, Massachusetts |
| • |
Helen Marsh
Shandy: librarian and wife in Balaclava County, Massachusetts |
| Ada Madison (Camille Minichino) |
| • |
Sophie Knowles:
math professor at Henley College, in Massachusetts |
| Larry Maness |
| • |
Jake Eaton: private
investigator in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| • |
Watson: Jake Eaton's
superdog in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| David Manuel |
| • |
Brother Bartholomew:
member of the religious community at Faith Abbey in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Richard Marinick |
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Non-series
set in the mean streets of South Boston, Massachusetts |
| William Martin |
| • |
Peter Fallon: antiquarian bookseller involved in Harvard intrigues, and later hunting historical treasures with Evangeline Carrington, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Francine Mathews |
| • |
Merry Folger:
police officer on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts |
| Vincent McCaffrey |
| • |
Henry Sullivan:
30-something book hound, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Helen McCloy |
| • |
Basil Willing: psychiatrist and sleuth, in New York, and later
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Grant Michaels |
| • |
Stan Kraychik:
gay hairdresser in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Camille Minichino |
| • |
Gloria Lamerino:
50-something physicist in Revere Beach, Massachusetts |
| Chris Mooney |
| • |
Darby McCormick: holding
a doctorate in criminal psychology and working as a crime scene investigator,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Clare Munnings |
| • |
Rosemary Stubbs:
chaplain at Sanderson College in the Connecticut River Valley in
Massachusetts |
| Susan Oleksiw |
| • |
Joe Silva: police
chief in Mellingham, Massachusetts |
| Robert B. Parker |
| • |
Sunny Randall:
a private eye in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Spenser: ex-boxer,
ex-state cop turned private eye in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Jesse Stone: Homicide Detective in Paradise, Massachusetts |
| Randall Peffer |
| • |
Cape Island mysteries, mainly involving characters and locations
around Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| W.R. Philbrick |
| • |
J.D. Hawkins: wheelchair-bound
mystery writer, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nancy Pickard |
| • |
Jenny Cain: foundation director, in Port Frederick, Massachusetts |
| Suzanne Price |
| • |
Sky Taylor: recently
widowed 30-something newspaper columnist and creative cleaner, in
fictional Pigeon Cove, off the Massachusetts coast, in the Grime
Solvers series |
| Cornelia Read |
| • |
Madeline Dare:
former dubutante in 1980s New York and Massachusettss |
| Barry Reed |
| • |
Dan Sheridan: attorney
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Robert Reeves |
| • |
Thomas Theron: history
professor in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Maggie Rennert |
| • |
Guy Silvestri: police
detective in Massachusetts |
| John Lawrence Reynolds |
| • |
Joe McGuire:
detective lieutenant in Boston, Massachusetts, who drops out to the
Bahamas from time to time |
| Dolores Stewart Riccio |
| • |
Cass (Cassandra)
Shipton: owner of Earthlore Herbal Preparations and Cruelty-Free
Cosmetics, and a member of a study group turned coven, in Plymouth,
Massachusetts |
| Cynthia Riggs |
| • |
Victoria Trumbull:
astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer,
in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts |
| Dorothy and Sidney Rosen |
| • |
Belle Appleman: Jewish immigrant and garment worker, during the
Great Depression in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Richard Rosen |
| • |
Harvey Blissberg:
ex-major league baseball player turned private eye in Boston Massachusetts |
| G.S. Rowe |
| • |
Will Beaman: working
in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Hank Phillippi Ryan |
| • |
Charlotte “Charlie” McNally:
40-something TV investigative reporter, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Jane Ryland, a disgraced newspaper reporter, and Jake Brogan, a homicide detective, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| P.B. Ryan |
| • |
Nell Sweeney: governess
in post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts |
| Walter Satterthwait |
| • |
Lizzie Borden:
accused of murdering her father and step-mother at the turn of the
century in Fall River, Massachusetts |
| Clea Simon |
| • |
Theda Krakow: cat-loving,
freelance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| • |
Dulcie Schwartz:
Harvard doctoral candidate living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
the ghost of her cat Mr. Grey |
| Judith Smith-Levin |
| • |
Starletta Duvall: homicide lieutenant in Brookport, Massachusetts |
| Marta Stephens |
| • |
Sam Harper: homicide
detective in Chandler, Massachusetts |
| Vicki Stiefel |
| • |
Tally Whyte: counsels the families of homicide victims at the
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner aka The Grief Shop in Boston,
Massachusetts |
| Winona Sullivan |
| • |
Cecile Buddenbrooks:
licensed private eye and heiress-nun is Boston, Massachusetts |
| William G. Tapply |
| • |
Brady Coyne:
sports fisherman and lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
| • |
Asey Mayo:
former sailor & auto racer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Pamela Thomas-Graham |
| • |
Chase, Nikki:
black economics professor in Cambridge Massachusetts in the Ivy
League Mystery |
| Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor) |
| • |
Leonidas Witherall:
retired academic and secret pulp fiction author in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Cecelia Tishy |
| • |
Regina Cutter: working at a resale-clothing store for cash-strapped
women reentering the workplace, and newly transplanted to Boston,
Massachusetts |
| Elise Title |
| • |
Natalie Price: superintendent
of a Boston halfway house for prison inmates in Massachusetts |
| Paul Tremblay |
| • |
Mark Genevich: narcoleptic
private investigator in South Boston, Massachusetts |
| Steve Ulfelder |
| • |
Conway Sax: no-nonsense auto mechanic with a knack for solving difficult problems, around Framingham, Massachusetts |
| Heather Webber |
| • |
Lucy Valentine:
the black sheep of a psychic matchmaking family, now running the
family business, Valentine, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tobias Wells (Stanton Forbes) |
| • |
Knute Severson:
police detective in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theodora Wender |
| • |
Alden Chase:chief
of police, and Glad Gold, an English professor, in Wading River,
Massachusetts |
| Kate White |
| • |
Bailey Weggins: true
crime author in Warren, Massachusetts |
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