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          | Gretchen Archer | 
         
        
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          Davis Way: on the security team at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, in Biloxi, Mississippi | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Ace Atkins | 
         
        
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          Quinn Colson:
            army ranger returning home from Afghanistan to rural northeast Mississippi | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Louisa Dixon | 
         
        
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          Laura Owen: the Commissioner of Public Safety in Mississippi | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jimmie Ruth  Evans (Dean James)  | 
         
        
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          Wanda Nell Culpepper:  over-worked single mother, in Tullahoma, Mississippi,  in the Trailer Park mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Rick Gavin | 
         
        
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          Nick Reid, a repo man, and his best friend Desmond, in the Mississippi Delta | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Bill Fitzhugh | 
         
        
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          Rick Shannon:  FM rock disc jockey and private  investigator in the Mississippi Delta | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Carolyn Haines | 
         
        
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          Sarah Booth Delaney: unconventional
      Southern Belle in Zinnia, Mississippi | 
         
        
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          Dixon Sinclair: big city reporter who moves to stop drinking and run a small town weekly, in Jexville, Mississipp | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Phil Hardwick | 
         
        
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          Jack Boulder: private investigator
        in Mississippi | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Martin Hegwood | 
         
        
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          Jack Delmas: private investigator from the Mississippi Gulf Coast | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Greg Iles | 
         
        
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          Penn Cage: lawyer and writer, in Natchez, Mississippi | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Miranda James (Dean James) | 
         
        
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          Charlie Harris:
            a widowed librarian, and Diesel, a Maine coon cat, in the college
            town of Athena, Mississippi, in the Cat in the Stacks series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Peggy Webb | 
         
        
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          Elvis Presley: reincarnated
            as a basset hound, Callie Valentine Jones, a hairdresser at her Uncle
            Charlie’s mortuary, and Lovie, a caterer, near Tupelo, Mississippi,
            in the Southern Cousins mysteries | 
         
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