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        | Lorna Barrett (L.L. Bartlett) | 
       
      
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        Tricia Miles:
          running a mystery bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue,
          and the cat Miss Marple, in fictional small-town Stoneham, New Hampshire,
          a town full of bookstores | 
       
     
       
      
      
        | Jane K. Cleland | 
       
      
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        Josie Prescott: antiques
          dealer in a small town in coastal New Hampshire, in the Antiques mysteries | 
       
     
       
      
      
        | Felicia Donovan | 
       
      
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        The Spider Women — ex-cop Katie Mahoney,  computer forensics expert Alexandria Axelrod, office manager Margo Norton,  and financial whiz Jane Landers — of the Black Widow Agency, who  right the wrongs done to innocent women by dastardly men, in New Hampshire | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Brendan DuBois | 
         
        
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          Lewis Cole: Department of Defense, retired in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Shelley Freydont | 
         
        
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          Katie McDonald:
            mathematician and Sudoku whiz who returns to her hometown of Granville,
            New Hampshire | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Steve Sherman | 
         
        
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          Hugh Quint: ex-police detective turned private investigator in New
    Hampshire | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ben H. Winters | 
         
        
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          Hank Palace: police detective living under the threat of an impending asteroid collision, in Concord, New Hampshire | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Dorian Yeager | 
         
        
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          Elizabeth Will:  watercolorist-gallery owner in Dovekey, New Hampshire | 
         
       
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