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        | William Arden (Michael Collins)  | 
       
      
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        Kane Jackson: industrial espionage specialist in New Jersey | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | James Bradberry | 
         
        
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          Jamie Ramsgill:  architect and Princeton professor in Princeton, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Laura Bradford | 
         
        
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          Elise Jenkins: reporter
            for the Ocean Point Weekly, and Mitch Burns, a police detective,
            in Ocean Point, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Anthony Bruno | 
         
        
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          Loretta Kovacs: member of the
      New Jersey parole violators search team | 
         
        
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          Frank Marvelli: member of the New Jersey parole violators search team | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Jeffrey Cohen | 
         
        
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          Elliot Freed:
            recently divorced writer and proprietor of an old movie theater,
            in New Jersey, in the Double Feature mysteries | 
         
        
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          Aaron Tucker:
            former investigative reporter and aspiring screenwriter, in New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Eoin Colfer | 
         
        
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          Daniel McEvoy: Irish bouncer working in a seedy New Jersey bar | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | E.J. Copperman (Jeffrey Cohen) | 
         
        
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          Alison Kerby:
            guesthouse owner with two unexpected guests (ghosts) in her newly
            acquired Jersey Shore Victorian, in the Haunted Guesthouse mysteries | 
         
       
      
        
          | Eric Dezenhall | 
         
        
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          Jonah Eastman: pollster
            and spin doctor for hire, with family gangster connections, mostly
            revolving around New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Janet Evanovich | 
         
        
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          Stephanie Plum: bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Irene Fleming (Kate Gallison) | 
         
        
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          Emily Dagett
              Weiss: struggling young movie-maker in the early 20th century,
              in Fort Lee, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Shelley Freydont | 
         
        
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          Lindy Haggerty:
            rehearsal director and retired dancer in New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Kate Gallison | 
         
        
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          Mother Lavinia Grey: Episcopal vicar and practicing therapist in Fishersville, New Jersey | 
         
        
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          Nick Magaracz: private investigator in Trenton, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Dorothy Gilman | 
         
        
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          Mrs. Pollifax: grandmother and CIA agent in New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Chris Grabenstein | 
         
        
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          John Ceepak:
            veteran of the Iraq war, and his sidekick Danny Boyle, in Sea Haven,
            New Jersey | 
         
        
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          Christopher Miller:
            FBI agent in Jersey  City, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Robin Hathaway | 
         
        
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          Dr. Jo Bank:  who leaves New York City after a fatal misdiagnosis of a patient and ends up in Bayfield, New Jersey, as the on-call doctor at a
motel | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Richard Hilary | 
         
        
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          Ezell “Easy” Barnes:
            former prize fighter and cop turned private investigator, in Newark,
            New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jane Isenberg | 
         
        
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          Bel Barrett: professor of English in Jersey City, New Jersey | 
         
       
      
        
          | Jon Katz | 
         
        
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           Kit DeLeeuw: Wall Street shark turned suburban detective in Rochambeau, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Bill Kent | 
         
        
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          Louis Monroe:  Don Quixote-style cop, in Atlantic City, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ellen Larson | 
         
        
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          Natalie Joday: investigative reporter in Bergen County, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Evan Marshall | 
         
        
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          Jane Stuart: widowed literary agent in Shady Hills, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Brad Parks | 
         
        
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          Carter Ross: investigative
            reporter for the Eagle-Examiner, in Newark, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | J.W. Rider (Shane Stevens) | 
         
        
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          Ryder Malone:
            private investigator in Jersey City, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Jane Rubino | 
         
        
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          Cat Austen: single-mom
            reporter, and Victor Cardenas, a police detective, in Atlantic City,
            New Jerse | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Eric Sauter | 
         
        
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          Robert Lee Hunter:
            wealthy 30-something private investigator, in New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Beth Sherman | 
         
        
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          Anne Hardaway: ghostwriter in Oceanside Heights, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Wallace Stroby | 
         
        
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          Harry Rane:  ex-New Jersey
      State Trooper | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Cristina Sumners | 
         
        
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          Holder,
      Tom: overweight 40-something police chief in the
      affluent university town of Harton, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Ann Waldron | 
         
        
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          McLeod Delaney:
             Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist from Florida, comes to Princeton
            University as a visiting lecturer, later professor, in Princeton,
New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Valerie Wilson Wesley | 
         
        
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          Tamara Hayle: black ex-cop turned PI in Newark,
    New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Dave White | 
         
        
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          Jackson Donne: ex-cop
            private investigator, or night security guard when times are hard,
            in New Brunswick, New Jersey | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lois Winston | 
         
        
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          Anastasia Pollack:
            recently widowed mother of two teenaged sons, and crafts editor for
            a popular women’s magazine, in northern New Jersey | 
         
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