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        | Rudolfo Anaya | 
       
      
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        Sonny Baca: part-time
          rodeo rider private eye in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Sandi Ault | 
         
        
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          Jamaica Wild: resource-protection
            agent for the Bureau of Land Management, in northern New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Christine Barber | 
         
        
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          Lucy Newroe: newspaper
            editor and volunteer EMT, in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Steve Brewer | 
         
        
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          Drew Gavin:
            an Albuquerque Gazette sports columnist in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Bubba Mabry: a
            private investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          |  Pamela (Pam) Christie | 
         
        
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          Fernando (Nando) Aguilar:  half-Indian spy working for Governor Juan Batista de Anza, in 1780s  Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Alice Duncan | 
         
        
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          Annabelle Blue: 19-year-old
            working in her family’s dry-goods store in 1923, in fictional
            Rosedale, in southeast New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Micah S. Hackler | 
         
        
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          Cliff Lansing, single-father and part-time rancher-sheriff and
            Gabe Hanna, his deputy in New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Steven F. Havill | 
         
        
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          Bill Gastner:
            insomniac undersheriff in Posadas County, New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Estelle Reyes-Guzman:
            the new undersheriff in Posadas County, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Bett Reece Johnson | 
         
        
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          Cordelia Morgan: lesbian hit artist turned  sleuth, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Darynda Jones | 
         
        
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          Charlotte “Charley” Davidson:
            part-time private investigator helping the police with her ability
            to contact the dead in her full-time role as the Grim Reaper, in
            Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a paranormal romantic suspense series | 
         
       
      
        
          | Sarah Lovett | 
         
        
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          Sylvia Strange:
            a forensic psychologist in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Michael McGarrity | 
         
        
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          Kevin Kerney:
            ex-chief of detectives in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lisa Miscione | 
         
        
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          Lydia Strong:
            a true crime author in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Kirk Mitchell | 
         
        
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          Emmett Quanah Parker, a part-Comanche, part-white Bureau of Indian
            Affairs agent, and Anna
            Turnipseed, a part-Modoc, part-Japanese FBI
            special agent, in New Mexico and elsewhere | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | J. Michael Orenduff | 
         
        
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          Hubert Schuze:
            pot hunter and owner of a shop selling Native American pottery in
            Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Carolyn J. Rose | 
         
        
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          Casey Brandt: TV
            news editor, later director, in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Walter Satterthwait | 
         
        
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          Joshua Croft, wise-cracking PI in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Aileen Schumacher | 
         
        
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          Tory Travers:
            a structural engineer in Las Cruces, New Mexico  | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Susan Slater | 
         
        
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          Benson (Ben) Pecos, a 26-year-old Tewa Pueblo and a reservation
            medical investigator in New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Bart Spicer | 
         
        
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          Benson Kellogg: lawyer
            who inherits a town in New Mexico, and fights to save it | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Richard Martin Stern | 
         
        
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          Johnny Ortiz:
            half-Apache, half-Chicano police lieutenant, around Santa Fe, New
            Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Pari Noskin Taichert | 
         
        
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          Sasha Solomon:
            a public relations director in New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Aimee and David Thurlo | 
         
        
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          Sister Agatha:
            a former investigative journalist, now one of the extern sisters,
            the convent’s link to the outside world at the Our Lady of
            Hope Monastery in New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Ella Clah: Navajo
            FBI agent in Shiprock, New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Charlie Henry, an Iraq war special-ops veteran, now owner of the Three Balls pawnshop, in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Lee Nez: a
            nightwalker (vampire) police officer in New Mexico | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Judith Van Gieson | 
         
        
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          Neil Hamel:
            attorney and investigator, in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 
         
        
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          Claire Reynier:
            buyer of rare books for the University of New Mexico library in Albuquerque,
            New Mexico | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Mari Privette Ulmer | 
         
        
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          Christine Garcia y Grant:
            an ex-lawyer running a bed and breakfast in Taos, New Mexico in the
            Taos Festival Mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Robert Westbrook | 
         
        
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          Howard Moon Deer:
            a private investigator in San Geronimo, New Mexico | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Collin Wilcox | 
         
        
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          McCloud:
            a New Mexico marshal in New York | 
         
       
       
      
 
      
        
          | Stuart Woods  | 
         
        
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          Ed Eagle: lawyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 
         
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