|
| Anthony Abbot |
| • |
Thatcher Colt: police commissioner in New York City |
| David Alexander |
| • |
Bart Hardin:
tough Broadway editor, and Lt. Romano, in New York
City |
| Angela Amato & Joe Sharkey |
| • |
Gerry Conte: undercover
cop turned defense attorney in New York City |
| Russell Andrews (David Handler and Peter Gethers) |
| • |
Justin Westwood:
former Providence, RI, cop, retreating to the local police department in East End Harbor, Long Island, New York |
| William Ard |
| • |
Timothy Dane: private
investigator in New York City |
| • |
Lou Largo:
private investigator in New York City |
| Charlotte Armstrong |
| • |
MacDougal Duff:
retired history professor in New York City |
| Michael Avallone |
| • |
Ed Noon: private investigator in New York City, later on special
assignment to the President of the United States |
| Jacqueline Babbin |
| • |
Clovis Kelly:
ex-NYPD homicide detective and TV crime consultant in New York
City |
| George Bagby (Aaron Mark Stein) |
| • |
Inspector Schmidt:
colorless cop with a brilliant mind in New York City |
| Maggie Barbieri |
| • |
Alison Bergeron: newly divorced English professor at St. Thomas, a small Catholic college in the Bronx, New York City |
| Alex Barclay |
| • |
Joe Lucchesi: police detective in New York City |
| Margaret Barrett |
| • |
Susan Given:
an asset forfeiture prosecutor in New York City |
| Richard Barth |
| • |
Margaret Binton:
70-something little old lady in New York City |
| L.L. Bartlett |
| • |
Jeff Resnick: former
insurance Investigator in Buffalo, New York |
| George Baxt |
| • |
Pharoah Love: a gay,
black NYPD detective in New York City |
| • |
Sylvia Plotkin, an author and teacher, and Max Van Larsen, a police
detective, in New York City |
| Cynthia Baxter |
| • |
Jessica Popper: veterinarian in Long Island, New York, in the Reigning Cats & Dogs |
| William Bayer |
| • |
Frank Janek: NYPD homicide detective in New York City |
| Josh Bazell |
| • |
Peter Brown: emergency room doctor in Manhattan, New York, formerly Pietro “Bearclaw” Brnwa, a hitman for the New Jersey mob |
| Larry Beinhart |
| • |
Tony Casella: family-man
private investigator in New York City |
| Dick Belsky |
| • |
Jenny McKay: 40-something
reporter at the lowest rated TV station in New York City |
| • |
Lucy Shannon: newspaper
reporter in New York City, by Dick Belsky |
| Richard Belzer with Michael Black |
| • |
Richard Belzer:
private investigator based in New York City |
| Carol Lea Benjamin |
| • |
Rachel Alexander:
private investigator and dog trainer and Dashiell, her Pit Bull
in New York City |
| Ira Berkowitz |
| • |
Jackson Steeg: suspended
cop with a drinking problem, in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City |
| Carole Berry |
| • |
Bonnie Indermil:
tap dancer and office temp, in New York City |
| Claudia Bishop |
| • |
Sarah
Quilliam, an inn owner, and Meg Quilliam, a chef, in Hemlock Falls,
New York |
| • |
Austin McKenzie, a veterinarian, and his wife Madeline, in Trumansburg
in upstate New York |
| Ethan Black |
| • |
Conrad Voort: NYPD’s
richest detective in New York City |
| Barbara Block |
| • |
Robin Light: pet
store owner in Syracuse, New York |
| Sandra Block |
| • |
Zoe Goldman: hospital resident psychiatrist, in Buffalo, New York |
| Lisa Bork |
| • |
Jolene Asdale: owner
of a sports car boutique, in the fictional tourist town of Wachobe
in the Finger Lakes region of New York, in the Broken Vows mysteries |
| Michael Bowen |
| • |
Thomas Curry, an ex-lawyer, and Sandrine Cadette Curry, a Girl Friday,
in a law firm in 1960s New York City |
| Rhys Bowen |
| • |
Molly Murphy: Irish
immigrant in early 20th-century who wants to be a private investigator,
in New York City |
| Eleanor Boylan |
| • |
Clara Gamadge:
widow of Henry, the forgery expert, in New York City |
| Eileen Brady |
| • |
Kate Turner: veterinarian in Oak Falls, New York, in the DVM mysteries |
| Ali Brandon (Diane A.S. Stuckart) |
| • |
Darla Pettistone: owner of a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, and her cat Hamlet, in the Black Cat Bookshop mysteries |
| Carol Brennan |
| • |
Emily Silver: actress
in New York City |
| • |
Liz Wareham: 40-ish
public relations consultant in New York City |
| Toni Brill |
| • |
Midge Cohen:
children’s author fluent in Russian, in Brooklyn, New York |
| Maggie Bruce |
| • |
Lili Marino: moving from Brooklyn to Walden Corners, New York,
in the Gourd Craft mysteries |
| Carole Bugge |
| • |
Claire Rawlings:
book editor with a 12-year-old ward in New York City |
| Alafair Burke |
| • |
Ellie Hatcher: detective
for the NYPD in New York City |
| Meg Cabot |
| • |
Meena Harper:
young soap opera writer who can foresee how people will die, in New
York City |
| • |
Heather Wells: 28 year-old
former teen idol turned private investigator, in New York City |
| P.M. Carlson |
| • |
Maggie Ryan: statistician
and professor in New York City |
| Tori Carrington |
| • |
Sofie Metropolis:
Greek-American private investigator, in Queens, New York City |
| Charlotte Carter |
| • |
Nanette Hayes:
a jazz-playing saxophonist, in New York City |
| Richard Castle |
| • |
Nikki Heat: tough,
sexy, professional NYPD homicide detective, in New York City |
| Henry Chang |
| • |
Jack Yu: police detective
in Chinatown, New York City |
| Jerome Charyn |
| • |
Sidney Holden:
hit-man in New York City |
| • |
Isaac Sidel: deputy
police commissioner, later Mayor, in New York City |
| Thomas Chastain |
| • |
Max Kauffman, an NYPD inspector, and J.T. Spanner, a private investigator,
in New York City |
| Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston |
| • |
Margo Green: natural
history museum curator in New York City |
| Jill Churchill |
| • |
Lily Brewster, socialite and her brother, Robert Brewster, victims
of the stock market crash of 1929, in the Grace and
Favor mysteries |
| Mary Jane Clark |
| • |
Eliza Blake: TV
news morning show host, along with producer Annabelle Murphy, cameraman
B.J. D’Elia, and psychiatrist Dr. Margo Gonzalez, in New York
City, in the Sunrise Suspense Society series |
| Peter Clement |
| • |
Dr. Earl Garnet:
Emergency Room Chief at St. Paul’s Hospital, in Buffalo,
New York |
| • |
Richard Steel:
widowed burned-out ER doctor with a teen-age son, and world-renowned
geneticist Kathleen Sullivan, in New York City |
| Harlan Coben |
| • |
Myron Bolitar: injured
basketball player turned sports agent in New York City |
| Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake) |
| • |
Mitch Tobin:
ex-cop private investigator, in Queens, New York |
| Gabriel Cohen |
| • |
Jack Leightner: homicide
detective in Brooklyn, New York |
| Meredith Cole |
| • |
Lydia McKenzie: an
edgy art photographer who also works as an administrative assistant
at the D’Angelo detective agency, in the Williamsburg section
of Brooklyn, New York City |
| Reed Farrel Coleman |
| • |
Dylan Klein:
insurance investigator in New York City |
| • |
Moe Prager:
ex-cop in 1980s New York City |
| Max Allan Collins |
| • |
Maggie Starr:
America’s most famous ex-striptease artist, now running her
late husband’s newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her
VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City |
| Michael Collins |
| • |
Dan Fortune:
one-armed Polish-Lithuanian private investigator in New York City |
| Amanda Cooper (Donna Lea Simpson) |
| • |
Sophie Taylor: failed New York restaurateur and chef, returning to her grandmother's restaurant, Auntie Rose's Victorian Tearoom, in Gracious Grove, New York, in the Teapot Collector mysteries |
| Richard Condon |
| • |
Charley Partanna:
gourmet cook and hit man for the Prizzi crime family, in New York
City |
| Thomas H. Cook |
| • |
Frank Clemons: homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later
a private eye in New York City |
| Mike Cooper |
| • |
Silas Cade: black-ops Iraq war veteran and contract consultant working for Wall Street hedge fund managers and investors, based in New York City |
| Cleo Coyle |
| • |
Clair Cosi: manager
of the Village Blend, a landmark coffeehouse in New York City’s
Greenwich Village, in the Coffeehouse mysteries |
| David Cray (Stephen Solomita) |
| • |
Julie Brennan: NYPD detective in New York City |
| Camilla T. Crespi |
| • |
Simona Griffo:
art buyer for an advertising firm and gourmet cook in New York City |
| Amanda Cross |
| • |
Kate Fansler: university
English professor in New York City |
| E.V. Cunningham |
| • |
John
Comaday, a police commissioner, and Larry Cohen, Manhattan Assistant
District Attorney, in New York City |
| • |
Harvey Krim: NYPD
detective in New York City |
| Julia Dahl |
| • |
Rebekah Roberts: reporter in New York City, investigating crimes in the Brooklyn Hasidic community |
| Carroll John Daly |
| • |
Vee Brown:
private investigator who writes songs as Vivian Brown (his real name),
in New York City |
| • |
Satan Hall:
police detective in New York City |
| • |
Race Williams:
the original hard boiled private investigator, in New York City |
| Elizabeth Daly |
| • |
Henry Gamadge:
author, bibliophile, and forgery expert, in New York City |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis |
| • |
Julie Hayes: actress turned gossip columnist and fortune teller,
in New York City |
| • |
Lieutenant
Marks: detective in New York City |
| • |
Mrs. Norris: Scottish housekeeper and amateur sleuth, and Jasper
Tully, a DA investigator, in New York City |
| William L. DeAndrea |
| • |
Niccolo
Benedetti: world renowned criminologist-professor in Sparta,
New York |
| • |
Matt Cobb:
investigator for network television in New York City |
| • |
Clifford Driscoll:
no-named American spy in New York City |
| Jeffery Deaver |
| • |
Lincoln Rhyme, a disabled ex-head of NYPD forensics, and Amelia Sachs,
a rookie beat cop in New York City |
| • |
Rune: aspiring filmmaker
with punk tendencies, in New York City |
| Vicki Delany |
| • |
Merry Wilkinson: owner of Mrs. Claus's Treasures, in Rudolph, New York, in the Year-Round Christmas mysteries |
| Nelson DeMille |
| • |
John Corey:
NYPD detective in Long Island, New York |
| • |
Joe Keller:
NYPD homicide detective in New York City |
| • |
Joe Ryker:
NYPD Homicide detective in New York City |
| Peter de Jonge |
| • |
Darlene O’Hara, a homicide detective in the 7th precinct, and her partner, Serge “K.” Krekorian, in New York City |
| Stephen Dobyns |
| • |
Charlie Bradshaw:
ex-cop turned detective in Saratoga Springs, New York |
| John Donohue |
| • |
Connor Burke: university
professor and martial-arts student, in New York City |
| David Duffy |
| • |
Turbo Vlost: an ex-KGB operative, now a private investigator in New York City |
| Elizabeth J. Duncan |
| • |
Charlotte Fairfax, formerly the costume mistress of the Royal Shakespeare Company, now working as a costume designer for a small company in upstate New York, in the Shakespeare in the Catskills mysteries |
| Rosemary Edghill |
| • |
Karen Hightower:
(aka Bast), white witch and graphic designer in New York City |
| Grace F. Edwards |
| • |
Mali Anderson:
black female ex-NYPD cop turned sleuth in Harlem, New York |
| Selma Eichler |
| • |
Desiree Shapiro:
5' 2" queen-sized private investigator in New York City |
| Richard Ellington |
| • |
Steve Drake:
former actor turned private investigator, based in New York City |
| J.F. Englert |
| • |
Randolph: poetry-loving
black Labrador, and Harry, a struggling artist, in Manhattan, New
York City, in the Bull Moose Dog Run mysteries |
| Linda Fairstein |
| • |
Alex Cooper: Assistant
District Attorney in New York City |
| Gillian B. Farrell |
| • |
Annie McGrogan:
actor and private investigator in New York City |
| Lyndsay Faye |
| • |
Timothy Wilde: ex-bartender and officer in the newly organized police force, in 1845 New York City |
| Ruth Fenisong |
| • |
Gridley Nelson: rich,
Princeton-educated homicide lieutenant, later captain, in New York
City |
| Bruno Fischer |
| • |
Ben Helm: ex-cop
turned private investigator in New York City |
| Bill Fitzhugh |
| • |
Bob Dillon, a pest exterminator in Queens, New York, and Klaus Müller, an assassin, in the Assassin Bug thrillers |
| Richard Fliegel |
| • |
Shelly Lowenkopf:
Jewish police sergeant, later a private investigator, in the Bronx,
New York |
| Valerie Frankel |
| • |
Wanda Mallory: owner of the Do It Right Detective Agency, in Times Square, New York City |
| Eugene Franklin (Franklin Bandy) |
| • |
Berkeley Barnes:
lawyer, hypochondriac, and private investigator, and Larry Howe,
his “Archie,” in New York City |
| Stephen Frey |
| • |
Christian Gillette:
CEO of Everest Capital, a Manhattan-based investment firm, in New
York City |
| Shelley Freydont |
| • |
Liv Montgomery: burned out New York City event planner, moving to a small lakeside town in rural New York, in the Celebration Bay series |
| Kinky Friedman |
| • |
Kinky Friedman:
country and western singer turned sleuth in New York City |
| Eileen Fulton |
| • |
Mina McFall: TV soap opera star, and Dino Rossi, a police lieutenant, in New York City |
| Ruthe Furie |
| • |
Fran Kirk: an ex-battered wife turned private investigator working
for an insurance company, in Buffalo, New York |
| Jim Fusilli |
| • |
Terry Orr: newly-licensed
private investigator and his daughter Bella, in Manhattan, New York |
| Alison Gaylin |
| • |
Samantha Leiffer: preschool teacher in New York City |
| • |
Brenna Spector: missing persons investigator in New York with Hyperthymestic Syndrome, the ability to remember her own past with all five senses |
| Tony Gibbs |
| • |
Diana Speed:
publishing company chief financial office in New York City |
| • |
Gillian
Verdean: boat owner in Long Island, New York |
| Leslie Glass |
| • |
April Woo: police
officer in New York City |
| John Godey |
| • |
Jack Albany: small-time
actor mistaken for a Mafia hit-man, in New York City |
| Ed Goldberg |
| • |
Lenny Schneider: hardboiled
Jewish private investigator, based in New York City |
| Robert Goldsborough |
| • |
Nero Wolfe:
private eye and gourmet in New York City (continuation of Rex
Stout series) |
| Ed Gorman |
| • |
Tobin: a hot-tempered
movie critic in New York City |
| Heywood Gould |
| • |
Josh Krales: crime
reporter for the New York Event, in New York City |
| Nancy Grace |
| • |
Hailey Dean: former
assistant district attorney in Atlanta, now a therapist and TV personality
in New York City |
| Bill Granger |
| • |
Devereaux: AKA The
November Man, a field intelligence agent for R Section, in New York
City |
| Gallagher Gray (Katy Munger) |
| • |
T.S. Hubbert,
a retired personnel director, and 84-year old Auntie Lil, retired
from the garment industry, in New York City, in the
Partners in Crime series |
| Martha Grimes |
| • |
Paul Giverney: suspense novelist dealing with cut-throat publishers in New York City |
| • |
Emma Graham: young girl in La Porte, New York |
| Isidore Haiblum |
| • |
James Shaw:
Jewish private investigator in New York City |
| • |
Morris Weiss:
Yiddish detective at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City |
| J.P. Hailey (Parnell Hall) |
| • |
Steve Winslow:
court room attorney in New York City |
| Kathryn Miller Haines |
| • |
Rosie Winter:
an actress during WWII, in Manhattan, New York City |
| Victoria Hamilton (Donna Lea Simpson) |
| • |
Merry Wynter: an expert muffin baker who inherits a mansion in fictional Autumn Vale, New York, in the Merry Muffin mysteries |
| David Handler |
| • |
Mitch Berger: New York film critic, and Desiree “Des” Mirty,
a black police detective, in Dorset, Connecticut |
| Jonathan Harrington |
| • |
Danny O’Flaherty: American teacher researching his family’s
roots in Ireland, and in New York City |
| Lee Harris |
| • |
Jane Bauer: detective
in the NYPD unsolved crimes department, in New
York City |
| • |
Christine Bennett:
ex-nun in New York City |
| James Neal Harvey |
| • |
Ben Tolliver:
NYPD lieutenant in New York City |
| Richard Hawke (Tim Cockey) |
| • |
Fritz Malone:
private investigator, and bastard son of a former
police commissioner, in New York City |
| Sparkle Hayter |
| • |
Robin Hudson:
cable news reporter in New York City |
| Daniel Hearn |
| • |
Joe Noonan: ex-cop,
Vietnam vet, private investigator, in New York City |
| William Heffernan |
| • |
Paul Devlin:
NYPD detective in New York City |
| Sara J. Henry |
| • |
Troy Chance: freelance writer in Lake Placid, New York |
| Jane Stanton Hitchcock |
| • |
Jo Slater: sociopathic
socialite in New York City |
| Edward D. Hoch |
| • |
Simon Ark: 2000 year-old
Coptic priest, in New York City |
| Isabelle Holland |
| • |
Rev. Claire Aldington: psychologist and Episcopal priest at St.
Anselm’s, in Manhattan, New York |
| Alan Hruska |
| • |
Alec Brno: lawyer in New York City, beginning in 1969 |
| S.W. Hubbard |
| • |
Frank Bennett: police
chief in Trout Run, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York |
| Charlie Huston |
| • |
Henry Thompson:
former high school star baseball player, now a
bartender with a drinking problem in Paul’s Place, on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan, New York City |
| • |
Joe Pitt: rogue private investigator and vampire, in Manhattan,
New York City |
| Eleanor Hyde |
| • |
Lydia Miller: 30-something
fashion editor in New York City |
| Michael Jahn |
| • |
Bill Donovan: Chief
of Special Investigations, New York City |
| H. Paul Jeffers |
| • |
John Bogdanovic:
police sergeant and aide to the NYPD Chief of Detectives, in New
York City |
| • |
Harry MacNeil:
ex-cop private investigator who wants to be a jazz clarinetist,
in 1930s New York City |
| Merry Jones |
| • |
Harper Jennings:
Iraq war veteran with PTSD, now a teaching assistant at Cornell
University, in New York |
| Daniel Judson |
| • |
Declan (Mac) MacManus: struggling 30-something part-time private investigator living above a bar, in Southampton, New York |
| Andrea Kane |
| • |
Sloane Burbank: 30-year-old
former FBI crisis negotiator, now an independent consultant, and
her former lover FBI agent Derek Parker, in New York City |
| Larry Karp |
| • |
Dr. Thomas Purdue:
neurologist and antique music box collector-restorer, in New York
City |
| David A. Kaufelt |
| • |
Wyn Lewis: real estate attorney, on Long Island, New York |
| Judith Kelman |
| • |
Sarah Spooner: assistant district attorney with family problems,
in New York |
| Baynard Kendrick |
| • |
Captain Duncan Maclain: blinded by gas in WWI, working as a detective,
assisted by his wife Rena, and Spud Savage, in New York City |
| William Kennedy |
| • |
The Albany Cycle, some criminous/noir or political thrillers, some not, following an ensemble of characters with Albany, New York, in common |
| Michael Kilian |
| • |
Bedford Green:
art gallery owner and his assistant Sloan Smith,
in 1920s Greenwich Village, New York |
| Frank King (Lydia Adamson) |
| • |
Sally Tepper:
unemployed actress with five dogs, in New York City |
| Charles Kipps |
| • |
Conor Bard: homicide
detective in New York City |
| Elsa Klensch |
| • |
Sonya Iverson: producer of the network newsmagazine “The
Donna Fuller Show” in New York City |
| Chris Knopf |
| • |
Sam Acquillo: 50-something, retired engineer, in Southampton,
Long Island, New York |
| Michael Kurland |
| • |
Alexander Brass:
newspaper columnist in 1935 New York City |
| Ed Lacy |
| • |
Lee Hayes: black police detective, in New York City |
| • |
Dave Wintino: brash new cop in New York City |
| Cecile Lamalle |
| • |
Charly Poisson: chef and co-owner of La Fermette, the best (and
only) French restaurant in Van Buren County, upstate New York |
| Edwin Lanham |
| • |
Frank Luther: city
editor in New York City |
| • |
Madigan: police lieutenant
in New York City |
| Nathan Larson |
| • |
Dewey Decimal, protecting library resources in a ruined, dystopian New York City |
| Hilda Lawrence |
| • |
Mark East: private investigator from New York City, and spinsters
Beulah Pond and Bessy Petty, in New England |
| Con Lehane |
| • |
Brian McNulty: bartender
in 1980s Manhattan, New York City |
| Katia Lief (Kate Pepper) |
| • |
Karin Schaeffer:
former homicide detective whose family was murdered, in Brooklyn,
New York |
| Lawrence Light |
| • |
Karen Glick: feature
writer for a Wall Street magazine, in New York City |
| Ed Lin |
| • |
Robert Chow: NYPD Chinatown
beat cop in 1976 New York City |
| Jack Livingston |
| • |
Joe Binney: deaf
private investigator, in New York City |
| Frances and Richard Lockridge |
| • |
Merton Heimrich: lieutenant
for the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification,
in The Corners, Putnam County, New York |
| • |
Paul Lane:
detective working out of the 19th Precinct in New York City |
| • |
Jerry and Pam North:
book publisher and his wife, along with Bill Weigand and Sergeant
Mullins, police officers, in New York City |
| • |
Nathan Shapiro: a Jewish cop usually working in homicide under
Bill Weigand, in New York City |
| • |
Bernie Simmons: assistant district attorney in New York City |
| Bill Loehfelm |
| • |
Maureen Coughlin:
29-year-old cocktail waitress on Staten Island, New York, later a cop in New Orleans, Louisianak |
| Randye Lordon |
| • |
Sydney Sloan: lesbian
private investigator in New York City, in the Stonewall Inn mysteries |
| William F. Love |
| • |
Francis X. Regan:
wheelchair-bound Catholic Bishop, and his assistant David Goldman,
a Jewish ex-cop private eye, in New York City |
| Elizabeth Lowell |
| • |
St. Kilda Consulting:
Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow
world where governments can’t go |
| John Lutz |
| • |
Frank Quinn: former
NYPD homicide detective, in New York City |
| Scott Mackay |
| • |
Dr. Clyde Deacon:
President McKinley’s former physician, who moves to Fairfield,
New York in 1902 |
| Robert MacLeod (Bill Knox) |
| • |
Talos Cord:
United Nations troubleshooter in New York City |
| Mary Jane Maffini |
| • |
Charlotte Adams: 5-foot tall professional organizer, in upstate Woodbridge, New York |
| Jaye Maiman |
| • |
Robin Miller: lesbian
romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator, in New
York City |
| Lou Manfredo |
| • |
Joe Rizzo: veteran
police detective, in Brooklyn, New York City |
| David Markson |
| • |
Harry Fannin: private
detective, in 1960s New York City |
| Margaret Maron |
| • |
Sigrid Harald:
police lieutenant in New York City |
| William Maltese |
| • |
Stud Draqual:
maybe gay, maybe not CEO of Draqual Fashions, and
a much-in-demand New York City haute-couture fashion designer of
ladies' silk underwear |
| Irene Marcuse |
| • |
Anita Servi: a social
worker tending the elderly in Manhattan, New York |
| Dan J. Marlowe |
| • |
Johnny Killain:
hotel detective at the Hotel Duarte and part-time private investigator,
in New York City |
| Evan Marshall |
| • |
Anna Winthrop:
Department of Sanitation garage supervisor in Manhattan,
New York City |
| Rosemary Martin (Resemary Stevens) |
| • |
Bebe Bennett: executive secretary in a modeling agency in 1960s
New York City in the Murder a-Go-Go series |
| Michele Martinez |
| • |
Melanie Vargas:
federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan,
New York |
| Harold Q. Masur |
| • |
Scott Jordan: brash
young lawyer in New York City |
| Amanda Matetsky |
| • |
Paige Turner: mystery novelist and crime reporter, and a Korean
War widow, in 1950s New York City |
| Thomas Maxwell (Thomas Gifford) |
| • |
Lew Cassidy:
former pro football player, now a private detective, in 1940s New
York City |
| James McCahery |
| • |
Lavina London: 70-something
retired radio personality, in New York |
| Robert McCammon |
| • |
Matthew Corbett: young magistrate’s clerk, in 1699 Carolina
and 1703 New York City |
| Helen McCloy |
| • |
Basil Willing: psychiatrist and sleuth, in New York, and later
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Judi McCoy |
| • |
Ellie Engleman: professional
dog walker who communicates psychically with dogs, her adopted Yorkie
Rudy, and her sometime boyfriend police detective Sam Ryder, in Manhattan,
New York City, in the Dog Walker mysteries |
| Grant McCrea |
| • |
Rick Redman:
lawyer, drinker, rookie investigator, father, and
poker hound, in New York Cit |
| Edmund McGirr (Kenneth Giles) |
| • |
Jim Piron:
private investigator at the Detective Agency run by the Old Man,
in New York City |
| Ralph M. McInerny |
| • |
Philip Knight: a New York
PI, and his brother, Roger Knight, a philosophy professor in South
Bend, Indiana |
| Michael McKinley |
| • |
Martin Carter:
former star Canadian hockey player, now retired due to a head injury
and working with the New York St. Patricks team in community relations |
| Adrian McKinty |
| • |
Michael Forsythe: illegal immigrant from Belfast, Northern Ireland,
in New York City |
| Amy Patricia Meade |
| • |
Rose Doyle Keefe: working to support her family in a shipyard in 1942 New York City, in the Rosie the Riveter series |
| Kasey Michaels |
| • |
Maggie Kelly: writer of historical romances, dumped by her publisher, starts writing mysteries, in New York City |
| Penny Mickelbury |
| • |
Phil Rodriquez:
Puerto Rican ex-cop private investigator, and his partner, computer
whiz Yolanda Aguillera, in New York City |
| John Misak |
| • |
John Keegan: a homicide
detective in New York City |
| Rick Mofina |
| • |
Jack Gannon:
veteran crime reporter in Buffalo, New York |
| Miriam Grace Monfredo |
| • |
Glynis Tryon:
independent thinker and librarian, in mid-1800s New York, in the Seneca Falls mysteries |
| Harker Moore |
| • |
James Sakura: Japanese-American
NYPD lieutenant in New York City |
| Walter Mosley |
| • |
Leonid McGill:
black ex-boxer, old-school private investigator, in New York City |
| Dallas Murphy |
| • |
Artie Deemer: jazz
aficionado supported by his dog Jellyroll, a movie and dog-food commercial
star, in New York City |
| J.J. Murphy |
| • |
Dorothy Parker: the witty writer in 1920s Manhattan, New York City, in the Algonquin Round Table mysteries |
| Reggie Nadelson |
| • |
Artie Cohen: Moscow-born NYPD cop, later a private investigator, based in New York City |
| Paul Nathan |
| • |
Bert Swain: divorced
middle-aged writer and head of public relations at a Manhattan medical
research center, in New York City |
| Kris Neri |
| • |
Tracy Eaton: mystery
writer and sleuth in New York City |
| Christopher Newman |
| • |
Joe Dante:
maverick cop in New York City |
| Raymond Obstfeld |
| • |
Harry Gould: small-time
grifter in New York City |
| Thomas O’Callaghan |
| • |
John W. Driscoll:
homicide detective lieutenant in New York City |
| Shannon O’Cork |
| • |
T.T. Baldwin: a
sports photographer in New York City |
| Clare O’Donohue |
| • |
Nell Fitzgerald:
former Manhattan publishing professional now helping her grandmother,
Eleanor Cassidy, run a quilting store in the Hudson River town of
Archer’s Rest, New York, in the Someday Quilts mysteries |
| Leslie O’Kane |
| • |
Molly Masters: cartoonist
and greeting card entrepreneur in Albany, New York |
| Marc Olden |
| • |
Manny Decker:
detective sergeant with martial arts skills, in New York City |
| Tim O’Mara |
| • |
Raymond Donne: former NYPD detective, now a teacher in his old precinct, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York |
| David Osborn |
| • |
Margaret Barlow:
a 50-something freelance journalist in New York City |
| Frank Packard |
| • |
Jimmie Dale: wealthy
dilettante and safecracker by night as the Robin-Hoodish Gray Seal,
in New York City |
| Ellen Pall |
| • |
Juliet Bodine: successful writer of Regency novels and ex-professor
of English literature at Barnard in New York City |
| Linda Palmer |
| • |
Morgan Tyler: 30-year-old
widow, the head writer of the daytime drama “Love of My Life” in
New York City |
| Stuart Palmer |
| • |
Hildegarde Withers:
schoolma’am in New York, later retired
to Los Angeles, California |
| Sharon Pape |
| • |
Rory (Aurora) McCain:
former police sketch artist, now a private investigator sharing a
house with the ghost of Federal Marshal Zeke (Ezekiel) Drummond in
Huntington, Long Island, New York, in the Portrait of Crime mysteries |
| Hugh Pentecost (Judson Philips) |
| • |
Pierre
Chamburn: the resident manager of the Hotel Beaumont in New York
City |
| Thomas Perry |
| • |
Jane Whitefield:
Native American guide in Deganawida, New York |
| T.J. Phillips (Tom Savage) |
| • |
Joe Wilder: a playwright
and novelist in New York City |
| Tom Philbin |
| • |
Joe Lawless: commander of the Felony Squad, and an ensemble cast at Fort Siberia, the Bronx, the toughest precinct in New York City |
| Robert L. Pike (Robert L. Fish) |
| • |
Lieutenant Clancy: no nonsense, honest cop in New York City |
| Jason Pinter |
| • |
Henry Parker: 20-something
freshman journalist with the New York Gazette, in New York City |
| Stefanie Pintoff |
| • |
Simon Ziele: former
New York City police detective starting in 1905 Dobson, Westchester
County, New York |
| Julia Pomeroy |
| • |
Abby Silvernale: newly-widowed thirty-year old waitress in upstate Bantam, New York |
| Zelda Popkin |
| • |
Mary Carner: department store detective, in New York City |
| Patrick Quentin |
| • |
Timothy Trant:
Princeton-educated police lieutenant in New York City |
| Peter Quinn |
| • |
Fintan Dunne: hard-boiled
detective in pre-World War II New York City |
| Cornelia Read |
| • |
Madeline Dare: former
dubutante in 1980s New York and Massachusettss |
| Robert Reeves |
| • |
Cellini Smith:
an accountant for the Mob in New York City, turned honest private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Helen Reilly |
| • |
Christopher McKee,
known as the “Scotsman,” a police inspector, later head
of Manhattan’s homicide squad, mostly in New York City |
| Shelly Reuben |
| • |
Fritillary “Tilly” Quilter,
an arson investigator, and Isaac “Ike” Blessing, a private
detective, in New York City |
| Steven Rigolosi |
| • |
People brought together through want-ads in New York City, in the
Tales from the Back Page series |
| J.D. Robb |
| • |
Eve Dallas:
homicide lieutenant in futuristic New York City |
| Leah Ruth Robinson |
| • |
Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe:
emergency room physician at Manhattan Hospital, in New York City |
| Al Roker with Dick Lochte |
| • |
Billy Blessing: celebrity
chef and restaurateur, and food anchor for morning TV show Wake
Up America!, in New York City |
| A.E. Roman |
| • |
Chico Santana: wisecracking
private investigator on the outs with his wife, in the Bronx, New
York |
| Kelley Roos |
| • |
Haila and Jeff Troy:
a married detective team, she a former actress, he a photographer,
in New York City |
| M.J. Rose |
| • |
Dr. Morgan Snow: sex
therapist in the Butterfield Institute in New York City |
| Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen) |
| • |
Drury Lane:
a Shakespearian actor retired due to progressive deafness, on the
Hudson River, New York |
| Allyson Roy |
| • |
Dr. Saylor Oz: a sex
therapist, and her roommate, Benita Morales, a financial analyst
and boxer, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York City |
| S.J. Rozan |
| • |
Lydia Chin: 30-something
Chinese American private eye, and Bill Smith, a 40-something Army
brat private eye in New York City |
| Mark Sadler (Michael Collins) |
| • |
Paul Shaw: private investigator, and partner in Thayer, Shaw,
and Delaney, in New York City and Los Angeles, California |
| Charles Salzberg |
| • |
Henry Swann: private
investigator subsisting on skip-tracing in Manhattan, New York City |
| Jonathan Santlofer |
| • |
Kate McKinnon: former NYPD cop who traded in her badge for a
PhD in art history, in New York City |
| • |
Nate Rodriguez:
talented NYPD police sketch artist in New York City |
| Beth Saulnier |
| • |
Alex Bernier,: Gen-X
reporter, in upstate New York |
| Tom Schreck |
| • |
Duffy Dombrowski: Elvis-loving
boxer and social worker, and his basset hound, Al, in a town near
New York City |
| Sandra Scoppettone |
| • |
Lauren Laurano:
lesbian private investigator in Manhattan, New York City |
| • |
Faye Quick:
a PI in 1943 in New York City |
| Anne Seale |
| • |
Jo Jacuzzo: a charismatic
lesbian in Buffalo, New York |
| Michael Sears |
| • |
Jason Stafford: former Wall Street trader trying to put his life together after two years in prison, and his young autistic son, in Manhattan, New York |
| Louise Shaffer |
| • |
Angie DaVito: TV
soap opera producer in New York City |
| Joe Sharkey & Angela Amato |
| • |
Gerry Conte: undercover
cop turned defense attorney in New York City |
| Dan Simmons |
| • |
Joe Kurtz: ex-private eye, ex-con in Buffalo, New York |
| Clea Simon |
| • |
Pru Marlowe:
animal psychic returning to her hometown in the Berkshires, New York |
| Bob Sloan |
| • |
Lenny Bliss: homicide detective in Manhattan, New York City |
| Brad Smith |
| • |
Virgil Cain: a small-time rancher, and Claire Marchand, a homicide detective, in upstate New York |
| Evelyn E. Smith |
| • |
Susan Melville: spinster art teacher and painter, who becomes
a freelance assassin, in New York City |
| Martin Cruz Smith |
| • |
Roman Grey: Gypsy art dealer in New York City |
| Stephen Solomita |
| • |
Stanley Moodrow:
cop turned private investigator, in New York City |
| Troy Soos |
| • |
Rebecca Davies: a
child of privilege running a home for desperate women, and Marshall
Webb, Rebecca’s beau, a freelance reporter for
Harper’s Weekly who secretly pens dime novels |
| Julia Spencer-Fleming |
| • |
Clare Fergusson:
newly-ordained Episcopal priest, and Russ Van
Alystyne, Chief of Police, in Millers Kill, New York |
| Peter Spiegelman |
| • |
John March: black sheep of a staid merchant-banking family,
now an ex-deputy sheriff working as a private investigator, in Manhattan,
New York |
| Mickey Spillane |
| • |
Mike Hammer: private
eye in New York City |
| Tony Spinosa (Reed Farrel Coleman) |
| • |
Joe Serpe:
disgraced NYPD narcotics detective, now driving a heating oil delivery
truck and doing some private investigating with his nemesis Bob Healy,
the retired Internal Affairs officer, in New York City |
| Bill Stackhouse |
| • |
Ed McAvoy: police
chief in Ulster County, New York |
| Ann Stamos (Takis & Judy Iakovou) |
| • |
Joseph Hannegan:
Superintendent at Ellis Island, and Rachel Bonner, a society lady
who has given up her position to help immigrants, in 1901 New York
City, in the Ellis Island mysteries |
| Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) |
| • |
Alan
Grofield: actor and part-time bank robber, in New York City |
| • |
Parker:
cold-blooded professional thief in New York City |
| Richard Stevenson |
| • |
Donald Strachey:
gay private investigator, and Timothy Calahan,
a legislative aide for a New York state senator, in Albany, New York |
| Hampton Stone (Aaron Mark Stein) |
| • |
Jeremiah X. Gibson:
assistant district attorney in New York City |
| Jonathan Stone |
| • |
Julian Palmer:
police lieutenant, and Winston Edwards, a former
cop, in Troy, New York |
| Sebastian Stuart |
| • |
Janet Petrocelli,
leaving a Manhattan psychotherapy practice to open a collectibles
shop in the Hudson Valley town of Sawyerville, New York, in the Janet’s
Planet mysteries |
| David Stukas |
| • |
Robert Wilsop, a recovered Catholic and copywriter for feminine
hygiene products, Michael Stark, the oversexed heir-apparent to a
herpes ointment fortune, and Monette O’Reilley, a towering
lesbian and star player of the Leaping Lesbians soccer team and graphic
artist in New York |
| Jennifer Sturman |
| • |
Rachel Benjamin: investment banker and amateur sleuth, based in New York City |
| Robert K. Tanenbaum |
| • |
Roger “Butch” Karp:
Criminal Courts Bureau chief and
Marlene Ciampi, assistant District Attorney in 1970s New York City |
| Joseph Teller |
| • |
Harrison J. Walker (Jaywalker),
a disgraced criminal defense attorney, in Manhattan, New York City |
| Victoria Thompson |
| • |
Sarah Brandt:
midwife in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City, in the Gaslight
Mysteries |
| Ernest Tidyman |
| • |
John Shaft: tough,
black private detective in New York City |
| Kari Lee Townsend |
| • |
Sunny Meadows: fortune teller leaving New York City for rural Divinity, in upstate New York, in the Fortune Teller mysteries |
| Lawrence Treat |
| • |
Commander Bill Decker, Mitch Taylor, a veteran police officer,
and his sidekick Jub Freeman, police detectives in New York City |
| • |
Carl Wayward: professor of psychology, based in New York |
| Kerry Tucker |
| • |
Libby Kincaid: a
magazine photographer in New York City |
| Lisa Unger (Lisa Miscione) |
| • |
Ridley Jones:
freelance writer in New York City |
| Daphne Uviller |
| • |
Zephyr Zuckerman:
young, hapless sleuth, who also works as the super of her parent’s
Greenwich Village building, in New York City |
| Andrew H. Vachss |
| • |
Burke: outlaw
soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City |
| S.S. Van Dine |
| • |
Philo Vance: art connoisseur
and private investigator in New York City |
| John Verdon |
| • |
Dave Gurney: recently
retired 40-something NYPD homicide detective with a reputation for
catching serial killers, in rural upstate New York |
| Norb Vonnegut |
| • |
Grove O’Rourke: stockbroker at the investment firm of Sachs, Kidder, and Carnegie, in New York City |
| Persia Walker |
| • |
Lanie Price: former
crime reporter, now the society columnist at the Harlem Chronicle,
in 1920s Harlem, New York City |
| Clarissa Watson |
| • |
Persis Willum:
artist and art gallery assistant, in Long Island, New York, and France |
| Hillary Waugh |
| • |
Simon Kaye:
private investigator in New York City |
| • |
Frank Sessions: homicide detective lieutenant, Manhattan North,
in New York City |
| • |
Sheridan Wesley: private investigator in New York City |
| Carolyn Wells |
| • |
Alan Ford:
connoisseur and gentleman private investigator, in New York City |
| • |
Fleming Stone:
bookish private investigator, frequently called in to help the
police solve a crime, in New York City |
| • |
Pennington “Penny” Wise:
psychic private investigator, and his female sidekick Zizi, in
New York City and New England |
| Donald E. Westlake |
| • |
John Dortmunder:
criminal master planner in New York City |
| Carolyn Wheat |
| • |
Cass Jameson:
criminal lawyer in Brooklyn, New York |
| Polly Whitney |
| • |
Mary "Ike" Tygart:
television news producer, and Abby
Abagnarro, a television news director, in New York City |
| Lis Wiehl with Pete Nelson |
| • |
Dani Harris: forensic
psychiatrist, and Tommy Gunderson, a former football star and aspiring
private investigator, in fictional East Salem, New York, in the East
Salem series |
| Collin Wilcox |
| • |
McCloud:
a New Mexico marshal in New York City |
| Kate Wilhelm |
| • |
Charlie Meiklejohn:
ex-arson investigator P.I., and Constance
Leidl, a psychologist, in New York |
| Barbara Jaye Wilson |
| • |
Brenda Midnigh:
milliner in Greenwich Village, New York |
| Don Winslow |
| • |
Neal Carey: youthful
pickpocket turned private investigator, in New York City |
| Brian M. Wiprud |
| • |
Garth Carson: taxidermy dealer based in New York City |
| • |
Morty Martinez: “feeler” who
empties homes for resale, hoping to find cash left by dead owners
who didn't trust banks, in Brooklyn, New York, by Brian M. Wiprud |
| K.J.A. Wishnia |
| • |
Filomena Buscarsela:
NYPD cop from Ecuador, who becomes an apprentice private eye, in
New York City |
| Matt Witten |
| • |
Jacob Burn: at-home
Dad and part-time scriptwriter, in Saratoga Springs, New York City |
| Dick Wolf |
| • |
Jeremy Fisk: detective in the NYPD intelligence division, in New York City |
| Wade Wright |
| • |
Bart Condor: tough
private investigator in New York City |
| Joyce Yarrow |
| • |
Jo Epstein: private
investigator and performance poet, based in Brooklyn, New York |
| Vincent Zandri |
| • |
Jack Marconi: warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, later a private investigator, in New York |
| • |
Dick Moonlight: former police detective turned private investigator and massage therapist, in Albany, New York |
| Elizabeth Zelvin |
| • |
Bruce Kohler:
recovering alcoholic in Manhattan, New York City |
| Angela Zeman |
| • |
Mrs. Risk, a “righter-of-wrongs,” has
been called a witch in Wyndham-by-the-Sea, New York |
| Sarah Zettel |
| • |
Charlotte Caine: chef
running Nightlife, a restaurant serving the undead in New York City,
in the Vampire Chef mysteries |
| James W. Ziskin |
| • |
Ellie (Eleonora) Stone: young journalist working for a small town daily newspaper, in 1960s New Holland, New York |
| Sharon Zukowski |
| • |
Blaine Stewart:
ex-cop turned private investigator in New York City |
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