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| Richard K. Abshire |
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Charlie Gants: ex-homicide detective in Texas |
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Jack Kyle: a private investigator in Dallas, Texas |
| Susan Wittig Albert |
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China Bayles: herbalist and former attorney, in Pecan Springs, Texas |
| Jeffrey Allen |
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Deuce Winters: stay-at-home dad and amateur sleuth, in fictional Rose Petal, Texas, by Jeffrey Allen |
| Robin Allen |
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Poppy Markham: former sous chef turned public health inspector, in Austin, Texas, in the Culinary Cop series |
| Jo Bailey |
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Jan Gallagher: head of Special Security Projects at Jackson General Hospital in Abilene, Texas |
| Paula Boyd |
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Jolene Jackson: free-lance journalist, whose trouble starts whenever she goes home to
Kickapoo, Texas |
| Laura Bradley |
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Reyn Sawyer: sassy hair stylist in San Antonio, Texas |
| Rachel Brady |
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Emily Locke: 30-something
single mother working for private investigator Richard Cole, in Houston,
Texas |
| R.D. Brown |
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Cheney Hazzard: private
security agent in Brownsville, Texas |
| James Lee Burke |
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Billy Bob
Holland: attorney and former Texas Ranger in Deaf Smith, Texas |
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Hack Holland:
hard-drinking lawyer, Korean War POW, progressive
Democrat, now a sheriff, in Texas |
| Kathryn Casey |
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Sarah Armstrong:
criminal profiler lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, and a recently
widowed mother, based in Houston, Texas |
| Dixie Cash |
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Debbie Sue Overstreet:
doing big hair at the Styling Station, and her best pal Edwina Perkins-Martin,
later private investigators, in fictional Salt Lick, Texas |
| Carlos Cisneros |
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Alejandro “Alex” del Fuerte, fresh out of law school, and other characters in the Tex-Mex legal thrillers set in south Texas |
| Kent Conwell |
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Tony Boudreaux: private
investigator based in Austin, Texas |
| Susan Rogers Cooper |
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Kimmey Kruse: stand-up comedian in Austin, Texas |
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E.J. Pugh: housewife-mom romance writer in Black Cat Ridge, Texas |
| Bill Crider |
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Carl Burns: college professor in Texas |
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Dr. Sally Good: head of the English and Fine
Arts departments at Hughes Community College in Texas |
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Dan Rhodes: laid-back sheriff with a motley crew of deputies in Blacklin county, Texas |
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Truman Smith: private eye in Galveston, Texas |
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Ted Stephens:
homicide detective sergeant in Houston, Texas (written with Clyde
Wilson) |
| Cindy Daniel |
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Hannah Fogarty: opening a new bookstore in her old home town of Destiny, Texas |
| Kaye Davis |
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Maris Middleton: lesbian forensic chemist working as an independent crime scene specialist, in Dallas, Texas |
| W. Glenn Duncan |
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Rafferty: ex-cop
turned private investigator, in and around Dallas, Texas |
| Stephanie Jaye Evans |
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Walker “Bear” Wells: former college football player now serving as a minister in Sugar Land, Texas |
| Nancy Fairbanks |
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Jason Blue:
scientist specializing in how to clean toxins from the environment,
and his wife Carolyn, a food writer, in El Paso, Texas |
| Tricia Fields |
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Josie Gray: police chief in the small border town of Artemis, Texas |
| Kaye George |
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Imogene Duckworthy: 22-year-old waitress, living with her mother Hortense, and baby daughter Nancy Drew, in Saltlick, Texas |
| Kat Goldring |
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Willi Gallagher: part-time English teacher, looking into her American Indian background, and Quannah Lassiter, a Lakota-speaking special investigator for the Texas Rangers, in Nickleberry, Texas |
| Jan Grape |
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Zoe Barrow: police officer, in Austin, Texas |
| Tim Green |
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Casey Jordan: criminal
defense attorney in Dallas, Texas |
| Russ Hall |
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Travis: the Blue-Eyed
Indian, a private investigator, in and around Austin, Texas |
| Janice Hamrick |
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Jocelyn Shore: a high school teacher from Austin, Texas |
| Honor Hartman (Dean James) |
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Emma Diamond: recent widow, novice bridge player, and amateur detective, in Houston, Texas, in the Bridge Club mysteries |
| Tim Hemlin |
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Neil Marshall: graduate student in creative writing, struggling poet, and part-time chef and caterer, in Houston, Texas |
| Marion Moore Hill |
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Millie Kirchner:
20-something single mother, student, and nursing home aide, in Richardson,
Texas, in the Deadly Past mysteries |
| James Hime |
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Jeremiah Spur, a
retired white Texas Ranger, and Clyde Thomas, the first black deputy
sheriff, in Brenham, Texas |
| Nancy Herndon (Nancy Fairbanks) |
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Elena Jarvis: wise-cracking police detective in Los Santos, Texas |
| Harry Hunsicker |
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Lee Henry Oswald: Gulf
War vet, loner, and private investigator, in Dallas, Texas |
| Diane Kelly |
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Tara Holloway: CPA and Criminal Investigations Division agent with the IRS, based in Dallas, Texas, in the Death and Taxes series |
| Jon Land |
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Caitlin Strong:
fifth-generation Texas Ranger, sometimes working as a psychological
therapist, in San Antonio, Texas |
| Joe R. Lansdale |
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Hap Collins: straight and white, and Leonard Pine, gay and black, in East Texas |
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Sunset Jones: elected to complete her dead husband’s term as constable, in East Texas |
| Maria Lima |
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Keira Kelly: half-breed
descendant of a powerful paranormal family living among humans in
Rio Seco, Texas |
| David L. Lindsey |
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Stuart Haydon: homicide detective in Houston, Texas |
| Liz Lipperman |
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Jordan McAllister: substitute culinary reporter in the fictional small town of Ranchero, Texas, in the Clueless Cook mysteries |
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Elaina (Lainey) Garcia: talk-show host, and the ghost of her sister Tessa, in Grapevine, Texas, in the Dead Sister Talking mysteries (written as Lizbeth Lipperman) |
| William Manchee |
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Richard Coleman: lawyer in late 1970s Dallas, Texas |
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Stan Turner, beginning in law school at UCLA, then in the Marine Corps, later as a lawyer, starting in late 1970s Dallas, Texas |
| Allana Martin |
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Texana Jones: trading post owner in the Big Bend Region of Texas |
| Edward Mathis |
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Dan Roman: private
investigator in east Texas |
| Lee Martin (Anne Wingate) |
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Deb Ralston: police detective mom
in Fort Worth, Texas |
| Susan McBride |
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Andrea “Andy” Kendricks: 30-something artist who backed out of her formal debut when she was eighteen to mother Cissy’s dismay, in Dallas, Texas |
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Detective Maggie Ryan: former member of the Dallas P.D. who recently left the big city for the suburban enclave of Litchfield, Texas |
| D.R. Meredith |
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John Lloyd Branson: attorney in Texas |
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Megan Clark: reference librarian and a member of the murder mystery reading group, Murder by the Yard in Amarillo, Texas |
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Charles Matthews: sheriff in Crawford County, Texas |
| Maryann Miller |
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Sarah Kingsly: a
white homicide detective, and her new partner Angel Johnson, a black
detective, in Dallas, Texas |
| Laurie Moore |
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Cezanne Martin: cop in Fort Worth, Texas |
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Jinx Porter: constable in Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas |
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Dainty Prescott: former
debutante and intern at WBFD-TV in Fort Worth, Texas, in the Debutante
Detective romantic suspense series |
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Aspen Wicklow: news
anchor in Dallas, Texas in the Dallas/Fort Worth TV News romantic
suspense series |
| Deborah Powell |
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Hollis Carpenter:
lesbian crime reporter and her schnauzer Anice, in 1936-37 Houston,
Texas |
| Melissa Bourbon Ramirez |
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Harlow Jean Cassidy:
Manhattan fashion designer who opens the Magical Dressmaking boutique
in a farmhouse she inherits in Bliss, Texas |
| Ben Rehder |
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John Marlin: game warden, and Herbert Mackey, a sheriff, in Blanco County, Texas |
| Rick Riordan |
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Jackson “Tres” Navarre: Tai Chi master and unlicensed private investigator, in San Antonio, Texas |
| Chris Rogers |
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Dixie Flannigan: prosecutor turned bounty hunter in Houston, Texas |
| Aileen Schumacher |
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Tory Travers: structural engineer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and David Alvarez, a police detective in El Paso, Texas |
| Terry Shames |
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Samuel Craddock: former chief of police in the fictional town of Jarrett Creek, in central Texas |
| Michael Simon |
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Dan Reles: the only Jewish homicide detective in 1980s Austin, Texas |
| Barbara Burnett Smith |
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Kitzi
Camden:
50-ish beader and former senator, in Texas |
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Jolie Wyatt: radio station reporter and aspiring
writer in Purple Sage, Texas |
| Karen Hanson Stuyck |
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Lis James:
journalist turned public relations officer for a mental health center,
in Houston, Texas |
| Doug J. Swanson |
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Jack Flippo: private investigator in
Dallas, Texas |
| Leann Sweeney |
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Abby Rose: private investigator in Houston, Texas, in the Yellow Rose Mysteries |
| Howard Swindle |
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Jeb Quinlin: homicide investigator and recovering alcoholic, in Dallas, Texas |
| Mary Willis Walker |
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Mollie Cates: true crime writer and reporter, in Texas |
| Robert W. Walker |
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Lucas Stonecoat: police officer, and Meredyth Sanger, a police psychiatrist, in Houston, Texas |
| Livia J. Washburn |
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Phyllis Newsom:
elderly amateur sleuth and pie expert, in Weatherford, Texas, in
the Fresh-Baked mysteries |
| Wendy Lyn Watson |
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Tallulah “Tally” Jones:
recently divorced and running an ice cream shop (Remember the A La
Mode) in Dalliance, Texas, in the Mystery a la Mode series |
| Martha G. Webb (Anne Wingate) |
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Smoky O’Donnel: small-town PD
narcotics officer in Farmer’s Mound, Texas |
| Anne Wingate |
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Mark Shigata: Japanese-American ex-FBI agent turned police chief, in Bayport, Texas |
| Reavis Z. Wortham |
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Ned Parker: farmer and part-time constable, in mid-1960s Center Springs, Lamar County, Texas, in the Red River mysteries |
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