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        | Donna Andrews | 
       
      
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        Meg Langslow: decorative blacksmith in a small Virginia town | 
       
     
       
      
 
      
       
      
        
          | Ella Barrick (Laura DiSilverio) | 
         
        
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          Stacy Graysin: part owner of a ballroom dance studio, in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, in the Ballroom Dance mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Josie Belle (Jenn McKinlay) | 
         
        
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          Good Buy Girls: a  group of skilled bargain hunters, in St. Stanley, Virginia | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Miranda Bliss | 
         
        
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          Annie Capshaw:
            recently divorced, and her ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur,
            in Arlington, Virginia, in the Cooking Class mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jay Bonansinga | 
         
        
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          Ulysses Grove: FBI
            profiler and author of a textbook on the psychopathic mind, based
            in northern Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Mollie Cox Bryan | 
         
        
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          Annie Chemovitz: former investigative journalist, now a stay-at-home mom involved with a scrapbooking club, in fictional Cumberland Creek, Virginia | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Taffy Cannon | 
         
        
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          Roxanne Prescott:
            in Williamsburg, Virginia, and then San Diego, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Alyse Carlson | 
         
        
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          Camellia (Cam) Harris: 30-something public relations guru in Roanoke, Virginia, in the Garden Society mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Bill Crider with Willard Scott | 
         
        
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          Stanley Waters:
            retired weatherman operating a Bed & Breakfast in Higgins, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | M.E. Cooper | 
         
        
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          W.W. Loring: Confederate
            General in 1862 Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Patricia  Cornwell | 
         
        
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          Judy
              Hammer: Chief of Police, Deputy Virginia
              West, and Andy Brazil, a young reporter turned rookie cop, in North
              Carolina and Virginia | 
         
        
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          Dr. Kay
              Scarpetta: chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ellen Crosby | 
         
        
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          Lucie Montgomery:
            operating her family’s  winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country mysteries | 
         
       
      
        
          | Krista Davis | 
         
        
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          Holly Miller: returning home to run the pet-friendly Sugar Maple Inn, in fictional Wagtail, Virginia, in the Paws and Claws mysteries | 
         
        
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          Sophie Winston: event
            planner in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Domestic Diva mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Laura DiSilverio | 
         
        
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          Emma-Joy “EJ” Ferris:
            30-something medically-retired military policewoman, now a security
            officer with the Fernglen Galleria, in Vernonville, Virginia, near
            Washington DC, in the Mall Cop series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Brenda English | 
         
        
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          Sutton McPhee:
            reporter in Fairfax, County, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Diane Fanning | 
         
        
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          Lucinda Pierce: homicide
            detective lieutenant back on the job after losing an eye in a domestic
            violence case, in Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily | 
         
        
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          Ariel Quigley:
            college English teacher with psychic powers, in Alexandria, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | John Gilstrap | 
         
        
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          Jonathan Grave:
            wealthy freelance hostage rescue specialist, in Virginia and Washington,
            DC | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sibella Giorello | 
         
        
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          Raleigh Harmon:
            FBI agent and forensic geologist who returns to her hometown of Richmond,
            Virginia, in a Christian mystery series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Doug Hornig | 
         
        
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          Steven Kirk: burned-out
            CIA agent, in Charlottesville, Virginia | 
         
        
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          Loren Swift: laid-back
            Vietnam veteran private investigator, in Charlottesville, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Emyl Jenkins | 
         
        
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          Sterling Glass: antiques
            appraiser in the small town of Leemont, Virginia | 
         
       
      
        
          | John J. Lamb | 
         
        
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          Brad Lyon: retired San Francisco homicide  inspector, and his wife Ashleigh, teddy bear creator and collector, in the Shenandoah  Valley of Virginia, in the Bear Collector’s mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | P.D. Martin | 
         
        
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          Sophie Anderson: transplanted
            Australian who has premonitions working as an FBI profiler, based
            in Quantico, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ann McMillan | 
         
        
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          Narcissa Power: a
            young widow, and Judah Daniel, a freedwoman who is also the local
            herbalist, at the time of the Civil War in Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Fern Michaels | 
         
        
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          Revenge of the  Sisterhood: seven vigilante women operating out of  Myra Rutledge’s estate in northern Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Carol Miller | 
         
        
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          Daisy McGovern: pastry chef barely supporting her invalid mother, in a small town in southwestern Virginia, in the Moonshine mysteries | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Alan Orloff | 
         
        
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          Channing Hayes: co-owner
            of the Last Laff Comedy Club in northern Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Howard Owen | 
         
        
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          Willie Black: mixed-race reporter in Richmond, Virginia | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Frederick Ramsay | 
         
        
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          Ike Schwartz:
            sheriff in a small town in Picketsville, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ann Ripley | 
         
        
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          Louise Eldridge: organic
            gardener and TV host in Northern Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Elena Santangelo | 
         
        
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          Pat Montella:
            whose sleuthing is aided by her ability see and hear
            ghosts, on an estate near Fredericksburg, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Willard Scott with Bill Crider | 
         
        
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          Stanley Waters:
            retired weatherman operating a Bed & Breakfast in Higgins, Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | J.B. (Jennifer) Stanley  | 
         
        
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          Molly Appleby: writer for Collector's Weekly magazine, in North
            Carolina and Virginia | 
         
        
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          James “Professor Puff” Henry: a divorced librarian,
            in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in the Supper Club
            mysteries | 
         
        
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          Cooper Lee: newly single
            office machine repair woman and member of the Sunrise Bible Study
            Group in Richmond, Virginia, in the Hope Street Church mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Andy Straka | 
         
        
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          Frank Pavlicek: ex-NYPD
            cop, now a private investigator and falconer in Charlottesville,
            Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Gayle Trent | 
         
        
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          Myrtle Crumb: 60-something
            sleuth, in southwest Virginia | 
         
        
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          Daphne Martin: cake
            decorator back in her home town in southern Virginia | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | LynDee Walker | 
         
        
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          Nichelle Clarke: intrepid crime reporter in a small town on the coast of Virginia, in the Headlines in Heels mysteries | 
         
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