Jackson,
Jefferson “J. W.”: a 30-something ex-Boston cop in Martha's
Vineyard, Massachusetts by Philip
Craig
Jackson, Jolene: a free-lance
journalist, whose trouble starts whenever she goes home to Kickapoo,
Texas by Paula Boyd
Jackson, Kane: an
industrial espionage specialist in New Jersey by William
Arden
Matt Jacob: former social worker, now a private investigator with a drug problem, in Boston, Massachussets, by Zachary Klein
Jacobs, Calista:
an illustrator of children's books in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Kathryn
Lasky Knight
Jacoby, Miles:
boxer turned PI in New York, New York by Robert
J. Randisi
Jacovich, Milan:
blue-collar Slovenian private eye with a master's degree in Cleveland,
Ohio by Les Roberts
Jacquot, Daniel: a former
rugby player and a homicide chief inspector in Marseilles, France by Martin
O’Brien
Jacuzzo, Jo: a charismatic
lesbian in Buffalo, New York by Anne
Seale
Jaffe, Amanda: an attorney in Portland, Oregon by Philip Margolin
James, Cassidy: lesbian
private investigator in the fictional town of Cedar Hills (near the
Southern Oregon Coast about 350 miles from Portland) by Kate
Calloway
Cassandra James: professor and administrator at St. Etheldreda’s College, in Cambridge, England, in the Cambridge mysteries by Christine Poulson
James, Dewey: a 60-something
small town librarian in Hamilton, Kentucky by Kate
Morgan
James, Gemma:
Scotland Yard sergeant in London, England by Deborah
Crombie
James, Jessica “Jesse”:
an investigative reporter in Rochester, New York by Meg
O’Brien
Lis James: journalist turned public relations officer for a mental
health center, in Houston, Texas, by Karen Hanson Stuyck
Mira James: assistant librarian and part-time reporter, in Battle
Lake, Minnesota, in the Murder-by-Month mysteries, by Jess Lourey
Jameson, Cass:
criminal lawyer in Brooklyn, New York by Carolyn
Wheat
Janek, Frank: NYPD homicide
detective in New York, New York by William
Bayer
Janeway, Cliff: cop and
rare book expert in Denver, Colorado by John
Dunning
Jansson, Willa: law student, then lawyer, and a child of idealistic,
left-wing parents, in San Francisco, California by Lisa
Matera
January, Ben:
surgeon and music teacher in 1833 New Orleans, Louisiana by Barbara
Hambly
Jarvis, Elena: wise-cracking
police detective in Los Santos, Texas by Nancy
Herndon
Jasper, Jazz: an American
safari guide in Kenya by Karin
McQuillan
Jasper, Kate: gag-gift
wholesaler in Marin County, California by Jaqueline
Girdner
Jazine, Earl and Crader,
Carl: by Edward D. Hoch
Jefferson, Tal: defeated
attorney who escapes the big city and returns to Wynnton, South Carolina,
the small town where she was raised, by Tracy
Dunham
Jeffries, Mrs.:
housekeeper in Victorian London, England by Emily
Brightwell
Jeffries, Harriet:
photographer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Sale,
Medora
Jeffry, Jane:
suburban housewife and sleuth in Chicago, Illinois by Jill
Churchill
Miss Jenkins, a “Gal
Friday” in post-World War II Seattle, Washington by Curt
Colbert
Elise Jenkins: reporter for the Ocean Point Weekly, and Mitch Burns,
a police detective, in Ocean Point, New Jersey, by Laura Bradford
Glyndwr Jenkins: and David Brade, police detectives in Cardiff, Wales, by David Craig (Bill James)
Jenkyn, Matthew: 15th century
soldier, double agent spy in England by P.
C. Doherty
Jenner, Jimmy: a pensioned-off
cop with a wooden leg in the Stoke Newington section of London, England
by John Milne
Jensen, Alex: state trooper
in Anchorage, Alaska by Sue Henry
Jensen, Georgia: a historical
researcher turn sleuth by P.
A. Stelzer
Jensen, Ophelia:
a reluctant witch who is a librarian by Shirley
Damsgaard
Jericho, John:
an artist and crusader by Hugh
Pentecost
Jesus Creek, an eccentric
small town in Tennessee by Deborah
Adams
Jethro: cat burglar recruited by MI5, in post-WWII London, England, by Tony Broadbent
Sonchai Jitpleecheep: police detective in Bangkok, Thailand, by John Burdett
Joan, Sister: investigative
nun in Cornwall, England by Veronica
Black
Jobeman, Ron: a former
clergyman now manages fast-food restaurants in Hollywood, California
by Thomas H. Griffith
Gertie Johnson: 60-something
sleuth in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the Yooper mysteries by
Deb Baker
Johansson,
Hilda: a young immigrant from Sweden working as a servant for the
Studebaker family during the turn-of-the-19th century in South Bend,
Indiana by Jeanne M. Dams
John
the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian in Constantinople
in 537 by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
Johnson,
Coffin Ed: a detective in Harlem, living in Astoria, Queens, New
York by Chester Himes
Frank Johnson: private investigator in Virginia and then West
Virginia, by Ed Lynskey
Johnson, Johnson: a
British agent and yachtsman by Dorothy
Dunnett
Johnson,
Dr. Sam.: a real-life 18th century lexicographer and sage in London,
England by Lillian De
La Torre
Jones, Abel:
a federal agent during the American Civil War by Owen
Parry
Jones, Casey: private
eye in North Carolina by Katy
Munger
Mr. Jones: bodyguard
and private investigator, and Carly Wagner, a Texas
congresswoman, in Washington DC, by Jo-Ann Power
Cleopatra Jones: special agent fighting drug trafficking, by Ron
Goulart
Jones, David (D. J.):
Jonathan Payne's best friend from the military, and owner of his own
detective agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Chris
Kuzneski
Jones, Demary: owner of Confidential
Research, specializes in genealogy and historical research in Seattle,
Washington by E. L. Larken
Jones, Fremont: owner of
a typewriter service in San Francisco, at the turn of the century by Dianne
Day
Hannibal Jones: in Washington, DC, by Austin S. Camacho
Jones, Grave Digger: a
detective in Harlem, living in Astoria, Queens, New York by Chester
Himes
Jones, Lena: of Desert Investigations
in Scottsdale, Arizona by Betty
Webb
Jones, Nick: a homeless
woman by Catherine Coulter
Ridley Jones: freelance writer in New York City, by Lisa Unger (Lisa
Miscione)
Jones, Sam: a sculptor
in Camden Town, London, England by Lauren
Henderson
Jones, Texana: a store
and trading post owner in the Big Bend Region of Texas by Allana
Martin
John Jordan: prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida, by Michael Lister
Julia, Miss: an elderly widow
in Abbotsford, North Carolina by Ann
B. Ross
Jurnet, Ben: detective inspector,
in Angleby, England by S.T. Haymon
Jury, Richard: Scotland
Yard investigator in London, England by Martha
Grimes
Justice, Benjamin:
a reporter in Los Angeles, California by John
Morgan Wilson
Justice, Charlotte: a
black woman homicide detective in Los Angeles, California by Paula
L. Woods
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