Amelia
Sachs: rookie beat cop in New York City, and Lincoln
Rhyme, a disabled ex-head of NYPD forensics, by Jeffery
Deaver
Simon “The Saint” Templar:
international thief, millionaire, and master of disguise, by
Burl Barer
Bernadette “Cat” Saint
Clare:
FBI agent with paranormal
powers, in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Terri Persons
James Sakura: Japanese-American
NYPD lieutenant in New York City, by Harker Moore
Cassandra (Cassie) Sales:
50 year-old housewife dealing with her workaholic
wine importer husband’s stroke in Long Island, New York, by Leslie
Glass
Gregory Sallust: British agent battling Nazis, sometimes by occult
means, by Dennis Wheatley
Jane Salt: detective constable,
and Frank Kavanagh,
detective inspector, in Birmingham, England,
by David Armstrong
Charles Salter:
40-something police inspector in Toronto, Canada, by
Eric Wright
Terry Saltz: who lost his
job, wife, truck, and mobile home, starting over as a pizza delivery
driver in Spencer, Ohio, by L.T. Fawkes
Samejima: maverick police detective, in Tokyo, Japan, by Arimasa Osawa
Albert Samson: middle-aged,
low-key private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Michael Z.
Lewin
Bernard Samson:
40-something British spy, based in London, England,
by Len
Deighton
Hannah Sampson: CSI
diver in the British Virgin Islands, by Kathy Brandt
Lily Sampson: young American graduate student archeologist, in late
1930s and early 1940s Jerusalem and Morocco, by Aileen Baron
Jake Samson: ex-cop,
and Rosie Vicente, a carpenter, in Berkeley, California, by Shelley Singer
John Samson: private investigator in London, England, by Miles Tripp
Robert Sand: the Black Samurai, trained for seven years by a Japanese
samurai master, fighting to save the world from sinister threats, by
Marc Olden
John Sanders: police
detective, and Harriet Jeffries, a photographer, in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, by Sale,
Medora
Abigail (Sandy) Sanderson:
crisply efficient secretary to Robert (Robby)
Forsyth, a retired barrister in London, England, by E.X.
Giroux
Commander Joe Sandilands:
Scotland Yard detective assigned to post-WWI India, by Barbara
Cleverly
Police Inspector Sands: in
Toronto, Canada, by Margaret Millar
Greer Sands: psychic and massage therapist with a teenage son, in
fictional Shadow Hills, in the mountains above Los Angeles, California,
by Shari Shattuck
Jake Sands: retired salvage
agent and finder of lost things in Santa Barbara, California, by Ron
Ely
Nikki Sands: in the Napa Valley, California, in the Wine Lovers mysteries by Michele Scott
George Sansi: half- English, half-Indian police inspector, in Bombay,
India, by Paul Mann
Jock Sargeant: an ex-con framed for murder and a mysterious billionaire
out for revenge, by Daniel da Cruz
Peter Cutler Sargeant II:
public relations consultant in New York City,
by Edgar
Box
Libby Sarjeant: middle-aged actress and private investigator, in Kent, England, by Lesley Cookman
Vonna Saucier, and Delbert “Dub” Greenert,
private investigators, in New Orleans, Louisiana, by J. Madison Davis
Myra Savage: by Mark
McShane
Spencer Monroe Savage: US diplomat by Paul Theroux
Thornton Savage: police
detective in New York City, by John Mackie
Dillon Savich and
Lacey Sherlock, husband and wife FBI agents and computer specialists,
mostly based in San Francisco, California, by Catherine
Coulter
Justin Savile and
Cuddy Mangum, police detectives in a small town in North Carolina, by
Michael Malone
Pete (Pierre-Ange, Stone Angel)
Sawyer: French-American
private investigator in Paris, France, by Marvin
Albert
Reyn Sawyer: sassy hair
stylist in San Antonio, Texas, by Laura Bradley
Saxon: former US FBI agent turned true-crime writer, and Grace Fitzgerald,
Detective Chief Superintendent with the murder squad, in Dublin, Ireland,
by Ingrid Black
Saxon: actor and private
eye in Los Angeles, California, by Les
Roberts
Alan Saxon:
professional golfer, by Keith Miles (Edward Marston)
Catherine Sayler: private
investigator in San Francisco, California, by Linda Grant
Hillary Scarborough: a
domestic artiste, and her assistant, Jane Ferguson, an ex-law student,
in the Murder by Design series by Paula
Carter
Hannah Scarlett:
Detective Chief Inspector of the Cold Case Squad, and Daniel Kind, retired
Oxford historian, in the Lake District of England, by Martin
Edwards
Dr. Kay Scarpetta:
chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, by Patricia
Cornwell
Lenny Schneider: hardboiled Jewish private investigator, based in
New York City, by Ed Goldberg
Pete Schofield: private investigator, and his wife Jeannie, in Los Angeles, California, by Thomas B. Dewey
Shane Schofield: leader
of a team of Marines, by Matthew Reilly
Inspector Schmidt: colorless cop with a brilliant mind, in New York City, by George Bagby (Aaron Mark Stein)
Joe “Shoe” Schumacher:
ex-cop, professional wrestler, and bodyguard, in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Michael Blair
Hubert Schuze: pot hunter and owner of a shop selling Native American
pottery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by J. Michael Orenduff
Dulcie Schwartz: Harvard doctoral candidate living in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and the ghost of her cat Mr. Grey, by Clea Simon
Ike Schwartz: sheriff
in the small town, Picketsville, Virginia, by Frederick Ramsay
Rebecca Schwartz:
Jewish feminist lawyer in San Francisco, California,
by Julie
Smith
Nicolette Scott:
archaeologist in the southwestern USA, by Val Davis (Robert & Angie Irvine)
Philip Scott: by Hartley
Howard (Harry
Carmichael)
Shell Scott: ex-Marine
private investigator, in Los Angeles, California, by Richard
Prather
Matt Scudder:
reformed alcoholic and unlicensed private eye, in New
York City by Lawrence
Block
Shane Scully: police
sergeant in Los Angeles, California, by Stephen J. Cannell
Simon Serrailler: police Chief Inspector in Lafferton, England, by Susan
Hill
Caleb Shaw, Oliver Stone, Milton Farb, and Reuben Rhodes: The Camel
Club, a group of four dysfunctional men who investigate political conspiracies,
and honorary member Alex Ford, a Secret Service agent, in Washington,
DC, by David Baldacci
Sean “NMI” Sean:
private investigator in Hennepin County,
Minnesota, by Carl
Brookins
Silas Seaweed: a Coast
Salish Aboriginal beat cop on the streets of Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, by Stanley Evans
Gordon Seegerman: reluctant
public defender by day and lead singer in a Barry Manilow cover band
by night, in northern California, by Dylan Schaffer
Libby Seale: a seamstress from New York, and newspaper reporter Peter
Eberle, in 1894 Portland, Oregon, by M.J. Zellnik
Alexander Seaton: schoolmaster in 1620s Banff and Aberdeen, Scotland,
by Shona MacLean
Miss Emily D. Seeton:
retired British art teacher in Kent, England,
by Heron
Carvic
Claudia Seferius: vineyard
owner in 1st century Rome, Italy, by Marilyn Todd
Nicholas Segalla:
time-traveling scholar in England, by Ann
Dukthas (Paul Doherty)
Mavis Seidlitz: blonde private investigator with Gracie Allen tendencies,
by Carter Brown
Inspector Konrad Sejer:
working in a small mountain village in Norway, by Karin
Fossum
Gerhard Self: former public prosecutor during the Nazi era, now a
private investigator in his late 60s, in 1980s Mannheim, in the newly
unified Germany, by Bernhard Schlink
Sara Selkirk: renowned cellist,
in Bath, England, by Morag Joss
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, by
Tony Spinosa (Reed Farrel Coleman)
Brano Sev, Emil Brod, Ferenc Kolyeszar, and other police and intelligence agents in Communist-era Eastern Europe, by Olen Steinhauer
Grady Service: Department
of Natural Resources Conservation Officer, in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, in the Woods Cop series by Joseph Heywood
Frank Sessions: homicide detective lieutenant, Manhattan North, in New York City, by Hillary Waugh
Mick Sever: rock and roll
journalist, by Don Bruns
Dr. Grace Severance:
retired pathologist in Arizona, by Margaret
Scherf
Knute Severson: police detective in Boston, Massachusetts, by Tobias
Wells (Stanton Forbes)
Sewell, Hitchcock, a certified
mortician in Baltimore, Maryland by Tim
Cockey
Annie Seymour: police reporter in New Haven, Connecticut, by Karen E.
Olson
Seymour, Sando:
a multilingual officer with Special Branch in 1906 Trieste in the Austro-Hungarian
Empire by Michael Pearce
Rene Shade: ex-boxer, now a police detective, in the bayou town St.
Bruno, Louisiana, by Daniel Woodrell
Ron Shade: tough-guy private investigator with a soft heart, and a
martial arts expert, in Chicago, Illinois, by Michael A. Black
Shader, Dr. Susan: a psychiatrist
and criminal profiler in Chicago, Illinois by Joseph
Glass
“The Shadow”,
a private investigator in the USA by Maxwell
Grant
Shaft, John: a tough,
black private detective in New York, New York by Ernest
Tidyman
Shakespeare, Young Will: a
writer, the Elizabethan era's answer to Sherlocke Holmes, in London,
England by Simon Hawke
Shallot, Sir Roger:
agent of Cardinal Wolsey in England by Michael
Clynes
Alex Shanahan: general manager of Majestic Airlines, in Boston, Massachusetts,
and elsewhere, sometimes undercover investigator in the airline industry,
and later a private investigator, by Lynne Heitman
Dietrich “Deets” Shanahan: 70-something former Army intelligence officer and semi-retired private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Ronald Tierney
Shandy, Helen Marsh:
librarian and wife in Balaclava County, Massachusetts by Charlotte
MacLeod
Shandy, Peter:
college botany professor and husband in Balaclava County, Massachusetts
by Charlotte MacLeod
Randall Shane: ex-FBI
agent and expert in child abductions, by Chris Jordan (W.R. Philbrick)
Shannon, John: ex-NYPD
detective turned special agent (code-name “Shango”) by Clyde
W. Ford
Shannon, John J. by Cleve
F. Adams
Rick Shannon: FM rock disc jockey and private investigator in the Mississippi Delta, by Bill Fitzhugh
Shapiro, Desiree: a 5'
2" queen-sized private investigator in New York, New York by Selma
Eichler
Shapiro, Frank:
a cop in Castlemer, England by Jo
Bannister
Nathan Shapiro: Jewish cop usually working in homicide under Bill
Weigand, in New York City, by Richard & Frances Lockridge
Simon Shard:
Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, in London, England, by
Philip McCutchan
Matthew Shardlake: lawyer in mid-16th century England,by C.J. Sansom
Sharman, Nick: hard-living
ex-cop PI in London, England by Mark
Timlin
Nayir Sharqi: a Palestinian-Bedouin
desert guide, and Katya Hijazi, a forensic
scientist, in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, by Zoë Ferraris
Ray Sharp: American expatriate journalist and detective, in east
Asia, by Eric Stone
Karen Sharpe: detective constable, later detective sergeant, in 1990s
Yorkshire, England, by John Connor
Sharples, Claire:
a microbiologist in the San Joaquin Valley, California by Rebecca
Rothenberg
Shaw: an operative for a secret global intelligence agency, and Katie
James, a disgraced investigative journalist, by David Baldacci
Shaw, Abby: leaving behind
a career in corporate law and a cheating husband, returns to her hometown
of Paradise, Colorado to take over her aunt's candy shop, Divinity by Sammi
Carter
Cassidy Shaw, a reporter, Allison Pierce, a federal prosecutor, and
Nicole Hedge, an FBI special agent, in the Triple Threat series, by Lis
Wiehl and April Henry
Esmonde Shaw: Commander in the English Naval Intelligence Division,
later with a semi-official intelligence agency called 6D2, by Philip
McCutchan
James Shaw: Jewish private investigator in New York City, by Isidore Haiblum
Shaw, Samantha: a suburban
housewife and soccer mom in Southern California by Jennifer
Apodaca
Shaw, Paul: a private
investigator in New York by Mark
Sadler
Peter Shaw, detective inspector, and George Valentine, detective sergeant,
in Norfolk, England, by Jim Kelly
Shaw, Simon: professor
of history in Raleigh, North Carolina by Sarah
R. Shaber
Hector Belascoaran Shayne: one-eyed, half-Irish, half-Basque, Coca-Cola-swilling private investigator in Mexico City, by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Shayne, Michael: this
page contains all books by all authors
Shayne, Michael: a series
character by Davis Dresser
as Brett Halliday
Shayne, Michael:
a series character by Robert
Terrall as Brett Halliday
Sheldon, Graham:
cop and boyfriend by Aaron Elkins
Dan “Spider” Shepherd: former SAS trooper turned undercover cop, based in London, England, by Stephen Leather
Shepard, J.: a lawyer who
surfs in Christianitos, California by John
DeCure
Robert Sherard: great-grandson of Wordsworth, and Oscar Wilde, poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France, by Gyles Brandreth
Archie Sheridan: police
detective, and Gretchen Lowell, a serial killer who tortured and released
him, in Portland, Oregon, by Chelsea Cain
Sheridan, Dan: an attorney
in Boston, Massachusetts by Barry
Reed
Sheringham, Roger:
a writer who is an obnoxious sleuth by Anthony
Berkeley
Sherman, Winston Marlowe:
a professor in Aisley, New York by M.
K. Lorens
Sherlock, Lacey: a
FBI special agent in Washington D.C. by Catherine
Coulter
Sherwood, Payton: a private
investigator in the East Village of New York City, New York by Russell
Atwood
Jefferson Shields: private detective in 1960s Australia, by Patricia Carlon
Shigata, Mark: a Japanese-American
ex-FBI agent turned sheriff in Bayport, Texas by Anne
Wingate
Shimura, Rei: a teacher
and antiques dealer in Tokyo, Japan by Sujata
Massey
Shipton, Cassandra:
owner of Earthlore Herbal Preparations and Cruelty-Free
Cosmetics, and a member of a study group turned coven by Dolores
Stewart Riccio
Ben Shock and Charity Tucker, unlicensed private investigators in the 1970s, by Patrick Buchanan (Edwin Corley)
Shore, Jemima: investigative
television journalist in London, England by Antonia
Fraser
Shore, Marla: a beauty salon
owner in Southern Florida by Nancy
Cohen
Chris Shovelin:
down-at-the-heals 50-something British private investigator,
in California and Kenya, by Julian Rathbone
Shugak, Kate: native Alaskan
ex-DA investigator, who lives on a 160-acre homestead in a generic national
Park in Alaska with her half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt
Sidden, Jo Beth: a bloodhound
trainer and tracker in Georgia by Virginia
Lanier
Isaac Sidel: deputy police commissioner, later Mayor, in New York
City, by Jerome Charyn
Siegel, Phoebe:
a private investigator in Billings, Montana by Sandra
West Prowell
Omar Yussef Sihran:
50-ish schoolteacher in a Palestinian refugee camp, living in Bethlehem,
Palestinian Authority, by Matt Beynon Rees
Silence, John: a
physician in England by Algernon
Blackwood
Fiona Silk: talent-challenged romance writer, in the bilingual tourist town St. Aubaine, Quebec, Canada, by Mary Jane Maffini
Silva, Joe: a police chief
in Mellingham, Massachusetts by Susan
Oleksiw
Mario Silva: chief inspector for criminal matters of the federal police, in Brazil, by Leighton Gage
Silver, David:
homicide cop with an alien partner in the U.S.A. by Lynn
S. Hightower
Silver, Emily: an actress
in New York, New York by Carol
Brennan
Silver, Miss Maud: a
retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional private detective
in London, England by Patricia
Wentworth
Abby Silvernale: newly-widowed thirty-year old waitress in upstate Bantam, New York, by Julia Pomeroy
Guy Silvestri: police detective in Massachusetts, by Maggie Rennert
Bernie Simmons:
assistant district attorney in New York City, by Richard & Frances
Lockridge
Bernie and Libby Simmons: caterers in Longely, New York, in the Mystery
with Recipes series by Isis Crawford (Barbara Block)
Simon, Grant:
by Hugh Pentecost
Simon, Margo: California
Public Radio reporter in San Diego, California by Janice
Steinberg
Simpson, Arthur Abdel: comic
rogue and petty crook in England by Eric
Ambler
Oliver Simpson: Detective Inspector, and Philipa Lowe, an amateur sleuth, in England, by Roger Omerod
Simpson, Tim: a financial
consultant turned art investment specialist in London, England by John
Malcolm
Abby Sinclair: freelance security consultant who hunts stalkers, and
Tess McCallum, an FBI special agent, in Los Angeles, California, by Michael
Prescott
Sinclair, Cecily:
Edwardian hotel owner in Badger's End, England by Kate
Kingsbury
Sinclair, Chris: a district
attorney in San Antonio, Texas by Jay
Brandon
Sinclair, Evangeline:
an actress in London, England by Marian
Babson
Sinclair, Matthew Arthur:
a gay epileptic D. A. turned store owner in New Orleans, Louisiana by Tony
Fennelly
Sinclair, Mort: a respected
genealogist and lawyer on Fogge Island off the New England Coast by Gene
Stratton
John “Chant” Sinclair: Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam and martial arts master turned artist by George Chesbro
Tori Sinclair: a Yankee librarian moving to Sweet Briar, South Carolina,
in the Southern Sewing Circle mysteries by Elizabeth Lynn Casey (Laura
Bradford)
Tucker Sinclair: 30-something divorcee and financial adviser, in Los
Angeles, California, by Patricia Smiley
Singer, Jacob: a 1940s Hollywood
private eye in Los Angeles, California by George
Baxt
Singer, Judith: a resident
of Long Island, New York by Susan
Isaacs
Inspector Singh: police inspector based in Singapore, by Shamini Flint
Sixsmith, Joe:
private detective in England by Reginald
Hill
Skeehan, Georgia: a rookie
fire marshal in New York, New York by Suzanne
Chazin
Skellar, Samantha: FBI
Agent on the trail of a possible serial killer who has been terrorizing
the suburban neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington by Lynne
Jamneck
Skinner, Robert: a high-ranking
cop in Edinburgh, Scotland by Quintin
Jardine
Max Skull: movie director, and
Margot O’Banion, a film
editor, based in Los Angeles, California.
by Kit Sloane
Anthony Slade: Superindendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England,
by Leonard Gribble
Jo Slater: sociopathic socialite in New York City, by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Slider, Bill:
police inspector in London, England by Cynthia
Harrod-Eagles
Boris Slivka: hard-drinking
screenwriter, and his partner Larry Baker, in Hollywood, California,
by Carter Brown
Aggie Sloan-Wilcox: wife of the minister of the Consolidated Community Church, in Emerald Springs, Ohio, in the Ministry Is Murder series by Emilie Richards
Sloan, Charley: criminal
attorney in Detroit, Michigan by William
J. Coughlin
Sloan, Christopher Dennis "Seedy:" Berebury
CID department head in West Calleshire, England by Catherine
Aird
David Sloane: lawyer in Seattle, Washington, by Robert Dugoni
Sloan, Duncan: a private
investigator in Florida by Bob
Truluck
Dr. Mark Sloan: Chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital who consults with the LAPD, in Los Angeles, California, in the Diagnosis Murder TV novelizations by Lee Goldberg
Sloan, Sydney: a lesbian
private investigator in New York, New York, in the Stonewall Inn mysteries
by Randye Lordon
Slocombe, Drew: former
nurse who has become an undertaker in Bradbourne, England by Rebecca
Tope
Small, David: rabbi sleuth
in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts by Harry
Kemelman
Small, Jake: Constable
in 1940s Canadian police officers in Fort York, Ontario by A.
E. Eddenden
Smiley, George:
British Intelligence agent and scholar in London, England by John
Le Carre
Danny Smiricki: jazz
saxophone player, teacher, and observer of post-WW2 life in Czechoslovakia
and Canada, by Josef Škvorecký
Smith, Bill: 40-something
Army brat PI in New York by S.
J. Rozan
Smith, Brad: championship
tennis player and part-time CIA agent in the United States by Jack
Bickham
Smith, Cellini: an
accountant for the Mob in New York, New York, turned honest private investigator
in Los Angeles, California by Robert
Reeves (born 1912)
Stevens, Delta [Storm],
a police officer in River Valley, California near Los Angeles by Linda
Kay Silva
Smith, Grace: a private investigator
in Seatoun, England by Liz Evans
Smith, Jill: homicide detective
in Berkeley, California by Susan
Dunlap
Smith, Dr.
John: by Hugh
Pentecost
Smith, Mackenzie:
law professor in Washington, D.C. by Margaret
Truman
Smith, Marguerite: a retired
science teacher in Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Marie
Lee
Molly Smith: rookie constable, and Sergeant John Winters, in the mountain
town Trafalgar, British Columbia, Canada, by Vicki Delany
Smith, (Nicole) Nickel:
avowed lesbian and small-town newspaper editor in Runnymeade by Rita
Mae Brown
Owen Smith: detective chief superintendent at Scotland Yard, in London,
England, by James Barnett
Smith, Sloan: assistant
to Bedford Green, an art gallery owner in Greenwich Village, New York,
in 1925
by Michael Kilian
Smith, Truman:
private eye in Galveston, Texas by Bill
Crider
William Wilberforce
Smith:
an aristocratic Caribbean operative in the
fictitious Security Executive, a British military intelligence organization,
by William Haggard
Smith, Zachariah: private
investigator in Oregon by L.
L. Thrasher
Smithsonian, Lacey: the "Crime
of Fashion" columnist in Washington D. C. by Ellen
Byerrum
Smythe, Tuck: aspiring actor,
the Elizabethan era's answer to Holmes' Dr. Watson, in London, England
by Simon Hawke
Terry Sneed: unscrupulous Scotland Yard inspector, based in London,
England, by G.F. Newman
Snow, John: a young,
retired superintendent of Scotland Yard by Raymond
Sawkins
Snow, Morgan: a sex therapist
in the Butterfield Institute in New York City by M.
J. Rose
Dr. Robert Snow: at a psychiatric hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and
then Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by David Laing Dawson
Socarides, Aristotle Plato:
ex-cop part-time fisherman P.I. in Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Paul Kemprecos
The Social Club Mysteries in
Borderville, Virginia by Graham
Landrum
Sokol, Pauline:
ex-nurse, now an investigator of medical fraud by Lori
Avocato
Solano, Lupe:
private investigator in Miami, Florida by Carolina
Garcia Aguilera
Solomon, Bretta: the
45 year old owner of the Flower Shop in River City, Missouri, in The
Gardening Mysteries by Janis
Harrison
Solomon, Sasha:
a public relations director in New Mexico by Pari
Noskin Taichert
Squabbling lawyers Steve Solomon,
a Coconut Beach bum and Victoria Lord, a Miami blue blood, in Florida
by Paul Levine
Sonia Someth: owner of Stellar Investigations Detective Agency, and
a master of Verdic astrology, in Pune, India, by Manjiri Prabhu
Harry Sommers: former bouncer and con man, now a private investigator,
based in London, England, by Peter Whalley
Sorby, Helen: a social
worker in 1905 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania by Karen
Rose Cercone
Source, Devlin: a police
detective sergeant in Baltimore, Maryland by James
Grady
Southwell, Robert:
a detective chief inspector in York, England by Barbara
Whitehead
Southwood, Anna: a private
enquiry agent in Sidney, Australia by Jean
Bedford
Space, Sam: a private
investigator on Mars by William
F. Nolan
Ben Spanner
and H.J. Mavity, ex-spouses in Connecticut, by Ron Goulart
Sparrow, Charlie: a tough, smart-aleck
spy who is irresistible to women in the USA by Tom
Ardies
Aelius Spartianus: former
soldier, now historian to Diocletian, in early 4th century Rome, by Ben
Pastor
Spearman, Henry: an
economics professor at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Marshall
Jevons
Speed, Diana:
a publishing company chief financial office in New York, New York by Tony
Gibbs
Speeter, Axel: one of a
group of small town gamblers in Minnesota by Peter
Hautman
Isabele “Izzy” Spellman: 28-year old sleuth working for
her parents’ private investigation firm, in San Francisco, California,
by Lisa Lutz
Philip Spence: artist, and Margo Franklin, a waitress, in Chicago, Illinois, by Jerry B. Jenkins
Suzy Spencer:
a working mother and part-time television producer, in the village of
Tarnfield in the north of England, in the Norbridge Chronicles, by Lis
Howell
Spenser: ex-boxer, ex-state
cop turned private eye in Boston, Massachusetts by Robert
B. Parker
Spencer, Joan:
symphony orchestra manager in Oliver, Indiana by Sara
Hoskinson Frommer
Spotted Moon, Charles:
an attorney & Ojibway tribal shaman in San Francisco, California
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Spraggue,
Michael III: wealthy actor and ex-PI in Boston, Massachusetts by Linda
Barnes
Spring, Penny: a 60-something
anthropologist in Cambridge, England by Margot
Arnold
Cole Springer: former Secret Service agent and saloonkeeper, in Aspen,
Colorado, by W.L. Ripley
Springer, Dan: a writer for a magazine
in Las Vegas, Nevada by L.C. Hayden
Maddie Springer: shoe designer turned crime fighter, in Los Angeles,
California, in the High Heels romantic mysteries by Gemma Halliday
Judd Springfield: police chief in Coolidge Corners, Vermont, by Alison
Smith
Dolly Madison (Maddy) Sprowls: 60-something newspaper archivist for
the Herald-Union, and cub reporter Aubrey McGinty, in Hannawa, Ohio,
in the Morgue Mama mysteries by C.R. Corwin
Jeremiah Spur: retired white Texas Ranger, and Clyde Thomas, the first black deputy sheriff, in Brenham, Texas, by James Hime
Squires, Lee: an English
professor and poet in Montana by Christine
Andreae
Riley Spartz: investigative TV reporter, in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
by Julie Kramer
Giff Speer: master sergeant and undercover agent in the US Army Military
Police, around the USA, by Don Tracy
Bruno Stachel: the German
flying ace from WWI to 1945, by Jack D. Hunter
Nadia Stafford: ex-cop turned hitwoman, in Ontario, Canada, by Kelley
Armstrong
David Stark: police inspector in England, by Keith Wright
Harry Stark: curmudgeonly homicide detective who listens to jazz
and has a reclusive cat, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by John Worsley
Simpson
Harry Starks: charismatic homosexual gangster in 1960s London, England,
by Jake Arnott
Jason Starr, a genius and discredited scientist, and Adam Cyber, a superman
from the future, by Peter Heath
Inspector Starrett: of the Garda Serious Crime Unit, in County Donegal, Ireland, by Paul Charles
T.D. Stash: unlicensed
private investigator, in Florida, by W.R. Philbrick
Charles St. Clair: journalist
in 1870s New York City, by Allan Levine
St. Cyr,
Jean-Louis: French police inspector in 1940s Paris, France by J.
Robert Janes
Sebastian St. Cyr: Viscount Devlin, an investigator in Regency England,
by C.S. Harris
Valentin St. Cyr: Creole private detective in the early 20th century,
in the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana, by David Fulmer
Jackson Steeg: suspended cop with a drinking problem, in Hell’s
Kitchen, New York City, by Ira Berkowitz
Ted Stephens:
homicide detective sergeant in Houston, Texas, by Bill Crider and Clyde
Wilson
Philip St. George:
Satan Sleuth, by Michael Avalone
St. George, Sweeney:
an art history professor specializing in representations of death, in
Byzantium, Vermont by Sarah
Stewart Taylor
Marty Stiles, an ex-NYPD cop
turned PI, and his assistant Alessandra (Al) Martillo, by
Norman Green
St. Ives, Philip:
a professional go-between by Oliver
Bleeck
Alex St. James: TV reporter based in Chicago, Illinois, by Julie Hyzy
St. James, Quin: part
of a wife & husband P.I. team by T.
J. MacGregor
St. John, Jeremiah: private
investigator in San Francisco, California by William
Babula
St. Jones, Revelations:
a private investigator in the manner of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe,
in San Francisco, California by Barry
Shannon
Detective Chief Inspector St.
Just of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Sergeant Fear, in England,
by G.M. Malliet
St. Mars, Gideon: a viscount
who becomes the highwayman Blue Satan, and his friend Mrs. Kean, in early
18th century England, by Patricia
Wynn
Michael St. Pierre: master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe, by Richard Doetsch
Stackhouse, Sookie:
a cocktail waitress and her vampire boyfriend, Bill, in small town Louisiana
by Charlaine Harris
Stanhope, Rachel a birder
(birdwatcher) in the Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado by Christine
Goff
Inez Stannert: saloon owner, around 1880 in Leadville, Colorado, in the Silver Rush mysteries by Ann Parker
Starbranch, Harry: a burned-out
Denver cop turned small-town police chief in Victory, Wyoming by Gregory
Bean
David Stark: American attorney, and Liu Hulan, a Chinese police inspector, combining talents to solve mysteries in China, by Lisa See
Stark, Joanna: Art
Security Expert in San Francisco, California by Marcia
Muller
Stark, Malvin: a nerdy,
unsuccessful real estate agent, an alias for Gil Yates, private investigator
in Los Angeles, California by Alistair
Boyle
Stark, Michael, oversexed,
handsome heir-apparent to a herpes ointment fortune in New York by David
Stukas
Morgan Stark: black mercenary soldier, and Felicity O’Brian, an Irish jewel thief, by Austin S. Camacho
Robert Stark: private investigator,
by Mark Schorr
Starkey, Dan: journalist
in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Colin
Bateman
Maggie Starr: America’s most famous ex-striptease artist, running her late husband’s newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City, by Max Allan Collins
Richard Steel: widowed
burned-out ER doctor with a teen-age son, and world-renowned geneticist
Kathleen Sullivan, in New York City, by Peter Clement
Stefano, Nick:
a 50s bartender and private eye in Washington D.C. by George
P. Pelecanos
Elliot Steil: son of an American sugar magnate, later a professor of English at a Cuban college and then working in an import-export business, in Havana, Cuba, by José Latour
Stein, Gertrude:
expatriate writer in Paris in the 20s by Walter
Satterthwait
Stella the Stargazer,
an astrologer and lovelorn columnist in Denver, Colorado by Christine
T. Jorgensen
Sterling, Paisley: an author
of children's books in Rowan Springs, Kentucky by E.
Joan Sims
Stevens, Grace, a cop
in Seattle, Washington by Lowen
Clausen
Ted Stevens: hard-luck attorney, and his law partner Paul Morganstein,
in Tallahassee, Florida, by Terry Lewis
Stewart, Blaine: an
ex-cop turned private investigator in New York, New York by Sharon
Zukowski
Stewart, Kellen: a therapist
and a lesbian in Great Britain by Manda
Scott
Stewart, Maggie:
an interior decorator in South Carolina: Shirley
Robertson
Neville Stewart: detective
inspector, Mark Lombardi, police
officer, and Callie Anson, a newly ordained Anglican
cleric, in London, England, by Kate Charles
Stewart, Teal: a Certified
Public Accountant in Boston, Massachusetts by J.
Dayne Lamb
Ernest "Stick" Stickley:
ex-con in Detroit, Michigan, by Elmore Leonard
Hanno Stiffeniis: magistrate in the Napoleonic era, in early 1800s
Konigsberg, Prussia, by Michael Gregorio
Derek Stillwater: a bioterrorism expert with the US Department of Homeland
Security, by Mark Terry
Stock, Matthew: 17th
century town constable and clothier in Chelmsford, England by Leonard
Tourney
Raine Stockton: who runs a dog boarding and training facility and consults for the the Forest Service after being downsized in a budget cut, and her golden retriever Cisco, in the Smoky Mountains of Hanover County, North Carolina, by Donna Ball
Stone,
Jesse: Homicide Detective in Paradise, Massachusetts by Robert
B. Parker
Stone, Lucy: sleuthing
wife and mother of four in Tinker's Cove, Maine by Leslie
Meier
Stone, Michael: forensic
psychologist in Vermont by Anna
Salter
Stone, Nick: an S.A.S. agent
by Andy McNab
Oliver Stone,
Milton Farb, Caleb Shaw, and Reuben Rhodes: The Camel Club, a group
of four dysfunctional men who investigate political conspiracies, and
honorary member Alex Ford, a Secret Service agent, in Washington, DC,
by David Baldacci
Stone, Sergeant: a village
detective in Allshire, England by Sarah
J. Mason
Stoner, Harry: private
investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio by Jonathan
Valin
Strachey, Donald:
a gay private investigator, in Albany, New York by Richard
Stevenson
Strange, Brenda: a
private investigator of the weird in Tampa, Florida by Patty
Henderson
Strange, Derek:
black and successful is an ex-cop turned private investigator in Washington
D. C. by George P. Pelecanos
Strange, Sylvia: a forensic
psychologist in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Sarah
Lovett
Strangeways, Nigel: an
Oxford graduate in England by Nicholas
Blake
Ted Stratton: detective
inspector in 1940s London, England, by Laura Wilson
Streeter: a bounty
hunter and private eye in Denver, Colorado by Michael
Stone
Dave Strickland: private investigator in San Jose, California, by
Thomas D. Davis
Eric Stride: police inspector with the Newfoundland Constabulary,
in late 1940s St. John's, Newfoundland, before confederation with Canada,
by Thomas Rendell Curran
Jonathan Stride: detective
lieutenant in Duluth, Minnesota, by Brian Freeman
Jonce Striker: founder of Investigative Services, Inc., and Natasha Chamberlain, a young investigator, in Knoxville, Tennessee, by Christy Tillery French
String: an alien
Ilaki, partners with a homicide cop, in the U.S.A. by Lynn
S. Hightower
Jim Stringer: railroad worker and amateur sleuth in the early 1900s, in England, by Andrew Martin
Fleming Stone: bookish private investigator, frequently called in
to help the police solve a crime, in New York City, by Carolyn Wells
Storme, Wyatt: ex-NFL star,
private investigator and Vietnam vet in N. Branson, Missouri by W.
L. Ripley
Strong, Lydia: a true
crime author in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Lisa
Miscione
Dixie T. Struthers: detective sergeant in the early days of Silicon
Valley (late 1980s), in San José, California, by L.V. Sims
John Stryker: detective sergeant in Los Angeles, California, by Dallas
Barnes
Stuart, Jane: a widowed
literary agent in Shady Hills, New Jersey by Evan
Marshall
Stuart, Lizabeth “Lizzie”: a
38 year old African-American professor of crime historian in Virginia
by Frankie Y. Bailey
Stubbs, Rosemary: a chaplain
at Sanderson College in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts
by Clare Munnings
Adam Stubø: detective
inspector, and Johanne Vik, an Oslo University
psychology professor and former FBI profiler, in Oslo, Norway, by
Anne Holt
Jakob Studer: police sergeant (Wachtmeister) in 1930s Bern, Switzerland,
by Friedrich Glauser
Styles, Peter:
an investigate reporter by Judson
Philips
Sueno, George: a military
police officer in South Korea by Martin
Limon
Sughrue, C. W.:
ex-Army spy turned private eye in Montana James
Crumley
Sullivan, Carolyn:
a part-time law student and overworked probation officer in Ventura County,
California by Nancy
Taylor Rosenberg
Giles Sullivan:
retired attorney, and Isabel Macintosh, a faculty dean,
in Vermont, in the Crossword Puzzle mysteries by Herbert Resnicow
Sullivan, Liz: freelance
writer and organic gardener in Palo Alto, California by Lora
Roberts
Mac Sullivan: retired cop,
and Whiskey, his Irish Wolfhound partner, along with Rachel Brenner, a
40-something divorcee and mother of a teenaged son, in Washington, DC,
by Evelyn David
Sullivan, Rob: British Customs
officer in Brussels, Belgium by Paul
Adam
Summer, Maggie: owner of the antique
print business named Shadows in Maine by Lea
Wait
Sumuru: a master plotter working
towards world dominance, by Sax
Rohmer
Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe: emergency room physician at Manhattan Hospital,
in New York City, by Leah Ruth Robinson
Erlendur Sveinsson: detective inspector, and his colleagues Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Arnaldur Indridason
Svenson, Mike: a police
officer in Grantham, Oklahoma by Eve
K. Sandstrom
Swagger, Bob “the Nailer” master
sniper in the United States by Stephen
Hunter
A.P. “Ape” Swain:
free-lance international agent mostly in the Middle East, by Daniel
da Cruz
Bert Swain: divorced middle-aged writer and head of public relations
at a Manhattan medical research center, in New York City, by Paul Nathan
Swann, Cassie: professional
bridge player, Bellington, England by Susan
Moody
Henry Swann: private investigator subsisting on skip-tracing in Manhattan,
New York City, by Charles Salzberg
Sweeney, Nell: a governess in
post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts by P.
B. Ryan
Sweetwater,
Caleb: a policeman in New York by Anna
Katherine Green
Swensen, Hannah: the manager
of The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota by Joanne
Fluke
Eleanor Swift: owner of pizza restaurant “A Slice of Delight” in
Timber Ridge, North Carolina, by Chris Cavender (Tim Myers)
Swift, Jamie:
an editor of a newspaper in Beaumont, South Carolina by Janet
Evanovich with Charlotte
Hughes
Loren Swift: laid-back Vietnam veteran private investigator, in Charlottesville,
Virginia; Steven Kirk, a burned-out CIA agent, in Charlottesville, Virginia,
by Doug Hornig
Swift, Sabina: a detective
agency owner in Washington D. C. by Dorothy
Sucher
Swinbrooke, Kathryn:
15th century physician, apothecary, death investigator in Canterbury, England
by C. L. Grace
Bert Swinton: intuitive detective inspector in Sydney, Australia,
by Pat Flower
Swithin, Oliver: a children's
book author in Great Britain by Alan
Beechey
Swyteck, Jack: a criminal
defense lawyer in Miami, Florida by James
Grippando
Szabo, Annie: a writer,
mother and widow by Meredith
Blevins
Szabo, Zoe: former Rolling
Stone reporter tuned small town reporter in New England by Lisa
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