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Series Characters by Last Name
     

Superintendant Vachell: former Canadian mountie, in British colonial Africa, by Elspeth Huxley

Karen Vail: profiler for the FBI, by Alan Jacobson

Vail, Martin: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois by William Diehl

Valentine, Amanda: a lesbian detective inspector in Wellington, New Zealand by Rose Beecham

Valentine, Claudia: private investigator, in Sydney, Australia by Marele Day

Valentine, Dan: a gay half-owner of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts by Nathan Aldyne

George Valentine, detective sergeant, and Peter Shaw, detective inspector, in Norfolk, England, by Jim Kelly

Jack Valentine: middle-aged British intelligence agent in the 1970s, in Ireland and elsewhere, by John Creed (Eoin McNamee)

Lucy Valentine: the black sheep of a psychic matchmaking family, now running the family business, Valentine, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts, by Heather Webber

Valentine, Tony: an ex-cop investigator specializing in catching casino cheats in Las Vegas, Nevada by James Swain

Johnny Vallon: by Peter Cheyney

Vance, Philo: private investigator in New York, New York by S. S. Van Dine

Vance, Tyler: ex-operative, free-lance writer and gun expert in North Carolina by Clay Harvey

Van Alystyne, Russ: Chief of Police in Millers Kill, New York by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Van de Kamp, Binky: a gay private investigator's sidekick in San Francisco, California by Orland Outland

Persia Rose Vanderbilt: working in the Venus Envy bath and beauty shop in Gull Harbor, Washington, in the Bath and Body mysteries by India Ink

Van Der Valk, Arlette: housewife in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Nicolas Freeling

Van Der Valk, Piet: police inspector Amsterdam, Netherlands by Nicolas Freeling 

Makedde Vanderwall: part-time Canadian model and forensic psychology student, in Sydney, Australia (and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), by Tara Moss

Kristin Van Dijk: “Baby Shark”, seeking revenge for the murder of her pool hustler father, in west Texas, by Robert Fate

Van Dusen, Augustus: "The Thinking Machine," a professor in Boston, Massachusetts by Jacques Futrelle

Richard Vaness: American pilot, by Mansell Black (Adam Hall)

Van Larsen, Max: a police detective in New York by George Baxt

Varallo, Vic: a small-town cop who moves to Glendale, California by Lesley Egan

Vargas, Melanie: a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, New York by Michele Martinez

Vaughan, Barry: a history lecturer and spoofy crime writer in Woodfield, England by Jennifer Jordan

Vaughan, Dee: office temp wife in Woodfield, England by Jennifer Jordan

Vaughan, Robin: an equestrienne in Texas by Carolyn Banks

Ventana, Veronica “Ronnie”: Mexican-Anglo private investigator San Francisco, California by Gloria White

Michael Venturi: deputy U.S. marshall involved in running the Federal Witness Protection Program, by Edna Buchanan

Verdean, Gillian: a boat owner in Long Island, New York by Tony Gibbs

Vernet, Mme. Victoire: the French wife of a Napoleonic gerdarme by Quinn Fawcett

Verrel, Richard: known as Blackshirt, a romantic thief and best-selling author in England by David Graeme

Vicente, Rosie: a carpenter in Berkeley, California by Shelley Singer

Vickery,  Fred: retired building and grounds supervisor in Cutler, Colorado by Sherry Lewis

Victor, Emma: a private investigator in San Francisco, California by Mary Wings

Vierling, Francesca: a 6-ft. newspaper columnist in St. Louis, Missouri by Elaine Viets

Johanne Vik: Oslo University psychology professor and former FBI profiler, and Adam Stubø, a detective inspector, in Oslo, Norway, by Anne Holt

Hannah Vogel: crime reporter in 1930s Berlin, Germany, by Rebecca Cantrell

Alekei “Volk” Volkovoy: wounded Chechnya veteran, now a gangster and covert military operative, in Russia, by Brent Ghelfi

Voort, Conrad: NYPD's richest detective in New York, New York by Ethan Black

Jack Vu: Vietnamese-American investigator for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and elsewhere, by Doc Macomber