Abbott, Ben: an ex-Wall Street financier turned realtor in Newbury, Connecticut by Justin Scott

Abagnarro, Abby: television news director in New York City by Polly Whitney

Abbott, Luke: an English cop in England  by Paula Gosling

Abreu, Ray: a gay vampire writer in New York City by Michael Karol

Ace, Johnny, a DJ with a controversial phone-in radio show and who runs “Ace Investigations” in his spare time in Liverpool, England by Ron Ellis

Ackroyd, Laura: reporter in Yorkshire, England by Patricia Hall

Acquillo. Sam: a 50-something, retired engineer, in Southampton, Long Island, New York by Chris Knopf

Acropolis, Nick: an ex-cop private investigator in the “underbelly” of Chicago, Illinois by Jack Clark

Active, Nathan: Inupiak Alaska State Trooper assigned to his village of birth after being raised by a white couple in Anchorage, Alaska by Stan Jones

Adams, Charlie “Doc”: a dental surgeon in Woods Hole, Massachusetts by Rick Boyer

Adams, Gillian: a college history department chair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Nora Kelly

Adams, Hilda: a nurse by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Adams, Samantha: crime reporter in Atlanta, Georgia by Sarah Shankman

Addams, Max: a fly-fisherman and owner of Whitefork Lodge, a bed and breakfast in Vermont, by David Leitz

Adler, Irene: a diva in 19th Century France by Carole Nelson Douglas

Adler, Sally: hard-drinking singer comes home after 17 years as a scholar of women's studies at the University of Wyoming by Virginia Swift

Alberg, Karl: staff sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia by L. R. Wright

Alexander, Rachel: private investigator and dog trainer & Dashiell, her Pit Bull in New York, New York by Carol Lea Benjamin

Allen, Steve: celebrity crime-solver in Los Angeles, California by Steve Allen

Alleyn, Roderick: inspector and son of baronet in England by Ngaio Marsh

Allison, Owen:   a National Department of Transportation investigator in West Virginia by John Billheimer

Allon, Gariel: an art restorer and Israeli secret agent by Daniel Silva

Alonso y Leon, Carlos Tejada: a sergeant in Guardia Civil in 1938 Madrid, Spain by Rebecca Pawel

Altobelli, Vinnie: ex-cop coronary survivor P.I. in San Bernadino, California by Milton Bass

Alvarez, David: police detective in El Paso, Texas by Aileen Schumacher

Amalfi, Angelina: food columnist and restaurant reviewer in San Francisco, California by Joanne Pence

Amerotke: Chief Judge in Thebes, Egypt by P. C. Doherty

Anders, an Italian policeman with a prosthetic leg specializing in anti-terrorism by Marshall Browne

Anders, Tad: a Polish-British agent in England by Ted Allbeury

Anderson, Mali: a black female ex-NYPD cop turned sleuth in Harlem, New York, by Grace F. Edwards

Anderson, Shifty Lou: a professional magician and horseplayer in Southern California by William Murray

Andersson, Margit: a freelance Danish translator in Seattle, Washington by Tiina Nunnally

Andrews, Avery: a 30-something lawyer, in South Carolina by Cathy Pickens

Andrew, Emily: a tour guide for Iowans by Maddy Hunter

Andrioli, Elise: left blind mute and quadriplegic after a terrorist bomb explosion that killed her fiancé, in Northern Ireland by Brigitte Aubert

Angel, Fitzroy Maclean: trumpet-playing taxi driver in London, England by Mike Ripley

Anhalt, Mici (pronounced Mitzy): Crime Victims’ Compensation Board in New York, New York by Lillian O'Donnell

Father Anselm, who unknowingly suggests claiming sanctuary to a suspected Nazi war criminal, in Larkwood Priory, England by William Brodrick

Antonelli, Joseph: an attorney by D. W. Buffa

Anzhuang, Wang: a Public Security Bureau inspector in Beijing, China by Christopher West

Applebaum, Juliet: a public defender turned stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles, California, by Ayelet Waldman

Appleby, John: an inspector at Scotland Yard in London, England by Michael Innes

Appleby, Molly: a writer for Collector's Weekly magazine

Appleman, Belle: a Jewish immigrant and garment worker, during the Great Depression in Boston, Massachusetts by Dorothy and Sidney Rosen

Appleton, Susanna: an herbalist noblewoman in Elizabethan England by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Archer, Annabelle: a wedding planner in Washington D. C. by Laura Durham

Archer, Lew: ex-cop and private eye in Los Angeles, California by Ross MacDonald

Archer, Owen: medieval Welsh spy for the Archbishop by Candace M. Robb

Ardleigh, Kathryn: a 25-year-old American author who travels in Victorian Dedham, England by Robin Paige

Aragon, Tom:  a Hispanic lawyer by Margaret Millar

Argyll, Jonathan: art dealer in London, England by Iain Pears

Ark, Simon: an ancient hounder of Satan in New York, New York by Edward D. Hoch

Armington, Allie: a lawyer in Texas by Louise Gaylord

Arnold, Sister Jane: the 70-year-old Master of the Fox Hunt by Rita Mae Brown

Arnold, Jessie: sled dog racer in Anchorage, Alaska by Sue Henry

Arrowood, Spencer: Appalachian sheriff by Sharyn McCrumb

Asch, Jacob: a Jewish-Episcopal ex-reporter P.I. in Los Angeles, California by Arthur Lyons

Ashe, Benny: a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida in the Old Gang of Mine series by Richard F. West

Ashe, Kristin: an amateur sleuth in Denver, Colorado by Jennifer Jordan

Asher, James: professor and one-time spy in London, England by Barbara Hambly

Asher, Steve: a public school teacher in Massachusetts by Al Blanchard

Asherfield, Aaron: a cynical investigator with 3 ex-wives in San Francisco, California by David Berlinski

Ashton, Carol: lesbian detective inspector in Sydney, Australia by Claire McNab

Aspinall, Neville: the rich, paranoid leader of the Killing League by Philip J. Carraher

Asterlus, Getorius: a surgeon & Arcadia Asterlus, his wife in 5th century Italy by Albert Noyer

Athelstan, Brother: a 14th century Dominican monk in London, England by Paul Harding

Attla, Ray: an Inupiat police officer, returns to his native home after growing up in Anchorage, Alaska by Christopher Lane

Audley, Dr., David: a historian and spy in England by Anthony Price

Austen, Cat: a single-mom reporter in Atlantic City, New Jersey by Jane Rubino

Austen, Jane: a famous author in England by Stephanie Barron

Austen, Kate: single mother in Walnut Hills, California by Jonnie Jacobs

Austin, Beth: an English professor at Midwestern University in 1940s Illinois by Edith Skom

Austin, Jack: a PGA Tour player by John Corrigan

Austin, Jaine: a freelance writer in Los Angeles, California by Laura Levine

Austin, Kurt: featured in the underwater exploration series, NUMA FILES by Clive Cussler