Babcock,
Allida: a dog therapist in Boulder, Colorado by Leslie
O’Kane
Baca, Sonny: part-time
rodeo rider private eye in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Rudolfo
Anaya
Badge of Honor Series, featuring
the Philadelphia Police Force by W.
E. B. Griffin
Baeier, Kate, Methodist
woman clergy in London, English by Gillian
Slovo
Bahr, Marshall “Mars”:
nicknamed Candy Man, a detective who serves as a special investigator
reporting directly to the chief of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota by K.
J. Erickson
Bak, Lieutenant:, an ex-charioteer, head of the Medjay police, in ancient Egypt by Lauren Haney
Baker, Johnelle
“Johnny”:
a blonde former actress made sheriff as a publicity stunt in Tenoclock,
Colorado by John Miles
Balam, Luis: ex-traffic
cop turned tour operator in Yucatan, Mexico by Gary
Alexander
Baldwin, T. T.: a sports
photographer in New York, New York by Shannon
O'Cork
Bale, Jonathan: a constable
in 1600s London, England by Edward
Marston
Baley, Elijah: a sci-fi
detective by Isaac Asimov
Ball, Hollis: reporter,
in Maryland by Helen Chappell
Balzic, Mario: a small-town
police chief in Rocksburg, Pennsylvania by K.
C. Constantine
Bank, Dr. Jo: who leaves New York City after a fatal misdiagnosis of a patient and ends up in Bayfield, New Jersey, as the on-call doctor at a
motel, by Robin
Hathaway
Banks, Alan: detective
chief inspector in Yorkshire, England by Peter
Robinson
Bannerman, Paul: private
investigations firm owner in Westport, Connecticut by John
Maxim
Banning, Kate: a former
Boston investigative reporter and trade magazine editor in Nashville,
Tennessee by Cecelia Tishy
Bard, Lily: housecleaner
in Shakespeare, Arkansas by Charlaine
Harris
Barkin, Janet:
a high school dropout in Evanston, Illinois in the Women's Rescue Co.
mysteries Ellen Godfrey
Barlow, Hannah: ex-cop
turned lawyer in Orange County, California by Carroll
Lachnit
Barlow, Margaret: a 50-something
freelance journalist in New York, New York by David
Osborn
Barlow, Thea: editor of
the Chicago-based Western True Adventures, turns free lance in Wyoming
by Carol Caverly
Barnaby, Tom: chief
inspector in England by Caroline
Graham
Barnea, Danielle: a Shin Bet
(Israel's FBI) agent in Israel by Jon
Land
Barnes, Connie: an Anglo-Hopi
girlfriend to a P.I. in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Jake
Page
Barnes, Ginger:
a headmaster's wife and suburban mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
by Donna Huston Murray
Barnett, Harry: middle-aged
Englishman caretaker in Greece by Robert
Goddard
Barney, Al:
by James Hadley Chase
Baron, The: criminal-turned-crime-fighter
in England by John
Creasey
Barr, Temple:
public relations freelancer and Midnight Louie, the tomcat, in Las Vegas,
Nevada by Carole Nelson
Douglas
Barratt, Louisa: a burned-out
London police officer relegated to babysitting for the Child Protection
Unit in London, England by Lucy
Harkness
Barrett, Bel: a professor
of English in Jersey City, New Jersey by Jane
Isenberg
Barrington, Stone: ex-cop
attorney in New York, New York by Stuart
Woods
Barron, Rick: the head
of security at the Centurion Movie Studio, in 1939 Los Angeles, California
by Stuart Woods
Barrow, Zoe: a member
of the Austin Police Department, in Austin, Texas by Jan
Grape
Bartholomew, Brother: a
member of the religious community at Faith Abbey in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
by David Manuel
Bartholomew, Matthew:
brother and forensic sleuth in the 14th century by Susanna
Gregory
Bartholomew, Peter: odd-jobs
company owner in Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Sally
Gunning
Bascom, Ernie: a military
police officer in South Korea by Martin
Limon
Bascom, Janey: a
landscaper and partner in Three Dirty Women Landscaping, Inc. in Pine
Grove by Julie Wray Herman
Basnett, Andrew: a retired
professor of botany in England by E.X.
Ferrars
Batory, Anna: TV
news video freelancer in Los Angeles, California by John
Sandford
Bauer, Jane: a detective
working her last assignment in unsolved crimes at the NYPD, in New York,
New York by Lee Harris
Bauer, Tory: diner waitress
in Delphi, South Dakota by Kathleen
Taylor
Bayles, China:
herb shop owner and former attorney in Pecan Springs, Texas by Susan
Wittig Albert
Baynam, Nina: an FBI
agent who continually crosses paths with a serial-killer cult by Michael
Marshall
Beaman, Will: working
in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts by G. S. Rowe
Beamon, Mark: an FBI special
agent in the U.S. by Kyle Mills
Bean, Madeline: a caterer
in Hollywood, California by Jerrilyn
Farmer
Beanblossom, Rick: investigative
reporter in St. Paul, Minnesota by Steve
Thayer
Bear, Goldy : single
mom and caterer in Aspen Meadow, Colorado by Diane
Mott Davidson
Bearpaw, Molly: major crimes
investigator and advocate for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma by Jean
Hager
Beaumont, J.P.:
homicide detective in Seattle, Washington by J.
A. Jance
Beck, Martin: police inspector
in Stockholm, Sweden by Maj Sjowall
and Per Wahloo
Becker, John: FBI agent
in New York, New York by David
Wiltse
Beckett, Lee: a private
investigator in Buena Costa Co. in California, written as John
Crowe
Beckmann, Grace: a middle-aged
mother and freelance writer in Colorado by Jackie
Lewin
Bee, Jane: housemaid at
Buckingham Palace in London, England by C.
C. Benison
Beef, Sergeant: a beer-and-darts
loving common man in England by Leo
Bruce
Bell, Joseph: a doctor
and Doyle's mentor, in Edinburgh, Scotland by
David Pirie
Bellecroix, Stephen:
British agent in England by David
Craig
Benbow, Angela:
a 70-something admiral's widow in Southern California by Corinne
Holt Sawyer
Bencolin, Henri: juge
d'instruction (examining magistrate) in Paris, France by John
Dickson Carr
Benedetti,
Niccolo: world renowned criminologist-professor in Sparta, New
York by William
L. DeAndrea
Benington, Peter: a retired
jewel thief in Coral Sands, Florida in the Old Gang of Mine series by Richard
F. West
Benjamin, Paul: a vigilante
murderer in Arizona by Brian
Garfield
Bennet, Elizabeth: takes
up the story ended in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Regency (early
1800s) England by Carrie Bebris
Bennett, Christine: ex-nun
in New York, New York by Lee Harris
Bennett, Frank: a police
chief in Trout Run, New York by S.
W. Hubbard
Bennett, Lilly:
ex-detective private investigator in Roundup, Wyoming by Marne
Davis Kellogg
Bennett, Reid: police chief
and Sam, a German Shepard in Murphy's Harbour, Ontario, Canada by Ted
Wood
Bennis, Norm:
a cop in Chicago, Illinois by Barbara
D’Amato
Berenguer, Bishop: bishop
in 1350s Girona, Spain by Caroline
Roe
Beresford, Tuppence & Tommy:
English intelligence agents by Agatha
Christie
Bernal, Luis: a police
superintendent in Spain by David
Serafin
Bernhardt,
Alan: an actor-director private investigator in San Francisco,
California by Collin Wilcox
Bernhardt, Jill: assistant
District Attorney, a founding member of The Women's Murder Club
in San Francisco, California by James
Patterson
Bernier, Alex: a Gen-X
reporter, in Upstate New York by Beth
Saulnier
Bertetto, Nick: a
freelance writer and stay-at-home dad in Indianapolis, Indiana by Tony
Perona
Bertrand, Carmela: owner
of a scrapbooking shop in New Orleans, Louisiana by Laura
Childs
Bethany, Tom: a former
political consultant and wrestler who now works as a private investigator
in Boston, Massachusetts by Jerome
Doolittle
Binton, Margaret: 70-something
little old lady in New York, New York by Richard
Barth
Birdwood, Verity “Birdie”:
TV researcher in Australia by Jennifer Rowe
Bishop, Jim: an operative
at Weiss Investigations, a man with a penchant for violence and a mysterious
military past in San Francisco, California by Andrew
Klavan
Bittersohn, Max: part
of an investigative couple in Boston, Massachusetts by Charlotte
MacLeod
Bivens, Angela:
an FBI Special Agent in Washington D.C. by Christopher
Chambers
Biwaban, Angela, an ex-embezzler
Anishinabe princess in Minnesota by J.
F. Trainor
Black, Cree: a
parapsychologist with a haunted past in Seattle, Washington by Daniel
Hecht
Black, Johnny: a private
detective in 1930s England by Neville
Steed
Black, Kevin:
psychiatrist in Minnesota by Carole
Nelson Douglas
Black Mask Boys: 1930s
detective heroes in California by William
F. Nolan
Black, Thomas:
bicycling enthusiast private eye in Seattle, Washington by Earl
Emerson
Blackbird, Nora, Emma and Libby:
three sisters who inherit a 2 million dollar tax debt from their high-society
parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Nancy
Martin
Blacke, Lobo:
paraplegic ex-frontier lawman in Le Four, Wyoming by William
L. DeAndrea
Blackstone, Oz: private
investigator in London, England by Quintin
Jardine
Blackwell, Mark: the new
district attorney in San Antonio, Texas by Jay
Brandon
Blackshirt (Richard
Verrel), a romantic thief and best-selling author in England by David
Graeme
Blaine, John: private
investigator in Dublin, Ireland by Vincent
Banville
Blair, Elizabeth: American
widow quilt shop owner in Bath, England by Lizbie
Brown
Blair, Sonora:
homicide detective in Cincinnati, Ohio by Lynn
S. Hightower
Blaise, Modesty: a gorgeous
crime fighter for British Intelligence in London, England by Peter
O'Donnell
Blake, Anita: a
vampire hunter, by Laurell
K. Hamilton
Blake, Juliet: a computer
fraud investigator in Silicon Valley, California by Sally
Chapman
Blake-Addison, Teri
private investigator in Maine by Linda
Hall
Blalock, Joanna:
forensic pathologist in Los Angeles, California by Leonard
S. Goldberg
Blanchard, Ursula: Lady-in-Waiting
to Queen Elizabeth I , in London, England by Fiona
Buckley
Blevins,
Haskell: private eye in Pigeon Fork, Kentucky by Barbara
Taylor McCafferty
Bliss, Detective Inspector
David: of the C.I.D. in Hampshire, England by James
Hawkins
Bliss, Vicky:
art historian in Bavaria, Germany by Elizabeth
Peters
Blissberg, Harvey: ex-major
league baseball player turned private eye in Boston Massachusetts by Richard
Rosen
Bloodworth, Leo: grumpy,
50-something private eye in Los Angeles, California by Dick
Lochte
Bloomer, Theo: retired florist
and former spy by Joan Hadley
Blue, Carolyn:
Carolyn, a food writer and Jason's wife in El Paso, Texas by Nancy
Fairbanks
Blue, Jason:
a scientist specializing in how to clean toxins from the environment
in El Paso, Texas by Nancy
Fairbanks
Blume, Molly: a true-crime
writer in Los Angeles, California by Rochelle
Krich
Blythe, Max:
Carole Trevor's ex-husband by Judson
Philips
Bodine, Juliet: a successful
writer of Regency novels and ex-professor of English literature at Barnard
in New York by Ellen
Pall
Bogart, Shauna J.: a serious
radio talk show host in Sacramento, California by Joyce
Krieg
Bogner, Simon: special investigator
on the Board of Trade in London, England by Tim
Heald
Bohannon, Hank: an ex-sheriff,
owner of a horse ranch and crime fighter in Central California by Joseph
Hansen
Boldt, Lou: detective
in Seattle, Washington by Ridley
Pearson
Bolitar, Myron:
injured basketball player turned sports agent in New York, New York by Harlan
Coben
Bolt, Mariah: a CIA officer
by Taylor Smith
Bonaparte, Inspector, “Bony”:
police officer in Australia by Arthur
Upfield
Bond, James: master spy
in London, England by Ian Fleming
Bond, James: master spy
in London, England by Raymond
Benson
Bond, James: master spy
in London, England by John Gardner
Bone, Robert:
widowed British police inspector by Susannah
Stacey
Bonnet, Eli: U.S. Marshal in
Alaska during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush by Tom
Hron
Booker,
Quinn: Lobo Blacke’s biographer in Le Four, Wyoming by William
L. DeAndrea
Bosch, Harry:
homicide detective in Los Angeles, California by Michael
Connelly
Boulder, Jack: a private
investigator in Mississippi by Phil
Hardwick
Bourdillon, Sister Agnes:
an ex-cloistered nun in London, England by Alison
Joseph
Bowie Aloysia Dog (B.A.D.)
in the Silent Series with by Katherine
Shephard
Bowdre, T. Moore “Mo”:
a blind redneck sculptor in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Jake
Page
Bowering, Victoria: an
actress in New York, New York by Dorian
Yeager
Bowman, Glenn: by Harry
Carmichael
Boxer, Lindsay: homicide
inspector, a founding member of The Women's Murder Club in San
Francisco, California by James
Patterson
The Bracebridge series:
in 1760s Massachusetts by Margaret
Miles
Bracewell, Nicholas:
stage manager for Elizabethan acting company in London, England by Edward
Marston
Bradley, Barbara
Joan “Bo”: advocate for mentally ill in San Diego, California
by Abigail Padgett
Bradley, Beatrice Lestrange:
psychiatrist and consultant to the Home Office in London, England by Gladys
Mitchell
Bradley, Helen:
an ex-cop travel-writer in Lincoln City, Oregon by Patricia
H. Rushford
Bradley, Luke:
by Hugh Pentecost
Bradshaw, Charlie:
ex-cop turned detective in Saratoga Springs, New York by Stephen
Dobyns
Brady, Joanna: deputy
sheriff's widow turned sheriff in Cochise County, Arizona by J.
A. Jance
Brady, Peter:
a small town newspaper editor by M.
S. Karl
Braithwaite, Theodora:
a clergy woman in London, England by D.
W. Greenwood
Bramlett, Grover: sheriff
in Sheffield, Mississippi by John
Armistead
Brand, Tom: a Detective Sergeant
in London's southeast precinct by Ken
Bruen
Branden, Michael:
a college professor in Amish country in Ohio by Paul
L. Gaus
Brandon, Samantha “Smokey”: forensic
pathologist in Orange County, California by Noreen
Ayres
Brandstetter, Dave: a gay
death-claims investigator in Los Angeles, California by Joseph
Hansen
Brandt, Sarah: a midwife
in the turn-of-the-century New York City, is featured in the Gaslight Mysteries
by Victoria Thompson
Brannigan,
Kate: private eye in Manchester, England by Val
McDermid
Branson, John Lloyd: attorney
in Texas by D.R. Meredith
Brantley, Cal: a female private
investigator in San Francisco, California by Lise
S. Baker
Bray, Nell: British
suffragette by Gillian Linscott
Breed, Barr: a private
investigator in Chicago, Illinois by Bill
S. Ballinger
Brennan, Julia:
a NYPD detective in New York, New York by David
Cray
Brennan, Temperance: forensic
anthropologist in the Province of Quebec, Canada by Kathy
Reichs
Brenner, Lucy Trimble:
private eye and librarian in Toronto, Canada by Eric
Wright
Brenner, Paul: a Chief
Warrant Officer by Nelson DeMille
Bret, Gervase:
lawyer in 11th century England by Edward
Marston
Brewster, Lily:
socialite and victim of the stock market crash of 1929 by Jill
Churchill
Brewster, Robert:
Lily’s brother and victim of the stock market crash of 1929 by Jill
Churchill
Brichter, Kori Price:
horse breeder in Illinois by Mary
Monica Pulver
Brichter, Peter:
police detective in Illinois by Mary
Monica Pulver
Brill, Sgt Janna: a detective
in future Topeka, Kansas by Lee
Killough
Brock, David: Kathy Kolla's
mentor, in London, England by Barry
Maitland
Brodsky, Ted: homicide cop
in New Jersey by Nancy Tesler
Brogan, Jerry: a track announcer
at Surfside Meadows in California by Jon
Breen
Broker, Phil: an ex-cop
in Minnesota by Chuck Logan
Bronson, Harry: a detective with the
police department in Dallas, Texas by L.
C. Hayden
Brooks, Mason:
a researcher and inventor of a dream-the-future machine by Christopher
Bonn Jonnes
Broom, Andrew:
attorney in Wyler, Indiana by Ralph
M. McInerny
Brotherhood of War
Series, featuring World War II in Europe by W.
E. B. Griffin
Broussard, Andy: medical
examiner in New Orleans, Louisiana by D.
J. Donaldson
Brown, Sally: a
marathoner in Delight, Arkansas by Ami
Elizabeth Reeves
Brown, Dagobert a sometime
researcher and writer living in southern France by Delano
Ames
Brown, Eddie: a comic spy
in England by Joyce Porter
Brown, Father: a gentle,
quiet little cleric in England by G.
K. Chesterton
Brown, Jane: Dagobert's wife,
living in southern France by Delano
Ames Brown, Middy:
a mature liberated woman, a consultant for StarWay Beauty Products, and
an assistant to a private investigator in Denver, Colorado by M.
Louise Smith
Brown, Margo: a language arts
teacher in rural Indiana by Marlis
Day
Brown, Olivia:
a bohemian poet and women's rights advocate in the 1920s Greenwich Village,
New York by Annette Meyers
Brown,
Sally: a marathoner in Delight, Arkansas by Ami
Elizabeth Reeves
Browne, Maggie: a widow
and a member of the St. Rose Quilting Bee in Scottsdale, Arizona by Annette
Mahon
Browne, Verity: a leftist
journalist between the wars in 1930s London, England by David
Roberts
Brunetti, Guido: police commissario
in Venice, Italy by Donna Leon
Browning, Theodosia: owner
of the Indigo Teahouse in Charleston, South Carolina by Laura
Childs
Brummell, Beau: the
arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain by Rosemary
Stevens
Brunt, Inspector Thomas:
a CID inspector in the hill country of Northern England by John
Buxton Hilton
Bryce, Emily and Henry:
interior decorators in Manhattan, New York by Margaret
Scherf
Buddenbrooks, Cecile:
licensed private eye and heiress-nun is Boston, Massachusetts by Winona
Sullivan
Buell, Reverend Martin:
an Episcopal rector in Farmington, Montana by Margaret
Scherf
Bundeen, Kate: a door-to-door
cosmetics sales representative, in Haysfield, Missouri by Cindy
Vincent
Burdette, Cassie: a professional
golfer by Roberta Isleib
Burke: outlaw soldier-of-fortune
investigator in New York, New York by Andrew
H. Vachss
Burke, Connor:
a university professor and martial-arts student, in New York, New York
by John Donohue
Burke, Ethel Morrison, comic
senior sleuth in England by Joyce
Porter
Burke, Jerry: a series
character by Davis Dresser
as Asa Baker
Burlane, James: an ex-CIA
operative turned private investigator in the USA by Richard
Hoyt
Burnell, Maxey: an investigative
reporter and newspaper owner in Boulder, Colorado by Carol
Cail
Burns, Antonio “Ant”:
an agent of the Division of Criminal Investigation and amateur rock climber
in Wyoming by Clinton McKinzie
Burns, Carl: college professor
in Texas by Bill Crider
Burns, Jacob: an at-home Dad
and part-time scriptwriter, in Saratoga Springs, New York, New York by Matt
Witten
Burtonall, Clare:
a hospital physician in England by Jonathan
Gash
Buscarsela, Filomena: from
Ecuador, an NYPD cop, becomes single mother becomes apprentice private
eye by K. J. A. Wishnia
Bushyhead, Mitch: police chief
in Buckskin, Oklahoma by Jean Hager
Byerly, Dubric: the
head of security at Castle Faldorrah by Tamara
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