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        | Nathan Aldyne | 
       
      
        |   • | 
        Dan Valentine: gay half-owner
          of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Kate Allen | 
         
        
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          Alison Kaine: lesbian
            police officer in Denver, Colorado | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jake Arnott | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Harry Starks: charismatic
            homosexual gangster in 1960s London, England | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Nikki Baker | 
         
        
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          Virginia Kelly: black lesbian stockbroker in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | George Baxt | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Pharoah Love: gay,
            black police detective in New York City | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Rose Beecham | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jude Devine:
             lesbian ex-FBI agent, now a Montezuma County Sheriff’s
            detective in Utah | 
         
        
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          Amanda Valentine:
            lesbian detective inspector in Wellington, New Zealand | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Anthony Bidulka | 
         
        
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          Russell Quant: ex-farmboy, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, gay private
            detective, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Kate Calloway | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Cassidy James: lesbian
            private investigator in the fictional town of Cedar Hills (near the
            Southern Oregon Coast about 350 miles from Portland) | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jessie Chandler | 
         
        
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          Shay O’Hanlon: co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool coffee shop, and amateur sleuth, along with  JT Bordeaux, her cop girlfriend, in Minneapolis, Minnesota | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Mark Coggins  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Chris Duckworth: cross-dressing friend and assistant to August
            Riordan, a jazz bass-player and private investigator, in San Francisco,
            California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Rick Copp | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jarrod Jarvis: former child-star and  gay amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California, and London, England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Michael Craft | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mark Manning: gay
            journalist in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Stan Cutler | 
         
        
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          Mark Bradley: gay writer of celebrity biographies,  and Rayford Goodman, a jaded, once-famous private  investigator, in Los Angeles, California | 
         
       
      
        
          | Kaye Davis | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Maris Middleton: lesbian forensic chemist working as an independent crime scene specialist, in Dallas, Texas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lauren Wright Douglas | 
         
        
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          Allison O’Neil: lesbian Bed & Breakfast owner and refugee from California, in fictional Lavner Bay, Oregon | 
         
        
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          Caitlin Reece: lesbian private investigator, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sarah Dreher | 
         
        
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          Stoner McTavish:
            lesbian travel agent in Boston, Massachusetts | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Joan M. Drury | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tyler Jones: lesbian
            feminist newspaper columnist, based in San Francisco, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Stella Duffy | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Saz Martin: lesbian
            private investigator in London, England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Michael Allen Dymmoch | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jack Caleb:
            gay psychiatrist in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | David Fingerman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Louise Miller: a lesbian police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Katherine V. Forrest | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kate Delafield:
            lesbian homicide detective in Los Angeles, California | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Nicola Griffith | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Aud Torvingen: half-American, half-Norwegian  lesbian ex-Atlanta cop and self-defense teacher | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lisa Haddock | 
         
        
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          Carmen Ramirez: 24-year-old
            Irish-Puerto Rican lesbian copy editor at her hometown newspaper
            in Frontier City, Oklahoma | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Joseph Hansen | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dave Brandstetter:
            gay death-claims investigator in Los Angeles, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ellen Hart | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jane Lawless:
            lesbian restaurateur in Minneapolis, Minnesota | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Patty Henderson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Brenda Strange:
            lesbian private investigator of the weird in Tampa, Florida | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Greg Herren | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dick Dansoir: gay
            personal trainer and occasional go-go dancer at the boys’            bars in
            New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Chanse MacLeod: gay
            private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Morgan Hunt | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tess Camillo: single,
            middle-aged lesbian amateur sleuth who lives with a straight housemate,
            in San Diego, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Fred Hunter | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Alex Reynolds: gay
            accidental spy in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Dean James  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Simon Kirby-Jones: gay American writer who became a vampire in
            Houston, now living in Snupperton Mumsley, a small village in England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Bett Reece Johnson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Cordelia Morgan: lesbian hit artist turned  sleuth, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado | 
         
       
      
        
          | Dan Kavanagh | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Nick Duffy: bisexual
            ex-cop turned private investigator in London, England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Laurie King  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kate Martinelli: lesbian homicide detective,  in San Francisco,
            California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Phyllis Knight | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Lil Richie: ex-rocker
            lesbian private investigator in coastal Maine, Charlottesville, Virginia,
            and elsewhere | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Josh Lanyon | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Christopher (Kit) Holmes:
            gay bestselling mystery writer in decline, and J.X. Moriarity, a
            former cop and bestselling novelist | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Irene Lin-Chandler | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Holly-Jean Ho: bisexual Anglo-Chinese computer fraud consultant
            and private investigator, in London, England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Christopher Lord | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Simon Alastair: gay bookstore owner and amateur sleuth in fictional Dickens Junction, Oregon | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Randye Lordon | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Sydney Sloan: lesbian
            private investigator in New York City, in the Stonewall Inn
            mysteries | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lauren Maddison | 
         
        
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          Connor Hawthorne:
            lesbian mystery novelist and former district attorney | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jaye Maiman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Robin Miller: lesbian
            romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator, in New
            York City | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | William Maltese | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Stud Draqual:
            maybe gay, maybe not CEO of Draqual Fashions, and a much-in-demand
            New York City haute-couture fashion designer of ladies' silk underwear | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Dominique Manotti | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Daquin: gay police
            detective, in Paris, France | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jean Marcy | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Meg Darcy: working-class
            lesbian private investigator, and police detective Sarah Lindstrom,
            in St. Louis, Missouri | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Janet McClellan | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tru North: lesbian
            police detective in Kansas City, Missouri | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Val McDermid | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Lindsay Gordon:
            lesbian journalist and socialist, in Glasgow, Scotland | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Claire McNab | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Carol Ashton: lesbian detective inspector
            in Sydney, Australia | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kylie Kendall:
            lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia, who
            inherits 51% of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles,
            California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Grant Michaels | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Stan Kraychik:
            gay hairdresser in Boston, Massachusetts | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Penny Mickelbury | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Gianna Maglione:
            lesbian police lieutenant in Washington, DC | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Carlene Miller | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Lexy Hyatt: lesbian
            crime reporter in Florida | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Michael Nava | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Henry Rios: gay
            criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles, California | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Orland Outland | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Doan McCandler:
            gay private investigator. and Binky Van de Kamp, his sidekick. in
            San Francisco, California | 
         
       
      
        
          | Abigail Padgett | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Blue McCarron:
            independent social psychologist and private investigator living outside
            San Diego, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Edward O. Phillips | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Geoffrey Chadwick:
            an acerbic, single, gay, 50-something corporate lawyer based in Montreal,
            Quebec, Canada | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Elizabeth Pincus | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Nell Fury: lesbian
            private investigator in San Francisco, California | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Deborah Powell | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Hollis Carpenter:
            lesbian crime reporter and her schnauzer Anice, in 1936-37 Houston,
            Texas | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lev Raphael | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Nick Hoffman: gay professor
            in Michiganapolis, Michigan | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | J.M. Redmann  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Micky Knight: lesbian private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jeffrey Round | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Bradford Fairfax:
            a gay 30-something special agent with a secret organization called
            Box 77 | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dan Sharp: missing persons investigator and gay single father in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Sandra Scoppettone | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Lauren Laurano:
            lesbian private investigator in Manhattan, New York | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Anne Seale | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jo Jacuzzo: charismatic
            lesbian in Buffalo, New York | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Scott Sherman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kevin Connor: 20-something gay escort and amateur sleuth, with attention deficit disorder, in New York City | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Linda Kay Silva | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Delta Stevens: lesbian police officer in River Valley, California,
            near Los Angeles | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Mehmet Murat Somer | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Burçak Veral: a transvestite nightclub hostess by night, and computer technician by
            day, in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Turkish Delight mysteries, by Mehmet
            Murat Somer | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Richard Stevenson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Donald Strachey:
            gay private investigator, and Timothy Calahan, a legislative aide
            for a New York state senator, in Albany, New York | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | David Stukas | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Robert Wilsop: recovered
            Catholic and copywriter for feminine hygiene products, Michael Stark,
            the oversexed heir-apparent to a herpes ointment fortune, and Monette
            O’Reilley, a towering lesbian
            and star player of the Leaping Lesbians soccer team and graphic artist
            in New York | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Therese Szymanski | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Brett Higgins: lesbian sleuth with a criminal past, in Detroit,
            Michigan | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jean Taylor | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Maggie Garrett: young,
            lesbian private investigator in San Francisco, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Haley Walsh | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Skyler Foxe: a gay high school English teacher in Redlands, California, in a romantic mystery series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Pat Welch | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Helen Black: ex-cop lesbian private investigator, based in Berkeley, California | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Amanda Kyle Williams | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Madison McGuire:
            lesbian deep-cover secret agent for the US government, later with
            the CIA, In the US and overseas, starting in 1978 | 
         
       
 
      
        
          | Barbara Wilson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Pam Nilsen: lesbian
            printing company owner in Seattle, Washington | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | John Morgan Wilson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Benjamin Justice:
            gay crime reporter and writer in Los Angeles, California | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Elizabeth Woodcraft | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Frankie Richmond:
            30-something lesbian barrister specializing in family law, in London,
            England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Eve Zaremba | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Helen Keremos: 40-something
            lesbian private investigator and former intelligence operative based
            in Vancouver, British Columbia, also operating in Toronto, Ontario,
            Canada, and elsewhere | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | R.D. Zimmerman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Todd Mills: gay TV
            news reporter in Minneapolis, Minnesota | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Mark Richard Zubro | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tom Mason:
            gay teacher, and his lover, Scott Carpenter, a baseball
            player, in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Paul Turner:
            gay police detective in Chicago, Illinois | 
         
       
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