|
| Avery Aames |
| • |
Charlotte Bessette: proprietor
of Fromagerie Bessette, in fictional Providence, Ohio, in the Cheese
Shop mysteries |
| Riley Adams (Elizabeth Spann Craig) |
| • |
Lulu Taylor:
owner of Aunt Pat’s rib joint, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the
Memphis Barbeque mysteries |
| Susan Wittig Albert |
| • |
China Bayles:
herbalist and former attorney, in Pecan Springs, Texas |
| • |
Beatrix Potter:
author and illustrator in the Lake District in 1900s England |
| Laura Alden |
| • |
Beth Kennedy: recently
divorced mother of two, running the Children’s Bookshelf bookstore
and serving as PTA secretary, in Rynwood, near Madison, Wisconsin |
| Barbara Allan |
| • |
Brandy Borne:
recently divorced, now back in her hometown in Iowa, with Sushi,
her blind Shih Tzu, in the Trash ’n’ Treasures mysteries |
| Donna Andrews |
| • |
Turing Hopper: Artificial
Intelligence Personality (AIP) in Crystal City, outside Washington,
DC |
| • |
Meg Langslow: decorative blacksmith in a southern town |
| Nancy Atherton |
| • |
Aunt Dimity: a
romantic ghost in England |
| Donald Bain |
| • |
Jessica Fletcher: mystery
writer in Cabot Cove, Maine, in the “Murder, She Wrote” series |
| Stephanie Barron |
| • |
Jane Austen:
the famous author, in England |
| Lorraine Bartlett |
| • |
Katie Bonner:
manager of Artisans Alley and an amateur sleuth, in the Victoria
Square mysteries |
| M.C. Beaton |
| • |
Hamish Macbeth: police
constable in Scotland |
| • |
Agatha Raisin:
London advertising retiree living in the Cotswolds,
England |
| Jessica Beck |
| • |
Suzanne Hart: proprietor
of a smalltown donut shop, with an ex-husband, wacky friend, and
hunky cop, in April Springs, North Carolina, in the Donut Shop mysteries |
| Annette Blair |
| • |
Madeira Cutler: proprietor
of a vintage clothing store in a former morgue in Mystick Falls,
Connecticut, in the Vintage Magic mysteries |
| Miranda Bliss |
| • |
Annie Capshaw:
recently divorced, and her ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur,
in Arlington, Virginia, in the Cooking Class mysteries |
| Gail Bowen |
| • |
Joanne Kilbourn:
political science professor in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada |
| Rhys Bowen |
| • |
Evan Evans:
village constable in Llanfair, Wales |
| • |
Lady Georgiana:
minor royalty in 1930s England |
| • |
Molly Murphy:
an Irish immigrant in early 20th-century who wants
to be a private investigator, in New York City |
| Lilian Jackson Braun |
| • |
Jim Qwilleran: journalist,
with cats Koko and Yum Yum in Pickax, northeast central United States |
| Elizabeth Bright (Tim Myers) |
| • |
Jennifer Shane and her
shop, Custom Card Creations, in The Card-Making Mysteries |
| Lizbie Brown |
| • |
Elizabeth Blair: American
widow quilt shop owner in Bath, England |
| Maggie Bruce |
| • |
Lili Marino: moving
from Brooklyn to Walden Corners, New York, in the Gourd Craft mysteries |
| Anne Canadeo |
| • |
Maggie Messina: owner
of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop and a circle of knitters, in Plum
Harbor, Massachusetts, in the Black Sheep Knitting mysteries |
| Dorothy Cannell |
| • |
Ellie Haskell, an interior decorator, Ben Haskell, a writer and
chef, and occasionally Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of
dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agenc |
| JoAnna Carl |
| • |
Lee McKinney:
a divorcee who returns to Michigan to work for her aunt's chocolate
business, in the Chocaholic mysteries |
| Elizabeth Lynn Casey (Laura Bradford) |
| • |
Tori Sinclair:
a Yankee librarian moving to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, in the
Southern Sewing Circle mysteries |
| Sarah Caudwell |
| • |
Hilary Tamar: medieval
law professor in Oxford, England |
| C.S. Challinor |
| • |
Rex Graves: Scots
barrister specializing in criminal litigation, prosecutor at the
High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Laura Childs |
| • |
Carmela Bertrand:
owner of a scrapbooking shop in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Scrapbooking
Mysteries |
| • |
Theodosia Browning:
owner of the Indigo Teahouse in Charleston, South
Carolina, in the Tea Shop Mysteries |
| Jill Churchill |
| • |
Lily Brewster: socialite
and her brother, Robert Brewster, victims of the stock market crash
of 1929, in the Grace and Favor mysteries |
| • |
Jane Jeffry: suburban housewife and sleuth in Chicago, Illinois |
| Blaize Clement |
| • |
Dixie Hemingway: former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional
pet sitter, in Sarasota, Florida |
| Jeffrey Cohen |
| • |
Elliot Freed: recently divorced writer and proprietor of an old
movie theater, in New Jersey, in the Double Feature mysteries |
| Nancy J. Cohen |
| • |
Marla Shore:
beauty salon owner in south Florida, in the Bad Hair
Day Mysteries |
| Kate Collins |
| • |
Abby Knight: law school
drop-out and the owner of Bloomers Florists in New Chapel, Indiana,
in the Flower Shop mysteries |
| Cleo Coyle (Alice Alfonsi & Marc Cerasini) |
| • |
Clare Cosi: manager
of the Village Blend, a landmark coffeehouse in New York City’s
Greenwich Village, in the Coffeehouse mysteries |
| Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) |
| • |
Dittany Henbit
Monk, a garden club member, and her husband Osbert Monk, an
author, in Lobelia Falls, Ontario, Canada, in the Grub-and-Stakers
series |
| • |
Madoc Rhys,
Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector, and his wife Janet Rhys,
in New Brunswick, Canada |
| Elizabeth Spann Craig |
| • |
Myrtle Clover:
80-something retired English teacher who writes a newspaper column,
in fictional Bradley, North Carolina |
| Deborah Crombie |
| • |
Duncan Kincaid:
a Scotland Yard superintendent, and Gemma James, a sergeant, in London,
England |
| Mary Daheim |
| • |
Judith McMonigle Flynn:
bed and breakfast owner in Seattle, Washington |
| • |
Emma Lord:
small-town newspaper owner and editor in Alpine, Washington |
| Jeanne M. Dams |
| • |
Hilda Johansson:
young immigrant from Sweden working as a servant for the Studebaker
family around the turn-of-the-19th century in South Bend, Indiana |
| • |
Dorothy Martin:
American schoolteacher retired in England |
| Shirley Damsgaard |
| • |
Ophelia Jensen:
reluctant witch who is a librarian, and her grandmother Abby, in
a small town in Iowa |
| Evelyn David |
| • |
Mac Sullivan:
a 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, in the Sullivan Investigations |
| Diane Mott Davidson |
| • |
Goldy Bear: single mom and caterer in Aspen Meadow, Colorado |
| Jo Dereske |
| • |
Helma Zukas:
librarian in Washington state |
| Denise Dietz |
| • |
Ellie Bernstein: a
diet group leader, and homicide Lt. Peter Miller, in Colorado Springs,
Colorado |
| Carola Dunn |
| • |
Daisy Dalrymple: journalist
in Hampshire, England |
| • |
Eleanor Trewynn: a
plucky widow running a charity shop in the fictional village of Port
Mabyn, in 1960s Cornwall, England |
| Jerrilyn Farmer |
| • |
Madeline Bean: caterer in Hollywood, California |
| Sharon Fiffer |
| • |
Jane Wheel:
laid off from her advertising job and working as an antique
picker to make ends meet, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Amanda Flower |
| • |
India Hayes: artist,
and librarian at Martin College in Stripling, Ohio |
| Joanne Fluke |
| • |
Hannah Swensen: manager of The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota |
| Sara Hoskinson Frommer |
| • |
Joan Spencer:
orchestra manager in Oliver, Indiana |
| Anne George |
| • |
Patricia Anne “Mouse” Hollowell,
a retired English teacher, and Mary Alice “Sister” Crane,
a country-western bar owner, in Alabama, in the Southern Sisters
mysteries |
| Dorothy Gilman |
| • |
Mrs. Pollifax: grandmother
and CIA agent in New Jersey |
| Melissa Glazer (Tim Myers) |
| • |
Carolyn Emerson:
middle-aged proprietor of a do-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will,
in fictional Maple Ridge, Vermont, in the Clay and Crime mysteries |
| Sally Goldenbaum |
| • |
Isabel “Izzy” Chambers:
lawyer who leaves Boston to open the Seaside Knitting Studio, in
Sea Harbor, Massachusetts |
| • |
Po Paltrow: writer
and quilter, and the Queen Bees quilting group, in the fictitious
college town of Crestwood, Kansas |
| Caroline Graham |
| • |
Tom Barnaby:
chief inspector in England |
| Ann Granger |
| • |
Fran Varady: out-of-work
actress turned private investigator, in London, England |
| Sarah Graves |
| • |
Jacobia Tiptree:
onetime financial advisor to the Mob, now living
in Eastport, Maine, in the Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries |
| Beth Groundwater |
| • |
Claire Hanover:
40-something proprietor of a gift-basket business, in Colorado Springs,
Colorado |
| Jean Hager |
| • |
Tess Darcy:
bed-and-breakfast owner in Victoria Springs, Missouri,
in the Iris House mysteries |
| Carolyn Haines |
| • |
Sarah Booth Delaney:
unconventional Southern Belle in Zinnia, Mississippi, in the
Southern Belle mysteries |
| Rebecca M. Hale |
| • |
Rebecca, running
an antique shop inherited from her Uncle Oscar, and her cats Rupert
and Isabella, in San Francisco, California, in the Cats and Curios
mysteries |
| Janis Harrison |
| • |
Bretta Solomon:
45-year-old owner of the Flower Shop in River
City, Missouri, in the Gardening mysteries |
| Carolyn Hart |
| • |
Annie Laurance:
mystery book store owner, and Max Darling, investigator, in Broward’s
Rock, South Carolina, in the Death on Demand series |
| Robin Hathaway |
| • |
Dr. Jo Banks:
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 |
| • |
Dr. Andrew Fenimore:
family physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Betty Hechtman |
| • |
Molly Pink: 40-something
widow coordinating events in a bookstore, including the Tarzana Hookers,
a crochet group in California, in the Crochet mysteries |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila Malory: writer of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| Mary Ellen Hughes |
| • |
Jo McAllister:
proprietor of Jo’s Craft Corner, in the small town of Abbotsville,
Maryland, in the Craft Corner mysteries |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian |
| • |
Odelia Grey:
plus-sized, middle-aged paralegal, in southern California |
| Miranda James (Dean James) |
| • |
Charlie Harris:
a widowed librarian, and Diesel, a Maine coon cat, in the college
town of Athena, Mississippi, in the Cat in the Stacks series |
| Linda O. Johnston |
| • |
Lauren Vancouver:
head of HotRescues, a no-kill animal shelter, north of Los Angeles,
California, in the Pet Rescue mysteries |
| Brian Kavanagh |
| • |
Belinda Lawrence:
young Australian who inherits a cottage near
Bath, England |
| Mary Kennedy |
| • |
Maggie Walsh: Manhattan
psychologist who takes a job as a radio talk show host on WYME in
the fictional south Florida town of Cypress Grove, in the Talk Radio
mysteries |
| Rebecca Kent (Kate Kingsbury) |
| • |
Meredith Llewellyn:
the headmistress of Bellehaven House, a finishing school in the Cotswolds,
and her two cohorts, no-nonsense Felicity Cross and timid ex-socialite
Esmerelda Pickard, in Edwardian England |
| Diana Killian |
| • |
Grace Hollister:
an American schoolteacher and literary scholar visiting her favorite
poets’ old haunts in England’s Lake District, in the
Poetic Death mysteries |
| Alice Kimberly (Alice Alfonsi & Marc Cerasini) |
| • |
Penelope Thornton-McClure:
a bookshop owner, and Jack Shepard, the
store’s resident ghost-sleuth, in Quindicott, Rhode Island,
in the Haunted Bookshop mysteries |
| Mary Kruger |
| • |
Ariadne “Ari” Evans:
29-year-old owner of Ariadne’s Web, a knitting shop in Freeport,
Massachusetts, in the Knitting Mysteries |
| Rita Lakin |
| • |
Gladdy Gold: Florida’s
Oldest Private Eye and her gang of retirees, in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida |
| John J. Lamb |
| • |
Brad Lyon: retired
San Francisco homicide inspector, and his wife Ashleigh, teddy bear
creator and collector, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, in the
Bear Collector’s mysteries |
| Virginia Lanier |
| • |
Jo Beth Sidden: bloodhound trainer and tracker in Georgia |
| Lucy Lawrence (Jenn McKinlay) |
| • |
Brenna Miller:
decoupage teacher in Morse Point, a small town in New England, in
the Decoupage Murder mysteries |
| Laura Levine |
| • |
Jaine Austin: freelance
writer in Los Angeles, California |
| Kylie Logan (Constance Laux) |
| • |
Josie Giancola:
leading expert on buttons with a button shop in Chicago, Illinois,
in the Button Box mysteries |
| Marianne MacDonald |
| • |
Dido Hoare: bookseller
in London, England |
| Karen MacInerney |
| • |
Natalie Barnes:
inn proprietor on Cranberry Island, Maine, in
the Gray Whale Inn mysteries |
| Anna Maclean |
| • |
Louisa May Alcott:
amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author,
in pre-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts |
| Charlotte MacLeod |
| • |
Max Bittersohn:
art detective, and his socially connected wife, Sarah Kelling, in
Boston, Massachusetts |
| • |
Peter Shandy:
college botany professor, and Helen Marsh Shandy,
a librarian, in Balaclava County, Massachusetts |
| Annette Mahon |
| • |
Maggie Browne: widow,
and the St. Rose Quilting Bee, in Scottsdale, Arizona |
| G.A. McKevett |
| • |
Savannah Reid:
plus-sized private investigator in southern California |
| Cricket McRae |
| • |
Sophie Mae Reynolds:
30-something soapmaker and amateur sleuth, in the Pacific Northwest,
in the Home Crafting mysteries |
| Leslie Meier |
| • |
Lucy Stone: sleuthing wife and mother of four, in Tinker’s
Cove, Maine |
| Shirley Rousseau Murphy |
| • |
Joe Grey: a cat and
a private investigator |
| Tamar Myers |
| • |
Abigail Timberlake:
owner of an antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the Den
of Antiquity series |
| • |
Magdalena Yoder:
owner and manager of a Mennonite Inn in Hernia,
Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania-Dutch mysteries |
| Tim Myers |
| • |
Harrison Black: inheritor
of At Wick’s End candle shop from his great aunt, in the Candlemaking
Mysteries |
| • |
Benjamin Perkins: working
in his family’s specialty soap store Where There’s Soap,
in the Soapmaking Mysteries |
| • |
Alex Winston: owner
of the Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountain
foothills in North Carolina |
| T. Lynn Ocean |
| • |
Jersey Barnes: fomer
marine anti-terrorist specialist turned private security investigator
and bar owner, in Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Clare O’Donohue |
| • |
Nell Fitzgerald:
former Manhattan publishing professional now helping her grandmother,
Eleanor Cassidy, run a quilting store in the Hudson River town of
Archer’s Rest, New York, in the Someday Quilts mysteries |
| Diana Orgain |
| • |
Kate Connolly: office
manager, private investigator, and new mother, in San Francisco,
California, in the Maternal Instincts series |
| Katherine Hall Page |
| • |
Faith Fairchild: who marries a clergyman and leaves New York City
for a small town in New England |
| Robin Paige (Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert) |
| • |
Kathryn Ardleigh:
American author who moves to Victorian Dedham,
England, and Sir Charles Sheridan, a landed peer and amateur scientist |
| Linda Palmer |
| • |
Morgan Tyler: 30-year-old widow, the head writer of the daytime
drama “Love of My Life” in New York City |
| Joanne Pence |
| • |
Angelina Amalfi: food
columnist and restaurant reviewer, in San Francisco, California |
| Louise Penny |
| • |
Armand Gamache: Chief
Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec,
in the village of Three Pines, in southern Quebec, Canada |
| Nancy Pickard |
| • |
Jenny Cain: foundation
director in Port Frederick, Massachusetts |
| Cathy Pickens |
| • |
Avery Andrews: 30-something
lawyer in South Carolina |
| Hannah Reed (Deb Baker) |
| • |
Story Fischer: beekeeper
in the fictional small town of Moraine, Wisconsin, in the Queen Bee
mysteries |
| Cynthia Riggs |
| • |
Victoria Trumbull:
an astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer,
in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts |
| Ann Ripley |
| • |
Louise Eldridge:
organic gardener and TV host in Northern Virginia,
in the Gardening mysteries |
| P.B. Ryan |
| • |
Nell Sweeney: governess
in post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts, in the Guilded Age mysteries |
| Arlene Sachitano |
| • |
Harriet Truman,
widowed and taking over her aunt’s quilting business and home,
in fictional Foggy Point, Washington, in the Loose Threads mysteries |
| Michele Scott |
| • |
Michaela Bancroft: in
the Horse Lover’s mysteries |
| • |
Nikki Sands: in the
Wine Lovers mysteries set in the Napa Valley, California |
| Maggie Sefton |
| • |
Kelly Flynn: corporate
accountant from Washington DC, who has relocated to Ft. Connor, Colorado
and is learning to knit at the House of Lambspun |
| Paige Shelton |
| • |
Becca Robins, who
makes jam on her farm to sell at her twin sister Alison’s farmers
market in rural South Carolina, in the Farmer’s Market mysteries |
| Joanna Campbell Slan |
| • |
Kiki
Lowenstein: newly widowed mother of a young daughter, working
in a scrapbooking store, Time in a Bottle, in St. Louis, Missouri,
in the Scrap-N-Craft series |
| Patricia Sprinkle |
| • |
Katharine
Murray: who finds strange events in the
past in the Family Tree mysteries |
| • |
MacLaren Yarbrough:
business-owner turned magistrate in Hopemore,
Georgia, in the Thoroughly Southern mysteries |
| Rosemary Stevens |
| • |
Beau Brummell: the
arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain |
| Denise Swanson |
| • |
Skye Denison: school psychologist in Scumble River, Illinois |
| Pari Noskin Taichert |
| • |
Sasha Solomon: public relations director in New Mexico |
| Sarah Stewart Taylor |
| • |
Sweeney St. George:
art history professor specializing in representations
of death, in Byzantium, Vermont |
| Terri Thayer |
| • |
Dewey Pellicano: who
inherits her mother’s quilt shop Quilter Paradiso, in San Jose,
California, in the Quilting mysteries |
| Victoria Thompson |
| • |
Sarah Brandt: midwife
in turn-of-the-19th-century New York City, in the Gaslight Mysteries |
| Elaine Viets |
| • |
Helen Hawthorne: who gave up her affluent lifestyle for a series
of minimum-wage jobs in Florida, in the Dead End Job series |
| Clarissa Watson |
| • |
Persis Willum: artist
and art gallery assistant, in Long Island, New York, and France |
| Wendy Lyn Watson |
| • |
Tallulah “Tally” Jones:
recently divorced and running an ice cream shop (Remember the A La
Mode) in Dalliance, Texas, in the Mystery a la Mode series |
| Heather Webber |
| • |
Nina Quinn: owner
of Taken By Surprise, a landscaping firm specializing in surprise
garden makeovers, in Ohio |
| Patricia Wentworth |
| • |
Miss Maud Silver:
retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional private
detective, in London, England |
| Jacqueline Winspear |
| • |
Maisie Dobbs:
psychologist and investigator based in 1920s and 1930s London, England |
| Valerie Wolzien |
| • |
Susan Henshaw:
a suburban housewife sleuth in Connecticut |
| • |
Josie Pigeon:
owner of an all-woman construction firm in the Northeast
USA |
| Barbara Workinger |
| • |
Hannah Miller (Granny
Hanny): mystery reader and quilt-making enthusiast, in Pennsylvania,
in the Amish Country mysteries |
| Richard Yancey |
| • |
Teddy Ruzak: who failed police academy and wants to be a private
investigator, in Knoxville, Tennessee |
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