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          | Beth Amos |  
          | • | Mattie Winston: nurse and deputy coroner in a small town in Wisconsin |  
 
 
        
          | Lori Andrews |  
          | • | Dr. Alexandra Blake:
            geneticist and forensic specialist working for the Armed Forces
            Institute of Pathology in Washington DC |  
 
        
          | Sarah Andrews |  
          | • | Em Hansen: forensic
            geologist in Wyoming |  
 
        
          | Harry Asher (Brian Freemantle) |  
          | • | Claudine Carter:
            Anglo-French forensic psychologist and criminal profiler working
            for Europol, in Europe |  
 
        
          | Lindsay Ashford |  
          | • | Dr. Megan Rhys: forensic
            psychologist in Birmingham, England |  
 
 
        
          | Jefferson Bass |  
          | • | Dr. Bill Brockton: forensic anthropologist in Tennessee,  in the Body Farm series |  
 
        
          | Elizabeth Becka |  
          | • | Evelyn James: forensic
            expert in the medical examiner’s office, in Cleveland, Ohio |  
 
 
        
          | Benjamin Black (John Banville) |  
          | • | Quirke: coroner in 1950s Dublin, Ireland |  
 
        
          | Lisa Black (Elizabeth Becka) |  
          | • | Theresa MacLean:
            forensic scientist, in Cleveland, Ohio |  
 
        
          | Kathy Brandt |  
          | • | Hannah Sampson: CSI diver in the British  Virgin Islands |  
 
 
        
          | Sarah Kemp (Michael Butterworth) |  
          | • | Dr. Tina May:
            television celebrity pathologist and amateur sleuth, in England |  
 
        
          | Max Allan Collins |  
          | • | CSI:
              crime  scene investigators, in either Las Vegas, Nevada, or Miami, Florida |  
 
        
          | Beverly Connor |  
          | • | Lindsay Chamberlain:  forensic archeologist at the University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia |  
          | • | Diane Fallon:  forensic anthropologist, museum director and reluctant detective |  
 
 
        
          | N.J. (Natasha) Cooper |  
          | • | Karen Taylor:
            forensic psychologist on the Isle of Wight, UK |  
 
        
          | Colin Cotterill |  
          | • | Dr. Siri Paiboun: 70-something national  coroner, Nurse Dtui, and Geung, a developmentally challenged morgue assistant,  in 1970s Laos |  
 
        
          | Kaye Davis |  
          | • | Maris Middleton: lesbian forensic chemist working as an independent crime scene specialist, in Dallas, Texas |  
 
        
          | Jeffery Deaver |  
          | • | Lincoln Rhyme: disabled ex-head of NYPD forensics, and Amelia Sachs, a rookie beat cop in New York City |  
 
        
          | D.J. Donaldson |  
          | • | Andy Broussard:  medical examiner, in New Orleans, Louisiana |  
 
 
        
          | Susan Dunlap |  
          | • | Kiernan O’Shaughnessy: former San Francisco medical examiner turned private investigator, in La Jolla, California |  
 
        
          | Zoë Ferraris |  
          | • | Katya Hijazi: a
              forensic scientist, and Nayir Sharqi, a Palestinian-Bedouin desert
              guide, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |  
 
 
        
          | Ariana Franklin |  
          | • | Adelia: (Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar  of Salerno) coroner working for King Henry II in 12th century England |  
 
        
          | Meg Gardiner |  
          | • | Jo Beckett:
            forensic psychiatrist in San Francisco, California |  
 
        
          | Elizabeth George |  
          | • | Simon Allcourt-St.  James: forensic pathologist, his wife Deborah,  lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, Thomas Lynley, a Scotland  Yard inspector, and Sergeant Barbara Havers in London,  England |  
 
        
          | Tess Gerritsen |  
          | • | Maura Isles: medical examiner, and Jane Rizzoli, a detective, in Boston, Massachusetts |  
 
        
          | Leonard S. Goldberg |  
          | • | Joanna Blalock:  forensic pathologist  in Los Angeles, California |  
 
        
          | C.L. Grace (P.C. Doherty) |  
          | • | Kathryn Swinbrooke:  physician, apothecary, and  death investigator in 15th century Canterbury, England |  
 
        
          | Christine Green |  
          | • | Kate Kinsella: nurse and medical examiner, in England |  
 
        
          | Susanna Gregory |  
          | • | Matthew Bartholomew:  physician, and his colleague Brother Michael, in the 14th century Cambridge, England |  
 
        
          | Paul Harding |  
          | • | John Cranston:  coroner, in 14th century London, England |  
 
        
          | Erin Hart |  
          | • | Nora Gavin: American pathologist, in Ireland |  
 
        
          | Dana Haynes |  
          | • | Leonard Tomzak: pathologist
            and crash investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board |  
 
        
          | Jonathan Hayes |  
          | • | Dr. Edward Jenner:
            forensic pathologist who quit his job in Manhattan after 9/11, later
            a medical examiner in fictional Port Fontaine, Florida |  
 
        
          | Richard Helms |  
          | • | Pat Gallegher: failed seminarian, retired  forensic psychologist, and jazz musician in, New Orleans, Louisiana |  
 
        
          | Louise Hendricksen |  
          | • | Dr. Amy Prescott:  forensic scientist in Seattle, Washington |  
 
        
          | Casey Hill |  
          | • | Reilly Steel: US-trained CSI investigator in Dublin, Ireland |  
 
        
          | Maureen Jennings |  
          | • | Christine Morris: forensic profiler from  Canada, in the Hebrides, Scotland |  
 
 
        
          | Tamara Siler Jones |  
          | • | Dubric Byerly: head of security at  Castle Faldorrah,  in a forensic fantasy series |  
        
          | Bernard Knight |  
          | • | Sir John de Wolfe:  crowner (coroner),  in 12th century Devon, England, in the Crowner John series |  
          | • | Richard Pryor:
            a pathologist, and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private forensic
            practice in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series |  
 
 
        
          | Jeff Lindsay |  
          | • | Dexter Morgan:  blood spatter technician  for Miami Dade Police Department, and sociopathic serial killer in Florida |  
 
        
          | Gabrielle Lord |  
          | • | Jack McCain: ex-crime
            scene detective and forensic scientist, in Sydney, Australia |  
 
        
          | Sheila Lowe |  
          | • | Claudia Rose: handwriting
            analyst, in Los Angeles, California, in the Forensic Handwriting
            mysteries |  
 
        
          | Sarah Lovett |  
          | • | Sylvia Strange: forensic
            psychologist in Santa Fe, New Mexico |  
 
        
          | Arthur Lyons (written with Thomas Noguchi) |  
          | • | Dr. Eric Parker: chief coroner for Los Angeles County, in California |  
 
        
          | Priscilla Masters |  
          | • | Martha Gunn: coroner in Shrewsbury,  England |  
 
        
          | Peter May |  
          | • | Margaret Campbell: American
            pathologist, and Li Yan, a  Chinese detective,  in Beijing, China |  
 
        
          | Keith McCarthy |  
          | • | Dr. John Eisenmenger:
            former forensic pathologist in charge of St. Benjamin’s Museum
            of Anatomy and Pathology, and Helena Flemming, a solicitor, in England |  
 
 
 
        
          | D.E. Meredith |  
          | • | Adolphus Hatton: professor
            and forensic scientist advising the police, and his trusty assistant,
            Albert Roumande, in late 1850s London, England |  
 
        
          | Chris Mooney |  
          | • | Darby McCormick: holding
            a doctorate in criminal psychology and working as a crime scene investigator,
            in Boston, Massachusetts |  
 
        
          | Tara Moss |  
          | • | Makedde Vanderwall: part-time
            Canadian model and forensic psychology student, in Sydney, Australia
            (and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) |  
        
          | James Patterson |  
          | • | Claire Washburn: medical examiner and founding member of The Women’s  Murder Club, in San Francisco, California |  
 
        
          | John Philpin |  
          | • | Lucas Frank: retired forensic psychiatrist |  
 
        
          | Bill Pomidor |  
          | • | Calista Marley: forensic pathologist, and Plato Marley, a family physician, in Cleveland, Ohio |  
 
        
          | Claire Rayner |  
          | • | Dr. George Barnabas:
            forensic and general pathologist at Royal Eastern Hospital, in London,
            England |  
 
        
          | Kathy Reichs |  
          | • | Temperance Brennan:
            forensic anthropologist in the Province of Quebec, Canada, and Charlotte,
            North Carolina |  
 
 
 
        
          | Karin Slaughter |  
          | • | Dr. Sara Linton:  pediatrician and coroner  in Grant County, Georgia |  
 
        
          | Robert W. Walker |  
          | • | Jessica Coran: doctor and FBI medical examiner, in Washington, DC |  
 
        
          | Shirley Wells |  
          | • | Jill Kennedy: forensic
            psychologist, and Max Trentham, a detective chief inspector and her
            ex-lover, in the village of Kelton Bridge, Lancashire, England |  
 
        
          | Lis Wiehl with Pete Nelson |  
          | • | Dani Harris: forensic
            psychiatrist, and Tommy Gunderson, a former football star and aspiring
            private investigator, in fictional East Salem, New York, in the East
            Salem series |  
 
        
          | R.D. Zimmerman |  
          | • | Maddy Phillips, a blind forensic psychiatrist,  and her brother Alex Phillips, a  technical writer, on an island in Lake Michigan |  
 
        
          | Mark Zuehlke |  
          | • | Elias McCann: reluctant
            community coroner, in Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
            Canada |  |  |