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Florida Mysteries
Glynn Marsh Alam
  • Luanne Fogarty: scuba diver in northern Florida swamp country (Tallahassee), Florida

Marvin Albert (writing as Anthony Rome)
  • Tony Rome: gambler and private eye in Miami, Florida

Catherine Arnold
  • Karen Perry-Mondori: criminal defense attorney in Tampa, Florida

E. C. Ayres
  • Tony Lowell: photographer and private investigator on the Gulf Coast of Florida

Nancy Bartholomew
  • Sierra Lavotini: exotic dancer and amateur sleuth in Panama City, Florida

Laura Belgrave
  • Claudia Hershey: police detective in Florida

James O. Born
  • Bill Tasker: special agent of the Department of Law Enforcement in Florida

Edna Buchanan
  • Craig Burch, a sergeant in Miami Police Department’s Cold Case Squad
  • Britt Montero: newspaper crime reporter in Miami, Florida

Nora Charles (Noreen Wald)
  • Kate Kennedy: a senior citizen in south Florida

Blaize Clement
  • Dixie Hemingway: former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional pet sitter, in Sarasota, Florida

Nancy Cohen
  • Marla Shore: beauty salon owner in southern Florida in the Bad Hair Day Mysteries

Max Allan Collins
  • CSI: Crime scene investigators in Miami, Florida

Tom Corcoran
  • Alex Rutledge: freelance photographer in Key West, Florida
Tim Dorsey
  • Serial killer Serge Storms and others appear in these satirical Florida thrillers

Mary Anna Evans
  • Faye Longchamp: a black archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market on her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
  • Lupe Solano: private investigator in Miami, Florida

James Grippando
  • Jack Swyteck: a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, Florida

James W. Hall
  • Thorn: eco-avenger PI in Key Largo, Florida

Patty Henderson
  • Brenda Strange: private investigator of the weird in Tampa, Florida

Vicki Hendricks
  • Non-series noir erotica set in Florida

Carl Hiaasen
  • Non-series books located in Florida

Tami Hoag
  • Elena Estes: ex-cop turned horse trainer, in Palm Beach, Florida

Jilliane Hoffman
  • C. J. Townsend.: an  Assistant State Attorney  in Miami, Florida

Hialeah Jackson (Polly Whitney)
  • Annabelle Hardy-Maratos: deaf president of a large Miami security firm, and Dave the Monkeyman, her sidekick and main ASL signer, in Miami, Florida
Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Lew Fonesca: investigator for local attorneys in Sarasota, Florida

Baynard Kendrick
  • Miles Standish Rice: deputy sheriff in Florida

Jonathon King
  • Max Freeman: cop from Philly who shot and killed a 12 year-old, quit, and moved to the edge of the Everglades in Florida

Christine Kling
  • Seychelle Sullivan: owner and operator of a 46-foot salvage ship near Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Rita Lakin
  • Gladdy Gold: Florida’s Oldest Private Eye and her gang of retirees, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Vincent Lardo
  • Arch McNally: playboy private investigator in Palm Beach, Florida (series continued by Vincent Lardo after Lawrence Sanders’ death)

José Latour
  • Non-series books set in Cuba and Florida

Elmore Leonard
  • Raylan Givens: federal marshal in Florida

John Leslie
  • Gideon Lowry: a 50-something, piano-playing private detective in Key West, Florida

Paul Levine
  • Jake Lassite: ex-linebacker turned lawyer in Miami, Florida
  • Steve Solomon: Coconut Beach bum, and Victoria Lord, a Miami blue blood, squabbling law partners in Florida

Terry Lewis
  • Ted Stevens: hard-luck attorney, and his law partner Paul Morganstein, in Tallahassee, Florida

Jeff Lindsay
  • Dexter Morgan: blood spatter technician for Miami Dade Police Department and sociopathic serial killer

Michael Lister
  • John Jordan: prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida

John Lutz
  • Fred Carver: private investigator in Del Moray, Florida

John D. MacDonald
  • Travis McGee: adventurer, philosopher and private eye in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

T. J. MacGregor
  • Mike McCleary: part of a wife & husband P.I. team
  • Mira Morales: bookstore owner and psychic, in Tango Key, Florida
  • Aline Scott: homicide detective in Tango Key, Florida
  • Quin St. James: part of a wife & husband P.I. team

Claire Matturro
  • Lilly (Lillian Lilly Belle Rose) Cleary: eco-conscious junior partner in a prestigious law firm in Sarasota, Florida

Ed McBain
  • Matthew Hope: attorney in Florida

Michael McClister
  • Elmo Finn: a Vietnam Vet, retired from the CIA on Longboat Key in Sarasota, Florida

Paul McElroy
  • James “Mack” McCray: federal undercover cop in Stuart, Florida

Carlene Miller
  • Lexy Hyatt: crime reporter in Florida

Bob Morris
  • Zack Chasteen: former Miami Dolphin linebacker, in Florida and the Caribbean
Barbara Parker
  • Gail Connor: corporate attorney in Miami, Florida

Talmage Powell
  • Ed Rivers: private investigator in Tampa, Florida

Kevin Robinson
  • Stick Foster: paraplegic newspaper reporter in Orlando, Florida

Anthony Rome (Martin Albert)
  • Tony Rome, gambler and private eye in Miami, Florida

Lawrence Sanders
  • Arch McNally: playboy private eye in Palm Beach, Florida (series continued by Vincent Lardo after Lawrence Sanders’ death)

Laurence Shames
  • Non-series books set in Florida

Les Standiford
  • John Deal: building contractor in Miami, Florida

Nick Stone
  • Max Mingus: ex-cop private investigator, in Miami, Florida, and Haiti

Randy Striker (Randy Wayne White)
  • Dusky MacMorgan: ex-Navy SEAL, in Florida

Kathy Hogan Trochek
  • Truman Kicklighter: retired reporter, in St. Petersburg, Florida

Bob Truluck
  • Duncan Sloan: private investigator in Florida

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

Ann Waldron
  • McLeod Delaney: Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist from Tallassee, Florida, comes to Princeton University as a visiting lecturer in Princeton, New Jersey in the Big Crime on Campus mysteries

Richard F. West
  • Benny Ashe: a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida in the The Old Gang of Mine series
  • Peter Benington: a retired jewel thief in Coral Sands, Florida in the The Old Gang of Mine series

Randy Wayne White
  • Doc Ford: ex-operative marine biologist in Sanibel Island, Florida

Charles Willeford
  • Hoke Moseley: a cop in Miami, Florida

Karen Ann Wilson
  • Samantha Holt: a veterinary technician in Paradise Cay, Florida

Darryl Wimberley
  • Barrett “Bear” Raines: the first black detective in an all-white police force in Deacon Beach,  Florida

Sherryl Woods
  • Holly Dewitt: a film producer and single mother in Miami, Florida

Stuart Woods
  • Holly Barker: former military police commander turned police chief of small town Orchid Beach, Florida

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