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Illinois Mysteries
Nikki Baker
  • Virginia Kelly: black lesbian stockbroker in Chicago, Illinois

Bill S. Ballinger
  • Barr Breed: private investigator in Chicago, Illinois

Michael Biehl
  • Karen Haye: staff lawyer for Shoreview Memorial Hospital in Illinois

Eleanor Taylor Bland
  • Marti MacAlister: widowed black police detective in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois

D. C. Brod
  • Quint McCauley: ex-cop turned private investigator in a Chicago suburb in Illinois

Fredric Brown
  • Ed Hunter: young teenager in Chicago, Illinois
  • Ambrose Hunter: carny worker in Chicago, Illinois

Luisa Buehler
  • Grace Marsden: writer of children’s books in a  lovely reclaimed marsh compound called Pine Marsh, Illinois

Jim Butcher
  • Harry Dresden: the only wizard listed in yellow pages in Chicago, Illinois

Robert Campbell
  • Jimmy Flannery: sewer inspector and Democratic precinct captain in Chicago, Illinois

Charlotte Carter
  • Cassandra Lisle: college student in late-1960s Chicago, Illinois, in the Cook County mysteries

Dave Case
  • Stacey MacBeth: cop in Chicago, Illinois

Jill Churchill
  • Jane Jeffry: suburban housewife and sleuth in Chicago, Illinois

Max Allan Collins
  • Nate Heller: 1930s ex-cop turned private eye in Chicago, Illinois

Michael Craft
  • Mark Manning: gay journalist in Chicago, Illinois

Lonnie Cruse
  • Joe Dalton: sheriff in Metropolis, Illinois

Barbara D’Amato
  • Norm Bennis: a cop in Chicago, Illinois
  • Dr. Gerritt DeGraaf: forensic pathologist in Chicago, Illinois
  • Suze Figueroa: cop in Chicago, Illinois
  • Cat Marsala: freelance investigative journalist in Chicago, Illinois

William Diehl
  • Martin Vail: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois

Michael Allen Dymmoch
  • Jack Caleb: gay psychiatrist in Chicago, Illinois
  • John Thinnes: cop in Chicago, Illinois

P. N. Elrod
  • Jack Fleming: 1930s reporter turned vampire in Chicago, Illinois

Crabbe Evers
  • Duffy House: ex-sportswriter turned investigator in Chicago, Illinois

Jacqueline Fiedler
  • Caroline Canfield: wildlife artist in River Ridge, Illinois

Sharon Fiffer
  • Jane Wheel: was laid off from her advertising job and is working as an antique picker to make ends meet in Chicago, Illinois

Joseph Glass
  • Dr. Susan Shader: psychiatrist and criminal profiler in Chicago, Illinois

Ellen Godfrey
  • Janet Barkint: high school dropout in Evanston, Illinois, in the Women’s Rescue Co. mysteries

Robert Goldsborough
  • Steve “Snap” Malek: police reporter for the Tribune, in 1930s–1940s Chicago, Illinois

Bill Granger
  • Jimmy Drover: ex-sportswriter in Chicago, Illinois
  • Terry Flynn: special squad detective in Chicago, Illinois
  • Karen Kovac: special squad detective in Chicago, Illinois

Andrew M. Greeley
  • Nuala Anne McGrail: young Irish immigrant, psychic and singer in Chicago, Illinois
  • Father John Blackwood “Blackie” Ryan: Catholic priest in Chicago, Illinois

Gini Hartzmark
  • Kate Millholland: attorney in Chicago, Illinois

Libby Fischer Hellmann
  • Ellie Foreman: recently divorced suburban mom who makes video documentaries in Chicago, Illinois

Hugh Holton
  • Larry Cole: police commander in Chicago, Illinois

Fred Hunter
  • Emily Charters: adopted grandmother
  • Jeremy Ransom: homicide detective in Chicago, Illinois
  • Alex Reynolds: accidental spy in Chicago, Illinois

Julie Hyzy
  • Alex St. James: TV reporter based in Chicago, Illinois

Jerry Jenkins
  • Margo Franklin: waitress, and Philip Spence, an artist, in Chicago, Illinois
  • Jennifer Grey: newspaper reporter and columnist in Chicago, Illinois

D.J.H. Jones
  • Nancy Cook: Chaucer scholar and professor at Yale University
Michael A. Kahn
  • Rachel Gold: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois then St. Louis, Missouri

Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Abe Lieberman: 60-something Jewish police detective in Chicago, Illinois

J.A. Konrath
  • Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniel: Violent Crimes in Chicago, Illinois

Thomas Laird
  • Jimmy Parisi: lieutenant in the Homicide Division, Chicago Police Department, in Chicago, Illinois

Jonathan Latimer
  • Bill Crane: private detective in Chicago, Illinois

Alex Matthews
  • Cassidy McCabe: psychotherapist and a calico cat in Oak Park, Illinois

Ralph M. McInerny
  • Father Roger Dowling: St. Hilary's parish priest in Fox River Illinois
Sara Paretsky
  • V. I. Warshawski: attorney turned private eye in Chicago, Illinois

Mary Monica Pulver (Monica Ferris)
  • Kori Price Brichter: horse breeder in Illinois
  • Peter Brichter: police detective in Illinois

Monica Quill (Ralph M. McInerny)
  • Mary Teresa Dempsey: 5'2" 200 lb. nun in Chicago, Illinois

Michael Raleigh
  • Paul Whelan: 40-something cop turned private investigator in Chicago, Illinois

Sam Reaves
  • Cooper MacLeish: taxi driver and Vietnam vet in Chicago, Illinois

Craig Rice
  • John J. Malone: lawyer in Chicago, Illinois

Michael W. Sherer
  • Emerson Ward: freelance writer in Chicago, Illinois

Edith Skom
  • Beth Austin: English professor at Midwestern University in 1940s Illinois

T. A. Stone
  • Jonathan Kraag: former FBI profiler now a PI, Director of Security, ADMS in Ravensburg, Illinois

Denise Swanson
  • Skye Denison: school psychologist in Scumble River, Illinois

Sandra Tooley
  • Samantha (Sam) Casey: Native American detective sergeant in Chasen Heights, Illinois, who can hear the dead speak

David J. Walker
  • Dugan: lawyer in Chicago, Illinois
  • Malachy P. Foley: jazz piano-playing private investigator in Chicago, Illinois
  • Kirsten, owner of the Wild Onion, Ltd, a private detective agency in Chicago, Illinois

Robert W. Walker
  • Alastair Ransom: inspector in the 1890s in Chicago, Illinois
  • Jane Francis Tewes: doctor in the 1890s in Chicago, Illinois

Mary V. Welk
  • Caroline Rhodes: RN in Rhineburg, Illinois

John Wessel
  • Harding: unlicensed private investigator in Chicago, Illinois

Mark Richard Zubro
  • Scott Carpenter: baseball player in Chicago, Illinois
  • Tom Mason: gay teacher in Chicago, Illinois
  • Paul Turner: gay police detective in Chicago, Illinois

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