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Massachusetts Mysteries
Keith Ablow
  • Frank Clevenger: forensic psychiatrist in Massachusetts

Mary Jo Adamson
  • Michael Merrickl: newspaperman in 1840s Boston, Massachusetts

Nathan Aldyne
  • Clarisse Lovelace: straight half-owner of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Dan Valentine: gay half-owner of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts

Irene Allen
  • Elizabeth Elliot: 60-something widowed Quaker meeting clerk Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mark Arsenault
  • Eddie Bourque: investigative reporter in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts

Linda Barnes
  • Carlotta Carlyle: cab-driving ex-cop PI in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Michael Spraggue III: wealthy actor and ex-PI in Boston, Massachusetts

Sophie Belfort
  • Nick Hannibal: homicide detective in Boston, Massachusetts

Nero Blanc
  • Annabella Graham: crossword puzzle editor for the Newcastle Evening Crier in Newcastle, Massachusetts
  • Rosco Polycrates: private eye in Newcastle, Massachusetts

Al Blanchard
  • Steve Asher: public school teacher in Massachusetts
  • James Callahan: homicide detective in Boston, Massachusetts

Michelle Blake
  • Lily Connor: Episcopalian priest in Boston, Massachusetts

Rick Boyer
  • Charlie “Doc” Adams: dental surgeon in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Melissa Cleary
  • Jackie Walsh: professor of film studies in Palmer, Massachusetts
  • Jake: Jackie’s ex-police dog in Palmer, Massachusetts

Carolyn Coker
  • Andrea Perkins: art historian and restorer in Boston, Massachusetts

Susan Conant
  • Holly Winter: writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Felicity Pride: author of a mystery series about cats, in Massachusetts
  • Chloe Carter: boy-crazy 20-something gourmand, in Brighton, Massachusetts

Rose Connors
  • Martha “Marty” Nickerson: prosecuting attorney of Chatham on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

George Harmon Coxe
  • Jack “Flashgun” Casey: crime photographer in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Kent Murdock: hard-drinking crime photographer, and frequent co-star, tough guy Jack Fenner, in Boston, Massachusetts

Philip Craig
  • Jefferson “J.W.” Jackson: a 30-something ex-Boston cop in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
David Daniel
  • Alex Rasmussen: wise-cracking ex-cop private investigator in Lowell, Massachusetts

Dicey Deere
  • Torrey Tunet: 28 year old translator from Boston, Massachusetts , stuck in Ballynaugh, Ireland

Terry Devane (Jeremiah Healy)
  • Sheldon Gold: lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, Mairead O’Clare’s mentor
  • Mairead O’Clare: a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts

Doris Miles Disney
  • Jeff DiMarco: insurance investigator in Boston, Massachusetts

Joanne Dobson
  • Karen Pelletier: English professor in Enfield, Massachusetts

Jerome Doolittle
  • Tom Bethany: former political consultant and wrestler who now works as a private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts

Sarah Dreher
  • Stoner McTavish: lesbian travel agent in Boston, Massachusetts

Bill Eidson
  • Jack Merchant, an ex-DEA agent, living on his retirement plus his photography on the sloop Lila, in Charlestown (a Boston suburb) Massachusetts
  Sarah Ballard: running her father’s business repossessing boats for banks, in Charlestown (a Boston suburb) Massachusetts

G.H. Ephron
  • Dr. Peter Zak: Jewish psychologist in Boston, Massachusetts

Terence Faherty
  • Owen Keane: ex-seminarian and law firm researcher in Boston, Massachusetts

Kate Flora
  • Thea Kozak: educational consultant in Massachusetts

Timothy Fuller
  • Jupiter Jones: Harvard fine arts instructor and amateur sleuth, in Boston, Massachusetts

Jacques Futrelle
  • Augustus “The Thinking Machine” Van Dusen: professor in Boston, Massachusetts

Lisa Gardner
  • Bobby Dodge: state police sniper, and D.D. Warren, a police detective, in Boston, Massachusetts

Tess Gerritsen
  • Jane Rizzoli: detective in Boston, Massachusetts

Sally Gunning
  • Peter Bartholomew: odd-jobs company owner in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Jeremiah Healy
  • John Francis Cuddy: Army police lieutenant turned PI in Boston, Massachusetts

George V. Higgins
  • Jerry Kennedy: criminal defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts

Marshall Jevons
  • Henry Spearman: economics professor at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jamie Katz
  • Dan Kardon: Boston attorney who uncovers corruption and murder in a deceptively quiet, working-class community near Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Susan Kelly
  • Liz Connors: former English professor and freelance crime writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Toni L.P. Kelner
  • Tilda Harper: celebrity journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the “Where Are They Now?” mysteries

Harry Kemelman
  • David Small: rabbi sleuth in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts

Paul Kemprecos
  • Aristotle Plato Socarides: ex-cop part-time fisherman P.I. in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Doug Kiker
  • Mac McFarland: burned-out reporter in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Nicholas Kilmer
  • Fred Taylor: art historian in Boston, Massachusetts

Zachary Klein
  • Matt Jacob: former social worker, now a private investigator with a drug problem, in Boston, Massachussets

Kathleen Moore Knight
  • Elisha Macomber: 70-something Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Penberthy Township, and proprietor of a fish market, in fictional Penberthy Island, Massachusetts

Kathryn Lasky Knight
  • Calista Jacobs: illustrator of children’s books in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mary Kruger
  • Ariadne “Ari” Evans: 29-year-old owner of Ariadne’s Web, a knitting shop in Freeport, Massachusetts

J. Dayne Lamb
  • Teal Stewart: Certified Public Accountant in Boston, Massachusetts

Jane Langton
  • Homer Kelly: professor in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Marie Lee
  • Marguerite Smith: retired science teacher in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Wendi Lee
  • Angela Matelli: ex-Marine turned private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts

Dennis Lehane
  • Angela Gennaro: private eye in Dorchester, Massachusetts
  • Patrick Kenzie: private eye in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Anna Maclean
  • Louisa May Alcott: amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author, in pre-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts

Charlotte MacLeod
  • Max Bittersohn: part of an investigative couple in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Sarah Kelling: part of an investigative couple in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Peter Shandy: college botany professor and husband in Balaclava County, Massachusetts
  • Helen Marsh Shandy: librarian and wife in Balaclava County, Massachusetts

Larry Maness
  • Jake Eaton: private investigator in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Watson: Jake Eaton's superdog in Cambridge, Massachusetts

David Manuel
  • Brother Bartholomew: member of the religious community at Faith Abbey in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Francine Mathews
  • Merry Folger: police officer on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Andrew McAleer
  • Joseph C. Gleason.: attorney in Arlington, Massachusetts

Helen McCloy
  • Basil Willing: psychiatrist and sleuth, in New York, and later Boston, Massachusetts

Gregory McDonald
  • Francis Xavier Flynnr: tenacious police inspector in Boston, Massachusetts

Grant Michaels
  • Stan Kraychik: gay hairdresser in Boston, Massachusetts

Margaret Miles
  • The Bracebridge series: in 1760s Massachusetts

Camille Minichino
  • Gloria Lamerino: 50-something physicist in Revere Beach, Massachusetts

Clare Munnings
  • Rosemary Stubbs: chaplain at Sanderson College in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts

Susan Oleksiw
  • Joe Silva: police chief in Mellingham, Massachusetts
Robert B. Parker
  • Sunny Randall: a private eye in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Spenser: ex-boxer, ex-state cop turned private eye in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Jesse Stone: Homicide Detective in Paradise, Massachusetts

Cynthia Peale
  • The Beacon Hill mysteries, set in Victorian Boston, Massachusetts

Nancy Pickard
  • Jenny Cain: foundation director, in Port Frederick, Massachusetts

Cornelia Read
  • Madeline Dare: former dubutante in 1980s New York and Massachusettss

Barry Reed
  • Dan Sheridan: attorney in Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Reeves
  • Thomas Theron: history professor in Boston, Massachusetts

Cynthia Riggs
  • Victoria Trumbull: astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Dorothy and Sidney Rosen
  • Belle Appleman: Jewish immigrant and garment worker, during the Great Depression in Boston, Massachusetts

Richard Rosen
  • Harvey Blissberg: ex-major league baseball player turned private eye in Boston Massachusetts

G.S. Rowe
  • Will Beaman: working in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts

P.B. Ryan
  • Nell Sweeney: governess in post-Civil-War Boston, Massachusetts

Walter Satterthwait
  • Lizzie Borden: accused of murdering her father and step-mother at the turn of the century in Fall River, Massachusetts

Clea Simon
  • Theda Krakow: freelance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Judith Smith-Levin
  • Starletta Duvall: homicide lieutenant in Brookport, Massachusetts

Vicki Stiefel
  • Tally Whyte: counsels the families of homicide victims at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner aka The Grief Shop in Boston, Massachusetts

Winona Sullivan
  • Cecile Buddenbrooks: licensed private eye and heiress-nun is Boston, Massachusetts

William G. Tapply
  • Brady Coyne: sports fisherman and lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts

Phoebe Atwood Taylor
  • Asey Mayo: former sailor & auto racer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Pamela Thomas-Graham
  • Chase, Nikki: black economics professor in Cambridge Massachusetts in the Ivy League Mystery

Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor)
  • Leonidas Witherall: retired academic and secret pulp fiction author in Boston, Massachusetts

Cecelia Tishy
  • Regina Cutter: working at a resale-clothing store for cash-strapped women reentering the workplace, and newly transplanted to Boston, Massachusetts

Elise Title
  • Natalie Price: superintendent of a Boston halfway house for prison inmates in Massachusetts

Theodora Wender
  • Alden Chase: chief of police  in Wading River, Massachusetts
  • Glad Gold: an English professor in Wading River, Massachusetts

Kate White
  • Bailey Weggins: true crime author in Warren, Massachusetts

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