SYKM


Tennessee Mysteries
Deborah Adams
  • Jesus Creek: an eccentric small town in Tennessee

Riley Adams (Elizabeth Spann Craig)
  • Lulu Taylor: owner of Aunt Pat’s rib joint, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the Memphis Barbeque mysteries

Jefferson Bass
  • Dr. Bill Brockton: forensic anthropologist in Tennessee

Chester Campbell
  • Sid Chance: private investigator in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Greg McKenzie: a retired Air Force criminal investigator in Nashville, Tennessee

J.T. Ellison
  • Taylor Jackson: homicide lieutenant, and her lover, FBI profiler John Baldwin, in Nashville, Tennessee

Christy Tillery French
  • Natasha Chamberlain: young investigator, and Jonce Striker, founder of Investigative Services, Inc., in Knoxville, Tennessee

Bente Gallagher (Jennie Bentley)
  • Savannah Martin: real estate agent and southern belle, in Nashville, Tennessee

Jackie Griffey
  • Cas Larkin: sheriff in fictional Pine County, Tennessee, in the Maryville series
  • Maggie Murphy: recently widowed 24-year-old, whose dead husband’s ghost Horace hangs around, and patrolman Joe Driver, in Memphis, Tennessee

Daniel M. Klein
  • Elvis Presley: back from his tour of duty in Germany, singing and sleuthing in Tennessee

Gregory McDonald
  • Skylar Whitfield: small-town good-ol’-boy in Tennessee

Kris Nelscott
  • Smokey Dalton: an African-American unlicensed private investigator in Memphis, Tennessee

Scott Pratt
  • Joe Dillard: jaded lawyer in rural Tennessee

James Sallis
  • John Turner: an ex-con and ex-psychotherapist, now a deputy sheriff in Cripple Creek, Tennessee

Cecelia Tishy
  • Kate Banning: a former Boston investigative reporter and trade magazine editor in Nashville, Tennessee

Steven Womack
  • Harry James Denton: ex-newspaper reporter turned private investigator in Nashville, Tennessee

Richard Yancey
  • Teddy Ruzak: who failed police academy and wants to be a private investigator, in Knoxville, Tennessee