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| Campbell Armstrong (Campbell Black) |
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Lou Perlman: Jewish police detective in Glasgow, Scotland |
| David Ashton |
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James McLevy: police inspector in 1880s Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Tony Black |
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Rob Brennan: detective inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland |
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Gus Dury: failed journalist turned investigator, in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Gyles Brandreth |
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Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France |
| Christopher Brookmyre |
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Angelique De
Xavier: police officer in Glasgow, Scotland |
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Catherine McLeod, a detective superintendent, and Jasmine Sharp, a former actress, now a private investigator, in Glasgow, Scotland |
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Jack Parlabane:
journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Karen Campbell |
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Anna Cameron: police
sergeant, later Chief Inspector, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Lillian Stewart Carl |
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Jean Fairbairn: working for an Edinburgh-based history and travel magazine, and Alasdair Cameron, a police detective, in Scotland |
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Rebecca Reid: historian, and Michael Campbell, a Scottish professor, in Ohio and later in Scotland |
| Ann Cleeves |
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Jimmy Perez:
police detective inspector in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland,
in the Shetland Island Quartet |
| Gordon Ferris |
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Douglas Brodie: crime reporter in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1940s |
| Amanda Flower |
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Fiona Knox, after losing her fiancé and her flower shop, inherits her godfather’s cottage and magical garden, in Duncreigan, Scotland, in the Magic Garden mysteries |
| Gillian Galbraith |
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Alice Rice: detective
sergeant (later inspector) in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Alex Gray |
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DCI Lorimer and Dr. Soloman
Brightman, a psychologist and criminal profiler, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Gerald Hammond |
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Keith Calder: gunsmith
in Newton Lauder, Scotland |
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John Cunningham:
hunting dog breeder in Scotland |
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Honey Laird: detective sergeant, then inspector, in Edinburgh,
Scotland |
| Joyce Holms |
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Tam Buchanan: lawyer,
and his law student assistant Fizz Fitzgerald, in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Anna Lee Huber |
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Lady Darby: an anatomist’s widow taking refuge at her sister’s estate, in 1830s Scotland |
| Quintin Jardine |
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Robert Skinner:
high-ranking cop in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Maureen Jennings |
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Christine Morris: forensic profiler from Canada, in the Hebrides,
Scotland |
| Mary Kelly |
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Brett Nightingale: detective
inspector (later chief inspector), in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| M.G. Kincaid |
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Seth Mornay: a former
Royal Marine, now a detective sergeant in the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Grampian Police Force, in northeast Scotland |
| Bill Kirton |
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Jack Carston: detective
chief inspector in Cairnburgh, near Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Alanna Knight |
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Inspector Jeremy Faro:
detective in Victorian Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Rose McQuinn: Faro’s
daughter, returning from the American Wild West to Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Francis Lyall |
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Alan Mason: police
superintendent, and his sidekick Ian Crawford, based in the town
of Greyhavens, Scotland |
| Stuart MacBride |
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Logan McRae: detective sergeant in Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Malcolm Mackay |
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Frank MacLeod: aging underground hit man in Glasgow, Scotland, in the Glasgow Trilogy |
| Shona MacLean |
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Alexander Seaton:
schoolmaster in 1620s Banff and Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Peter May |
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Fin Macleod: detective inspector in Edinburgh who returns to his birthplace, the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, in the Lewis trilogy |
| Alexander McCall Smith |
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Isabel Dalhousie: Scottish-American editor of the esteemed Review
of Applied Ethics and a woman of independent means in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in the Sunday Philosophy Club mysteries |
| Shirley McKay |
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Hew Cullan: young lawyer, starting in 1579 St. Andrews, Scotland |
| Val McDermid |
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Lindsay Gordon:
lesbian journalist and socialist, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Susan McDuffie |
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Muirteach: scribe
and former monk, in 1370s Scotland |
| William McIlvanney |
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Jack Laidlaw:
police detective in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Pat McIntosh |
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Gil Cunningham:
notary in 15th century Glasgow, Scotland |
| Russel D. McLean |
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J. McNee: former
cop, now private investigator, in Dundee, Scotland |
| Catriona McPherson |
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Dandy Gilver:
well-to-do woman in 1920s Scotland |
| Denise Mina |
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Maureen O’Donnell:
unlikely crime solver who is disheveled, mumbling to herself, and
drunk by noon, in Glasgow, Scotland, in the Garnethill
Trilogy |
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Patricia “Paddy” Meehan: crime reporter for the Scottish
Daily News, in Glasgow, Scotland |
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Alex Morrow:
detective inspector in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Keith Moray |
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Torquil McKinnon: bagpipe-playing, motorcycle-riding police inspector with the Hebridean Constabulary, on the fictional Outer Hebridean island of West Uist, Scotland |
| T. Frank Muir |
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Andy Gilchrist: detective inspector in St. Andrews, Scotland |
| William Paul |
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David Fyfe: detective chief inspector in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| John Pilkington |
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Thomas Finbow:
master falconer in late 16th century London and Berkshire, England |
| David Pirie |
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Arthur Doyle: a young
doctor, and Joseph Bell, a doctor and Doyle’s
mentor, in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Hugh C. Rae |
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McCaig: detective inspector,
later superintendent, in Scotland |
| Caro Ramsay |
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Colin Anderson: detective inspector, and Winifred “Freddie” Costello, a detective sergeant, along with an ensemble of cops at Partickhill Station in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Ian Rankin |
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Malcolm Fox: cop
working for the Complaints, the police internal affairs division,
in Edinburgh, Scotland |
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John Rebus: detective
sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Craig Robertson |
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Rachel Narey: a detective sergeant, and Tony Winter, a police photographer, and others, in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Craig Russell |
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Lennox: shady private
investigator in 1950s Glasgow, Scotland |
| A.D. Scott |
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Journalists in the offices
of the Highland Gazette, in the mid-1950s in the highlands of Scotland |
| Noah Webster [US] or Robert MacLeod [UK] (Bill Knox) |
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Jonathan Gaunt:
external auditor for the Queen in Edinburgh, Scotland |
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