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        | Garrison Allen |  
        | • | Penelope Warren:
          ex-Marine mystery bookstore owner in Empty Creek, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Sarah Atwell (Sheila Connolly) |  
          | • | Emmeline (Em) Dowell:
            glassblower, in Tucson, Arizona, in the Glassblowing mysteries |  
 
        
          | Deb Baker |  
          | • | Gretchen Birch,
            her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collectors in Phoenix,
            Arizona, in the Dolls To Die For mysteries |  
 
        
          | Shannon Baker |  
          | • | Nora Abbot: operator of a ski resort in northern Arizona |  
 
        
          | Sinclair Browning |  
          | • | Trade Ellis:
             rancher and part-time private eye, in Arizona |  
 
        
          | David Cole |  
          | • | Laura Winslow: a
            Hopi-born computer programmer and hacker in Arizona |  
 
        
          | Rebecca Cramer |  
          | • | Linda Bluenight:
            anthropologist and 4th-grade teacher, in and around Tucson, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Richard Harper |  
          | • | Tom Ragnon: cop
            living in a trailer in Arizona |  
 
 
        
          | Darrell James |  
          | • | Del Shannon: a young, female missing-persons investigator, based in Tucson, Arizona |  
 
        
          | J. A. Jance |  
          | • | Joanna Brady:
            deputy sheriff's widow turned sheriff in Cochise County, Arizona |  
          | • | Ali (Alison) Reynolds:
            40-something newscaster fired for aging by a Los Angeles TV network,
            who returns to her hometown of Sedona, Arizona, and takes up blogging |  
        
          | Jayne Ann Krentz |  
          | • | Zoe Luce:
            a psychic interior decorator in Whispering Springs, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Annette Mahon |  
          | • | Maggie Browne:
            a widow and a member of the St. Rose Quilting Bee in Scottsdale,
            Arizona |  
 
 
        
          | Keith Miles |  
          | • | Merlin
              Richards: 1920s young Welsh architect in Phoenix, Arizona |  
 
 
        
          | James C. Mitchell |  
          | • | Roscoe Brinker:
            former INS agent, now a private investigator, in Tuscon, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Sylvia Nobel |  
          | • | Kendall O’Dell:
            reporter at a small-town newspaper in fictional
            Castle Valley, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Maxine O’Callaghan |  
          | • | Anne Menlo:
            a child psychologist in Phoenix, Arizona |  
        
          | Richard Parrish |  
          | • | Joshua Rabb: Jewish
            lawyer in late 1940s and early 1950s working with the Bureau of Indian
            Affairs and privately, in Tucson, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Twist Phelan |  
          | • | Lawyers in a small town in Arizona are featured in the Pinnacle Peak mysteries |  
 
 
 
 
 
        
          | Jon Talton |  
          | • | David Mapstone: ex-cop,
              now unemployed college history teacher back in law enforcement,
              in Phoenix, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Beth Thornton |  
          | • | Chloe Newcomb:            victims advocate in Cochise County, Arizona |  
 
        
          | Betty Webb |  
          | • | Lena Jones: of Desert
            Investigations in Scottsdale, Arizona |  |  |