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        | Eileen Dreyer |  
        | • | Molly Burke: nurse and death  investigator in St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
      
        | Joel Goldman |  
        | • | Lou Mason:  attorney in
            Kansas City, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Jean Hager |  
          | • | Tess Darcy:
              bed-and-breakfast owner in Victoria Springs, Missouri in the Iris House mysteries |  
 
        
          | Janis Harrison |  
          | • | Bretta Solomon:  40-something owner of the Flower Shop in River City,
    Missouri, in The Gardening Mysteries |  
 
          
            | James Patrick Hunt |  
            | • | George Hastings:
              police lieutenant in St. Louis, Missouri |  
        
          | Michael A. Kahn |  
          | • | Rachel  Gold: defense attorney in Chicago, Illinois then St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Shirley Kennett |  
          | • | P.J. Gray: psychologist and computer expert in St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Dolores Komo |  
          | • | Cleo Browne: cop’s widow and private investigation agency owner in St. Louis,
      Missouri |  
 
          
            | Suzann Ledbetter |  
            | • | Hannah Garvey:
              former advertising executive managing the upscale Valhalla Springs
              retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks |  
 
        
          | Sophie Littlefield |  
          | • | Stella Hardesty:
              a 50-year-old widow who suffered domestic violence, running a sewing
              shop and helping other abused women, in a small town in Missouri |  
 
          
            | John Lutz |  
            | • | Alo Nudger: private
              investigator in St. Louis, Missouri |  |
 
        
          | Jean Marcy |  
          | • | Meg Darcy: working-class
            lesbian private investigator, and police detective Sarah Lindstrom,
            in St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi |  
          | • | Gil Hunt:
            bookstore owner and Claire Hunt, a local celebrity in
            St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Janet McClellan |  
          | • | Tru North:  lesbian police detective in Kansas City, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Lise McClendon |  
          | • | Dorie  Lennox: new private investigator in Kansas City, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Carolyn Mulford |  
          | • | Phoenix Smith: wounded former CIA operative, recovering in her hometown in Missouri |  
 
          
            | Francis M. Nevins |  
            | • | Loren Mensing:
              law-school professor in St. Louis, Missouri |  
            | • | Milo Turner:
               con-man and private investigator, in St. Louis,
              Missouri |  
        
          | Robert J. Randisi & Christine Matthews |  
          | • | Gil Hunt:
            bookstore owner and Claire Hunt, a local celebrity in St. Louis,
            Missouri |  
          | • | Joe Keough: NYPD detective who moves to  St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
        
          | W.L. Ripley |  
          | • | Wyatt Storme:  ex-NFL star, Vietnam vet, and private investigator, in Branson, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Linda Rodriguez |  
          | • | Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion: a half-Cherokee ex-Kansas City homicide detective, now chief of the campus police force at Chouteau University, in Brewster, Missouri |  
 
 
        
          | M.R. Sellars |  
          | • | Rowan Gant:  Wiccan
              disciple in St. Louis, Missouri |  
 
          
            | Paige Shelton |  
            | • | Isabelle “Betts” Winston and
              her grandmother (Gram) who runs a cooking school in the fictional
              town Broken Rope, in southern Missouri, in the Country Cooking
              School mysteries |  
 
          
            | Joanna Campbell Slan |  
            | • | Kiki Lowenstein:
              newly widowed mother of a young daughter, working in a scrapbooking
              store, Time in a Bottle, in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Scrap-N-Craft
              series |  
 
          
            | Denise Swanson |  
            | • | Dev Sinclair: the new owner of an old-fashioned shop in a small town in Missouri, in the Devereaux Dime Store series |  
 
        
          | Lou Jane Temple |  
          | • | Heaven Lee:  trendy restaurant owner-chef in Kansas City, Missouri |  
 
        
          | Elaine Viets |  
          | • | Josie Marcus:
            undercover store spy in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Mystery Shopper
            series |  
          | • | Francesca Vierling: a 6-ft. newspaper columnist in St.
    Louis, Missouri |  |  |