Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Abbott, Allyson K.	Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton	Milwaukee, WI	Present		Mack owns and operates Mack's Bar in downtown Milwaukee. Because she is synesthetic, Detective Duncan Albright sometime asks her to accompany him to crime scenes, and Mack is sometimes able to discover evidence the people who are not synesthetic have missed. Some of the regulars in Mack's Bar call themselves the Capone Club, and members devise mysteries to stump the others. The books not only have the overall puzzle of the plot, but they have little puzzles throughout. Wonderful!
Abbott, Victoria	Jordan Bingham and Tyler (Smiley) Deckker	San Francisco, CA	Present		Jordan and Smiley travel to San Francisco to hunt for a signed, first edition of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest for Jordan's book-collector employer, and many surprising events occur during their search.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and Anna Waterhouse	Mycroft Holmes and Cyrus Douglas	Port of Spain, Trinidad	1870		Mycroft is the Assistant to the British Secretary of State for Warfare. His fiancee, Georgiama Sutton, departs for her old home in Trinidad with explanations that leave Mycroft suspicious. Mycroft's friend, Cyrus Douglas has heard of strange events in his former Trinidad home, so Mycroft and Cyrus sail to Port of Spain. They discover the reason for the strange events, and the reason has nothing to do with the supernatural.
Ablow, Keith	Dr. Frank Clevinger	Boston, MA	Present		Frank is forensic psychiatrist
Abrams, Stacey	Avery Keene, Clerk to a Supreme Court Justice	Washington, D.C.	Present		When the Supreme Court Justice for whom Avery clerks goes into a coma, Avery learns that he has appointed her as his guardian. While trying to take the best care of the Justice's business, Avery learns that he has been doing extensive investigation into an Indian biotechnology company that might have some covert funding from US Homeland Security. Really good; didn't want to stop reading.
Acevedo, Mario	Felix Gomez	Denver, CO	Present		Felix went to Iraq a soldier and returned a vampire; back in the US, Felix learns from other vampires how to "pass" as human and becomes a PI.
Adams, Alina	Rebecca (Bex) Levy	Moscow, Russia	Present		Bex is an ice-skating researcher for television network, funny
Adams, Deborah	Kate Yancy	Jesus Creek, TN	Present		Kate manages Twin Elms Bed & Breakfast for her brother, the mayor of Jesus Creek
Adams, Ellery	James Harvey	Quincy's Gap, VA	Present		James, a former college professor, has returned to his boyhood home to be near his widowed father and to become the town's librarian. He and his friends, who call themselves The Supper Club, must discover who poisoned the visiting "Diva of Dough", James's almost step-mother's much-disliked sister.
Adams, Ellery	Olivia Limoges	Palmetto Island and Oyster Bay, NC	Present		Olivia, her new husband, Chief Rawlings, her Standard Poodle, Haviland, and the Bayside Book Writers go to Palmetto Island to attend the Coastal Carolina Crime Festval. One of the Crime Fetival's presentations features Palmetto Island ghost stories, and soon after, situations identical to the ghost stories occur. Olivia and the Bayside Book Writers discover who is behind the ghostly events.
Adamson, Lydia	Alice Nestleton	New York, NY	Present		Alice is a cat sitter
Adamson, Lydia	Dierdre Quinn	Hillsbrook NY	Present		Dierdre is a veterinarian
Adler-Olsen, Jussi	Carl MØrck	Copenhagen, Denmark	Present		Carl was one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives until he was wounded while two of his colleagues were shot, and he blames himself. He believes he been put out to pasture when he is assigned to a new department, Department Q—a department of one in the basement—to investigate cold cases. However, his first case is a politician who has been missing five years, and Carl redeems himself by solving this case. Excellent writing and excellent puzzle, but too grim.
Afia, Nekesa	Louise Lloyd	New York, New York (Harlem)	1926		Louise,a waitress in Harlem, sees a white policeman harassing a black girl and hits the policeman. When she is hauled to police headquarters, the detective tells Louise she won't go to jail if she helps discover who murdered three black girls. Really absorbing reading; hard to put down, but a few writing boo boos.
Ailes, Kat	Alice and Joe (no last names)	London and Penton, UK	Present		Alice, a copy writer, and her boyfriend, Joe, move from London to Penton, a small village in the Cotswolds, when they discover they have a baby on the way. Penton turns out to be very New Age, and when Alice and Joe attend a pre-natal class, they find the class is held in a herb store and is about hypnobirthing and gongs. During the class, Hen, another attendee, goes into labor and delivers a baby. Later, they disover that while Hen's baby was being born the owner of the herb stone, Crispin Oliver, was murdered downstains. Alice, Hen, and two other expectant mothers from the class, Poppy and Ailsa, work together to discover who murdered Crispin. Funny,
Aird, Catherine	Christopher Dennis (C. D.) Sloan	Beresford, England	1970s
Alaux, Jean-Pierre and Noël Balen	Benjamin Cooker and his assistant, Virgile Lanssien	Bordeaux, France	Present		Benjamin is a winemaker and wine expert. A winemaker friend asks for Benjamin's help when 4 barrels of his wine are contaminated with Brettanomyces. Benjamin discovers that the contamination was not caused by carelessness or an accident.
Albert, Susan Wittig	Beatrix Potter	Sawrey, England	1907		Beatrix solves mystery with help of three children, an owl, a badger, and perhaps some fairies
Albert, Susan Wittig	China Bayles	Pecan Springs, TX	Present		China is an herbalist
Aldrin, Buzz and John Barnes	Scott, Nick, and Thalia Blackstone	Washington, DC	Present		aerospace
Alexander, Bruce	Fielding and Jeremy	London, England	1700s
Alexander, Tasha	Lady Emily Ashton	London, England	1887		Lady Emily—the widow of art collector—investigates art forgery
Alexander, Tasha	Emily Hargreaves	Florence, Italy	1903		Emily's husband, Colin, serves in the British Secret Service. He, Emily, and Emily's friend, Cecile, pretend to be vacationing in Florence, but Colin is really on business. Story interweaves with that of Mina Porcini di Vieri in 1496, who hides art and books from Savonarola.
Allen, Conrad	Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman		1907		Genevieve and George are detectives for Cunard Line
Allen, Garrison	Penelope Warren	Empty Creek, AZ	Present		Penelope is owner of Mycroft and Co. mystery bookstore and her cat, Big Mike, aka Mycroft, an Abyssianian
Allen, Irene		Cambridge, MA	Present		Quaker beliefs
Allingham, Marjorie	Albert Campion	UK	1920s, 1930s
Anderson, James		UK			"The Affair of the Blood-stained Tea Cosy"
Andrews, Donna	Meg Langslow	Maine	Present
Andrews, Sarah	Em Hanson	CO, WY, CA, UT, NV	Present		Em is geologist
Angus, Sylvia		Mexico, Maine	Present
Apodaca, Jennifer	Samantha Shaw	Lake Elsinore, CA	Present		Samantha operates dating service
Apostolou, Anna	Miriam	Macedonia	336 BCE		court of Alexander the Great
Armstrong, Jess	Ruby Vaughn	Exeter and Lothiel Green, England UK	1922		Ruby, an American heiress whose family shipped her to England in disgrace because she was discovered in close quarters with a man, served as an ambulance driver for England during WWI. While working in the war, Ruby met Tamsyn and fell in love. Ruby believed that Tamsyn loved her also, but after the war, Tamsyn married Sir Edward Chenowith. Now, living in Exeter and working for a book dealer, Ruby is asked by her boss to take a load of books to a customer, Ruan Kivell, in Lothiel Green, and although Ruby doesn't want to go to Lothiel Green because that is where Tamsyn lives with her husband, she does as requested. Ruby visits Tamsyn, and while Ruby is visiting, Tamsyn's husband is murdered. The bookstore customer, Ruan, who is a healer, also has a strong mental connection with Ruby, and together they discover who wanted Sir Edward gone.
<>Armstrong, Kelly	Mallory Atkinson	Edingburgh, Scotland, UK	2019 and 1895		Mallory Atkinson is police detective in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. While visiting her grandmother in Edinburgh, Scotland and out running, she hears the sound of a women crying and runs down the alley toward the cries--when everything goes black. When she wakes, she finds she is in 1895 Edinburgh, and she is a housemaid named Catriona. Catriona's employer is a doctor and undertaker who is acting as a forensic consultant to the Edinburgh police. Mallory in Catriona's body investigates to find who attempted to kill Catriona and discovers a killer from 2019 also crossed time to attack her.
Arruda, Suzanne	Jade del Cameron	Nairobi, Kenya	1919		Jade is former WWI ambulance driver
Ashford, Lindsay	Anne Sharp	England	1805-1843		Anne is hired as governess to Edward Austen's children, and she becomes close friends with Edward's sister, Jane Austen. After Jane's untimely death at 41, Anne investigates the possibility that Jane was poisoned and who wanted Jane out of the way.
Asimov, Isaac
Atherton, Gertrude	Price Ruyler and Jake Spaulding	San Francisco, CA	1919		Price, a San Francisco business-man, who has built his company back after the 1906 earthquake, falls in love and marries Helene. When he overhears someone threatening Helene's mother, he realizes Helene may not be who she claims to be, and he hires detective Jake to discover the real Helene.
Atkins, Ace	Spenser	Boston, MA	present		Continuing Robert B. Parker's Spenser character. Spenser investigates the theft of valuable art from a Boston museum.
Atkinson, Kate	Jackson Brodie	Cambridge, England	Present
Atwood, Russell		New York, NY	Present
Ayres, E. C.	Tony Lowell	Manatee Bay, FL	Present		Tony is former journalist, 60's holdover, teaches photography
Ayres, Noreen	Samantha (Smokey) Brandon	Orange County CA	Present		Plot includes poisonous! boa constrictor.