Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Cahoon, Lynn	Jill Gardner	South Cove, CA	Present		Jill operates Coffee Books and More store
Caine, Leslie	Erin Gilbert	Colorado near Denver	Present		Erin is interior designer
Calder, James	Bill Damon	Silicon Valley CA	Present		biotechnology
Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason	Tom Sullivan, Paul Harris, and friends	Princeton, NJ	Present
Cambridge, Colleen	Phyllida Bright	Near Listleigh, Devonshire, U.K.	1930s		Phyllida was an army nurse in WWI, and in that capacity, she and Agatha Christie became friends. Phyllida then became Agatha's housekeeper at Mallowan Hall. When a guest is found murdered in Mallowan Hall's library, Phyllida, a great fan of Hercule Poirot, uses her little grey cells to figure out who dunnit.
Cameron, Dana	Emma Fielding	Massachusetts	Present		Emma is an archeologist
Camilleri, Andrea	Salvo Montalbano	Vigata, Italy	Present
Campion, Alexander	Capucine Le Tellior	Southern France, Corsica, Paris, France	Present		Capucine is Police Judiciara Commissaaire in Paris. She, her husband, and friends charter a yacht and sail to Corsica. A woman hired as crew vanishes overboard while they are sailing near Corsica, and Capucine finds someone has set up clues to frame her for the crime. Book seemed slow during the first 2/3, but the story became an intriguing puzzle in the last part of the story.
Canada, Wanda	Carol Davenport	Wilmington, NC	Present		Carol is building contractor
Cannell, Dorothy	Ellie Haskell and Roxie Malloy	Mucklsby and Dodington-by-Water, England	Present		very light
Carl, Joanna	Lee Godfrey	Warner Pier, MI	Present		Lee is bookkeeper at Ten Heis Chocolate
Carl, Lillian Stewart	Jean Fairbairn and Alasdair Cameron	Edinburg and Ft. William, Scotland	Present		Jean is history professor writing for Great Scot magazine; Alaisdair is police detective
Carlisle, Kate	Brooklyn Wainwright	San Francisco, CA and Edinburgh, Scotland	Present		Brooklyn is a book restoration expert
Carr, Caleb	Trajan Jones, M.D., a psychiatrist with special expertise in forensics and Mike Lee, a forensic trace analyst.	Surrender, NY	Present		Trajan and Mike were "encouraged" to leave their practice in New York City because they exposed corruption in the city's forensic department so they now live on Trajan's Aunt Clarissa's farm in upstate New York and support themselves by teaching forensic science at SUNY Albany. The local sheriff asks their help on several crimes that appear to be the work of a serial killer but some evidence doesn't fit. Too long and too many complications to the plot, but a good puzzle. Author also wrote "The Alienist".
Carr, John Dickson	Gideon Fell	England
Carrell, Jennifer Lee	Katherine Stanley	England and USA	Present and 1500-1600s		Katherine is Shakespeare scholar, and plot involves missing Shakespeare manuscript
Carter, Stephen L.	Julia Carlyle	Elm Harbor and Tyler's Landing in New England, USA	Present		Julia is Dean of Kepler Divinity School, and her husband is first African-American president of the Ivy League university
Carvic, Heron	Miss Seeton				Miss Seeton is assassin
Cassidy, Carla	Jordan Sampson	Kansas City, MO	Present		Excellent writing, but thriller instead of mystery. Story also commits the transgression of following the thoughts of the "who that dunnit".
Castillo, Linda	Kate Burkholder	Painter's Mill, OH	Present		Kate is Chief of Police in Painter's Mill. She grew up Amish but no longer practices.
Castleman, Michael	Ed Rosenberg	San Francisco, CA	Present		Ed is historian and columnist at San Francisco newspaper
Caudwell, Sarah	Hilary Tamar	London, England			London barristers and their Oxford professor
Chamberlain, Diane	Riley MacPherson	New Bern and Durham, NC, _________, CA, and Seattle, WA	Present		90% thriller and 10% mystery. Riley has grown up believing that her older sister committed suicide many years ago, but while cleaning out her father's house, she discovers information that her sister might be alive.
Chamberlain, Diane	Morgan Christopher and Anna Dale	Edenton, NC	1940 and Present		In 1940, artist Anna Dale was hired by the government to paint a mural for Edenton's post office. Anna painted the mural but disappeared before it was made public. In the present, art-student Morgan is hired to restore the mural; she becomes fascinated by unusual items in the mural and begins a search to discover what happened to Anna Dale. Book would have received the full 6 rating except for small amount of GG.
Chandler, Raymond	Philip Marlowe	Los Angeles, CA	1930s - 1940s
Chapman, Sally	Julie Blake	San Jose and Palo Alto, CA	1990s		Julie is software vice-president and then starts own computer security consulting company
Chappell, Helen	Hollis Ball	Maryland Eastern Shore	Present		Hollis is newspaper reporter
Charles, Ann	Violet Parker	Deadwood, SD	Present		Violet is single parent of two tweens and is a broker associate at Calamity Jane Reality
Charles, Kate	Callie Anson, Neville Stewart, & Mark Lombardi	London, England	Present		Callie is Anglican deacon; Neville and Mark are London MPS
Charles, Kate	Lucy Kingsley and David Middleton-Brown	London and Malbury, England	Present		Lucy is artist, and David is solicitor
Chase, Eve	Rita, Hera Harrington, Sylvie	London and rural England	1972 and present		The Harrington family discovers a baby girl on a tree stump near their vacation home in the forest; because they have recently lost a baby, they decide to keep the baby and raise her as their own. However, their plans are interrupted when someone is murdered in the woods near their home.
Chazan, Suzanne	Jimmy Vega	Lake Holly, NY	Present		Jimmy is of Puerto Rican heritage and works in law enforcement in upscale New York community. Issues concern Latin American immigrants. Well written, but too grim.
Chesbro, George C.	Dr. Robert Frederickson, aka Mongo the Magnificent	New York, Florida, Kansas	Present		Mongo is a criminologist and former circus acrobat. He is also a dwarf.
Childs, Laura	Theodosia Browning	Charleston, SC	Present		Theodosia owns tea shop
Chiu, Tony	Leonard Reifsnyder	Arizona, New Mexico	Present		Using undocumented immigrants for body parts
Choo, Yangsze	Ji Lin and Ren	Malaysia	1930s		Ren, an orphan, is houseboy and friend to an ex-pat Scottish doctor. When the doctor gives Ren a dying wish and references to work for another ex-pat doctor, Ren's quest to carry out the doctor's dying wish brings his path across that of Ji Lin, a 17-year-old girl. Ren, Ji Lin, and others find mysteries and unexpected connections as they fulfill the old doctor's wish.
Churchill, Jill	Jane Jeffrey	Chicago, IL	present		Delightful, but very light
Christie, Agatha	Hercule Poirot	England	1920s - 1960s
Christie, Agatha	Tommy and Tuppence Beresford	England	1920s - 1960s
Christie, Agatha	Jane Marple	St. Marys Mead, England	1920s - 1930s
Clair, Edie	Leigh Koslow	Pittsburg, PA	Present		Leigh is advertising executive
Clare, Alys	Sir Josse d'Acquin	near Tonbridge, England	1211		Sir Josse, his wife, Helewise, and his daughter, Meggie, discover and defeat a plot to assassinate King John
Cleary, Melissa	Jackie Walsh and Jake	Palmer, OH	Present		Jackie is former Hollywood screenwriter, now teaching at Rogers College; Jake is German Shepherd
Cleeland, Anne	Kathleen Doyle, Scotland Yard Constable and Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton, Chief Inspector Scotland Yard	London, England	Present		Someone with forensics knowledge is shooting people and removing the evidence.
Cleeves, Ann	Jimmy Perez, Sandy Wilson, Willow Reeves	Shetland Islands	Present		Jimmie Perez is Police Chief aided by his assistant, Sandy Wilson, and Willow Reeves, Chief Inspector, Inverness, Scotland. After a landslide slams into an abandoned croft house, and searchers clearing the mud discover a dead woman with no ID. A Jimmie Perez book was nominated for the McIlvanney Prize, and a different series by this author received the Poirot Award at Malice Domestic.
Cleeves, Anne	Vera Stanhope	Kimmerston, UK (near Lindisfarne Island)	Present		A group of people who were high school classmates in Kimmerston and who participated in a "consciousness raising" event on Holy Isle while they were in high school have been meeting for a reunion on Lindisfarne every 5 years, and the story is set at the present reunion. One of the group, Rick Kinstair, who had been a famous TV host before he was fired because a female intern accused him of inappropriate behavior, is murdered during the reunion. Vera and her team, Joe, Holly, and Charlie find out who dunnit.
Cleeves, Ann	Matthew Venn	Barnstaple, North Devon, England	Present		Matthew is police constable in area where he grew up. After he told his parents' church he had stopped believing, he has had no contact with his family or the church congregation. Matthew compounded his transgressions by marrying a man. People associated with Matthew's husband's workplace are disappearing, and Matthew must find the answer
Clemeau, Carol	Antonia Nielson		Present		Antonia is Classics professor
Cleverly, Barbara	Joe Sandilands	Simla, India	1922
Coben, Harlan	Myron Bolitar	New York, NY and New Jersey	Present		Myron is former basketball player and sports agent
Coble, Colleen	Jane Hardy, Police Chief, Pelican Springs, AL and Reid Dixon, documentary filmmaker	Pelican Harbor, AL + New Orleans, LA. Kentucky, and Indiana	Present		Jane's friend, Ruby, contacts her to say that she hasn't had any contact with her son, Keith, who is working on an oil-drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico near Pelican Harbor. Jane and her ex-husband, Reid, uncover a plot to blow up the oil rig in time to prevent it from happening. (Nits: one character comes into the story without introduction and some religion in story--although not too overwhelming.)
Cockey, Tim		Baltimore, MD	Present		mortician
Coel, Margaret	Fr. John O'Malley and Vickie Holden	Wind River Reservation, WY	Present
Colbert, Curt	Jake Rossiter and Miss Jenkins	Seattle, WA	1940s
Cole, David	Laura Winslow	Tucson, AZ	Present		Laura is computer finance consultant with ADHD
Colley, Barbara	Charlotte LaRue	New Orleans, LA	Present		Charlotte runs housekeeping service
Collins, Kate	Abbey Knight	New Chapel, IN	Present		Abbey runs Bloomers flower shop
Collins, Manda	Lady Katherine Bascomb, Andrew Eversham, Poppy Delaware, and Joshua Langham, Duke of Langham, Jane Halliwell, and Lord Adrian Fielding	London, Lake District, Little Reading, UK	1865 and 1867		Katherine's noble-but-poor parents married her to an older, wealthy, and unkind newspaper owner. After her husband died, Katherine learned to operate the newspaper and think for herself. Andrew is a Scotland Yard inspector whose vicar father was disinherited by noble parents for marrying "beneath" his status.
Collins, Max Allan	various	various	various		characters are historic people
Collins, Wilkie	Sgt. Cuff	England	1868
Conant, Susan	Holly Winter	Cambridge, MA	Present		Holly is writer for dog magazines
Connelly, Lucy	Em	Sea Isle, Scotland	Present		Em, an ER doctor, has recently moved from Seattle to Sea Isle, where she is now the GP and the coroner. Em's friend, Angie, is holding her wedding at a local castle, and Em and other friends go to the castle before the wedding to prepare it for the ceremony. They get snowed in and can't leave the castle. Robbie, one of Angie's previous boyfriends is found in the castle's tower, and he has been poisoned with antifreeze. Then, someone attempts to poison Angie and Mara, and then someone pushes a gargoyle over--barely missing Em. Em, with help from Mara, does discover who is doing the bad deeds.
Connelly, Michael			Present		thriller more than mystery
Constantine, K. C.	Mario Balzac	Rocksburg, PA
Copperman, E. J.	Alison Kerby	Harbor Haven, NJ	Present		Alison and her daughter Melissa are fixing up an old house on the Jersey Coast as a guest house. The house's previous owner, Maxie Malone, and a detective she hired, Paul Harrison, are ghosts living in the house. Funny
Cornwell, Bernard	Thomas of Hookton	England, France	1300s
Cornwell, Patricia	Kay Scarpetta	Richmond, VA	Present		Kay is forensic pathologist
Cosimano, Elle	Finlay Donovan	Washington, D.C. area	Present		Didn't finish
Cortez, Donn	Dex Elden	Nevada	Present		Burning Man Festival
Cosin, Elizabeth M.	Zenaria "Zen" Moses	Los Angeles, CA	Present		Zen grew up in San Francisco, child of Russian-Jewish immigrants
Cox, Mollie Ann	Eliza Hamilton (widow of Alexander Hamilton) and Alice Rhodes	New York and Albany, NY	1804		After Eliza'a husband, Alexander, dies in the duel with Aaron Burr, Eliza's son, Alexander, Jr., is falsely accused of murdering a man who was a friend of Alexander, Sr., who witnessed the duel with Aaron Burr, and who had written to Alexander, Sr. that he had discovered who had falsely-accused him of stealing from the US Treasury. When a second witness to the duel supposedly commits suicide, but his family heard men's voices at the farm durng the alleged suicide, Eliza goes undercover with Alice Rhodes, a widow she had met while working with the Widow's Society, to find out who framed her son and murdered the second duel witness.
Cox, Richard					art world, museums, London gallery
Coyle, Cleo	Clare Cosi	New York, NY	Present		Clair co-owns coffee house in Greenwich Village; authors also write as Alice Kimberley
Craig, Alisa	Madoc Rhys	Canada and Wales	Present		Author also wrote as Charlotte MacLeod and Dittany Henbit Monk
Craig, Philip R.	Jeff "J.W." Jackson	Martha's Vineyard, MA and Durango, CO	Present		Jeff is former Boston PD, who now lives on Martha's Vineyard and supports himself by fishing and odd jobs
Crawford, Louise	Art Murry	Beverly Hills, CA	Present
Crider, Bill	Dan Rhodes	Backlin County, TX	Present		Dan is county sheriff
Crispin, Edmund	Gervase Fen	Oxford, England	1950s		Gervase is English professor whose hobby is crime detection; Oxford chief of police's hobby is literary criticism
Croft, Freeman Wills
Crombie, Deborah	Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid	England	Present
Cross, Amanda	Kate Fansler	New York, NY	Present		Kate is professor of English literature
Cunningham, E. V.	Maseo Matsuda	Los Angeles, CA	Present		pen name for Howard Fast
Cunningham, E. V.		New York, NY	Present		pen name for Howard Fast
Cutter, Leela		Salisbury Plain, England	Present