Mystery_Authors

D'Almeida, Sarah

Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and D'Artagnan

Paris, France

1625

The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan outwit Richelieu one more time

D'Amato, Barbara

Dooley McSweeney

New York, NY and Moscow, Russia

Present

Dooley is pathologist who discovers kidnapping for adoption ring

Daheim, Mary

very light

Dallas, Sandra

Queenie Rebecca Bean

Harveyville, KS

1930s

Dalton, Annie

Anna Hopkins

Oxford, England

Present

Anna, now in her 30s, adopts a German Shepherd from a rescue organization because she has PTSD after finding her entire family murdered when she was 13 years old. While walking the dog, Anna discovers a murdered person, and investigating the person's death brings Anna to new friends and, perhaps, some easing of her symptoms.

Daly, Elizabeth

Harry Gamadge

New York, NY

1940s

Dams, Jeanne M.

Dorothy Martin

Salisbury, England

Present

Dams, Jeanne M.

Hilda Johansson

Mid-west USA

Present

Damsgaard, Shirley

Ophelia Jensen

Summerset, IA

Present

Opelia and her grandmother are clairvoyant

Daniels, Casey

Pepper Martin

Cleveland, OH

Present

Pepper takes job as cemetery guide, bumps her head, and can communicate with dead

Daniels, Claire

Cally Lazar

Northern California

Present

Cally is medical intuitive; author also writes as Jaqueline Girdner

Darden, Christopher and Dick Lochte

Nikki Hill

Los Angeles, CA

Present

Nikki is DA

Date, S. V.

Murphy Moran and Attorney Nolan

Daytona Beach, FL

Present

Nolan is attorney for client who wants to preserve turtle nesting sites on beach that Raceway Enterprises is attempting to make into a RaceWorld theme park.

Davey, Jocelyn

England and Virgin Islands

Davidson, Diane Mott

Goldy Bear Schultz

Aspen Meadow, CO

Present

Goldy is caterer

Davis, Dorothy Salisbury

Julie Hayes

New York, NY

Present

Davis, Nageeba

Maggie Kean

Colorado Springs and Monument, CO

Present

Maggie is sculpturer

Dawson, Janet

Jeri Howard

Alameda and Oakland, CA

Present

Day, Dianne

Fremont Jones

San Francisco and Monterey, CA and Boston, MA

early 1900s

DeAndrea, William

Matt Cobb

New York, NY

Present

Matt is television director

de Castrique, Mark

Sam Blackman

Asheville, NC

2008

Thomas Wolfe book and race relations in 1919

de Castrique, Mark

Ethel Fiona Crestwater, 75-year-old retired FBI Agent and Jesse Cooper, college student and Ethel's double first cousin twice removed

Alexandria and Richmond, VA and Washington, D.C.

Present

Ethel and Jesse unravel a plot designed by rogue Secret Service and FBI agents to steal $20,000,000 in Bitcoin

Delaney, Kathleen

Mary McGill, 70-something-year-old, former middle school teacher and widow

Santa Lucia, CA (near San Luis Obispo)

Present

During the Christmas parade and posada, the town's disgraced veterinarian is found in the manger--dead from stabbing. While everyone is still in shock, the pet store owner, Earl, is found dead, also from stab wounds. Mary figures out that the crimes have something to do with dogs and finds out who did the dirty deeds. Excellent.

Delany, Vicki

Gemma Doyle

West London, MA

Present

Gemma owns and operates Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium with her uncle.

de la Torre, Lillian

Dr. Sam: Johnson

London and other, England

1760s - 1780s

Narrated by James Boswell; excellent character and period detail

DeLeon, Jana

Fortune Redding

Sinful, LA

Present

A CIA leak exposes agent Fortune Redding, and with a price on her head, Fortune goes under cover as a former beauty queen/librarian in Sinful, LA. After Fortune has a fight with Sinful's former beauty queen, the beauty queen's mother finds her murdered, and some of the town people name Fortune as the chief suspect. Fortune must use her CIA training to locate the real who dunnit before her cover is blown.

DeLoach, Nora

Simone and Grace Covington

Atlanta, GA and Otis, SC

Present

Grace is Simone's mother

DeMaree, Steve

Lt. Cy Dekker and Sgt. Lou Murdoch

Hilldale, KY

Present

Lt. Dekker and Sgt. Murdoch are semi-retired homicide detectives. Begins with good puzzle and has satisfactory ending, but not much plot development between beginning and end.

DeMille, Nelson

New York, NY

Present

investigation of Flight 800

Dexter, Colin

Inspector Morse and Sgt. Lewis

Oxford, England

Present

Dibdin, Michael

Auralio Zen

Italy

Present

Dickens, Charles

Inspector Bucket

England

1850s

First detective in English novel (Bleak House)

Dobson, Joanne

Karen Pelletier

Enfield, MA

Present

Karen is English literature professor

Doherty, Paul

England

1500s

Donaldson, G. J.

New Orleans, LA

Present

medical examiner; GG

Donati, Sara

Anna Savard (medical doctor), Jack Mezzanotte
(police detective married to Anna Savard),
Sophie Savard (medical doctor married to Cap Verhoeven), Elise Mercer (medical student), Oscar Maroney (police detective and Jack's partner)

New York, NY

1884

Jack and Oscar investigate a case of the missing wife of a prominant citizen; Anna, Sophie, and Elise investigate and tie the present case to a previous case of a pregnant woman held captive.

Donnelly, Deborah

Carnegie Kincaid

Seattle, WA

Present

Carnegie is wedding planner

Doody, Margaret

Stephanos and Aristotle

Greece

330 BCE

Dorsey, C. Michele

Sabrina Salter

St. John, US Virgin Islands

Present

Sabrina and her friend, Henry, moved to St. John to escape sorrows in Boston. Sabrina was a TV meterologist, who was tried and acquitted for murdering her husband, and Henry is escaping from a lover who betrayed him. Both are enjoying their vacation rental business in St.John until a guest is murdered in one of their villas, and the media stoplight turns on Sabrina once again.

Dorsey, Tim

Tampa, FL

Present

Doss, James

Charlie Moon

Ignacio, CO

Present

Charlie's Aunt Daisy is Ute shaman

Douglas, Carol Nelson

Penelope Huxleigh and Irene Adler

England, France, Bohemia

1890s