Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Fairleigh, Runa	Violet and Sebastian Cornichon	Komondor Island, NY	Present		author is whodunit
Fairstein, Linda	Alex Cooper	New York, NY	Present		Alex is sexual crimes prosecutor
Farjeon, J. Jefferson	6 train passengers	near Hemmersby, England	1937		When their train gets stuck in heavy snow on Christmas Eve, six people leave the train to try to walk to the next station. The snow is so heavy that they become lost and stumble into a house with an unlocked door. They take shelter inside and find the lights on, fires blazing, the table set for tea, and no one in the house. Many strange events occur before the six people discover what is going on. J. Jefferson Farjeon was one of the Golden Age writers.
Farmer, Jerrilyn	Madeline Bean	Hollywood Hills, CA	Present		Madeline is party planner
Fellowes, Jessica	Louisa Cannon and Guy Sullivan	England	1919-1921		Louisa Cannon accepts a position as a nursemaid at the Mitford Estate where she enjoys her work and becomes friends with 16-year-old Nancy Mitford. When Nancy reads the news that Florence Nightingale Shore, a nurse recently returned from WWI duty in France and a cousin of Florence Nightingale, was found murdered on the train from Victoria Station to Hastings, Nancy and Louisa decide to solve the mystery. Railway policeman, Guy Sullivan, is assigned to investigate the case, and he, Louisa, and Nancy investigate many threads before they discover the real criminal.
Finch, Charles	Charles Lenox	London and Markethouse, England	1876		Charles is Member of Parliament
Fitzhugh, Bill	Spence Tailer
Flower, Amanda	Willa Noble and Emily Dickinson	Amherst, MA	1855		Willa takes a job as maid to the Dickenson family after her brother--and only surviving family member--dies. The brother's co-workers hint that his death may not have been the accident that was declared by the authorities. Emily Dickinson and Willa find the true story. Story involves the Underground Railroad.
Ford, G. M.	Leo Waterman	Seattle, WA	1990s		Excellent writing; noir
Ford, Jeffrey	Diego, Thomas Schell, and Henry Bruhl, aka, Antony Cleopatra	Long Island, NY	1932		Thomas is fake medium who "conjures" up the dead; Henry is his friend, and Diego is immigrant boy that Thomas adopted
Fowler, Christopher	Arthur Bryant and John May	London, England	1873
Fox, Mae and Jan Fields	Julie Ellis and Hannah Marks	Straussberg, MO	present		Julie is antiquities bounty hunter who takes job managing Quilt Haus Inn to stay hidden from unsavory characters encountered in her bounty-hunting work.
Frankel, Valerie	Wanda Mallory	New York, NY	Present
Frear, Caz	Catrina "Cat" Kinsella	London, England and Mulderrin, Ireland	1998 and Present		Cat is detective with the MET in London. When a woman who disappeared from Cat's grandmother's village in Ireland in 1998, Maryanne Doyle, is found murdered near Cat's father's London pub in 2018, Cat believes her father knows more about the woman that he will admit.
Freeman, Diane	Frances Wynn, Countess of Harleigh, and George Hazelton	London, UK	1899		Frances, widow of the Count of Harleigh, is engaged to George Hazelton. A woman arrives as Frances' door and says that Frances cannot marry George because he is already married to her (the woman at the door). Later Frances finds the woman murdered and left in Frances' garden. George does know the woman, but he isn't married to her. She was Irena Teskey, an illegitmate daughter of Russian nobility. George rescued Irena from kidnappers while he was serving with the British Diplomatic Service in Russia. Frances and George must discover who murdered Irena, or they will--at best--be banished from polite society or--at worst--tried for her murder.
Freeman, R. Austin	Dr. John Thorndyke	London, England	early 1900s		first inverted mystery
Friedman, Kinky	Kinky Friedman	New York, NY	Present
Friedman, Mickey		Paris, France, Venice, Italy, and Florida	Present
Friis, Agnete and Kaaberbol, Lene	Nina Borg	Denmark and Lithuania	Present		Nina is Red Cross nurse. When a friend asks to her do a favor and pick up a suitcase from a locker in the train station, Nina finds a 3-year-old boy, alive but heavily sedated, inside the suitcase. Almost immediately after, Nina sees a scary-looking man pounding on the locker and screaming that something he wanted wasn't in the locker. She realizes the boy may be in danger and hides him while she searches to find his family and the reason he was in a suitcase.
Frommer, Sarah Hoskinson		Iowa	Present		Investigator plays in orchestra
Furitani, Dale	Ken Tanaka	Los Angeles, CA	Present
Fyfield, Frances	Elizabeth Kennedy, Joe Maxwell, DI Jenkins	London and Burley, England	Present		Elizabeth is former police officer, Joe is photographer, and Jenkins is police inspector. Excellent writing and characters, but too eerie.