Mystery Authors G


Writer Who Where When How Much Why
Galbraith, Robert, pen name for J. K. Rowling Cameron Strike and Robin Ellacott London, UK Present
Cameron is former Special Forces in Afganistan, where he lost a foot and calf, is the son of famous rock star, Jonny Rokeby, and supergroupie, Leda Strike, and is so broke he is sleeping on a camp bed in his office and showering at the University of London Union. Robin is temp secretary from Temporary Solutions Agency.
Galenorn, Yasmine Emerald O'Brien Chiqetaw, WA Present
Emerald runs tea shop and reads Tarot cards
Gallagher, Stephen Sebastion Becker London and Devon, UK 1912
Sebastion is a former USA Pinkerton Agent, now living in London. He works as a special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, an agency that investigates whether Englishmen of property are mentally capable of looking after their property. Sebastion investigates Sir Owain Lancaster, who claims that monsters have killed two children near his home. Sir Owain is already under suspicion because his family and collegues were killed in mysterious circumstances during a scientific venture to the Amazon.
Gallison, Kate Mother Lavinia Grey Fisherville, NJ Present
         
Episcopal rector
Garcia-Aguilera, Caroline Lupe Solano Miami, FL and Cuba Present
   
Lupe is Cuban-American
Garcia, Eric Vincent Rubio Los Angeles, CA Present
       
Vincent is dinosaur disguised as human
Gardiner, Meg Evan Delaney Santa Barbara and China Lake, CA Present
   
well-written, but more thriller than mystery
Garwood, Julie Regan Madison Chicago, IL Present
       
thriller more than mystery
Gaus, P. L. Michael Brandon Wooster, OH Present
   
Michael is college professor; plot involves Amish people
Gear, Kathleen O'Neal   New Mexico 800 CE
         
Anasazi people; GG
Gehrman, Jody June Moody San Juan Islands, WA Present
   
June, an English professor at Cabrillo College, attends a weekend get-together with her roommates from Western Washington State College. During the weekend, one of the former roommates disappears.
George, Elizabeth Thomas Linley Oxford, England Present
         
 
Gerritson, Tess Jane Rizzoli Boston, MA Present
       
 
Gill, Bartholomew Peter McGarr Dublin, Ireland Present
 
Peter is Superintendent of the Murder Squad, Garda Siochana, Dublin. A Trinity College scholar, famous for his work on James Joyce's novels, is found stabbed after the Bloomsday celebration.
Gilligan, Roy Patrick Riordan Monterey, CA Present
 
Gilman, Dorothy Emily Polifax Mexico, Turkey, Africa, Sicily 1980s
 
Giordano, Mario Aunti Poldi Sicily Present
     
Aunt Poldi, who grew up in Germany but has Sicilian ancestry, retired to Sicily. A woman District Attorney and a woman psychic reader have been murdered, and Aunt Poldi investigates. The plot was good but very thin. Much of the book spent discussing Sicilian people and culture.
Girdner, Jaqueline Kate Jasper Marin County, CA Present
 
 
Glass, Leslie April Woo New York, NY Present
   
Chinese-American policewoman
Glatzer, Hal Katy Green California 1940s
women's swing band
Goff, Christine Rachel Stanhope Boulder, CO Present
       
birds
Goldberg, Leonard Dr. John Watson, Dr. John Watson, Jr., and Joanna Blaylock London, England 1914
Joanna is the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. She inherited her father's brain, and she helps the Drs. Watson to find out who murdered Joanna's friend. Colonel Sebastian Moran's son may be the guilty party.
Goldberg, Leonard Joanna Blalock Los Angeles, CA and Alaska Present
       
Joanna is forensic pathologist; thriller more than mystery
Goldberg, Marshall Nellie Bly New York, NY 1880s
Nellie obtains a position as reporter for the New York World. The World's publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, assigns Nellie to investigate the death of 38-year-old Emma Lazarus, the author of "The New Colossus" (the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. The story covers true events and adds fiction when events aren't known.
Goldsborough, Robert Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin New York, NY 1977
 
Nero and Archie are back
Goldstone, Lawrence Ephraim Carroll Philadelphia, PA 1889
Ephraim is an intern or resident (as we would define his position today) at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A fascinating look at Western Medicine as practiced in 1889 along with a keep-turning-the-pages-even-though-it's-late mystery.
Gordon, Alan Theophilis and Claudia   1200 CE
       
Theophilis is jester
Gores, Joe Daniel Kearney San Francisco, CA Present
   
more caper than mystery
Goss, Theodora Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Justine Frankenstein, Catherine Moreau, and Beatrice Rappaccini London and surrounding, England 1890s
The plot posits that Dr. Jekyll had a daughter while he was Jekyll, and he had another daughter while he was Hyde. Because Hyde demolished the bank account, the daughters need to earn money, and Mary obtains a job assisting Sherlock Holmes. During their investigations, the two meet up with and eventually join forces with Justine Frankenstein, Beatrice Rappaccini, and Catherine Moreau. Characters that appear in the stories include Jonathan Harker, spider-eating asylum patient Renfield, Dorian Gray, Mina Murray.
Goulart, Ron Barney Kains Westport, CT and New York, NY Present
         
 
Grace, Margaret Geraldine Porter Lincoln Point, CA Present
   
Geraldine is retired English teacher and is active in building miniature dollhouses; Margaret Grace is pen name for Camille Minichino
Grafton, Sue Kinsey Milhone Santa Barbara, CA Present
 
Graham, Heather Scarlet Barlow, Adam Harrison, Jackson Crow, Dallas Wicker, Joe Dunhill, and Angela Hawkins Estes Park, CO and other locations Present
Scarlet is a historian working at a small museum near Estes Park, when the museum's statues begin to talk to her. Scarlet and her ex-husband, a member of the Krewe of Hunters, must find out what happened to the people who lived in that house 150 years before. Story involves paranormal.
Graham, Scott Chuck Bender Estes Park, CO Present
 
Chuck, an antropologist, is hired to teach a summer session of anthropology at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. The class is held in an abandoned mine near Estes Park. Deep in the mine, Chuck finds gold ore and a skull with a bullet hole.
Graham, Thomas Detective-Chief Superintendent Powell Scotland and Cornwall, England  
     
 
Grant, Linda Catherine Saylor San Francisco, CA Present
 
Graves, Sarah Jacobia Tiptree Eastport, ME Present
   
Jacobia is restoring 1823 house
Gray, Claudia Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy Donwell Abbey, rural England, UK 1820
Characters from Jane Austen's novels. Emma and George Knightly have invited Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the Darcy's son, Jonathan, Colonel and Marianne Brandon, Edmund and Fanny Bertram, Captain Frederick and Anne Wentworth, Juliet Tilney, and others to a month-long house party at Dornwell Abbey. Soon after the party has begun, George Wickham—who almost everyone at the party has reason to hate—arrives, and due to extemely bad weather, the Knightly's cannot send him away—although they do house him in the servants' quarters. When Wickham is found murdered in the conservatory, everyone has a motive, but Juliet and Jonathan find the true perpetrator.
Grecian, Alex Scottie Foster, Kansas Highway Patrol, Travis Roan, investigator for Roan Foundation Norton, Phillipsburg, and Hayes, KS Present
Rudolph Bormann, a "research" doctor an a Nazi concentration camp, migrated to Paradise Flats, in Norton County, KS in 1951. He purchased an empty church building and began preaching neo-Nazi philosophy. He also set up a surgical suite in the church's sub-basement to continue his experiments. In 2018, a woman who had been in a concentration camp saw Bormann (now calling himself Rudy Goodman), and contacted the Roan Foundation--a foundation dedicated to finding Nazi criminals. Ransome Roan travelled to Kansas and disappeared. Ransome's son, Travis, comes to Kansas to search for his father, and teams up with Scottie to find his father and turn Bormann over for criminal prosecution.
Greely, Andrew M. Blackie Ryan Chicago, IL Present
       
Blackie is bishop of Chicago diocese
Greely, Andrew M. Nuala McGrail Ireland Present
       
 
Green, Anna Katherine Ebenezer Gryce New York, NY 1880s - 1920s
 
Mr. Gryce is detective with New York police
Greenleaf, Stephen John Marshall Tanner San Francisco, CA  
     
 
Greenwood, Kerry Phryne Fisher Melbourne and Daylesford, Victoria, Australia 1920's
     
 
Greer, Robert C. J. Floyd Denver, CO Present
C. J. is bail bondsman
Greer, Robert USAF Major Bernadette Cameron and Elgin Coseia Wheatland, WY Present
 
A nuclear technician is found murdered in a missile silo, and Bernadette and Elgin search through the Rocky Mountain area to find the offender.
Gregson, J. M. Detective Chief Superintendent John Lambert and Detective Sergeant Bert Hook Twin Lakes, England UK Present
A tranquil complex of vacation homes becomes less tranquil when the body of a seemingly-innocent resident, who is really a blackmailer, is discovered. Detectives Lambert and Hook discover that many of the seemingly-ordinary residents have secrets they will do much to keep concealed.
Griffin, Annie Hannah Malloy Hill Creek, CA Present
Hannah and her sister, Kiki Goldstein, are widowed sisters
Griffin, Laura Jack Bruner, Austin PD and Rowan Healy, geneticist Austin, TX Present
 
The Austin police, and especially Jack Bruner, have been frustrated for eight years by a rapist who used condoms (no DNA) and gloves (no fingerprints). The police get only a partial DNA one time, and Jack asks Rowan Healy to help with the genetics. The genetics allow them to catch the rapist.
Griffiths, Elly Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson King's Lynn and Walsingham, Norfolk, England present
Harry is DCI of Special Crimes Unit in King's Lynn, and Ruth is Archaeology professor at Norfolk university. Ruth's friend sees what he believes is a vision of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham Cathedral's ancient graveyard, but when a young woman dressed in a blue cloak identical to that worn by the "vision" is found murdered near the cathedral, Ruth and Harry investigate.
Griffiths, Elly DCI Edgar Stephens, Max Maphisto, magician, Stan Parks (the Great Diablo), PC Bob Willis, PC Emma Holmes, and Meg Callahan Brighton, England, UK 1951 and 1965
Edgar, Max, and Stan served together in a special unit during WWII. Bob and Emma report to Edgar at Brighton Police Department.
Griffiths, Elly Natalka Kolisnikz, Natalka's husband, Benedict Cole, Edwin Fitzgerald, Detective Inspector Harbinder Kaur, and Detective Seargent Liv Brennan Shoreham, England, UK (near Brighton) present
Natalia and Edwin are partners in K and N Detective Agency. Author Melody Chambers' daughters hire K and N to prove that their stepfather killed their mother, although her death was ruled to be of natural causes.
Grimes, Martha Richard Jury England Present
     
 
Gross, Ken Maggie Van Zandt New York, NY Present
         
Maggie is NYPD
Guiver, Patricia Delilah Doolittle Surf City, CA Present
Delilah--with the assistance of her Doberman pinscher, Watson--locates missing pets and solves mysteries.
Gur, Batya Michael Ohayon Petah Tikva, Israel Present
   
 
Gustainis, Justin Stan Markowski Scranton, PA Present
 
Stan is a detective in Scanton's Supernatural Crimes Unit, the unit that deal with crimes committed by or against Scranton's supernaturals (supes) community. Supes include werewolves, vampires, goblins, and ghouls. Style is similar to a Raymond Chandler noir, but received 5 cormorants instead of 6 because the story to too dismal--even for a noir.
Guterson, David Royal Seattle and Mt. Vernon, WA Present
       
Royal, an 84-year-old, Seattle criminal attorney who takes public defender cases, takes a case to defend an Evangelical Christian woman, whose adopted Ethiopian daughter died from exposure while being forced to stay outdoors in winter "for disobedience".