Writer |
Who |
Where |
When |
How Much |
Why |
Galbraith, Robert, pen name for J. K. Rowling |
Cameron Strike and Robin Ellacott |
London, UK |
Present |
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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 |
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Emerald runs tea shop and reads Tarot cards |
Gallagher, Stephen |
Sebastion Becker |
London and Devon, UK |
1912 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Michael is college professor; plot involves Amish people |
Gear, Kathleen O'Neal |
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New Mexico |
800 CE |
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Anasazi people; GG |
Gehrman, Jody |
June Moody |
San Juan Islands, WA |
Present |
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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 |
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Gerritson, Tess |
Jane Rizzoli |
Boston, MA |
Present |
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Gill, Bartholomew |
Peter McGarr |
Dublin, Ireland |
Present |
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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 |
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Gilman, Dorothy |
Emily Polifax |
Mexico, Turkey, Africa, Sicily |
1980s |
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Giordano, Mario |
Aunti Poldi |
Sicily |
Present |
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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 |
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Glass, Leslie |
April Woo |
New York, NY |
Present |
|
Chinese-American policewoman |
Glatzer, Hal |
Katy Green |
California |
1940s |
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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 |
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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 |
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Joanna is forensic pathologist; thriller more than mystery |
Goldberg, Marshall |
Nellie Bly |
New York, NY |
1880s |
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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. |
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Goldsborough, Robert |
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin |
New York, NY |
1977 |
|
Nero and Archie are back |
Goldstone, Lawrence |
Ephraim Carroll |
Philadelphia, PA |
1889 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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Grace, Margaret |
Geraldine Porter |
Lincoln Point, CA |
Present |
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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 |
|
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Graham, Heather |
Scarlet Barlow, Adam Harrison, Jackson Crow, Dallas Wicker, Joe Dunhill, and Angela Hawkins |
Estes Park, CO and other locations |
Present |
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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 |
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Grant, Linda |
Catherine Saylor |
San Francisco, CA |
Present |
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Graves, Sarah |
Jacobia Tiptree |
Eastport, ME |
Present |
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Jacobia is restoring 1823 house |
Gray, Claudia |
Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy |
Donwell Abbey, rural England, UK |
1820 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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Green, Anna Katherine |
Ebenezer Gryce |
New York, NY |
1880s - 1920s |
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Mr. Gryce is detective with New York police |
Greenleaf, Stephen |
John Marshall Tanner |
San Francisco, CA |
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Greenwood, Kerry |
Phryne Fisher |
Melbourne and Daylesford, Victoria, Australia |
1920's |
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Greer, Robert |
C. J. Floyd |
Denver, CO |
Present |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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". |