Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Padgett, Abigail	Bo Bradley	San Diego, CA	1990s		Bo is child services investigator and suffers from bipolar disorder
Page, Katherine Hall	Faith Simley Fairchild	Boston, MA and Lyons, France	Present		Faith is caterer
Page, Martin	Adam Worth	New York, NY and Paris, France	1909-1911		caper more than mystery; follows thief who steals Mona Lisa
Pagel, Tempa	Andy Gammon	Newburyport, MA	Present		Andy is former history teacher; now full-time mom who investigates 300-year-old Newburyport history
Paige, Robin	Kate Ardleigh and Sir Charles Sheridan	England	1890s		Robin Paige is pen name for Susan Wittig Albert and Bill Albert
Pall, Ellen	Juliet Bodine	New York, NY	Present		Juliet writes historical novels and works with ballet company
Palmer, Michael and Daniel Palmer	Karen Ray--secret service agent stationed in the White House and Lee Blackwood, M.D.	Washington, D.C. and rural Virginia	2016		The President's son, Cam, has lately become moody and irritable. The White House physician, Dr. Gleason, believes Cam needs psychotherapy for depression, but Cam insists that he has something wrong physically instead of psychologically. Karen asks Lee to do a consult on Cam. Later, Cam goes to the hospital with a probable cracked rib from flag football so Lee has the chance to take blood tests. The results are confusing because there are abnormaltiies: slightly high liver enzymes, slightly enlarged liver and spleen. Lee overhears two doctors talking about another patient who has symptoms similar to Cam's. Lee observes this patient, Susie Banks, and learns that she is also a student at the Total Potential Institute (TPI). Lee consults with a geneticist, who discovers that Cam and Susie have a rare genetic mutation that causes a lysosomal storage disorder. They wonder why Cam and Susie would both have an extremely-rare genetic condition when they weren't related. The geneticist also found that the President was not Cam's father. Both Cam and Susie resulted from IVF at the same clinic. Lee and Karen eventually found that the doctor who operated the fertility clinic was trying gene editing on his own sperm to find the genes that enhanced neuroplasticity, and he implanted his own modified permit in a few women. He then insured the resulting children attended TPI, where he was a board member so he could observe their intellectual and creative development.
Palmer, William	Charles Dickens	England	1850s
Paretsky, Sara	V. I. Warshawski	Chicago, IL	Present
Parker, Ann	Inez Stannert	Leadville, CO	1879		Inez operates Silver Queen Saloon
Parker, Robert	Jesse Stone	Boston, MA	Present
Parker, Robert	Spencer	Boston, MA	Present
Parker, Robert	Sunny Randall	Boston, MA	Present
Parker, T. Jefferson	Terry Naughton	Orange County, CA	Present		well-written, but more thriller than mystery
Parks, Carrie Stuart	Samantha Williams (although we later discover her name is Samantha McWilliams)	LaCrosse, WA	2015		Samantha is an elementary school art teacher in LaCrosse. While teaching a class, she notices an SUV racing straight toward the classroom, and she manages to save all students and herself but the SUV crash destroys much of the room. Samantha soon learns that the reason the driver lost control of the vehicle was becaue he was shot. Samantha's car was also wrecked, and--strangely--her purse is the only thing missing from the damaged vehicle. The school cancels art classes for the near future, and Samantha discovers her apartment has been flooded and is too damaged to occupy. With no drivers license, no money, no credit cards, no job, and no place to live, she is thankful to be offered temporary housing and work at Clan Firinn, a local rehab center for first responders struggling with PTSD. More strange events occur--two men in a black SUV keep trailing her. She eventually discovers the scary events relate to her late father's work as a nuclear physicist at the Hanford Nuclear Center. Someone believes her father gave her information about covered-up nuclear events at Hanford--the vehicle heading toward her classroom wasn't accidental. She eventually learns all, gets a permanent job at Clan Firinn, and falls in love.
Patterson, James	Lindsay Boxer	San Francisco, CA	Present		Lindsay is SFPD and member of Women's Mystery Club
Pattison, Eliot	Shan Tao Yun	Tibet	Present
Paul, Barbara	Marian Larch	New York, NY
Paul, Gill	Kitty Fisher and Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama	St. Petersburg, Russia and Lake Akanabee, NY	early 1900s and 1986		Dmitri is a Russian aristocrat and palace guard who falls in love with the Tsar's daughter, Titiana. Because he has reason to believe Tatiana was elsewhere when the Bolsheviks assassinated her family, Dmitri spends post-WWI searching for Titiana. Story merges with Dmitri's great-grandaughter's search for learning about her family history when she inherits Dmitri's cabin at Lake Akanabee, NY in 1986. Author also has novel about link between Princess Diana and Wallis Simpson.
Paul, Paula	Alexandra Gladstone	Newton-upon-Sea, England	1800s		Alexandra is doctor who trained with her father, but she is not allowed to call herself doctor because she is female. I liked the first book a lot, but the plot of the second was lame.
Peale, Cynthia	Caroline Ames	Boston, MA	1892
Pearce, Michael	Gareth Owen	Cairo, Egypt	1912
Pearl, Matthew	Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth	Boston and Cambridge, MA	1865
Pears, Iain	Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano	Rome, Italy and Los Angeles, CA	Present		art dealer and Italian art policia
Pearson, Ridley	Lou Boldt	Seattle, WA	Present		Lou is Seattle PD
Pence, Joanne	Angie Amalfi and Paavo Smith	San Francisco, CA	Present		Angie is food columnist and Paavo is SFPD
Penman, Sharon Kay	Justin de Quincy	Europe	1193		Justin works for Eleanor of Aquitaine
Penner, Sarah					Didn't finish; plot was too eerie.
Penny, Louise	Armand Gamache	Montreal and Three Pines, Quebec	Present
Penrose, Andrea	Lady Charlotte Sloane and the Earl of Wexford	London, UK	between 1815 and 1835		Lady Charlotte is the daughter of an earl, who was disowned for eloping with her commoner drawing tutor. Now widowed, Charlotte works as the satirical cartoonist, A. J. Quill. Charlotte and her husband adopted two orphaned street boys, who live with Charlotte. Plot involves scientists studying Galvani's electrical work.
Penrose, Andrea	Adriannna and her husband, the Earl of Saybrook	Paris, France	1815		After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Adrianna and her husband travel to Paris to attend the Allied Peace Talks. Their objectives are to stop a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander while he is traveling to the peace talks and to clear their friend, Grantham, from accusations that he betrayed England.
Perdue, Lewis	Zoe and Seth Ridgeway	Europe and Los Angeles, CA	Present		thriller, not mystery
Perez-Reverte, Arturo	Capt. Diego Alatriste	Spain	1600s		excellent writing, caper more than mystery
Perry, Anne	Charlotte and Thomas Pitt	London, England	1880s-1890s
Perry, Anne	William Monk and Hester Latterly	London, England	1880-1890s
Perry, Anne	Joseph, Judith, and Matthew Reavley	England	1910s
Perry, Anne	Daniel Pitt	London, England	1910		Daniel is Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's son, who is now a barrister
Perry, Anne	Elena Standish	Europe	1933		While Elena, a British photographer, is on an assignment in Italy, she meets Ian Newton, a British journalist, but when she finds Ian stabbed, he tells her he is really MI6, and he askes her to hurry to Berlin to inform the British ambassador that someone will soon attempt to assassinate one of Hitler's ministers and blame England. Elena does warn the ambassador, but the assassination occurs despite her warning, and when she finds a recently-fired rifle hidden in her hotel room, she realizes she is being framed.
Perry, Anne	Crowe and Scuff (Scuff's real name is Will Monk)	London, England, UK	1880-1890s		Crowe is a former seaman, who with Hester Monk's help completed his medical training, and now operates a clinic in a poor part of London along the Thames. Scuff was an orphaned child living as a mudlark along the Thames until Hester and William Monk adopted and raised him. He is now assisting Crowe in the clinic and learning medicine. Crowe treated Eliza (Ellie) Hollister a year ago when she was badly injured in a carriage accident near his clinic. Although Ellie's wealthy father wanted to move her to a "better" hospital, her injuries were of such a nature that she could not be moved for several days. Crowe fell in love with Ellie, but her father is forcing her to marry Paul Dolan, son of a man who is corrupt but is so powerful no one dares arrest him. Crowe investigates and finds the illegal deal Ellie's father did with Dolan, and frees Ellie so she can marry him. Crowe and Scuff also adopt an orphan girl named Mattie and Mattie's kitten, Rosie.
Peters, Elizabeth	Amelia Peabody Emerson	England and Egypt	1880s		Amelia is archeologist
Peters, Ellis	Brother Cadfael	Shrewsbury, England	1100s		Brother Cadfael is Benedictine monk and herbalist
Peterson, Audrey		Oxford, England	Present
Phillips, Arthur	Harold Ferrell	Australia, Egypt, England, Boston, MA			literature; not mystery
Pickard, Nancy	Jenny Cain	Port Frederick, MA	Present		Jenny manages Port Frederick Civic Foundation
Pickens, Cathy	Avery Andrews	Dacus, SC	Present		Avery is attorney who has returned to her home town to practice
Piesman, Marissa	Nina Fischman	New York, NY	Present		Nina is housing court attorney
Poe, Edgar Allan	C. Auguste Dupin	Paris, France	1830s		The Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered first detective story, but it is short story; not novel
Poulson, Christine	Cassandra James	Ely, Cambridge, and rural East Anglia, UK	Present		Cass is English Literature Professor at St. Ethelreda's College, Cambridge. Cass's friend and neighbor, Melissa, disappears leaving her baby, Agnes. Cass takes care of Agnes while searching for Melissa.
Prabhu, Manjiri	Sonia Samarth	Pune, India	Present		more a collection of short stories than novel
Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child	Agent Pendergast	Medicine Creek, KS	Present		GG
Preston, M. K.	Chantalene Morrell	Tetumka, OK	Present
Pronzini, Bill	Jake Runyan and Tamara Corbin	San Francisco, CA
Pronzini, Bill	Nameless	San Francisco, CA