Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Racculia, Kate	Rabbit Hatmaker and his twin sister, Alice	Clinton's Kill, NY	late 1990's		Rabbit and his sister are high school music students attending Statewide music festival held at the Hotel Bellweather. Book has won an Alex Award, but I didn't finish it.
Rankin, Ian	John Rebus and Siobhan Clarke	Edinburgh, Scotland	Present		John is detective inspector and Siobhan's supervisor. Excellent writing and characters, but should be rated 5.5 because some details too gritty.
Rankin, Ian	Gordon Reeve	North Uist, Outer Hebrides, London, UK, Limoges, France, Washington, D.C., San Diego, CA	1995		Gordon is former British Special Forces operative. When he learns his brother, John, committed suicide in San Diego, CA, Gorden travels there, and discovers that John's death was a homicide. Gordon discovers his journalist brother was investigating an agribusiness company and pesticide-linked health problems. GG
Raybourn, Deanna	Veronica Speedwell and Revelstoke (Stoker) Templeton-Vane	London, UK	1888		Veronica is a lepidopterist, and Stoker is the younger brother of Viscount Templeton-Vane.
Reaves, Sam	Cooper MacLeish	Chicago, IL	Present		Cooper is taxi driver; well-written, but too violent
Redmond, Heather	Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth	Greater London, England	1835		Charles Dickens is invited to have Epiphany dinner with his boss, George Hogarth, and family. During dinner the Hogarth family and guest hear screams from a neighboring house, and Charles, George, and George's nineteen-year-old daughter, Kate, run next door to investigate. They find a seriously-ill young woman crumpled on the floor, and the young lady lives only a few more hours. When Charles learns that exactly one year before, on Epiphany, another young lady in the same neighborhood died in a similar manner, he and Kate set out to discover what happened to both young women. Good story and characters; rated 5 instead of 6 because no description of surroundings.
Reed, Mary and Eric Mayer	John the Lord Chamberlain	Constantinople, Turkey	520-540 C.E.		John is former Greek mercenary, who was captured, castrated, and sold into slavery in Constantinople
Reeve, Clara	Sir Philip Harclay	Northern England	Medieval		Written in 1777; one of the early English-language gothic novels. Sir Philip returns to England after many years in the Middle East to find that his friend, Arthur Lord Lovel, died fighting in Wales, and his younger brother has come into possession of Arthur's estate and sold the estate to the Fitz-Owen family. A peasant boy who is being raised with the Fitz-Owen sons, and looks a great deal like Lord Lovel, sleeps in the old east wing of the house and hears groans in the night, which eventually leads to the discovery of a trunk containing Lord Lovel's bones. They find that the younger brother killed Lord Lovel to obtain the estate, and that the peasant boy is Lord Lovel's son.
Reichs, Kathy	Temperance Brennan	Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Present		Temperance is forensic anthropologist
Rendon, Marcie R.	Renee Blackbear, called "Cash", a 19-year-old member of the White Earth Chippawa Tribe	Fargo, ND	1970		Cash was removed from her mother by social workers when she was a child, and she doesn't know where her mother or siblings are. She doesn't know who her father is. She supports herself by doing farm labor and by being a very good pool player. Sheriff Wheater befriends Cash and helps her rent a tiny apartment. Cash learns that a murdered Indian man was dumped near where she saw a pickup idling one night, and she investigates and eventually identifies the guilty men and turns them in to Sheriff Wheaton.
Reynolds, Fr. Brad	Fr. Mark Townsend	Seattle, WA	Present
Ricca, Brad	Grace Winterton Quackenbos Humiston	New York City and rural Mississippi	early 1900s		True story of woman who graduated from NYU Law School in 1903 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1905. She was called "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" in the newspapers because she solved a case the New York Police Department could not solve. Due to her risk-taking investigation of peonage* on a Mississippi plantation, she was appointed special assistant to the United State District Attorney during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. High rating for the exhaustive research and documentation, but lower rating for the writing and organization of book. *Peonage -- The plantation was bringing in immigrants to work the plantation and due to the high prices of food at the plantation's store plus 10% interest on unpaid amounts, the immigrants were never able to get out of debt and leave the plantation.
Richman, Phyllis	Chas (Charlotte A.) Wheatly	Washington, D. C.	Present		Chas is restaurant critic
Rickman, Phil	Rev. Merrily Watkins	England	Present
Riley, Vanessa	Lady Abigail Worthing	London, England, UK	1805		Lady Abigail is a racially-mixed woman who is involved in the abolitionist movement with William Wilberforce. Abigail's next-door neighbor, Juliet Henderson, is strangled in Abigail's yard. At Juliet's funeral, her maid asks Abigial to meet her the next day, but when Abigail goes to the meeting, she finds the maid has been murdered. Abigail investigates and eventually discovers the guilty parties. Book would have been rated at 4 cornormants but lowered to 3 due to GG.
Rinehart, Mary Roberts			early 1900s		HIBK author
Riordan, Rick	Tres Navarre	San Antonio, TX	Present
Ripley, Ann	Louise Eldredge	Washington, D. C.	Present		Louise is co-host of garderning program
Ripley, J. R.	Tony Kozol	Sedona, AZ	Present		Tony is musician and former attorney
Roberts, Gillian	Amanda Pepper	Philadelphia, PA	Present		Amanda is school teacher
Roberts, Lora	Charlotte Dodson	England	1903		Charlotte is Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper
Roberts, Lora	Liz Sullivan	Palo Alto, CA	Present		Liz is free-lance writer
Roberts, Wendy	Sadie Novak	Seattle, WA	Present		Sadie operates a crime-scene clean-up business. She became able to see and talk to dead people after her brother--who had that ability--died. Good plot, but I didn't like the writing.
Robertson, Eileen	Ben and Rosa Hammond and Anna	Yorkshire, UK	Present		Ben is retired, Rosa is Mrs. Hammond, and Anna is Rosa's sister and retired police detective
Robinson, Lynda S.	Lord Meren and his son, Kysen	Egypt	ancient
Rohmer, Sax		London, England	early 1900s
Roosevelt, Elliot	Eleanor Roosevelt	Washington, D. C.	1940s
Rosenberg, Robert	Avram Cohen	Jerusalem, Israel	Present
Rosenfeld, Arthur	Nestor Dark	New York, NY and Santa Barbara, CA	Present
Rosenfelt, David	Andy Carpenter	New Jersey	Present		Andy is defense attorney
Rosenfelt, David	The K Team (Corey Douglas, retired Paterson PD, Laurie Collins, Marcus Clark, and Simon Garfunkel [Corey's retired police German Shepherd])	Paterson, NJ	Present		The K Team work with semi-retired defense attorney, Andy Carpenter.
Rosett, Sara	Kate Sharp	Nether Woodsmoor, England	Present		Kate is location scout for movie company
Rothenberg, Rebecca	Claire Sharples	Visalia, CA	Present		Claire is mycologist
Rowland, Laura Joh	Sanyo Ichiro and his wife	Japan	1700s
Rozan, S. J.	Lydia Chin and Bill Smith	New York NY	Present
Ryan, Annelise	Mattie Winston	Sorenson, WI	present		Mattie is surgical nurse who after catching her husband in a close encounter with another surgical nurse, changes to a job as Assistant Medical Examiner. When the nurse who "encountered" Mattie's husband shows up on the autopsy table, Mattie must find out the real bad guy to clear her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
Ryan, Annelise	Morgan Carter	Green Bay and Bayfield, WI	present		Morgan is a cryptozoologist who hunts for Big Foot and other rumored creatures, and she also owns Odds and Ends shop in Green Bay. A ranger from Bayfield, Charlotte (Charlie) Aberdeen, asks Morgan to come to Bayfield because there have been two deaths there that some people are attributing to Big Foot. Morgan and her dog, Newt, discover who is really guilty.
Ryan, Jennifer	Mrs. Phyllis Braithwaite	Ashcombe and London, U.K.	1941		Mrs. Braithwaite was the leading lady of Ashcombe's WVS until after she became socially unacceptable due to a divorce, the WVS ladies threw her out as president. She decided to go to London to visit her daughter, Betty, but when Mrs. Braithwaite arrived at Betty's lodging, she found that Betty had been missing for several days, and her housemates knew nothing of her whereabouts. When Mrs. Braithwaite went to Betty's job, the management told her they had never had a Betty Braithwaite working there. Mrs. Braithwaite and Betty's landlord, Mr. Norris, search for Betty, discover she really works for MI5, and rescue Betty from a Fascist organization that has captured her. So enjoyable I almost didn't want the story to end.