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Aarons, Kathy	Michelle and Erica operate the Chocolates and Chapters shop in West Riverdale, MD
Abresch, Peter
Adams, Douglas
Airth, Rennie	In 1932, John Madden comes out of retirement when a girl's corpse is found near his home in rural England.
Alexander, David
Allan, Barbara	Brandy Borne and her mother, Vivian, create a hit TV series, Antiques Sleuths
Allen, Grant
Alter, Robert Edmond
Ames, Delano L.
Andersen, Laura	Carragh Ryan is hired to catalog the library in Ireland's Deeprath Castle, but finds many strange things happening. Described as "perfect for lovers of gothic tales and mysteries".
Anderson, Poul
Andrew, Sally	Tannie Maria is a culinary and advice columnist in South Africa. When a woman she has been advising is murdered, Tannie Maria gets involved in the investigation.
Andrews, Mary Kay	Callahan Garrity leaves the Atlanta P.D. to become a freelance P.I. and to operate her House Mouse cleaning business. When her former PD partner is shot during an apparent liquor store robbery, Callahan is devastated, and when rumors begin that her former partner was crooked, she must investigate to clear his name. Author Andrews wries a second series about Riley Griggs, Belle Island, NC
Andrews, Miles Keaton
Angela, Mary	Zo Jones operates a gift shop in Spirit Canyon, SD. When Zo's friend, Beth, becomes the prime suspect for a murder at her hotel, Spirit Canyon Lodge, Zo puts her investigative skills to work.
Anthony, Peter	Peter Anthony is pen name for Peter Shaffer, playwrite who wrote "Amadeus" and Anthony Shaffer, playwrite for "Sleuth"
Archibald, Malcolm	Dundee, Scotland 1862, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate a mill that has been destroyed by fire. DS Watters discovers that other local properties have also suffered from fires, and that the mill's owner may be connected to a conspiracy with foreign powers.
Ard, William
Arlen, Tessa	Lady Montford and her housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson; England, early 1900s
Armstrong, Charlotte
Ashley, Jennifer	Kat Holloway, victorian mysteries
Atkinson, Deborah Turrell
Aubert, Bridgette
Austin, Terri L.	Rose Strickland, waitress and part-time student; "Diner, Dives & Dead Ends"
Avallone, Michael
Babson, Marion	Trixie and her cat, Cho-Cho-San
Badal, Joseph
Baden, Michael and Linda Kenney
Bahal, Aniruddha
Bailey, H. C.
Bailey, Hilary
Bailey, Robert E.
Baker, Blythe	When the ship from Bombay carrying Rose Beckingham docks in London, Rose witnesses a murder on the dock, and she is plunged into an investigation that will lead her from London's highest society to London's jazz clubs.
Baker, John
Bailes, E. E.	Detective Arthur Beautyman was disgraced at work and his life has fallen so far apart so that he is living in his mother's basement. His mother volunteers Arthur to investigate for a friend when a young man who disappeared 3 years before is found recently dead in a Minnesota lake.
Ball, David
Ballard, Mignon
Banffy, Miklos	"The Remarkable Mrs. Anderson" is about a Hungarian reporter on vacation in Italy who stays ahead of a sinister group of art theives to return a da Vinci painting to the Budaspest Museum of Fine Arts.
Banks, Oliver T.	art world, author has Ph.D. in art history
Baron, Aileen
Barrett, Lorna	Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner, throws a housewarming party in her new apartment, and one of the guests is poisoned.
Bartlett, Joan
Baxt, George
Baxter, Cynthia
Bayer, William
Beck, Jessica	Suzanne Hart, owner of Donut Heart coffee shop in April Springs, NC
Becka, Elizabeth
Becker, James	Book seller, Robin Jessup, finds a medieval book that turns out to be a safe instead of a book. Inside is a parchment written in code. Encryption expert, David Mallory, finds a clue that unlocks the code, and in the manuscript, Robin and David find a mystery stretching back seven centuries to Philip IV and the Knights Templar.
Belldene, Amber	When California's poet laureate is found dead in Grace Cathedral's labyrinth, the bishop appoints priest Alma Lee as police liaison.
Belfoure, Charles	Douglas Layton is the architect who designed the Britannia Theatre, and when a balcony collapses killing people, he is blamed. Douglas knows the flaw wasn't in his design, and when he is finally released from prison, he begins to search for the person who planted the fault.
Bell, Albert A., Jr.
Bell, Annis and Edwin Miles	Lady Jane slips away from her debutant ball and discovers a gravely-injured girl in the garden. As the child is dying, she begs Lady Jane to find another girl, Mary, and save Mary fron the same fate.
Bell, Cindy	Charlotte and Ally Sweet operate "Chocolate Heaven". When one of the shop's nieghbors is murdered, Charlotte and Ally set out to discover who dunnit. Their pot-bellied pig, Arnold, and cat, Peaches, help with the sleuthing.
Bell, Maymee	Sophia Cummings, a pastry chef in Rumford, KY, agrees to create her friend's wedding cake. The kitchen of the Rumford Country Club, alas, contains the body of Chef Emile sprawled near the stove with a cast iron skillet on the nearby floor. Ms. Bell also writes as Tonya Kappes.
Bell, Ted
Benn, James R.	Boston police officer, Billy Boyle, is recruited to be General Dwight Eisenhower's detective during WWII (because Billy's mother is a distant cousin of Gen. Eisenhower's wife). Plot involves a probable German spy among the Norwegian government in exile while planning the Allied invasion of Norway.
Benn, Marlowe	Julia Kydd is busy attempting to establish her own publishing business in New York in 1924, and she has no time for politics and women's suffrage. However, when her friend's sister, Naomi Rankin, a women's rights activist, dies of an apparent suicide, Julia investigates and finds that Naomi chose poverty and hardship over a submissive marriage and a husband's control over her money, and that her death might also be payment for her independence.
Benson, Clara	Angela Marchmont; 1920s; English country house murder
Benson, Raymond
Berbiary, Maggie	NYPD Robby Crawford
Berlinski, Claire	Selena Keller has a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies, but no job. On a whim, she sends her resume to the CIA and is accepted as a Clandestine Service Trainee. The loneliness and isolation of her job lead Selena into an inadvisable relationship with fellow student.
Bernhardt, William
Berry, Linda
Beville, C. L.
Billingham, Mark
Birkby, Michalle	Mrs. Hudson and Mary Watson (Dr. Watson's wife) investigate when women start dying in a hospital ward.
Birtcher, Baron
Bishop, David	Rick Carnes' sergeant asked Rick to "help my family" with his last breath. After Rick musters out of the army, he heads to Angels Camp, CA to fulfill his sergeant's request.
Bishop, Stacey
Bissell, Sally	Special prosecutor Mary Crow is sent to Campbell County, NC to investigate a possible anti-gay conspiracy between a recent murder and a homophobic preacher.
Black, Ethan
Blake, Bethany	Daphne Templeton and her unflappable basset hound, Socrates
Blake, Heather	Darcy Merriweather and her sister, Harper, discover they are Wishcrafters, witches with the power to grant wishes with spells, and they need all their magic when they find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation.
Blakely, Mike
Blevins, Meredith	When Annie�s oldest friend turns up dead, she returns to her roots—and her family�s magic—in order to solve the mystery.
Block, Sandra	Dr. Zoe Goldman is psychiatrist in Buffalo, NY clinic. She investigates mystery of catatonic patient.
Board, Sherri
Bocho, Steven
Bolton, Denniger
Bolton, S. J.
Born, James O.	Tim Hallett, police K-9 unit with Belgian Malinois named Rocky, Florida, described as "gritty police thriller"; author is former NARC and is police-detail consultant with mystery authors
Bourdain, Anthony
Bovee, Kari	Annie Oakley, at 15-years old, is the sole supporter of her widowed mother and two siblings. After a stunning performance in a shooting contest against a famous sharpshooter, Annie is offered a position in the renowned Buffalo Bill�s Wild West Show. Finally, she has a chance to save the nearly foreclosed family farm and make her dreams come true, but when 2 people are murdered and Annie's prize horse is stolen, she must solve mysteries.
Box, C. J.	Joe Pickett, game warden, Wyoming; author has won Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), Macavity Award, Gumshoe Award, Barry Award, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction, the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature, and the Spur Award from Western Writers of America
Boyer, Susan M.	P.I.s Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews investigate when Darius DeAndre Baker, retired star of a TV hit show, is charged with the killing of his one-time lover, Trina Lynn Causby, in his home town of Stella Maris, SC. The author has won an Agatha Award.
Boyles, Amy	Pepper Dunn is a witch, who inherits a pet store in magical Magnolia Cove, AL.
Bradby, Tom
Bradford, Laura	Claire Weatherly finds a dead body while walking a corn maze in Heavenly, PA, and she sets out to solve the puzzle aided by Amish Detective Jakob Fisher--who is also the son of the man who was murdered.
Bramseth, Jennifer	Judge Greer Galloway's mentor, Judge Winslow, is temporarily assigned to the supreme court. As he begins his assignment, he escapes an attack that is creepily similar to the victim in the murder case he is trying. Set in Devil Springs, KY.
Branch, Pamela	Described as: "There are a great many clever mysteries, but few reach the heights of creativity and nonsense spun by Branch".
Brand, Christianna
Brandon, Ali	Darla and her cat, Hamlet, operate Pettistone's Fine Books. Set at Florida chapter of Feline Society of America's cat show. The author also writes as Diane A. S. Stuckart
Brandt, Lucinda	Alec, Lord Halsey, is attending a private dinner party when the vicar seated next to him drops dead. Alec must find out who wanted this harmless man out of the way. Set in 1760s London.
Brecher, Christin	Nantucket candle store owner, Stella Wright, created the centerpiece unity candle for Jessica Sterling's candlelight wedding ceremony, but when Jessica's uncle is found stabbed to death by Stella's unity candle, Stella decides to investigate.
Breen, Susan	Maggie Dove operates a detective agency in a small Hudson River town. Her client's sister falls from a tower at Stern Manon, and Maggie must find out if the fall was an accident or something more sinister.
Bridge, Kathleen	Manhattan author, Liz Holt, moves to a Florida barrier island to spark her writing career, but when a body sweeps in on the tide, Liz must find out who is behind the mayhem.
Brill, Marius
Broadbent, Tony
Broderick, William
Brooks, Elizabeth	Freya Lyell is still grieving for her sister, Stella, who died five years before, when Freya visits a spooky house and finds a portrait of Stella. Described as "gothic".
Brown, Duffy	Evie Bloomfield goes to Macinac Island, MI to operate her boss's father's bicycle shop while the man recovers from a broken leg. When Bunny Harrington, a local resident, dies in a bicycle accident that may not have been an accident, Evie must find the answers.
Brown, Frederick
Brown, Janelle	A wife and mother goes on a solo hike near her California home and vanishes. The only items recovered are a hiking boot and a smashed mobile phone, and the woman is presumed dead. One year later, the woman's daughter begins having visions and becomes certain her mother is alive.
Brown, Josie	Donna Stone was an ordinary Orange County housewife until her husband was killed by a terrorist cell. Donna finds that the terrorist organization wants something her husband had in his possession, and to protect herself, she takes a job with Acme Corporation, the black ops organization her husband worked for.
Brown, Joyce Ann	Beth and her Psycho Cat solve mysteries in Kansas City.
Browne, Marshall
Bruns, Catherine	Sally Muccio is a baker who returns to Colwestern, NY after a disastrous marriage ending, and her ex-husband's mistress appears dead on Sally's doorstep
Bruns, Don
Bryant, Mollie Cox	Brynne MacAlister moves to the Blue Ridge Mountains to operate an organic dairy. A neighbor's death in a fire plus the town's animosity toward Brynne's cows forces Brynne to investigate.
Buckalew, Walter
Buckley, Julia	Lena London has long enjoyed Camilla Graham's mystery novels, so Lena can't believe her luck when she gets a job Camilla's assistant. But Lena doesn't feel so lucky when she finds a dead body on Camilla's property, and she must take a page from a mystery novel and find the perpetrator. One of the author's novels has been named a "noteworthy traditional mystery" by Writer's Digest.
Budewitz, Leslie	runs a Seattle spice shop. Author has won Agatha Award for past book
Burke, Thomas
Bush, Nancy
Bussi, Michel	Inspector Laurenc Serenac, Giverny, France
Butler, Ellis Parker
Butler, Robert Olen
Byrnes, M. V.	Isabel Puddles investigates to clear her friend, Earl Jonasson, Jr., of charges of murder. Set in Gull Harbor, MI.
Byron, Ellen	Maggie returns to her family's Louisiana bed and breakfast to find two murdered guests
Calapinto, John
Caldwell, Joseph	"The Pig Did It" is about an American creative-writing teacher, Aaron McCloud, who goes to his Aunt Kitty's house in Ireland "because he is feeling sorry for himself", but when a pig digs up a skeleton in Aunt Kitty's vegetable garden, Aaron's pity party gets derailed. Described as "hilariously witty" and "blend of satiric comedy and suspensful mystery with a nod to Irish mythology".
Canadeo, Anne	The Black Sheep knitting ladies. One title is "A Dark and Stormy Knit"
Canales, Juan Diaz
Cannell, Stephen
Canterbury, Patricia
Cantrell, Janet	Charity (Chase) Oliver and her butterscotch tabby, Quincy, operate Bar None dessert bar business in Minneapolis
Carbo, Christine	Monty Harris is a police officer in Glacier National Park
Cardin, Christine
Carr, Glyn
Carter, Ali	Pet portraitist, Susie Mahl, is visitng the English village, Spire, when her friend, Lord Greengrass, is found dead. Susie's eye for art helps her observe what others miss.
Carter, Charlotte
Case, John
Cash, Dixie
Caspery, Vera
Cass, Laurie	Minnie Hamilton and her cat, Eddie, drive bookmobile in Chilson, Michigan
Cassutt, Michael
Castle, Alice	Beth Haldane thought she was only going for a stroll with her new puppy, Teddy, and her best friend, Katie, but she ends up embroiled in strange events in her family's past and present day skulduggery in London's art world.
Cattrell, Bailey	Elliana Allbright operates a perfume shop in Poppyville, CA. When a local history professor is found dead in the town's museum along with a rare and valuable manuscript, Elliana searches for answers.
Chang, Leonard
Charbonneau, Joelle	Paige is glee club leader whose star tenor drops dead before the holiday show.
Charles, Paul
Charlton, Karen	When a young heriess disappears from her locked bedroom, her uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant, Constable Woods. The townsfolk think the heiress was kidnapped by means of witchcraft. Northumberland, UK 1809.
Charteris, Leslie
Chase, Erika
Cheng, Terrance
Chesney, Marion
Chittenden, Margaret
Churchill, Jill
Clark, Julie	Clair and Eva are strangers who both have reasons to disappear. They meet at an airport bar and swap tickets, IDs, and phones. However, after Eva's flight crashes, Clair finds herself in a new existence even more perilous than her previous life.
Clark, Louise	Christie Jamieson, in Vancouver, Canada, is searching for her missing husband and solves mysteries with the help of her cat, Stormy.
Cleland, Jane K.	Josie Prescott, antiques appraiser, Rocky Point, NH
Clement, Blaize and John	Dixie Hemingway, pet sitter, Siesta Key
Cochran, Peg	1938. Elizabeth Adams becomes a press photographer for the Daily Trumpet, While on assignment on Long Island, Elizabeth and her colleague, reporter Ralph Kaminsky, discover a maid, dead and pregnant. The maid's boyfriend is the likliest suspect, but Elizabeth and Ralph find other suspects as they keep digging.
Coco, Nancy	Ellie McMurphy is fudge shop owner on Mackinac Island.
Cody, Liza
Cole, Jamison
Coles, Manning	Pseudonym for Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Manning. Cyril worked in British intelligence during both WWI and WWII. Adelaide worked in War Office during WWII. Main character is Tommy Hambledon, British agent.
Collins, Mary	Set in fog-shrouded Northern California in the 1940s. Good reviews.
Collins, Michael
Connolly, Sheila	Series 1: Maura Donovan is new owner of Sullivan's Pub in County Cork, Ireland and Series 2: Katherine Hamilton returns to hometown of Asheboro, MD when asked to restore a historic mansion and finds her high school nemesis dead in the mansion
Connors, Rose
Conrad, Barnaby
Conroy, Vivian	Costume-maker Guinevere acceps a job making costumes for a medieval trial reenactment at a castle off the Cornwall coast. When the reenactment ends in a real-life murder, Guinevere and her dachshund, Dolly, dig into the island community's secrets.
Conte, Cate	Maddie James--perhaps a cat whisperer--operates a cat cafe on Daybreak Island off the Massachusetts coast
Conway, Martha
Cooper, E. W.	Penelope Harris travels from Shanghai to New York City in 1928 to start a new life, but when someone murders the person who has been blackmailing Penelope and Thom, the man Penelope loves, is accused of the crime, Penelope must sort through all the tangles to find out what happened.
Corbett, David
Corcoran, Tim
Cornick, Nicola	The wasted Ashdown House in Oxfordshire unites three women across four centuries in a tangle of intrigue, deceit, and destiny.
Correa, Arnoldo
Corrigan, Maya	Caterer Val Deniston is hired to prepare a replica of the last meal served on the Titanic during a yacht cruise. Unfortunately, one of the passengers disappears while the guests play a murder mystery game.
Corris, Peter	Australia, "Trais McGee meets Lew Archer"
Costello, Mark
Cox, Michelle	Henrietta Von Harmon accepts a risky assignment as an undercover in a seedy burlesque club where an elusive gangster is believed to hide out. Set in Depression-era Chicago.
Crabbe, Richard E.
Crais, Robert
Crawford, Isis	Bernie and Libby Simmons, sisters and caterers, Longley, NY
Crumley, James
Cullen, Robert	Colin Burke has been recalled to Washington and given an editor's job, but he wants to be back in Russia. A murder that seems to have connections to the Hermitage gives him back his reporter's notebook and a ticket to St. Petersburg.
Cutler, Judith
D'Alessandro, Ruth	Not fiction--true story of author's mother's career as WPC in 1950's England
Daley, Kathi	Jillian Hanford, who lives at a writers' retreat on Gull Island, South Carolina
Daly, Carroll John
Davidson, Hilary	NYPD Detective Sheryn Sterling wonders if the death of Alex Traynor's friend, Cori, was really an accident. Alex, a wartime photojournalist suffering from PDTD, got exonerated when Cori's death was ruled a suicide, but when Alex's fiance disappears, Sheryn determines to not let Alex harm anyone again. Probably a thriller.
Davies, David Stuart	Sherlock Holmes
Davis, Fiona	Journalist explores mystery at the Barbizon Hotel
Davis, Frederick C.
Davis, Kenn	Carver Bascombe, an African-American Vietnam veteran with a military police background, who is a private investigator in San Francisco. The author was nominated for two Edgar awards.
Davis, Krista	Holly Miller, inn keeper, Wagtail. VA. Holly's investigations are assisted by her Jack Russel terrior, Trixie, and her cat, Twinkletoes.
Davis, Lindsey	Rome, 90 CE, Falco and his daughter, Flavia Albia
Davis, Val
Deaver, Jeffrey
DeMarnis, Rick
Derleth, August
Dewberry, Elizabeth
de Fonte, Ugo
Dickenson, John
Dickenson, Peter
Dickinson, David
Dobbs, Leighann and Harmony Williams	Set in Regency England, Lady Katherine, assisted by her pilfering pug, Emma, and her Bow Street Runner friend, Lyle, investigates an accident that turns out to be murder.
Dobyns, Stephen
Dodge, David
Domning, Denise	Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's new Crowner, investigates the mysterious death of Sir Rober de Offord.
Donohue, Rachel	A journalist researches the mystery that happened 25 years before of the disappearance a scholarship student at Temple University and the school's art teacher.
Dufresne, Jerilyn	Sam Darling and her dog, Clancy
Dugoni, Robert	The author is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction, the Spotted Owl Award for the best novel in the Pacific Northwest. He is also A finalist for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel, a finalist for the International Thriller Writers award, and the Mystery Writers of America Award for best novel.
DuMond, Pamela	Annie helps a ghostly Dr. Fuller find his murderer
Duncan, Alice	1920's Daisy Gumm Majesty supports her family as a spiritualist. When Mrs. Pinkerton's daughter is arrested, Daisy picks up her Ouija board for the first time since her husband's death.
Duncan, Francis	Mordecai Tremaine is an amateur sleuth who needing a vacation visits the island, Moulon d'Or, but even on vacation, Mordecai finds a mystery to solve.
Duncan, Sharon
Dunnett, Kaitlyn	Mikki Lincoln returns to her former home, Lenape Hollow, in New York's Catskill Mountains and works as a free-lance editor. Titles include "Crime and Punctuation" and "Clause and Effect". Also has series about Liss MacCrimmon, who owns Scottish Emporium in Moosetookalook, ME. When she finds a treasure map at the old Chadwick Mansion's estate sale, her curiosity leads her to a dead body.
Eaton, J.C.	Norrie Ellington operates Two Witches Winery in Seneca Lakes, NY, and while she is preparing for the "Deck the Halls Around the Lake" festivities along with other local wineries, someone hijacks the trucks carrying pinot noir.
Eddings, David and Leigh
Edwards, Ruth Dudley
Eichler, Alfred
Ehrhart, Peggy	Pamela and her friends in the Knit and Nibble club solve a bone-chilling mystery in Arborville.
Elgar, Emily	Alice Marlowe, an ICU nurse at St. Catherine's Hospital, become obsessed with hit-and-run victim, Cassie Jensen. Alice investigates Cassie's life and discovers who is a danger to Cassie. Plot also told from standpoint of Frank, a patient in the same ward who has locked-in syndrome--he can hear and see everything around him but cannot speak. Frank realizes he has the answers to who wants to do away with Cassie, but he cannot tell anyone.
Elbing, Peter
Ellicott, Jessica	In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay.
Elliot, Anna	characters from Jane Austin's novels
Elliott, Lauren	Addie Greyborne is a rare books expert at the Boston Public Library, so when a great aunt leaves Addie an inheritance that includes many first editions, Addie opens a bookstore. Unfortunately, woes galore plague the bookstore, and Addie must solve the mysteries to get her bookstore running properly. One book's plot involves an 1843 edition of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
Elliott, Lexie	Emily attends the annual Oxford fellow trip to the Chalet des Anglais, but before she leaves, her home and office are broken into. Then, on the trip, a student goes missing, and Emily must get busy detecting.
Emmons, Cai
Engol, Howard
Ephron, G. H.	Peter Zak, forensic neuropsychologist
Erickson, Alex	Krissy Hancock and her friend open a bookstore-care in Pine Hill, OH. On their first day of business, a client who has a severe peanut allergy drops dead while drinking their coffee. Krissy must find out how peanuts got into the man's coffee.
Estleman, Loren
Evans, Mary Anna	Faye Longchamp is an archaeologist
Evesham, Frances	Libby Forest and her Springer Spaniel, "Shipley", discover a body under the lighthouse while they are walking on the beach at Exham on Sea, England. They join forces with Max Ramshore and "Bear", a sheepdog, to discover what really happened.
Fair, A. A.
Fairbanks, Nancy
Fairman, Paul W.
Falconieri, David
Fardig, Caroline	Quinn Bellandini runs her grandfather's B&B in Savannah, GA. When her friend, Drew's, chef brother is found murdered and Drew and she are the chief suspects, Quinn gets busy to find the real culprit.
Fawcett, Quinn
Feliz, Mary	Maggie McDonald's sons discover a badly injured hang glider in the cliffs along Monterey Bay. Despite their efforts at aid, the man dies, and Maggie's family members become the chief suspects.
Fergus, Charles	Gideon Stoltz is the new sheriff in 1835 Adamant, PA. When Gideon is faced with investigatig his first death, his youth, his Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry in Adamant's back-country Scotch-Irish settlement, and his friendship with the dead person make Gideon a person of suspicion to the town people.
Ferrars, E. X.	Retired botany professor Andrew Basnett is dragged to the British countryside to help a former colleague's friend who has received a note saying "I know where you buried the body."
Fiffer, Sharon
Finch, Kay	Sabrina Tate and her cat, Hitchcock, Lavender, TX
Finney, Patricia
Finsilver, Janet	Kelly Jackson manages Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast in Redwood Cove (Mendocino, CA) and gets busy when a woman who Kelly hasn't seen since the 1960s is found dead near the bed and breakfast. Story includes a dog with special abilities.
Fish, Robert	Captain Jose Da Silva, Brazil, Edgar winner 1962
Fitz, Molly	A zap from an old coffeemaker left the narrator with supernatural abilities, and she can now speak with Octo-Cat (complete name: Octavius Maxwell Ricardo Edmund Frederick Fulton). Now Octo-Cat is telling her that the law firm's new intern paralegal is an extremely wicked criminal.
Fitzwater, Judy	Jennifer Marsh wants to be a mystery writer, but she keeps solving mysteries
Flower, Amanda	Bailey King has quit her big-city job and returned home to run a candy shop with her Amish grandmother. Bailey's former boyfriend wants to film the candy shop as part of an Amish Christmas special, but when the executive producer is murdered, Bailey must investigate. The author has won an Agatha Award.
Forester, C. S.	Yes, the C. S. Forester also wrote mystery novels
Fox, Angie	Verity Long's roommate--well, actually a ghost--needs Verity's help to solve a Great Gatsby-era coldcase.
Fox, Sarah	Marley McKinney, owner of the Flip Side Pancake House, volunteers to serve in Wildwood Cove's amatuer chef competition, but when the spring floodwaters wash out the skeleton of a woman who vanished 10 years before and some of the cook-off contestants become mysteriously ill, Marley must discover what is going on.
Fredericks, Mariah	Jane Prescott is a maid working for members of 1910's New York society. Jane is able to study and solve a murder because no sees a servant.
Freedman, J. F.
Freeland, Liz	Louise Falk flees her home town for the possibilities of New York City in 1913, but when she investigates a murder in which a former suiter is the prime suspect, she find the seediest corners of the city.
Freeling, Nicholas
Freeman, Brian	Psycholgical thrillers; won International Thriller Writers award for Best Hardcover Novel in the annual Thriller Awards
Furst, Alan
Fusili, Jim
Gaboriau, Emile	Monsier Lecoq, who was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eug�ne Fran�ois Vidocq. France, 1860s.
Gabriel, Marcus
Gabriele, Lisa	"…echoes the classic Rebecca but is a beautifully crafted, haunting thriller of its own that defies expectations at every turn." Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestseller.
Garner, Deborah	set in New Mexico "full of intrigue, secrets, and romance"
Gaspard, John	Magician Eli Marks is hired to perform his magic act at a charity ball, but the evening turns unmagical when two of the show's sponsors are found murdered. Worse, Eli's ex-wife and her new husband, a homicide detective, are in the audience. Eli and his nemesis must find the answers before the 800 guests depart.
Gates, Eva	Lucy Richardson is the librarian at Bodie Island, North Carolina's Lighthouse Library. She sees mysterious lights, which cause a small boat to crash into the coast. The two people in the boat survive the wreck, but one of them shows up dead a few days later.
Gatewood, Robert
Gellis, Roberta
Gentill, Sulari	Four strangers are sharing a table at the Boston Public Library when a scream pierces the quiet of the reading room. The four develop a tenuous friendship as they investigate the mystery behind the scream.
George, Kathleen
Geraci, Maria	The FBI hides an agent who has been undercover with one of the country's largest organized crime families in sleepy Whispering Bay, Florida until it is time for the agent to testify. When an attempt is made on the agent's life, local police officer Travis Fortaine seeks baker Lucy McGuffin's help because Lucy is a human lie detector.
Gerber, Daryl Wood	Courtney Kelly owns a fairy garden business and teashop in Carmel, California. The business is going well until she finds next-door-store owner, Mick Watkins, dead beside the fountain on her store's patio.
Giacoletto, Loretta	Sisters Margo and Ellen Savino vacation in Italy. In Monterosso el Mare Ellen visits a town where gypsies are turning up dead, and when Margo arrives, she finds her life is in danger.
Giebfried, Laura	After she is dismissed from her doctoral program, Alexandra Durant becomes a maid for the Marlowe family at their island estate. She soon discovers that she has arrived in a reenactment of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Gilbert, Heather Day	Exotic pet sitter Belinda Blake moves into a carriage house in Greenwich, CT--to find a dead body in the garden. The deceased was a friend of the family who own Belinda's rental carriage house.
Gillard, Simon	The Teralov family are respected by everyone in Prague, so everyone is surprised when Peter Teralov is murdered. Detective Edgar Rollenvart and Peter's brother, Edgar, search through the cities of 1920s Czechoslovakia for answers.
Giordano, Adrienne	Lucie Rizzo sets up a dog-walking career and hopes she can get away from her mob-family connections, but when 3 of her clients are dogjacked, Lucie has to solve the criminal conspiracy.
Giusti, Debby
Glazer, Melissa
Gleason, C. M.	During President Lincoln's inaugural ball in 1861, a man is found dead in a nearby room. President Lincoln's assistant, Adam Quinn, must find out how trouble got so close to the president. He is aided by journalist Sophie Gates and Dr. Hilton, a free man of color.
Gleeson, Janet
Glidewell, Jeanne	Rip and Rapella Ripple, retired and full-time RVers, head to Rockdale, MO to attend a friend's surprise birthday party. During the party, a guest is murdered, and the Ripples' friend is arrested. Rip and Rapella put their RV in Park and their investigative talents in Drive to clear their friend.
Goddard, Robert
Goddin, Nell	Molly Sutton, recently divorced, moves to the village of Castillac in France to open a B&B. Molly has barely gotten over jet lag when she learns of a local student's disappearance, and Molly is soon embroiled in the investigation along with the gendarmes.
Gold, Glen David
Goldenbaum, Sally
Gordon, Karen S.	Lauren Gold and Vance Courage purchase a West Texas guest ranch, but instead of entertaining guests, Lauren and Vance discover the resort is ground zero for a secret society of global power brokers with a shocking agenda that stretches from Silicon Valley . . . to Frankfurt . . . all the way to Capitol Hill.
Gordon, Nadia
Gordon, Willie	Noir, about a reporter in 1960s San Francisco
Gottlieb, Samuel Hirsch
Grace, Emmy	Annabelle Boucher was nearly killed by a dead body, and, then, she found a note that implicated her in the murder. Fortunately, Annabelle has the help of a surly ex-FBI agent, a 102-year-old mobster, and her menagerie of rescue animals to help her clear her name.
Grace, Fiona	Olivia Glass leaves her executive job in Chicago and relocates to Tuscany to grow a vineyard, but when someone turns up dead during the auction of a rare wine, Olivia must use her skills to find the perpetrator.
Grant, Tracey
Graves, Sarah	Jacobia Tiptree, Eastport, Maine
Gray, Juliana	Maximillian Haywood and his fellow researcher, Emmeline Truelove, go to the Orkney Islands to investigate a mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle. Set in 1906.
Greenwood, Diane
Greenwood, Patrice	Ellen Rosing operates Victorian tearoom in Santa Fe
Greiman, Lois	Chrissy, Los Angeles shrink and former cocktail waitress
Griffith, Kathryn Meyer	Charlotte returns to Mackinac Island to visit her aunt and renews her friendship with Hannah. When Hannah disappears while crossing the Ice Bridge, everyone but Charlotte believes it is an accident.
Griffo, J. D.	Alberta Scaglione and her granddaughter, Jinx, go jogging in Tranquility Park, but the park isn't tranquil when Alberta and Jinx discover a treehouse hidden in the trees and a dead body beneath the treehouse.
Haddock, Nancy	When Leslee Stanton Nix and her friends, the Silver Six, open their craft shop in Lilyville, AR, they invite Doralee Gordon to teach a gourd painting class. The class is interrupted when Doralee's ex-husband and his new fiancée crash the class. When the fiancée is found dead, Leslee and the Silver Six must find out who and why.
Haggard, Rider
Haines, Carolyn
Hall, Rachel Howzell	Los Angeles Homicide Inspector Louise (Lou) Norton investigates a death that may have links to the murder of Lou's sister thirty years ago. Another book is evocative of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Hallett, Janice	The Fairway Players, a British amateur theater company, raises money for the director's granddaughter's cancer treatments, but not every member of the cast is convinced the fundraising is legitimate./td>
Halliday, Gemma	Emmy Oak operates her family's Oak Valley Vineyard
Hamilton, Victoria	A few hours after Miss Emmaline St. Germaine holds a dagger to Sir Henry Claybourne because Miss Emmaline is rescuing a maid Sir Henry has procured for his pleasure, Sir Henry is murdered. Miss Emmaline must discover the real murderer to save her reputation and her life. Set in Regency London.
Hampton, Lynette Hall
Hanna, H. Y.	Poppy is thrilled when an unexpected inheritance makes it possible for her to leave her deadend job, but when she arrives in the English countryside to claim her cottage garden nursery, she finds that in addition to flowers, the nursery contains a dead body.
Harper, Jane	Federal Police Investigator Aaron Falk is sent to his hometown of Kiewarra, Victoria, Australia, to investigate his old friend's murder/suicide. Aaron's investigation turns up information that casts doubt on the murder/suicide charge. Author Harper has received a CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel.
Harris, Gregory	Victorian London's private detective, Colin Pendragon, with his partner, Ethan Pruitt, investigate the disappearance of wealthy financier, Edmond Connicle.
Harris, Rosemary
Harris, Sherry	Chloe Jackson heads out of Chicago winter to help her friend's grandmother operate the Sea Glass Saloon in Florida. Grandmother Vivi gets into a bitter argument with a customer, and when this customer is found dead behind the bar, Chloe investigates to clear Vivi.
Hart, Jennifer L.	Maggie Phillips accepts work cleaning house for her neighbors (because her family consisting of husband, a retired Navy SEAL, and two adopted boys can use the money). When one of her employer neighbors is accused of murder, Maggie searches for the killer while cleaning for people in Hudson, MA.
Hart, Liliana and Scott Silveri	Agatha Harley's best friend, Heather Cartwright, is arrested for the murder of a Dallas oil tycoon so Agatha and her boyfriend, former police officer Hank Davidson, investigate to find the real perpetrator.
Hartoin, A. W.	Marcy Watts works in the Columbia Clinic, and when a patient lands Mercy in the middle of a lawsuit, Mercy finds herself in a world of ordinary people doing unimaginable things.
Harvey, Miles
Hay, Mavis Doriel	Ms. Hay wrote during the British Golden Age of detective fiction. Dorothy L. Sayers reviewed one of Ms. Hay's books with: "[t]his detective novel is much more than interesting".
Hayton, Katherine	Hine Trewlove is a vegan yoga instructor, who can also understand dogs. Hine teaches a dog yoga class, in which she counsels anxious canines. When a dog turns up in class without his owner, Hine searches for the kidnapped woman.
Head, Matthew	Dr. Mary Finney, is a medical missionary in 1945 Congo. When a missionary doctor is killed, she finds the facts.
Heald, Gerald
Hearst, Patty
Hechtman, Betty
Hendy, Hannah	School cafeteria ladies Margery and Clementine find their manager's body in the cafeteria's freezer, and they go to work to find out who the culprit is."
Higashino, Keigo	Tokyo Police Department Detective Kiyochiro Kaga investigates a murder in which everyone working in the neighborhood emerges as a possible suspect.
Hiker, Mary	Avery Banks, who trains search and rescue dogs, and her Golden Retriever
Himes, Chester
Hinton, Lynne	Sister Eve, a motorcycle-riding, free-thinking nun
Hirsch, Paddy	New York, 1803. Justy Flanagan, City Marshall, and Kerry O'Toole, a teacher, investigate the stabbing of a young black girl. They uncover a provocateur pitting the city's black and Irish gangs against each other, along with political conspiracy mixed with criminal enterprise.
Hitchens, Delores	Rachel Murdock investigates a murder with some help from her cat.
Hoch, Ed	Nick Velvet steals only impossible things like a sea serpent and an entire baseball team; author wrote mainly short stories but a few novels; a Grand Master of MWA
Holford, Jody	Molly Owens is the new editor-in-chief of the Britton Bay, OR newpaper, when a murder at a local bed and breakfast claims her attention.
Hollis, Lee	Poppy Harmon begins a career as a private eye after she becomes a widow.
Holmes, Bobbi	Danielle Boatman inherits Marlowe House on the Oregon seashore; when she arrives, she discovers Walt Marlowe, who has been dead for 90 years, still in residence.
Holsinger, Bruce	John Gower, in Chaucer's London, manuscript that threatens the monarchy
Hood, Ann
Hooper, Chloe
Hornung, E. W.
Howard, Libby	When 60-year-old skip-tracer, Kay Carrera, recovers from cataract surgery, she discovers she can now see ghosts. When the dead ask her for help, she can't say no.
Ifkovic, Edward
Inbinder, Gary	Set in Paris 1889 during the opening of the Eiffel Tower
Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina	When Martha Andersson's retirement community begins to cut corners, Martha and her four closest friends—Brains, The Rake, Christina, and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—set about to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere.
Innes, Michael	Excellent reviews by Julian Symons
Jackson, Lisa	While Rachel Gaston was a teenager in Edgewater, OR, she was playing a game with an air pellet air gun, and when a figure leaped out at her from the darkness, she fired. Too late, she recognized her half-brother, Luke, with blood blooming around his chest. She still has no idea who replaced her air pellet gun with a real weapon, and despite years of counseling, Rachel's horrifying dreams continue. As her 20-year high school reunion nears, Rachel begins to experience even more unexplained events.
James, CeeCee	Stella O'Neil is starting a career as a realtor when she finds a body in the manor that once belonged to the town's "royal" family. A car chase in the dark frightens her, but she refuses to give up until she identifies the skeleton.
James, Peter	Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates an Internet romance scam.
Jamesson, Peter
Jenoff, Pam	Investigating a suitcase full of photographs leads Grace Healey to discover a network of female secret agents who went into Occupied Europe during WW2. Inspired by true events.
Jepson, Selwyn	Eve Gill is protagonist; set in post-WWII.
Jewell, Lisa	Alice finds a stranger outside her home on the British coast, and the stranger can't remember what is name is or how he got there. In London, Lily reports her husband missing and finds that the person she married doesn't exist. Interwoven with story of teenage siblings, Gray and Kirsty, two decades previously.
Johnson, Claire
Johnson, Craig	Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, investigate a hit-and-run event at the Sturgis Motorcycle Ralley. Things get complicated with rival biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Walt's granddaughter all involved. The author has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir, and the Prix SNCF du Polar.
Johnson, Kate/td>	Molly Higgins
Johnson, Kirk Wallace	True story about Edwin Rist, who stole hundreds of rare bird specimens--some colleted by Darwin's contemporary in the 1800s--from the British Museum of Natural History. Edwin Rist stole them because the exotic feathers were worth large sums of money to people who practiced the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Book was nominated for Gold Dagger and Edgar awards.
Johnson, Matt
Johnston, Tim	Audrey Sutter survives a car crash into Minnesota's Black Root River. Suspecting the crash was no accident, Audrey begins to investigate and finds links to a decade-old unsolved murder.
Jonasson, Ragnar	Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd�ttir of the Reykjavik Police is being forced into early retirement, but she is told to first investigate a cold case. The case she selects involves missing young women, and Hulda's force tries to put the brakes on the investigation. Described as "nordic noir".
Jones, Gin	Mabel inherits her aunt's garlic farm in Western Massachusetts and must rush to get the garlic crop harvested before rain destroys the garlic. As Mabel spends time on the farm, she begins to suspect her aunt's death was not accidental.
Kaaberb�l, Lene and Agnete Friis	A nurse discovers an abandoned three-year-old boy at a train station and desperately treks across Denmark to figure out who�s trying to hunt him down; compared to Stieg Larrson
Kaapes, Tonya	When a plastic Santa falls on her head, undertaker Emma Lee Raines became able to hear the "departed". Departed Ruthie Sue Payne insists she didn't just fall down those stairs--she was pushed, and she wants Emma Lee to find out who dunnit.
Kalb, Kathleen Marple	When Juliet drinks real poison during the final scene of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, 1899 mezzo-soprano opera singer, Ella Shane, and a mysterious English duke search to expose the truth.
Keane, Zara	Private investgator Maggie Doyle wants a relaxing summer on Whisper Island, but when the director of a movie being filmed on the island asks Maggie to investigate suspicious accidents on the movie set, Maggie takes the job. She and her assistant go undercover as extras, but Maggie's hopes of a quick investigation end when a woman is found dead.
Kelly, Diane	Megan Luz, Fort Worth, TX police officer and her K9 partner, Brigit
Kelly, Sophie	Kathleen Paulson, librarian, and her magical cats, Hercules and Owen
Kelner, Toni L. P.
Kemp, M. E.
Kendrick, Baryard	Classic mysteries about a gentleman detective, Duncan Maclain, a WWI veteran who was blinded in combat and his trusted guide dogs, two German Shepherds.
Kendrick, John
Kenney, J. C.	Literary agent Allie Cobb becomes a suspect when the guy who stood her up for her senior prom is found dead in a pile of mulch.
Kepler, Lars	Jonna Linn solves mystery involving (perhaps fake) medium
Kerr, Kennedy	Psychic investigator, Temerity Love, gets busy when school teacher, Miss Molly Baliss, is found murdered in the teacher's lounge.
Kiely, Tracy
King, Susan Fraser	Lady MacBeth must preserve her noble bloodline
Kinsey, T. E.	Retired spy, Lady Hardcastle, searches for the truth when a suffragette is accused of killing a journalist in 1910.
Klein, Libby	Poppy McAllister is starting her gluten-free bakery in Cape May, NJ, when her Aunt Ginny begins sleepwalking and helping herself to neighbors' snacks and knickknacks. When a local citizen is murdered and the police suspect the "Snack Bandit", Poppy gets busy to clear her aunt.
Korelitz, Jean Hanff	Creative writing teacher, Jake Fitch Bonner, hears a student bragging about a one-of-a-kind plot. Years later, when Jake learns of that student's death, Jake publishes a story with that plot, and doing so sets off some scary events.
Krentz, Jayne Ann	When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her stepsister, Jocelyn, Charlotte joins forces with newly-arrived-in-Seattle PI Max Cutler. Max is a former criminal profiler whose previous career went down in flames. Burned out, divorced, and nearly broke, Max needs the job. Author also writes as Amanda Quick.
Kuhn, Cynthia	Detective Lex Archer is called when an influential scholar is murdered at the Malice in the Mountains literary confence held at the Tattered Star Ranch. Detective Archer requests that English professor, Lila Maclean, consult on the case.
Lacy, Ed	Toussaint Moore, Edgar award 1957
Lassiter, Linda and Andy Stone	A priest in the Italian village of Monte Piccolo claims to have discovered a lost Caravaggio painting in the storage room of an orphanage. Retired professor A. R. Richman, art student, Lucia, and Lucia's friend, Moto, begin to trace the painting's provenance and find themselves in danger.
Lagercrantz, David	Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, continuing Stieg Larsson's characters
Langely-Hawthorne, Clare
Langtry, Leslie	Merry Wrath, former CIA agent, is now Girl Scout leader, and body of enemy agent turns up in Girl Scout camp
Lansdale, Joe R.
La Plante, Lynda	Anna Travis, Detective Chief Inspector, London, UK
Larmer, C. A.	Alicia Finlay starts a book club devoted solely to Agatha Christie's books. When the husband of one of the book club's members is murdered, the club members put their detective skills to work.
Larsgaard, Chris
Lashley, Margaret	Val Fremden in St. Petersburg, FL. Described as a "funny, hard-to-solve mystery".
Latham, Mark A.	Mycroft Holmes believes Professor Van Helsing was framed when he was accused of murder. Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel to Castle Dracula to investigate
Laurie, Victoria	Abby Cooper is a psychic intuitive.
Lavrisa, Lois	Annie Mae teaches summer camp theater "Homicide by Hamlet"
Lawley, Cate	Mallory's client is counting on her to solve a murder. Fortunately, Mallory has a clever bloodhound and a team of human and magical friends to help.
Lawrence, Carole	Ian Hamilton, detective in nineteen-century Edinburgh, investigates when members of his aunt's circle of seance friends begin turning up dead. Ian's investigation into the ghostly events is aided by his friend, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Ledwidge, Michael
Lee, Amanda	Marcy Singer, owner of embroidery shop, The Seven Year Stitch, and her Irish Wolfhound, Angus
Lee, R. J.	Wendy Winchester is a frustrated society columnist in a quiet Mississippi town who finds herself investigating when someone puts cyanide in the sugar bowl during a bridge game attended by four wealthy widows.
Leeson, Gayle	Amy Flowers operates the Down South Cafe. An elderly woman calls the cafe and begs Amy to deliver an order of food, but when Amy arrives, she finds the woman slumped over the kitchen table.
Lieberman, Lisa	Set in the 1950's, Cara Walden, an actress working on a film shot in Sicily, questions whether her mother, famous actress, Vivian Grant's drowning was really an accident. When Cara asks questions, her own life is endangered. Cara's half-brother, Gray, is a black-listed Hollywood screenwriter.
Liesche, Margit
Lilley, Kathryn
Lin, Harper	Francesca Amaro moves back to her hometown of Cape Bay, Massachusetts, and takes over the family business. She spends her days making delicious artisan cappuccinos, until she stumbles upon her neighbor�s dead body. When the police discover Mr. Cardosi was poisoned, Francesca becomes a suspect. The victim�s son, Matty, happens to be Francesca�s old high school friend. Together, they uncover the secrets of the locals in order to find the killer at their idyllic beach town.
Lindsey, Erin	Rose Gallagher is a maid in a Fifth Avenue mansion during the Golden Age. When her employer disappears, Rose investigates and becomes embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
Little, Constance and Gwenyth	Set in the 1940s.
Logan, Kylie	The League of Literary Ladies, South Bass Island, off Ohio shore in Lake Erie
Longworth, M. L.	Antoine Verlaque and his wife, Marine Bonnet, investigate when Valere Barbier, an author with a lurid past, hears cries in the night. Set in Aix-en-Provence.
Lorac, E. C. R.	Pen name for Edith Caroline Rivett; one of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction authors. The book "Two-Way Murder" is described as "a thrilling delight".
Loren, Ruby	The town's hero witch, Hazel Salem, becomes the chief suspect of a murder. Hazel knows she is being framed so she must investigate--assisted by a talking cat--to find the real murderer.
Lourey, Jess	Miranda James is the Battle Lake, MN librarian who keeps stumbling over corpses. Another about local boys keep disappearing and, then, return changed--moody and withdrawm.
Lovett, London	Poppy Starfire takes over the Starfire Detective Agency when her Uncle Sherman retires in 1923 Hollywood. Poppy investigates when a client tells Poppy that Poppy's brother's death was not an accident
Lowell, Virginia	Olivia Greyson operates Gingerbread House, a shop that specializes in everything cookie
Lynn, Judi	Jazzi Sanders is a house flipper in River Bluffs, IN. While cleaning out an attic, Jazzi finds a skeleton, and the skeleton is wearing jewelry that Jazzi recognizes.
MacDonald, Philip
MacInerney, Karen	Houston reporter, Lucy Resnick, leaves her job to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, TX. When the sheriff arrests one of Lucy's best friends for assault, Lucy gets busy to prove her friend's innocence.
Macmillan, Gilly	Because filmmaker Cody Swift is haunted by the murders of two childhood friends, he begins to investigate, but he finds that some people don't want the old case re-opened.
Mah, Ann	A page-turner about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy to study for her Master of Wine test, and uncovers a lost diary, a forgotten relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World War II. The detailed descriptions of life on a family vineyard and how wine is produced got excellent reviews.
Mailman, Erika	Nora Simms, set in gold-rush era San Francisco
Makaryk, Nathan	England, 1191. King Richard is away fighting for God and his own ambition while the country of England languishes on the verge of anarchy. In Sherwood Forest, Arable, a servant girl with a secret, Robin and William, soldiers running from their pasts, Marion, a noblewoman working for change, Guy of Gisbourne, Nottingham�s beleaguered guard captain, and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief begin to find their own solutions--with no help from the sheriff of Nottingham.
Makkai, Rebecca	When Bodie Kane is invited back to her alma mater to teach a class on podcasting, she becomes involved in solving a murder that happened when she was in school.
Malone, Michael
Mankell, Henning
Mann, George	Veronica Hobbes and Sir Maurice Newbury, Victorian London
Mann, Paul	George Sansi, a half-Indian/half-English Bombay policeman, sets out to clean up the drug trade on the Goa coast.
Manuel, David
Marquand, John P.	Detective is Mr. Moto. Author received a Pulitzer Prize for one of his non-mystery novels.
Martin, Faith	In an Oxford, England beauty pagent in 1960, a contestant is poisoned; WPC Loveday and Coroner Clement Ryder must solve the case.
Masiel, David
Maxwell, Robin
McBride, Susan	Cissy Blevens Kendricks' friend, Bebe Kent, joined a dating service for seniors and moved into a swanky retirement community, but Bebe didn't live long enough to meet Mr. Right, and Cissy believes the death was not an accident and investigates.
McClure, James	His first novel won CWA Gold Dagger in 1971.
McCoy, Judi
McGown, Jill
McGrory, Brian
McKenna, Clara	In 1905, Stella Kendrick, an American heiress learns that her cold and ambitious father has "sold" her to be the bride of a financially-strapped Earl's son. Stella refuses to be sold like a horse, but, then, she becomes interested in her intended groom, Viscount Lindhurst. But before the two can decide about their plans, they find the vicar who was to marry them dead in the library.
McKinlay, Jenn	When a big-city book editor visits town, an arrogant aspiring writer is murdered. It�s up to Lindsey Norris, Briar Creek's dedicated librarian, to crack the case..."perfect for bibliophiles"
McLinn, Patricia	Elizabeth "E.M." Danniher is a demoted TV journalist starting over in Sherman, WY. "Tough, funny, and determined, Elizabeth wrestles with isolation, keeping a professional edge, and an evolving self image".
McManus, Patrick F.	Blight County Sheriff Bo Tully, bald eagles
McMillan, Rachel	Merinda Herringford, who fancies herself a female Sherlock Holmes, and her friend Jemima Watts, 1910
Medearis, Wil	Reddick, a young, white artist, lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Brooklyn, NY neighbor that is historically African American, but is now undergoing gentrification. Hannah, who is engaged to the son of old-money, Upper East Side family, disappears, and her fiance hires Reddick to find her. Story involves the power dynamics of New York City.
Meredith, Anne	British Country House mysteries
Meyerson, Amy	Miranda Brooks grew up solving her Uncle Billy's inventive scavenger hunts. Many years later, Miranda inherits Prospero Books from Uncle Billy. When Miranda begins to work on the bookstore, she discovers Uncle Billy has left an important scavenger hunt that she must solve to save Prospero Books.
Michaelides, Alex	Mariana arrives at a British university to comfort her niece after her niece's classmate has been nurdered. The murdered co-ed was a student of a Greek tragedy professor, and clues are interwoven with Greek mythology.
Mickelbury, Penny
Miley, Mary
Miller, Carol	After losing her husband, small-town waitress, Daisy McGovern, moves in with her invalid mother at an old inn in Southwestern Virginia. When a winter storm strands the inn and bodies begin appearing, Daisy, her friend, Beulah, and moonshiner, Rick Balsam, must unravel the truth before they become victims.
Millett, Larry
Milofsky, David	Milwaukee 1959
Mina, Denise
Monte, Bonnie C.	Rea Sullivan owns a home decor shop in Marin County, California. When her partner, Thalia, is discovered dead in Golden Gate Park, and the authorities consider Thalia to be a victim of a random mugging, Rae must unmask Thalia's real enemy.
Moore, Addison	Lottie Lemon can see dead pets and, sometimes, dead people
Moore, Christopher
Moreno-Garcia, Sylvia	Noemi Taboada, a Mexico City socialite, receives a frightening letter from her newly-married cousin, and Noemi goes to her cousin's home to help. Reviews compare novel to "Rebecca" and "Jane Eyre".
Morgan, Alexis	Abbey McCree inherits her aunt's house in Snowberry Creek, WA, and she finds a farmer in his Halloween corn maize with a knife in his back.
Morgan, Fidelis
Morson, Ian
Morton, Anthony
Morton, Kate	In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe�s life is in ruins...Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist�s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river...Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?...Told by multiple voices across time, THE CLOCKMAKER�S DAUGHTER is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss.
Muller, Eddie
Mullett, Melinda	Abi Logan leaves her hectic career and sets down roots by purchasing the Abbey Glen distillery and learning the art of distilling. She also volunteers at the Shepherd's Rest women's shelter. When one of the shelter's residents is murdered, Abi is angered that the police spare little attention for these already-marginalized women, so she races to unravel who is responsible for the dastardly deed.
Musgrave, James	Clara Foltz is the first woman admitted to the California Bar; set in 1884 San Francisco
Myers, Beverle Graves
Nabb, Magdalen
Nagel, Leslie	Charley Carpenter, owner of Old Hat Vintage Fashions in Oakwood, Ohio; plot involved old house and preservations vs. developers
Nagorski, Adam
Nasaw, Jonathan
Neggers, Carla
Nelscott, Kris
Nelson, Nova	Nora never believed in ghosts until one popped up and ask for her help, and she never believed in witches until she discovered she was one. Nora stumbles on a murder victim in the kitchen of an all-night diner, and because everyone suspects her of the crime, she must find the real killer in order to clear her name.
Neri, Kris
Nesbro, Jo
Nisula, L. A.	In Victorian England (also steampunk London), Cassie Pengear is summoned to Oxford by a Scotland Yard inspector.
Novak, Brenda	Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the antisocial mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? After having been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead when she was just a teenager—by her high school boyfriend—she�s determined to understand how someone she trusted could turn on her. So she�s established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska.
Obreht, Téa	Natalia, a young doctor in a Balkan country mending from war, is trying to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's death. National Book Awards Finalist, selected as one of the best books of 2011 by Oprah Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Chicago Tribune, others.
O'Brien, Charles
O'Connell, Carol	Kathy Mallory, NYPD Special Crimes Unit
Ohlsson, Kristina	Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman and Police Superintendent Alex Recht
Ona, Russell
Orenduff, Michael	Hubie Schuze is a New Mexico potter who sometimes gets involved in a bit of thievery when valuable pottery is concerned.
Organ, Emily	A string of fatal poisonings ravages 1884 London. Reporter Penny Green and Inspector James Blakely investigate.
Ostlundh, Hakan
Ozeki, Ruth
Palmer, Stuart	Hildegard Withers brings her third-grade class on a field trip to the New York Aquarium only to discover the body of a murdered stock broker floating in the penguin tank. She helps Detective Oscar Piper investigate, and even though the killer is dangerous, a teacher who can control a class of third graders has little to fear. Set in 1913.
Parin, Sonia	After a bitter divorce, Eve Lloyd goes to visit her aunt's home on Rock-Maine Island, hoping to rest and recover on the beach. Instead of R&R, Eve finds her aunt missing, her ex-husband causing problems, and a dead body on the island.
Parks, Tim
Pentecost, Hugh
Pepper, Angela	Stormy and her cat, Jeffrey; other series characters, also
Perry, Carol J.	Lee Barrett, Salem, MA reporter, is helping her research-librarian aunt when she (Lee) finds a dead man in a spooky, seldom-frequented section of the library. Lee's clairvoyant cat, O'Ryan, helps Lee find who removed the man from circulation.
Perry, Leigh	Georgia Thackery's family has a skeleton in its closet--a real, talking skeleton named Sid. Sid helps Georgia solve mysteries.
Phelan, Tom	Journalist Patrick Bracken returns to his rural Irish hometown to solve a decades-old mystery—one that the villagers may be covering up
Phillips, Clyde
Phillips, Scott
Phipps, C. A.	Scarlett Finch is a cafe owner who discovers she is a talented amateur sleuth and a magnet for animals.
Piazza, Tom	Henry Sims, a fugative slave and brilliant musician, arrives in 1855 Philadelphia. James Douglas, leader of a popular minstrel group, hires Henry, but because the law forbids white and African-American performers on the same stage, James concocts a disguise so Henry can participate in the troupe, but a brutal slave hunter is searching for Henry.
Pierce, Blake	London Rose runs away from a predictable, passionless relationship and becomes a tour guide in Europe. But when a wealthy, high-maintenance passenger turns up dead outside of Budapest, London's life becomes too unpredictable when suspicion for the crime falls on her.
Plakcy, Neil S.	After a bad divorce and a prison term for computer hacking, Steve Levitan returns to his hometown to teach at a local college. When his neighbor, Caroline Kelly, is shot while walking her dog, Steve takes in the Golden Retriever, and the two work together to discover who wanted Caroline out of the way.
Pope, Barbara
Porter, Joyce
Posodas, Carmen	At a ritzy soiree in a beautiful villa, pastry chef Nestor is found dead in the walk-in freezer...but every guest has a motive
Post, Arthur Melville Davisson
Postupak, Kevin
Pressey, Rose	Cookie Chanel, owner of It's Vintage Y'All, in Sugar Creek, GA, helps out as costume designer for a local theater, where she finds a specter guarding a trunk of costumes. Cookie isn't fazed since she talks to her grandmother's ghost every day.
Putnam, Jonathan F.	Abraham Lincoln and his friend, Joshua Speed, are the "tecs"
Queen, Ellery
Quick, Amanda	Former trapeze artist, Amalie Vaughn, spends her inheritance on a mansion with the plan to turn it into a bed and breakfast. Unfortunately, Amalie doesn't know the mansion is rumored to be cursed, and when Amalie's first guest is killed by his robotic investion, the curse seems to be real. Author also writes as Jayne Ann Krentz.
Quigley, Mindy	Leslie Harding is a hospital chaplain
Quincy, D. M.	Atlas Catesby, a master puzzle solver, solves the murder of husband who tried to sell his wife in 1814 England. Book received a Library Journal "Best Book of the Year".
Quinn, Seabury	Quinn Seabury was a 1920's "pulp" writer. This is a compilation of Seabury's first five books about Jules de Grandin, an occult detective.
Raffel, Keith	Ian Michaels had an excellent job at one of Silicon Valley's hottest firms and a bright future--until he discovered a still-warm corpse of a young women he has never met in his bed.
Randisi, Robert
Ray, Deany	Charlie Cooper, a precinct secretary for the Boston Police Department, is bored with her job so she accepts an undercover assignment to return to her home town to look for clues in a drug case. What starts as harmless snooping turns into a pile of dead bodies, and Charlie is determined to solve the case.
Raymond, Kristine	Finn Bartusiak finds a 19th-century writing box with a coded note inside. She and best-selling novelist, Spencer Dare, investigate the mystery of the note.
Reed, Hannah	Eden Elliott goes to Glenkillen in the Scottish Highlands to do research for a book. A murder is blamed on an outsider, and since Eden believes the suspect is innocent, she investigates.
Reeve, Arthur B.
Regester, Seeley	Pen name for Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. She wrote the first full-length American work of crime fiction, The Dead Letter, in 1866.
Reilly, Linda	Lara Caphart operates the High Cliff Shelter for Cats in Whisker Jog, NH and must investigate when the town's universally disliked former Home Economics teacher dies after sampling one of Lara's healthy cat snacks. Lara receives clues from beyond the grave pointing to a cat that resembles Lara's beloved pet.
Rhodes, Kate	Alice Quentin is a psychologist in London
Reid, Arthur
Richey, Sheri	Spicetown, OH. When the owner of a new business digs up buried bones on opening day, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham and Police Chief Conrad Harris have to solve the mystery.
Riggs, Cynthia	Victoria Turnbull, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Robards, Karen
Roberts, David
Roberts, Kym	Charli Rae Warren reluctantly returns to the Texas town where she grew up to settle her missing father's debts by selling his bookstore. Unfortunately, Charli finds a dead person in the bookstore, and she must find the real perpetrator to clear her father.
Robinson, Peter	Detective Superintendent Alan Banks. Author has won an Edgar and numerous other awards.
Rose, M. J.	Jenny Bell is invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany's artists' colony; 1924
Rosen, Richard	baseball; Edgar award 1984
Ross, Ann B.	Miss Julia
Ross, Barbara	Julia Snowden operates clambake business in Busman's Harbon, ME
Ross, Kate	Julian Kestrel is the dandy detective of Regency London, and his valet, Dapper's, sister, Sally, a prostitute, happens across a murder. Since Sally is in no position to go to the police, Julian and Sally must find answers for themselves.
Rowland, Peter
Royal, Pricilla
Rubin, Charles
Russell, Michael	Set in 1939. Dublin Garda Sergent Stefan Gillespie is sent to New York to bring a killer to justice, but a chance encounter with an old friend draws Stefan into a network of conspiracy and espionage with connections to Dublin. Book was shortlisted for CWA Endeavor Historical Dagger Award.
Ryan, Annalise	Mattie Winston is medical examiner. Mattie's friend, grief counselor, Hildy Schneider, learns some clues about a murder during a grief therapy session, and Hildy and her therapy Golden Retriever become amateur sleuths. Author also writes as Beth Amos and Allyson K. Abbott
Ryan, Jennifer	Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, goes to London to find her daughter, Betty, who went to work in London when WWII broke out. In London, Mrs. Braithwaite finds Betty missing and searches through the London Blitz to find what happened to her.
Ryan, Sophie	Sarah Grayson and her cat, Elvis, operate Second Chance shop in North Harbor, Maine. Sarah's friends, who call themselves Charlotte's Angels, also help investigate.
Sachitano, Arlene
Sallis, James
Sanchez, Thomas
Sanders, Angela M.	Joanna Hayworth, vintage clothing store
Sanders, Lawrence
Sansom, Ian	Spanish Civil War veteran, Stephen Sefton, applies to a mysterious advertisement for a job where "intelligence is essential." Thus begins Sefton's association with Professor Swanton Morley, whose project is a history of traditional England with a guide to every county. They start in Norfolk, but when the vicar of Blakeney is found dead, they find themselves drawn into a fiendish plot.
Sansome, C. J.
Saul, John
Sax, Elise	Agatha Bright lives in a haunted lighthouse near Sea Breeze, CA. When a local woman is murdered and suspicion lands on Agatha, she must work with the new Sea Breeze detective to clear herself.
Schaffner, Val
Schellman, Katherine	Lily Adler is a newly-widowed, upper crust, Londoner, who is much more independent that nineteenth-century society would prefer. She juggles the glittering social scene and her private investigations into a murder.
Schwartz, Jinx	Hetta Coffee, her dog, her parrot, and a band of zany friends, take on a vicious cartel to save an endangered species in the Sea of Cortez.
Scott, A. D.
Scott, Cavan	Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of two priests sent to London to investigate a miracle.
Scott, Eryn	(1) When a visiting professor is found dead and the clues have a Shakespearian tone, English major Pepper Brooks, can't resist investigating. With the help of a dog named Hamburger, Pepper uses Shakespear's words to solve the case. (2) Hadley James is finally living the life she�s always wanted: making jam and selling it at the local farmers market when a cat-sitting job leads to a murder investigation.
Sethi, Ritu	Montreal Chief Inspector Gray James investigates the cases in which someone is killing off the founders of a booming medical start-up company. Colorado Gold Mystery Award and Daphne Du Maurier Suspense winner.
Sheehan, James
Sheridan, Juanita	Janice Cameron and her friend, Lily Wu. Set in 1950s Hawaii.
Sheridan, Sara	In 1951 Brighton, England, Mirabelle Bevin, who was a Secret Service operative in WWII, investigates a doctor with a sudden influx of wealth and a suspiciously-dead Hungarian refugee.
Sherwood, John	Celia Grant, horticulturist
Shiel, M. P.
Shields, Kieran	Deputy Marshal Archie Lean and his team uncover a case with dark ties to the Salem witch trials
Shimada, Soji	A classic locked-room mystery. Kozaburo Hamamoto, a successful businessman, invites his friends and associates to spend the Christmas Holiday at his mansion. But there is a big blizzard and then his friends start to die one by one, in their guest rooms with no signs of forceful entry. The local police are puzzled, and no solution to the murders can be found until Kiyoshi Miatrai, a psychic and fortune teller, and his friend join the investigation. The author has won an Edogawa Rampo Prize.
Siciliano, Sam	Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of the stolen Moonstone
Silver, Samantha	Cassie Coburn moves to London and soon finds herself accompanying detective Violet Despuis as they try to discover who poisoned four people in the middle of London.
Silvertale, Trixie	Psychic Mitzy Moon attends a memorial aboard a riverboat casino, where the newly wealthy widower disappears. Mitzy needs all her special helpers to find what happened to the man.
Silverman, Nancy Cole	Misty Dawn, a former Hollywood Psychic to the Stars, answers her door to find young acress and neighbor, Zoey Chamberlain, asking for help. Zoey has recently purchased The Pink Mansion, a historic Hollywood house, and she asks for Misty's help because the house is haunted. Misty finds not a ghost, but a dead body, and the police assume Zoey is guilty of the crime. Misty and Zoey must find the true villan.
Simpson, Dorothy	Inspector Luke Thanet novels set in Kent, England during the 1980s and 1990s.
Simpson, Rosemary	Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton agent, Geoffrey Hunter, investigate in 1880's New York.
Skinner, Robert
Smith, Fiona Veitch	Poppy Denby moves to London in 1920 to live with her Aunt Dot, a suffragette. Poppy obtains a job as an editorial assistant at the Daily Globe. When one of the writers dies suddently, Poppy finds his notes and completes the story. Information in the story propels Poppy into danger.
Sowards, A. L.	When an attempt is made on Evie Hampton's father's life, all fingers point to Evie's boyfriend, Gary Redhawk. Evie investigates to find the truth that will clear Gary.
Spillane, Mickey and Max Allan Collins	Mike Hammer; in 2006, Max Allan Collins began editing and completing Mickey Spillane's unpublished manuscripts.
Steiner, Peter
Stephen, Martin
Stevens, Rosemary
Stone, Lane	Sue Patrick operates Pet Palace in Lewes, DE; she and her British business partner, Lady Althea Fitzwalter, investigate when someone dumps a freshly-murdered body in Pet Palace's driveway.
Stone, Michael
Stratford, Sarah-Jane	Maisie lands a job at the fledging BBC and discovers a sinister conspiracy
Stratton, Nicky	Retired actor, Sir Repton Willowby, visits his cousin, Venetia, to complain that his house in haunted by the ghost of an eighteenth century serving girl. Venetia's friend, Lady Laura Boxford, thinks Sir. Repton's story is a hoax, and she investigates.
Strauss, Lee	In the 1920s, Ginger Gold returns to her London home and finds a decades-old skeleton in the attic.
Stuckart, Diane A. S.	Leonardo Da Vinci is detective; author also writes as Ali Brandon
Sullivan, Mark T.
Summers, Christina
Swanson, Denise	Skye Denison-Boyd, school psychologist, Scumble River, IL
Sweeney, Leann	Jill Hart, Mercy, SC, and cats
Sweet, Miranda	Angie Prouty, owner of the Pastries and Page-Turners Book Store on Nantucket Island, becomes an amateur sleuth when one of the island's Christmas-season tourists dies accidentally or, perhaps, not so accidentally.
Symonds, Julian
Taylor, Timothy
Thomas, Terry Lynn	Catherine Carlisle switches her husband's papers as a favor to a trusted freind and finds herself caught up in espionage and murder.
Thomas, Christine Zane	After being laid off and divorced from husband #2, Constance Campbell moves in with her grandmother only to be told that she comes from a long line of witches and she will come into her powers on her 40th birthday. When Constance find the town's resident vampire murdered, she must use all her powers to find who dunnit.
Thomas, Will
Thurlo, Aimee and David	Navaho Police Special Investigator Ella Claw
Toliver, Hal and Mary	Bea Ellis, Orange County California
Train, Arthur	Ephraim Tutt; courtroom intrigue
Turner, T. J.	Molly Ferguson was kidnapped from her Louisiana home just before the Civil War and was forced into a Baltimore brothel. There, she learns of a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln and is able to get the information to a Pinkerton operative. Molly eventually becomes an apprentice to Kate Warne, America's first female PI.
Underwood, Julia	Eve Duncan helps the police with seemingly unsolvable murder investigations. Set in London during the WWII blitz.
Upfield, Arthur W.
Usher, Donna Joy	Chanel Smith leaves salon job due to her boss' lecherous husband and becomes rookie police officer
Van de Wetering, Janwillem
Verdon, John
Vickers, Roy
Vilhauer, Ruvanee Pietersz	Duncan McCloud is attending an alumni gathering in New Jersey where journalist Angie Osborne, is killed. Duncan realizes the scene is similar to a Sri Lankan ritual, thovile, which Duncan studied during his Anthropology major. Duncan's employer sends him on a trip overseas under shadowy pretenses, and Duncan's wife begins to receive strange warnings. Duncan and his wife investigate the curious events.
Wait, Lea	Angie Curtis bids on and wins a tattered embroidery of a coat of arms at an estate sale. When she returns home to Haven Harbor, ME, she discovers a document from 1757 behind the needlework. The document is about a child from a foundling hospital, and Angie investigates the connection between the child and the coat of arms.
Ward, Sarah	Detective Constable Connie Childs
Ware, Ruth	Nora hasn�t seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back...Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare�s hen do arrives. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her? But something goes wrong. Very wrong. Some things can�t stay secret for ever.
Warman, L. C.	John Eastwick, Jr., the sole heir of the Eastwick family fortune, is shocked when his father's will is read because the will reveals a lot of secrets and the will's contents lead to a murder.
Washburn, Livia J.	Phyllis Newsom, retired teacher, Weatherford, TX
Watkins, Eileen	Cassie McGlone, who operates a feline grooming and boarding business in Chadwick, NJ, investigates when an elderly lady who angered some people by advocating for a trap-neuter-release solution to the burgeoning feral cat problem is found dead.
Weaver, Tim	When retired high-ranking detective, Leonard Franks, goes out to fetch firewood from the rear of his house and never returns, his family turn to David Raker, a missing persons investigator.
Wescott, T. C.	Plum Cottage is filled with lodgers visiting for the Christmas festival. It is filled until one by one the lodgers start dying in baffling ways. Maribel Claus must solve the mystery and save the festivities.
White, Randy Wayne	Hannah Smith searches for ancient rootstalk to rescue Florida's dying orange trees.
Whiting, J. A.	Hope Herring and her daughter move to a new town, and while Hope is still trying to settle in, she is drawn into 2 mysteries.
Wilde, Darcie	Set in Regency London, Rosalind Thorne is hired to pose as Lady Melbourne's confidential secretary in order to recover a packet of sensitive letters stolen from Lady Melbourne's desk. Publication of the letters would cause a scandal since the letters involve the poet, Lord Byron's affair with Lady Melbourne's daughter-in-law.
Willet, Jincy
Wilson, Andrew	Agatha Christie is the detective. The first book in series covers Agatha's eleven-day disappearance blending fiction with known facts.
Wilson, James
Wilson, Steven
Wingate, Marty	Pru Parke has landed her dream job as head gardener for Primrose House, an 18th-century estate in Sussex, England. Her job is to restore the gardens to the design laid out in 1806 by a famous landscape architect. When one of the workers is found murdered among the yews, Pru must find the culprit.
Winters, A. R.	When a celebrity chef joins a cruise on Adrienne's cruise line, she believes she might have a new PR job, but when the chef is murdered, Adrienne must scramble to uncover the truth.
Wiseman, M. K.	When Sherlock Holmes is called in to help with the Jack the Ripper investigation, he finds that the clues point to his friend, Watson.
Woodbury, Sarah	In 1294, Catrin is the newly-widowed lady-in-waiting to Queen Eleanor when she and the queen make a trip to Catrin's home in Wales and find old friends and murder.
Woolrich, Cornell	wrote novels that were basis for "Rear Window" and "Mississippi Mermaid"
Wright, June	Mother Paul is as keen and quick-witted as she is godly, which makes her detective work a perfect match for the sins corrupting the University of Melborne. As the new warden for the university, she takes on the case of a student who disappeared from the dorm a year prior.
Wright, L. R.	Battered by too much big-city police work, Karl Alberg moves to a small town on Canada's Sunshine Coast. But he finds a small town can conceal enough secrets to make him wish for some nice, straitforward urban crime. Book won Edgar Award in 1986 (over Ruth Rendell and Jonathan Kellerman.)
Wurster, Erich	Bob Patterson married a rich woman, and he coasts (does nothing) until events get him moving; set in Kansas City.
Wynn, Patricia
Wynne, Patricia	1178, Elixabel Luz begins to unlock the healing power of stones after she witnesses a startling lunar event, but a fanatical monk accuses her of witchcraft.
Young, Debbie	Gemma Lamb takes a job on a girl's school located on a private estate in the Cotswalds to hide from her controlling boyfriend, but she finds plenty of sinister secrets among the school's staff.
Young, Kate	Marygene Brown and her sister, Jena Lynn, operate the Peach Diner on Peach Cove Island, Georgia. When a customer is poisoned and Jena Lynn is accused of the crime, Marygene must solve the case.
York Grace	Addison Lake is turning her beach house into a bed and breakfast when a fire at her cousin, Layla's, art gallery produces a body, and Addison must uncover the real culprit to clear her cousin.
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz	Alicia Gris lost her parents when she was 9 years old, during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales bombed Barcelona in 1938. Now, she is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls. Clues begin to point to World-War-II Barcelona.
Zeman, David	political thriller about terrorists and strange disease