Mystery
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Humorous
M. C. Beaton -- Constable Hamish Macbeth in Scottish village Lochdubh.
Diana Mott Davidson -- Caterer Goldy Schulz turns detective.
Janet Evanovich -- Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter in New Jersey.
Kinky Friedman -- Country western singer turned sleuth.
Carolyn Hart -- Annie Darling, bookstore owner in small town, South Carolina.
Joan Hess -- Mishaps and murder in small town Arkansas.
Carl Hiaasen -- Strange doings and incompetent criminals in Florida.
Harley Jane Kozak -- Wollie Shelley's an underemployed greeting card artist who moonlights.
Lisa Lutz -- Wacky family starts a PI business. “Izzy Spellman mysteries”
Charlotte MacLeod -- The Shandys, a professor and a librarian in Balaclava, Massachussetts.
Sarah Strohmeyer -- Bubbles Yablonsky is a hairdresser turned reporter in Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
Donald Westlake -- Bumbling criminal John Dortmunder.
Historical
Bruce Alexander -- Sir John Fielding, blind magistrate in 1770's London.
Kerry Greenwood -- Wealthy, fashionable investigator Phryne Fisher in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920s.
Peter Lovesey -- Sergeant Cribbe, in Victorian London.
Ellis Peters -- Brother Cadfael, a monk in 1440s Shrewsbury, England.
Laura Joh Rowland -- Samurai Sano Ichiro in 1690s Japan.
Steven Saylor -- Gordianus the Finder in Republican Rome about, 49 B.C.
Italian
Andrea Camilleri -- Inspector Salvo Montalbano mysteries, set in Sicily.
Michael Dibdin -- Police inspector Aurelio Zen is based in Rome but gets tangled in cases all over Italy.
Donna Leon -- Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates mysteries in Venice.
Magdalen Nabb -- Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri, all set in Florence.
Police in the U.S.
Michael Connelly -- Harry Bosch in LA. One of the best.
Tony Hillerman -- Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee near the Navajo lands of Arizona.
Stuart Kaminsky -- Detectives Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan walk the mean streets of Chicago.
William Kent Krueger -- Sheriff Cork O'Connor in northern Minnesota.
Ed McBain -- In New York city, the cases of the 87th Precinct.
T. Jefferson Parker -- Merci Rayborn, a detective in a small town north of LA.
Ridley Pearson -- Detective Lou Boldt in Seattle.
John Sandford -- The Prey series with Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport.
Joseph Wambaugh -- Realistic police stories set mostly in California.
Cops Abroad
P. D. James -- Adam Dalgliesh, New Scotland Yard's Commander of Police.
H.R.F. Keating -- Inspector Ghote solves mysteries in India.
Denise Mina -- Paddy Meehan, investigative journalist in Glasgow.
Ian Rankin -- Inspector John Rebus in Edinborough's mean streets.
George Simenon -- Inspector Jules Maigret of the Paris police.
Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- Martin Beck series set in Stockholm, Sweden.
Qui Xiaolong -- Inspector Chen of Shanghai, China.
Private Investigator
Lee Child -- Free agent, rolling stone Jack Reacher.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The one and only Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Crais -- Elvis Cole, PI in Los Angeles with Joe Pike, partner.
Howard Engel -- Canadian gumshoe Benny Cooperman.
Lawyers
John Grisham -- Lawyer thrillers, all different protagonists.
John Lescroart -- San Franciso attorney Dismas Hardy.
Lisa Scottoline -- Her heroines are tough Philadelphia lawyers such as Mary DiNunzio.
Robert Tanenbaum -- New York assistant district attorney Butch Karp and loose cannon wife, Marlene Ciampi.
Michigan
Lilian Jackson Braun -- Reporter Jim Qwilleran and his siamese cats, Koko and Yumyum.
Loren Estleman -- Principled, smart-aleck private investigator Amos Walker in Detroit.
Dean Garrison -- Follows cases of the sheriff's department of Chapel County, just north of Kent County.
Steve Hamilton -- One time baseball player and cop Alex McKnight moonlights as a PI in the U.P.
Joseph Heywood -- Woods Cop series features game warden Grady Service in the U.P.
William X. Kienzle -- Detroit parish priest Father Koesler pursues church related crimes.
Henry Kisor -- Deputy sheriff Steve Martinez in the U.P.'s Porcupine (Ontonagon) county.
Elmore Leonard -- Crime novels set in Michigan, Florida and California.
Robert Traver -- For his 1957 classic, Anatomy of a Murder.
