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Diane Fallon is a fictional character featured in a series of detective novels by American author Beverly Connor. Diane’s resume lists her as a forensic anthropologist, a former human rights investigator, a museum director, an expert caver and a reluctant detective.

V.I. Warshawski is a fictional character featured in a series of crime novels by American author Sara Paretsky. Warshawski is a female investigator who breaks a lot of the taboos created for female PIs. She drinks scotch, will break into an office if need be and can fight. Still, with all her tomboyish traits, she […]

Sara Paretsky is an American novelist of detective fiction, largely featuring female private investigator V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky’s contributions to crime fiction include writing a female character who breaks all of the rules of what a female detective is “supposed” to be and transcending the typical labels.

Tres Navarre is a crime fiction series by American author Rick Riordan. It is the only one of Riordan’s series targeted at adults. Tres has spent a decade in the Bay Area and is now returning home to San Antonio to solve the murder of his father, who was the Bexar County sheriff. Tres is […]

Sam Holt is a series of mystery novels written by Samuel Holt – one of the many pseudonyms used by American novelist Donald Westlake. The series consists of four novels featuring the Sam Holt character.

Lorne Simpkins is a character featured in a series of hard-boiled detective thriller novels by British novelist M.A. Comley.

Mel Comley (also known as M.A. Comley) is a British author of mystery novels along with a couple of romance novellas. Her series is the Lorne Simpkins series. She currently lives in France.

S.J. Rozan is an American author whose real name is Shira Judith Rosan. She writes mystery novels set in New York City, mostly featuring private investigators Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. She has won several awards for Best P.I. Novel, Excellence in Mystery Genre, Best Mystery Novel and the Maltese Falcon Award for Best Hardboiled […]

Inspector Rebus is a character and series of detective fiction novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. The police procedural series is considered to fall into the Scottish Tartan Noir subgenre. The Detective Inspector John Rebus character is based in Edinburgh. Unlike other series, the character does age with time, as the character turned 60 years […]

Inspector Kurt Wallander is a character featured in a series of mystery novels by Swedish novelist Henning Mankell. Wallander has a limited number of friends, drinks too much and eats too much junk food. He gets very involved with the cases he works on and will disobey orders in order to solve a case. Mankell’s […]