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Charles Todd is a pseudonym used by the mother-and-son writing duo of American authors Caroline and Charles Todd. Their main series features Inspector Ian Rutledge, an English detective working in Scotland Yard during post-WWI England. Their other characters include Francesca Hatton and Bess Crawford. Sadly, Caroline passed away in 2021, but her legacy lives on […]
Andrew Klavan is an American author who writes mystery novels and psychological thrillers. His books True Crime and Don’t Say A Word were adapted into films. He’s also worked as a screenwriter, newspaper reporter, script reader, news writer and book writer. He is the brother of fellow novelist and playwright Laurence Klavan.
Charlie Moon is a fictional character created by American author James D. Doss. Charlie is the title character in a mystery series. Moon is an Ute rancher and tribal police investigator who lives on a reservation in Colorado. He uses his own deduction methods as well as his Aunt Daisy, who is a shaman.
James D. Doss (1939-2012) was an American novelist of mystery novels. His novels all feature the Native American (Ute, to be exact) detective Charlie Moon. Before he started writing, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory at the University of California.
Marcia Muller is an American authors of mystery and thriller novels. She is best known for her series featuring Sharon McCone. She is married to fellow author Bill Pronzini, who she often co-authors novels with.
Nikki Heat is a fictional character who appears in a series of mystery/police procedural novels by fictional American author Richard Castle. In the ABC TV series, Castle used his friendship with the Mayor of New York City to get partnered with (fictional) detective Kate Beckett in order to create his new character, who becomes Nikki […]
Richard Castle is a fictional character who is portrayed by Nathan Fillion on the ABC television series Castle. Despite being a fictional character, Castle is an author of real-life mystery novels as well as several short stories. In his spare time, Castle plays poker with James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane.
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian novelist largely in the contemporary/urban fantasy and horror genres, but has also written a couple of crime novels. Her main series include the Women of the Otherworld and Darkest Powers series, Omens and Shadows (aka Cainsville) series, as well as the Nadia Stafford series where she diverts from the fantasy […]
Sharon Kay Penman is an American novelist of historical fiction. Her novels chronicle English and Welsh royalty during the Middle Ages and are set in England, Wales and France. Penman puts a lot of work into her research for the novels, which shows in the quality of her writing, including the various settings, events and […]
The Isabel Dalhousie series (also known as the Sunday Philosophy Club Series) is a series of mystery novels by Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith. The series is more like a mystery series than Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Isabel Dalhouse has been described as a mix between Jane Austen‘s Emma and Carrie Bradshaw. […]