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Regional Mysteries

Alaska
Stabenow, Dana. The real star of two series featuring gutsy, offbeat Aleut PI Kate Shugak and trooper Liam Campbell is Alaska in all her stunning variety.
Straley, John. Disillusioned with the legal profession, sardonic Cecil Younger washes up in the soggy splendor of Sitka, where he rights wrongs and writes haiku.
Arizona
Hillerman, Tony. Navajo Detectives Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn bring their corner of Arizon alive.
Jance, J.A. Juggling the demands of her career and family, Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County investigates crime.
California
Connelly, Michael. Retired LAPD Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch's passion for justice and disdain for corruption land him in some tight spots.
Farmer, Jerrilyn. Party planner Madeline Bean moves in moneyed Beverly Hills circles, and meets up with plenty of crime, scandal, and murder--even a little romance too!
Muller, Marcia. Tough-as-nails hard-boiled female PI Sharon McCone takes on crime in Cali.
District of Columbia
Metzer, Brad. Attorneys and congresspeople wrestle with the crime and politics of Washington.
Pelecanos, George P. Gritty, violent, realistic crime fiction set in inner-city DC, featuring African American PI Derek Strange, Irish-Catholic ex-cop Terry Quinn, and bartender Nick Stefanos.
Richman, Phyllis. Food and murder come together in a cozy fashion as culinary editor Chas Wheatley turns the tables on criminals in the restaurants of DC.
Truman, Margaret. See Washington at its best and worst. Power and depravity exist alongside politicians, assassins, and informants.
Richman, Phyllis. Food and murder come together in a cozy fashion as culinary editor Chas Wheatley turns the tables on criminals in the restaurants of DC.
Florida
Corcoran, Tom. Travel to the Flordia Keys to unearth mystery, intrigue, and murder.
Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina. Cuban American PI Lupe Solano solves crimes while negotiating the international scene in Miami.
Hiaasen, Carl. Assorted criminals, detectives, and loony-toons create havoc throughout southern Florida.
Pickard, Nancy. True crime writer Marie Lightfoot solves both literary mysteries and real crimes in Bahia Beach.

Hawaii
Knief, Charles. Beautiful women always manage to get John Caine, a beachcomber PI, into deadly misadventures.
Sheridan, Juanita. Novelist Janice Cameron and her adopted sister, amateur detective Lily Wu, are drawn into murders and intrigue surrounding Hawaii's native and Asian immigrant population.
Louisiana
Abel, Kenneth. Attorney Danny Chaisson discovers dubious characters in contemporary New Orleans and its quirky outlying areas.
Atkins, Ace. New Orleans musicologist, ex-football player, and amateur PI Nick Travis investigates crimes that always seem to be set to music.
Hambly, Barbara. In 1830, free man of color, musician, and amateur detective Benjamin January solves crimes in antebellum New Orleans.
Maine
Borthwick, J.S. Murder becomes more than academic when English fellow Sarah Deane and Professor Alex McKenzie discover trouble wherever they wander.
Graves, Sarah. Home repairs turn deadly when business partners Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White. . . mysteries surface each day!
North Carolina
Reichs, Kathy. Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan does criminal work part time for Quebec and teaches the rest of the time in N.C.
Shaber, Sarah R. Forensic historian and college professor Simon Shaw digs up the past while getting to the bottom of crimes in Raleigh.
South Carolina
Deloach, Nora. African-American mother and daughter team Candi and Simone Covington solve cozy mysteries in small town SC.
Hart, Carolyn G. Annie and Max Darling, sleuths and owners of the Death on Demans mystery bookstore, unravel mysteries in the South Carolina Low Country.
Virginia
Brown, Rita Mae. Cozy whodunits set in the Virginia Piedmont, featuring postmistress Harry Haristeen and her cat Mrs. Murphy.
Cornwell, Patricia. Dark thrillers featuring forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta who is often on the trail of a serial killer.
McCrumb, Sharyn. Forensic anthropologist and amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson solves mysteries in Appalachia.
Whitney, Phyllis. Mysteries abound in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains.