Hamish Macbeth, Scottish police constable in Lochdubh. Hammond, Gerald
Scotland. Keith Calder, gunsmith and sport shooter in Newton Lauder,. Scotland.
International Mystery Writers
These mystery writers capture the unique flavor of their international settings. So explore the world with a mystery by one of these authors. The Ridgefield Library
July 2007
Author Browne, Marshall Camillerei, Andrea Leon, Donna
Massey, Sujata
Location Italy (Rome) Italy (Sicily) Italy (Venice)
Japan (Tokyo)
Cotterill, Colin
Laos
Torres, Steven
Puerto Rico
Kaminsky, Stuart
Russia (Moscow) Russia (Moscow) Scotland
Smith, Martin Cruz (found in Fiction) Beaton, M.C. Hammond, Gerald
Hammond, Gerald
Scotland
Scotland
McCall Smith, Alexander
Scotland (Edinburgh)
Rankin, Ian Qiu Xiaolong
Scotland (Edinburgh) Shanghai
Jeffries, Roderic
Spain (Mallorca)
Edwardson, Ake
Sweden
Eriksson, Kjell
Sweden
Mankell, Henning
Sweden
Sjöwall, Maj & Per Wahlöö
Sweden
Character Inspector Anders Inspector Montalbano in Vigata Guido Brunetti, police commissario at stationed at Venice’s Petit Palace Rei Shimura, JapaneseAmerican antiques dealer in Tokyo Dr. Siri Paiboun, chief coroner in Laos Luis Gonzalo, sheriff in Angustias Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, Russian police Inspector Arkady Renko, chief homicide investigator Hamish Macbeth, Scottish police constable in Lochdubh Keith Calder, gunsmith and sport shooter in Newton Lauder, Scotland John Cunningham, war hero and hunting dog trainer Isabel Dalhousie, ScottishAmerican philosopher, and woman of independent means John Rebus, detective sergeant
Author McCall Smith, Alexander
Location Africa (Botswana)
Van de Wetering, Janwillem
Amsterdam
Cleary, Jon
Australia
Freeling, Nicholas Garcia-Roza, Luis Alfredo
Belgium (Brussels) Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Hamilton, Lyn
Canada
Reichs, Kathy Pearce, Michael
Canada ( Montreal) Egypt, Cairo
Bannister, Jo
England
Beaton, M. C.
England
Brett, Simon
England
Brett, Simon
England
Chen Cao, Chief Inspector, Shanghai Police Bureau Inspector Enrique Alvarez, police inspector Eric Winter, jazz-loving and gourmet-cooking detective Ann Lindell, inspector in Upssala Violent Crime Division Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander, head of homicide in Ystad Homicide detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the Stockholm police
Curzon, Clare
England
Eccles, Marjorie
England
Heley, Veronica Kelly, Jim
England England
Pears, Ian
England
Character Precious Ramotswe, proprietress of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Adjutant Gjipstra dn Sergeant de Gier, Amersterdam police detectives Scobie Malone, family-man and police inspector Henri Castang, French policeman in Brussels, Belgium Inspector Spinosa, Chief of the Copacabana precinct in Rio de Janeiro Lara McClintock, antiquities dealer and shop owner Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist Captain Garth Owen, British head of the secret police in Cairo Brodie Farrell, single mother and owner of search service Agatha Raisin, retired London advertising executive Charles Paris, charming alcoholic actor Melita Pargeter, widow of English thief Mike Yeadings, Serious Crime Squad Superintendent Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo, Midlands Ellie Quicke, English widow Philip Dryden, journalist in Cambridgeshire Jonathan Argyll, British art dealer
Author Wingfield, R. D.
Location England
Joss, Morag
England (Bath)
Poulson, Christine
England (Cambridge)
Black, Veronica Granger, Ann
England (Cornwall) England (Cotswolds)
Holt, Hazel
England (Devon)
Gash, Jonathan
England (East Anglia) England (East Anglia) England (London) England (London) England (London)
McGown, Jill Barnard, Robert Cooper, Natasha Crombie, Deborah
Fyfield, Frances George, Elizabeth
Grimes, Martha Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia James, Bill
James, P.D.
England (London) England (London) England (London) England (London) England (London) England (London)
Character Jack Frost, unkempt and unruly Denton Division detective inspector Sara Selkirk, cellist in Bath, England Cassandra James, English professor at St. Etheldreda’s College Sister Joan, British investigative nun Chief Inspector Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell, Foreign Service officer Sheila Malory, British literary magazine writer Lovejoy, antiques expert and forger Lloyd and Judy Hill, chief inspector & detective partner Charlie Peace, young black Scotland Yard detective Trish Maguire, family law barrister Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, Scotland Yard detective partners Helen West, Crown prosecutor in domestic violence court Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers Richard Jury, Scotland Yard Inspector Bill Slider, Shepherd’s Bush CID inspector Colin Harpur, detective chief superintendent and Desmond Iles, detective constable Adam Dalgleish, commander at Scotland Yard and published poet
Author King, Peter
Location England (London)
Character Goodwin Harper, food consultant to Scotland Yard
Moyes, Patricia
England (London)
Henry & Emmy Tibbett, Scotland Yard Inspector & wife
McDermid, Val
England (Manchester)
Kate Brannigan, spunky private eye
Harvey, John
England (Nottingham) England (Oxford) England (Oxford)
Charlie Resnick, detective and jazz fan Chief Inspector Morse, brilliant but eccentric Daniel Kind, Oxford University historian and Hannah Scarlett, Head of the Cumbria Constabulary Cold Case Review Team. Reginald Wexford, Chief Inspector Sussex Supt. Andrew Dalziel and Sgt. Peter Pascoe Chief Inspector Alan Bates
Dexter, Colin Edwards, Martin
Rendell, Ruth
Lovesey, Peter Black, Cara
England (Sussex) England (Yorkshire) England (Yorkshire) England (Bath) France (Paris)
Simenon, Georges
France (Paris)
Inridason, Arnaldur Keating, H. R. F.
Iceland (Reykjavik) India (Bombay)
Gill, Bartholomew
Ireland
Gur, Batya
Israel (Jerusalem)
Hill, Reginald Robinson, Peter
Peter Diamond, ex-cop in Bath Aimée Leduc, French-American private eye in Paris Inspector Jules Maigret, commissaire of the Police Judicaire in Paris Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson Ganesh Ghote, police inspector in Bombay Peter McGarr, chief superintendent of Ireland’s national police Michael Ohayon, Israeli policeman
