Muller, Marcia Pronzini, Bill SHARON MCCONE—San Francisco NAMELESS DETECTIVE—a dedicated level-headed investigator with a ten- and tenacious detective without a dency to occasionally get a bit too in- name. Titles include: Nightcrawlers, volved in her cases. Titles include: Ed- Mourners, Demons, Spook, Sentinels, win of the Iron Shoes, Pennies on a Crazybone Dead Woman’s Eyes, Dead Midnight, Walk Through Fire Rozan, S.J. LING WAN-JU “LYDIA” CHIN—a Mosley, Walter twenty-something year old ABC EASY RAWLINS —African-American (American Born Chinese) woman who Detecting private eye and World War II veteran lives with her mother in Chinatown and live in the Watts section of 1940s- runs her agency out of a storefront of- 1960s LA. Titles include: Devil in a fice on Cardinal street. Her sometimes Men and Blue Dress, Little Scarlet, Bad Brawly partner is Bill Smith, a 40-something Brown, Cinnamon Kiss white PI whose interest in Lydia is more than avuncular. Titles include: Reflect- Women Paretsky, Sara ing the Sky, Stone Quarry, A Bitter V.I. WARSHAWSKI—Attorney turned Feast, No Colder Place PI in Chicago, seems to take a particu- The Hardboiled lar delight in going after fat cats. Titles Woods, Stuart include: Indemnity Only, Tunnel Vision, STONE BARRINGTON—ex-cop, full- Detective Blacklist, Total Recall, Hard Time time lawyer, and sometimes investiga- tor. Titles include: Two-Dollar Bill, Dirty Parker, Robert Worker, Dark Harbor Mysteries featuring a SPENSER—Boston’s renowned tough private eye who’s “often but sensitive private eye. Love him or hate him, he’s an ex-boxer who quotes short on morals but long poetry and a gourmet book who isn’t shy about violence. Titles include: Thin on integrity,” and a noir Air, Hugger Mugger, Cold Service, or neo-noir background. Hundred-Dollar Baby .Check for these titles on our Overdrive / Libby and Hoopla apps for an ebook or eaudiobook. Barnes. Linda Coben, Harlan Iles, Greg CARLOTTA CARLYLE’s one red- MYRAN BOLITAR—Nope, he’s not a pri- PENN CAGE—If anyone knows death, headed, tough-talking, blues-loving, heart vate eye in the traditional sense, but in the Penn Cage does. He has sent 16 men -on-her-sleeve, cab-driving P.I. cruising act of protecting and defending his clients’ to their fate as District Attorney. And the streets of Boston, looking for trouble interests, he ventures into some pretty fa- now his young wife is gone too, leaving in all the wrong places… and she certain- miliar gumshoe turf. Titles include: Deal him alone with their young daughter. He ly finds it. Titles include: Cold Case, Deep Breaker, Promise Me, Fade Away, Darkest decides to go home, and home Pockets, Heart of the World, The Big Dig Fear means facing the ghosts of his past. Block, Lawrence Connelly, Michael Kava, Alex MATT SCUDDER. In the early books, HARRY BOSCH LAPD detective is more MAGGIE O’DELL a FBI profiler and he’s an angst-ridden ex-cop and unli- than just a cop—he’s a man with a mission. Sheriff Nick Morelli work together to fight censed private eye. In the later books A mission to, in his own words, “speak for crime. he’s sober. Titles include: A Stab in the the dead.” Titles include: The Black Echo, Titles include: A Perfect Evil, Damaged Dark, A Dance in the Slaughterhouse, The Concrete Blonde, Angels Flight, Lost and Off the Grid. Hope Light the Narrows, The Closers Kerr, Philip Burke, James Lee Crais, Robert BERNARD GUNTHER is a hard-boiled DAVE ROBICHEAUX, a deputy sheriff, ELVIS COLE AND JOE PIKE—tough, con- Berlin detective who specializes in track- recovering alcoholic, breaching ethical scientious, albeit somewhat unorthodox ing down missing persons--mostly Jews. code over just about every case he works Cole and his partner Pike, and ex-Marine Narrator Gunther is a spirited guide on, in New Iberia, Louisiana. Titles in- and gun shop owner. Titles include: The through the chaos of 1930s Berlin and, clude: Neon Rain, Black Cherry Blues, Monkey’s Raincoat, Voodoo River, LA Req- more important, a detective cast in the Cadilac Jukebox, Creole Belle uiem, The Last Detective, The Watchmen classic mold. Titles include: The Other Side of Silence and Greeks bearing gifts Chandler, Raymond Estleman, Loren PHILIP MARLOWE Tall, and big enough AMOS WALKER—the Oscar the Grouch of Lippman, Laura to take care of himself, he likes liquor, private eyes straps on his gun and heads TESS MONAGHAN—Former newspa- women, reading, chess, and working out on those mean streets of Detroit. Titles per reporter, now gainfully employed at alone. Titles include: The Big Sleep, include: The Witchfinder, Retro Nicotine twenty-nine, she’s willing to take any Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, Kiss, Sugartown freelance job to pay the rent—including The Long Goodbye a bit of unorthodox sleuthing… titles in- Grafton, Sue clude: Baltimore Blues, The Sugar Child, Lee KINSEY MILLHONE—alphabetic series Horse, Another Thing to Fall JACK REACHER In one book the ex-MP whose charm lies in the fact that she’s a drifter with the seldom-talked about past woman of rare spunk and independence. MacDonald John D. and way too much training is digging Titles include: A is for Alibi, G is for Gum- TRAVIS MCGEE—he appeared in 21 swimming pools or trying to help a shoe, O is for Outlaw, and S is for Silence novels each with a color in the title and rancher’s wife out of a domestic jam, the remains one of the best private eyes next book he’s hired to try and kill the (acting more like Robin Hood than Philip Vice President designate. Titles include: Marlowe). Titles include: Darker than Killing Floor, Running Blind, Echo Burn- Amber, Pale Gray for Guilt, Cinnamon ing, The Hard Way Skin, The Lonely Silver Rain .