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ALGERIA
Khadra, Yasmina	Brahim Llob, Algiers police
AUSTRALIA
Corris, Peter	Cliff Hardy, Sydney P.I.
Disher, Garry	Hal Challis, Melbourne police
Greenwood, Kerry	Phryne Fisher, 1920s Melbourne flapper sleuth
Hyland, Adrian	Emily Tempest, modern day half-aboriginal Central Australia sleuth
Maloney, Shane	Murray Whelan, Melbourne, government investigator
Temple, Peter	Jack Irish, lawyer and sometime debt-collector
AUSTRIA
Tallis, Frank	Max Liebermann, 1900s Vienna psychoanalyst and Detective Inspector Oscar Rheinhardt
BOTSWANA
McCall Smith, Alexander	Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Stanley, Michael	David “Kubu” Bengu, Botswana Criminal Investigation Department detective
BRAZIL
Gage, Leighton	Mario Silva, Brazilian Federal Police inspector
Garcia-Roza, L.A.	Inspector Espinosa, Rio de Janeiro police
CANADA
Aubert, Rosemary	Ellis Portal, former Toronto judge
Blunt, Giles	John Cardinal, Algonquin Bay police
Engel, Howard	Benny Cooperman, Grantham, Ontario P.I.
Hamilton, Lyn	Lara McClintock, Toronto antiquities dealer
Harrison, Mike	Eddie Dancer, Calgary P.I.
Jennings, Maureen	William Murdoch, Toronto P.I.
Penny, Louise	Armand Gamache, Quebec police
Sanderson, Douglas	Bill Yates and Mike Garfin, Montreal P.I.s
Wolfe, Inger Ash	Hazel Micallef, Port Dundas, Ontario police
Wright, Eric	Charlie Salter, Toronto police
CHINA
May, Peter	Margaret Campbell, American forensic pathologist teaching at Beijing police academy
Oakes, Andy	Sun Piao, Shanghai police
Pattison, Eliot	Shan Tao Yun, a Chinese bureaucrat imprisoned in a Himalayan labor camp
Qiu, Xiaolong	Inspector Chen, Shanghai police
Van Gulik, Robert	Judge Dee, 7th century magistrate
CUBA
Padura, Leonardo	Mario Conde, late 1950s Havana police
DENMARK
Hoeg, Peter	Smilla Jasperson, Copenhagen sleuth
EGYPT
Geagley, Brad	Semerket, Ancient Egyptian Clerk of Investigations and Secrets
Pearce, Michael	Captain Gareth Owen, colonial police officer, or "Mamur Zapt," in British-controlled Cairo
Peters, Elizabeth	Amelia Peabody, Victorian era feminist Egyptologist
FINLAND
Wagner, Jan Costin	Kimmo Joentaa, Turku police
FRANCE
Alleyn, Susanne	Aristide Ravel and Commissaire Brasseur, late 1790s postrevolutionary Paris police
Black, Cara	Aimee Leduc, Paris corporate security consultant
Bond, Michel	Monsieur Pamplemousse, gourmet and amateur sleuth
Hale, T.J., ed.	Great French Detective Stories
Izzo, Jean-Claude	Fabio Montale, Marseille police
Jakeman, Jane	Cecile Galant, Cannes magistrate
Mangan, Pierre	Commissaire Laviolette, Marseille police
May, Peter	Enzo Macleod, expatriate Scottish forensic scientist teaching biology in Cahors
O’Brien, Charles	Anne Cartier and her husband, Paul de Saint-Martin of the pre-revolutionary Paris Royal Highway Patrol
O’Brien, Martin	Daniel Jacquot, southern coastal police
Simenon, Georges	Jules Maigret, Paris police
Vargas, Fred	Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, Paris police
Wan, Michelle	Mara Dunn, Dordogne region interior designer
GERMANY
Savarin, Julian Jay	Jens Muller, Berlin police
GREECE
Markaris, Petros	Costas Haritos, Athens police
ICELAND
Arnaldur Indridason	Erlandur Sveinsson, Reykjavik police
INDIA
Cleverly, Barbara	Joe Sandilands, post-WWI Scotland Yard detective
Keating, H. R. F.	Ganesh Ghote, Bombay police
Mann, Paul	George Sansi, Bombay lawyer
Prabhu, Manjiri	Sonia Samarth, Pune astrologist P.I.
IRELAND
Black, Benjamin	Garret Quirke, Dublin pathologist
Bruen, Ken	Jack Taylor, Galway P.I.
Deere, Dicey	Torrey Tunet, Ballynagh translator from Boston
French, Tana	Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox, Dublin police
Gill, Bartholomew	Peter McGarr, Dublin police
Gorman, Ed, ed.	Murder Most Irish
Hart, Erin	Cormac Maguire, Dublin based archaeologist and visiting American pathologist Nora Gavin
Hughes, Declan	Ed Loy, Dublin P.I.
Kerrigan, Gene	Harry Synott, Dublin police
Sansom, Ian	Israel Armstrong, Tumdrum bookmobile librarian
Tremayne, Peter	Sister Fidelma of Cashel, religieuse of the Celtic Church, 664 A.D.
ISRAEL
Gur, Batya	Michael Ohayon, Jerusalem police
ITALY
Brophy, Grace	Alessandro Cenni, State Police, Umbria
Browne, Marshall	Anders, Rome based Interpol agent
Camilleri, Andrea	Salvo Montalbano, Sicilian police
Dibdin, Michael	Aurelio Zen, Rome police
Hewson, David	Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, Rome police
Leon, Donna	Guido Brunetti, Venice police
Lucarelli, Carlo	Commisario De Luca, 1940's Milan police
Myers, Beverle Graves	Tito Amato, 18th century Venice opera singer
Nabb, Magdalena	Salvatore Guarnaccia, Florence police
Pears, Iain	Jonathan Argyll, British art dealer, affiliated with the Rome art theft police
Sklepowich, Edward	Urbino Macintyre, American expatriate sleuth in Venice
JAPAN
Furutani, Dale	Matsuyama Kaze, 17th century samurai
Marquand, John P.	Mr. Moto, pre-WWII government agent
Massey, Sujata	Rei Shimura, Tokyo based Japanese-American antiques dealer
Nonami, Asa	Takako Otomichi, Tokyo police
Parker, I. J.	Sugawara Akitada, 11th century Ministry of Justice clerk
Rowland, Laura Joh	Ichiro Sano, 17th century Samurai
Takagi, Akitmitsu	Saburu Kirishima, state prosecutor
KENYA
Arruda, Suzanne	Jade del Cameron, post-WWI Nairobi P.I.
LAOS
Cotterill, Colin	Siri Paiboun, 1970s Vientiane state coroner
NETHERLANDS
Baantjer, A.C.	Inspector DeKok, Amsterdam police
Freeling, Nicolas	Piet Van Der Valk, Amsterdam police
Van De Wetering, Janwillem	Rinus DeGier and Henk Grijpstra, Amsterdam police
NORTH KOREA
Church, James	Inspector O, Pyongyang state police
NORWAY
Dahl, K.O.	Frank Frolich, Oslo Police
Fossum, Karin	Konrad Sejer, police inspector in a small unnamed mountain village outside of Oslo
Holt, Anne	Johanne Vik, psychology professor, and Adam Stubo, Oslo police
Rygg, Pernille	Ig Heitmann, Oslo research psychologist
PALESTINE
Land, John	Ben Kamal, West Bank police
Rees, Matt Beyon	Omar Yussef, Bethlehem history teacher
RUSSIA
Akunin, Boris	Erast Fandorin, 19th century tsarist Moscow gentleman sleuth
Kaminsky, Stuart	Porfiry Rostnikov, Moscow police
Smith, Martin Cruz	Arkady Renko, Moscow police
SOUTH AFRICA
Kunzmann, Richard	Harry Mason and Jacob Tshabalala, Johannesburg police
SOUTH KOREA
Limon, Martin	George Sueno and Ernie Bascom, 1960-70s Seoul U.S. Army military police officers
SPAIN
Gimenez-Bartlett, Alicia	Petra Delicado, Barcelona police
Jeffries, Roderick	Enrique Alvarez, Mallorca police
Pawel, Rebecca	Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon 1930s and 1940s Madrid Guardia Civil police
SWEDEN
Edwardson, Ake	Erik Winter, Goteborg police
Eriksson, Kjell	Ann Lindell, Uppsala police
Jungstedt, Mari	Anders Knutas, Gotland police
Larsson, Asa	Rebecca Martinsson, Kiruna attorney
Mankell, Henning	Kurt Wallander, Ystad police
Sjowall, Maj	Martin Beck, Stockholm police
Tursten, Helene	Irene Huss, Goteborg police
SWITZERLAND
Glauser, Friedrich	Jakob Struder, Bern police
THAILAND
Burdett, John	Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Bangkok police
TURKEY
Goodwin, Jason	Yashim Togalu, 19th century Istanbul Ottoman court eunuch
Harper, Tom	Demetrios Askiates (Demetrios the Apokalyptor), 11th century Constantinople bounty hunter
Nadel, Barbara	Cetin Ikmen, Istanbul, Turkey police