A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock by Lydia Adamson
Alice Nestleton is an actress, cat-sitter and an amateur detective.

Electric City by KK Beck
Jane DeSilva, an unemployed lounge singer, has an inheritance that gives her a mission - to use her uncle's money in righting wrongs.

In Plain Sight by Barbara Block
Robin Light is a pet-store owner, and an amateur sleuth.

Mrs. Jeffries Takes The Cake by Emily Brightwell
Cozy fans will like Mrs. Jeffries, the Victorian housekeeper who "helps" her police detective employer solve his cases.

Pigeon Pie by Robert Campbell
Jimmy Flannery is Chicago ward politics incarnate, except that he see that the crooks don't win.

The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel
Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden solve modern reservation crimes in which the clash of cultures figures large.

Stolen Away by Max Allen Collins
PI Nathan Heller is on a first name basis with the famous and the infamous as he investigates real cases, such as the Lindbergh kidnapping or Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

Death Train to Boston by Dianne Day
Freemont Jones is a turn of the century liberated lady who leaves home to earn a living on her own. Along the way, she finds a talent for solving mysteries - and attracting dashing men.

Saratoga Longshot by Stephen Dobyns
A Columbo of the racing set, Charlie Bradshaw is a rumpled, laid-back PI who gets his man in some surprising ways. Wonderfully colorful characters and racetrack ambience.

Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn
Daisy Dalrymple is the English version of Freemont - a Viscount's daughter who flaunts convention and supports herself as a writer, solving puzzling crimes along the way.

Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf
John Marshall Tanner is a complex San Francisco private eye in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett or John MacDonald.

The Redbird's Cry by Jean Hager
Contemporary Cherokee issues are sensitively dealt with by Molly Bear Paw and Chief Mitchell Bushyhead.

Dead on Arrival by Patrica Hall
Laura Ackroyd is a British reporter who finds crimes as she delves into stories. Tightly plotted.

Hosana Shout by Robert Irvine
Salt Lake City PI Moroni Traveler finds the Mormon Church full of mystery, but hardly the spiritual kind.

Hard Currency by Stuart Kaminsky
The politics, crimes, and social climate of post Cold War Moscow are central to his Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov series.

Bad Manners by Marne Davis Kellogg
Lily Bennett is a former police detective whose romantic liason with a colleague forces her out of the department and back home to Wyoming to start an International Security Firm. She's irreverent, wise-cracking, sexy.

Angel of Death by Rochelle Majer Krich
Jessica Drake is an LAPD detective who seriously and doggedly pursues criminals in this carefully crafted police procedural.

Bloodeagle by Roy Lewis
Medieval research specialist Arnold Landon and his friend Jane Wilson dig up crimes along with archeaological specimens. Those crimes get solved in collaboration with DCI Culpepper.

An Easy Day For a Lady by Gillian Linscott
Nell Bray is an English suffragete, turned amateur sleuth. The series follows both crime and politics.

Last Chants by Lia Matera
Attorney Willa Jansson is witty and talented in pursuing answers to complex and twisted questions about criminal involvement.

Falconer's Crusade by Ian Morson
Fans of Brother Cadfael will find much to like in Oxford philosophy teacher and amateur sleuth William Falconer.

Death at Epsom Downs by Robin Paige
Victorian cozies created by Susan Wittig and Bill Alpert feature American crime author Cathryn Arleigh and photographer Sir Charles Sheridan. A mutual attraction for solving crime brings this unlikely pair together.

Deadly Gamble by Connie Shelton
The series features Charlie Parker, a contemporary big-city girl who is both accountant and partner in a Private Investigating firm.

A Shroud For the Archbishop by Peter Tremayne
Sister Fidelma, a Celtic advocate of the court, teams up with her friend Brother Eadulf, a Catholic and member of a family of magistrates, to solve unholy crimes in 7th century Ireland.

A Beer at a Bawdy House by David Walker
Chicago's Wild Onion Detective Agency provides a modern day Nick and Nora in Kirstin and Dugan as they delve into the politics and crimes of church and state.

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library, August 2001.