Annabel Laine

Charles Dornay
Earl of Moriston
Early Victorian England

• The Reluctant Heiress [1978]
• The Melancholy Virgin [1982]

Deryn Lake
(aka Dinah Lampitt)

John Rawlings, Apothecary and friend of
Sir John Fielding, Magistrate, aka The Blind Beak
18th C England

• Death in a Dark Walk [1994]
• Death at the Beggar's Opera [1995]
• Death at the Devil's Tavern [1996]
• Death on Romney Marsh [1998]
• Death in the Peerless Pool [1999]
• Death in Apothecaries' Hall [2000]
• Death in the West Wind [2001]
• Death at St. James's Palace [2002]
• Death in the Valley of Shadows [2003]
• Death in the Setting Sun [2004]
• Death and the Cornish Fiddler [2006]
• Death in Hellfire [2007]
• Death and the Black Pyramid [2009]

Al Lamanda
(non-series)

David Peck, sheriff
Dunston Falls, ME 1959

• Dunston Falls [2008]

Dewey Lambdin

Matthew Livesey, a middle-aged
Scots Presbyterian ship chandler
pre-Revolutionary (18thC)
Cape Fear Wilmington, NC

• What Lies Buried : A Novel of Old
    Cape Fear [2005]

William Landay
(non-series)

Partially based on the real life Boston Strangler case
The Daley brothers: thief Ricky,
lawyer Michael, and bent cop Joe
Boston MA 1963

• The Strangler [2007]

Willoughby Lane
(aka Val Andrews)

Sherlock Holmes Pastiches
Victorian, various locations

• Sherlock Holmes and the
    Wood Green Empire [1985]
• Sherlock Holmes and the
    London Zoo Mystery [1987]
• Sherlock Holmes and the
    Silver Vengance [1994]

Michael Langford
(non-series)

Dr Simon Weatherspoon
De Vere College, Cambridge 1868

• The De Vere Papers [2008]

Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Ursula Marlow, heiress, Oxford graduate,
aspiring journalist, and devoted suffragette,
Edwardian England early 20th century

• Consequences of Sin [2007]
• The Serpent and the Scorpion [2008]

Joe R. Lansdale 1
(non-series)

Stanley Mitchell, 13-year-old kid
Buster Lighthorse Smith, black drive-in projectionist
and retired Indian-reservation cop
Dewmont, Texas 1958

• A Fine Dark Line [2002]

Joe R. Lansdale 2
(non-series)

Harry Crane, 13-year-old kid
son of the county constable
East Texas, 1933

• The Bottoms [2010]

Patrick Larkin

Lucius Aurelius Valens,
a young Roman officer in the Sixth Legion
Rome and Gallilee 19 C.E.

• The Tribune [2003]

Gaylord Larsen

Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie,
mystery authors
England 1937

• Dorothy and Agatha [1990]

Jose Latour
(non-series)

Col. Orlando Grava of the Bureau of Investigations
and gangster Meyer Lansky
Cuba 1958

• Havana World Series [2004]

Janet Laurence

Giovanni Antonio Canal aka Canaletto
Venetian landscape artist
London 1740s

• Canaletto and the Case of
    Westminster Bridge [1997]
• Canaletto and the Case of
    the Privy Garden [1999]
• Canaletto and the Case of
    Bonnie Prince Charlie [2002]

Margaret Lawrence 1

Hannah Trevor, Midwife
Post-Revolutionary Maine 18th C

• Hearts and Bones [1995]
• Blood Red Roses [1997]
• The Burning Bride [1998]

Margaret Lawrence 2

Jennet Trevor, Hannah Trevor's deaf daughter
1809 New York

• The Iceweaver [2000]

Paul Lawrence

Harry Lytle, a rogue
17th C Restoration London

• The Sweet Smell of Decay [2009]
• A Plague of Sinners [2010]

John Lawton 1

Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy
London, England 1941-1963

• Black Out [1995]
• Old Flames [1996]
• A Little White Death [1998]
• Riptide [2001]
    1st USA edition reissued as
    Bluffing Mr.Churchill [2004]
• Flesh Wounds [2005]
    (Uk title Blue Rondo)
• Second Violin [2007]

John Lawton 2
(non-series)

Detective Turner Raines
New York City USA 1969

• Sweet Sunday [2002]

Steve Leadley
(short stories)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson
Victorian US & UK

• Sherlock Holmes and The Circle of Blood [2009]

Suzann Ledbetter

Josephine Beckworth Sawyer
Private Investigator
1870s Denver Colorado

• A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves [2003]
• A Lady Never Meddles in Murder [2004]

Elmore Leonard

The Webster Saga
Carlos Webster, Deputy U.S. marshal
amongst gangsters and gun molls
1930s-1940s Oklahoma

• The Hot Kid [2005]
• Up in Honey's Room [2007]
• Comfort to the Enemy [2009]
    (serialized in the NYT in 2005)

Giulio Leoni
(author's website is in Italian)
Anne Appel (Translator)

Dante Alighieri, poet & Prior of the city of Florence
Florence, Italy 1300

• The Third Heaven Conspiracy [2006]
    (US title: The Mosaic Crimes [2007])
• The Kingdom of Light [2009]

John Lescroart

Auguste Lupa, chef & reputed son of Sherlock Holmes
1915, France (Son)
& Russia (Revenge)

• Son of Holmes [1986]
• Rasputin's Revenge [2003]

Steven M. Leshin

Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson
legendary Old West lawmen
1908 Los Angeles

• Vengeance of the Ripper [2009]

Simon Levack

Yaotl, trusted slave to Montezuma's Chief Minister
Aztec Mexico 1517 (the year Twelve-House)

• A Demon of the Air [2004]
• Shadow of the Lords [2005]
• City of Spies [2006]
• "Law and Ordure" - a Yaotl short story
    available for free at the author's website.
• Tribute of Death [2007]

Michael Levey
(non-series)

Julia, chief Vestal Virgin
Rome, turn of the 1st C AD

• An Affair on the Appian Way [1984]

Lee Levin

Grand Vizier Eye
Thebes Egypt, 1356 BC
Reign of Tutankhamen (Eye's grandson)

• King Tut's Private Eye [1996]

Allan Levine

Sam Klein "tough guy for hire"
bouncer in a brothel
Winnipeg Canada 1911-1919

• The Blood Libel [1997]
• Sins of the Suffragette [2000]
• The Bolshevik's Revenge [2002]

Stephen Lewis

Catherine Williams, widow / midwife
Massaquoit,a Pequot Indian leader
Newbury, New England 17th century Colonial America

• The Dumb Shall Sing [1999]
• The Blind in Darkness [2000]
• The Sea Hath Spoken [2001]

Alice Chetwynd Ley

Regency Mysteries featuring
brother and sister Anthea and Justin Rutherford
Regency England

• A Reputation Dies [1984]
• A Fatal Assignation [1987]
• Masquerade of Vengeance [1989]

Margit Liesche

Pucci Lewis,
Women Airforce Service Pilot and undercover agent
WW II Michigan & Hollywood CA 1940s

• Lipstick and Lies [2007]
• Hollywood Buzz [2009]

Gillian Linscott
(aka Caro Peacock)

Nell Bray, Suffragette
Early 1900s - Pre WWI, England

• Sister Beneath the Sheet [1991]
• Hanging on the Wire [1992]
• Stage Fright [1993]
• Widow's Peak [1994]
    (US Title: An Easy Day for a Lady)
• Crown Witness [1995]
• Dead Man's Music [1996]
    (US Title: Dead Man's Sweetheart)
• Dance on Blood [1998]
• Absent Friends [1999]
• The Perfect Daughter [2000]
• Dead Man Riding [2002]
• Blood on the Wood [2003]

Clyde Linsley

Josiah Beede
Retired military hero and gentleman farmer
1836 New Hampshire

• Death of a Mill Girl [2002]
• Saving Louisa [2003]
• Die Like A Hero [2005]

David Liss 1

Benjamin Weaver, Pugilist turned private investigator
London England 1719-1722

• A Conspiracy of Paper [2001]
• A Spectacle of Corruption [2004]
• The Devil's Company [2009]

David Liss 2
(non-series)

Miguel Lienzo, Portugese Jewish commodities trader
1659 Amsterdam

• The Coffee Trader [2003]

Dick Lochte

Harry Trauble, advertising promotions copywriter
Los Angeles, CA 1965

• Croaked! [2007]

Joan Lock

Sergeant Ernest Best
Victorian London

• Dead Image [2000]
• Dead Born [2001]
• Dead Letters [2003]
• Dead End [2004]
• Dead Fall [2005]
• Dead Loss [2006]
• Dead Centre [2008]

M. Louisa Locke

Annie Fuller, a young widow and clairvoyant
Nate Dawson, attorney
San Francisco CA 1879

• Maids of Misfortune [2009]

Martin Long

Gaslight Mystery Series
Wellington Cotter, retired detective and amateur astronomer
Sydney, Australia 1880's

• The Dark Gateway [1987]
• The Garden House [1989]
• The Music Room [1990]

Elizabeth Loupas

Barbara of Austria
2nd wife of the Duke of Ferrara from
Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess"
Court of Ferrera, Italy 16th C

• The Second Duchess (forthcoming 2011)

Peter Lovesey 1
(aka Peter Lear)

Richard Cribb, Police Inspector
Edward Thackeray, Constable
London, England's Victorian Period

• Wobble to Death [1970]
• The Detective Wore Silk Drawers [1971]
• Abracadaver [1972]
• Mad Hatter's Holiday [1973]
• Invitation to a Dynamite Party [1974]
    (aka The Tick of Death)
• A Case of Spirits [1975]
• Swing, Swing Together [1976]
• Waxwork [1978]

Peter Lovesey 2
(aka Peter Lear)

Albert, Prince of Wales
Victorian London, England

• Bertie and the Tinman [1987]
• Bertie and the Seven Bodies [1990]
• Bertie and the Crime of Passion [1993]

Peter Lovesey 3
(aka Peter Lear)
(non-series)

Adulturous dentist fleeing
under the name of Inspector Dew,
the detective who arrested Crippen
1921 at sea

• The False Inspector Dew [1982]

Peter Lovesey 4
(aka Peter Lear)
(non-series)

English-born vaudeville actor
dubbed "Keystone" by Mack Sennett
Keystone Film Studios, Hollywood CA 1916

• Keystone: Murder Mystery at the Keystone
    Film Company [1984]

Peter Lovesey 5
(aka Peter Lear)
(short stories)

Short story collection including
historicals featuring Prince Bertie,
Sergeant Cribb, and others

• Murder on the Short List [2008]

Gary Lovisi
(short stories)

Sherlock Holmes
Switzerland and USA late 19th C - early 20th C

• The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes [2009]

Marianne Luban

Levi, enslaved Canaanite
turned personal barber to Pharaoh Thutmose III
Egypt circa 1450 BCE

• The Pharaoh's Barber [2008]

Carlo Lucarelli
(Translated by Michael Reynolds)
website is in Italian

De Luca Trilogy
Commissario De Luca
Milan 1945-46

• Carte Blanche [1990/2006 in English]
• The Damned Season [2007]
• Via Delle Oche [2008]

John Luck, M.D.
(aka John Raffensperger M.D.)
(non-series)

Dr. Tom Slocum, surgeon and Korean war veteran
Chicago IL 1950s

• Diamonds of Death [2008]

Jerry Ludwig
(non-series)

Reva Hess, autograph hound
Hollywood during the Golden Age of the 1950s

• Getting Garbo: A Novel Of Hollywood
    and Murder [2004]