Created by by Russell Dupont A former pro football player who bounced around the NFL for a dozen years, HARRY TOLLAND had his career tackled for good thanks to bad knees. Now he's in his mid-forties, back in Southie, with a brief stint in the Army, a wife (Rose) and a few years hiding out … Continue reading Harry Tolland
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Robert Miles
Created by David Everson (1941-99) "My name is Robert Miles and I'm a private eye with a difference. My mean streets are the corridors of power in the Illinois capitol. Call what I do for the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives opposition research." Whatever you call it, author David Everson's political savvy makes … Continue reading Robert Miles
Deets Shanahan
Created by Ronald Tierney (1944-2017) DIETRICH "DEETS" SHANAHAN is no happy camper. Especially when we first meet him. He's a cranky, semi-retired Indianapolis gumshoe within spitting distance of seventy, with a penchant for J.W. Dant bourbon, the Chicago Cubs, Delaney's Bar and horticulture. He lives in a small house with a rude overgrown mutt named … Continue reading Deets Shanahan
Mike Garrity
Created by Thomas B. Cavanagh "I have a tumor in my head. I call it Bob . . ." When we first come across him in the appropriately titled Head Games (2007), things aren't looking so hot for retired Orlando homicide dick MIKE GARRITY. He's in his early forties, twice divorced, and has a teenage … Continue reading Mike Garrity
E.J. Kane
Created by Michael E. Jimerson A thirty-year vet of the  Texas Rangers, E.J. KANE now works as an "independent sleuth" and freelance security consultant in the East Texas badlands where "the bland, khaki shades of drought punished the landscape." He's the hero in this top notch, action-packed series that digs way deeper (and darker) than … Continue reading E.J. Kane
Eddie Miles
Created by Jack Clark    Oh, what a difference a blurb makes... Originally, author Jack Clark, already a Shamus finalist for his first novel, was flogging his self-published novel Nobody's Angel for five bucks apiece to passengers in  his Chicago cab. Hard Case Crime took note, and published the book for real in 2010, with … Continue reading Eddie Miles
Ed Earl Burch
Created by Jim Nesbitt For those of you not getting enough shitkicking in your literary diet... Dallas private eye ED EARL BURCH has a bad disposition, a string of bad marriages, a pair of bad knees and a liver that just ain't worth shit, but he's also one tough, smart SOB. He doesn't take any … Continue reading Ed Earl Burch
Lou Klein
Created by Keith Gilman Who says you can't go home again? Apparently, nobody told former Philly cop LOU KLEIN, who makes a U-turn and heads back, in Keith Gilman's promising (and contest-winning) 2009 debut, Father's Day. After his widowed mother's murder, he moves into her old  house in West Philadelphia--the house he grew up in--but … Continue reading Lou Klein
Meg Lacey
Created by Elisabeth Bowers "No matter how paranoid and cautious I am, I'm never quite paranoid or cautious enough." Vancouver, British Columbia's MEG LACEY was a refreshing addition to the growing ranks of female eyes in the late-eighties. She may not have been as tough or independent as Kinsey Millhone or V.I. Warshawski, but she … Continue reading Meg Lacey
Steve Summers
Created by Jason Manor Pseudonym of Oakley M. Hall Other pseudonyms include O.M. Hall (1920-2008) Â Divorced (although he still has a thing for his ex) and retired private eye and former Peninsula City cop STEVE SUMMERS came into some real money, and decided he didn't need the grief. So he chucked it all, and … Continue reading Steve Summers