Created by Nicola Griffith "An owl screamed in the wood and I wanted to ride behind its eyes when it plunged its talons into living flesh, wanted to tear something warm and soft to pieces while it squealed." AUD TORVINGEN is Nicola Griffith's hard-as-nails and Norwegian-to-the-core lesbian bodyguard/P.I./shit magnet, first introduced in the widely-acclaimed The … Continue reading Aud Torvingen
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Clara Samples & Iris Hadley
Created by Kim Carter Introduced in Sweet Dreams, Baby Belle (2017), elderly widows CLARA SAMPLES and IRIS HADLEY are nobody's spring chickens (they're both "well into their seventies") when they decide to form a detective agency in a less-than-ideal part of Atlanta--without a lick of investigative experience between them. But they are long-time best friends, … Continue reading Clara Samples & Iris Hadley
Nick Montaigne
Created by Peter Kurtz Wily, suave and sophisticated (although perhaps not quite as wily, suave and sophisticated as he thinks), private eye NICK MONTAINE plies his trade in Atlanta, Georgia, with the help of his partner Vern Wister, an ex-cop who nobody ever considered wily, suave or sophisticated. Vern handles the rough stuff, and mans … Continue reading Nick Montaigne
Morgana Musgrove
Created by George Dawes Green “There are too many live oaks dripping with too much Spanish moss..." Come for the Spanish moss, stay for the book? The quote that kicks off this page comes from young Black bartender, Jaq, who’s trying to video a crime scene for her MFA application project. She’s just one of … Continue reading Morgana Musgrove
Professor Stanley Hopkins
Created by Paul J. Heald There's something about PROFESSOR STANLEY HOPKINS that harkens back to the glory days of the detective pulps of the thirties and forties, and all the gimmicky accidental sleuths that swarmed their pages. That's right--the so-called "Sociologist of Sleaze" is not a private eye. He's not even much of a sociology … Continue reading Professor Stanley Hopkins
Addison Holmes
Created by Liliana Hart "His muscles had muscles, and I was pretty sure it wasn't his gun pressing into my belly." -- Whiskey Sour A little bit of Shell Scott, a whole lotta Stephanie Plum... ADDISON HOLMES is so very, very bored with teaching history in nowheresville Whiskey Bayou, Georgia, until she lands a job at … Continue reading Addison Holmes
Dane Kirby
Created by Brian Panowich "There wasn't a trail or a pig path in North Georgia he couldn't navigate with his eyes closed." -- Kirby knows his way around (Hard Cash Valley) In the third book in the Bull Mountain series, a multi-volume saga that follows the rough-edged Burroughs clan of the hill country of north … Continue reading Dane Kirby
Jim Hardman & Hump Evans
Created by Ralph Dennis (1931--88) "...the most beloved obscure private eye writer who ever lived..." -- Ed Gorman JIM HARDMAN's not such a hard man, after all. At least not physically. He's actually a little overweight and out of shape, smoking too many Pall Malls and definitely drinking a little too much. Still, he's tough … Continue reading Jim Hardman & Hump Evans
Ace Chaney
Created by Christian Garrison Imagine the Continental Op as a good ol' boy. ACE CHANEY is "Dixie's #1 sleuth," according to the blurb; a former Atlanta cop who goes to work for one of the smaller branches of the Pinkerton-like Paragon Detective Agency. Lending a hand in both novels is black police detective Jake Spicer. … Continue reading Ace Chaney