SWEETHEART SLEUTHS for Valentine's Day

A List of Sweetheart Sleuths for Valentine's Day!  I updated this list with 'couples' every year. I'm sure you have more. Make a comment with author and sweetheart sleuths, and I'll add to the list. In the meantime, here's some great reading for Valentine's Day!

SWEETHEART SLEUTHS 

Alexander, Tasha: Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves
Allen, Conrad: Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman Porter
Allingham, Margery: Albert Campion and Amanda Fitton
Arnold, Margot: Tobias Glendower and Penelope Spring
Bell, Albert: Michael Harrington and Corie Foster
Billheimer, John: Owen Allison and ex-wife Judith
Borthwick, J. S.: Sarah Dean and Alex McKenzie
Bowen, Michael: Rep and Melissa Pennyworth
Bowen, Rhys: Molly Murphy and Daniel Sullivan; Lady Georgie and Darcy O'Mara
Burke, Jan: Irene Kelly and Frank Harriman
Carlson, P. M.: Maggie and Nick Ryan
Carner, John: John Fowler and Jessica Hammerstein
Casey, Donis: Alafair and Shaw Tucker
Chappell, Helen: Holly and Sam Westcott
Charles, Kate: Lucy Kingsley and David Middleton-Brown
Christie, Agatha: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
Clark, Carol Higgins: Regan and Jack Reilly
Cockey, Tim: Hitchcock Sewell and ex-wife Julia Finney
Craig, Alisa Dittany Henbit and Osbert Monk, Madoc and Jane Rhys
Crane, Frances: Pat and Jean Abbot
Crombie, Deborah: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James
Curzon, Claire: Mike Yeadings and Rosemary Zyczynski
Davis, Krista: Sophie Winston, domestic diva, and Detective Wolf
Evanovich, Janet: Stephanie Plum and Joe Morelli—or Ranger—or Diesel—or not
Finch, Charles: Charles Lennox and Lady Jane Grey
George, Elizabeth: Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers
Gordon, Alan: Jester Feste and wife Viola, late of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
Greenwood, Kerry: Corinna Chapman and Daniel Cohen
Granger, Ann: Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell
Haddam, Jane: Gregor Demarkian and Bennis Hannaford (this one’s a stretch)
Ham, Lorie: Alexandra Waters and Stephen Carlucci
Hammett, Dashiell: Nick and Nora Charles
Handler, David: Mitch Berger and state policewoman Desiree Mitry
Harrington, Jonathan: C. J. and Bridge
Hart, Carolyn: Max and Annie Darling
Kay, Arlene: Eja Kane and Deming Swann
Iakovou, Takis: and Judy Nick and Julia Lambro
Kellerman, Faye: Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus
Kelly, Susan B.: Alison Hope and Nick Trevelyan
Kelner, Toni L. P.: Laurie Ann and Richard Fleming
Kenney, Susan: Roz Howard and Alan Stewart
King, Laurie R.: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Levinson, R. S.: Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner
Lindquist, N. J.: Paul Manziuk and Jacqueline Ryan
Lockridge, Frances and Richard: Pam and Jerry North
Lupoff, Richard: Hobart Lindsay and Marvia Plum
MacLeod, Charlotte: Max and Sarah Kelling Bittersohn, Peter and Helen Shandy
McBride, Susan: Maggie Ryan and John Phillips
McCafferty, Barbara Taylor & Herald, Beverly: Bert & Nan Tatum
McDermid, Val: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
McGown, Jill: Chief Inspector Danny Lloyd and Inspector Judy Hill
Maron, Margaret: Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant
Marsh, Ngaio: Roderick Alleyn and Agatha Troy
Matthews, Alex: Cassidy McCabe, Zack
Maxwell, A. & E.: Fiora and Fiddler
Moyes, Patricia: Emmie and Henry Tibbetts
Newman, Sharan: Catherine Levendeur and husband Edgar
Paige, Robin: Charles and Kate Sheridan
Palmer, Stuart: Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper
Parker, Robert: Spencer and Susan
Pears, Iain: Flavia Di Stefano and Jonathan Argyle
Perry, Anne: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
Peters, Elizabeth: Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, Ramses and Nefret,Vicky Bliss and John Smith
Pickard, Nancy: Jenny Cain and Geoffrey Bushfield
Pomidor, Bill: Drs. Calista and Plato Marley
Raybourn,  Deanna: Nichloas Brisbane and Lady Julia Grey
Robb, J.D.: Eve Dallas and Roark
Roos, Kelley: Jeff and Haila Tory
Rozan, S. J.: Bill Smith and Lydia Chin
Rubino, Jane: Cat Austen and Victor Cardenas
Sale, Medora: John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries
Saulnier, Beth: Alex Bernier and Brian Cody
Sayers, Dorothy L.: Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
Schumacher, Aileen: Tory Peters and David Alvarez
Smith, Charles Merrill: Reverend Con Randollph and Samantha Stack
Spencer-Fleming, Julia: Claire Ferguson and Russ Van Alstyne
Thompson, Victoria: Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Molloy
Whitney, Polly: Ike and Abby
Wilhelm, Kate: Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl
Wright, L. R.: Karl Alberg, RCMP, and Cassandra Mitchell

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Happy Caturday!

MYSTERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH I: Mystery Readers Journal (34:4)

Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in the American South I (Volume 34:4: Winter 2018-2019) is available now as a PDF and will shortly be available in hardcopy. Subscriber copies will be mailed within a week. We had so many articles, author essays, and reviews, that we had to split this themed issue into two. The first issue of Mystery Readers Journal in 2019 (Volume 35) will be Mystery in the American South II. If you contributed to this issue, but don't see your name in the table of contents, rest assured it will be in Mystery in the American South II. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this such a terrific issue.

Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadable PDF

MYSTERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (Volume 34:4)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• It Was the Third of June, Another Sleepy, Dusty, Delta Day… by Margot Kinberg

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Making Peace with the “Southern Writer” Label by Donna Andrews
• My Summer of the Suspected Spy by Mignon Ballard
• I Wasn’t Born in the South but I Got Here as Soon as I Could: How I Became a Damned Yankee by Nancy Bartholomew
• The Rebel Bishop by Paul A. Barra
• Confessions of a Carpetbagger by Ellen Byron
• You Can Take the Boy Out of West Virginia, But… by John Billheimer
• A Southern Life-Style and Tax Write-Off by Don Bruns
• My Heroines Will Always Be Southern by Ana Brazil
• Serving Up a Southern Mystery by Elizabeth S. Craig
• A Yankee in Virginia by Ellen Crosby
• A Casserole in the Freezer by Krista Davis
• What Does It Take to Be a “Southern” Writer? by D.J. Donaldson
• Over the River and Through the Woods by J.T. Ellison
• A Face Like a Beige Rock by Mary Anna Evans
• Southern as Three Rows of Okra by Bill Fitzhugh
• Georgia on My Mind by Judy Fitzwater
• Hidden in Backwoods Appalachia by Susan Furlong
• The Strength and Humor of Steel Magnolias by Barb Goffman
• On a Sunny Sea Island by Carolyn Hart
• A Poke Full of Death by Russell Hill
• Murder in Texas—Southern or Sui Generis? by Kay Kendall
• Haunted by Molly MacRae
• Con Artists Make Their Mark Down South by Lynda McDaniel
• Don’t Write What You Know by John McMahon
• The Changing South by Sandra Parshall
• Endless Stories by J.M. Redmann
• Serendipity Rides the Back Roads by Sarah Shankman
• Jersey by Birth—Southern at Heart by Jessica Speart
• Moving South: Heroic Women, Over-Protective Men, and a Mess of Murders by Maureen Tan
• “Look Away, Look Away” by Art Taylor
• The R Word by Tina Whittle
• The Original Music City Mystery Series Returns by Steven Womack

COLUMNS

• Murder in Retrospect: Reviews by Sandie Herron, Ali Karim, L.J. Roberts, and Lesa Holstine
• Real Crime Southern Style by Cathy Pickens
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

AUDIE AWARD NOMINEES

Thanks to The Rap Sheet and In Reference to Murder, I learned that the Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced the finalists for the 24th annual Audie Awards® competition, the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Winners will be revealed at the Audie Awards® Gala in May in New York City. Stay 'tuned.' Congratulations to all.

Of interest to mystery readers:

Mystery:

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, narrated by Robert Glenister
The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah, narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt
The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George, narrated by Simon Vance
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen, narrated by Jonathan Keeble and Katy Sobey
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves, narrated by Kenny Blyth.

Thriller/Suspense: 

Crimson Lake by Candice Fox, narrated by Euan Morton
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, narrated by Imogen Church
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo, narrated by Euan Morton
The Outsider by Stephen King, narrated by Will Patton
The Terminal List by Jack Carr, narrated by Ray Porter
Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis, narrated by Richard Armitage

Cartoon of the Day: Types of Narrators