Places

Periods

Alaska

• John Straley

Among the American Indians

• Tony Hillerman

Australia

• Jon Cleary; the Scobie Malone Series
• Peter Corris
• Garry Disher
• Kerry Greenwood
• Shane Maloney
• Tara Moss
• Dorothy Porter
• Peter Temple
  

Cairo

• Michael Pearce

Canada

• Giles Blunt
• Howard Engel

France

• Jean-Christophe Grange
• Pierre Magnan
• Martin O'Brien
• Jean-Francois Porot
• Fred Vargas

Germany

• Michael Gregorio
• Craig Russell
• Bernhard Schlink
  

Holland

• Nicholas Freeling

Iceland

• Arnaldur Indridason
• Yrsa Sigurdadottir

India

• H R F Keating

Ireland

• Alex Barclay
• Benjamin Black
• Ingrid Black
• John Brady
• Ken Bruen
• Paul Carson
• John Connolly
• Dicey Deere
• Bartholomew Gill
• Declan Hughes
• Jim Lusby
• Gene Kerrigan
• Jim Lusby
• Eugene McEldowney
• Adrian McKinty
• Catriona McPherson
• Andrew Nugent
  

Italy

• Andrea Camilleri
• Ottavio Cappellani
• Michael Dibdin
• David Hewson
• John Spencer Hill
• Donna Leon
• Carlo Lucarelli
• Magdalen Nabb

Laos

• Colin Cotterill
  

New Zealand

• Paul Cleave
  
• Laurie Mantell
• Ngaio Marsh
• Vanda Symons

Norway

• Karin Fossum
• Anne Holt
• Jo Nesbo
  

Russia

• Stuart Kaminsky; Detective Portfiry Rostnikov

Scotland

• Stuart McBride
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Denise Mina
• Ian Rankin; Inspector John Rebus

Spain

• Roderic Jeffries

South Africa

• June Drummond

Sweden

• Karin Alvtegen
• Ake Edwardson
• Kjell Eriksson
• Mari Jungstedt
• Asa Larsson
• Hakan Nesser
• Helene Tursten

Wales (village)

• Rhys Bowen

Ancient Egypt

• Christian Jacq
• Lynda Robinson

Ancient Greece

• Anna Apostolou

Ancient Rome

• Lindsey Davis
• Simon Scarrow
• Steven Saylor
  

The Crusades

• Simon Beaufort

Medieval times

• Simon Beaufort
• Alys Clare
• P C Doherty
• C L Grace
• Edward Marston
• Philippa Morgan (Chaucer as sleuth)
• Sharan Newman
• Ellis Peters

13th century England

• Candace Robb
• Priscilla Royal

14th century England

• Paul Doherty
• Susanna Gregory
• Paul Harding

16th century England

• Fiona Buckley
• Kathy Lynn Emerson
• Edward Marston (Nicholas Bracewell series)
• John Pilkington
• C.J. Sansom
• Martin Stephen
  

Jane Austen and Regency England

• Stephanie Barron

18th century England

• C.C. Humphreys

18th century Maine

• Margaret Lawrence

Revolutionary France

• Susanne Alleyn
• Charles O'Brien

19th century Edinburgh

• Alanna Knight

19th century New Zealand

• Edmund Bohan

19th century Russia

• R.N. Morris
  

19th century England

• David Dickinson
• Laurie R King
• Peter Lovesey
• James McGee
• Edward Marston (Inspector Robert Colbeck series)
• Andrew Martin
• Andrew Pepper
  
• Anne Perry
• Elizabeth Peters
• Roberta Rogow (Lewis Carroll and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Kate Ross
• Donald Thomas
• Will Thomas
• M J Trow

Early 20th century San Francisco

• Dianne Day

Edwardian and early 20th century England

• Susan Wittig Albert (Beatrix Potter as sleuth)
• Conrad Allen
  
• Gillian Linscott
• Edward Marston
• Jacqueline Winspear

1920s England

• Charles Todd

Golden age of Hollywood

• George Baxt

Germany in the 1940s

• Philip Kerr