Detectives around the world and in earlier eras
Authors who've specialized in books with different locations from the norm or whose novels are set in a different time.
Places
Alaska
Among the American Indians
Australia
- Jon Cleary; the Scobie Malone Series
- Peter Corris
- Garry Disher
- Kerry Greenwood
- Shane Maloney
- Tara Moss
- Dorothy Porter
- Peter Temple
Cairo
Canada
France
Germany
Holland
Iceland
India
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
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
- Stuart Kaminsky; Detective Portfiry Rostnikov
Scotland
- Stuart McBride
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Denise Mina
- Ian Rankin; Inspector John Rebus
Spain
South Africa
Sweden
Wales (village)
Periods
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
The Crusades
Medieval times
- Simon Beaufort
- Alys Clare
- P C Doherty
- C L Grace
- Edward Marston
- Philippa Morgan (Chaucer as sleuth)
- Sharan Newman
- Ellis Peters
14th century England
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
18th century Maine
Revolutionary France
19th century Edinburgh
19th century New Zealand
19th century Russia
- 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
Edwardian and early 20th century England
- Susan Wittig Albert (Beatrix Potter as sleuth)
- Conrad Allen
- Gillian Linscott
- Edward Marston
- Jacqueline Winspear
1920s England
Golden age of Hollywood
Germany in the 1940s










