Stephanie Plum
This fictional lingerie-buyer-turned-bounty-hunter is the creation of the bestselling author Janet Evanovich, whose books are loved all over the world. On losing her job, Stephanie turns to her cousin Vinnie, and ends up as a bounty hunter at Vincent Plum Bail Bonds – and twenty-four books later (plus several short stories), she’s still in business.Lori Anderson
Another American bounty hunter (there are a lot of them about), Lori Anderson in the creation of Steph Broadribb, and stars in Steph’s recent debut novel Deep Down Dead from Orenda Books. Though she wants to play it safe from now on, when her daughter’s health hangs in the balance and the medical bills start piling up, she has no option but to take on a dangerous job that will jeopardise everything she cares about most deeply…Miss Marple
The most famous of them all, Agatha Christie’s gentle but acutely perceptive protagonist appeared in twenty of her novels, and has been portrayed on screen by Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie, among others.
A quiet spinster from the sleepy village of St Mary Mead, Jane Marple should never be underestimated, as a great many murderers found out over the course of her forty-year reign.
Jane Jeffry
Created by Jill Churchill, Jane Jeffry is a suburban housewife from Chicago, Illinois, who finds herself untangling crimes, such as the murder of her cleaning lady, whose neck became fatally tangled in her vacuum cleaner cord. Stay tuned to farragobooks.com for news of Jane’s imminent arrival on our shelves – we can’t wait to share all her adventures with you.Miss Silver
Retired governess-turned-detective Miss Maud Silver, a close contemporary of Miss Marple – though of course the two never met – was the creation of novelist Patricia Wentworth, and first appeared in a book entitled Grey Mask, published in 1928. Her adventures have inevitably been compared with Miss Marple’s, but one key difference is that Miss Silver is a professional detective for whom each case is a job, rather than an occurrence that happens to cross her path.Jessica Fletcher
Jessica Fletcher, the kindly mystery novelist of Cabot Cove, Maine, first appeared to us on the small screen, brought to life by the incomparable Angela Lansbury, but her adventures have also been transcribed in a number of books, so she deserves a place on our list of favourites. We just hope they were written on an old-fashioned typewriter that goes ‘ping!’ at the end of each line…