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Writer	Who	Where	When	How Much	Why
Jacobs, Jonnie	Kali O'Brien	Walnut Hill, CA	Present
Jacobs, Nancy Baker	Kim Delancy		Present		Kim is Korean-American arson investigator; GG
Jacobs, Nova	Eve Marsh, Ph.D., Sabine Leroux, Chloe Grimaud, Simon de Vries	CERN Geneva, Switzerland, and adjoining France	Present		After Eve finishes her Ph.D. in particle physics, she is thrilled to obtain a post-doctoral fellowshiip at CERN. At CERN, Eve meets and begins to date another postdoc, Howard Anderly. Howard is fascinated with philosophy and parallel universes, and Eve discovers that when the accelerator wasn't running, Howard sometimes snuck into the collider tunnels to meditate. He says the tunnel atmosphere is both peaceful and energizing. One day, an engineer working in the tunnel discovers Howard dead of radiation. However, the collider's 24/7 security tapes show no record of Howard entering the tunnel and no record of anyone starting the accelerator. Not long after, another postdoc, Niels Thorne is found dead--drowned in the CERN's xenon tank. Another postdoc, who was secretly Niels' lover, gives Sabine a memory stick that Niels had given him shortly before he died. Sabine and her helper eventually decode the memory stick to hear a recording of Chloe Grimmaud, head of CERN's ATLAS division, talking to Simon de Vries, head of CERN's CMS division. The conversation reveals that Chloe and Simon are secretely lovers, and they have been providing research data to Russia. Chloe and Simon manage to escape to Russia before the police can stop them. Not as good as Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" but similar.
Jakeman, Jane	Garrety	London, England	1900		Claude Monet is character; not much mystery
Jalaluddin, Uzma	Kauser Lhan	North Bay and Toronto, Canada	Present		Kauser grew up in Bengalor, India, but her parents married her to an Indian man, an MD, living in Canada. The marriage was happy and produced two sons and one daughter. Kauser's husband died from cancer a year before the story begins. Kausers son, Adam, is a London barrister, and her daughter, Sani, lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters. Kauser's younger son, Ali, died a victim of a hit and run while Kauser and her husband lived in Toronto. As a result of Ali's death, Kauser went into depression and culdn't bear Toronto so her husband accepted a medical appointment in North Bay, and Kauser has lived there ever since. Kauser receives a phone call from her daughter saying that Sani has been arrested for murdering her shop's landlord--he was found in Sani's shop and was stabbed with scissors with only Sani's fingerprints on the scissors. Kauser flies to Toronto to care for her granddaughters, and Kauser eventually discovers who really stabbed the landlord, and Sani goes free. Kauser discovers that Toronto is no longer unbearable, and she moves there to be near her family. Super excellent reading but two dislikes: story begins with murder victim's thoughts as he is dying, and I didn't like whodunnit.
James, P. D.	Adam Dagliesh	London, England	1980s - 1990s		GG
James, P. D.	Cordelia Gray	London, England	1980s		GG
Jameson, Emma	Benjamin Bones	Birdswing, Cornwall, England	1939		Benjamin is MD who was assigned duty in rural England instead of service in WW2
Jance, J. A.	Ali Reynolds	Sedona, AZ and Los Angeles, CA	Present
Jance, J. A.	Beau Beaumont	Seattle, WA	Present
Jance, J. A.	Joanna Brady	Bisbee, AZ	Present
Jecks, Michael	Simon Puttock	Lydford, Devon, England	1322
Jennings, Maureen	William Murdoch	Toronto, Canada	1800s
Jenoff, Pam	Eleanor Twigg, Marie Roux, and Grace Healy	London, UK and France	1944 and 1946		Eleanor works at SOE during WWII. Because male spies sent by SOE into France are so easy to spot (all the French men are in the military), Eleanor convinces SOE to send women operatives into France to make contact with the French Resistance, operate radio contact, and perform sabotage. Eleanor is assigned to recruit, train, and be contact for the operatives. Marie is one the SOE operatives who goes into France, and she dies there. Eleanor discovers that these women operatives had been betrayed to the Germans, and that SOE top people knew about the betrayer, but SOE management did nothing about the leak because they could use the channel to feel misinformation to the Germans. After the war ends, Eleanor investigates what happened to the missing women, but she dies in a traffic accident before she can expose the leak. Grace finds some of the clues, and she searches until she finds the answers, and she provides the leak information to Parliament.
Johansen, Roy	Joe Bailey	Atlanta, GA	Present		Joe is former magician and debunks phoney mediums
Johns, Madison	Agnes Barton and Eleanor Mason	East Tawas, MI	Present
Johnson, Delores	Mandy Dyer	Denver, CO	Present		Mandy runs dry cleaning business
Jordan, B. B.	Celeste Braun	San Francisco, CA	Present		Celeste is professor of immunology at UCSF; B. B. Jordan is pen name for Frances Brodsky, Ph, D., who is Professor at UCSF
Jordan, Cathleen		Upstate New York	Present
Jordan, Jennifer	Dee Vaughan	Woodfield and East Peasmarsh, England	Present		Dee is journalist and, when unemployed as journalist, temporary secretary
Joss, Morag	Sara Selkirk	Bath, England	Present		Sara is cellist; GG