Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Various, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Elizabeth George, Carolyn G. Hart, Sue Grafton, Carolyn Wheat, Julie Smith, Susan Dunlap, Marilyn Wallace, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess, Gillian Roberts, Diane Mott Davidson, Sarah Shankman, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Cannell, Gabrielle Kraft, Margaret B. Maron