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Once you whetted students' appetites for more mysteries, let me recommend the following writers:
Tony Hillerman - a well-known writer whose protagonists are Navajos living in the Southwest - for an immersion into Navajo culture.
Walter Mosley - whose mysteries feature Easy Rawlins, a black LA private detective. These mysteries are hard-boiled.
Craig Johnson - whose other novels besides Kindness Goes Unpunished take place in the modern West in Wyoming.
William Kent Kreuger - whose protagonist is Cork O'Connor, who lives in upper Minnesota and has a close association with the Ojibwe.
Barbara Neely - whose mysteries feature Blanche White who is an African-American housemaid.
Sara Paretsky - whose tough V.I. Warshawsky lives and investigates in Chicago.
Ian Rankin - whose John Rebus is a flawed outsider cop working in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Louis Sachar whose book, Holes, is a high school staple and which involves the solving of a mystery.
Dana Stabenow - whose setting is Alaska and whose protagonist in most of her mysteries is an indomitable Aleut woman, Kate Shugak.
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