It turns out, if you're a real asshole to people, it gives them a LOT of reasons to kill you. Who'da thunk it?
- John Carroll from the Christmas novella A Mean One.
- Bradley Anson from Big Beautiful Homicide.
- Vance Tomswell from Creamy Cold Case.
- "Colonel Angus", AKA Andrew Knox from Dead in Bed.
- Isaiah Parthridge from Dead Man's Hand.
- The thieves who stole the jewels in Deaths, Past and Present were a pretty nasty bunch all around.
- Lexie Kimmons and Dr. Marcel Graham from Horse of Another Murder.
- Isabelle Paznier from Eyes On Osprey Isles.
- Bethany Green from A Plague on Your Houses.
- Markus Langransky from the same book isn't exactly on the same level as Bethany, but he's still a rather unpleasant and strict landlord.
- Rex Wainwright, a mean spirited cattle baron from Meat Your Maker.
- Corrine McCarthy, the first victim from Pure Poison.
- Gene Green from Rock till You Drop.
- Duke Quinn from Killed Inaction.
- He's not a major player, but given him being a terrorist, Kioumars Kardan from Soldiering On can apply here.
- Dustin Foster is a more prominent example, being a drunken abusive tyrant who used to beat his wife Amber Plank on a regular basis. It's his death from a drunk driving accident that helps unravel the killer's plan.
- Lance Payton from The Bride Wore Black.
- Save for a maid who gets drowned, this applies to every victim of The House of Evil. From an Amateur Sleuth who enjoys destroying people's lives to a Rich Bitch who treats her employees like slaves to an Amoral Attorney, no-one is crying when the Trémaux family are killed.
- Brian Cape from The Final Page could fall into this.
- Avery Vance, Sr. from To the Slaughter. The man was such a sadistic and abusive rapist that his own son strangles him to death and chops up his body.
- Dean Clarence from Two Weddings and a Funeral.
- Dalton Armstrong from What the Tabloids Won't Use, a disgustingly perverted rich asshole.
- Jeremias Köler is a fitness obsessed douchebag who never fails to make a fat joke to any citizen of North Candel. When he makes the foolish mistake of trying to blackmail the killer in Speaking of Witch... and winds up dead, it's clear the man has no mourners.
- Adrian Ray and Elliot Elliott from When Paradise Sleeps. The former is a rich hedonist who cheats on his fiancé and tries to scam a Chinese toy company with drones built by a former friend of his. Said friend, one of the bellhops, kills him for that rip off all those years ago. The latter is an actor with far too much ego and anger who tries to poison his agent for the crime of leaving and blackballing him for constantly freaking out over productions that don't meet his standards. That poison is what ends up killing the bastard.
- "Bart Bonney" is an illusionist who is murdered in Where There's Smoke, There's Mirrors.
- Eric Staedler from The Ways to Skin a Cat. A creepy hunter with a knack for torturing what he hunts. It is not too surprising why someone chops his head off.
- His killer Kenneth Jenkins isn't much better, as they killed him when they discovered he had come across a habitat of griffins and didn't want him to kill them... because he wanted to sell them off for himself. He gets his comeuppance when he falls face first into one of Eric's bear traps.
- Landry Skinner from Skin of Your Teeth. Described as a complete bastard by everyone he comes into contact with, Skinner is a cruel and joyless businessman who treats everyone around him like they're less than nothing. His killer or at least, the guy who organized it, however, is not sympathetic. This is because the motive behind it was that Landry didn't come to his birthday party when he was ten, and as such he couldn't order an ice-cream cake due to not having the discount for a high party. Jonas and the other people involved in Landry's death are just outright baffled when they hear this.
- Professor Otis Montgomery from One Foot in the Grade is a bastard of a college professor who sabotages students who entered the college on GEDs because he isn't in as prestigious a college as the rest of his family members and takes his anger out on them.
- Duke Mustonen, the titular Bounty Hunter of The Bounty Hunter and Hunted. The man is a vicious thug who turned private sector when his violence was too much even for cops. When he's made to die in a car crash, people are more upset about the store his car damaged than the bastard himself.
- Bruce "Dirty" Deeds from Pedigree of Murder. A brutal biker who was perfectly willing to kill a woman for a measly $35,000. It makes it more satisfying when his intended victim who wasn't even his target anyway manages to bash in his head despite being much smaller and weaker than him.
- Dr. Karl Lysvand from the book isn't great either, being a doctor willing to perform plastic surgery on all sorts of criminals including the killer back when he was a crooked investor.
- Jimmy Maynard may have only been 16 at the time of his murder, but damned if he wasn't a cruel bully who drove a girl to commit suicide.
- Finley Fuentes, the racecar driver and ex-boyfriend of car collector Mariah Illkom-Browning in Retro Car Murder.
- Abelin Dieulafoy from Game Over. The man allows rampant abuse of his employees, so it's not hard to be happy when someone puts a throwing knife in his back.
- It makes sense that the main villain, vampire Zvonimir Dujimić of Death of a Vampire Hunter.
- Dane LeVasseur and Colten Shaw of From Cradle to Grave. The two are gun wielding lunatics who want to arm children to prevent them from their biggest threat (which is clearly people of color), and were willing to kidnap a newborn infant to try and prove why children need guns. When the baby's biological father manages to shoot them dead, Jonas really does not blame him.
