My Musings - Book Boyfriend Anyone?

This Valentine's day, let's discuss mystery book-boyfriends (or girlfriends).

Don't knock a book boyfriend/girlfriend.  There are advantages such as: 

• He’s perfect (at least as far as you know.)
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• It’s very convenient.  If he annoys you, just close the book. 
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• He says the right things when you want to hear them. 
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• He knows how to romance you. 
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• He doesn’t put you on the shelf - commitment is guaranteed. 
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• He’s always there for you when you need him. 
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• He never disagrees with you, how nice is that! 
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• He’s emotionally available. 
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• He looks good on paper — and in our imagination. 

I'm not saying to give up on flesh-and-blood partners.  Obviously, no fictional character can celebrate the good times with you nor hold you tight through the bad.  These guys/gals are fictional and can't take the place of a real-world person.  But we can still dream, am I right?

I know that murder mysteries and thrillers aren't most people's first thought for romance.  But often they have given us a guy or gal that are brave and good romantic material, and may even seem perfect.  

If a character were to spring out of the pages of a crime fiction novel and become real, which character would you want to go on a date with? 

Do you prefer the historical men like Sebastion St. Cyr by CS Harris, Sebastian Gage from Lady Kiera Darby series by Anna Lee Huber, Captain Gabriel Lacey Regency mysteries by Ashley Gardner, Colonel Francis Mayhew from the Madam of Espionage series by Carol Carr, Jerri Westerson's Crispin Guest, or maybe the Earl of Wrexford in the Wrexford and Sloane series by Andrea Penrose.

Maybe a Scott like Hamish Macbeth by M.C. Beaton or Leith Cameron in Scottish Highlands Mysteries by Hannah Reed?  Would it be boyish Ellery Queen?  Inspector Arthur St. Just or maybe Marco Salvare from the Flower Shop mysteries,  Roarke from JD Robb's "In Death" series or Derek from the Bibliophile Mysteries by Kate Carlisle?

Brooding loners or those with rough edges like Michael Connelly's Detective Bosch or Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Joe Pike and Elvis Cole, Walt Longmire, Gamache and Jean-Guy from Louise Penny's novels?  Maybe Roderick Alleyn and the "gentleman detective" or something really different like Monk?  How about Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee from Tony Hillerman or  P. D. James' Adam Dalgliesh?

I don't want to leave anybody out, so anybody out there think Stephanie Plum, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, Stieg Larson's Lisbeth or chef extraordinaire Goldy Korman would their idea of a great date?

Tell me who your book valentine is.