Authors and Characters Added in January 2009
Kenneth Benton: Peter Craig, a British Diplomatic Corps Overseas
Police Advisor
Philip Boast: Septimus Severus Quistus Quistus, a Roman adventurer
in the first century, in the time of Nero
William J. Caunitz: police procedural thrillers mostly set in New
York City
Frances Crane: Pat and
Jean Abbott (née Holly, in first two books), a husband and wife team
based in San Francisco, California, who roam the world seeking a
vacation without murder
Tom Epperson: 2009 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel
Julius Fast: non-series mysteries
Christa Faust: non-series mysteries
David Fuller: 2009 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel
Ed Gaffney: Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach, young criminal defense
lawyers, in Massachusetts
Anton Gill: Huy the Scribe, during the time of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun
in the 18th Dynasty around 1350 BCE, in ancient Egypt
Roy Huggins: Stuart Bailey, a private investigator based in Los
Angeles, California
Bill Kirton: Jack Carston, a detective chief inspector in Cairnburgh,
near Aberdeen, Scotland
Jerry Labriola: Dr. David Brooks, a part-time physician and sleuth,
with a briefcase named “Friday”, based in Connecticut;
true crime written with Henry C. Lee
Francie Lin: 2009 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel
Donna Moore: 2007 Lefty Award winner
New series on the Walter
Mosley page: Leonid McGill, a black ex-boxer,
old-school private investigator, in New York City
Shizuko Natsuki: non-series mysteries
Charlie Newton: 2009 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel
Ben Pastor: Martin Bora, an anti-Nazi Anglo-German officer in World
War II Europe; Aelius Spartianus, a former soldier, now historian
to Diocletian, in early 4th century Rome
Justin Peacock: 2009 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel
Stella Rimington: Liz Carlyle, an agent in MI-5 Joint Counter-Terrorist
Group, in London, England
Bernhard Schlink: Gerhard Self, a former public prosecutor during
the Nazi era, now a private investigator in his late 60s, in 1980s
Mannheim, in the newly unified Germany
Kelli Stanley: Arcturus, the Roman governor’s doctor and investigator,
in 83 AD Londinium, Britain
Johan Theorin: the Öland Quartet
Robert Ward: non-series mysteries
Jincy Willett: bitterly
funny mysteries
Charlie Williams: Royston Blake, head doorman at Hopper’s
Wine Bar & Bistro, in the town of Mangel, in the West Country
of England
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2009
New series on the Raymond
Benson page: Spike Berenger, a private investigator with Rockin’
Security, providing security for rock and roll stars
Michael Cormany: Dan
Kruger, a 30-something ex-cop and former rock musician, now a private
investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
Krista Davis: Sophie Winston,
an event planner in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Domestic Diva mysteries
Robert Dugoni: David
Sloane, a lawyer in Seattle, Washington
Dave Duncan: Alfeo Zeno,
a young noble apprenticed to Nostradamus, the astrologer and alchemist,
in a fantasy version of 16th century Venice, Italy
Paul Engleman: Mark Renzler,
an ex-baseball player private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois;
Phil Moony, an ex-fireman private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
David Everson: Robert
(Bobby) Miles, a minor league baseball player turned private investigator
and troubleshooter for the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives
William Campbell
Gault: Joe Puma, a big, tough private investigator, in Los
Angeles, California; Brock (The Rock) Callahan, a former professional
football player turned upscale private investigator, in Los Angeles,
California
William Jaspersohn:
Peter Boone, a former Red Sox pitcher turned private investigator,
in rural Vermont
Christian Jungersen:
2007 International Dagger nominee
Phyllis Knight: Lil
Richie, an ex-rocker lesbian private investigator in coastal Maine,
Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere
Jack Livingston: Joe
Binney, a deaf private investigator, in New York City
George Ogan: Johnny Bordelon,
a former New Orleans cop, now a private investigator, in Louisiana
Caro Peacock:
Liberty Lane, a young woman sleuth in 1830s London, England (Gillian
Linscott pseudonym)
W.R. Philbrick: J.D. Hawkins,
a wheelchair-bound mystery writer, in Boston, Massachusetts; T.D.
Stash, an unlicensed private investigator, in Florida; Randall Shane,
an ex-FBI agent and expert in child abductions (written as Chris
Jordan)
Joanna Campbell Slan:
Kiki Lowenstein, newly widowed mother of a young daughter, working
in a scrapbooking store, Time in a Bottle, in St. Louis, Missouri,
in the Scrap-N-Craft series
Stephen Smoke: Derek
Cheney, recently retired LAPD chief of detectives, in Los Angeles,
California; E.L. Nash, a police detective in Los Angeles, California;
Ace Carpenter, a private investigator in Los Angeles, California
(written as Hamilton T. Caine)
Shane Stevens: non-series
mysteries; Ryder Malone, a private investigator in Jersey City, New
Jersey (written as J.W. Rider)
Nicola Upson: Josephine
Tey, the mystery writer, in 1930s Britain
Wayne Warga: Jeffrey Dean,
an ex-CIA courier and journalist, now a rare book dealer, in Los
Angeles, California
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2009
John Birkett: Michael
Rhinehart, a private investigator in Louisville, Kentucky
New series on the Larry Bond page:
Jerry Mitchell, a former pilot turned submarine officer, dealing
with the Russians
Gil Brewer: Al Mundy, in “It
Takes a Thief” TV novelizations; non-series mysteries, many
set in Florida
Howard Browne: Paul Pine,
a former DA’s investigator, now a private investigator, in
Chicago, Illinois
New series on the James
Lee Burke page: Hack Holland, a hard-drinking lawyer, Korean
War POW, progressive Democrat, now a sheriff, in Texas
New series on the Chester
D. Campbell page: Sid Chance, a private investigator, in Nashville,
Tennessee
New series on the M.E. Cooper page:
Avisa Baglatoni, a lady locksmith in 15th century Bologna, Italy;
W.W. Loring, a Confederate General in 1862 Virginia; Oklahoma quilting
series
Thomas D. Davis: Dave
Strickland, a private investigator in San Jose, California
W. Glenn Duncan: Rafferty,
an ex-cop turned private investigator, in and around Dallas, Texas
Wayne D. Dundee: Joe
Hannibal, a blue-collar private investigator based in Rockford, Illinois
Richard Fliegel: Shelly
Lowenkopf, a Jewish police sergeant, later a private investigator,
in the Bronx, New York
Shamini Flint: Inspector
Singh, a police inspector based in Singapore
Tom Gabbay: Jack Teller,
in World War II and later as a CIA agent
Ed Goldberg: Lenny Schneider,
a hardboiled Jewish private investigator, based in New York City
New series on the Chris
Grabenstein page: Zack and his stepmother Judy, in spine-tinglers
for young adults
New series on the Andrew Gross page:
Ty Hauck, a police lieutenant in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Daniel Hearn: Joe Noonan,
an ex-cop, Vietnam vet, private investigator, in New York City
Douglas Heyes: non-series
mysteries
Richard Hilary: Ezell “Easy” Barnes,
a former prize fighter and cop turned private investigator, in Newark,
New Jersey
Julie Kramer: Riley Spartz,
an investigative TV reporter, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Elliott Lewis: Fred Bennett,
an ex-cop, unlicensed private investigator in Los Angeles, California
New series on the Tim Maleeny page:
Sam McGowan, an ex-cop in San Francisco, California
Rafe McGregor: Jack Forrester,
in charge of the Special Investigations Unit of the South African
Police Service, in Durban, South Africa; Alec Marshall, a British
army major making inquiries into the will of Cecil Rhodes, at the
time of Edward VII’s coronation, in 1902 London, England
Saskia Noort: non-series
mysteries
Catherine O’Connell:
Pauline Cook, a widowed socialite and world traveller, in Chicago,
Illinois, in the High Society series
New series on the Karen E.
Olson page: Brett Kavanaugh, running a tattoo shop in Las Vegas,
Nevada, in the Tattoo Shop series
Milton K. Ozaki: Androcles
Caldwell, a psychology professor at North University, his “Watson,” Bendy
Brinks, and Lt. Percy Phelan, a homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois;
Carl Good, a short 40-something private investigator, in Chicago,
Illinois (written as Robert O. Saber); Max Keene, in Chicago, Illinois
(written as Robert O. Saber)
Robert (Bogardus)
Parker: non-series mysteries
Thomas Pynchon: non-series
mysteries
Spencer Quinn:
Chet the dog, the faithful companion of private investigator Bernie
Little in the Chet and Bernie series (Peter Abrahams pseudonym)
New series on the Christopher
Reich page: Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon with Doctors Without
Borders working in the toughest parts of the world
New series on the Shari
Shattuck page: Greer Sands, a psychic and massage therapist
with a teenage son, in fictional Shadow Hills, in the mountains
above Los Angeles, California
Roger Smith: non-series
set in South Africa
New series on the Tom Rob
Smith page: Leo Demidov, a secret police officer in 1950s Moscow,
Russia
Reed Stephens: Mick “Brew” Axbrewder,
an unlicensed private investigator in Puerta del Sol, California
New on the Leann Sweeney page:
the Cats in Trouble series
Monroe Thompson: 1991
Shamus nominee
New series on the Stella
Whitelaw page: Casey Jones, cruise director on the luxury cruise
ship Countess Georgina, in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean
Liz Wiehl and April Henry:
Cassidy Shaw, a reporter, Allison Pierce, a federal prosecutor, and
Nicole Hedge, an FBI special agent, in the Triple Threat series
Philip Lee Williams:
1989 Shamus nominee
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2009
Chris Cavender:
Eleanor Swift, owner of pizza restaurant “A Slice of Delight” in
Timber Ridge, North Carolina (Tim Myers pseudonym)
New series on the Judy Clemens page:
Casey Maldonado, trying to come to terms with loss, and her companion
Death, the Grim Reaper
John Connor: Karen Sharpe,
a detective constable, later detective sergeant, in 1990s Yorkshire,
England
New series on the Alan Cook page:
Gary Blanchard, an amateur sleuth in the American West, starting
in the 1950s
New series on the Robin Cook page:
Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, an investigator at the Centers for Disease
Control, in Atlanta, Georgia
John William Corrington & Joyce
Hooper Corrington: Ralph “Rat” Trapp, a black homicide
detective captain, in New Orleans, Louisiana
New series on the Joseph
Finder page: Nick Heller, ex-Special Forces, now an international
security consultant
Mickey Friedman: Georgia
Lee Maxwell, a disaffected Florida society editor who moves to Paris
to write a magazine column, in Paris, France
Thomas Gifford: John
Cooper, dealing with the Nazis in 1970s Cooper’s Falls, Minnesota,
and then 1990s Boston, Massachusetts, and Germany; Ben Driskill,
a lawyer dealing with major political conspiracies, in New York,
Iowa, and elsewhere; Lew Cassidy, a former pro football player, now
a private detective, in 1940s New York City (written as Thomas Maxwell)
J.G. Goodhind: Honey Driver,
the owner of the Green River Hotel and amateur sleuth, in Bath, England
Jeanne Hart: Carl Pedersen,
a police detective in fictional Bay Cove, California
Kaye C. Hill: Lexy Lomax,
an accidental private detective, and Kinky, her Chihuahua attack
dog, in Clopwolde-on-Sea, on the Suffolk Coast of England
Morgan Hunt: Tess Camillo,
a single, middle-aged lesbian amateur sleuth who lives with a straight
housemate, in San Diego, California
New series on the Jim Kelly page:
Detective Inspector Peter Shaw and Detective Sergeant George Valentine
in Norfolk, England
Jon Loomis: Frank Coffin,
a burned out Baltimore homicide detective, returning to his hometown,
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Wade Miller: Max Thursday,
an ex-cop private investigator, and Austin Clapp, a police lieutenant,
in San Diego, California
New series on the Laurie
Moore page: Aspen Wicklow, TV journalist in Fort Worth, Texas
(romantic suspense)
T. Lynn Ocean: Jersey
Barnes, a fomer marine anti-terrorist specialist turned private security
investigator and bar owner, in Wilmington, North Carolina
Christi Phillips:
non-series historical mysteries
M.K. Preston: Chantalene
Morrell, daughter of a Gypsy mother and a redneck father, in Tetumka,
Oklahoma
Peter Rabe: Daniel Port,
a gangster who leaves a midwest syndicate and travels the country
helping others go straight; Manny DeWitt, a lawyer for an international
firm, Lobbe Industriel, who becomes a spy; Joe Mannix, a private
investigator in Los Angeles, California, in “Mannix” TV
series novelizations (written as J.T. MacCargo)
Juan de Recacoechea:
non-series set in Bolivia
Michael E. Rose: Frank
Delaney, a world-traveling investigative journalist and sometime
spy, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Stella Shepherd: Richard
Montgomery, a detective inspector in Nottingham, England
New series on the Deborah
Shlian page: Sammy Greene, a talk-radio host at an ultraconservative
New England college (written with Linda Reid)
Howard Shrier: Jonah
Geller, a private investigator, and his partner, Jenn Raudsepp, based
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mary Stanton:
Brianna Winston-Beaufort, a lawyer who inherits a haunted law firm,
in Savannah, Georgia, in the Beaufort & Co. series (real name
of Claudia Bishop)
Marc Strange: Joe Grundy,
an ex-boxer, chief of security at the Lord Douglas Hotel, in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
Matt & Bonnie Taylor:
Palmer Kingston, a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the Marlinsport
Tribune, and Alice Jane (A.J.) Egan, his lover who writes for the
competing New Seville Times, set mostly in Florida
Masako Togawa: non-series
mysteries set in Japan
Paul Tremblay: Mark Genevich,
a narcoleptic private investigator in South Boston, Massachusetts
Nury Vittachi: C.F. Wong,
a feng shui master, and Joyce McQuinnie, his British-Australian teenage
intern, based in Singapore (later Shanghai, China)
New series on the Robert
W. Walker page: Marcus Rydell, a retired police detective working
as a private investigator, and Dr. Katrina “Kat” Holley,
in Atlanta, Georgia
Patricia Wallace:
Sydney Bryant, a private investigator in San Diego, California
Shirley Wells: Jill Kennedy,
a forensic psychologist, and Max Trentham, a detective chief inspector
and her ex-lover, in the village of Kelton Bridge, Lancashire, England
Jeri Westerson: Crispin
Guest, a disgraced knight reduced to living by his wits on the mean
streets of 1384 London, England
Richard Yancey: Teddy
Ruzak, who failed police academy and wants to be a private investigator,
in Knoxville, Tennessee
Elizabeth Zelvin:
Bruce Kohler, a recovering alcoholic in Manhattan, New York City
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2009
Laura Caldwell: Izzy
McNeil, a young entertainment lawyer, in Chicago, Illinois
Victor Canning: Rex
Carver, an English spy turned private investigator, in Europe
Martin Clark: non-series
legal thrillers
Eileen Davidson: Alexis
Peterson, a soap opera actress for 20 years, in the Soap Opera mysteries
Stanton Forbes: non-series
mysteries; Knute Severson, a police detective in Boston, Massachusetts
(written as Tobias Wells)
Linda Greenlaw: Jane
Bunker, a former Florida police detective, now a marine insurance
investigator and later a sheriff’s deputy in coastal Green
Haven, Maine
Colin Harrison: non-series
mysteries
Betty Hechtman: Molly
Pink, a 40-something widow coordinating events in a bookstore, including
the Tarzana Hookers, a crochet group in California, in the Crochet
mysteries
New series on the Marion
Moore Hill page: Millie Kirchner, a 20-something single mother,
student, and nursing home aide, in Richardson, Texas, in the Deadly
Past series
J. Royal Horton: Tommy
Thompson, a detective in the Teton County Sheriff’s Office,
in Wyoming, in the Jackson Hole series
J. Sydney Jones: Karl
Werthen, a lawyer, and Dr. Hanns Gross, the real-life father of modern
criminology, in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Austria
Camilla Läckberg:
Patrik Hedstrom, a police detective, and Erica Falck, a writer, in
the fishing town of Fjällbacka, Sweden
Doc Macomber: Jack Vu,
a Vietnamese-American investigator for the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and elsewhere
Karen Maitland: non-series
mysteries
Keith McCarthy: Dr.
John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist in charge of St.
Benjamin's Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, and Helena Flemming,
a solicitor, in England; Lance Elliot, a doctor in 1975 Thornton
Heath, England (written as Lance Elliot)
Tara Moss: Makedde Vanderwall,
a part-time Canadian model and forensic psychology student, in Sydney,
Australia (and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Manjiri Prabhu: Sonia
Someth, owner of Stellar Investigations Detective Agency, and a master
of Verdic astrology, in Pune, India
Suzanne Price: Sky Taylor,
a recently widowed 30-something newspaper columnist and creative
cleaner, in fictional Pigeon Cove, off the Massachusetts coast, in
the Grime Solvers series
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2009
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently
(alias of Svlad Cjelli), the holistic detective who investigates
based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, in London,
England, in this comic, sci-fi mystery series
Joan Bartlett: Berrien
Gamble, co-owner of the Nice Skates Ice Arena and an amateur sleuth,
in the fictitious costal town of Portugal, 40 miles south of San
Francisco, California
S.J. Bolton: non-series
mysteries
Tom Cain: Samuel Carver, a
former British marine, now a hitman who arranges accidents for bad
guys around the world
Lindy Cameron: Kit O’Malley,
a former police officer, now a private investigator in Melbourne,
Australia
Dixie Cash: The Domestic
Equalizers, Debbie Sue Overstreet, doing big hair at the Styling
Station, and her best pal Edwina Perkins-Martin, later private investigators,
in fictional Salt Lick, Texas
New series on the Michael
Connelly page: Jack McEvoy, a reporter, and Rachel Walling,
an FBI agent, in Denver, Colorado, and Los Angeles, California
New series on the Natasha
Cooper page: Karen Taylor, a forensic psychologist, on the
Isle of Wight, UK (written as N.J. Cooper)
Diane Fanning: Lucinda
Pierce, a homicide detective lieutenant back on the job after losing
an eye in a domestic violence case, in Virginia; Molly Mullet, a
chemistry teacher turned cop, in New Braunfels, Texas; true crime
Susan Goodwill: Kate
London, who owns the Egyptian Theatre with her Aunt Kitty, an eccentric
former B-grade movie star, on the west coast of Michigan
Dolores Gordon-Smith:
Jack Haldean, a former Royal Flying Corps pilot and mystery writer,
in early 1920s England
New series on the Ann
Granger page: Jess Campbell, a police inspector, and Ian Carter,
the new superintendent, in the Cotswolds, England
Gemma Halliday: Maddie
Springer, a shoe designer turned crime fighter, in Los Angeles, California,
in the High Heels romantic mysteries; Tina Bender, gossip columnist
with the L.A. Informer, the premier tabloid magazine in Los Angeles,
California, in the Hollywood Headlines serie
New series on the John
Harvey page: Will Grayson, a Detective Inspector, and Helen
Walker, a Detective Sergeant, in Cambridge, England
New series on the Sue
Ann Jaffarian page: Emma Whitecastle, a divorced mom, and the
ghost of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples,
amateur sleuths
John Jakes: Johnny Havoc,
a pint-sized (5'1"), unlicensed private investigator
Roy Johansen: non-series
mysteries, some co-authored with mother Iris Johansen
David Levien: Frank Behr,
an ex-cop private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana
New series on the Scott
Mackay page: Dr. Clyde Deacon, President McKinley’s former
physician, who moves to Fairfield, New Jersey in 1902
Chaz McGee: Kevin
Fahey, a dead former second-rate cop, mediocre husband, and absent
father, in the Dead Detective series (Katy Munger pseudonym)
Brian McGilloway:
Benedict Devlin, a Garda detective inspector, in the borderlands
of Ireland
Rhonda Pollero: Finley
Anderson Tanner, a youngish paralegal with an interest in discount
shopping, in West Palm Beach, Florida
Scott Pratt: Joe Dillard,
a jaded lawyer in rural Tennessee
Sheila Quigley: Lorraine
Hunt, a Detective Inspector, in Houghton-le-Spring, in northeast
England
New series on the James
Swain page: Jack Carpenter, former head of Broward County (Florida)
Missing Persons Unit, now a private investigator in south Florida
Joseph Teller: Harrison
J. Walker (Jaywalker), a disgraced criminal defense attorney, in
Manhattan, New York City
New series on the Charles
Todd page: Bess Crawford, a British army nurse in WWI
Dan Waddell: Nigel Barnes,
a genealogist working with Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster,
in London, England
Martin Walker: Benoit “Bruno” Courrèges,
Chief of Police, in St. Denis in the Périgord region of southwestern
France
Carolyn D. Wall: Barry
nominee for Best First Novel
New series on the Joseph
Wambaugh page: Nathan Weiss (Hollywood Nate), a cop dreaming
of movie stardom, and a cast of characters centered around LAPD’s
Hollywood Division, in Los Angeles, California
New series on the Laura Wilson page:
Ted Stratton, a detective inspector in 1940s London, England
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2009
Susanne Alleyn: Aristide
Ravel, a young investigator and freelance undercover agent, around
the time of the French Revolution (late 18th century), in Paris,
France
Selçuk Altun: non-series
set in Turkey
New series on the Lori G.
Armstrong page: former Army sniper who is one-quarter Minneconjou
Sioux, returning home to South Dakota
New series on the Mark Bouton page:
Rick Dover, a homicide detective in Los Angeles, California
Tom Bradby: Joe Quinn, a
cop in 1929 New York City, and an ex-cop in Cairo, Egypt in 1942
Don Bredes: Hector Bellevance,
a disgraced cop from Boston rebuilding his life as a constable in
his childhood home of Tipton, in northeast Vermont
Elizabeth Lynn Casey:
Tori Sinclair, a Yankee librarian moving to Sweet Briar, South Carolina,
in the Southern Sewing Circle mysteries (Laura Bradford pseudonym)
Linda Castillo: Kate
Burkholder, female chief of police in the Amish town of Painters
Mill, Ohio; non-series romantic suspense
New series on the Alys
Clare page: Lassair, a 14-year-old girl with special gifts
training to be a healer in a Fenland village, in 11th century England
Chris Collett: Tom Mariner,
a detective inspector in Birmingham, England
Rebecca Cramer: Linda
Bluenight, an anthropologist and 4th-grade teacher, in and around
Tucson, Arizona
Sarah Diamond: non-series
mysteries
Colin Falconer: Madeleine
Fox, a detective inspector in London, England
R. Barri Flowers: non-series
mysteries
H. Michael Frase: non-series
mysteries
Gillian Galbraith:
Alice Rice, a detective sergeant (later inspector) in Edinburgh,
Scotland
G.D. Gearino: non-series
set in the South
Michael Genelin: Jana
Matinova, a police commander in Bratislava, Slovakia
Kenneth Giles: Harry
James, a detective sergeant, later inspector at Scotland Yard, based
in London, England; Jim Piron, a private investigator at the Detective
Agency run by the Old Man, in New York City (written as Edmund McGirr);
Bob Reed, a police sergeant under a disciplinary cloud, used for
odd jobs by Scotland Yard, in London, England (written as Charles
Drummond)
William Haggard: Charles
Russell, a colonel heading the fictitious Security Executive, a British
military intelligence organization; Paul Martiny, an accountant exacting
revenge against the privileged, in Cyprus and England; William Wilberforce
Smith, an aristocratic Caribbean operative in the fictitious Security
Executive
Echo Heron: Adele Monsarrat,
a hospital nurse in Marin County, California
Suzette A. Hill: Rev.
Francis Oughterard, the vicar of Molehill, and a flustered murderer
and blackmail victim, along with Bouncer the dog and Maurice the
cat, in 1950s Surrey, England
Lis Howell: Kate Wilkinson,
a television producer based in London, England; Suzy Spencer, a working
mother and part-time television producer, in the village of Tarnfield
in the north of England, in the Norbridge Chronicles
Nancy Lynn Jarvis:
Regan McHenry, a real estate agent, in Santa Cruz, California
R.T. Jordan: Polly Pepper,
an aging, legendary TV actress from the golden age, in Hollywood,
California
M.G. Kincaid: Seth Mornay,
a former Royal Marine, now a detective sergeant in the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Grampian Police Force, in northeast Scotland
Two new series on the Elmore
Leonard page: Jack Ryan, a petty crook in Detroit, Michigan;
Ernest “Stick” Stickley, an ex-con in Detroit, Michigan
Patrick F. McManus:
Bo Tully, Sheriff of Blight County, Idaho
Sam Millar: Karl Kane, a
private investigator in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Kate Morton: non-series
mysteries
Kate Mosse: non-series mysteries
Kevin O’Brien:
non-series mysteries
Ed O’Connor: John
Underwood, a detective inspector, and Alison Dexter, a detective
sergeant, in New Bolden, Cambridgeshire, England
Nick Oldham: Henry Christie,
a hard-drinking detective inspector, later DCI, in Blackpool, England
Lisa Reardon: non-series
set in Michigan
Kelley Roos: Haila and
Jeff Troy, a married detective team, she a former actress, he a photographer,
in New York City
Joel N. Ross: non-series
set in WWII
Holly Roth: Richard Medford,
an inspector in the CID, based in England
Allyson Roy: Dr. Saylor
Oz, a sex therapist, and her roommate, Benita Morales, a Nuyorican
financial analyst and boxer, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York
City
Carlos Ruiz Zafón:
literary gothic books set in Barcelona, Spain
New series on the Clea
Simon page: Dulcie Schwartz, a Harvard doctoral candidate living
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the ghost of her cat Mr. Grey
Vikas Swarup: non-series
set in India
Carolyn Wells: Fleming
Stone, a bookish private investigator, frequently called in to help
the police solve a crime, in New York City; Alan Ford, a connoisseur
and gentleman private investigator, in New York City; Pennington “Penny” Wise,
a psychic private investigator, and his female sidekick Zizi, in
New York City and New England; Lorimer Lane, in New York City; Kenneth
Carlisle, in New York and Connecticut
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2009
Geoffrey Archer: Sam
Packer, a British Secret Service (MI-6) agent
Richard Belzer: Richard
Belzer, a private investigator based in New York City (written with
Michael Black)
New series on the Michael
A. Black page: Francisco (Frank) Leal, a half-Hispanic sergeant
with the Cook County Sheriff, and Olivia Hart, a female bodybuilder
and officer, in Chicago, Illinois
Alan Bradley: Flavia de
Luce, an 11-year old sleuth and aspiring chemist in 1950, in the
small village of Bishop’s Lacey, England
Marten Claridge: Frank
McMorran, a detective inspector in Scotland
William Crisp: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Clive
Cussler page: treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo (written
with Grant Blackwood); Isaac Bell, a no-nonsense private investigator
with the Van Dorn Detective Agency, in early 20th century America
(written with Justin Scott)
Celia Dale: non-series mysteries
Michael de Larrabeiti:
non-series mysteries
Joolz Denby: non-series
mysteries
Liam Durcan: 2008 Ellis
Award for Best First Novel
Marcello Fois: non-series
mysteries
Alan Glynn: non-series thrillers
Charlotte Grimshaw:
non-series mysteries
David Gurr: non-series thrillers
Cora Harrison: Mara,
a female judge and lawgiver appointed by King Turlough Donn O’Brien
in the early 16th century, on the west coast of Ireland, in the Burren
mysteries
Fergus Hume: Samuel Gorby
and Kilsip, police detectives, and Calton, a leading lawyer, in Melbourne,
Australia; Octavius Fanks, a detective at Scotland Yard, in London,
England
Peter Inchbald: Franco
Corti, a detective inspector in the London Art and Antiques Squad,
working mainly in Italy
Graham Ison: John Gaffney,
Detective Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch,
and Harry Tipper, a detective chief inspector, in London, England;
Tommy Fox, Detective Chief Superintendent, and the raffish, cockney
head of the Flying Squad, in London, England; Harry Brock, a world-weary
detective chief inspector, and Dave Poole, a scruffy detective sergeant,
in London, England
New series on the Alan Jacobson page:
Karen Vail, a profiler for the FBI
Steven James: Patrick
Bowers, an FBI agent specializing in environmental criminology in
the US
Harold Q. Masur: Scott
Jordan, a brash young lawyer in New York City
Robert McCrum: non-series
mysteries
Jennifer McMahon:
non-series mysteries
Brian Moore: non-series
mysteries
Margaret Moore: Richard
Baxter, a chief inspector in Cambridge, England
Stef Penney: non-series
mysteries
Andrew Pepper: Pyke,
a Bow Street Runner starting in 1829 London, England
Carmen Posadas: non-series,
mainly set in Spain
Anthony Quogan: Matthew
Prior, a Canadian playwright
Keith Raffel: Ian Michaels,
a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, in Palo Alto, California, in the Silicon
Valley mysteries
Rafael Reig: non-series
set in a future alternative Madrid, Spain
Steven Rigolosi: people
brought together through want-ads in New York City, in the Tales
from the Back Page series
Kel Robertson: Bradman
(Brad) Chen, a 5th-generation Chinese-Australian ex-rugby star and
inspector with the Australian Federal Police, in Canberra, Australia
Ivan Ruff: non-series mysteries
Charles Salzberg:
Henry Swann, a private investigator subsisting on skip-tracing, in
Manhattan, New York City
Kitty Sewell: non-series
psychological suspense
Stav Sherez: non-series
mysteries
Guy Stanley: Araki, an
investigative journalist in Tokyo, Japan
New series on the Kelli Stanley page:
Miranda Corbie, private investigator, Spanish Civil War nurse, and
ex-escort, in 1940s San Francisco, California
Lin Summerfield: non-series
mysteries
Ian Vasquez: non-series
mysteries
Lucy Wadham: non-series
mysteries
Camilla Way: non-series
mysteries
Peggy Webb: Elvis Presley,
reincarnated as a basset hound, Callie Valentine Jones, a hairdresser
at her Uncle Charlie’s mortuary, and Lovie, a caterer, near
Tupelo, Mississippi, in the Southern Cousins mysteries
Jenny White: Kamil Pasha,
a magistrate in the new secular courts in the late 19th century Ottoman
Empire, in Istanbul, Turkey
Penelope Williamson:
Daman Rourke, an ex-WWI flying ace and police detective in 1927 New
Orleans, Louisiana
Tim Wilson: non-series mysteries;
Robert Fairfax, a private tutor in the 1760s in and around London,
England (written as Hannah March)
Elizabeth Woodcraft:
Frankie Richmond, a 30-something lesbian barrister specializing in
family law, in London, England
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2009
Alex Auswaks: non-series
mysteries
Hilaire Belloc: non-series
mysteries
Jennie Bentley: Avery
Baker, a New York textile designer turned home renovator, and her
boyfriend and business partner, handyman Derek Ellis, in fictional
Waterfield, Maine, in the Do-It-Yourself mysteries
Ruth Brandon: Andrew Taggart,
a journalist with New Politics, based in London, England; Reggie
(Regina) Lee, a PhD art curator for the National Gallery in London,
England
P.J. Brooke: Max Romano,
a half-Scottish, half-Spanish police detective (sub-inspector) in
Granada, Spain
Rebecca Cantrell:
Hannah Vogel, a crime reporter in 1930s Berlin, Germany
Kate Carlisle: Brooklyn
Wainwright, a rare book expert in San Francisco, California, in the
Bibliophile mysteries
Glyn Carr: Sir Abercrombie
(“Filthy”) Lewker, a former commando and pompous Shakespearean
actor who solves murders while mountaineering, mainly in Wales and
the Alps
Clare Clark: non-series
historical mysteries
Leif Davidsen: non-series
mysteries
Lester Dent: Chance Malloy,
a wealthy, 39-year-old bachelor running an aviation business in South
America
Eilís Dillon: Mike
Kenny, a police inspector in Dublin, Ireland
Nick Drake: Rai Rahotep,
a young chief detective in the Thebes Division, in ancient Egypt
(14th century BCE)
Jeremy Dronfield:
non-series mysteries
Rod Duncan: the Riot Trilogy,
set in Leicester, England
Paul Eddy: Grace Flint, an
undercover British police inspector involved in international intrigue
Tom Franklin: non-series
mostly set in Alabama in the 1800s
Jo-Ann Goodwin: non-series
mysteries
James Green: Jimmy Costello,
a Catholic and former shady policeman
M.R. Hall: Jenny Cooper, a
small-town lawyer appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, in Gloucestershire,
England
C.C. Humphreys: Jean
Rombaud, a French executioner brought to England in 1536 for the
execution of Anne Boleyn; Jack Absolute, an English army captain
and spy (based on a character in Richard Sheridan’s play “The
Rivals”) during the French and Indian War era (late 1750s-1760s)
in colonial America and London, England
Lee Jackson: Decimus Webb,
a Scotland Yard inspector in 1870s London, England; Sarah Tanner,
the proprietor of the Dining and Coffee Rooms and amateur sleuth,
in 1850s London, England
Gene Kerrigan: non-series
mysteries
Tracy Kiely: Elizabeth
Parker, a newspaper fact-checker and die-hard Jane Austen fan, in
the Washington, DC area
Frank Lean: David Cunane,
a private investigator and son of a cop, in Manchester, England
Peter Leonard: non-series
mysteries
Nicholas Luard: non-series
mysteries; fantasy epics
Francis Lyall: Alan Mason,
a police superintendent, and sidekick Ian Crawford, based in the
town of Greyhavens, Scotland
CJ Lyons: an ensemble cast
medical suspense series — emergency room doctor Lydia Fiore,
medical student Amanda Mason, resident Gina Freeman, and nurse Nora
Halloran— at Angels of Mercy Medical Center, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Shona MacLean: Alexander
Seaton, a schoolmaster, in 1620s Banff and Aberdeen, Scotland
Rod Madocks: New Blood
Dagger nominee
David McKeowen: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Deon Meyer page:
Benny Griessel, an aging, alcoholic police inspector in Capetown,
South Africa
Barbara Mikulski:
Eleanor “Norrie” Gorzack, a Polish-American US Senator
from Pennsylvania (written with Marylouise Oates)
J. Michael Orenduff:
Hubert Schuze, a pot hunter and owner of a shop selling Native American
pottery in Albuquerque, New Mexico
New series on the T.
Jefferson Parker page: Charles Hood, a sheriff’s deputy
in Los Angeles County, California
Bernard Peterson:
non-series mysteries
Robert Rotenberg:
New Blood Dagger nominee
Sharon Rowse: John Landsdowne
Granville, a failed English gold miner of noble heritage, and freethinking
Emily Turner, in 1899 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Margaret Simpson:
non-series mysteries
Phyllis Smallman:
Sherri Travis, self-proclaimed “white trash” and a bartender
in the small beach town of Jacaranda, Florida
Ann Stamos: Joseph
Hannegan, Superintendent at Ellis Island, and Rachel Bonner, a society
lady who has given up her position to help immigrants, in 1901 New
York City, in the Ellis Island mysteries (Takis & Judy Iakovou
joint pseudonym)
Diane A.S. Stuckart:
Dino (Delfina in disguise as a boy), an apprentice to Leonardo da
Vinci, court engineer to the Duke of Milan in 1480s Milan, Italy
New series on the Heather
Webber page: Lucy Valentine, the black sheep of a psychic matchmaking
family, now running the family business, Valentine, Inc
Fred Willard: non-series
set in Atlanta, Georgia
Andrew Williams: Steel
Dagger nominee
Inger Ash Wolfe: Hazel
Micallef, a 60-something detective inspector in the small town of
Port Dundas, Ontario, Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2009
Stella Allan: non-series
mysteries
Kingsley Amis: non-series
mysteries
David Armstrong: Frank
Kavanagh, a detective inspector, and later, detective constable Jane
Salt, in Birmingham, England
Maureen Duffy: non-series
mysteries
Jeremy Duns: Paul Dark,
a seasoned MI-6 agent with a past, in a trilogy set in late 1960s
Europe and Africa
Michele Giuttari:
Michele Ferrara, Chief Superintendent of the Squadra Mobile, in Florence,
Italy
Bryan Gruley: Gus Carpenter,
a reporter returning to his hometown of Starvation Lake, Michigan
Adam Hall: Quiller, an agent
for a British intelligence agency so secret it has no name; Hugo
Bishop, an author of books about personality under stress and an
observer of other people’s problems, and his Oxford-educated
assistant, Vera Gorringe, based in London, England; Richard Vaness,
an American pilot (written as Mansell Black)
Gregory Hall: non-series
set in England
A.J. Hartley: Thomas Knight,
a disgraced high-school English teacher from Evanston, Illinois,
traveling around confronting puzzling conspiracies
Anne Holt: Johanne Vik, an
Oslo University psychology professor and former FBI profiler, and
Adam Stubø, a detective inspector, in Oslo, Norway
Faith Martin: Hillary
Greene, a detective inspector with the Thames Valley Police, in Oxfordshire,
England
P.D. Martin: Sophie Anderson,
a transplanted Australian who has premonitions working as an FBI
profiler, based in Quantico, Virginia
Lew Matthews: Horatio
T. Parker, a crime reporter for the weekly Explorer, in Hampstead,
England
New series on the Denise
Mina page: Alex Morrow, a detective inspector in Glasgow, Scotland
New series on the Kris Neri page:
Samantha Brennan, fake psychic, and Annabelle Haggerty, FBI agent
and true psychic, in Los Angeles, California
Diana Orgain: Kate Connolly,
an office manager, private investigator, and new mother, in San Francisco,
California, in the Maternal Instincts series
David Poyer: Dan Lenson,
a US Navy officer, rising through the ranks, on duty around the world;
The Hemlock County series, set in northwestern Pennsylvania; Lyle “Tiller” Galloway
III, an ex-Navy Seal in Vietnam, deep-water diver, ex-con, and drifter
Patrick Quentin: Peter
Duluth, an alcoholic theatrical producer, and Iris Pattison, an actress
(and later wife), in California, Mexico City, and New York City;
Timothy Trant, a Princeton-educated police lieutenant in New York
City; Dr. Hugh Westlake, a general practitioner, and his daughter
Dawn, in rural Pennsylvania (written as Jonathan Stagge)
Misa Ramirez: Lola Cruz,
a budding private investigator at Camacho and Associates, in Sacramento,
California
Pauline Rowson: Andy
Horton, a detective inspector, and his sidekick sergeant Barney Cantelli,
in Portsmouth, England, in the Marine mysteries
Nancy Rutledge: non-series
mysteries
Murray Smith: David Jardine,
a spymaster with the British Secret Intelligence Service, on assignment
around the world
New series on the Sally
Spencer page: Monika Paniatowski, Detective Chief Inspector
Charlie Woodend’s protégé and successor in
a village in England
Bart Spicer: Carney Wilde,
a private investigator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Benson
Kellogg, a lawyer who inherits a town and fights to save it, in New
Mexico; Col. Peregrine White, wounded in the Korean War and retired
to Mexico, called in by the FBI to fight communists; Harry Butten,
a newspaper reporter (witten as Jay Barbette, joint pseudonym with
wife Betty Coe Spicer)
Jon Stock: Daniel Marchant,
a suspended MI-6 agent trying to clear his father’s reputation
as former head of MI-6, in the globetrotting Legoland (MI-6 headquarters)
trilogy
Sharon Wildwind: Elizabeth “Pepper” Pepperhawk,
an army nurse captain returning from Vietnam, and Avivah Rosen, a
military police captain, in the early 1970s at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina
Keith Wright: David Stark,
a police inspector in England
M.J. Zellnik: Libby Seale,
a seamstress from New York, and newspaper reporter Peter Eberle,
in 1894 Portland, Oregon
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2009
New series on the Paul Adam page:
Gianni Castiglione, a violin maker in rural Cremona, Italy
Michael David Anthony:
Richard Harrison, a retired intelligence officer, now working for
Canterbury Cathedral, in England
Margaret Atwood: non-series
mysteries and thrillers
Keith Baker: non-series
mysteries
Dallas Barnes: John Stryker,
a detective sergeant in Los Angeles, California
James Barnett: Owen Smith,
a detective Chief Superintendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England
Tonino Benacquista:
Antoine Andrieux, a young Basque, in Paris, France; Fred Blake, writing
a history of the WWII Normandy landings — actually Giovanni
Manzoni, an ex-Mafia boss in the FBI Witness Protection Program — and
his family in Cholong-sur-Avre, Normandy, France
T.J. Binyon: non-series
mysteries [our 3000th author!]
J.M.C. Blair: Merlin, a
scholar, doctor, and advisor to King Arthur of legendary medieval
Britain, in the Merlin Investigations
Malcolm Bosse: non-series
mysteries
David Brierley: Cody,
a young female ex-spy and private investigator, in Europe and North
Africa
Michael Butterworth:
non-series mysteries; romantic suspense (written as Carola Salisbury);
Dr. Tina May, a television celebrity pathologist and amateur sleuth,
in England (written as Sarah Kemp)
Joan Coggin: Lady Lupin
(“Loops”) Lorrimer Hastings, a 21-year old ditzy daughter
of an earl, in fictional Glanville, eastern Sussex, England
Bob Cook: Michael Wyman, a
50-something philosophy professor and MI-6 agent, based in London,
England
Carroll John Daly:
Race Williams, the original hard boiled private investigator, in
New York City; Vee Brown, a private investigator who writes songs
as Vivian Brown (his real name), in New York City; Satan Hall, a
police detective in New York City
Dorothy Eden: non-series
mysteries
Harriett Gilbert:
non-series mysteries
William H. Hallahan:
Charlie Brewer, a CIA agent involved in international intrigue
Jane Holleman: non-series
mysteries set in Texas
Dorothy Howell: Haley
Randolph, a 20-something obsessed with handbags and working part-time
at Holt’s Department Store in Los Angeles, California
J.R. Hulland: non-series
mysteries
Emyl Jenkins: Sterling
Glass, an antiques expert in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains
in Virginia
Andrea Kane: Sloane Burbank,
a 30-year-old former FBI crisis negotiator, now an independent consultant,
and her former lover FBI agent Derek Parker, in New York City; contemporary
and historical romantic thrillers
Helen Nielsen: Simon
Drake, a Chicago lawyer transplanted to southern California
Michael Norman: Sam
Kincaid, chief of the Special Investigations Branch of the Department
of Corrections, and Lt. Kate McConnell, a homicide detective, in
Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael O’Donnell:
non-series mysteries
Marc Olden: Robert Sand,
the Black Samurai, trained for seven years by a Japanese samurai
master, fighting to save the world from sinister threats; Hawthorne
Albert Harker, an investigative reporter; Manny Decker, a detective
sergeant with martial arts skills, in New York City; Frank DiPalma
martial arts thrillers; Simon Bendor, a master thief doing battle
with the Yakuza, in Japan and elsewhere
Anthony Oliver: Mrs.
Lizzie Thomas, a Welsh widow, and her friend, John Webber, a retired,
arthritic police inspector, in Flaxfield, Suffolk, England
Douglas Orgill: William
Mallett, a British secret service agent
Barry Ozeroff: Ben Geller,
a sniper with the Special Emergency Response Team, in Stratton, Oregon
Frank Packard: Jimmie
Dale, a wealthy dilettante and safecracker by night as the Robin-Hoodish
Gray Seal, in New York City
Emma Page: Kelsey [no first
name], a detective inspector, later chief inspector, and detective
Lambert, in a village somewhere in England
James Pattinson: Harvey
Landon, a English soldier of fortune; Sam Grant, of the Peking Inquiry
Agency and later the Grant Inquiry Agency
Elizabeth Pincus:
Nell Fury, a lesbian private investigator in San Francisco, California
Evelyn Piper: non-series
mysteries
Anna Porter: Judith Hayes,
a divorced freelance journalist with two teenagers, and her friend,
Manhattan editor Marsha Hillier, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deborah Powell: Hollis
Carpenter, a lesbian crime reporter and her schnauzer Anice, in 1936-37
Houston, Texas
Philip Purser: Colin
Panton, working in television, in England
Caro Ramsay: Alan McAlpine,
a detective inspector at Partickhill Station in Glasgow, Scotland
Bob Randall: non-series
set in New York City
Peter Ransley: non-series
mysteries
Geoffrey Rose: non-series
mysteries
Robert Ross: Leonardo da
Vinci, the James Bond of the Renaissance [written with Martin Woodhouse]
Leigh Russell: Geraldine
Steel, a detective inspector leaving a failed relationship for the
small town of Woolsmarsh, England
Richard Sapir: non-series
mysteries; books in The Destroyer series
Jack S. Scott: Alfred
Stanley (Alf) Rosher, a crude yet caring detective sergeant (later
inspector), in a small city in England; Peter Parsons, a chief inspector,
in England
Deborah Sharp: Mace Bauer,
middle daughter of Mama, who’s been married at least four times,
in rural Florida
George Sims: Nicholas Howard,
a manuscript dealer in England; Ed Buchanan, a member of the police
Special Branch, in London, England
George R. Sims: non-series
mysteries
Josef Škvorecký:
Josef Boruvka, a sensitive police lieutenant coping with bureaucracy
and Soviet invasion in 1960s Prague, Czechoslovakia; Danny Smiricki,
a jazz saxophone player, teacher, and observer of post-WW2 life in
Czechoslovakia and Canada
Henry Slesar: non-series
mysteries
Tony Spinosa:
Joe Serpe, a disgraced NYPD narcotics detective, now driving a heating
oil delivery truck and doing some private investigating with his
nemesis Bob Healy, the retired Internal Affairs officer, in New York
City (Reed Farrel Coleman pseudonym)
Martin Sylvester:
William Warner, a wine merchant and amateur sleuth, based in London,
England
Nedra Tyre: non-series mysteries
Peter Van Greenaway:
Francis Cherry, a Scotland Yard inspector, in London, England
Jo Walton: Peter Carmichael,
a Scotland Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in
1949 Britain, where WWII ended with a truce in 1941
Peter Whalley: Harry
Sommers, a former bouncer and con man, now a private investigator,
based in London, England
Alan Williams: Rupert
Quinn, a swashbuckling English courier in North Africa; Charles Pol,
a Marxist bandit and lingerie shop owner, in Paris, France
Timothy Williams:
Piero Trotti, Commissario of police in a city on the river Po, in
northern Italy
Lauren Willig: Eloise
Kelly, a Harvard grad student writing her Ph.D. dissertation to unmask
the Pink Carnation, a Napoleonic-era spy, in a romantic thriller
series
Martin Woodhouse:
Giles Yeoman, a scientist reluctantly working with British intelligence;
Leonardo da Vinci, the James Bond of the Renaissance [written with
Robert Ross]
Daniel Woodrell: Rene
Shade, an ex-boxer, now a police detective, in the bayou town St.
Bruno, Louisiana
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Authors and Characters added in December 2009
Patrick Alexander:
non-series mysteries
David Anthony: Morgan
Butler, a Korean War veteran who worked for a San Francisco detective
agency, now farming and sleuthing in Ohio and West Virginia; Stanley
Bass, a professional gambler in southern California
Philip Atlee: Joe (Joseph
Liam) Gall, a free-lance soldier of fortune and contract killer for
the CIA, around the world
Kathleen Bacus: Tressa “Calamity” Jayne
Turner, a ditzy blonde who favors pink cowboy boots, and Department
of Natural Resources ranger Rick Townsend, mostly in Knoxville, Iowa
Franklin Bandy: Kevin
MacInnes, the “Lie King”, a free-lance lie detector and
private investigator, in Ohio and elsewhere; Berkeley Barnes, a lawyer,
hypochondriac, and private investigator, and Larry Howe, his “Archie”,
in New York City (witten as Eugene Franklin)
Daniel Banko: non-series
mysteries
Richard Bulliet: non-series
mysteries
Christopher Bush:
Ludovic Travers, a wealthy writer and amateur sleuth, later proprietor
of the Broad Street Detective Agency, along with Scotland Yard Superintendant
George Wharton and later Chief Inspector Jewle, in London, England;
John Benham, a British army captain, later major (written as Michael
Home, with John Benham)
Alan Caillou: Mike Benasque,
a journalist caught up in international intrigue; Cabot Cain, a 6-foot
7-inch tall athletic genius with multiple degrees, working with Interpol
around the world; Matthew Tobin, a colonel directing a team of mercenaries
for the “right” causes; Ian Quayle, a handsome gentleman
and scholar; Josh Dekker, during WW2 in France (written as Alex Webb)
Kenneth Cameron:
General Denton, an expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier
sheriff turned novelist, in turn of the 20th century London, England
Aifric Campbell: non-series
mysteries
Anne Canadeo: Maggie
Messina, owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop and a circle of knitters,
in Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in the Black Sheep Knitting mysteries
A.H.Z. Carr: non-series
mysteries
Rayo Casablanca: non-series
mysteries
Stanley Cohen: non-series
mysteries
Mat Coward: Don Packham,
a detective inspector, and Frank Mitchell, a detective constable,
in London, England
Max Crawford: non-series
mysteries
Thomas Rendell Curran:
Eric Stride, a police inspector with the Newfoundland Constabulary,
in late 1940s St. John's, Newfoundland, before confederation with
Canada
Richard Curtis: Dave “The
Pro” Bolt, a professional athletic agent, former star with
the Dallas Cowboys
Daniel da Cruz: Jock
Sargeant, an ex-con framed for murder and a mysterious billionaire
out for revenge; A.P. “Ape” Swain, a free-lance international
agent mostly in the Middle East; Republic of Texas versus the Soviet
Union, future history Cold War thrillers
Michael Delahaye:
non-series mysteries
Jana DeLeon: Maryse Robicheaux,
a botanist researcher whose husband absconded, the wisecracking ghost
of her mother-in-law Helena Henry, and her friend Sabine LeVeche,
in Mudbug, Louisiana; non-series romantic suspense set in the Louisiana
bayous
Evelyn Dewar: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Carola Dunn page:
Eleanor Trewynn, a plucky widow running a charity shop in the fictional
village of Port Mabyn, in 1960s Cornwall, England
Jack Ehrlich: Robert Flick,
a parole officer in New York
Paul E. Erdman: non-series
financial thrillers
John R. Feegel: non-series
spy novels with a medical theme, set mostly in Florida and Georgia
Fletcher Flora: non-series
mysteries
Philip Friedman: non-series
mysteries; William Kendall, the chief troubleshooter for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and his friend Lt. Colonel Aaron Eisenberg, here
and there in the world (written as Philip Chase)
William Garner: Michael
Jagger, a swaggering British spy; John Morpugo, a British counter-intelligence
agent
Matt Gattzden: non-series
mysteries
Sara George: non-series
mysteries
Arthur D. Goldstein:
Max Guttman, a retired 70-something Jewish tailor, starting in New
York City, moving to a senior center in California
Jonathan Goodman:
non-series mysteries
Shaun Herron: Miro, a
stodgy middle-aged spy and assassin who worked for a US intelligence
agency, “The Firm”, in Canada and Ireland
Christopher Hill:
non-series mysteries
Naomi A. Hintze: non-series
romantic suspense
William Hjortsberg:
non-series mysteries
Timothy Holme: Achille
Peroni, (“the Rudolph Valentino of Italian police”),
a Neopolitan police commissario who once spent some months at Scotland
Yard, on assignment in northern Italy
John Hutton: non-series
mysteries
Shirley Jackson: non-series
gothic suspense
H. Paul Jeffers: Harry
MacNeil, an ex-cop private investigator who wants to be a jazz clarinetist,
in 1930s New York City; John Bogdanovic, a police sergeant and aide
to the NYPD Chief of Detectives, in New York City; Sherlock Holmes
pastiches; Kate Fallon, a young woman during World War Two in a small
town in Pennsylvania, in the Homefront mysteries (written as M.T.
Jefferson); Nick Chase, a retired NYPD homicide detective now running
a cigar store called The Happy Smoking Ground, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(written as Harry Paul Lonsdale)
Craig Jones: non-series
mysteries
Warren Kiefer: non-series
mysteries
Steve Knickmeyer:
Steve Cranmer, an ex-cop who walks with a cane, now a private investigator,
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Mike Knowles: Wilson,
a mob enforcer who double-crosses his mafia boss, in Hamilton, Ontario,
later on Prince Edward Island, Canada
Myrick Land: non-series
mysteries
Charles Larson: Nils-Frederik
Blixen, a TV producer and amateur sleuth, mostly in Los Angeles,
California
Elsie Lee: romantic and historical
suspense
Dan J. Marlowe: Johnny
Killain, a hotel detective at the Hotel Duarte and part-time private
investigator, in New York City; Earl Drake, a bank robber, killer,
and part-time tree surgeon, later a secret agent
Frank McAuliffe: Augustus
Mandrell, of the one-man professional killer firm Mandrell, Ltd.,
during and after WW2
Brown Meggs: non-series
mysteries
Peter McCurtin: Robert
Briganti, the Assassin, dedicated to wiping out the Mafia; Philip
Magellan, the Marksman, dedicated to wiping out the Mafia
Robin Moore: non-series
mysteries
Richard Neely: non-series
mysteries
G.F. Newman: Terry Sneed,
an unscrupulous Scotland Yard inspector, based in London, England;
Law and Order series
Malla Nunn: Emmanuel Cooper,
a detective sergeant in 1950s South Africa
Dinah Palmtag: non-series
mysteries
Hugh C. Rae: McCaig, a detective
inspector, later superintendent, in Scotland; Arthur Salisbury and
Frank Shearer in England (written as Robert Crawford)
Maggie Rennert: Guy
Silvestri, a police detective in Massachusetts
Clifford Roberts:
non-series mysteries
Charles Runyon: non-series
mysteries
A.J. Russell: non-series
mysteries
Virgil Scott: non-series
mysteries
L.J. Sellers: Wade Jackson,
a homicide detective in Eugene, Oregon
R.H. Shimer: non-series
mysteries
David R. Slavitt: non-series
mysteries
Mark Sinnett: non-series
mysteries
Pat Stadley: non-series
mysteries
Scott C.S. Stone: non-series
mysteries
Jean Stubbs: John Lintott,
a retired Scotland Yard inpsector around the turn of the 20th century,
in London, Paris, and San Francisco
Don Tracy: Giff Speer, a
master sergeant and undercover agent in the US Army Military Police,
around the USA
W.J. Weatherby: non-series
set in New York City (originally written as Will Perry)
Alicen White: non-series
mysteries
Arthur Wise: non-series
mysteries
Michael Wolfe: Michael
Keefe, a photographer with DEPOE (Defense Photo Operations Executive),
mostly in Vietnam
Richard Wormser: Jocelyn “Joe” Dixon,
a detective sergeant in New York City; Andy Bastian, a police lieutenant
in the US Southwest
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