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Authors & Characters Added in 2024


Authors and Characters Added in January 2024

Mary Angela: Emmeline Prather, a college English professor, in the sleepy town of Copper Bluff, South Dakota, in the Professor Prather mysteries; Zo Jones, a former journalist running the Happy Camper gift shop, in touristy small-town Spirit Canyon, South Dakota, in the Happy Camper mysteries (Mary Angela Honerman pseudonym)

Danielle Arceneaux: Glory Broussard, a Black woman of a certain age and an amateur sleuth, in the bayous of Louisiana

A.F. Carter: Delia Mariola, a police captain in Baxter, a depressed Rust Belt town (pseudonym)

Lina Chern: Katie True, a quick-witted Tarot card reader, in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois

New Jennifer J. Chow series: Felicity Jin, taking over her Mom’s magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California, in the Magical Fortune Cookie series

Amy Chua: non-series

New Gerald Elias series: Jefferson Dance, acting sheriff of Loomis City, Utah, in a western mystery series

Jennifer Cody Epstein: non-series

Claire Fuller: non-series suspense thrillers

Lee Matthew Goldberg: Desire Card thriller series; Runaway Train series (YA)

Alison Goodman: Lady Augusta “Gus” Colebrook and her twin sister Lady Julia, spinsters defying social convention to help others, beginning in 1812 London, England

New Greg Herren series: Jem Richard, a glam artist in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Killer Queen mysteries

New Mary Keliikoa series: Jax Turner, a sheriff in coastal Oregon, in the Misty Pines mysteries

Kristen Loesch: non-series

New Jess Lourey series: Van Reed, a cold case detective, and Harry Steinbeck, a forensic scientist, in Minnesota

Guillaume Musso: non-series

Josh Pachter: Jack Farmer, an American grad student sent to Europe to do historical research, doing some amateur sleuthing with Jet Schilders, a young nurse, in Amsterdam

Ana Reyes: non-series

Kate Robards: non-series

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi: non-series

Daniel Sweren-Becker: non-series

Mark Waddell: Luke Tremblay, an out-of-work gay investigative journalist, whose family rejected him, in a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in the Crescent Cove mysteries

Colin Walsh: non-series

Mary Winters: Amelia Amesbury, a countess in Victorian London, England, in the Lady of Letters mysteries

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Authors and Characters Added in February 2024

Celeste Connally: Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, in 1815 London, England, in the Lady Petra Inquires series (S.C. Perkins pseudonym)

New Ron Corbett series: Danny Barrett, an FBI undercover agent

Deepti Kapoor: non-series

Rebecca Makkai: non-series

Kerryn Mayne: non-series set in Australia

Anthony McCarten: non-series

New Susan C. Shea series: Ariel Shepherd, an American widow restoring her husband’s property in France, in the Château in Burgundy series

Steve Urszenyi: Alexandra Martel, a former Army sniper, now an FBI special agent

Scott Von Doviak: non-series

Iris Yamashita: Cara Kennedy, a police detective, in Anchorage, Alaska

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Authors and Characters Added in March 2024

New Amanda Flower series: Katherine Wright, the sister of Orville and Wilbur, running the family bike shop and working part time as a teacher in Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903

New Leslie Karst series: Valerie Corbin, a retired caterer, and her wife Kristen, relocating to Hilo, Hawai’i, in the Orchid Isle mysteries

New Laurie R. King series: Raquel Laing, an inspector with the Cold Case Unit of the San Francisco, California, police department

New Vanessa Lillie series: Syd Walker, a Cherokee archaeologist working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs

New Gary Phillips series: Harry Ingram, an African American Korean War veteran and crime scene photographer, beginning in 1963 Los Angeles, California

Andromeda Romano-Lax: non-series

Bridget Walsh: Minnie Ward, a scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, and Albert Easterbrook, a private detective, beginning in 1876 London, England, in the Variety Palace mysteries

Katie Williams: non-series

Maud Woolf: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in April 2024

Jann Arden: non-series

New Jeffrey B. Burton series: Cory Pratt, running a dog training academy, and sister Crystal, a newly minted homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois, in the Chicago K-9 thrillers

Andrew Cartmel: a record collector, connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs, in the Vinyl Detective mysteries; Cordelia Stanmer, a vintage paperback collector in London, England, in the Paperback Sleuth mysteries

Cyndi MacMillan: non-series

New Christopher Reich series: Mac Dekker, a CIA operative living under an assumed name after being framed for treason and faking his own death years earlier

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Authors and Characters Added in May 2024

E.A. Aymar: Tom Starks, a community college professor and single father, out to avenge his wife’s murder, in Baltimore, Maryland

New Flynn Berry series: Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daley, pursued by the IRA for informing

James D.F. Hannah: Henry Malone, an ex-state trooper back in his childhood home, Serenity, West Virginia; Matt Simms, a sheriff diagnosed with liver cancer, in rural West Virginia, in the Parker County series

New Alis Hawkins series: Basil Rice, a Jesus College (Oxford) fellow with a secret to hide, and Rhiannon “Nonh” Vaughan, a young Welsh polymath, beginning in 1881, in the Oxford mysteries

Jenny Hollander: non-series

Andrey Kurkov: Victor, dumped by his lover, now writing obituaries, and Misha, a rescue penquin from the zoo, in Kyiv, Ukraine; Samson Kolechko, an investigator for the city’s new police force, starting in 1919 Kyiv, Ukraine, in the Kyiv mysteries

Dann McDorman: non-series

CJ Wray: Penny and Josephine Williamson, British World War II veterans (Wren—Women's Royal Naval Services and FANY—First Aid Nursing Yeomantry) in their 90s and their great-nephew Archie, owner of a London art gallery (Chrissie Manby pseudonym)

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Authors and Characters Added in June 2024

Stig Abell: Jake Jackson, a former Detective Inspector at the Metropolitan Police in London, retired to the English countryside

Megan Campisi: non-series

Nolan Chase: Ethan Brand, the newly elected Chief of Police in the small town of Blaine, Washington (Sam Wiebe pseudonym)

Susan Fletcher: non-series

Rachel Kapelke-Dale: non-series

Freida McFadden (pseudonym): The Prescription: Murder mysteries; Millie, recently released from prison, working as a maid, in the Housemaid thriler series

New Albert Noyer series: Jake Jakubowski, a Catholic priest retiring at age 70 from Michigan to Providencia, a village on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico; Alberix the Celt, in 58 BCE Gaul

Adam Plantinga: non-series and non-fiction

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Authors and Characters Added in July 2024

Jonathan J. Brown: Lou Crasher, a Black Canadian rock drummer and part-time amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California

L.M. Chilton: non-series

New Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado series: Carmen Sanchez, a special agent for Homeland Security, and Jacoby Heron, a private security agent, in the Sanchez & Heron series

Abbott Kahler: non-series; non-fiction and true crime written as Karen Abbott

Fiona McPhillips: non-series

Liz Milliron: Jim Duncan, a state trooper, and Sally Castle, an assistant public defender, in rustic Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands mysteries; Betty Ahern, a young woman working at Bell Airplane, and wanting to be a private investigator, during World War II, in Buffalo, New York, in the Homefront mysteries

New Walter Mosley series: Joe King Oliver, a NYPD detective framed for sexual assault now working as a private investigator with his teenage daughter

P.J. Nelson: Madeline Brimley, inheriting a bookstore from her eccentric Aunt Rose, in the small college town of Enigma, Georgia, in the Old Juniper Bookstore series (Phillip DePoy pseudonym)

Ayla Rose: Hannah Solace, returning to her Vermont hometown to reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie, in the Hummingbird Hollow B&B mysteries (Wendy Tyson pseudonym)

J.R. Sanders: Nate Ross, a private investigator in late 1930s Hollywood, California

Francis Spufford: non-series

New Sarah Stewart Taylor series: Franklin Warren, a detective for the Vermont state police, beginning in 1965

Amy Tintera: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in August 2024

Ramona Emerson series: Rita Todacheene, a Navajo forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police force

Emiko Jean: non-series

Ariel Lawhon: non-series historical mysteries and thrillers

Amy Pease: non-series

New Emily Schultz series: Agnes Nielson, a New York City book editor turned detective in the Friends & Enemies mysteries

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Authors and Characters Added in September 2024

Kat Ailes: Alice, Poppy, Hen, and Ailsa, a group of new mothers in the small market town of Penton in the Cotswolds, England, who investigate crime with the dubious help of Alice’s beautiful yet dim dog Helen

Johanna Copeland: non-series

New Daryl Wood Gerber series: Allie Catt, a caterer and personal chef in Ashville, North Carolina, in the Literary Dining mysteries

Olivia Muenter: non-series

Andrew Hunter Murray: non-series sci-fi and mystery thrillers

Alejandro Nodarse: non-series

Delia Pitts: The Ross Agency, run by the magnanimous detective Norment Ross and his more practical daughter, Sabrina, along with SJ Rook, which takes tiny neighborhood cases the police are too busy to solve, in Harlem, New York [written as Delia C. Pitts]; Evander “Vandy” Myrick, the only Black woman private investigator in Queenstown, New Jersey

Henry Wise: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in October 2024

Maggie Auffarth: non-series

K.T. Nguyen: non-series

Catherine Mack: Eleanor Dash, a bestselling mystery author with a fondness for footnotes, in the Vacation Mysteries (Catherine McKenzie pseudonym)

Stella Sands: non-series; true crime

Snowden Wright: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in November 2024

Elisabeth Eaves: non-series

Jahmal Mayfield: non-series

New John McMahon series: Gardner Camden, a socially awkward savant FBI Agent with the Patterns and Recognition team

New Rob Osler series: Harriet Morrow, a new detective with the Prescott Dectective Agency in Chicago, beginning in 1898

New Carol Potenza series: Myrna Lee, an Ice Age paleontologist and poison expert n New Mexico

Caroline Woods: non-series historical mystery/thrillers

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