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Authors and Characters Added in April 2026
Karsten Dusse: Björn Diemel, an unhappy German criminal defense attorney who discovers Mindfulness:
Yosha Gunasekera: Siriwathi Perera, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver, and public defender Amaya Fernando, in New York City
Holly Jackson: Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi, a high-school senior true crime enthusast and amateur sleuth in a small town (Buckinghamshire in UK editions; Connecticut in US editions) in the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder YA series
New Asia Mackay series: Hazel “Haze” Matthews and Nathaniel Foxton “Fox” Cabot, serial killers trying to give up the thrill of killing
Laura McCluskey: Detective Inspectors Georgina “George” Lennox and Richie Stewart, in Scotland
New Mike Ripley series: Roland Wilkes, a former book editor turned librarian, in England
Bailey Seybolt: non-series
Jennifer Trevelyan: non-series
Abbi Waxman: Julia Mann, a 60-ish retired actress, and Natasha Mason, a Gen Z adrenaline junkie, in Palm Springs, California
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2026
Adrian Andover: Reece Parker, a mixologist running Subplot, a literary-themed underground cocktail lounge in his hometown of Hope Mills, Pennsylvania, in the Mixology Lounge mysteries
A.D. Bell: non-series
Bruce Robert Coffin: John Byron, a detective sergeant, in Portland, Maine; Brock Justice, a detective with the state police, in Maine
Megan Collins: non-series
New Lee Goldberg series: Edison Bixby, a brilliant insurance investigator with coprolalia, uncontrolled and often offensive verbal outbursts
Kim Hays: Giuliana Linder, a veteran police detective, and Renzo Donatelli, her junior colleage, in Bern, Switzerland
Sandra Jackson-Opoku: Sapphire (Savvy) Summers, owner of Essie’s soul food café on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois
John Ajvide Lindqvist: The Platserna (The Places) supernatural horror thriller series; Julia Malmros, a former police officer turned best selling crime fiction author, and Kim Ribbing, a young hacker haunted by his past, in Sweden, in the Bloodstorm series
Charlotte McConaghy: non-series
Yasuhiko Nishizawa: non-series
New Richard O’Rawe series written with daughter Bernadette O’Rawe: London Detective Sergeant Grace O’Malley
Holly Seddon: non-series thrillers
Katie Siegel: Charlotte Illes, a 25-year-old former kid detective coaxed out of retirement
Matthew Spencer: Rose Riley, a homicide detective, in Sydney, Australia
Rachel Taff: non-series
Vikki Wakefield: non-series
New series by LynDee Walker & Bruce Robert Coffin: Avery Turner, a billionaire computer genius, and Carter Mosley, a deep-sea shipwreck diver, in the Turner and Mosley Files
Andrew Welsh-Huggins: Andy Hayes, a private investigator, in Columbus, Ohio; Mercury Carter, a former postal inspector, now a freelance courier willing to do just about anything to complete a delivery
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2026
Kelsey Cox: non-series
New Karen E. Olson series: Hank Tudor, a billionaire, and his wives and children in the Modern Tudor mysteries
Sally Smith: Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, an elderly barrister residing in in London’s Inner Temple, beginning in 1901, in the Trials of Gabriel Ward series
Sophie Stava: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2026
Sacha Bronwasser: non-series
Andreina Cordani: Ebenezer Scrooge mysteries
Hannah Deitch: non-series
Laurie L. Dove: Carrie Starr, former Chicago detective, returning to her reservation roots after her daughter's murder, as a tribal marshal, in Oklahoma
Allison Epstein: non-series historical mysteries
Amity Gaige: non-series
Marisa Kashino: non-series
Holly Kennedy: non-series
Jo Nichols: an eccentric group of tenants living in the Marigold Cottages owned by octogenarian Golda Bakofsky (Mrs. B) in Santa Barbara, California, in the Marigold Cottage mysteries
R.P. O’Donnell: Emma Daly, a former Garda now running the library in the small village of Castlefreke, Ireland, beginning in 1988, in the Irish Library mysteries
Trisha Sakhlecha: non-series
Chuck Storla: Brad Hanson, an insurance fraud investigator living at the Estates at Chestnut Lake in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, in the HOA Homicide mysteries
Callan Wink: non-series thrillers and general fiction set in the West
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