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Authors and Characters Added in April 2012
James Barney: non-series thrillers
Campbell Black: non-series
crime fiction, Frank Pagan, a detective from Special Branch, Scotland
Yard, in London, England, combating international spies and terrorists
(written as Campbell Armstrong); Lou Perlman, a Jewish police detective,
in Glasgow, Scotland (written as Campbell Armstrong)
New Joanne Dobson & Beverle
Graves Myers series: Helluva War series,
set in New York City during World War II
Alan Dunn: Billy Oliphant, an ex-cop, security consultant and occasional
private investigator, in England
Norm Foster: non-series crime fiction
New Shelley Freydont series: Liv Montgomery, a burned out New York
City event planner, moving to a small lakeside town in rural New
York, in the Celebration Bay series
Helen Grant: non-series crime fiction
Ian Hamilton: Ava Lee, a petite young Chinese-Canadian forensic
accountant specializing in tracking large debts, working for “Uncle” based
in Hong Kong
New Steven James series: Jevin Banks, an investigative film-maker
New Andrea Kane series: a team of unconventional investigators including
a behaviorist, a techno-wizard, an intuitive, a former Navy S.E.A.L,
and a retired FBI Victim Recovery dog, in the Forensic Instincts
series
Eleanor Kuhns: Will Rees, a former soldier in the American Revolution,
working as a traveling weaver in 1790s Maine
Melinda Leigh: non-series
romantic suspense
Paul McEuen: non-series thrillers
H.T. Narea: non-series thrillers
Fraser Nixon: non-series crime fiction
Sharon Sala: Cat Dupree,
a bounty hunter after her father’s murderer
in Mexico; the Storm Front trilogy set in Louisiana; the Rebel Ridge
series set in the Appalachians of Kentucky; non-series romantic suspense
Sean Slater: Jacob Striker, a homicide detective in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
New Wallace Stroby series: Crissa Stone, a career thief based in
New York City
Leslie Tentler: FBI agents in the Chasing Evil trilogy
Jane Waterhouse: Garner Quinn, a best-selling true crime writer,
in Spring Lake, New Jersey
Lionel White: non-series crime fiction
Roger White: Conn Anderson, a former public servant, now owner of
a British classic car repair shop, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in
the Capital Crime series
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2012
Lucy Arlington: Lila Wilkins,
a 45-year-old unemployed journalist working as an intern at a literary
agency, in the utopian town of Inspiration Valley, North Carolina,
in the Novel Idea mysteries [joint pseudonym of Ellery Adams (pseudonym
of J.B. Stanley) and Sylvia May]
J. Mark Bertrand: Roland March, a homicide detective with family
and professional problems, in Houston, Texas, with a religious perspective
Lucy Burdette: Hayley Snow, a 20-something food critic for Key Zest
magazine, in Key West, Florida, in the Food Critic mysteries (Roberta
Isleib pseudonym)
Mike Cooper: Silas Cade, a black-ops Iraq war veteran and contract
consultant working for Wall Street hedge fund managers and investors,
based in New York City
New J.T. Ellison series:
Samantha Owens, a medical examiner from Tennessee
Lee Hollis: Hayley
Powell, a single mother writing the food column for the Island Times,
in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the Food and Cocktails mysteries (joint
pseudonym of Rick Copp and Holly Simason)
Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway, a CPA and Criminal Investigations Division
agent with the IRS, based in Dallas, Texas, in the Death and Taxes
series
Susan Kenney: Roz Howard, an American literature professor, and
her lover Alan Stewart, a British artist, set in England and in Maine
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser: Dr. Haley McAlister, a 41-year-old psychologist
and professor specializing in lie detection, in Houston, Texas
Valerie Kershaw: Mitch Mitchell, a long-time radio journalist, and
her 70-year-old Chinese partner in the detective agency Mitchell
and Orient Bureau, former Royal Navy laundryman Tommy Hung, in Birmingham,
England
Marek Krajewski: Eberhard Mock, a police detective, and university
classics dropout, starting in 1919 Breslau (now Wroclaw, in Poland)
Alison Preston: Frank Foote, a police inspector, later a home renovator,
in the Norwood Flats area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
New Maggie Sefton series: Molly Malone, a senator’s daughter
and the widow of a congressman, working as a consultant for a senator,
in Washington, DC
Dorothy St. James:
Casey Calhoun, an organic gardener in Washington, DC, in the White
House Gardener mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2012
Robin Allen: Poppy Markham, a former sous chef turned public health
inspector, in Austin, Texas, in the Culinary Cop series
Ella Barrick: Stacy Graysin, part owner of a ballroom dance studio,
in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, in the Ballroom Dance mysteries
(Laura DiSilverio pseudonym)
Josie Belle: the Good Buy Girls, a group of skilled bargain hunters,
in St. Stanley, Virginia (Jenn McKinlay pseudonym)
Karen Bergreen: non-series
crime fiction
Heather Blake: Darcy Merriweather, from a long line of witches who
can cast spells by making a wish, in the Enchanted Village section
of Salem, Massachusetts, in the Wishcraft mysteries (Heather Webber
pseudonym)
Hilary Bonner: Rose Piper, a detective chief inspector with the
Avon and Somerset Constabulary, experiencing marital difficulties,
in England; John Kelly, a former Fleet Street reporter with addiction
problems, and Karen Meadows, a detective inspector with the Devon
and Cornwall Constabulary, in England
Sandra Brannan: Liv Bergen, manager of a limestone mine, and her
boyfriend FBI agent Streeter Pierce, near Fort Collins, Colorado,
and then in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton, an amateur sleuth whose husband
is MIA in WWI, in 1920s Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Haggai Carmon: Dan Gordon, an Israeli Mossad veteran, now an investigating
attorney acting worldwide for the CIA and U.S. Department of Justice
Miles Corwin: Ash Levine, a former Israeli paratrooper and top detective
in the elite LAPD Felony Squad, in Los Angeles, California
Donna Fletcher Crow: The Lord Danvers fictionalized Victorian true
crime trilogy, in mid-19th century England; Elizabeth Allerton and
Richard Spencer, courting and then newlyweds; Felicity Howard, a
young American studying for the Anglican priesthood at the College
of the Transfiguration in Yorkshire, England, in the Monastery Murders
series
Peter de Jonge: Darlene O’Hara, a homicide detective in the
7th precinct, and her partner, Serge “K.” Krekorian,
in New York City
Matthew Dunn: Will Cochrane, the most prized asset of the CIA and
MI-6, on missions around the world
Giorgio Faletti: non-series thrillers
John A. Flanagan: Jesse Parker, an ex-Denver police detective, returning
to his hometown to work on the ski patrol, in Steamboat Springs,
Colorado
Sulari Gentill: Rowland Sinclair, a young artist and gentleman from
a wealthy family, and reluctant amateur sleuth, in 1930s Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia
Kaye George: Imogene Duckworthy, a 22-year-old waitress, living
with her mother Hortense, and baby daughter Nancy Drew, in Saltlick,
Texas
Judith K. Ivie: Kate Lawrence, a middle-aged legal secretary, later
real estate agent, and amateur sleuth, in Hartford and Wethersfield,
Connecticut
Alice LaPlante: non-series crime fiction
John Le Beau: Franz Waldbaer,
Bavarian Kommissar of Police, assisted by CIA operational specialists,
in Germany and elsewhere
Peter Maas: non-series crime fiction
Debbi Mack: Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae, a lawyer in Maryland
Scott Mariani: Ben Hope, a former British Special Air Service (SAS)
officer investigating apocalyptic mysteries
Shirley McKay: Hew Cullan, a young lawyer, starting in 1579 St.
Andrews, Scotland
Gary McKinney: Gavin Pruitt, the Sheriff of Willapa County and a
fan of the Grateful Dead since the ’60s, in southwest Washington
Jake Needham: Jack Shepherd,
an American ex-patriot lawyer, whose wife left him for a proctologist,
now teaching in a business school in Bangkok, Thailand
Leif GW Persson: police procedurals, with ensemble casts, centered
in Stockholm, Sweden
Dale T. Phillips: Zack Taylor, an ex-con, in Maine
Oliver Pötzsch: Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter
of town hangman Jakob Kuisl, in mid-17th century Bavaria, Germany
Erik Rosenthal: Dan Brodsky, an unemployed mathematician who pays
the rent as a private investigator, based in San Francisco, California
Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore: Cotten Stone, a television journalist
on assignment for SNN (Satellite News Network) reporting on apocalyptic
events; Seneca Hunt, a magazine journalist investigating archeological
mysteries
Efrem Sigel: non-series crime fiction
Kari Lee Townsend: Sunny Meadows, a fortune teller leaving New York
City for rural Divinity, in upstate New York, in the Fortune Teller
mysteries
Robert Traver: mysteries, courtroom dramas, and legal stories based
on fact
Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson:
non-series thrillers and detective novels set in Iceland
Marcos M. Villatoro:
Romilia Chacón, a young bilingual cop
in Nashville, Tennessee, later an FBI agent in Los Angeles, California
C.M. Wendelboe: Manny
Tanno, a former Oglala Lakota tribal cop, now an FBI Special Agent
returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota
Michael Lee West: Teeny Templeton, a short pastry chef and cooking
instructor, in Charleston, South Carolina
Reavis Z. Wortham: Ned Parker, a farmer and part-time constable,
in mid-1960s Center Springs, Lamar County, Texas, in the Red River
mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2012
New Aileen G. Baron series: Tamar Saticoy, an archaeological consultant
for Interpol
Roberto Ampuero: Cayetano Brulé, a Cuban-born private investigator
based in Valparaiso, Chile
Robert Jackson Bennett: non-series speculative fiction horror thrillers
H.S. Bhabra: David Medina, a slightly sinister billionaire and power
broker, in Egypt and elsewhere (written as A.M. Kabal)
Lisa Brackmann: non-series thrillers
New Christopher Brookmyre series: Catherine McLeod, a detective
superintendent, and Jasmine Sharp, a former actress, now a private
investigator, in Glasgow, Scotland
Thomas Caplan: non-series
Sally Carpenter: Sandy Fairfax, a ’70s
teen idol, trying to make a comeback and put his family back together,
in 1990s southern California, in the Teen Idol mysteries
Philippe Claudel: non-series crime fiction
William Doonan: Henry Grave, an 80-something investigator for the
Association of Cruising Vessel Operators
David Duffy: Turbo Vlost, an ex-KGB operative, now a private investigator
in New York City
New Janet Evanovich series: Diesel, from the Stephanie Plum series,
with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, in North Shore, Boston, Massachusetts
Tricia Fields: 2010 Hillerman Prize
Stephen Gallagher: non-series suspense and thrillers
Eli Gottlieb: non-series crime fiction
Paul Grossman: Willi
Kraus, a decorated soldier in WWI, and the most celebrated Jewish
detective in Weimar Germany
Darrell James: Del Shannon, a young, female missing-persons investigator,
based in Tucson, Arizona
June Hampson: Daisy Lane, caught up in gangster life starting in
1960s London and Gosport, England
Sara J. Henry: Troy Chance, an independent young woman and freelance
writer, in the Adirondacks in upstate New York
Tammy Kaehler: Kate Reilly, an aspiring race car driver and amateur
sleuth on the racing circuit
Jessie Keane: Annie Bailey, later Annie Carter, on the streets of
London, a gangster’s moll, and more, in early 1970s London,
England
M.E. Kemp: Hetty Henry, a twice-widowed and wealthy young Puritan,
and Increase “Creasy” Cotton, a young minister, based
in 1690s Boston, Massachusetts
William Kennedy: The Albany Cycle, some criminous/noir or political
thrillers, some not, following an ensemble of characters with Albany,
New York, in common
Robert Knightly: Harry Corbin, a homicide detective in New York
City
Michael Ondaatje: mysterious literary fiction
Daniel Palmer: non-series thrillers
Leonard Rosen: Henri Poincaré, a veteran Interpol agent
Lori Roy: non-series
Rochelle Staab: Liz Cooper, a clinical psychologist who didn't believe
in paranormal stuff, in Los Angeles, California, in the Mind for
Murder mysteries
Dan Vyleta: non-series crime fiction
Tina Whittle: Tai Randall, running a Confederate-themed gun shop,
and Trey Seaver, a corporate security expert, in Atlanta, Georgia
Merla Zellerbach: Hallie Marsh, a publicist, breast cancer survivor,
and accidental detective, based in San Francisco, California
Richard Zimler: the Sephardic Cycle thrillers with a Portuguese-Jewish
theme
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