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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 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 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 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 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 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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