Authors and Characters Added in December 2024
New Ava Barry series: Rainey Hall, a private investigator in Hollywood, California
New Amy Patricia Meade series: Evelyn Galloway, a script supervisor in Hollowood, beginning in 1939
New Jonathan Payne series: Orlov, a fishmonger accidently turned governmeent minister for an unnamed country on the brink of civil war in central Europe, in the Citizen Orlov series
New Jesse Q. Sutanto series: Vera Wong, a San Francisco teashop owner in her 60s who loves cooking, snooping, and using the skills she learned watching CSI
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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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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 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 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 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 June 2024 Top
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 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 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 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 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 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 December 2023
Lucy Ashe: non-series historical mysteries
I.S. Berry: non-series
Mollie Ann Cox: Eliza Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton killed in a duel, in 1804 New York (Mollie Cox Bryan pseudonym)
New Jeannette de Beauvoir series: Sydney Riley, a wedding and party organizer, and unofficial sleuth in the diverse community of Cape Cod, in Provincetown, Massachusetts
New Rod Duncan series: Elizabeth Barnabus, who lives a double life as herself and her brother Edwin, a private detective, in an alternate fantasy England, in the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series
Christina Estes: Jolene Garcia, a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona
New Tess Gerritsen series: Maggie Bird, a retired CIA operative living in the seaside village of Purity, Maine, part of the “Martini Club” of former spies
New John Grisham series: Bruce Cable, owner of a bookstore in the small restort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island, Florida, in the Camino series
Alex Hay: non-series
A.J. Landau: Michael Walker, a special agent with the National Parks Service, and Gina Delgado, an FBI esplosives expert, in the National Parks thrillers (joint pseudonym of Jon Land & Jeff Ayers)
New Philip Miller series: Shona Sandison, an investigative journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ritu Mukerji: non-series
New James Patterson & Brian Sitts series: private detectives Brandon Holmes, Margaret Marple, and Auguste Poe, in Brooklyn, New York
Jonathan Payne: non-series
New Eric Redman series: Kawika Wong, a police detective in Honolulu, Hawaii
Brooke Robinson: non-series
New S.J. Rozan series written with John Shen Yen Nee: Judge Dee Ren Jie and shy academic Lao She, team up in 1920s London, England
Julia Seales: non-series
Nina Simon: non-series
New Benjamin Stevenson series: Ernest (Ern) Cunningham, an Australian crime fiction author
New A.J. Tata series: Garrett Sinclair, an Army Lieutenant General running a Joint Special Operations team known as Dagger
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2023
New Anders de la Motte series: Leonore “Leo” Asker, a criminal inspector in Malmö, Sweden, banished to the odd cases department in the basement known as the Department of Lost Souls
New Amanda Flower series: Millie Fisher, recently widowed, moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, in the Amish Matchmaker mysteries; Shiloh Bellamy, leaving her big city job to return home to save the family farm in Michigan, in the Farm to Table mysteries
Ken Jaworowski: non-series
New Victor Methos series: Solomon Shepard, an attourney, and Billie Gray, a sheriff, in Utah, in the Shepard & Gray series
New Annelise Ryan series: Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, whose hobby is hunting cryptids — creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real — in the Monster Hunter mysteries
New Jonathan Santlofer series: John Washington Smith of INTERPOL’s Art Theft Division
New Simon Scarrow series: Horst Schenke, Berlin Criminal Inspector and Head of Pankow Kripo Station, beginning in 1939, in the Berlin Wartime thrillers Top
Authors and Characters Added in October 2023
New Chris Hadfield series: Navy Commander Kazimieras ”Kaz” Zemeckis, beginning in 1973
Una Mannion: non-series
New Nita Prose series: Molly, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel in an unnamed city
New Lev AC Rosen series: Evander “Andy” Mills, recently fired from the San Francisco police after being caught in a raid on a gay bar, beginning in 1952
Yulia Yakovleva: Vasily Zaitsev, a detective in the Leningrad Criminal Investigation Department, beginning in 1931 Russia, in the Leningrad Confidential series Top
Authors and Characters Added in August & September 2023
Damyanti Biswas: Arnav Singh Rajput, a police inspector in Mumbai, India
Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir: non-series
Bruce Borgos: Porter Beck, a former military intelligence officer, now sheriff in Lincoln County, Nevada, a high desert area north of Las Vegas
New Jeanne M. Dams series: Elizabeth Fairchild, a young WWI widow in Oak Park, Illinois, in the Oak Park Village mysteries, beginning in 1925
Meagan Jennett: non-series
J.M. Lee: non-series
Dwyer Murphy: non-series
Kieran Scott: non-series
Michelle Min Sterling: non-series
Patrick Worrall: non-series Top
Authors and Characters Added in July 2023
Ren DeStefano: non-series
New Victoria Gilbert series: Jane Hunter, a 60-year-old retired university librarian, and Cameron “Cam” Clewe, a 33-year-old book and artifact collector, in North Carolina, in the Hunter & Clewe mysteries
Updated Chester Himes page: added 23 titles
Amulya Malladi: Gabriel Præst, a former cop in the Financial Fraud Division now working as a private detective in Copenhagen, Denmark Top
Authors and Characters Added in June 2023
New Mark Billingham series: Declan Miller, a British Detective Sergeant
D.V. Bishop: Cesare Aldo, former soldier, now an officer of the criminal court, in 1530s Florence, Italy
New M.W. Craven series: Ben Koenig, the former head of the US Marshal’s elite Special Operations Group
Margot Douaihy: Sister Holiday, a queer former punk-rocker escaping her past as a novice nun at Saint Sebastian’s School in New Orleans, Louisiana
Johana Gustawsson: Emily Roy, a profiler on loan to Scotland Yard from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Alexis Castells, a French true crime writer, investigatng in Sweden and London, England; Maxine Grant, a homicide detective who investigates murder with links to historical cases, starting in Quebec, Canada
New Naomi Hirahara series: Aki Ito, released in 1944 with her family from Manzanar Internment Camp, and working as a nurse's aide in Chicago, then moving back to Los Angeles after the war, in the Japantown mysteries
Jessa Maxwell: non-series
Nilima Rao: Akal Singh, a Sikh sergeant with the Fijian Constabulary, Suva Division, beginning in 1914 Top
Authors and Characters Added in May 2023
Amen Alonge: Pretty Boy, back after ten years with revenge on his mind, in London, England
Dave Barry: non-series caper novels
John Brownlow: Seventeen, the most feared professional assassin in the world, in the Last Man Standing thriller series
Javier Cercas: Melchor Marín, a homicide detective in Barcelona, Spain
Zijin Chen: non-series
New Reed Farrel Coleman series: Nick Ryan, a NYPD detective
New Mary Anna Evans series: Justine Byrne, a factory worker recruited by Army Intelligence for a code-breaking facility in Arlington Hall, a former women’s college in Virginia
Claudia Gray: Mr. Jonathan Darcy, eldest son of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Miss Juliet Tilney of Northanger Abbey, beginning in 1820 England in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney series
Joey Hartstone: non-series
Robert Lanza & Nancy Kress: non-series
Jack Lutz: non-series
Simon Mason: two detective inspectors named Wilkins, Ryan with a troubled past, and Ray, son of Nigerian immigrants, in Oxford, England; Garvie Smith, a genius student at Marsh Academy, good-for-nothing scoundrel, and sometime detective, in England [YA]
New Spencer Quinn series: Loretta Plansky, a rich Florida widow in her 70s
Philipp Schott: Peter Bannerman, a veterinarian in New Selfoss, Manitoba, Canada, in the Dr. Bannerman Vet series
Patricia Wolf: Lucas Walker, a detective sergeant in the Australian Federal Police Top
Authors and Characters Added in April 2023
Sarah Bonner: non-series
New Allison Brennan series: Regan Merritt, a former US Marshal whose 10-year-old son was murdered, returning to Flagstaff, Arizona
Greg Buchanan: non-series
May Cobb: non-series
New E.J. Copperman series: Fran and Ken Stein, New York City private detectives who aren’t entirely human
J.C. Eaton: Sophie “Phee” Kimball, a middle-aged single mom who moves from Minnesota, to help her mother Harriet Plunkett, as a private investigator, in Sun City, Arizona; Norrie Ellington, a successful screenwriter in New York City, who moves upstate to help in her family’s Two Witches Winery, in the town of Penn Yan, New York, in the Wine Trail mysteries; Marcie Rayner, a crime statistician in St. Paul, Minnesota, who divorces her philandering husband and takes a temporary job as an investigative assistant in New Ulm, Minnesota; Katie Aubrey, a 30-something former business tech running a sandwich shop and catering business, and sharing her house with a ghost, in Cave Creek, Arizona, in the Charcuterie Shop mysteries
S.M. Freedman: I Fidele, a mysterious group that kidnaps psychic children
Mario Giordano: Auntie Poldi, an amateur sleuth who at age 60 retires to Sicily
New Lee Goldberg series: Walter Sharpe, an arson investigator, and Andrew Walker, a former US Marshal, relentlessly pursuing wildfire arsonists, in Los Angeles, California
S.M. Goodwin: Jasper Lightner, a London Met detective sent to train New York police, and Hieronymus Law, a police detective, in 1850s New York City
Victoria Gosling: non-series
New Susan Isaacs series: Corie Geller, a former FBI agent, and her father, a retired NYPD homicide detective, in Long Island, New York
Dorothy Koomson: Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe, the only witnesses to a tragic event when they were teenagers, in Brighton, England
Hervé Le Corre: non-series historical mysteries
Nicole Lundrigan: non-series
Tim Mason: Chief Inspector Charles Field, beginning in 1860 London, England
Carlene O’Connor: Siobhán O’Sullivan, running Naomi’s Bistro, named for her mother, in Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, in the Irish Village mysteries; Tara Meehan, a New Yorker carrying her mother’s ashes back to Ireland, in the Home to Ireland mysteries; Cormac O’Brien, a detective inspector based in Killarney, Ireland, in the County Kerry mysteries
S.W. Perry: Nicholas Shelby, a physician in the last years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, in 1590s, London, England, in the Jackdaw mysteries
Mercedes Rosende: Ursula Lopez, a plump 40-something murderer with a sense of humor, in Montevideo, Uruguay
Shelly Sanders: non-series
Camilla Sten: non-series thrillers
New Leonie Swann series: Agnes Sharp and other elderly inhabitants of Sunset hall, in the country town of Duck End, England
Amy Tector: strange doings in the national archives in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Dominion Archives mysteries
Alisa Lynn Valdés: Jodi Luna, leaving Boston academia to be a game warden, in her family home of New Mexico
Elle Brooke White: Charlotte Finn, inheriting the family produce farm, sleuthing with the help of a pig, in Santa Barbara County, California, in the Finn Family Farm mysteries
W.A. Winter: non-series, true crime written as William Swanson
James Wolff: The Discipline Files espionage trilogy Top
Authors and Characters Added in March 2023
Michael Bennett: Hana Westerman, a Māori detective with the Auckland CIB, in New Zealand
New Lorenzo Carcaterra series: Nonna Maria, a 70-year-old widow on the Italian island of Ischia
Delilah S. Dawson: non-series
Maria Dong: non-series
Craig Henderson: non-series
New T.C. LoTempio series: Tiffany Austin, returning home to Branson, Georgia, to work as a food critic in the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger series
Lauren Nossett: non-series thrillers
New Peter Swanson series: Henry Kimball, a police officer and then private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts
Rosie Walsh: non-series
Stacy Willingham: non-series thrillers
Erin Young: Riley Fisher, a sergeant in the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, in rural Iowa; historical fiction written as Robyn Young Top
Authors and Characters Added in February 2023
New Cara Black series: Kate Rees, an American sharpshooter on missions against the Nazis in World War II
Janelle Brown: non-series
Nina de Gramont: non-series
New Barbara Hambly series: Kitty Flint, a glamorous movie star, and her widowed British sister-in-law Emma Blackstone, in 1920s Hollywood in the Sliver Screen series
Adam Hamdy: John Wallace, a photojournalist; Scott Pearce, an ex-MI6 officer
Jennifer Herrera: non-series
New Michael Jecks series: Nick Morris, a British portrait painter, in The Art of Murder series
Brendan Slocumb: non-series
New Betty Webb series: Zoe Barlow, a young painter living in Paris after being banished by her Alabama family for her scandalous behavior, beginning in 1922 Top
Authors and Characters Added in January 2023
Erin E. Adams: non-series
New Mally Becker series: Rebecca Parcell, recently widowed, and Daniel Alloway, an escaped British prisoner, working as spies for General Washington, beginning in 1780, in the Revolutionary War mysteries
Alicia Bessette: Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk on Cattail Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Valerie Burns: Maddy Montgomery, inheriting her great-aunt Octavia’s house, running her bakery, and caring for a 250-pound English mastiff named Baby, in New Bison, Michigan, in the Baker Street mysteries (V.M. Burns real name)
Katie Gutierrez: non-series
Meredith Hambrock: non-series
Virginia Hartman: non-series
T.G. Herren: Valerie Cooper, inheriting a major interest in New Orleans Fine Antiques, in New Orleans, Louisiana (Greg Herren pseudonym)
Gabino Iglesias: non-series, horror-tinged
Valona Jones: Twins Tabby and Sage Winslow, owners of the Book and Candle Shop, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magic Candle Shop mysteries (Maggie Toussaint pseudonym)
Claire Kells: Felicity Harland, a 32-year-old former FBI agent now working with the Investigative Services Bureau around the country, in the National Parks mysteries
James L’Etoile: John Penley, and his new partner Paula Newberry, homicide detectives in Sacramento, California; Nathan Parker, a police detective in Maricopa County, Arizona; Emily Hunter and Javier Medina, homicide detectives in Sacramento, California
Joan Long: non-series
M.A. Monnin: Stefanie Adams, a private banker on vacation, in the Intrepid Traveler mysteries
Korina Moss: Willa Bauer, running a cheese shop, Curds & Whey, in fictional Yarrow Glen, California, in the Cheese Shop mysteries
B.R. Myers: non-series
Emilya Naymark: Laney Bird, an NYPD detective turned small town private investigator, in the hamlet of Sylvan, upstate New York
Ashton Noone: non-series
A.R. Torre: Deanna Madden series
Nina Wachsman: Diana, a Talmudic scholar, and Belladonna, a notorious courtesan, are drawn together in 1612 Venice, Italy, in the Venice Beauties mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in December 2022
Samantha Jayne Allen: Annie McIntyre, a young private investigator’s apprentice in the hardscrabble town of Garnett, Texas
New Kelley Armstrong series: Casey Duncan and her husband Sheriff Eric Dalton, relocated from Rockton to Haven’s Rock, a refuge built deep in the Yukon wilderness for people needing to disappear, in the Haven’s Rock series
New Tamara Berry series: Tess Harrow, a recently divorced bestselling thriller writer and her daughter Gertrude, turn an inherited hardware store into a book store, in small-town Winthrop, Washington, in the By the Book mysteries
Lan Samantha Chang: non-series
New Tracy Clark series: Harriet Foster, a detective in the Chicago PD
Bertie Denham: Derek Thyrde, Chief Whip in the British House of Lords
New Juan Gómez-Jurado series: Antonia Scott, a gifted forensic analysis, the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother, in Bilbao, Spain
Anastasia Hastings: Violet Manville, taking over the Miss Hermione agony aunt column, beginning in 1885 London, England, in the Dear Miss Hermione mysteries (Connie Laux pseudonym)
New Alma Katsu series: Lyndsey Duncan, a CIA intelligence agent, in the Red Widow series
New Kathleen Kent: Melvina (Mel) Donleavey, a young CIA agent, beginning in 1990
Grace D. Li: non-series
Tracey Lien: non-series
New Randye Lordon series: Mary Moody, a “concierge to the rich and the richer” in the Hamptions, New York
New Javier Marías series: Tomás Nevinson, returns to Madrid from Oxford where he has been recruited as a spy, unbeknownst to his wife Berta Isla
New Julie Mulhern series: Poppy Fields, a social influencer and super-secret spy, in Hollywood, California
Hayley Scrivenor: non-series
Charmaine Wilkerson: non-series Top
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