Authors
and Characters Added in January 2007
Michael Avallone: Ed
Noon, a private investigator in New York City, later on special assignment
to the President of the United States; April Dancer, the Girl from
U.N.C.L.E.; Hawaii Five-O; Philip St. George, Satan Sleuth; romantic
suspense written as Priscilla Dalton, Edwina Noone, Dorothea Nile,
and Jean-Anne de Prè
Louis Bayard: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best Mystery Novel
Alex Berenson: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best First Mystery Novel
Massimo Carlotto: Marco “Alligator” Buratti
, a former blues singer and ex-con, working as a private investigator
in Venice, Italy (2007 Edgar Finalist for Best Paperback Original)
Brian Evenson: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best Paperback Original
Robert Fate: Kristin Van
Dijk, “Baby Shark”, seeking revenge for the murder of her
pool hustler father, in west Texas
Gillian Flynn: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best First Mystery Novel
John Godey: Jack Albany, a
small-time actor mistaken for a Mafia hit-man, in New York City
David Goodis: non-series
mysteries
Jason Goodwin: Yashim Togalu,
a eunuch for an Ottoman sultan, in 1830s Istanbul, Turkey (2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best Mystery Novel)
Joanne Harris: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best Mystery Novel
John Hart: 2007 Edgar Finalist
for Best First Mystery Novel
Charlotte Jay: non-series
mysteries
Selwyn Jepson: Ian MacArthur;
Eve Gill, a young sleuth frequently dealing with problems caused by
her liquor-smuggling father, in England
Patrick Neate: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best Paperback Original
Vin Packer: non-series mysteries
Cornelia Read: 2007 Edgar
Finalist for Best First Mystery Novel
Patricia Smiley: Tucker
Sinclair, a 30-something divorcee and financial adviser, in Los Angeles,
California
Edward Wright: John Ray
Horn, a former B-movie cowboy star and ex-con turned debt-collector,
in 1940s Los Angeles, California
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2007
New series on the Cordelia
Frances Biddle page: Martha Beale, in 1840s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pamela Branch: non-series
mysteries
Mark De Castrique: Barry
Clayton, an ex-cop who returns home to help run the family funeral
home business, in Gainesboro, North Carolina
Peter Chambers: Mark Preston,
a private investigator in Monkton City, California
Jerome Charyn: Isaac Sidel,
a deputy police commissioner, later Mayor, in New York City; Sidney
Holden, a hit-man, in New York City
Blaize Clement: Dixie
Hemingway, a former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional pet
sitter, in Sarasota, Florida
Colin Cotterill: Dr.
Siri Paiboun, the 70-something national coroner, Nurse Dtui, and Geung,
a developmentally challenged morgue assistant, in 1970s Laos
Brian Kavanagh: Belinda
Lawrence, a young Australian who inherited a cottage near Bath, England
Wilder Perkins: Bartholemew
Hoare, a British Navy officer wounded in the throat during the Napoleanic
Wars of the early 1800s, and assigned to espionage duties
Linda Lee Peterson:
Maggie Fiore, a magazine writer and editor in San Francisco, California
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2007
Sandi Ault: Jamaica Wild,
a resource-protection agent for the Bureau of Land Management, in northern
New Mexico
Deb Baker: Gertie Johnson,
a 60-something sleuth in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the Yooper
mysteries; Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina,
doll collectors in Phoenix, Arizona, in the Dolls To Die For mysteries
Suzanne Blanc: Miguel Menendez,
an Indio investigator for the Bureau of Tourism, in San Luis Potosi,
Mexico
Laura Bradford: Elise
Jenkins, a reporter for the Ocean Point Weekly, and Mitch Burns, a
police detective, in Ocean Point, New Jersey
Jane K. Cleland: Josie
Prescott, an antiques dealer in a small town in coastal New Hampshire,
in the Antiques mysteries
Alan Cook: Lillian Morgan,
a retired math professor in a retirement community in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina
Lonnie Cruse: Joe Dalton,
a sheriff in Metropolis, Illinois; Kitty and Jack Bloodworth, owners
of a show quality ’57 Chevy
Evelyn David: Mac Sullivan,
a retired cop, and Whiskey, his Irish Wolfhound partner, along with
Rachel Brenner, a 40-something divorcee and mother of a teenaged son,
in Washington, DC
Vicki Delany: Molly Smith,
a rookie constable, and Sergeant John Winters, in the mountain town
Trafalgar, British Columbia, Canada; Non-series psychological suspense,
in Ontario, Canada
Honora Finkelstein and
Susan Smily: Ariel Quigley, a college English with psychic powers,
in Alexandria, Virginia
Rae Foley: John Harland, in
New York City; Hiram Potter, a wealthy young man in New York City and
New England
Meg Gardiner: Evan Delaney,
an adventurous young woman in Santa Barbara, California
Kenneth R. Lewis: Kevin
Kearnes, chief of police of the fictional coastal town of Cutter Point,
Oregon, near the California border, and later an agent with Homeland
Security in Portland, Oregon, and Thud Compton, a police sergeant,
later chief
Hailey Lind: Annie Kincaid,
a reformed art forger now in the faux finishing business, in the Art
Lover’s mysteries
Karen E. Olson: Annie Seymour,
a police reporter in New Haven, Connecticut
Ian Sansom: Israel Armstrong,
a Jewish vegetarian from London, in charge of a mobile library in the
village of Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, in the Mobile Library mysteries
Lisa Tillman: 2006 Agatha
Award Finalist for Best First Mystery
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2007
Val Andrews: Sherlock Holmes,
a sleuth based in London, England
Nancy Bush: Jane Kelly, a
reluctant private investigator, and her pug, The Binkster, in Lake
Chinook, Oregon
Mary Devlin: Geoffrey Chaucer,
poet and detective in the late 1300s, in England
Robert Dugoni: non-series
mysteries
Anthony Eglin: Lawrence
Kingston, a retired botany professor in England, in the English Garden
mysteries
New series on the Shelley
Freydont page: Katie McDonald, a mathematician and Sudoku whiz
who returns to her hometown of Granville, New Hampshire
Friedrich Glauser:
Jakob Studer, a police sergeant (Wachtmeister) in 1930s Bern, Switzerland
Lisa Jackson: Anthony
Paterno, a detective in California; Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya,
police detectives in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the New Orleans romantic
suspense series; Pierce Reed, a detective in the southern town of Savannah
Marshall Karp: Mike Lomax
and Terry Biggs, police detectives in Los Angeles, California
Con Lehane: Brian McNulty,
a bartender in 1980s Manhattan, New York City
Sheila Lowe: Claudia Rose,
a handwriting analyst, in Los Angeles, California
Susan Cummins Miller:
Frankie MacFarlane, a geologist based in Tucson, Arizona
New series on the Philip Gooden page, written as Philippa
Morgan: Geoffrey Chaucer, acting as an agent for Edward III in
the late 1300s in England and on the continent
New series on the Lisa Miscione page, writing under her married name Lisa
Unger: Ridley Jones, a freelance writer in New York City
Leonardo Padura: Mario
Conde, a police inspector in Havana, Cuba
New series on the Ridley Pearson page:
Walt Fleming, the sheriff in Sun Valley, Idaho
Louise Penny: Armand Gamache,
Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec, in the
village of Three Pines, in southern Quebec, Canada
Elena Santangelo:
Pat Montella, whose sleuthing is aided by her ability to see and hear
ghosts, on an estate near Fredricksburg, Virginia
New series on the Jonathan
Santlofer page: Nate Rodriguez, a talented NYPD police sketch
artist in New York City
Michael Siverling:
Victoria and Jason Wilder, a mother and son private investigator team,
in River City, California
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith:
Poppy Rice, an FBI agent
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2007
Ingrid Black: Saxon, a former
US FBI agent turned true-crime writer, and Grace Fitzgerald, Detective
Chief Superintendent with the murder squad, in Dublin, Ireland
Victoria Blake: Samantha
(Sam) Falconer, a world judo champion turned private investigator at
the Gentle Way investigation agency in London, working in Oxford, England
Miranda Bliss: Annie Capshaw,
recently divorced, and her ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur,
in Arlington, Virginia, in the Cooking Class mysteries
Glen Bonham: Finalist 2007
Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
Candy Calvert: Darcy Cavanaugh,
an ER nurse who takes a job on a cruise ship
New series on the Taffy Cannon page:
Roxanne Prescott, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and then San Diego, California
Tori Carrington: Sofie
Metropolis, a Greek-American private investigator, in Queens, New York
City
New series on the Kate Charles page:
Callie Anson, a newly ordained Anglican cleric, her boyfriend Mark
Lombardi, a police officer, and DI Neville Stewart, in London, England
New series on the Barbara
Cleverly page: Leatitia Talbot, an archeologist based in post-WWI
France
Emma Cole: Kate Murray, a journalist,
in Canada (Finalist 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel)
J.J. Connington: Sir Clinton
Driffield, Chief Constable, and Squire Wendover, in rural England;
Superintendant Ross, in England; Mark Brand, in England
New series on the Clive
Cussler page: Mercenaries, known as the Corporation, headquartered
on the ship Oregon, a seagoing marvel of science and technology disguised
as an ancient, rust-bucket cargo vessel, in the Oregon
Chronicles
Casey Daniels: Pepper Martin,
a tour guide at a cemetery, who can talk with a mob boss ghost, in
Cleveland, Ohio
New series on the Jeffery
Deaver page: Kathryn Dance, an investigator with the California
Bureau of Investigation
Sean Doolittle: non-series
mysteries
Anne Emery: Monty Collins,
a defense attorney in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Finalist 2007 Arthur
Ellis Award for Best First Novel)
Christopher Fowler:
Arthur Bryant and John May, detectives in the Peculiar Crimes Unit,
in London, England
Alex Gray: DCI Lorimer and
Dr. Soloman Brightman, a psychologist and criminal profiler, in Glasgow,
Scotland
New series on the Kerry
Greenwood page: Corinna Chapman, a former banker, now running
a bakery, Earthly Delights, in Melbourne, Australia
Joyce Holms: Tam Buchanan,
a lawyer, and his law student assistant Fizz Fitzgerald, in Edinburgh,
Scotland
New series on the Roberta
Isleib page: Dr. Rebecca Butterman, a clinical psychologist and
advice columnist, in Guilford, Connecticut, in the Advice Column
mysteries
Sue Ann Jaffarian:
Odelia Grey, a plus-sized, middle-aged paralegal, in southern California
Susanna Kearsley (Emma
Cole): Non-series books of romantic suspense
Stephen Kimber: Finalist
2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
Kathleen Moore Knight:
Elisha Macomber, the 70-something Chairman of the Board of Selectmen
of Penberthy Township, and proprietor of a fish market, in fictional
Penberthy Island, Massachusetts; Margot Blair, a partner in a public
relations firm
Ronald A. Knox: Miles Bredon,
an insurance investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company,
in England
New series on the Victoria
Laurie page: M.J., a medium and ghostbuster, and her partner
Gilley, in the Ghost Hunter mysteries
New series on the Elmore
Leonard page: Carl Webster, a US Marshall in the 1930s and 1940s
Robert S. Levinson:
Neil Gulliver, a former newspaper crime reporter, and former spouse
Stevie Marriner, a soap opera star, in Los Angeles, California
Lawrence Light: Karen
Glick, feature writer for a Wall Street magazine, in New York City
Jess Lourey: Mira James,
an assistant librarian and part-time reporter, in Battle Lake, Minnesota,
in the Murder-by-Month mysteries
Jaye Maiman: Robin Miller,
a lesbian romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator,
in New York City
Paul Mann: George Sansi, a
half- English, half-Indian police inspector, in Bombay, India; Colin
Lynch, an international espionage agent
Jean Marcy: Meg Darcy, a working-class
lesbian private investigator, and police detective Sarah Lindstrom,
in St. Louis, Missouri
Grant McCrea: Rick Redman,
a lawyer, drinker, rookie investigator, father, and poker hound, in
New York City (Finalist 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel)
Tom Mitcheltree: Paul
Fischer, a college professor in Oregon and Maine; Grant Reynolds, a
former Boston homicide detective, now a field investigator for the
U.S. Legal Attaché office, in Paris, France
New series on the Barbara Nadel page:
Francis Hancock, an undertaker in 1940s London, England
Karen Rose: non-series mysteries
David Russell: Finalist
2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
Roxanne Sackville:
non-series mysteries
Stephen Santogrossi:
Tim Ryder, a carpenter in Palm Springs, California
Kit Sloane: Margot O’Banion,
a film editor, and Max Skull, a movie director, based in Los Angeles,
California
Karen Hanson Stuyck:
Lis James, a journalist turned public relations officer for a mental
health center, in Houston, Texas
Aline Templeton: Marjory
Fleming, a detective inspector, in Scotland
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2007
Jefferson Bass: Dr. Bill
Brockton, a forensic anthropologist in Tennessee, in the Body Farm
series
George Bellairs: Thomas
Littlejohn, a police inspector, later Superintendent, mostly in England;
Timothy Dewer, a police inspector in England (written as Hilary Landon)
Allison Brennan: The
Kincaid Trilogy; non-series romantic suspense
Margaret Dumas: Charley
Van Leeuwen Fairfax, an heiress, and her new husband Jack, in San Francisco,
California
David Fulmer: Valentin St.
Cyr, a Creole private detective in the early 20th century, in the Storyville
district of New Orleans, Louisiana
Richard Hawke (Tim Cockey):
Fritz Malone, a private investigator, and bastard son of a former police
commissioner, in New York City
Susan Hill: Simon Serrailler,
a police Chief Inspector in Lafferton, England
Lesley Horton: John Handford,
a Detective Inspector, and Detective Sergeant Khalid Ali, in Bradford,
Yorkshire, England
Harry Hunsicker: Lee
Henry Oswald, Gulf War vet, loner, and private investigator, in Dallas,
Texas
Russell James: non-series
mysteries
David Lawrence: Stella
Mooney, a Detective Sergeant in London, England; non-series mysteries
written as Jack Curtis
Carlo Lucarelli: Grazia
Negro, a young female detective assigned to a special task force designed
to catch serial killers, in Bologna, Italy; Commissario De Luca, a
former commander in Mussolini’s political police, in northern
Italy in 1945
Stuart MacBride: Logan
McRae, a Detective Sergeant in Aberdeen, Scotland
Pierre Magnan: Commissaire
Laviolette, a police detective in Provence, France; Séraphin
Monge, an orphan returning to his hometown after WWI, in Provence,
France
New series on the Robert
J. Randisi page: The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy
Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, et al.) in Las Vegas, Nevada
John Rhode: Dr. Lancelot Priestley,
a former professor of mathematics, in England; (written as Miles Burton)
Desmond Merrion, a military intelligence officer who becomes a private
detective, and Henry Arnold, a Scotland Yard inspector, in England
New character on the Mary
Roberts Rinehart page: Letitia (Tish) Carberry
New series on the Barbara
Burnett Smith page: Kitzi Camden, a 50-ish beader and former
senator, in Texas
Ethel Lina White: non-series
mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2007
John Banville: Freddie
Montgomery trilogy
New series on the William
Bernhardt page: Susan Pulaski, a police profiler who struggles
with alcoholism, in Las Vegas, Nevada
Benjamin Black:
Quirke, a coroner in 1950s Dublin, Ireland
Brett Ellen Block:
non-series mysteries
Lillian Stewart Carl:
Rebecca Reid, a historian, and Michael Campbell, a Scottish professor,
in Ohio and later in Scotland; Jean Fairbairn, working for an Edinburgh-based
history and travel magazine, and Alasdair Cameron, a police detective,
in Scotland
Michael Chabon: non-series
mysteries
Michael Collins:
[b. 1964] non-series mysteries
Troy Cook: non-series mysteries
Frederick Highland:
non-series mysteries
Declan Hughes: Ed Loy,
an Irish private investigator who has been living in Los Angeles,
returning home to Dublin, Ireland
Mark Mills: non-series mysteries
Orhan Pamuk: non-series
mysteries set in historic and modern Turkey
Alexandra Sokoloff:
non-series mysteries
Nick Stone: Max Mingus,
an ex-cop private investigator, in Miami, Florida, and Haiti
Leonie Swann: non-series
mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2007
Two new series on the Jane Adams page:
Ray Flowers, a former police sergeant, private investigator, in England;
Rina Martin, a retired actress who played a private investigator in
a television series, in Frantham, England
New series on the Anne Argula page:
Quinn, a Seattle cop turned PI
Tessa Barclay: Gregory
Crowne, former Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein, a classical music
event organizer, in Europe
Stephanie Bond: The Voodoo
series, in Mojo, Louisiana; Carlotta Wren, a rich girl now working
in Neiman Marcus after her parents skip to avoid prosecution for white-collar
crime, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Body Movers series
John Burdett: Sonchai Jitpleecheep,
a police detective in Bangkok, Thailand
Judy Clemens: Stella Crown,
a Harley-riding dairy farmer, in Pennsylvania
Kjell Eriksson: Ann Lindell
and Ola Haver, detectives in the Violent Crime Division, in Uppsala,
Sweden
Robert Greer: CJ Floyd,
a black bail bondsman, later Western collectible dealer, in Denver,
Colorado
Jackie Griffey: Cas Larkin,
sheriff in fictional Pine County, Tennessee, in the Maryville series
Fred Harris: Okie Dunn, appointed
sheriff in 1930s Vernon, Oklahoma
J.M. Hayes: English, known
as Englishman, a divorced, single-father sheriff of Benteen County,
and Mad Dog, his part Cheyenne half-brother, in Buffalo Springs, Kansas
New series on the Linda Howard page:
Blair Mallory, a health club owner in North Carolina
Peter James: Roy Grace, a
Detective Superintendent of the CID, in Sussex, England
Eric Van Lustbader:
Nicholas Linnear, a half-Asian, half-English crime fighter; Jake Maroc,
top agent for the Quarry, a secretive US government agency; continuation
of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, as authorized by the
Ludlum Estate in 2004
Mary Jane Maffini:
Camilla MacPhee, who runs an advocacy agency for victims of violent
crime, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Fiona Silk, a talent-challenged
romance writer, in the bilingual tourist town St. Aubaine, Quebec,
Canada; Charlotte Adams, a 5-foot tall professional organizer, in upstate
Woodbridge, New York
David Markson: Harry Fannin,
a private detective, in 1960s New York City
Lorena McCourtney:
the Julesburg, Oregon, mysteries; Ivy Malone, a little old lady who
uses her inconspicuousness in her sleuthing; Andi McConnell, who turns
60, loses her job, and inherits a limousine
Reggie Nadelson: Artie
Cohen, a Moscow-born NYPD cop, later a private investigator, based
in New York City
Barrie Roberts: Sherlock
Holmes pastiches; Chris Tyroll, an off-beat anarchist lawyer who will
defend anyone, in the West Midlands of England
David Rollins: Tom Wilkes,
a sergeant in the Australian Special Air Service; Major Vincent Cooper,
an agent of the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations
New series on the John Sandford page:
Virgil Flowers, thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau
of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Lucas Davenport (Prey
series)
George D. Shuman: Sherry
Moore, a blind psychic who can relive a murder victim's last moments,
based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rupert Thomson: non-series
mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2007
Lori G. Armstrong: Julie
Collins, a secretary in a sheriff’s office and part-time private
investigator, in western South Dakota
Donis Casey: Alafair Tucker,
matriarch of a large family in the early 1900s, in rural Oklahoma
Paul Cleave: Finalist 2007
Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel
Åke Edwardson: Jonathan
Wide, a divorced ex-policeman turned private detective, in Gothenburg,
Sweden; Erik Winter, a jazz-loving Chief Inspector of police, in Gothenburg,
Sweden
Kyra Davis: Sophie Katz, a
half-Black, half-Jewish mystery writer, in San Francisco, California
Richard Flanagan: Finalist
2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel
Ariana Franklin: Adelia
(Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno), a coroner working
for King Henry II in 12th century England
Gwen Freeman: Fifi Cutter,
a bi-racial, 20-something, freelance insurance investigator, in Los
Angeles, California
New series on the Alison Gaylin page:
Simone Glass, a reporter for the tabloid “Asteroid” in
Hollywood, California
New on the Tess Gerritsen page:
non-series books of romantic suspense
New series on the Chris
Grabenstein page: Christopher Miller, an FBI agent in Jersey
City, New Jersey
Daniel Judson: Declan (Mac)
MacManus, a struggling 30-something part-time private investigator
living above a bar, in Southampton, New York
Cady Kalian: Maggie Mars,
a struggling screenwriter and former investigative journalist, in Los
Angeles, California
Mary Kittredge: Charlotte
Kent, a freelance writer in fictional Pelican Rock, Mendocino County,
California; Edwina Crusoe, a registered nurse at Chelsea Memorial Hospital,
and later a medical investigator, in New Haven, Connecticut
Stephen Leather: Dan “Spider” Shepherd,
a former SAS trooper turned undercover cop, based in London, England;
non-series thrillers, many set in Southeast or East Asia
New series on the Peter May page:
Enzo Macleod, a Scottish biologist based in France
Arimasa Osawa: Samejima,
a maverick police detective, in Tokyo, Japan
David Peace: Events centered
on the Yorkshire Ripper, in the Red Riding Quartet
Zoë Sharp: Charlotte “Charlie” Fox,
a self-defense expert, based in England
Brian M. Wiprud: Garth
Carson, a taxidermy dealer based in New York City
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2007
New series on the Sarah
Andrews page: Valena Walker, a geology student
Suzanne Arruda: Jade
del Cameron, an ambulance driver in WWI and adventurer in 1919-1920s
colonial East Africa
New series on the Mark Arsenault page:
Billy Povich, an obituary writer for a newspaper, in Providence,
Rhode Island
Simon Beckett: Dr. David
Hunter, a forensic anthropologist in England
Steve Brown: Susan Chase,
specializing in finding runaways, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Edwin Corley: non-series
mysteries; Ben Shock and Charity Tucker, unlicensed private investigators
in the 1970s (written as Patrick Buchanan), non-series mysteries
written as David Harper and as William Judson
Diana Gabaldon: Lord
John Grey, a soldier and gentleman, in mid-18th century London, England,
and elsewhere
Nicola Griffith: Aud
Torvingen, a half-American, half-Norwegian lesbian ex-Atlanta cop
and self-defense teacher
Gabriella Herkert:
Sara Townley, an investigator for a law firm in Seattle, Washington,
in the Animal Instinct mysteries
Petros Markaris: Costas
Haritos, a former prison guard, now inspector in the CID in Athens,
Greece
Andrew Martin: Jim Stringer,
a railroad worker and amateur sleuth in the early 1900s, in England
Neil McGaughey: Kyle
Malachi, who publishes mystery book reviews under the pseudonym Stokes
Moran
Michiro Naito: non-series
mysteries
Diana O’Hehir:
Carla Day, 20-something, and her elderly father, an accomplished
Egyptologist suffering from Alzeimer’s, in California
Maurice Procter: Philip
Hunter, a detective superintendent, in fictional Yoreborough (York),
England; Harry Martineau, a detective inspector, later Detective
Chief Inspector, in fictional Granchester, “Metropolis of the
North”, England
David Rotenberg: Zhong
Fong, head of the Special Investigation Unit, in Shanghai, China
Mark Schweizer: Hayden
Konig, the police chief, and choir director and organist at St. Barnabas
Episcopal Church, in the Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North
Carolina
Walter Sorrells: Chastity “Chass” Pureheart,
a teenager on the run with her mother Allison for as long as she
can remember, in the Hunted series; Mechelle Deakes, an African-American
police detective demoted to the cold case unit, in Atlanta, Georgia
(written as Lynn Abercrombie)
Fred Vargas: Jean-Baptiste
Adamsberg, commissioner of police (chief inspector), in Paris, France;
Marc Vandoosler, Lucien Devernois, and Matthias Delamarre, and ex-policeman
Ludwig Kelweihler, in France
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2007
Barbara Allan:
(joint pseudonym of Barbara and Max Allan Collins) Brandy Borne,
recently divorced, now back in her hometown in Iowa, with Sushi,
her blind Shih Tzu, in the Trash ’n’ Treasures mysteries
Russell Andrews:
(joint pseudonym of David Handler and Peter Gethers) Justin Westwood,
a former Providence, RI, cop, retreating to the local police department
in East End Harbor, Long Island, New York
Karen Grigsby Bates:
Alex (Alexa) Powell, an African-American and newspaper columnist,
in Los Angeles, California
James R. Benn: Billy Boyle,
a Boston cop from a family of Boston cops, on the staff of distant
relative, General Eisenhower, during WWII
Anthony Bidulka: Russell
Quant, an ex-farmboy, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, gay private detective,
in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Todd Borg: Owen McKenna,
an ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private investigator,
and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at lake Tahoe, California and
Nevada
New series on the Paul Charles page:
Inspector Starrett of the Garda Serious Crime Unit, in County Donegal,
Ireland
Martina Cole: Maura Ryan,
who joins the family “firm” and becomes the young queen
of the criminal underworld, in the East End of London, England; Kate
Burrows a detective inspector, and her lover Patrick Kelly with underworld
connections, in the East End of London, England
Felicia Donovan: The
Spider Women — ex-cop Katie Mahoney, computer forensics expert
Alexandria Axelrod, office manager Margo Norton, and financial whiz
Jane Landers — of the Black Widow Agency, who right the wrongs
done to innocent women by dastardly men, in New Hampshire
Mike Doogan: Nik Kane,
a 50-something ex-Anchorage cop, ex-con, and ex-husband, in Alaska
Ruth Downie: Gaius Petreius
Ruso, a recently divorced Roman army physician, in second century
Roman Britain
Christy Tillery
French: Natasha Chamberlain, a young investigator, and Jonce
Striker, founder of Investigative Services, Inc., in Knoxville,
Tennessee
Two new series on the Alan Furst page:
Roger Levin, a 1970s marijuana dealer and shrewd operator who does
for others what they would prefer not to do themselves; Jean Casson,
a film producer caught up in the Resistance during WWII, in German-occupied
Paris, France
Honor Hartman: (Dean
James pseudonym) Emma Diamond, a recent widow, novice bridge player,
and amateur detective, in Houston, Texas, in the Bridge Club mysteries
New series on the Veronica
Heley page: Bea Abbot, recently widowed and trying to retire
from the Abbot Agency, which specialized in cases where clients
wanted to avoid police involvement, in London, England
Adrian Hyland: 2007 Ned
Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Zachary Klein: Matt Jacob,
a former social worker, now private investigator, with a drug problem,
in Boston, Massachussets
New series on the Joyce
and Jim Lavene page: Glad Wycznewski, a 40-something ex-cop
from Chicago, and his new wife Ruby, on the NASCAR racing circuit,
in the Stock Car Racing mysteries
Diane Wei Liang: Mei
Wang, a modern, independent woman, and private investigator, in Beijing,
China
Tim Maleeny: Cape Weathers,
a reporter turned private investigator, in San Francisco, California
Robert McCammon: Matthew
Corbett, a young magistrate’s clerk, in 1699 Carolina and 1703
New York City
Kasey Michaels: Maggie
Kelly, a writer of historical romances, dumped by her publisher,
starts writing mysteries, in New York City
Miyuki Miyabe: non-series
mysteries
Thomas O’Callaghan:
John W. Driscoll, a homicide detective lieutenant in New York City
New series on the Eliot
Pattison page: Duncan McCallum, a Scottish prisoner transported
to Colonial America
Julia Pomeroy: Abby Silvernale,
a newly-widowed thirty-year old waitress in upstate Bantam, New York
Frank Schätzing:
non-series mysteries
Ronald Tierney: Dietrich “Deets” Shanahan,
a 70-something former Army intelligence officer and semi-retired
private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2007
Alice Alfonsi & Marc
Cerasini: The Pink Panther mysteries (the husband & wife
team also write the Coffeehouse mysteries under the pseudonym Cleo
Coyle and the Haunted Bookshop mysteries under the pseudonym Alice
Kimberly)
New series on the Alex Berenson page:
John Wells, maverick CIA agent
New series on the James O. Born page:
Alex Duarte, an ATF agent and Bosnia veteran
New series on the John Brady page:
Felix Kimmel, a police inspector, in rural Austria
Andrew Britton: Ryan Kealey,
an ex-CIA agent and former Special Forces soldier, dealing with terrorists
in the US
Patricia Carlon: Jefferson
Shields, a private detective, in 1960s Australia
James Church: Inspector
O, a state security officer, in North Korea
Wilkie Collins: non-series
suspense
Lesley Cookman: Libby
Sarjeant, a middle-aged actress and private investigator, in Kent,
England
Leighton Gage: Mario Silva,
chief inspector for criminal matters of the federal police, in Brazil
New series on the Martha
Grimes page: Andi Oliver, a young amnesiac and drifter
C.S. Harris: Sebastian St.
Cyr, Viscount Devlin, an investigator in Regency England
Peter Høeg: non-series
mysteries
William Hoffman: non-series
books set mostly in Virginia
Noel Hynd: non-series mysteries
New series on the Julie Hyzy page:
Olivia (Ollie) Paras, White House assistant chef in Washington DC,
in the White House Chef mysteries
Bett Reece Johnson:
Cordelia Morgan, a lesbian hit artist turned sleuth, in northern New
Mexico and southern Colorado
New series on the Toni
L.P. Kelner page: Tilda Harper, a celebrity journalist based
in Boston, Massachusetts, in the “Where Are They Now?” mysteries
Richard Kunzmann: Jacob
Tshabalala, a detective inspector, in Johannesburg, South Africa
John J. Lamb: Brad Lyon,
a retired San Francisco homicide inspector, and his wife Ashleigh,
teddy bear collectors in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, in the
Bear Collector’s mysteries
New series on the Elizabeth
Lowell page: Various people associated with St. Kilda Consulting,
a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow
world where governments can’t go
Peg Marberg: Jean Hastings
and her daughter, Jean Jr., of the interior design firm Designer Jeans,
in Seville, Indiana, in the Interior Design mysteries
Pat McIntosh: Gil Cunningham,
a notary in 15th century Glasgow, Scotland
Fern Michaels: Seven vigilante
women operating out of Myra Rutledge’s estate in northern Virginia,
in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series
Roger Ormerod: David Mallin
and sometimes George Coe, private detectives in England; Richard Patton,
a retired Detective Inspector in England; Philipa Lowe, an amateur
sleuth, and Oliver Simpson, a Detective Inspector, in England
Matt Beynon Rees: Omar
Yussef, a 56-year-old schoolteacher in a Palestinian refugee camp,
living in Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority
New series on the Linda
L. Richards page: Kitty Pangborn, secretary to private eye Dexter
J. Theroux, in 1930s Los Angeles, California
Samuel Rogers: Paul Hatfield,
a chemistry professor and amateur ornithologist, in Wisconsin and elsewhere
in the midwest
New series on the James Rollins page:
Sigma Force, an elite covert arm of the US Defense Department made
up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various
scientific fields
Carsten Stroud: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Marilyn Todd page:
Iliona, a high priestess blackmailed into spying for Sparta, in 5th
century BCE Greece
Michelle Wan: Mara Dunn,
a French-Canadian interior decorator, relocated to the Dordogne region
in southwestern France
Yrsa Sigurdardottir:
Thora Gudmundsdottir, a lawyer in Reykjavik, Iceland
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