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Authors and Characters Added in January 2011
Robin Adair: Nicodemus
Dunne, a fallen Bow Street Runner working as a running patterer,
spreading the daily news by word of mouth, transported to 1828 Sydney,
Australia, in the Curious Murder mysteries
Tilly Bagshawe: international
romance thrillers
Beryl Bainbridge:
non-series mysteries
René Belletto:
non-series crime fiction
Bruce DeSilva: Liam Mulligan,
a street-smart investigative reporter in Providence, Rhode Island
Rachel Brady: Emily Locke,
a 30-something single mother working for private investigator Richard
Cole, in Houston, Texas
Tim Davys: Mollisan Town
Quartet, noir set in a town of stuffed animals
Laura DiSilverio:
Charlotte “Charlie” Swift, a former Air Force investigator,
now working as a private investigator, in Colorado Springs, Colorado;
Emma-Joy “EJ” Ferris, a 30-something medically-retired
military policewoman, now a security officer with the Fernglen Galleria,
in Vernonville, Virginia, near Washington DC, in the Mall Cop series
David Dodge: James “Whit” Whitney,
a tax accountant and reluctant sleuth, based in San Francisco, California;
Al Colby, a private investigator based in Mexico City and working
in Latin America; John Abraham Lincoln, a Treasury Department agent
in Hong Kong and South Africa
David Gordon: Edgar first
novel nominee
New series on the Beth
Groundwater page: Mandy Tanner, a seasonal river ranger on
the Arkansas River near Salida, Colorado
New series on the Steven
F. Havill page: Thomas Parks, a doctor in 1890s Port McKinney,
Washington
Arthur Herzog: non-series
disaster thrillers
Robert Kresge: Kate Shaw,
a new schoolteacher in a new town, and Monday Malone, a Texas cowboy
heading for Montana, in fictional 1870s Warbonnet, Wyoming
Patrick Lee: Travis Chase,
an ex-con ex-cop, and Paige Campbell, a scientist with Tangent, confronting
The Breach and the entities, in a sci-fi techno-thriller series
Robert Lewis: Robin Llewellyn,
a Welsh private investigator, with a fondness for drink, in Bristol,
England, and Swansea, Wales
Frances McNamara:
Emily Cabot, one of the first female graduate students, in sociology
in the 1890s at the University of Chicago, Illinois
Catherine O’Flynn:
Edgar paperback nominee
Nic Pizzolatto: Edgar
first novel nominee
Claire Rayner: Dr. George
Barnabas, a forensic and general pathologist at Royal Eastern Hospital,
in London, England
James Thompson: Edgar
first novel nominee; Kari Vaara, police chief in the town of Kittilä,
Lapland, later a homicide inspector in Helsinki, Finland
Keith Thomson: Drummond
Clark, a 64-year-old retired CIA operative with Alzheimer’s,
and his son Charlie Clark, a gambler in hock to Russian loan sharks
Elizabeth Thornton:
non-series romantic historical suspense
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2011
Laura Alden: Beth Kennedy,
recently divorced mother of two, running the Children’s Bookshelf
bookstore and serving as PTA secretary, in Rynwood, near Madison,
Wisconsin
Quentin Bates: Gunnhildur
(Gunna) Gísladóttir, a police sergeant, in the village
of Hvalvík, Iceland
Lou Berney: Barry nominee
for Best First Novel
Jay Bonansinga: Ulysses
Grove, an FBI profiler and author of a textbook on the psychopathic
mind, based in northern Virginia
Martin Booth: non-series
mysteries
Charlie Charters:
Barry nominee for Best Thriller
Richard Condon: Colin
Huntington, a retired Royal Navy captain and compulsive gambler;
Charley Partanna, a gourmet cook and hit man for the Prizzi crime
family, in New York City
New series on the John
Connolly page: Samuel Johnson, his dachshund Boswell, and an
unlucky demon named Nurd, in an adult fantasy thriller series for
children
Amanda Flower: India
Hayes, an artist and librarian at Martin College in Stripling, Ohio
Barbara Hamilton:
Abigail Adams, the future first lady, married to a rebellious lawyer,
in mid-1770s Massachusetts Colony (Barbara Hambly pseudonym)
Sasscer Hill: Nikki Latrelle,
a young female jockey in Maryland
Elise Hyatt:
Candyce “Dyce” Dare, a single mom and proprietor of Daring
Finds, a furniture refinishing store in fictional Goldport, Colorado
(Sarah D’Almeida pseudonym)
New series on the John Lantigua page:
Willie Cuesta, a private investigator based in the Little Havana
section of Miami, Florida
Graham Moore: Barry nominee
for Best First Novel
Alan Orloff: Channing Hayes,
co-owner of the Last Laff Comedy Club, in northern Virginia
Jean-François
Parot: Nicolas Le Floch, a young policeman from Breton, beginning
in 1761 during the reign of Louis XV, in pre-revolutionary Paris,
France
Robert J. Ray: Matt Murdock,
a hard-boiled private investigator based in Newport Beach, California
New series on the Kathy
Reichs page: Tory Brennan, the science-obsessed niece of Temperance
Brennan, who lives on a remote island off the coast of South Carolina
in this suspense series for teens
Judith Rock: Barry nominee
for Best Paperback
Carolyn J. Rose & Mike
Nettleton: Casey Brandt, a TV news editor, later director,
in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Paladin, a 40-something counterculture
innocent in Portland, Oregon; Molly Donovan, a reporter in Devil’s
Harbor, Oregon
A.D. Scott: journalists in
the offices of the Highland Gazette, in mid-1950s highlands of Scotland
Ron Watkins: Thomas Tilling,
a detective in England and Wales
Anne Worboys: non-series,
with some romantic suspense
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2011
Joseph Badal: Bob Danforth,
a CIA special ops officer dealing with terrorists starting at the
2004 Olympic Games in Greece
Alex Bledsoe: Eddie LaCrosse,
a sword-for-hire (anything but murder) private investigator in a
fantasy medieval world
Edward Conlon: non-series
S.H. Courtier: Ambrose
Mahon, a police inspector, later superintendent, in Australia; Digger
Haig, a police inspector, in Australia
Jonathan Hayes: Dr.
Edward Jenner, a forensic pathologist who quit his job in Manhattan
after 9/11, later a medical examiner in fictional Port Fontaine,
Florida
S.T. Joshi: Joe Scintilla,
a private investigator based in 1930s New York
Margit Liesche: Pucci
Lewis, a US Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) and undercover agent
in World War II
New cozy series on the Ed Lynskey page:
Alma and Isabel Trumbo, elderly sisters in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia
Bethany Maines: Nikki
Lanier, a linguist working with the Carrie Mae Foundation, the supposed
philantropic arm of a cosmetics company, but really a secret international
organization devoted to helping women, based in Santa Clarita, California
Charlie Owen: ensemble
cast of police in D Group, in a fictional 1970s town north of Manchester,
England
New series on the Eliot
Pattison page: Hadrian Boone, a co-founder of the colony of
Carthage, located near the Great Lakes, in Post-Apocalyptic 21st
century America
Craig Thomas: Mitchell
Gant, a burned out Viet Nam vet and Russian jet skyjacker for the
CIA; Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, MI-6 agents, and an ensemble
of other characters, mostly in Asia
John Verdon: Dave Gurney,
a recently retired 40-something NYPD homicide detective with a reputation
for catching serial killers, in rural upstate New York
Persia Walker: Lanie
Price, a former crime reporter, now the society columnist at the
Harlem Chronicle, in 1920s Harlem, New York City
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2011
New series on the Jeff
Abbott page: Sam Capra, a brilliant CIA agent who is set up
and loses everything
Suzanne Adair: historical
mysteries featuring female protagonists in the South during the American
Revolution
Will Adams: Daniel Knox,
an American Egyptologist and dive instructor
Preston L. Allen: non-series
crime fiction
New series on the Sandra Balzo page:
AnnaLise Griggs, returning to her hometown of Sutterton, North Carolina,
to care for her aging mother in the Main Street mysteries
Ellen Block:
Abigail Harker, who becomes a lighthouse caretaker on Chapel Isle,
North Carolina, after her husband and four-year-old son were killed
in a Boston fire
New series on the Jodi Compton page:
Hailey Cain, a 23-year-old West Point dropout, San Francisco bike
messenger, later second in command in a gang in Los Angeles, California
Lila Dare: Grace
Ann Terhune, a recently divorced beautician working in her mother's
salon in the tourist town of St. Elizabeth, Georgia, in the Southern
Beauty Shop series (Laura DiSilverio pseudonym)
Helen Dunmore: non-series
crime fiction
Sam Eastland:
Inspector Pekkala, of Finnish extraction, a former investigator of
Tsar Nicholas II, imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, now an investigator
for Stalin starting in 1929, in the Soviet Union (Paul Watkins pseudonym)
Sunny Frazier: Christy
Bristol, an amateur astrologer who works as a secretary in a sheriff’s
substation, in the San Joaquin Valley of California
Shane Gericke: Emily
Thompson, starting as a 40-year-old rookie cop, and Martin Benedetti,
detective commander in the sheriff’s office, in Naperville,
Illinois
David Gethin: Wyatt, a
British secret agent, in England, Wales, and Italy; Halloran, tough,
super-covert British agent in Omega Section
Debra Ginsberg: non-series
crime fiction
Tracy Grant: Charles Fraser,
an idealistic MP and former intelligence agent, and his wife Mélanie,
a war refugee, in Regency London, England; Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch,
a diplomat and his wife, beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1814
(written as Teresa Grant)
Jim Harrison: non-series
suspense
Richard Jessup: non-series
mysteries and thrillers
Veronica Parker Johns:
Agatha Welch, a spinsterish amateur sleuth, in the Virgin Islands
and Connecticut; Webster Flagg, a black former actor and singer,
living on his investments but also working as a cook and butler,
in New York City
New series on the Paul
Johnston page: Matt Wells, a British crime writer caught up
in a web of intrigue, murder, satanism, and mind control
New series on the Merry Jones page:
Harper Jennings, an Iraq war veteran with PTSD, now a teaching assistant
at Cornell University, in New York
New series on the Solomon
Jones page: Mike Coletti, a homicide detective in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Kevin Lewis: Stacey Collins,
a single mother, detective inspector who grew up in the slums of
London, England
Bill Loehfelm: Maureen
Coughlin, a 29-year-old cocktail waitress at The Narrows bar, on
Staten Island, New York
New series on the G.M. Malliet page:
Max Tudor, a former MI-5 agent, now vicar at St. Edwold's in the
idyllic village of Nether Monkslip, England
Ernesto Mallo: Superintendent “Perro” Lascano,
a Buenos Aires police detective during the military dictatorship
in late 1970s Argentina
Jean-Patrick Manchette:
non-series thrillers mostly set in France
Van Wyck Mason: Hugh
North, a US Army intelligence officer, a captain at first, finally
colonel, serving around the world as G-2’s greatest troubleshooter
Susan McDuffie: Muirteach,
a scribe and former monk, in 1370s Scotland
D.E. Meredith: Adolphus
Hatton, a professor and forensic scientist advising the police, and
his trusty assistant, Albert Roumande, in late 1850s London, England
Andrea Penrose: Lady
Arianna Hadley, posing as a French chef in an aristocratic household
in 1813 London, England
Claudia Piñeiro:
non-series thrillers set in Argentina
Melissa Bourbon
Ramirez: Harlow Jean Cassidy, a Manhattan fashion designer
who opens the Magical Dressmaking boutique in a farmhouse she inherits,
in Bliss, Texas
Todd Ritter: Kat Campbell,
a single-mom police chief in peaceful Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania
Kirk Russell: John Marquez,
an ex-DEA agent, now an undercover warden with the California Department
of Fish and Game; Ben Raveneau, an older homicide detective, and
his ambitious young partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, in San Francisco,
California
New series on the Sarah
R. Shaber page: Louise Pearlie, a young widow working as a
clerk for the OSS, in 1942 Washington, DC
Richard Telfair:
Monty Nash, a loner agent working against the Reds with the US Department
of Counter Intelligence (Richard Jessup pseudonym)
Jan Costin Wagner:
Kimmo Joentaa, a police detective whose wife recently died from Hodgkin’s
disease, in Turku, Finland
Paul Watkins: non-series
suspense and thrillers
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2011
Jeffrey Anderson:
non-series medical thrillers
Carla Buckley: Thriller
Award nominee
Bill Cameron: Skin Kadash,
a homicide detective (later ex-cop) in Portland, Oregon
Jennifer Lee Carrell:
Kate Stanley, an academic sleuth, directing Shakespeare at the rebuilt
Globe Theatre in London, England, and elsewhere
R. Cameron Cooke: Jack
Tremain, a navy lieutenant commander on submarines in the South Pacific
during World War II
Hilary Davidson: Lily
Moore, a travel writer based in New York City
Warren Fahy: Nell Duckworth,
a botanist, and Geoffrey Binswanger, a biologist, investigate a South
Pacific island (and other places) where evolution went off in a different
direction
New series on the Christa
Faust page: Angel Dare, a retired porn star running Daring
Angels, an adult modeling agency, in Van Nuys, California
Adam Fawer: non-series thrillers
Anthony Flacco: Shane
Nightingale, a 12-year-old orphaned in the 1906 earthquake, and Randall
Blackburn, a homicide detective who adopts him, in San Francisco,
California
Leah Giarratano: Jill
Jackson, a police detective sergeant, and childhood rape victim,
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
New series on the John Gilstrap page:
Jonathan Grave, a wealthy freelance hostage rescue specialist, in
Virginia and Washington, DC
Russ Hall: Travis, the Blue-Eyed
Indian, a private investigator, in and around Austin, Texas; Esbeth
Walters, a 70-something retired math teacher in the Texas Hill Country
Robert Harris: Marcus
Cicero in a political thriller trilogy set in Republican Rome
Matt Hilton: Joe Hunter,
an ex-counterterrorism operative raised in Manchester, England, now
a vigilante for hire in the USA
Reece Hirsch: Thriller
Award nominee
Tobias Jones: “Casta” Castagnetti,
a loner, bee-keeping private investigator in northern Italy
Thomas Kaufman: Willis
Gidney, a former con-artist, now a private investigator in Washington,
DC
Matthew Klein: non-series
thrillers
Katia Lief: Karin
Schaeffer, a former homicide detective whose family was murdered,
in Brooklyn, New York (Kate Pepper)
Kylie Logan: Josie
Giancola, a leading expert on buttons with a button shop in Chicago,
Illinois, in the Button Box mysteries (Constance Laux pseudonym)
Ada Madison:
Sophie Knowles, a math professor at Henley College, in Massachusetts
(Camille Minichino pseudonym)
Avner Mandelman: Ellis
Award nominee
Two new series on the Edward
Marston page: Daniel Rawson, a spy, adventurer, and captain
in the British army under the Duke of Malborough in the 1700s in
Europe and England; Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy,
metropolitan police in 1915 London, England
Michael McKinley:
Martin Carter, a former star Canadian hockey player, now retired
due to a head injury and working with the New York St. Patricks team
in community relations
Jeffrey Moore: Ellis
Award nominee
Michael Morley: Jack
King, an former FBI profiler running a hotel with his wife, in Tuscany,
Italy
Arthur Nersesian:
non-series crime fiction
Imogen Robertson:
Harriet Westerman, mistress of Caveley Park manor, and anatomist
Gabriel Crowther, in the 1780s, in West Susssex, England
Alex Scarrow: Andy and
Jenny Sutherland confront the end of civilization as we know it when
oil stops
Simon Scarrow: Quintus
Licinius Cato, a former imperial slave, and centurion Lucius Cornelius
Macro, Roman soldiers starting under Claudius, in an action, historical,
intrigue series
Will Staeger: W. Cooper,
a semi-retired CIA operative, and Julie Laramie, a CIA satellite
intelligence analyst, in the British Virgin Islands
Chevy Stevens: non-series
thrillers
Donna Tartt: non-series
crime fiction
Steven M. Thomas: Robert
Rivers, a burglar and stickup man, in Orange County and Los Angeles,
California
Kerry Tombs: Samuel Ravenscroft,
a detective inspector with the Whitechapel Constabulary, in the late
1880s in Worcestershire, England
Jon Trace: Tom
Shaman, a 30-something burned out ex-priest formerly serving in Los
Angeles heads for Italy (Michael Morley pseudonym)
Michael Van Rooy:
Monty Haaviko, a semi-reformed ex-convict prowling the mean streets
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2011
Jussi Adler-Olsen:
Carl Mørck, an experienced homicide detective in Department
Q, and his assistant Assad, in Copenhagen, Denmark
New series on the Gary Alexander page:
Buster Hightower, a standup comic who gets entangled in international
intrigue
Emily Arsenault: non-series
mysteries
Leo Atkins: Connor Gibbs, private investigator running Quixote Enterprises,
in Wendover, North Carolina (Clay Harvey pseudonym)
New series on the C.C. Benison page:
Father Tom Christmas, a widower with a 9-year-old daughter, and the
new vicar in Thornford Regis, a picturesque village in England:
John Birmingham: Axis
of Time alternate history thrillers, as 2021 naval technology finds
itself in 1942; Without Warning alternate history thrillers, following
mysterious destruction of most of the continental US in 2003
Johnny D. Boggs: Daniel
Killstraight, a young Comanche sent off to the Carlisle School for
seven years before returning to the Comanche Nation to serve as a
policeman
New series on the Maureen
Carter page: Sarah Quinn, a detective inspector in Birmingham,
England
Mindy Starns Clark:
Callie Webber, a private investigator and attorney working for a
mysterious philanthropist, here and there in the USA, in the Million
Dollar (Christian) mysteries; Jo Tulip, a household hints expert
and amateur sleuth, her dog Chewie, and her best-friend-since-childhood,
Danny Watkins, in the Smart Chick (Christian) mysteries
New series on the Colin
Cotterill page: Jimm Juree, a former crime reporter for the
Chiang Mai Daily Mail, now living with her family in rural southern
Thailand
William Dietrich:
Ethan Gage, an American adventurer and rascal, starting in 1799
Harry Dolan: David Loogan,
a mystery magazine editor in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Alice Duncan: Daisy Gumm
Majesty, a medium to the rich and famous, in 1920s Pasadena, California;
Mercy Allcutt, a former Boston Brahmin, working for a down-on-his
luck private investigator, in 1920s Hollywood, California; Annabelle
Blue, a 19-year-old working in her family’s dry-goods store
in 1923, in fictional Rosedale, in southeast New Mexico
Wessel Ebersohn: Abigail
Bukula, a young black lawyer, and Yudel Gordon, an experienced Jewish
prison psychologist, in Johannesburg, South Africa
Elizabeth Engstrom:
non-series psychological horror, mystery, and fantasy
Conor Fitzgerald:
Alec Blume, an American ex-patriot police commissario, in Rome, Italy
Sara Gran: Claire DeWitt,
the world’s foremost private investigator, in post-Katrina
New Orleans, Louisiana
Ron Hansen: non-series crime
fiction
New series on the Karen
Harper page: Sarah Kauffman, an artist who paints murals on
barns in her Amish community, and Nate MacKensie, an Ohio state
arson inspector, in the Home Valley Amish series
Paul Harper: Marten
Fane, a retired police detective, in San Francisco, California (David
Lindsey pseudonym)
B.B. Haywood: Candy Holliday,
running a blueberry farm with her dad Henry “Doc” Holliday,
near the fictional seaside town of Cape Willington, Maine
New series on the Anne Holt page:
Hanne Wilhelmsen, a lesbian police officer in Oslo, Norway
New series on the James
Patrick Hunt page: Dan Bridger, an elite professional thief
on the run from the cops and the Mob
New series on the Stephen
Hunter page: Ray Cruz, an ex-marine sniper, in Minnesota
Mons Kallentoft: Malin
Fors, a 30-something divorced mother of a teenage daughter, and an
ambitious detective inspector, in Linköping, Sweden
New series on the Larry Karp page:
Bernie Baumgartner, a police detective, in the 1970s in the Pacific
Northwest
Lars Kepler: Joona Linna,
a detective inspector in Stockholm, Sweden
Paul Lawrence: Harry
Lytle, a member of the intelligence service of King Charles II, starting
in 1664 in London, England
Iain Levison: non-series
crime fiction
Ron Liebman: Mickie Mezzonatti
and Salvatore “Junne” Salerno, Jr., criminal defense
lawyers and ex-cops, in Camden, New Jersey
Virginia Lowell: Olivia
Greyson, owner of he Gingerbread House in her Victorian home in fictional
Chatterley Heights, on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, in the
Cookie Cutter Shop series
Rosamund Lupton: non-series
crime fiction
Casey Mayes: Savannah
Stone, a math puzzle creator, and her husband Zach, a retired Charlotte
police chief, in rural North Carolina, in the Mystery by the Numbers
series (Tim Myers pseudonym)
Carol McCleary: Nellie
Bly, an American investigative reporter, in Paris and around the
world, starting in 1889
New series on the Jenn McKinlay page:
Lindsey Norris, director of the Briar Creek Public Library, in New
York, in the Library Lover’s mysteries
Two new series on the Laurie
Moore page: Aspen Wicklow, a news anchor in Dallas, Texas in
the Dallas/Fort Worth TV News romantic suspense series; Dainty
Prescott, a former debutante and intern at WBFD-TV in Fort Worth,
Texas, in the Debutante Detective romantic suspense series
Dennis Palumbo: Daniel
Rinaldi, a psychologist specializing in treating victims of violent
crime, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sharon Pape: Rory (Aurora)
McCain, a former police sketch artist, now a private investigator
sharing a house with the ghost of Federal Marshal Zeke (Ezekiel)
Drummond in Huntington, Long Island, New York, in the Portrait of
Crime mysteries
New series on the George
Pelecanos page: Spero Lucas, an Iraq veteran working as an
investigator for a defense lawyer, in Washington, DC
New series on the Ian Rankin page:
Malcolm Fox, a cop working for the Complaints, the police internal
affairs division, in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ted Riccardi: Sherlock
Holmes pastiches
New series on the Michael
Ridpath page: Magnus Jonson, born in Iceland, raised in Boston,
back working as a homicide detective in Iceland, in the Fire and
Ice series
Judith Rock: Charles Matthieu
Beuvron du Luc, a teacher of rhetoric at Louis le Grand, a Jesuit
school in 1680s Paris, France
Al Roker: Billy Blessing,
a celebrity chef and restaurateur, and food anchor for morning TV
show Wake Up America!, in New York City (written with Dick
Lochte)
New series on the Craig Russell page:
Lennox, a shady private investigator in 1950s Glasgow, Scotland
New series on the Paige Shelton page:
Gram’s Country Cooking School mysteries
Leonie Swann: a flock
of Irish detecting sheep led by Miss Maple
New series on the Peter
Turnbull page: Harry Vicary, a detective inspector and recovering
alcoholic, in London, England
Daphne Uviller: Zephyr
Zuckerman, a young, hapless sleuth, who also works as the super of
her parent’s Greenwich Village building, in New York City
Valerio Varesi: Commissario
Soneri, a homicide detective in Parma, Italy
Domingo Villar: Leo
Caldas, a police inspector in Galicia, an autonomous region in northwest
Spain
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2011
Michael Atkinson:
Ernest Hemingway investigates
Roberto Bolaño:
non-series fiction with criminous elements
New series on the Meg Cabot page:
Meena Harper, a young soap opera writer who can foresee how people
will die, in New York City
Mary Andrea Clarke:
Georgiana Grey, a young, independent gentlewoman, and a highwayman,
the Crimson Cavalier, in late 18th century London, England
Ben Coes: Dewey Andreas, a
former Delta officer, encounters international terrorist plots
Jan Coffey: non-series thrillers
William S. Cohen: non-series
political thrillers
Julian Cole: Sam Rounder,
a plump detective chief inspector, and his younger brother Rick Rounder,
an ex-cop private investigator, in York, England
Hannah Dennison: Vicky
Hill, a bumbling investigative journalist, in fictional Gipping-on-Plym,
England
Vicki Doudera: Darby
Farr, a real estate agent returning from California to her old hometown
of Hurricane Harbor, Maine
Dianne Emley: Nan Vining,
a 30-something police officer and single mom, in Pasadena, California
Barbara Graham: Tony
Abernathy, the sheriff, and his wife, Theo, a quilt shop owner, in
fictional Park County, in eastern Tennessee
Sam Hawken: Dagger Award
nominee
Elizabeth Haynes:
Dagger Award nominee
Darynda Jones: Charlotte “Charley” Davidson,
a private investigator who has been able to see dead victims since
she was a child, consulting with the police, in Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Sofie Kelly: Kathleen Paulson,
a librarian from Boston, and two stray cats with special powers,
Owen and Hercules, in fictional Mayville Heights, Minnesota, in the
Magical Cats mysteries
Victoria Nalani
Kneubuhl: Mina Beckwith, a newspaper reporter, and Ned Manusia,
a playwright, in 1930s Honolulu, Hawaii
Amanda Lee: Marcy Singer,
owner of an embroidery shop, The Seven-Year Stitch, in fictional
Tallulah Falls, Oregon, in the Embroidery mysteries (Gayle Trent
pseudonym)
Jackie Lynn: Rose Franklin,
who leaves her cheating husband and, when her car breaks down, settles
in Shady Grove campsite in West Memphis, Arkansas
Elizabeth C. Main:
Jane Serrano, a 40-something widow working in Thornton’s Books
in fictional Juniper, Oregon
Vincent McCaffrey:
Henry Sullivan, a 30-something book hound, in Boston, Massachusetts
New series on the Amy
Patricia Meade page: Stella Thornton Buckley, moving from Manhattan
with her husband, Nick, to small-town Vermont, in the Pret’ Near
Perfect mysteries
Chris Morgan Jones:
Dagger Award nominee
Brenda Novak: romantic
suspense
Terry Odell: Blackthorne,
Inc., covert operations series of romantic suspense and thrillers
Pamela Samuels-Young:
Vernetta Henderson, an African-American attorney at a large law firm
in Los Angeles, California
Jeff Shelby: Noah Braddock,
a surfer and private investigator, in San Diego, California
Gayle Trent: Myrtle Crumb,
a 60-something sleuth, in southwest Virginia; Daphne Martin, a cake
decorator back in her home town in southern Virginia
New series on the Don
Winslow page: Boone Daniels, a private investigator who would
rather be surfing, in San Diego, California
New series on the Brian
Wiprud page: Morty Martinez, a “feeler” who empties
homes for resale, hoping to find cash left by dead owners who didn't
trust banks, in Brooklyn, New York
Sarah Zettel: Charlotte
Caine, the chef running Nightlife, a restaurant serving the undead
in New York City, in the Vampire Chef mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2011
Michael Ayoob: non-series
crime fiction
Elizabeth Bailey:
Ottilia Draycott, a young companion to Dowager Lady Polbrook, in
Regency England
Alan Carter: Cato Kwong,
a Detective Senior Sergeant, in Western Australia
Joelle Charbonneau:
Rebecca Robbins, a Chicago mortgage broker inheriting a roller skating
rink from her mother, in fictional Indian Falls, Illinois
Monika Fagerholm:
tragic events from the late 1960s to 2004, centered on a small town
outside Helsinki, Finland
William Gay: non-series
Southern gothic
Thomas Greanias: Conrad
Yeats, an archeaologist, and Vatican linguist Sister Serena Serghetti,
involved in international intrigue, in the Atlantis trilogy; Sam
Deker, 35-year-old Israeli counterterrorism agent and demolitions
expert
New series on the Patricia
Hall page: Kate O’Donnell, an aspiring photographer in
1960s London, England
Tom Henighan: Sam Montcalm,
a middle-aged, lone wolf private investigator in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Erin Kelly: non-series crime
fiction
Tom Knox: archeological, historical
thrillers
New noir series on the Michael
Lister page: Jimmy Riley, now working as a private detective
in 1940s Panama City, Florida, after losing an arm while on the
police force
Geoffrey McGeachin:
Alby Murdoch, an Australian secret agent and international photographer;
Charlie Berlin, an ex-bomber pilot and POW in World War II, rejoining
the police force in 1947 Victoria, Australia
M.J. McGrath: non-series
crime fiction
A.D. Miller: non-series
crime fiction
Danny Miller: Vince Treadwell,
a young police detective sent in 1964 from London to Brighton, England
Thomas Mullen: non-series
historical and speculative mystery-thrillers
Taylor Stevens: Vanessa
Michael Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries in Africa,
now working in Texas researching developing countries for corporations
Sebastian Stuart:
Janet Petrocelli, leaving a Manhattan psychotherapy practice to open
a collectibles shop in the Hudson Valley town of Sawyerville, New
York, in the Janet’s Planet mysteries
New cozy series on the Jane Tesh page:
David Randall, a private detective, and his psychic friend Camden,
in Parkland, North Carolina, in the Grace Street mysteries
New series on the M.J. Trow page:
Kit (Christopher) Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright in his youth,
beginning in 1583
Marilyn Victor & Michael
Allan Mallory: Lavender (Snake) Jones, a zookeeper, and her
husband Jeff, an Aussie herpetologist, in Minnesota
S.J. Watson: non-series
crime fiction
Jason Webster: Max Cámara,
chief inspector in the Spanish National Police, in Valencia, Spain
New series on the Lis Wiehl page:
Dani Harris, a forensic psychiatrist, and Tommy Gunderson, a former
football star and aspiring private investigator, in fictional East
Salem, New York, in the East Salem series written with Pete Nelson
Amanda Kyle Williams:
Madison McGuire, a lesbian deep-cover secret agent for the US government,
later with the CIA, In the US and overseas, starting in 1978; Keye
Street, a Chinese-American private investigator, booted out of the
FBI for alchoholism, in Atlanta, Georgia
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2011
P.J. Alderman: Jordan
Marsh, prime suspect in her husband’s murder, leaves Los Angeles
to restore a Victorian house with two ghosts, in fictional Port Chatham,
Washington
Sara Blaedel: Louise Rick,
a detective inspector (later chief inspector), and her friend Camilla
Lind, a journalist, in Copenhagen, Denmark
Judith Yates Borger:
Marguerite (Skeeter) Hughes, a newspaper reporter, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Jacklyn Brady: Rita
Lucero, a pastry chef in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Piece of
Cake mysteries (Sherry Lewis pseudonym)
Carol K. Carr: India Black,
a young madam running a brothel catering to gentlemen, in 1870s London,
England
Jane Casey: Maeve Kerrigan,
an ambitious 28-year old detective constable, in London, England
Kathleen Ernst: Chloe
Ellefson, the new collections curator of an 1870s pioneer living
history museum, in rural 1980s Wisconsin; young adult American Girl
mysteries
New series on the Ron Faust page:
Dan Shaw, a former military policeman, now a cop going to night law
school and studying for the bar exam, in the Florida Keys
New series on the Nicci French page:
Frieda Klein, a psychotherapist in London, England
Steven M. Forman: Eddie
Perlmutter, a tough Jewish Boston cop in his late 50s, retired to
Boca Raton, Florida
Joyce Harrington:
non-series mysteries
Dana Haynes: Leonard Tomzak,
a pathologist and crash investigator for the National Transportation
Safety Board
Katherine Howell:
Ella Marconi, a police detective and a revolving cast of ambulance
paramedics, in Sydney, Australia
D.E. Johnson: Will Anderson,
working in his father’s electric car company, in 1910 Detroit,
Michigan
Christobel Kent: Sandro
Cellini, a disgraced ex-cop, now a private investigator, in Florence,
Italy
Bill Kitson: Mike Nash,
a detective inspector in Yorkshire, England
Kristina Ohlsson:
Fredrika Bergman, an investigative analyst with a special unit of
the federal police, in Sweden
Gregg Olsen: non-series
thrillers; Empty Coffin young adult thrillers
Malcolm Pryce: Louie
Knight, a private investigator in Aberystwyth, Wales, in a comic
Welsh noir series
Javier Sierra: non-series
apocalyptic historical religious thrillers
New series on the Duane
Swierczynski page: Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop from Philadelphia,
working as a high-end house-sitter, and going mano a mano with
a vast conspiracy known as The Accident People
Simon Toyne: apocalyptic
conspiracy thrillers in the Sanctus trilogy
Piers Venmore-Rowland:
Rafi Khan, a London fund manager, and detective inspector Kate Adams
of the City’s economic crime unit
New series on the Simon Wood page:
Aidy Westlake, a rookie car-racing driver, in England
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2011
William Boyd: non-series
literary thrillers
Ali Brandon:
Darla Pettistone, owner of a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, and
her cat Hamlet, in the Black Cat Bookshop mysteries (Diane A.S. Stuckart
pseudonym)
Michael Brett: Sam Dakkers,
a bookie in New York City; Pete McGrath, a wise-cracking private
investigator in New York City
New D.C. Brod series: Robyn
Guthrie, a freelance writer in Illinois
New D.W. Buffa series: Senator
Bobby Hart, an idealistic young California Democrat, taking on the
Establishment
Jacques Chessex: non-series
crime fiction
Jordan Dane: Jessie Beckett,
a bounty hunter tracking federal fugitives, later with the Sentinals,
an elite vigilante group, in an ensemble cast, in the Sweet Justice
series
Louise Doughty: non-series
crime fiction
Alex Dryden: Anna Resnikov,
a KGB colonel, along with various MI-6 and CIA operatives, starting
in 1999 Moscow, Russia
Thomas Enger: Henning
Juul, a veteran investigative crime reporter, in Oslo, Norway
Christopher Farnsworth:
Nathaniel Cade, a vampire sworn to protect the president and the
United States from supernatural threats, starting in the Andrew Johnson
administration (1867)
Lyndsay Faye: Timothy
Wilde, an ex-bartender and officer in the newly organized police
force, in 1845 New York City
New Bill Fitzhugh series:
Bob Dillon, a pest exterminator, and Klaus Müller, an assassin,
in the Assassin Bug thrillers
C.A. Haddad: David Haham,
a government agent in the Middle East; Becky Belski, a computer investigator-snoop,
in Chicago, Illinois
Domini Highsmith:
Father Simeon, a priest, and Elvira, a nurse, in late 12th century
East Yorkshire, England
Ruby Horansky: Nikki
Trakos, a 30-something six-foot police detective, in Brooklyn, New
York
Renee B. Horowitz:
Ruthie Kantor Morris, a 50-something widowed pharmacist, in Scottsdale,
Arizona
Rebecca Jenkins: Raif
Jarrett, a former soldier and agent for the Duke of Penrith in Woolbridge,
Durham, in early 1800s Regency England
Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete
Friis: Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse in Copenhagen, Denmark
William Manchee: Stan
Turner, beginning in law school at UCLA, then in the Marine Corps,
later as a lawyer, starting in late 1970s Dallas, Texas; Richard
Coleman, a lawyer in late 1970s Dallas, Texas
New Amy Patricia
Meade series: Rose Doyle Keefe, working to support her family
in a shipyard in 1942 New York City, in the Rosie the Riveter series
Gil North: Caleb Cluff, a
stubborn police sergeant in the small town of Gunnarshaw, in Yorkshire,
England
Harri Nykänen: Raid,
a hit man, in Finland; Ariel Kafka, a police inspector in the Violent
Crime Unit and one of only two Jewish cops in the country, in Helsinki,
Finland
Martha Ockley:
Faith Morgan, a former policewoman and newly ordained Anglican priest,
in Winchester, England (Rebecca Jenkins pseudonym)
Maria-Antònia
Oliver: Lònia Guiu, a fiercely feminist private investigator
based in Barcelona, Spain
Jane Peart: young, restless
Victorian women in late 19th century England, in the Edgecliffe Manor
romantic suspense series
Diane Petit: Kathryn Bogert,
owner of Good Buys, an estate sale business, and Charli, a Brittany
spaniel, in Chicago, Illinois; non-series romantic suspense, set
in suburban Chicago, Illinois
Madeleine E. Robins:
Sarah Tolerance, a freelance agent of inquiry, in Regency London,
England
Roberta Rogow: Rev. Charles
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle team up in 1880s
Victorian England; Joshua Roth, a lawyer, and law clerk Peggy Pettigrew,
niece of Pettigrew & Roth senior partner Ephraim Pettigrew, in
1870s New York City
Cindy Sample: Laurel McKay,
a recently divorced soccer mom working at Hangtown Bank, in the gold
country town, Placerville, California
Lionel Shriver: non-series
literary thrillers
New Joanna Campbell
Slan series: Jane Eyre, and her husband Edward Rochester, as
amateur sleuths in 1850s England, in the Jane Eyre Chronicles
New Brad Smith series: Virgil
Cain, a small-time rancher, and Claire Marchand, a homicide detective,
in upstate New York
Pat Welch: Helen Black, an
ex-cop lesbian private investigator, based in Berkeley, California
Patricia Tichenor
Westfall: Molly West, a 50-something rural activist in southern
Ohio
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2011
Josh Bazell: Dr. Peter
Brown, an emergency room doctor in Manhattan, New York, formerly
Pietro “Bearclaw” Brnwa, a hitman for the New Jersey
mob
Barbara Bretton: Chloe
Hobbs, the half-human, half-sorceress owner of a knitting shop, in
Sugar Maple, Vermont
James Craig: John Carlyle,
an inspector in the Metropolitan Police, in London, England
Freda Davies: Keith Tyrell,
a detective inspector in Gloucestershire, England
Kaye Davis: Maris Middleton,
a lesbian forensic chemist working as an independent crime scene
specialist, in Dallas, Texas
Sandy Dengler: Jack Prester,
a US park ranger in various national parks, with a Christian perspective;
Joe Rodriguez, a police sergeant, in Phoenix, Arizona, in the Mirage
Christian mysteries
Anabel Donald: Alex Tanner,
a freelance TV researcher and part-time private investigator, in
London, England, in the Notting Hill mysteries
Lauren Wright Douglas:
Caitlin Reece, a lesbian private investigator, in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada; Allison O’Neil, a lesbian Bed & Breakfast
owner and refugee from California, in fictional Lavner Bay, Oregon
W.S. Gager: Mitch Malone,
a crime beat reporter in fictional Grand River, in western Michigan
Rolando Hinojosa:
Rafe Buenrosto, a homicide detective, and the folks of Belkin County
in a fictional south Texas border town, in the Klail City Death Trip
saga
Graeme Kent: Ben Kella,
a police sergeant and hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau
people, and Sister Conchita, a 20-something American nun, in the
1960s Solomon Islands
New Lori L. Lake series:
Leona “Leo” Reese, a lesbian Saint Paul Minnesota police
sergeant turned investigator for the State of Minnesota, in the Public
Eye series
Liz Lipperman: Jordan
McAllister, a substitute culinary reporter in the fictional small
town of Ranchero, Texas, in the Clueless Cook mysteries
J.J. Murphy: Dorothy Parker,
the witty writer in 1920s Manhattan, New York City, in the Algonquin
Round Table mysteries
Chris Nickson: Richard
Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, in 1730s England
New Michael Norman series:
J.D. Books, a Bureau of Land Management Law Enforcement Ranger, based
in Kanab, Utah
Joseph Olshan: non-series
psychological thrillers
Preston Pairo III: Dallas
Henry, a lawyer turned beachcombing motel manager, in Ocean City,
Maryland; Jimmy (Griff) Griffin, an ex-cop investigator for the city
attorney, in Baltimore, Maryland
Frank Palmer: “Jacko” Jackson,
a detective inspector of the East Midlands Combined Constabulary,
in Leicester, England; Phil “Sweeney” Todd, a police
superintendent in Nottingham, England
William Paul: David Fyfe,
a detective chief inspector, in Edinburgh, Scotland
Laurence Payne: Sam
Birkett, an amusing detective inspector at Scotland Yard, and his
assistant, Sergeant Saunders, in London, England; John Tibbett, a
petty thief turned reluctant spy and hero, in London, England; Mark
Savage, a former stunt man and movie star turned private investigator
after a car crash, based in London, England
Gerald Petievich:
Charles Carr and Jack Kelly, seasoned, tough Secret Service agents
after counterfeiters, starting in Los Angeles, California, and Washington,
DC
Tom Philbin: Joe Lawless,
commander of the Felony Squad, and an ensemble cast at Fort Siberia,
the Bronx, the toughest precinct in New York City
David M Pierce: Vic
Daniel, a 6-foot-7+ cut-rate private investigator, driving a Nash
Metropolitan, in Los Angeles, California
Andrew Puckett: Tom
Jones, a health investigator for the Home Office, and sometimes Jo
Farewell, a nursing sister at Latchvale Hospital, in England
Willo Davis Roberts:
Black Pearl romantic suspense series; non-series mysteries; mysteries
for young readers
New Jeffrey Round series:
Dan Sharp, a missing persons investigator and gay single father in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New Jennifer Rowe series:
Holly Love, a reluctant and accidental private investigator working
at Gorgon Office Supplies, in the Blue Mountains of Australia
David Russell: Winston
Patrick, a lawyer turned teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
Susan Whitfield: Logan
Hunter, a State Bureau of Investigation agent, in North Carolina
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2011
Gilbert Adair: Evadne
Mount, a formidable whodunit author, in a trilogy reimagining Agatha
Christie
Annamaria Alfieri:
non-series mysteries set in South America
Esri Allbritten: the
staff of Tripping, a low-budget travel magazine for believers in
the paranormal, and everybody’s favorite Chihuahua, Gigi
Pierre Audemars: Hercule
Renard, a railway worker in 1930s Paris and elsewhere in France;
Monsieur Pinaud, an inspector in the Sûreté, a conscientious
family man, and the greatest detective in France
Pamela Beason: Summer “Sam” Westin,
wildlife biologist and writer
Stephen Bogart: R.J.
Brooks, a tough private investigator and son of famous Hollywood
stars, in Los Angeles, California, and New York City
Janet Bolin: Willow Vanderling,
who left a corporate job to open a machine embroidery shop in fictional
Elderberry Bay, Pennsylvania, in the Threadville mysteries
New S.J. Bolton series:
Lacey Flint, a young detective constable in London, England
Freda Bream: Rev. Jabal
Jarrett, an eccentric Anglican vicar in and near Auckland, New Zealand
Mary Bringle: non-series
mysteries
Alexander Campion:
Capucine LeTellier, a police detective specializing in white-collar
crime, and her husband Alexandre, a portly food critic, in Paris,
France, in the Capucine Culinary mysteries
Peter Cocks: Eddie Savage,
a 17-year-old in the ganglands of south London, England [YA]
Adam Creed: Will (“Staffe”)
Wagstaffe, a detective inspector in London, England
New Elizabeth Craig series:
Beatrice Coleman, a retired art museum curator and amateur sleuth
in the fictional mountain village of Dappled Hills, North Carolina,
in the Southern Quilting mysteries
Martin Davies: Mrs. Hudson,
Sherlock Holmes’s housekeeper, in London, England
Percival Everett:
non-series mysteries and psychological thrillers
Gordon Ferris: Danny
McRae, a former spy turned private investigator who suffers from
memory problems due to war injuries, in post-WWII London, England;
Douglas Brodie, a crime reporter in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1940s
David Fingerman: Louise
Miller, a lesbian police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Chuck Greaves: Jack MacTaggart,
a lawyer with Henley & Hargrove, the oldest and snobbiest law
firm in Pasadena, California
Laura Griffin: romantic
suspense set in south Texas, in the Borderline series; The Glass
Sisters romantic suspense; romantic suspense with some recurring
characters working at the Delphi Center, a high-tech investigative
operation, set in Texas, in the Tracers series
Angus Hall: non-series crime
fiction
Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn
Shore, a high school teacher, from Austin, Texas
Terry Harknett: Steve
Wayne, a private eye in England and elsewhere; John Crown, a chief
superintendent of police, in Macao and China; Chester Fortune, a
man of violence in a violent world (written as Thomas H. Stone);
John Stark, a one-man murder machine hell-bent for revenge, in the
Revenger series (written as Joseph Hedges)
Craig Holden: non-series
crime fiction
F. Tennyson Jesse:
Solange Fontaine, a young Frenchwoman with the gift of sensing moral
flaw, in England
James Leasor: Dr. Jason
Love, a physician and WWII veteran, on assignment for British Intelligence;
Dr. Robert Gunn, in the 19th century Far East
Jeanne Matthews: Dinah
Pelerin, an amateur sleuth and wannabe anthropologist, here and there
around the world
Keith Moray: Torquil McKinnon,
a bagpipe-playing, motorcycle-riding police inspector with the Hebridean
Constabulary, on the fictional Outer Hebridean island of West Uist,
Scotland
Haruki Murakami: literary
crime fiction
Håkan Östlundh:
Fredrik Broman, a police detective on the island of Gotland, Sweden
Bernadette Pajer:
Benjamin Bradshaw, an electrical engineering professor at the University
of Washington in Seattle in the early 1900s
New Ridley Pearson series:
Grace Chu, an American-educated Chinese forensic accountant, and
John Knox, an American Iraqi war veteran, with an import/export business,
working together as freelance undercover operatives around the world
John Rector: non-series
thrillers
Jed Rubenfeld: crime
fiction set in early 20th century New York City
New Denise Swanson series:
Dev Sinclair, the new owner of an old-fashioned shop in a small town
in Missouri, in the Devereaux Dime Store series
Steve Ulfelder: Conway
Sax, a no-nonsense auto mechanic with a knack for solving difficult
problems, around Framingham, Massachusetts
New Norb Vonnegut series:
Grove O’Rourke, a stockbroker at the investment firm of Sachs,
Kidder, and Carnegie, in New York City
Neil White: Laura McGanity,
a detective constable, and her boyfriend, reporter Jack Garrett,
relocated from London to Lancashire, England
Tom Wicker: non-series set
in North Carolina and the South
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