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Authors and Characters Added in January 2014
E.R. Brown: Randle Kennedy and Tate MacLane, growing medical marijuana in rural British Columbia, Canada, in the Crime in Cascadia mysteries
New Stephen Frey series: Troy Jensen, an operative for Red Cell Seven, a highly classified intelligence agency tasked with protecting America from the most catastrophic of terrorist attacks
Michael Hiebert: Abe Teal, the 11-year-old narrator, and his mother Leah, a widowed police officer, in late 1980s fictional Alvin, Alabama
Jens Lapidus: Stockholm Noir trilogy featuring the criminal underground in Stockholm, Sweden
Lisa Moore: non-series literary/psychological thrillers
Jan Merete Weiss: Natalia Monte, a captain in the Carabinieri, in Naples, Italy  Top
Authors and Characters Added in February 2014
Marc Cameron: Jericho Quinn, a special agent working for a secret agency combatting international terrorism
Gwen Florio: Lola Wicks, a foreign correspondent living in Magpie, Montana, after being downsized from her job in Kabul
New Amanda Flower series: Andora “Andi” Boggs, a 12-year-old science geek living with her older sister Bethany and their eccentric twenty-something aunt in a series for young adults
New Naomi Hirahara series: Ellie Rush, a Japanese-American rookie LAPD bicycle cop in Los Angeles, California
Kendel Lynn: Elliott Lisbon, the director of the Ballantyne Foundation, and a mostly amateur sleuth, studying for her private investigator license, on Sea Pine Island, South Carolina
Lynne Raimondo: Mark Angelotti, a psychologist who became blind due to a genetic disorder, in Chicago, Illinois
New Johnny Shaw series: Jimmy Veeder, a semi-reformed brawler in the desert of Southern California, near the Calexico/Mexicali border
LynDee Walker: Nichelle Clarke, an intrepid crime reporter, in a small town on the coast of Virginia, in the Headlines in Heels mysteries
New Sally Wright series: Jo Grant, an architect who returns home in 1962 to Lexington, Kentucky, to run the family broodmare farm Top
Authors and Characters Added in March 2014
Brynn Bonner: Sophreena McClure, a genealogist and her business partner Esme Sabatier, a psychic, in fictional Morningside, North Carolina, in the Family History mysteries
Amanda Carmack: Kate Haywood, a musician for royalty and a friend of young Princess Elizabeth, in mid-16th century England
Vaughn Entwistle: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Susan Hasler: Maddie James, part of a team of terrorism experts working in a crumbling intelligence agency in a post-9/11 world
Marco Malvaldi: Massimo, the owner of Bar Lume, and an ensemble cast of barflies, in a small coastal resort town near Pisa, Italy, in the Bar Lume series
Lawrence Osborne: non-series suspense
Suzanne Rindell: non-series
Sofie Ryan: Sarah Grayson, owner of Second Chance, a shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine, and her adopted cat Elvis, in the Second Chance Cat mysteries (Sofie Kelly pseudonym)
Christine Wenger: Trixie Matkowski, taking over her aunt’s Silver Bullet Diner, in a small town in upstate New York, in the Comfort Food mysteries
Elizabeth Wilson: Justine Hillyard and Myra Zone, investigating murders in England Top
Authors and Characters Added in April 2014
Corban Addison: non-series thrillers addressing international human rights issues
John Altman: non-series thrillers
New Lin Anderson series: Patrick de Courvoisier, a private detective and his dog Oscar, living on a converted gunboat, in Cannes, France
John Brooke: Aliette Nouvelle, a single, 35-year old police inspector aiming for Commissaire, in an unnamed medium-sized city in Alsace, later the Midi, in France
John Bude: William Meredith, a police inspector, in England; Inspector Green, in England; Inspector Sherwood, in England
New Chelsea Cain series: Kick Lannigan, kidnapped at age six and trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist, and bomb maker by her abductor, now working to track down kidnapped children
New Dorothy Cannell series: Florence Norris, housekeeper at Mullings, the Stodmarsh family estate, in 1930s England
Steph Cha: Juniper Song, a Korean American Philip Marlowe fan and amateur (later apprentice) sleuth, in Los Angeles, California
New Douglas Corleone series: Simon Fisk, a former US Marshal working as a private contractor to find kidnapped children
New Charles Cumming series: Thomas Kell, a disgraced MI-6 officer, given a chance to redeem himself
New Hannah Dennison series: Kat Stanford, a TV celebrity, and her widowed mother Iris, living in a delapidated carriage house on the Honeychurch Hall country estate in Devon, England
New Anne Frasier series: Elise Sandburg, a homicide detective in Savannah, Georgia
Samantha Hayes: Lorraine Fisher, a detective inspector in England
New Keigo Higashino series: Kyochiro Kaga, a police detective in the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, in Tokyo, Japan
New Steve Hockensmith & Lisa Falco series: Alanis McLachlan, inheriting The White Magic Five & Dime, a new-age shop, from her estranged mother, in Berdache, Arizona, in the Tarot mysteries
New Mary Ellen Hughes series: Piper Lamb, owner of Piper's Picklings, a pickle store in the small town of Cloverdale, New York, in the Pickled and Preserved series
Siri Hustvedt: non-series literary suspense
Karen Keskinen: Jaymie Zarlin, a private investigator in Santa Barbara, California
Ted Lewis: Jack Carter, a mob hit-man in London, England
Charlie Lovett: non-series literary mysteries
New Stuart MacBride series: Ash Henderson, a detective constable in fictional Oldcastle, Scotland
New Becky Masterman series: Brigid Quinn, a former FBI agent who hunted sexual predators, retired in Tucson, Arizona
Richard Matheson: non-series noir
New Val McDermid series: Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case squad in Fife, Scotland
New Scott Phillips series: Bill Ogden, a frontier photographer and libertine, beginning in 1872
Cate Price: Daisy Buchanan, owner of Sometimes a Great Notion, a quirky shop silling sewing supplies, antiques, and jewelry, in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania, in the Deadly Notions mysteries
New Thatcher Robinson series: Bai Jiang, a prominent female 30-something Chinatown people-finder, in San Francisco, California, in the White Ginger mysteries
New Marcus Sakey series: Nick Cooper, a federal agent “brilliant” with the ability to read body language so easily that he knows what people are thinking, what they will do next, and when they are lying, in The Brilliance Saga
New L.J. Sellers series: Jamie Dallas, an FBI agent specializing in undercover assignments, based in Phoenix, Arizona
Barbara Taylor Sissel: non-series mysteries
New Susan Slater series: Dan Mahoney, an insurance investigator in New Mexico
Allan Topol: Craig Page, a former CIA agent fighting terrorism in Europe and elsewhere
Mark Troy: Val Lyon, an ex-cop, ex-con, former pro basketball player turned private investigator, in Honolulu, Hawaii; Ava Rome, a former Army investigator, now a private investigator in Honolulu, Hawaii
New Lea Wait series: Angie Curtis, returning home to Haven Harbor, Maine, in the Mainely Needlepoint mysteries
New Timothy Williams series: Anne Marie Laveaud, a French-Algerian judge in 1980s-1990s, in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe
Colin Wilson: Gerard Sorme, a modern Jack the Ripper, in London, England; Gregory Saltfleet, a police inspector in London, England; true crime
S.G. Wong: Lola Starke, a private investigator, and her ghostly helper, Aubrey, in a mid-1930s alternative history where ghosts are tethered to the living and the Chinese dominate Hollywood Top
Authors and Characters Added in May 2014
M.J. Arlidge: Helen Grace, a detective inspector in the south of England
Adam Brookes: non-series spy thrillers
Andrew Brown: Eberard Februarie, a police detective in the Cape Winelands of South Africa
New Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke series: Laurie Moran, creator of a cold case reality drama, Under Suspicion
Richard A. Clarke: non-series political-military thrillers
Michael Craven: non-series mysteries
Mason Cross: Carter Blake, a pseudonymous professional who finds people who don’t want to be found
Chris Culver: Ash Rashid, a reluctant homicide detective and practicing Muslim, in Indianapolis, Indiana
Jen J. Danna: Leigh Abbott, a state police homicide detective, and Matt Lowell, a forensic anthropologist, in in Massachusetts [written with Ann Vanderlaan]
Christine DeSmet: Ava Oosterling, owner of an old-fashioned fudge shop in Door County, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the Fudge Shop mysteries
Joël Dicker: non-series thrillers
Sean Ferrell: non-series sci-fi mysteries
Paul Finch: Mark “Heck” Heckenberg, a detective sergeant from Manchester, transplanted to the Serial Crimes Unit at Scotland Yard, in London, England
John Florio: Jersey Leo, an albino of mixed race working as a bartender at a mob-run speakeasy, in Prohibition-era Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
David Freed: Cordell Logan, a retired military assassin, civilian flight instructor, and would-be Buddhist, based in fictional Rancho Bonita, California
Rachel Howzell Hall: Elouise “Lou” Norton, a black woman homicide detective known as “Lockjaw”, in Los Angeles, California
New Sophie Hannah series: Hercule Poirot, a Belgian private detective in London, England, created by Agatha Christie, in a followup series authorized by Christie’s family
James R. Hannibal: Nick Baron, leading his covert Triple Seven Chase Team in a military techno-thriller series
Kim Harrison: Rachel Morgan, a bounty hunter and witch, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Hollows urban fantasy, mystery, horror series
Peter Heller: non-series
Mark Henshaw: Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke, working in the Red Cell, the CIA’s out-of-the-box think tank, in Langley, Virginia
New David Hewson series: Pieter Vos, a former police detective whose daughter disappeared, in Amsterdam, Holland
Jo A. Hiestand: Brenna Taylor, a detective inspector, and Chief Inspector Geoffrey Graham, in Derbyshire, England; Michael McLaren, an ex-cop brought back in to solve cold cases, in Derbyshire, England
Antonio Hill: Héctor Salgado, a transplanted Argentine police inspector, in Barcelona, Spain
Antonia Hodgson: Tom Hawkins, a country parson’ son in a debtors’ prison, in 1720s London, England
Chris F. Holm: Sam Thornton, collector of souls of the damned, in an urban fantasy crime pulp series
Jonathan Holt: Kat Tapo, a captain in the Carabiniere, unraveling a conspiracy between the CIA and the Catholic Church, in Venice, Italy, in the Carnivia trilogy
Arlene Hunt: Sarah Kenny and John Quigley, private investigators at QuicK Investigations, in Dublin, Ireland
New John McFetridge series: Eddie Dougherty, a young beat cop in 1970s Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Yannick Murphy: non-series literary suspense
New Chris Nickson series: John, an itinerant carpenter orphaned by the Black Death, in 1360s Chesterfield, England
Howard Norman: non-series literary-criminious novels
Andrew Peterson: Nathan McBride, a Marine Corps scout sniper and CIA operations officer
Robert Pobi: non-series thrillers
Kate Racculia: non-series mysteries
Todd Robinson: non-series mysteries
Rose Senehi: non-series suspense and mystery set in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains
Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour, a tabloid journalist, in 1990s Glasgow, Scotland
Abbie Taylor: non-series thrillers
Lesley Thomson: Stella Darnell, accidental detective and CEO of a cleaning company, Clean Slate, in London, England, in the Detective’s Daughter series
Christine Trent: Violet Harper, an undertaker in 1860s Victorian London, England, in the Lady of Ashes series
Jan Elizabeth Watson: non-series suspense
Edward Wilson: non-series Cold War spy fiction
Juli Zeh: non-series suspense and thrillers Top
Authors and Characters Added in June 2014
New Jo Bannister series: Gabriel Ash, a grief-stricken recovering mental patient, and Hazel Best, a young police constable, in Norbold, England
DD Barant: Jace Valchek, an FBI profiler who hunts killers in a world where only one percent of the population is human, in the Bloodhound Files urban fantasy series (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
William D. Blankenship: Kay Williams, an international antiques dealer based in Connecticut
Leigh Brackett: non-series crime fiction
Jackie Chance: Belinda Cooley, known as “Bee Cool,” a high-stakes poker player, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and elsewhere (Linda Zimmerhanzel pseudonym)
Donn Cortez: Crime Scene Investigation novels; Jack Salter, a killer who hunts down serial killers (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
Christopher R. Cox: Shamus nominee for best first novel
New Judith Cutler series: Jodie Welsh, a city career woman now married to a country vicar in Lesser Hogben, England
Marc Dugain: non-series crime fiction
Dawn Eastman: Clyde Fortune, on leave from the Ann Arbor police department, in fictional Crystal Haven, a small psychic-obsessed town in western Michigan, in the Family Fortune mysteries
Rory Flynn: Eddy Harkness, disgraced former head of Boston’s police drug squad, now emptying parking meters in Nagog, Massachusetts; non-series thrillers, capers, and apocalyptic novels, written as Stona Fitch
S.J. Gazan: biological science thrillers
Rashad Harrison: non-series historical mysteries
Rebecca James: non-series crime fiction
April Kelly & Marsha Lyons: Maureen O’Brien and Blake Ervansky, police sergeants and later private investigators, in Los Angeles, California
New Mary Kennedy series: Taylor Blake, a business consultant in dream interpretation, returning to Savannah, Georgia, in the Dream Club mysteries
Dana King: Ben Doc Dougherty and Willie Grabek, police detectives in the rural town of Penns River, Pennsylvania; Nick Forte, a private investigator around Chicago, Illinois
New Janice Law series: Francis Bacon, a gay artist, beginning as an air raid warden in World War II London, England
Elizabeth Lee: Lindy Blanchard, working on the family pecan farm and at the Nut House selling pecan treats in Riverville, Texas, in the Nut House mysteries (Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli pseudonym)
Dixie Lyle: Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster, assistant to a wealthy eccentric, her reincarnated cat Tango, and Whiskey, a shape-shifting dog in the Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot paranormal mystery series (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
Edith Maxwell: Cameron (Cam) Flaherty, an organic farmer taking over her great-uncle’s farm, in rural Massachusetts, in the Local Foods mysteries
M. Ruth Myers: Maggie Sullivan, a private investigator in 1930s Dayton, Ohio
Daniel Pyne: non-series thrillers
Robert Raker: non-series
Mark Sanderson: Johnny Steadman, an investigative journalist, and Matt Turner, a detective constable at Snow Hill police station, in mid-1930s, London, England
Saskia Sarginson: non-series suspense and thrillers
Tina Seskis: non-series crime fiction
Patricia Stoltey: Sylvia Thorn, a circuit court judge in Palm Beach County, Florida
Wendy Tyson: Allison Campbell, an image consultant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Delilah Percy Powers, owner of an all-female detective agency, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (written as W.A. Tyson) Top
Authors and Characters Added in July 2014
New Ellery Adams series: Jane Steward, managing Storyton Hall, a retreat in rural western Virginia, in the Book Retreat mysteries (J.B. Stanley pseudonym)
Toby Ball: dystopian thrillers set in The City
R.G. Belsky: Gil Malloy, a discredited New York City reporter (Dick Belsky)
New Stephanie Bond series: Linda Guy Smith and Octavia Guy Habersham, estranged sisters taking over a faltering private detective agency in a strip mall, in Lexington, Kentucky, in the Two Guys Detective Agency series
New Duffy Brown series: Evie Bloomfield, a Chicago girl who takes over a bike shop on tiny Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the Cycle Path mysteries
Judith Campbell: Rev. Olympia Brown, a college chaplain and amateur sleuth, and her colleague, Father Jim Sawicki, in southeast Massachusetts
New Kate Carlisle series: Shannon Hammer, a contractor in fictional Lighthouse Cove in northern California in the Fixer-Upper mysteries
Anne Cleeland: Kathleen Doyle, a new detective, and Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair (Lord Acton), at Scotland Yard, in London, England
Jessie Crockett: Dani Greene, running her family’s maple syrup business in Sugar Grove, New Hampshire, in the Sugar Grove mysteries
A.D. Garrett: Professor Nick Fennimore, a troubled forensic expert hiding away in Scotland, and Kate Simms, a detective inspector, in Manchester, England (joint pseudonym of Margaret Murphy & Dave Barclay)
New Robert Goddard series: James “Max” Maxted, a former British Great War flying ace, involved in the post-war turmoil in 1919
Jennifer Hillier: Sheila Tao, a psychology professor at Puget Sound State University, near Seattle, Washington, in the Serial Killer Files
Holly Goddard Jones: non-series
New Merry Jones series: Elle Harrison, an elementary school teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Claire Kendal: non-series suspense
New Ward Larsen series: David Slaton, an Israeli-trained assassin known as a kidon
New Marco Malvaldi series: Pellegrino Artusi, Italy’s first celebrity chef, in Tuscany
Alyssa Maxwell: Emma Cross, a young second cousin to Cornelius Vanderbilt, working as a society page reporter, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island, in the Gilded Newport mysteries
Luke McCallin: Gregor Reinhardt, a German military intelligence captain in Yugoslavia during World War II
Jon McGoran: Doyle Carrick, a Philadelphia narcotics detective, and Nola Watkins, an organic farmer, in a series of eco-thrillers
Charley Memminger: Stryker McBride, a former crime reporter living on an expensive houseboat, The Travis McGee, in Hawaii
Bernard Minier: Martin Servaz, a police commandant from Toulouse, in the French Pyrenees
New Chris Nickson series: Tom Harper, a detective inspector in 1890s Leeds, England; Dan Markham, an enquiry agent in mid-1950s Leeds, England; Laura Benton, a music journalist beginning in late 1980s Seattle, Washington
E. Phillips Oppenheim: General Besserley, retired secret service officer from Washington, now in Monaco; ouis, a crippled veteran and maitre d’ of the Milan Hotel, and his friend Lyson, a retired army officer and journalist, in London, England
Gigi Pandian: Jaya Jones, a 30-something college history professor from San Francisco, California, searching for treasure around the world, in the Treasure Hunt mysteries; Zoe Faust, a centuries-old alchemist and herbalist, and her gargoyle sidekick, in Portland, Oregon
Kate Parker: Georgia Fenchurch, an antiquarian bookseller and member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators, in Victorian London, England, in the Victorian Bookshop mysteries
Penny Pike: Darcy Burnette, a downsized San Francisco restaurant reviewer working at her aunt Abby's Big Yellow School Bus food truck in the Food Festival mysteries (Penny Warner pseudonym)
Carole Price: Caitlyn (Cait) Tilson Pepper, an Ohio cop who inherits a vineyard with two Shakespearean theaters, near Livermore, California, in the Shakespeare in the Vineyard mysteries
Lori Rader-Day: non-series
Ann Rule: Ann Rule’s Crime Files; true crime
Ashwin Sanghi: non-series mythic-historical-conspiracy thrillers
N.P. Simpson: Fran Setliff, a young NCIS special agent, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Sharon L. Smith: Pete Culnane, a veteran police detective, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Sheri Cobb South: John Pickett, a Bow Street Runner, in Regency London, England
Linda Stasi: non-series
Triss Stein: Kay Engels, a nationally-known reporter based in Brooklyn, New York; Erica Donato, a young widow with a teenage daughter, working as an urban historian at a museum, in Brooklyn, New York
Adam Sternbergh: Spademan, a garbageman turned hitman, in a dystopian, post-bomb New York City
Roderick Thorp: Joe Leland, a burned-out ex-cop turned private investigator and security consultant, in fictional Port Smith in the northeast, and then in Los Angeles, California
Diane Vallere: Samantha Kidd, a former fashion buyer in New York turned amateur sleuth, returning to her home town, fictional Ribbon, Pennsylvania, in the Style & Error mysteries; Madison Night, an interior decorator who models her life on Doris Day, in Dallas, Texas, in the Mad for Mod mysteries; Polyester “Poly” Monroe, a dress designer inheriting her family’s textile store, in fictional San Ladrón, California, in the Material Witness mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in August 2014
New Maggie Barbieri series: Maeve Conlan, a suburban single mother with two teen-age girls, barely managing to support her family with the proceeds from her small bakery
Thomas Berger: Russel Wren, a private investigator in 1970s New York City, later a spy in the small fictional European country of Saint Sebastian
Edward Bunker: non-series mysteries
Laurie Cass: Minnie Hamilton, a librarian, and her rescue cat Eddie, in the Bookmobile Cat mysteries (Laura Alden pseudonym)
Maia Chance: Ophelia Flax, a variety hall actress working as a lady’s maid for a traveling American millionaire, in the 1860s
A.J. Colucci: non-series biology/science thrillers
Clarence Cooper, Jr.: non-series crime fiction, mostly set in the black community
New E.J. Copperman series: Samuel Hoenig, who answers questions for a living, in New Jersey, in the Asperger’s mysteries (Jeffrey Cohen pseudonym)
Delacorta: Serge Gorodish, a 30-something career criminal, and his early teenage sidekick Alba, in Paris, France, and Los Angeles, California
DeAnna Julie Dodson: Annie Dawson, and the members of the Hook and Needle Club, in Stony Point, Maine, in the Annie’s Attic mysteries [part of joint series with other authors]; Drew Farthering, a stylish young gentleman, and his friend Nick Dennison, the butler’s son, in 1930s England (written as Julianna Deering)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Hans Barlach, a detective Kommissar in Berne, Switzerland
Bret Easton Ellis: non-series dystopian thrillers with some recurring characters
Judith Flanders: Samantha Clair, an editor at Timms & Ross in London, England
New Brian Freeman series: Cab Bolton, a private investigator in central Florida
Rosie Genova: Victoria Rienzi, a hit mystery writer working at her family’s Italian restaurant, in a small town on the New Jersey shore, in the Italian Kitchen mysteries
John J. Gobbell: Todd Ingram, a US Navy lieutenant in the South Pacific during World War II, in a military thriller series
William Goldman: Tom “Babe” Levy, a runner, versus Scylla the assassin, in New York City
Kate Griffin: Kitty Peck, a 17-year-old music hall seamstress, in 1880s Victorian London, England
New David Handler series: Benji Golden, a street-wise private investigator working in the family detective agency above a diner, Golden Legal Services, in New York City
Natalie Haynes: non-series
Victor Headley: D., a drug courier from Jamaica, later a drug don in London, England
E. Michael Helms: Mac McClellan, a career US Marine retired to St. George, in the Florida panhandle
New Anthony Horowitz series: Sherlock Holmes mysteries sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate
Melanie Jackson: Chloe Boston, a 98-pound, five-foot one-inch tall meter maid who wants to be a police detective, in Hope Falls, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington; Butterscotch Jones, living in an isolated far north town full of red-haired people, McIntyre’s Gulch, Manitoba, Canada; Tess MacKay, inheriting a strange old house, on Little Goose Island, Maine, in the Wendover House mysteries; Juliet Henry, a former NSA employee, retiring to an artists’ colony in the mountains of northern California, in the Miss Henry mysteries
New Miranda James series: Miss An’gel and Miss Dickce Ducote, two snoopy sisters in Athena, Mississippi, in the Southern Ladies mysteries (Dean James pseudonym)
Emma Jameson: Anthony Hetheridge, a baron and chief superintendent at Scotland Yard, acting as liaison to the wealthy, and Kate Wakefield, a detective sergeant, in London, England, in the Lord and Lady Hetheridge mysteries
New Alex Kava series: Ryder Creed, a former marine who trains K9 search-and-rescue dogs in Florida
Douglas Lindsay: Barney Thomson, a barber, and Scotland’s most notorious and misunderstood serial killer; Robert Jericho, a detective chief inspector working as a panelist on a hit reality TV show, Britain’s Got Justice, in London, England; Thomas Hutton, a detective sergeant battling divorce and alcohol, etc., in Glasgow, Scotland
Phil Lovesey: Matlock the Hare of Winchett Dale [YA series written with Jacqui Lovesey]; non-series mysteries
Ellie Marney: Rachel Watts, a teenager newly moved from the country, and her 17-year-old genius neighbor James Mycroft, in Melbourne, Austalia, in the Every trilogy [YA]
Kanae Minato: non-series
Bill Morris: non-series cultural history, with some crime elements, focusing on Detroit, Michigan
Bradford Morrow: non-series psychological/gothic mysteries/thrillers
P.M. Newton: Nhu “Ned” Kelly, a young, half-Vietnamese female detective in 1990s Sydney, Australia
Ingrid Noll: non-series thrillers
Tawni O’Dell: Non-series thrillers and community sagas, mostly set in the mining country of Pennsylvania
Stephen Orr: non-series crime fiction
James Oswald: Anthony McLean, a detective inspector in Edinburgh, Scotland
Daniel Pennac: Benjamin Malaussene, a professional scapegoat, sometimes working for a publisher, in the Belleville quarter of Paris, France, also known as the Belleville “Quartet”
John Rossiter: Roger Tallis, an British secret agent with a police background; George Rogers, an experienced detective inspector, later superintendent, with no special talents, in fictitious northern Abbotsburn, England (written as Jonathan Ross)
Patricia Ryan: Emily Harrington, in a romantic suspense series set in the Caribbean
Robert Ryan: Dr. John Watson investigates on the front and behind the lines during World War I
David Shafer: non-series global thrillers
Susan Spann: Hiro Hattori, a ninja detective, and Father Mateo, his Portuguese Jesuit sidekick, in 16th century feudal Japan, in the Shinobi mysteries
Peter Swanson: non-series psychological suspense
Olivier Truc: Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway
John Twelve Hawks: The Brethren post-apocalyptic thrillers, in the Fourth Realm trilogy
Simon Urban: non-series thrillers
Louise Voss & Mark Edwards: Kate Maddox, a former worker at a biological research center in the US, now on the run with her son, in England and the US; Patrick Lennon, a detective inspector, in London, England
Frances Washburn: non-series crime and culture fiction set on Indian reservations in the Dakotas
New Michael Wiley series: Daniel Turner, a homicide detective in Jacksonville, Florida
Joakim Zander: spy thrillers Top
Authors and Characters Added in September 2014
Edwin Balmer: non-series mysteries
Charles Brockden Brown: non-series protomysteries, “Gothic romances of terror and suspense,” set in Pennsylvania
New Milton T. Burton series: Beauregard (Bo) Handel, a 30-year veteran sheriff of rural Caddo County, Texas
Damon Galgut: non-series literary thrillers and crime novels, set mostly in South Africa
Eva Gates: Lucy, leaving a library job at Harvard for her aunt Ellen’s place on Bodie Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in the Lighthouse Library mysteries (Vicki Delany pseudonym)
M.C. Grant: Dixie Flynn, a wise-cracking reporter for a weekly newspaper, in San Francisco, California (Grant McKenzie pseudonym)
New Joseph Heywood series: Lute Bapcat, a former Rough Rider recruited by Theodore Roosevelt in 1913 to become a game warden on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Pekka Hiltunen: Lia, a graphic designer, and Mari, running the Studio, a private crime fighting organization — two Finnish women in London, England
Minerva Koenig: Julia Kalas, a former criminal and restorer of historic buildings, now hiding out in the witness protection program, in the small town of Azula, Texas
Liam McIlvanney: Gerry Conway, a tough reporter with the Glasgow Tribune, in Scotland, in the Conway trilogy
Grant McKenzie: non-series thrillers
Stephen Murray: Alec Stainton, a detective inspector (later Chief Inspector), in England
James Naughtie: non-series political thrillers
David F. Nighbert: Anton Stryker, a reformed cyborg assassin, in a science fiction series; William “Bull” Cochran, a former minor league pitcher who killed a batter with a wild pitch, now running a moving and storage company in Galveston, Texas
Robert Nordan: Mavis Lashley, a little old lady amateur snoop/sleuth in the South
Jack O’Connell: dystopian mystery-thrillers set in Quinsigamond, a run-down factory town in Massachusetts
Lenore Glen Offord: Bill and Coco Hastings, in the antique business in San Francisco, California; Todd McKinnon, a mystery writer and amateur sleuth, and his wife Georgine Wyeth, based in Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area, California
Frank Orenstein: Ev Franklin, an advertising executive in New York City; Hugh Morrison, a cop in a small town in New York
Kenneth Orvis: Adam Breck, often taken for a professional tennis player, out to save the world à la James Bond
Jerry Oster: Jacob (Jake) Neuman, an overweight, slovenly police lieutenant, in New York City; Joe Cullen, a 50-something divorced internal affairs police sergeant with two kids, in New York City
Louis Owens: mystery novels featuring mixed-race Native Americans, with some recurring characters, set in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Washington
New Hannah Reed series: Eden Elliott, a 30-something recent divorcee, whose mother just died, moving to the Highlands village of Glenkillen, in Scotland: (Deb Baker pseudonym)
Christopher J. Yates: non-series
S. Craig Zahler: non-series noir western, sci-fi, crime, and dystopian novels Top
Authors and Characters Added in October 2014
M.J. Carter: William Avery, a young soldier, and Jeremiah Blake, a secret political agent gone native, in 1837 British India
New Richard Castle series: Derrick Storm, an ex-CIA operative, international espionage thrillers
Karen Charlton: Stephen Lavender, a principal detective with the Bow Street magistrate’s court, in London and Northumberland, England
Paula Daly: non-series thrillers
Aric Davis: Nickel, a canny, tough teen-aged private investigator, in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tyler Dilts: Danny Beckett, a homicide detective, in Long Beach, California
Candice Fox: Frank Bennett and Eden Archer, homicide detectives in Sydney, Australia
C.W. Gortner: Brendan Prescott, an orphan raised in the Dudley household, working as a secret agent in the English royal court starting in 1533, in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
Michael Guillebeau: non-series humorous mysteries
New Michael Gregorio series: Sebastiano Cangio, a park ranger in the Sybilline Mountains National Park, in central Italy
James Hankins: non-series thrillers
Frank Hayes: Virgil Dalton, the sheriff of Haywood, a small Southwestern town where nothing much ever happens
Terry Hayes: Pilgrim, a retired US intelligence operative
New Elizabeth Haynes series: Louisa “Lou” Smith, a detective chief inspector in Briarstone, near London, England
Bruce Holsinger: John Gower, a poet and trader in secrets in Chaucer’s time, in 1385 London, England
Ha Jin: non-series literary political/historical intrigue
New Christine Kling series: Maggie Riley, a solo sailor on her 40-foot sailboat, and adventurer Cole Thatcher
Julie Anne Lindsey: Patience Price, with a brand new degree in counseling, on Chincoteague Island, Virginia
New Attica Locke series: Jay Porter, a struggling black lawyer and former civil rights worker, starting in 1981 Houston, Texas
Colby Marshall: McKenzie McClendon, a journalist with the New York Herald; Dr. Jenna Ramey, a forensic psychiatrist and FBI profiler, with the gift/curse of seeing color auras, in Orlando, Florida
New Susan McBride series: Helen Evans, a 70-something amateur sleuth in River Bend, Illinois, in the River Bend mysteries
Paul Mendelson: Vaughn de Vries, a colonel in the police service, in Cape Town, South Africa
New David Morrell series: Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an Opium Eater, and his wily daughter Emily, in 1850s London, England
New Barbara Nadel series: Lee Arnold, an ex-soldier, and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim, running a detective agency in the East End of London, England
Michael Nethercott: Lee Plunkett, a hesitant young sleuth taking over his father’s PI business, and Mr. O’Nelligan, a scholarly Irishman with a talent for solving mysteries, beginning in 1956 Connecticut
Lisa O’Donnell: non-series crime novels narrated by children and/or young adults, set in Scotland
Elliot Paul: Homer Evans, an American dilettante surrounded by zany characters, mostly in Paris, France
New Linda L. Richards series: Nicole Charles, a rookie reporter working as a gossip columnist, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
M.L. Rowland: Gracie Kinklaid, a volunteer for Timber Creek Search and Rescue in southern California, in the Search and Rescue mysteries
Jan-Philipp Sendker: Paul Leibovitz, an American expat living on an isolated island after tragedy upends his 30 successful years in Hong Kong
New Dana Stabenow series: Wu Johanna, the 16-year-old granddaughter of Marco Polo, along the Silk Road in the 14th century, in the Silk and Song trilogy
New L.C. Tyler series: John Grey, a young lawyer during Cromwell's Republic in 1650s England
Ashley Weaver: Amory Ames, a wealthy young socialite in 1930s England, whose husband Milo, a charming rake, frequently vanishes for months Top
Authors and Characters Added in November 2014
Philip Atkey: non-series
New David Baldacci series: Amos Decker, who can remember everything
New Leslie Budewitz series: Pepper Reece, the owner of the spice and tea shop in Pike Place Market, in Seattle, Washington, in the Spice Shop mysteries
Colin Campbell: Mick (“Ham”) Habergham, a front-line police officer in Yorkshire, England; Steve Decker and Dave Black, “Black & Decker,” two police detectives in Yorkshire, England; Jim Grant, the Resurrection Man, a former Yorkshire cop on missions in the US
New Paul Charles series: Brendy McCusker, a retired police officer forced to return to work in Belfast, Ireland, when his wife flees to America with their savings
New Suzanne Chazin series: Jimmy Vega, a homicide detective in Lake Holly, New York
Joe Clifford: non-series noir thrillers
John M. Daniel: Guy Mallon, a bookstore owner and publisher, from Santa Barbara, later northern coastal California; Hooperman Johnson, a bookstore cop in in early 1970s Palo Alto, California
New Diane Fanning series: Elizabeth “Libby” Clark, a chemist at a secret atomic bomb development facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during WWII
Andrew Lanh: Rick Van Lam, a private investigator in Hartford, Connecticut
New Michael Lister series: Merrick McKnight, a former newspaper reporter, later the police chief in Wewathitcha, Florida
Colette McBeth: non-series psychological suspense thrillers
Rosemary & Larry Mild: Paco LeSoto, a dapper retired detective, and Molly Mesta, a witty housekeeper and cook, teaming up as sleuths, in fictional Black Rain Corners, Maryland; Daniel and Rivka Sherman, retiring from careers as engineer and editor to operate The Olde Victorian Book Store, in Annapolis, Maryland
B.B. Oak: Henry David Thoreau, looking for the trout in the milk at Walden Pond and elsewhere, in 1840s Massachusetts
Barry Perowne (Philip Atkey pseudonym): J.R. (Rick) Leroy in England; further adventures of A.J. Raffles (character created by E.W. Hornung in 1899)
Eden Phillpotts: John Ringrose, a retired Scotland Yard detective, in England; Avis Bryden, an amoral widow determined never to be poor again, in England;
Melville Davisson Post: Randolph Mason, an unscrupulous criminal lawyer, in New York City; Uncle Abner, handing out Old Testament justice in mid-19th century western Virginia (which became West Virginia); Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, in London, England
Andrea Maria Schenkel: non-series thrillers
Antonin Varenne: non-series crime fiction Top
Authors and Characters Added in December 2014
James Abel: Joe Rush, a Marine doctor and bioterrorism expert, in the Arctic (Bob Reiss pseudonym)
Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen: Benjamin Cooker, a world-renowned winemaker turned gentleman detective in France, in the Winemaker Detective series
Beverly Allen: Audrey Bloom, a flower arranger and co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, in Ramble, Virginia, in the Bridal Bouquet Shop mysteries
Lucy Atkins: non-series thrillers
Steven Axelrod: Henry “Hank” Kennis, a California transplant and chief of police, on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Lawrence G. Blochman: Leonidas Prike, an inspector in the CID Secret Service in British India; Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee, a pathology lab scientist, assisted by Dr. Motilail Mookerji, in fictional Northbank, Ohio
Tom Bouman: Henry Farrell, the head policeman in rural Wild Thyme Township, Pennsylvania
New Lincoln Child series: Jeremy Logan, a history professor and investigator of the strange and the inexplicable
M.P. Cooley: June Lyons, a former FBI agent, now a small-town cop, in the rust-belt town of Hopewell Falls, New York
Glenn Cooper: Will Piper, a maverick FBI agent and serial killer expert, who discovers ancient secrets, in the Library of the Dead series; non-series apocalyptic thrillers
Norbert Davis: Doan, a possibly plump private investigator, and his reluctant assistant Carstairs, a Great Dane won in a craps game, in Mexico and southern California
Diego de Silva: Vincenzo Malinconico, an underemployed lawyer who ends up working for the mob, in Naples, Italy
Clare Donoghue: Mike Lockyer, a detective inspector in southeast London, England
Lois Duncan: non-series YA mystery, suspense, and paranormal novels; true crime about the murder of her daughter in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Warren C. Easley: Cal Claxton, a lawyer from Los Angeles reinventing himself after his wife’s suicide, on a farm in the wine country of Oregon
New Kathy Lynn Emerson series: Rosamond Jaffrey, a well-educated woman of independent means serving as a spy for Elizabeth I and lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, in 1580s London, England, in the Elizabethan mysteries
New Amanda Flower series: Kelsey Cambridge, director of Barton Farm, a living history museum in Ohio, in the Living History Museum series
New G.M. Ford series: Mickey Dolan, a detective sergeant suffering excessive force complaints and a failed marriage, in Seattle, Washington
John Gapper: non-series thrillers
Éric Giacometti & Jacques Ravenne: Antoine Marcas, a police inspector and Freemason, in Paris, France
L.T. Graham: Anthony Walker, an ex-NYPD cop, now a lieutenant in the affluent community of Fairfield County, Connecticut (Jeffrey S. Stephens pseudonym)
New Sarah Graves series: Lizzie Stone, a transfer from Boston to the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department in Bearkill, Maine
Mari Hannah: Kate Daniels, a detective chief inspector, in Northumberland, England
Paula Hawkins: non-series thrillers
Paulus Hochgatterer: Raffael Horn, a psychiatrist, and Bruno Kovacs, a police detective superintendent (later Commissioner), in Furth am See in the Austrian Alps
Christine Husom: Corinne Aleckson, a sheriff’s deputy in rural Minnesota, and her mentor Detective Elton Dawes, in the Winnebago County mysteries; Camryn Brooks, the manager of Curio Finds, a shop specializing in snow globes, in Brooks Landing, Minnesota, in the Snow Globe Shop mysteries
New Linda O. Johnston series: Rory Chasen, and her dog Pluckie, managing a pet shop in the town Destiny, where superstitious beliefs are a way of life, in the Superstition mysteries; Carrie Kennersly, a veterinary technician running a dog treat store, the Barker
New Lene Kaaberbøl series: Madeleine Karno and her father Dr. Albert Karno in 1890s Varbourg, France
Ausma Zehanat Khan: Esa Khattak, a second-generation Canadian Muslim, head of the Community Policing Section, and detective sergeant Rachel Getty, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New Tracy Kiely series: Nic and Nigel Martini
Heda Margolius Kovály: non-series
Mary Kubica: non-series thrillers
Gregg Loomis: Lang Reilly, an ex-FBI agent and lawyer, dealing with thrilling international threats and secrets; Jason Peters, an operative with NARCOM, which handles problems to risky for US intelligence agencies
Jason Matthews: Dominika Egorova, a Russian agent, and Nate Nash, a CIA agent
Michael Mayo: Jimmy Quinn, a former gunman, bootlegger, and bagman now running a speakeasy in late 1930s Manhattan, New York City
Fergus McNeill: Graham Harland, a detective inspector with the Avon and Somerset Police, in England
Bourne Morris: Meredith “Red” Solaris, interim dean of the journalism school at Mountain West University, in Nevada
Carla Norton: Reeve LeClaire, a kidnapping victim dealing with PTSD and helping other victims
New Diana Orgain series: Georgia Thornton, looking for romance on reality TV, in San Francisco, California, in the Love or Money mysteries
Richard Sale: Daniel (Dan) Webster, a homicide detective, in Los Angeles, California
Karin Salvalaggio: Macy Greeley, a police detective in rural Montana
Mark Sennen: Charlotte Savage, a detective inspector, in Plymouth, England
Nancy Cole Silverman: Carol Childs, a reporter for a local talk radio station, in Los Angeles, California
Nancy Spain: Johnny DuVivien, an Australian former wrestler, nightclub owner, and amateur sleuth, mostly in England; and later Miriam Birdseye, an actress and owner of the Birdseye et Cie detective agency, in England and aboard ship
Liv Spector: Lila Day, a former Miami police detective who travels back in time to solve murders before they happen
New Fran Stewart series: Peggy Winn, operating a Scottish wares shop, in Hamelin, Vermont, in the ScotShop mysteries
New Simon Toyne series: Solomon Creed, with no memory but the strong conviction he needs to save someone’s soul, in Redemption, Arizona
Burt Weissbourd: Corey Logan, an ex-con who was framed, seeking custody of her son, in Seattle, Washington
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