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