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Authors and Characters Added in January 2024
Mary Angela: Emmeline Prather, a college English professor, in the sleepy town of Copper Bluff, South Dakota, in the Professor Prather mysteries; Zo Jones, a former journalist running the Happy Camper gift shop, in touristy small-town Spirit Canyon, South Dakota, in the Happy Camper mysteries (Mary Angela Honerman pseudonym)
Danielle Arceneaux: Glory Broussard, a Black woman of a certain age and an amateur sleuth, in the bayous of Louisiana
A.F. Carter: Delia Mariola, a police captain in Baxter, a depressed Rust Belt town (pseudonym)
Lina Chern: Katie True, a quick-witted Tarot card reader, in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
New Jennifer J. Chow series: Felicity Jin, taking over her Mom’s magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California, in the Magical Fortune Cookie series
Amy Chua: non-series
New Gerald Elias series: Jefferson Dance, acting sheriff of Loomis City, Utah, in a western mystery series
Jennifer Cody Epstein: non-series
Claire Fuller: non-series suspense thrillers
Lee Matthew Goldberg: Desire Card thriller series; Runaway Train series (YA)
Alison Goodman: Lady Augusta “Gus” Colebrook and her twin sister Lady Julia, spinsters defying social convention to help others, beginning in 1812 London, England
New Greg Herren series: Jem Richard, a glam artist in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Killer Queen mysteries
New Mary Keliikoa series: Jax Turner, a sheriff in coastal Oregon, in the Misty Pines mysteries
Kristen Loesch: non-series
New Jess Lourey series: Van Reed, a cold case detective, and Harry Steinbeck, a forensic scientist, in Minnesota
Guillaume Musso: non-series
Josh Pachter: Jack Farmer, an American grad student sent to Europe to do historical research, doing some amateur sleuthing with Jet Schilders, a young nurse, in Amsterdam
Ana Reyes: non-series
Kate Robards: non-series
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi: non-series
Daniel Sweren-Becker: non-series
Mark Waddell: Luke Tremblay, an out-of-work gay investigative journalist, whose family rejected him, in a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in the Crescent Cove mysteries
Colin Walsh: non-series
Mary Winters: Amelia Amesbury, a countess in Victorian London, England, in the Lady of Letters mysteries  Top
Authors and Characters Added in February 2024
Celeste Connally: Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, in 1815 London, England, in the Lady Petra Inquires series (S.C. Perkins pseudonym)
New Ron Corbett series: Danny Barrett, an FBI undercover agent
Deepti Kapoor: non-series
Rebecca Makkai: non-series
Kerryn Mayne: non-series set in Australia
Anthony McCarten: non-series
New Susan C. Shea series: Ariel Shepherd, an American widow restoring her husband’s property in France, in the Château in Burgundy series
Steve Urszenyi: Alexandra Martel, a former Army sniper, now an FBI special agent
Scott Von Doviak: non-series
Iris Yamashita: Cara Kennedy, a police detective, in Anchorage, Alaska
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2024
New Amanda Flower series: Katherine Wright, the sister of Orville and Wilbur, running the family bike shop and working part time as a teacher in Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903
New Leslie Karst series: Valerie Corbin, a retired caterer, and her wife Kristen, relocating to Hilo, Hawai’i, in the Orchid Isle mysteries
New Laurie R. King series: Raquel Laing, an inspector with the Cold Case Unit of the San Francisco, California, police department
New Vanessa Lillie series: Syd Walker, a Cherokee archaeologist working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
New Gary Phillips series: Harry Ingram, an African American Korean War veteran and crime scene photographer, beginning in 1963 Los Angeles, California
Andromeda Romano-Lax: non-series
Bridget Walsh: Minnie Ward, a scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, and Albert Easterbrook, a private detective, beginning in 1876 London, England, in the Variety Palace mysteries
Katie Williams: non-series
Maud Woolf: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2024
Jann Arden: non-series
New Jeffrey B. Burton series: Cory Pratt, running a dog training academy, and sister Crystal, a newly minted homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois, in the Chicago K-9 thrillers
Andrew Cartmel: a record collector, connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs, in the Vinyl Detective mysteries; Cordelia Stanmer, a vintage paperback collector in London, England, in the Paperback Sleuth mysteries
Cyndi MacMillan: non-series
New Christopher Reich series: Mac Dekker, a CIA operative living under an assumed name after being framed for treason and faking his own death years earlier
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2024
E.A. Aymar: Tom Starks, a community college professor and single father, out to avenge his wife’s murder, in Baltimore, Maryland
New Flynn Berry series: Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daley, pursued by the IRA for informing
James D.F. Hannah: Henry Malone, an ex-state trooper back in his childhood home, Serenity, West Virginia; Matt Simms, a sheriff diagnosed with liver cancer, in rural West Virginia, in the Parker County series
New Alis Hawkins series: Basil Rice, a Jesus College (Oxford) fellow with a secret to hide, and Rhiannon “Nonh” Vaughan, a young Welsh polymath, beginning in 1881, in the Oxford mysteries
Jenny Hollander: non-series
Andrey Kurkov: Victor, dumped by his lover, now writing obituaries, and Misha, a rescue penquin from the zoo, in Kyiv, Ukraine; Samson Kolechko, an investigator for the city’s new police force, starting in 1919 Kyiv, Ukraine, in the Kyiv mysteries
Dann McDorman: non-series
CJ Wray: Penny and Josephine Williamson, British World War II veterans (Wren—Women's Royal Naval Services and FANY—First Aid Nursing Yeomantry) in their 90s and their great-nephew Archie, owner of a London art gallery (Chrissie Manby pseudonym)
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2024
Stig Abell: Jake Jackson, a former Detective Inspector at the Metropolitan Police in London, retired to the English countryside
Megan Campisi: non-series
Nolan Chase: Ethan Brand, the newly elected Chief of Police in the small town of Blaine, Washington (Sam Wiebe pseudonym)
Susan Fletcher: non-series
Rachel Kapelke-Dale: non-series
Freida McFadden (pseudonym): The Prescription: Murder mysteries; Millie, recently released from prison, working as a maid, in the Housemaid thriler series
New Albert Noyer series: Jake Jakubowski, a Catholic priest retiring at age 70 from Michigan to Providencia, a village on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico; Alberix the Celt, in 58 BCE Gaul
Adam Plantinga: non-series and non-fiction
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2024
Jonathan J. Brown: Lou Crasher, a Black Canadian rock drummer and part-time amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California
L.M. Chilton: non-series
New Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado series: Carmen Sanchez, a special agent for Homeland Security, and Jacoby Heron, a private security agent, in the Sanchez & Heron series
Abbott Kahler: non-series; non-fiction and true crime written as Karen Abbott
Fiona McPhillips: non-series
Liz Milliron: Jim Duncan, a state trooper, and Sally Castle, an assistant public defender, in rustic Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands mysteries; Betty Ahern, a young woman working at Bell Airplane, and wanting to be a private investigator, during World War II, in Buffalo, New York, in the Homefront mysteries
New Walter Mosley series: Joe King Oliver, a NYPD detective framed for sexual assault now working as a private investigator with his teenage daughter
P.J. Nelson: Madeline Brimley, inheriting a bookstore from her eccentric Aunt Rose, in the small college town of Enigma, Georgia, in the Old Juniper Bookstore series (Phillip DePoy pseudonym)
Ayla Rose: Hannah Solace, returning to her Vermont hometown to reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie, in the Hummingbird Hollow B&B mysteries (Wendy Tyson pseudonym)
J.R. Sanders: Nate Ross, a private investigator in late 1930s Hollywood, California
Francis Spufford: non-series
New Sarah Stewart Taylor series: Franklin Warren, a detective for the Vermont state police, beginning in 1965
Amy Tintera: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2024
Ramona Emerson series: Rita Todacheene, a Navajo forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police force
Emiko Jean: non-series
Ariel Lawhon: non-series historical mysteries and thrillers
Amy Pease: non-series
New Emily Schultz series: Agnes Nielson, a New York City book editor turned detective in the Friends & Enemies mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2024
Kat Ailes: Alice, Poppy, Hen, and Ailsa, a group of new mothers in the small market town of Penton in the Cotswolds, England, who investigate crime with the dubious help of Alice’s beautiful yet dim dog Helen
Johanna Copeland: non-series
New Daryl Wood Gerber series: Allie Catt, a caterer and personal chef in Ashville, North Carolina, in the Literary Dining mysteries
Olivia Muenter: non-series
Andrew Hunter Murray: non-series sci-fi and mystery thrillers
Alejandro Nodarse: non-series
Delia Pitts: The Ross Agency, run by the magnanimous detective Norment Ross and his more practical daughter, Sabrina, along with SJ Rook, which takes tiny neighborhood cases the police are too busy to solve, in Harlem, New York [written as Delia C. Pitts]; Evander “Vandy” Myrick, the only Black woman private investigator in Queenstown, New Jersey
Henry Wise: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2024
Maggie Auffarth: non-series
K.T. Nguyen: non-series
Catherine Mack: Eleanor Dash, a bestselling mystery author with a fondness for footnotes, in the Vacation Mysteries (Catherine McKenzie pseudonym)
Stella Sands: non-series; true crime
Snowden Wright: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2024
Elisabeth Eaves: non-series
Jahmal Mayfield: non-series
New John McMahon series: Gardner Camden, a socially awkward savant FBI Agent with the Patterns and Recognition team
New Rob Osler series: Harriet Morrow, a new detective with the Prescott Dectective Agency in Chicago, beginning in 1898
New Carol Potenza series: Myrna Lee, an Ice Age paleontologist and poison expert n New Mexico
Caroline Woods: non-series historical mystery/thrillers
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2024
New Ava Barry series: Rainey Hall, a private investigator in Hollywood, California
Elise Bryant: non-series
Christoffer Carlsson: Leo Junker, a police officer with drug and other problems, in Stockholm, Sweden; the Halland Suite set in Marbäck, Sweden
Ash Clifton: Noland Twice, a former University of Florida football star working as a private detective in Central Florida
Emma Cook: non-series
Kemper Donovan: a ghostwriter and amateur sleuth, sometimes using the pseudonym Belle Currer, in the Ghostwriter mysteries
New Tana French series: Cal Hooper, a former Chicago police detective relocated to the small Irish village of Ardnakelty, and near-feral teenager Trey Reddy
New Bryan Gruley series: Jimmy Baker, a former hockey star now the Zamboni driver for the amateur team in his hometown of Bitterfrost, Michigan
Emily Layden: non-series
New Amy Patricia Meade series: Evelyn Galloway, a script supervisor in Hollowood, beginning in 1939
New Rob Osler series: Harriet Morrow, a new detective with the Prescott Dectective Agency in Chicago, beginning in 1898
New Jonathan Payne series: Orlov, a fishmonger accidently turned governmeent minister for an unnamed country on the brink of civil war in central Europe, in the Citizen Orlov series
Kristen Perrin: Annabelle (Annie) Adams, a young aspiring mystery novelist and amateur sleuth in a small English village, in the Castle Knoll Files
New Adam Plantinga series: Kurt Argento, a former Detroit cop
New Michael Robotham series: Philomena McCarthy, an ambitious young police officer whose family members are notorious criminals, with the Metropolitan Police in London
New Julia Seales series: Beatrice Steele, a young English private detective in the early 19th century
New Jesse Q. Sutanto series: Vera Wong, a San Francisco teashop owner in her 60s who loves cooking, snooping, and using the skills she learned watching CSI
Ruby Todd: non-series
C.M. Waggoner: Sherry Pinkwhistle, a senior citizen librarian, solving crimes and fighting the supernatural, in the small village of Winesap in upstate New York
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