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Authors and Characters Added in January 2010
Alvin Abram: Gabe Garshowitz, a
Jewish homicide detective, and his beautiful young partner, Iris Forester,
a detective constable, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the Ackerman-Zwonarz trilogy,
historical mystery and saga of the Jewish Ackerman family and the Catholic
Zwonarz family, starting in 1921 in Lodz, Poland
Bevan Amberhill: Jean-Claude
Keyes, an actor, writer, and amateur sleuth, at the Shakespeare Festival,
in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Lisa Appignanesi: Marguerite
de Landois, in 1899-1990 Paris, France
Robert Arellano: 2010 Edgar
Best Paperback Original nominee
Sam Baker: Annie Anderson, a tabloid
feature writer now fashion editor at Handbag Magazine, based in London, England
Samm Sinclair Baker: Clark
Clark Clark, in New York City
Mike Befeler: Paul Jacobson, an
80-something amateur sleuth, in the Geezer-Lit series
Jane Bow: non-series mysteries
Mel Bradshaw: non-series set in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J.D. Carpenter: Campbell Young,
a racetrack-loving homicide detective, later a private investigator, and his
friend Priam Harvey, a racetrack journalist, mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
C.J. Carver: Jay McCaulay,
former captain in the Paras, now working with TRACE, tracking down missing
children in war zones
Vera Caspary: non-series mysteries
Cassandra Chan: Jack Gibbons,
a detective sergeant at Scotland Yard, and Phillip Bethancourt his rich friend,
man-about-town from university days, in London, England
Jim Christy: Gene Castle, a private
investigator in late 1930s to 1945 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Peter Clement: Dr. Earl Garnet,
the Emergency Room Chief at St. Paul’s Hospital, in Buffalo, New York;
Richard Steel, a widowed burned-out ER doctor with a teen-age son, and world-renowned
geneticist Kathleen Sullivan, in New York City
Martin S. Cohen: non-series mysteries
E.J. Copperman: Alison Kerby,
a guesthouse owner with two unexpected guests (ghosts) in her newly acquired
Jersey Shore Victorian, in the Haunted Guesthouse mysteries (Jeffrey Cohen
pseudonym)
Eileen Coughlan: non-series
mysteries set in Canada
David Cristofano: 2010 Edgar
Best First Novel nominee
Ursula Curtiss: non-series mysteries
David Laing Dawson: Dr. Robert
Snow, at a psychiatric hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and then Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
Karen Dudley: Robyn Devara, a field
biologist, ecologist, and amateur sleuth, based in western Canada
Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny
Brannigan, a manicurist and expatriate Canadian living in Llanelen, Wales
Ruth Fenisong: Gridley Nelson,
a rich, Princeton-educated homicide lieutenant, later captain, in New York
City
Trevor Ferguson: non-series
mysteries; Emile Cinq-Mars, a detective sergeant of French and Indian extraction,
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (written as John Farrow)
Barbara Fister: Anni Koskinen,
an ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
Irene Fleming: Emily Dagett
Weiss, a struggling young movie-maker in the early 20th century, in Fort Lee,
New Jersey (Kate Gallison pseudonym)
Roy French: Daniel Riordan, the Raven,
once the most feared paramilitary enforcer in Ireland; Patrick Kelly, a Vietnam
War veteran, involved in IRA struggles
Rick Gadziola: Jake Morgan, a
disgraced Boston police officer turned blackjack dealer in Las Vegas, Nevada
Maurice Gagnon: Deirdre O’Hara,
a lawyer specializing in marine insurance cases, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tim Gautreaux: 2010 Edgar Best
Novel nominee
Joseph Mark Glazner: Billy
Nevers, operating in the dangerous world of high finance, high crime, and
expensive women, in New York City and elsewhere; Evan Paris, NOT a private
investigator, in Los Angeles, California (written as Joseph Louis)
William Gibson: the Sprawl trilogy
and the Bridge trilogy, science fiction cyber-thrillers with some recurring
characters
Paul Grescoe: Dan Rudnicki, a Ukrainian-Canadian
widower with two teenage daughters, working for TransWorld Security, in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
New series on the Jackie Griffey page:
Maggie Murphy, a recently widowed 24-year-old, whose dead husband’s
ghost Horace hangs around, and patrolman Joe Driver, in Memphis, Tennessee
Heather Gudenkauf: 2010 Edgar
Best First Novel nominee
Margaret Haffner: Catherine
Edison, a biologist, in fictional Kingsport, Ontario, Canada
John Spencer Hill: Carlo Arbati,
a poet and police inspector
Anne Hocking: William Austen, a
chief inspector, later Superintendent, at Scotland Yard, in London, England
Brendan Howley: non-series mysteries
Stuart Langford: Will Burns,
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Levenson: Mary Magruder
Katz, a half Jewish, half Southern Baptist criminal defense attorney, in Miami,
Florida
Allan Levine: Sam Klein, a street-wise
Jewish immigrant and private investigator, in 1911-1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada; Charles St. Clair, a journalist in 1870s New York City
Sophie Littlefield: Stella
Hardesty, a 50-year-old widow who suffered domestic violence, running a sewing
shop and helping other abused women, in a small town in Missouri; 2010 Edgar
Best First Novel nominee
Attica Locke: 2010 Edgar Best First
Novel nominee
Tom Lowe: Sean O’Brien, a recently
widowed former Miami homicide detective, now living with his dachshund Max
on the St. John’s River, in Florida
New series on the Eric
Van Lustbader page: Jack McClure, an ATF agent, and Special Advisor
and closest friend to the President of the United States
H. Mel Malton: Polly Deacon, escaping
Toronto for a cabin in the back woods, somewhere in Canada and elsewhere;
Alan Nearing, an 11-year-old sleuth in Canada (YA written as Mel Malton)
New series on the Nancy Martin page:
Roxana “Roxy” Abruzzo, an independent-minded niece of a Mafia
boss with a teenage daughter, in the architectural salvage business, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
New series on the Nigel McCrery page:
Mark Lapslie, detective chief inspector, and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury,
in Essex, England
Paul Nathan: Bert Swain, a divorced
middle-aged writer and head of public relations at a Manhattan medical research
center, in New York City
Stuart Neville: 2009 Dilys Award
finalist
David Parry & Patrick Withrow:
Harry Bracken, a former CIA agent working as an insurance investigator, in
New York and New England
Edward O. Phillips: Geoffrey
Chadwick, an acerbic, single, gay, 50-something corporate lawyer based in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
John Reeves: Andrew Coggin, a detective
inspector, and sergeant Fred Sump, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Helen Reilly: Christopher McKee,
known as the “Scotsman,” a police inspector, later head of Manhattan’s
homicide squad, mostly in New York City
John Lawrence Reynolds:
Joe McGuire, a detective lieutenant in Boston, Massachusetts, who drops out
in the Bahamas from time to time
Alexandra Roudybush: non-series
mysteries
Robert J. Sawyer: The sentient
WWW (World Wide Web) trilogy; Sci-fi mysteries
Stephen Jay Schwartz: 2010
Panik Award finalist
Chris Scott: non-series mysteries
Carol Shields: non-series
Jeffrey Siger: Andreas Kaldis,
a former Athens homicide detective, now the new police chief on Mykonos Island,
Greece
John Worsley Simpson: Harry
Stark, a curmudgeonly homicide detective, who listens to jazz and has a reclusive
cat, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brad Smith: non-series mysteries
Jennifer Stanley: Cooper
Lee, a newly single office machine repair woman in Richmond, Virginia, in
the Hope Street Church mysteries (real name of J.B. Stanley)
Betsy Struthers: Rosalie Cairns,
a bookstore clerk turned academic, in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Richard J. Thomas: D.B. Murphy,
an ex-blacksmith private investigator in the 1920s-1930s, in the Georgian
Bay port town of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
L.C. Tyler: Ethelred Tressider, a
mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, in West
Sussex, England; 2010 Edgar Best Paperback Original nominee
Cathy Vasas-Brown: non-series
mysteries
Gregory Ward: non-series mysteries
New series on the Penny Warner page:
Presley Parker, a former abnormal psychological university professor who opens
a party planning business in San Francisco, California, in the Party Planning
mysteries
New series on the Nancy
Means Wright page: Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th century English feminist,
working as a governess at Mitchelstown Castle, in County Cork, Ireland;
the Northern Spy Club children’s mysteries
Scott Young: Matteesie Kitologitok — “the
great brain of Arctic crime” — an Inuit inspector in the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, based in the Northwest Territories of Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2010
Stephen Amidon: non-series mysteries
John Ballem: thrillers set mainly
in Canada, some in the Caribbean
Laura Benedict: non-series
Pinckney Benedict: non-series
Michael Blair: Tom McCall, a commercial
photographer living on a houseboat, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
in the Granville Island mysteries; Joe “Shoe” Schumacher, an ex-cop,
professional wrestler, and bodyguard, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lisa Bork: Jolene Asdale, owner of
a sports car boutique, in the fictional tourist town of Wachobe in the Finger
Lakes region of New York, in the Broken Vows mysteries
P.A. Brown: David Eric Laine, an in-the-closet
gay LAPD homicide detective
Mike Carey: Felix Castor, a free-lance
exorcist, in supernatural fantasy thrillers set in London, England
Meredith Cole: Lydia McKenzie,
an edgy art photographer who also works as an administrative assistant at
the D’Angelo detective agency, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn,
New York City
Robertson Davies: the trials
and travails of Dunstan Ramsay, Percy Boyd Stauntan, and others stemming from
an errant snowball, in Canada, in the Deptford Trilogy; Sir Francis Cornish
and other academics at the College of St. John and the Holy Ghost, in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, in the Cornish Trilogy
Dorothy Cameron Disney:
non-series mysteries
Kerstin Ekman: Annie Raft, north
of the Arctic Circle in Sweden
Margaret Erskine: Septimus
Finch, a large, bland detective inspector, later Chief Inspector, in England
Stanley Evans: Sergeant Decker,
a frontier lawman in 1860s British Columbia, Canada; Silas Seaweed, a Coast
Salish Aboriginal beat cop on the streets of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Patricia Finney: Simon Ames
and David Becket, secret agents for Queen Elizabeth, in 1580s England (real
name of P.F. Chisholm)
Bill Floyd: non-series
Émile Gaboriau: Monseiur
Lecoq, a police detective with the Sûreté, in Paris, France
Alicia Giménez-Bartlett:
Petra Delicado, an ex-lawyer police inspector, and her sidekick, sergeant
Fermín Garzón in Barcelona, Spain
Carol Goodman: non-series gothic
thrillers
Heywood Gould: Josh Krales, a
crime reporter for the New York Event, in New York City
Andrew Grant: [1968-] David Trevellyan,
a lieutenant commander with Royal Navy Intelligence, in New York City, and
then Chicago, Illinois
Andrew Grant: [Grant Shanks] non-series
thrillers
Terry Griggs: non-series mysteries
New series on the Richard
Helms page: Judd Wheeler, chief of police in the fictional town of Prosperity,
North Carolina
Alice Hoffman: non-series
Chuck Hogan: non-series mysteries
Rupert Holmes: non-series mysteries
Dave Hugelschaffer: Porter
Cassel, a ranger with the Alberta Forest Service, in Canada
Ellen Elizabeth Hunter:
Ashley Wilkes, a historic preservationist, and her sister Melanie Wilkes,
a real estate agent, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the Magnolia mysteries
Jack Iams: Stanley “Rocky” Rockwell,
a private investigator based in Ohio
Kenzo Kitakata: non-series mysteries
Nigel Krauth: non-series
Lee Lamothe: non-series
Ed Lin: Robert Chow, an NYPD Chinatown
beat cop in 1976 New York City
Steve Lopez: non-series
Norman Mailer: non-series and
true crime
Cormac McCarthy: non-series
John McFetridge: non-series
set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vivian Meyer: Abby Faria, a bike
courier and fledgling private investigator based in the Kensington Market
area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gwen Moffat: Miss Pink (Melinda
Pink), a middle aged magistrate and mountaineer who solves mysteries at various
mountainous locations; Jack Pharaoh, recently discharged from RAF Mountain
Rescue after an injury, in the Lake District of England
New series on the Rick Mofina page:
Jack Gannon, a veteran crime reporter in Buffalo, New York
John Moss: Miranda Quin and David
Morgan, a “virtual couple” of homicide detectives, in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Robert Noah: non-series mysteries
Clare O’Donohue: Nell
Fitzgerald, a former Manhattan publishing professional now helping her grandmother,
Eleanor Cassidy, run a quilting store in the Hudson River town of Archer’s
Rest, New York, in the Someday Quilts mysteries
Steve Oliver: Scott Moody, an ex-mental
patient cab-driving private investigator in the late 1970s, in Spokane, Washington
Michael Parker: non-series thrillers
Jodi Picoult: non-series suspense,
usually with a legal and/or medical ethics twist
Stefanie Pintoff: Simon Ziele,
a former New York City police detective starting in 1905 Dobson, Westchester
County, New York
Jean Potts: non-series mysteries
Mobashar Qureshi: non-series
mysteries
Abraham Rodríguez:
non-series mysteries
Jeffrey Round: Bradford Fairfax,
a gay 30-something special agent with a secret organization called Box 77
Norma Schier: Kay Barth, a district
attorney based in Aspen, Colorado
Diane K. Shah: Paris Chandler,
a wealthy young widow, gossip reporter, and sleuth, in 1947 Los Angeles, California
L.V. Sims: Dixie T. Struthers, a detective
sergeant in the early days of Silicon Valley (late 1980s), in San José,
California
Sarah Smith: Alexander von Reisden,
a young Austrian biochemist, and Perdita Halley, a concert pianist, first
in pre-WWI Boston, Massachusetts, and then Paris, France
Gretchen Sprague: Martha Patterson,
a pro bono attorney in Brooklyn, New York
T.S. Stribling: Henry Poggioli,
a psychology professor and criminologist at Ohio State University, traveling
to the Caribbean and elsewhere
David Sundstrand: Frank Flynn,
a Bureau of Land Management agent, in the Mojave Desert of southern California,
in the Desert Sky mysteries
Dennis Tafoya: non-series mysteries
L.A. Taylor: J.J. Jamison, a computer
engineer and investigator with CATCH (Committee for Analysis of Tropospheric
and Celestial Happenings), in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Paul Theroux: Spencer Monroe Savage,
a US diplomat
Teona Tone: Kyra Keaton, an aristocratic
lady private investigator running her own agency in 1899-1907 Washington,
DC
Tom Topor: Kevin Fitzgerald, a private
investigator in New York City
Peter Townend: Philip Quest, a
photographer and amateur sleuth, in Spain, Sardinia, and Corsica
John Trench: Martin Cotterell, an
erudite and untidy archaeologist, in England
John Trenhaile: Stepan Povin,
a Russian KGB general in the Cold War; Simon Young, a British businessman
and intelligence officer struggling with Chinese and Russian agents, in Hong
Kong
Miles Tripp: John Samson, a private
investigator in London, England; Hugo Baron, a gentleman agent working for
a British organization called Diecast (written as John Michael Brett)
Gordon M. Williams: non-series
mysteries; James Hazell, a tough private investigator in the East End of London,
England (written as P.B. Yuill, joint pseudonym with Terry Venables)
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2010
New series on the David Baldacci page:
Shaw, an operative for a secret global intelligence agency, and Katie James,
a disgraced investigative journalist
Edgar Bohle: non-series mysteries
Dennis E. Bolen: Barry Delta, a
parole officer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Joan Boswell: Hollis Grant, a painter
and amateur sleuth, starting in Ottawa, and mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Malcolm Braly: non-series mysteries
Herbert Brean: Reynold Frame,
a young freelance writer and photographer, and amateur sleuth, in New York
City and New England; William Deacon, a magazine writer
Daniel Broun: Harry Egypt, a thief
and soldier of fortune with a sinister master plan
Donna Carrick: non-series mysteries
Ron Chudley: non-series set in Canada,
mostly British Columbia
Daniel Edward Craig: Trevor
Lambert, a hotel manager and sometime house detective in various locations
in North America
Lesley Crewe: non-series mysteries
New series on the Bill Crider page,
written with Clyde Wilson: Ted Stephens, a homicide detective sergeant in
Houston, Texas
Mildred Davis: non-series mysteries;
Sport Abbott, in the Murder in Maine series (written with daughter Katherine
Roome and grandson Ren Roome)
Babs Deal: non-series mysteries
Robert Elegant: non-series mysteries
Richard Ellington: Steve Drake,
a former actor turned private investigator, based in New York City
Helen Eustis: non-series mysteries
M. Fagyas: thrillers set in eastern
Europe
Elizabeth Fenwick: non-series
mysteries
Pat Flower: Bert Swinton, an intuitive
detective inspector, in Sydney, Australia; non-series psychological suspense
set in Australia
Menna Gallie: non-series
Sarah Gainham: Julia Homburg,
a leading actress with the Burg Theater in the late 1930s and 1940s, in Vienna,
Austria
The Gordons: John Ripley, an FBI agent
in Chicago, Arizona, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC; D.C. Randall, a Persian
cat in Los Angeles, California; Gail and Mitch, newlyweds in Los Angeles,
California
Alan Green: John Hugo, a police lieutenant
in Florida
Elly Griffiths: Dr. Ruth Galloway,
a forensic archaeologist, and Harry Nelson, a detective chief inspector, in
the Saltmarsh area near Norfolk, England
Brèni James: Gunnar Matson,
a police sergeant in San Francisco, California
Lane Kauffmann: non-series mysteries
Mary Kelly: Brett Nightingale, a
detective inspector (later chief inspector), in Edinburgh, Scotland; Hedley
Nicholson, a private investigator in England
Mary Anne Kelly: Claire Breslinsky,
a former fashion model and world-wanderer, turned photographer, from Queens,
New York
Adam Kennedy: Roy Tucker, in prison
for murdering his wife, is offered freedom by a mysterious government agency
to assassinate a politician
Hans Hellmut Kirst: Konstantin
Keller, a retiring detective inspector, in Munich, Germany
William Krasner: Sam Birge,
a homicide detective captain in a big city somewhere
Edwin Lanham: Madigan, a police
lieutenant in New York City; Vern Gray, a police lieutenant in Connecticut;
Frank Luther, a city editor in New York City
Fred Levon: non-series mysteries
Norah Lofts: non-series mysteries
Donald MacKenzie: Henry Chalice
and Crying Eddie, in England; John Raven, a tough Scotland Yard detective
inspector, later an unlicensed private investigator living on a houseboat,
mostly in England
Jassy Mackenzie: Jade de Jong,
a private investigator returning home 10 years after her police commissioner
father was killed, and police superintendent David Patel, in Johannesburg,
South Africa
Vincent McConnor: Chief Inspector
Damiot of the Paris police, and his dog Fric-Frac, in Paris and elsewhere
in France
George Milner: Ronald Anglesea,
a private investigator in England and Scotland
New series on the Amy Myers page:
Tom Wasp, a chimney sweep in Victorian times in the East End of London, England
New series on the Susan Oleksiw page:
Anita Ray, an Indian-American in Kerala, South India
Harry Olesker: non-series set
in New York City
Allan Prior: non-series mysteries
Jonathan Rabb: Nikolai Hoffner,
a police detective starting in 1919, continuing into the Weimar period in
Berlin, Germany
Frances Rickett: non-series
mysteries
Douglas Rutherford: Paddy
Regan, a British special agent, in Europe; Tim Ryder, the world’s youngest
Grand Prix winning race car driver
Miriam Sharman: non-series mysteries
Robert B. Sinclair: non-series
mysteries
Thomas Sterling: Rizzi, a police
captain in Venice, Italy
James Michael Ullman: non-series
mysteries
Winfred Van Atta: non-series
mysteries
Thomas Walsh: non-series set in
New York City
Rubin Weber: non-series set in Pennsylvania
Dutch country
C.J. West: Randy Black, a part-time
stunt pilot with a fondness for alcohol, bent on vengeance, but perhaps not
beyond redemption
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2010
New series on the Elizabeth Adler page:
Mac Reilly, star of a television private eye series, and his girlfriend and
partner Sunny Alvarez, jet-setting here and there
New series on the Susan
Wittig Albert page: Miss Elizabeth Lacy and the Darling Dahlias, a garden
club, in fictional 1930s Darling, Alabama
James Barlow: non-series mysteries
Evelyn Berckman: non-series
mysteries
John Bingham: Kenneth Ducane (also
called Vandoran), chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in England; John “Badger” Brock,
a police superintendent in Melford, England
John Blackburn: Charles Kirk,
a general, head of British Foreign Office Intelligence, mostly in England;
Bill Easterand and Peggy Tey, agents for hire, based in England
Alison Bruce: Gary Goodhew, a detective
constable at Parkside Station, in Cambridge, England
Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli:
Emily Kincaid, a recently divorced reporter and failed mystery writer, and
Deputy Dolly Wakowski, in rural Leetsville, in northern Michigan
James Byrom: non-series mysteries
Henry Calvin: non-series mysteries
Marjorie Carleton: non-series
mysteries
Warren Carrier: Sean Fogarty,
a lawyer in the fictional college town of Silvertown, in northern Wisconsin
Robert Coover: non-series mysteries
Gordon Cotler: non-series mysteries
James Cross: non-series mysteries
Don Dahler: Huck Doyle, a pro golfer
and non-practicing lawyer working as a private investigator, in Los Angeles,
California
Harold R. Daniels: non-series
mysteries
Gloria Dank: Bernard Woodruff, a
curmudgeonly author of children’s books, and his brother-in-law, Arthur “Snooky” Randolph,
in Connecticut
Ted Dekker: non-series mysteries
John F. Dobbyn: Michael Knight,
a young attorney who gets a job with his mentor, legendary trial attorney
Lex Devlin, in Boston, Massachusetts
Donald McNutt Douglass:
Bolivar Manchenil, a police captain, and grandson of a freed slave, on an
unnamed island in the Caribbean
Jan Dunlap: Bob White, an expert
birder and counselor at Savage High School, near the Twin Cities in Minnesota,
in the Birder Murder mysteries
Penelope Evans: non-series mysteries
A.S. Fleischman: Max Brindle
mysteries
C.B. Forrest: Charlie McKelvey,
a 30-year veteran police detective whose runaway son was murdered, starting
in 1999 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Steven Gore: Graham Gage, a cop
turned private investigator, caught up in international intrigue, based in
San Francisco, California
Kathryn Miller Haines:
Rosie Winter, an actress during WWII, in Manhattan, New York City
Geoffrey Holiday Hall:
non-series mysteries
Tarquin Hall: Vish Puri, a portly
Punjabi founder of Most Private Investigators Ltd., a detective agency in
Delhi, India
Irene Hannon: male and female FBI
agents, in the Heroes of Quantico Christian romantic suspense trilogy
Tony Hays: Malgwyn ap Cuneglas, a
one-armed soldier and counselor to Arthur, in 5th century Britain
S.B. Hough: John Brentford, a detective
inspector, in England
Geoffrey Household: Roger
Taine, a British professional hunter, who decides to see if he can hunt a
European dictator; non-series novels of intrigue and suspense
P.M. Hubbard: non-series mysteries
E. Howard Hunt: Jack Novak, mostly
in Mexico and the Caribbean; Steve Bentley, an adventurous certified public
accountant based in Washington, DC (written as Robert Dietrich); Peter Ward,
a CIA agent undercover as a lawyer, based in Washington, DC (written as David
St. John)
William A. Johnston: non-series
set mostly in New York City
William Johnston: Maxwell Smart,
a bumbling secret agent working for CONTROL [TV show novelizations]
New series on the Jon Land page:
Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, sometimes working as a psychological
therapist, in San Antonio, Texas
Eugene Meese: Ellis nominee for
Best First Novel
James Mitchell: David Callan,
a British agent in the eternal struggle with the KGB, mostly in England; Ron
Hoggett, a private investigator with expertise at finding lost things, based
in London, England; John Craig, a violent but ethical British Intelligence
agent working for Department K (written as James Munro)
Kim Moritsugu: non-series
Kenneth O’Hara: Dr. Alun
Barry in England
Jeremy Potter: Sergeant Hiscock
(later inspector) of the CID, in London, England
New series on the M.J. Rose page: Reincarnationist
mysteries with past-life paranormal elements
New series on the Laura
Joh Rowland page: Charlotte Brontë, the author, in mid-1880s England
New series on the Olen Steinhauer page:
Milo Weaver, a field agent with the CIA’s clandestine Department of
Tourism
New series on the Marc Strange page:
Orwell Brennan, police chief in rural Dockerty, Ontario, Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2010
James Scott Bell: Kathleen
Shannon, moving from New York to live with her rich aunt and pursuing a legal
career, in 1903 Los Angeles, California, in the Shannon Saga trilogy with
a Christian theme [written with Tracie Peterson]; Kathleen Shannon continues
her legal career in early 20th century Los Angeles, California, in the Trials
of Kit Shannon trilogy with a Christian theme; Ty Buchanan, a young lawyer
whose fiancée has been killed, in Los Angeles, California
Juliet Blackwell: Lily Ivory,
a witch running a vintage clothing store, Aunt Cora’s Closet, where
she can feel vibrations of the past, in San Francisco, California; Sophie
Tanner, a failed anthropologist now running her father’s construction
company, in the Historic Home Renovation mysteries
Grant Blackwood: Briggs Tanner,
a veteran covert US agent on international missions
New series on the Judith Cutler page:
Lina Townend, an orphan, and her mentor Griffith (Griff) Tripp, an antique
dealer, in England
Harry Dolan: non-series
Gerald Elias: Daniel Jacobus, a
blind, reclusive, crotchety violin teacher living in self-imposed exile in
rural New England
Bente Gallagher: Savannah
Martin, a real estate agent and southern belle, in Nashville, Tennessee (real
name of Jennie Bentley)
New series on the Sue Ann Jaffarian page:
Madison Rose, in Los Angeles, California, in the Fang-in-Cheek vampire mysteries
New series on the Bernard Knight page:
Richard Pryor, a pathologist, and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private
forensic practice in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series
New series on the Joyce and
Jim Lavene page: Dae O’Donnell, the mayor of the small town of
Duck, North Carolina, who runs a collectible shop and uses her psychic abilities
to find lost things, in the Missing Pieces mysteries
New series on the Phillip Margolin page:
Dana Cutler, a private detective in Washington DC, and Brad Miller, a law
clerk in Oregon
Cammie McGovern: non-series
thrillers
Amy Patricia Meade: Marjorie
McClelland, a smart and sassy mystery writer, and rich British expat Creighton
Ashcroft, in 1930s Ridgebury, Connecticut
Karen Robards: non-series romantic
suspense
Luís Miguel Rocha:
Sarah Monteiro, an international journalist from Portugal who investigates
things Vatican
Gunnar Staalesen: Varg Veum,
a private investigator in Bergen, Norway
Simon Tolkien: non-series mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2010
Ellery Adams: Olivia Limoges,
a restaurant owner returning with Captain Haviland, a black standard poodle,
to her old home town, Oyster Bay, North Carolina (Jennifer Stanley pseudonym)
Lin Anderson: Dr. Rhona MacLeod,
a forensic scientist in Glasgow, Scotland
Christine Barber: Lucy Newroe,
a newspaper editor and volunteer EMT, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Elizabeth Becka: Evelyn James,
a forensic expert in the medical examiner’s office, in Cleveland, Ohio;
Theresa MacLean, a forensic scientist, in Cleveland, Ohio (written as Lisa
Black)
Miriam Borgenicht: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Gerry Boyle page:
Brandon Blake, a loner who lives on an old wooden cruiser, on the waterfront
of Portland, Maine
M.G. Braun: Al Glenne, a French spy
(“the French James Bond”)
New series on the Rita Mae Brown page:
Mags, moving from New York City with her dachshund Baxter, to her great aunt
Jeep’s ranch near Reno, Nevada
Kathryn Casey: Sarah Armstrong,
a criminal profiler lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, and a recently widowed
mother, based in Houston, Texas
Jasmine Cresswell: Melody
Beecham, a former supermodel, and Nikolai Anwar, operatives in the ultra-secret
government agency Unit One; the Raven trilogy, concerning the double life
of missing multimillionaire and secret bigamist Ron Raven
Anna Dean: Miss Dido Kent, a 35-year-old
amateur sleuth, starting in 1805 Regency England
Jamie Freveletti: Emma Caldridge,
a chemist and international ultramarathon runner, and Edward Banner of the
security company Darkview
David L. Golemon: Jack Collins,
and other operatives in the Event Group, the most secret US agency ever, in
a science fiction–paranormal–thriller series
Mark Greaney: Court Gentry (The
Gray Man), a former CIA operative, now an international hired assassin
H. Terrell Griffin: Matt Royal,
a retired trial lawyer living on Longboat Key, off the gulf coast of Florida
Derek Haas: Columbus (The Silver
Bear), a world-weary international hired assassin
James Hayman: Mike McCabe, a former
NYPD homicide detective, now a detective sergeant living with his 13-year-old
daughter in Portland, Maine
Daniel Kalla: non-series medical
thrillers
New series in the Deryn Lake page:
Reverend Nick Lawrence, the new, 28-year-old vicar, in the village of Lakehurst,
Sussex, England
Liza Marklund: Annika Bengtzon,
a novice reporter, later crime editor, for Kvallspressen, a tabloid in Stockholm,
Sweden
Bill Noel: Chris Landrum, 50-something
and heading for early retirement on the bohemian barrier island, Folly, near
Charleston, South Carolina, in the Folly Beach mysteries
Hilary Norman: Sam Becket, an
African-American homicide detective, and wife Grace Lucca, a child psychologist,
in Miami Beach, Florida
Brad Parks: Carter Ross, a 31-year-old
investigative reporter for the Eagle-Examiner, in Newark, New Jersey
Barbara Corrado Pope: Bernard
Martin, an investigating magistrate in late 19th century Provence, France
New series on the Ann Purser page:
Ivy Beasley, the cantankerous spinster from the Lois Meade series, and Gus,
a newcomer to the village of Barrington, England
Peter Rennebohm: non-series
mysteries
Chris Simms: Jon Spicer, a detective
inspector in Manchester, England
Jarkko Sipilä: Kari Takamäki,
supervising detective in the Violent Crimes Unit, in Helsinki, Finland, in
the Helsinki Homicide series
Charles Merrill Smith:
Reverend C.P. “Con” Randollph, a former professional football
quarterback, now minister of the Church of the Good Shepherd, housed in a
skyscraper where the penthouse serves as the manse, in Chicago, Illinois
Terrence Lore Smith: Webster
Daniels, a jewel thief and author, in Chicago, Illinois; Leo Roi, a lawyer
and criminal investigator, in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois (written
as Phillips Lore)
Mel Starr: Hugh de Singleton, a surgeon
in Bampton, near Oxford, during the reign of Edward III, in 14th century England
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2010
New series on the Lou Allin page: Holly Martin, a corporal in the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
Canada
Richard Asplin: Gold Dagger nominee
Belinda Bauer: Gold Dagger nominee
Sydney Bauer: David Cavanaugh, a criminal defense attorney in Boston,
Massachusetts
New series on the Christopher
Brookmyre page: Angelique De Xavier,
a police officer in Glasgow, Scotland
Karen Campbell: Anna Cameron, a police sergeant, later Chief Inspector,
in Glasgow, Scotland
Tania Carver (joint pseudonym of Martyn and Linda Waites): Philip
Brennan, a detective inspector in the Major Incident Squad, and Marina
Esposito, a psychologist, in Colchester, England
Rory Clements: John Shakespeare, an investigator and older brother
of Will, in Elizabethan (1580s-1590s) England
Simon Conway: Steel Dagger nominee
Daniel Depp: David Spandau, a former movie stuntman, now a private
investigator who specializes in serving Hollywood’s elite,
in Los Angeles, California
Patricia Duncker: Gold Dagger nominee
J.F. Englert: Randolph, a poetry-loving black Labrador, and Harry,
a struggling artist, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Bull Moose
Dog Run mysteries
Ryan David Jahn: New Blood Dagger nominee
Diane Janes: New Blood Dagger nominee
Simon Lelic: New Blood Dagger nominee
Lou Manfredo: Joe Rizzo, a veteran police detective, in Brooklyn,
New York City
Kate Morton: non-series historical mysteries
Richard Jay Parker: New Blood Dagger nominee
Randall Peffer: Cape Island mysteries, mainly involving characters
and locations around Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Craig Robertson: New Blood Dagger nominee
William Ryan: Alexei Korolev, a captain in the militia’s Criminal
Investigation Division under Stalin, in 1930s Moscow, Russia
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2010
Mark Abernethy: Alan “Mac” McQueen,
a true-blue Australian intelligence agent, in Southeast Asia and
Australia
Bunty Avieson: 2002 Ned
Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Lenny Bartulin: Jack
Susko, a used book dealer and amateur sleuth, in Sydney, Australia
Annette Blair: Madeira
Cutler, proprietor of a vintage clothing store in a former morgue
in Mystick Falls, Connecticut, in the Vintage Magic mysteries
Laurent Boulanger:
non-series mysteries
J.R. Carroll: Don Bartholomew,
an anti-hero, in Sydney, Australia; Dennis Gatz, a homicide detective,
in Melbourne, Australia
New series on the Sheila
Connolly page: Eleanor “Nell” Pratt, fundraiser
for The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques,
in the Museum mysteries
Sandy Curtis: non-series
romantic thrillers set in Australia
John Dale: non-series mysteries
set in Australia; true crime
Emma Darcy: K.C. Gordon,
a successful romance novelist, in Australia
Peter Doyle: Billy Glasheen,
a lurk merchant and milk bar cowboy, in post-WWII Sydney, Australia
New series on the David Ellis page:
Jason Kolarich, a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois
Susan Geason: Syd Fish,
a former political press secretary, now a private investigator, in
Sydney, Australia
Juan Gómez-Jurado:
Anthony Fowler, a former priest, CIA operative, and member of the
Vatican’s secret service
Jane R. Goodall: Briony
Williams, a rookie police officer, later a detective, in London,
later Oxford, England
New series on the Ed Gorman page:
Dev Conrad, a political consultant in Chicago, Illinois
Nancy Grace: Hailey Dean,
a former assistant district attorney in Atlanta, now a therapist
and TV personality in New York City
Wayne Grogan: non-series
set mostly in Australia
Jarad Henry: Rubens McCauley,
a maverick detective in the Criminal Investigation Unit in St. Kilda,
a suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Wendy James: 2006 Ned Kelly
Award for Best First Novel
Charles Kipps: Conor
Bard, a homicide detective in New York City
Malcolm Knox: 2005 Ned
Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Gabrielle Lord: Gemma
Lincoln, a private investigator specializing in insurance traces,
in Sydney, Australia; ack McCain, an ex-crime scene detective and
forensic scientist, in Sydney, Australia; Conspiracy 365 Young Adult
series
New series on the John
Lutz page: Frank Quinn, a former NYPD homicide detective, in
New York City
Andrew Masterson:
Joe Panther, a drug dealer, killer, messiah, and private investigator,
in Melbourne, Australia
Iain McDowall: Frank
Jacobsen, a detective chief inspector, and detective sergeant Ian
Kerr, in Crowby, in the Midlands of England
Andrew McGahan: non-series
set in Australia
Philip McLaren: non-series
set in Australia
Russel D. McLean: J.
McNee, a former cop, now private investigator, in Dundee, Scotland
Zygmunt Miloszewski:
Teodor Szacki, a world-weary state prosecutor in Warsaw, Poland
Carolyn Morwood: Marlo
Shaw, a professional female cricketer and amateur sleuth, in Melbourne,
Australia
Stuart Neville: Jack
Lennon, a detective inspector in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alex Palmer: Paul Harrigan,
a detective inspector in the New South Wales Police Force, later
a private security consultant, and his partner Grace Riordan, a detective
constable, later an undercover intelligence agent, in Sydney, Australia
Dorothy Porter: crime
novels in verse
A.E. Roman: Chico Santana,
a wisecracking private investigator on the outs with his wife, in
the Bronx, New York
Arlene Sachitano:
Harriet Truman, widowed and taking over her aunt’s quilting
business and home, in fictional Foggy Point, Washington, in the Loose
Threads mysteries; Harley Spring, a divorced single mother and supervisor
with Sil-Trac, a computer chip company, in Hillsboro, near Portland,
Oregon
Angela Savage: Jayne
Keeney, a 30-something Australian, former English teacher and private
investigator, in Bangkok, Thailand
Stephen Jay Schwartz:
Hayden Glass, a detective in the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division,
who also suffers from a sexual addiction, in Los Angeles, California
Lucy Sussex: 1997 Ned Kelly
nominee
Paul Thomas: Tito Ihaka,
a Maori detective sergeant, in Auckland, New Zealand
Steve Toltz: Ned Kelly
First Novel nominee
Cathi Unsworth: non-series
crime fiction
Lee Vance: non-series financial
thrillers
Chris Womersley: 2008
Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2010
New series on the Mignon
F. Ballard page: Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, a longtime first-grade
teacher during World War II, in Elderberry, Georgia
Jessica Beck: Suzanne
Hart, proprietor of a small town donut shop, with an ex-husband,
wacky friend, and hunky cop, in April Springs, North Carolina, in
the Donut Shop mysteries
Margaret Bevege: Elizabeth
Ludowski, a detective appointed to the Police Commissioner’s
Special Assignment Squad, in Queensland, Australia
Carmel Bird: Courtney Frome,
a sassy freelance journalist who investigates crimes, in Australia
Kirsty Brooks: Cassidy
Blair, a 29-year-old amateur sleuth, later private investigator,
in Australia
Jane Clifton: non-series
set in Australia
Cathy Cole: Nicola Sharpe,
a tall, tough 29-year-old private investigator, in the Balmain area
of Sydney, Australia
Stephen Gray: 2002 Ned
Kelly nominee
Fred Guilhaus: non-series
crime fiction
New series on the Peter
Guttridge page: Robert Watts, a disgraced chief constable in
mid-1930s Brighton, England, in the Brighton trilogy
Nicholas Hasluck:
non-series crime fiction
Anne Hawking: non-series
crime fiction
Michael Herrmann:
non-series crime fiction
Charlotte Hinger:
Lottie Albright, an editor for the county historical society in a
small town in western Kansas
New series on the Tami Hoag page:
Tony Mendez, a Sheriff's detective in mid-1980s Oak Knoll, California
Miranda James: Charlie
Harris, a widowed librarian, and Diesel, a Maine coon cat, in the
college town of Athena, Mississippi, in the Cat in the Stacks series
(Dean James pseudonym)
Catherine Jinks: non-series
crime fiction
Dorothy Johnston:
Sandra Mahoney, a government clerk, later a computer security consultant,
in Canberra, Australia
Randall Longmire:
John Morton and Regina Gardner, police detectives in Sydney, Australia
Mary-Rose MacColl:
non-series crime fiction
Two new series on the Adrian
Magson page: Harry Tate, an officer in MI5 sent to the Balkans
after a botched operation; Lucas Rocco, a police inspector in the
1960s, formerly in Paris, now in Poissons-les-Marais, in rural
northern France
Colleen McCullough:
Carmine Delmonico, a police lieutenant in a fictional mid-1960s college
town, Holloman, Connecticut
Jenn McKinlay: Melanie
Cooper and Angie DeLaura, operators of a cupcake bakery, Fairy Tale
Cupcakes, in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona; Brenna Miller, a decoupage
teacher in Morse Point, a small town in New England, in the Decoupage
Murder mysteries (written as Lucy Lawrence)
Camilla Nelson: 2009
Ned Kelly Nominee for Best First Novel
Tony Park: non-series thrillers
set in Africa
Sheldon Russell: Hook
Runyon, a railroad detective in mid-1940s Oklahoma
Fay Sampson: Suzie Fewings,
a genealogist discovering interesting secrets in her family history,
in England
Caroline Shaw: Lenny
Aaron, an ex-cop female private investigator and cat finder, who
is obsessed with Japan, in Melbourne, Australia
Andy Shea: non-series crime
fiction
New series on the Connie
Shelton page: Samantha Sweet, a caretaker for the USDA who
dreams of opening a pastry shop, in northern New Mexico
Steve J. Spears: Stella
Pentangeli, detective to the stars and producer of a web-zine, the
Pentangeli Papers, and Investigator Ng of the homicide squad, somewhere
in Australia
Emma Tom: non-series set in
Australia
Norb Vonnegut: non-series
financial thrillers
Dave Warner: Andrew “Lizard” Zirk,
a former rock star turned private investigator, based in Australia
Greg Wilson: non-series
mysteries
Anne Zouroudi: Hermes
Diaktoros, the Fat Man, a mysterious investigator from Athens, Greece
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2010
Milton T. Burton: non-series
set in Texas
Richard Castle: Nikki
Heat, a tough, sexy, professional NYPD homicide detective, in New
York City
Marcia Clark: Rachel Knight,
a 30-something deputy DA in the Special Trials Unit, in Los Angeles,
California
Rebecca M. Hale: Rebecca,
running an antique shop inherited from her Uncle Oscar, and her cats
Rupert and Isabella, in San Francisco, California, in the Cats and
Curios mysteries
Victoria Heckman:
Katrina Ogden (“K.O.”), a Honolulu police officer in
various locations in Hawaii
D.P. Lyle: Samantha (Sam)
Cody, a former LAPD officer, now a sheriff’s deputy in Mercer
Corner, California; Dub Walker, a former crime scene investigator
and consultant to the FBI’s Behavioral Assessment Unit, in
Huntsville, Alabama
Aly Monroe: Peter Cotton,
a British economic warfare agent in the mid to late 1940
David Montrose: Russell
Teed, a hard-drinking private investigator, in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
S.J. Parris: Giordano Bruno,
a monk, philosopher, and astronomer on the run from the Roman Inquisition,
serving as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I, in late 16th century England
Kwei Quartey: Darko Dawson,
a CID detective in Accra, Ghana
Roslund-Hellström:
Ewert Grens, a detective inspector, and Sven Sundkvist, a police
officer, in Stockholm, Sweden (Anders Roslund & Börge
Hellström)
John Vorhaus: non-series
mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2010
Avery Aames: Charlotte
Bessette, proprietor of Fromagerie Bessette, in fictional Providence,
Ohio, in the Cheese Shop mysteries
Esmahan Aykol: Kati Hirschel,
the 30-something German owner of the only mystery bookshop in Istanbul,
Turkey
Lorraine Bartlett: Katie
Bonner, manager of Artisans Alley and an amateur sleuth, in the Victoria
Square mysteries (L.L. Bartlett real name)
Noah Boyd: Steve
Vail, a renegade FBI agent who leaves the bureau to work as a bricklayer
in Chicago, and FBI deputy assistant director Kate Bannon who enlists
his help (Paul Lindsay pseudonym)
New series on the Nancy Bush page:
The Colony, a secretive, cultish group in Oregon, in a romantic suspense
series
Philip Carlo: non-series
mysteries; true crime
Joanna Challis: Daphne
du Maurier, a young aspiring author in 1920s Cornwall, England
David Champion: Bomber
Hanson, an ace trial lawyer, and his son and investigator, Tod, based
in fictional Angleton, on the central coast of California
Kent Conwell: Tony Boudreaux,
a private investigator based in Austin, Texas
Deborah Coonts: Lucky
O’Toole, a statuesque beauty in charge of customer relations
for the mega-casino Babylon Hotel, on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada
New series on the Stephen
Coonts page: Deep Black, a super-secret subagency within the
US National Security Agency
Elizabeth Spann Craig:
Myrtle Clover, an 80-something retired English teacher who writes
a newspaper column, in fictional Bradley, North Carolina; Lulu Taylor,
owner of Aunt Pat’s rib joint, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the
Memphis Barbeque mysteries written as Riley Adams
Jim DeFelice: Jake Gibbs,
an American lieutenant colonel and spy, working for General George
Washington during the Revolutionary War; Andy Fisher, an unorthodox
FBI Special Agent; books co-authored with Larry Bond, Dale Brown,
Stephen Coonts, and Richard Marcinko
New series on the Peter Helton page:
Liam McLusky, a detective inspector transferred from Southampton
to Bristol, England
Rosemary Herbert:
Liz Higgins, a reporter for the tabloid The Beantown Banner, in Boston,
Massachusetts
Keigo Higashino: non-series
crime fiction
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe:
Sadie Walela, daughter of a Cherokee father and white mother, and
a banker in the Cherokee Nation of northeastern Oklahoma
New series on the Maureen
Jennings page: the Season of Darkness trilogy, in the WW2 Midlands,
Shropshire, England
New series on the Linda
O. Johnston page: Lauren Vancouver head of HotRescues, a no-kill
animal shelter, north of Los Angeles, California
Solomon Jones: Karima “Cream” Thomas,
a young woman taking the fall for her drug-dealing boyfriend, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mary Kennedy: Maggie Walsh,
a Manhattan psychologist who takes a job as a radio talk show host
on WYME in the fictional south Florida town of Cypress Grove, in
the Talk Radio mysteries
K.J. Larsen: Cat DeLuca,
a private investigator operating the Pants On Fire Detective Agency
specializing in cheating spouses, in Chicago, Illinois
Ann Littlewood: Iris
Oakley, a zookeeper and amateur sleuth at Finley Memorial Zoo, near
Vancouver, Washington
Richard Marcinko:
Rogue Warrior, a fictional version of Dick Marcinko, ex-SEAL commander
and his team of commandos and operatives struggling with terrorists
and bad guys around the world (written with John Weisman and Jim
DeFelice)
Ken Mercer: Will MacGowen,
whose heroin addiction cost him his job as narcotics detective with
the LAPD, now police chief in the fictional rural town of Haydenville,
California
New series on the Douglas
Preston and Lincoln Child page: Gideon Crew, a former professional
thief, Ph.D. scientist at Los Alamos, New Mexico, with only a few
years to live, recruited by a super-secret organization
Philip Pullman: Sally
Lockhart, starting as a 16-year-old in 1872 London, England [YA historical
thrillers]
E.R. Punshon: Inspector
Carter and Sergeant Bell, a tortoise and hare team of Scotland Yard
detectives, in London, England; Bobby Owen, an Oxford graduate, starting
as a police constable, later a detective sergeant then Commander
of Scotland Yard, mostly in London, England
Craig Smith: Kate
Kenyon, a wealthy young English widow, and Thomas Malloy, a retired
CIA operative, mostly in Switzerland
Teresa Solana: Eduard
Martíez and Borja Masdéu, non-identical twins and partners
in Frau Consultants, an extralegal investigative agency, in Barcelona,
Spain
Donald Thomas: Alfred
Swain, a detective inspector at Scotland Yard in late 19th century
England; Sonny Tarrant, a gangster in 1930s-1940s London, England;
Sherlock Holmes short stories; William Verity, a detective sergeant
mostly in mid-19th century London, England (written as Francis Selwyn)
Peter Tonkin: William
Heritage, his daughter Robin, and son-in-law Richard Mariner, in
a modern international nautical thriller series; Tom Musgrave, the
Master of Defense, a sleuth in 1590s Elizabethan England
John Weisman: The Headhunters,
internal affairs officers after bad cops, in Detroit, Chicago, and
Los Angeles (written with Brian Boyer)
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2010
Wayne Arthurson: Leo
Desroches, born to a Cree mother, an Aboriginal Issues reporter with
gambling and drinking problems, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
New series on the Ace Atkins page:
Quinn Colson, an army ranger returning home from Afghanistan, in
rural northeast Mississippi
Dick Belsky: Lucy Shannon,
a newspaper reporter, in New York City; Jenny McKay, a 40-something
reporter at the lowest rated TV station in New York City
Sam Bourne: non-series thrillers
New series on the Simon
Brett page: Blotto, the Honourable Devereux Lyminster, and
his sister Twinks, in England in the 1920s
Cassandra Clark: Hildegard,
wealthy and recently widowed, who becomes an abbess in late 14th
century York, England, in the Abbess of Meaux mysteries
Gary Corby: Nicolaos, an
investigator in classical Athens, beginning in 461 BCE
Douglas Corleone:
Kevin Corvelli, a Manhattan criminal defense lawyer who moves to
Honolulu, Hawaii
Elizabeth Darrell:
Max Rydal, a military detective in the British Army’s Special
Investigation Branch, and his sidekick Tom Black, mostly in Europe
Paul Doiron: Mike Bowditch,
a game warden in the wilds of Maine
Christy Evans: Georgiana
Neverall, a software engineer turned plumber, returning to her old
home town of Pine Ridge, Oregon
Sibella Giorello:
Raleigh Harmon, FBI agent and forensic geologist who returns to her
hometown of Richmond, Virginia, in this Christian mystery series
Barry Grant: Sherlock Holmes,
who returns to the present after thawing from a Swiss glacier, and
James Wilson, a middle-aged British journalist
L.B. Greenwood: Sherlock
Holmes and Dr. Watson pastiches
Ed Ifkovic: Edna Ferber,
the author
New series on the Josh Lanyon page:
Christopher (Kit) Holmes, a gay bestselling mystery writer in decline,
and J.X. Moriarity, a former cop and bestselling novelist
Deborah J Ledford:
Steven Hawk, a sheriff’s deputy in the Great Smoky Mountains
of North Carolina
Clyde Linsley: Josiah
Beede, a war hero at the Battle of New Orleans, retired lawyer, and
New England farmer in 1830s US:
Judi McCoy: Ellie Engleman,
a professional dog walker who communicates psychically with dogs,
her adopted Yorkie Rudy, and her sometime boyfriend police detective
Sam Ryder, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Dog Walker mysteries
Maryann Miller: Sarah
Kingsly, a white homicide detective, and her new partner Angel Johnson,
a black detective, in Dallas, Texas
Boyd Morrison: non-series
disaster suspense thrillers
New series on the Amy Myers page:
Jack Colby, a car detective, in England
New series on the Tamar
Myers page: Amanda Brown, a young American missionary in the
Belgian Congo in the 1950s
Victor Ostrovsky:
non-series spy thrillers
Gail Oust: Kate McCall, a
retiree and her band of amateur sleuths at Serenity Cove Estates,
South Carolina, in the Bunco Babes mysteries
Hannah Reed: Story Fischer,
a beekeeper in the fictional small town of Moraine, Wisconsin,
in the Queen Bee mysteries (Deb Baker pseudonym)
Michael Robertson:
Reggie and Nigel Heath, solicitors with office space on Baker Street
in London, England
Paige Shelton: Becca
Robins, who makes jam on her farm and sells at her twin sister Alison’s
farmers market, in rural South Carolina, in the Farmer’s Market
mysteries
New series on the Clea
Simon page: Pru Marlowe, an animal psychic returning to her
hometown in the Berkshires, New York
Richard A. Thompson:
Herman Jackson, a bail bondsman and former Detroit bookie, in St.
Paul, Minnesota
New series on the Simon Tolkien page:
William Trave, a detective inspector, and Adam Clayton, a detective
constable, in late 1950s-1960s Oxford, England
Wendy Lyn Watson:
Tallulah “Tally” Jones, recently divorced and running
an ice cream shop (Remember the A La Mode) in Dalliance, Texas,
in the Mystery a la Mode series
Lois Winston: Anastasia
Pollack, a recently widowed mother of two teenaged sons, and crafts
editor for a popular women’s magazine, in northern New Jersey
Joyce Yarrow: Jo Epstein,
a private investigator and performance poet, based in Brooklyn, New
York City
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