Authors and Characters Added in January 2008

Karin Alvtegen: non-series mysteries set in Sweden

Ray Bradbury: An unnamed writer and amateur sleuth in Los Angeles, California

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde, poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France

Gordon Campbell: Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery

Gianrico Carofiglio: Guido Guerrieri, a jaded defense lawyer in Bari, Italy

Two new series on the Max Allan Collins page: Criminal Minds (TV Tie-in); Maggie Starr, America's most famous ex-striptease artist, running her late husband's newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City

New series on the William J. Coughlin page: Stoney Walsh in Detroit, Michigan

Two new series on the Judith Cutler page: Josie Welford, new owner of the White Hart Pub in Kings Duncombe, a West Country village, and Nick Thomas, a Food Standards Agency inspector, in England; Fran Harman, a Detective Chief Superintendent nearing retirement, in Kent, England

Stan Cutler: Rayford Goodman, a jaded, once-famous private investigator, and Mark Bradley, a gay writer of celebrity biographies, in Los Angeles, California

Gaylord Dold: Mitch Roberts, a private investigator in 1950s Wichita, Kansas

D.H. Dublin: Madison Cross, a former star medical student with the Crime Scenes Unit, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

P.S. Elsner: Nick Dallas, a young but retired cop in Detroit, Michigan, now a private investigator, in the 1950s

Tana French: Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery

Christopher Goffard: Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery

New series on the Ann Granger page: Lizzie Martin, a companion to a wealthy widow slum landlord, in 1860s London, England

Lois Greiman: Christina McMullen, a cocktail waitress turned professional psychologist, and homicide detective Jack Rivera, in Los Angeles, California

Isidore Haiblum: Tom Dunjer in the future; Sisco and Block in the future; James Shaw, a Jewish private investigator in New York City; Morris Weiss, a “Yiddish detective” at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City

New series on the Linda Hall page: Jake Rikker, a private investigator, kayak adventurer, and whale-watching tour guide specializing in salvage operations, in the mostly Christian town of Fog Point, Maine

Petra Hammesfahr: non-series

Vicki Hendricks: non-series set in Florida

Russell Hill: non-series mysteries, Edgar nominee for Best Paperback Original

New series on the Tami Hoag page: Elena Estes, an ex-cop turned horse trainer, in Palm Beach, Florida

David Hosp: Non-series legal thrillers:

Vicki Lane: Elizabeth Goodweather, a 50-something widow and proprietor of an herb and flower farm near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Appalachians

New series on the José Latour page: Elliot Steil, son of an American sugar magnate, later a professor of English at a Cuban college and then working in an import-export business, in Havana, Cuba

New series on the Wendi Lee page, written as W.W. Lee: Jefferson Birch, a former Texas ranger working for Tisdale Investigations, in the American West in the second half of the 19th century

Michael Lister: John Jordan, a prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida

James Macomber: John Cann, a Vietnam Special Forces veteran, now a US-based lawyer dealing with international legal issues and ethical dilemmas in Europe

John Martel: Non-series legal thrillers set in San Francisco, California

Craig McDonald: Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery

Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole, a police detective in Oslo, Norway

Derek Nikitas: Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery

Julie Parsons: Michael McLoughlin, a detective inspector, later retired, in Dublin, Ireland

Shari Shattuck: Callaway (Cally) Wilde, a wealthy socialite, and LAPD detective Evan Paley, in Los Angeles, California

Edward Sklepowich: Urbino McIntyre, an American expatriate writer and amateur sleuth, and his friend Barbara, Countess da Capo-Zendrini, in Venice, Italy

Caro Soles: non-series mysteries

Charlie Stella: non-series books centered in New York City

Jennifer Sturman: Rachel Benjamin, an investment banker and amateur sleuth, based in New York City

Susan Sussman and Sarajane Avidon: Morgan Taylor, a struggling actress in Chicago, Illinois, and on a Caribbean cruise ship

Frank Tallis: Max Liebermann, a psychoanalytic detective in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Austria

Michael Underwood: Simon Manton, a police inspector, later superintendent, in London, England; Martin Ainsworth, in England; Richard Monk, a lawyer in England; Nick Atwell, a police sergeant at Scotland Yard, and detective constable Clare Reynolds, in London, England; Rosa Epton, a solicitor in London, England

Martyn Waites: Stephen Larkin, a London tabloid journalist whose wife and baby were murdered, now back in his hometown of Newcastle, England; Joe Donovan, a former investigative journalist whose son has disappeared, in Newcastle, England

Kevin Wignall: non-series mysteries, Edgar nominee for Best Paperback Original

Dirk Wyle: Ben Candidi, a free-spirited, nature-loving biomedical scientist, and Rebecca Levis, a medical student, later MD, in Florida, Washington, DC, and elsewhere

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Authors and Characters Added in February 2008

Tasha Alexander: Lady Emily Ashton, young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England

Maggie Barbieri: Alison Bergeron, a newly divorced English professor at St. Thomas, a small Catholic college in the Bronx, New York City

Ronan Bennett: non-series mysteries

Grace Brophy: Alessandro Cenni, a maverick state police commissario, in Assisi, Umbria, Italy

Rick Copp: Jarrod Jarvis, a former child-star and gay amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California, and London, England

Caroline Cousins: Cousins Margaret Ann Matthews, Bonnie Lynn Tyler, and Lindsey Fox, at Pinckney Plantation on fictional Indigo Island, South Carolina

Ellen Crosby: Lucie Montgomery, operating her family’s winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country mysteries

Michael Delving: Dave Cannon, a Connecticut Yankee, in rural Gloucestershire, England, and in Wales; Bob Eddison, a Cherokee Indian, Dave Cannon’s partner, in rural Gloucestershire, England

Richard Doetsch: Michael St. Pierre, a master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe

New series on the Loren D. Estleman page: Page Murdock, a deputy US Marshal in 1880s American West (and Canada)

Timothy Fuller: Jupiter Jones, a Harvard fine arts instructor and amateur sleuth, in Boston, Massachusetts

Kathleen George: Richard Christie, a homicide detective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Noreen Gilpatrick: Kate MacLean, a police detective in the Seattle, Washington, area

Donald Goines: Kenyatta, a small-time hoodlum rising to lead an organization devoted to eliminating white cops and ridding the ghetto of drugs and prostitution, in Detroit, Michigan, and Las Vegas, Nevada

Kate Green: Theresa Fortunato, a tarot-reading psychic, and Oliver Jardine, a police detective, in Los Angeles, California

Michael Gruber: Iago “Jimmy” Paz, a Cuban-American cop, in Miami, Florida, and elsewhere

Patricia Gussin: Laura Nelson, a medical student in late 1960s Detroit, Michigan, later a surgeon, in 1970s Tampa, Florida

New series on the Tami Hoag page: Sam Kovac, a hard-boiled police detective, and his wisecracking partner Nikki Liska, in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Vicky Hunnings: William “Shark” Morgan and Dell Hassler, police detectives in Hilton Head, Beaufort County, South Carolina

James Patrick Hunt: Evan Maitland, a former police detective, now running an antique business and moonlighting as a bounty hunter, based in Chicago, Illinois; George Hastings, a police lieutenant in St. Louis, Missouri

Iceberg Slim: White Folks, a black man able to “pass” and con whites

New series on the Michael Innes page: Charles Honeybath, a detective at Scotland Yard, in London, England

Claude Izner: Victor Legris, a bookseller in late 19th century Paris, France

Henry Kisor: Steve “Two Crows” Martinez, a Lakota Indian by birth, eastern white by upbringing, and deputy sheriff in Porcupine City, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Suzann Ledbetter: Hannah Garvey, a former advertising executive managing the upscale Valhalla Springs retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks

S.L. Linnea: Major Jaime Richards, a US Army chaplain in Iraq, searching for Eden

Lisa Lutz: Isabele “Izzy” Spellman, a 28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation firm, in San Francisco, California

Edward Mathis: Dan Roman, a private investigator, in east Texas

Cody McFadyen: Smoky Barrett, an FBI agent who was badly scarred by another serial killer, in Los Angeles, California

Kate Morgenroth: non-series mysteries

Steve Mosby: non-series mysteries

Sylvia Nobel: Kendall O’Dell, a reporter at a small-town newspaper in fictional Castle Valley, Arizona

Asa Nonami: non-series mysteries

Richard Parrish: Joshua Rabb, a Jewish lawyer in late 1940s and early 1950s working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and privately, in Tucson, Arizona

John Pilkington: Thomas Finbow, a master falconer in late 16th century London and Berkshire, England; Ben Button, a boy actor with Lord Bonner’s Men, in Elizabethan England (juvenile)

Danuta Reah: non-series mysteries, also written as Carla Banks

Sara Rosett: Ellie Avery, an Air Force wife and professional organizer, in the Mom Zone mysteries

Marcus Sakey: Non-series crime novels set in Chicago, Illinois

Jean Sheldon: Kerry Grant, a police detective and computer guru, in Chicago, Illinois

Shelley Smith: Jacob Chaos, a police inspector, in England

Roz Southey: Charles Patterson, a determined but impoverished musician in 18th century Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

Jim Stinson: Spencer Churchill (Stoney) Winston, a filmmaker at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain, screenwriter, and film workshop teacher, in Los Angeles, California

David Stone: Micah Dalton, a “cleaner” for the CIA, roaming the world to fix up Company messes

New series on the Mark Terry page: Derek Stillwater, a bioterrorism expert with the US Department of Homeland Security

Leslie Thomas: “Dangerous” Davies, a detective constable in north London, England

Robert Upton: Amos McGuffin, a hard-drinking, golf-playing private investigator, based in San Francisco, California (also in Los Angeles and New York City)

Clarissa Watson: Persis Willum, an artist and art gallery assistant, in Long Island, New York, and France

Carolyn Weston: Casey Kellogg, an ex-surfer college-grad detective, teamed with Al Krug. a seasoned cop of the old school, in Santa Monica, California

Robin A. White: non-series mysteries

William P. Wood: legal thrillers

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