Authors
and Characters Added in May 2008
New series on the Patricia
Cornwell page: Win Garano, mixed-race state investigator, and Monique
Lamont, District Attorney, in Boston, Massachusetts
Jon Evans: non-series mysteries
Reg Gadney: Alan Rosslyn, a private investigator in England and elsewhere
in Europe
New series on the Dean R. Koontz page: Odd Thomas, a fry cook who can
communicate with the dead, in the fictional small town of Pico Mundo,
California
New series on the Jayne Ann
Krentz page: Arcane Society, a secret organization
devoted to paranormal research (some books written as Amanda Quick)
Stieg Larsson: the Millenium trilogy
Conyth Little: non-series mysteries
Kaye Morgan: Liza Kelly, a former publicist in Hollywood, now a sudoku
columnist for a paper in her hometown of Maiden’s Bay, Oregon,
in the Sudoku mysteries
Francis M. Nevins: Loren Mensing, a law-school professor, in St. Louis,
Missouri; Milo Turner, a con-man and private investigator, in St. Louis,
Missouri
Geoffrey Norman: Morgan Hunt, a Vietnam vet, ex-con, private investigator
working for a crusading lawyer, in Pensacola, Florida
New series on the Barbara
Parker page: C.J. Dunn, a flashy criminal
attorney in Miami, Florida
Andrew Pyper: non-series mysteries
R.T. Raichev: Antonia Darcy, a librarian at the Military and Naval Club,
and grandmother, along with Major Hugh Payne, in London, England
Jon Redfern: non-series mysteries
Jan Rehner: non-series mysteries
Christopher Rice: non-series mysteries
Peter Steiner: Louis Morgon, a Middle East policy expert dismissed from
the CIA, taking refuge in France
Ilona Van Mil: non-series mysteries
Michael Walters: Nergui, ex-head of the Serious Crime Squad, in Ulan
Bator, Mongolia
Chris Wiltz: Neal Rafferty, a third-generation cop turned private investigator,
in New Orleans, Louisiana
Eve Zaremba: Helen Keremos, a 40-something lesbian private investigator
and former intelligence operative based in Vancouver, British Columbia,
also operating in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and elsewhere
Mark Zuehlke: Elias McCann, the reluctant community coroner, in Tofino,
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Authors
and Characters Added in April 2008
New series on the Rick Acker page: Ben Corbin, a lawyer in Chicago,
Illinois, in Christian legal thrillers
New series on the Harold Adams page: Kyle Champion, a former TV news
anchor, now a private investigator
Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen, a 40-something divorcée running
a coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds, with two women friends in the small
fictional town of Brookhills, Wisconsin
Lorna
Barrett: Tricia Miles,
running a mystery bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, and the cat
Miss Marple, in fictional small-town Stoneham, New Hampshire, a town
full of bookstores (L.L. Bartlett pseudonym)
Peter Blauner: non-series mysteries
Nicholas Blincoe: non-series mysteries
Kyril Bonfiglioli: Charlie Mortdecai, a dishonest art dealer who consorts
with international crooks, and his sidekick Jock Strapp, in England
New series coauthored by Ken
Bruen and Jason Starr: Max Fisher, a
wealthy businessman, and Angela Petrakos, his sexy assistant, starting
out in New York City
Pat Burden: Henry Bassett, a retired Detective Chief Superintendent,
in Herefordshire, England
Mark Burnell: Stephanie Patrick, a druggie and prostitute turned government
assassin, in Europe and elsewhere
Francis Clifford: non-series mysteries
Natalie R. Collins: non-series mysteries; Jenny T. Partridge, founder
of the premier dance academies in Ogden, Utah, in the Dance mysteries
(written as Natalie M. Roberts)
Sarah D’Almeida:
D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, of Dumas fame, serving
the king in 17th century France, in the Musketeers mysteries
K.O. Dahl: Gunnarstranda and Frank Frolich, police in Oslo, Norway
Mark De Castrique: Sam Blackman, a former Chief Warrant Officer in
the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military who lost
part of his leg in Iraq, in Asheville, North Carolina
Ben Elton: non-series mysteries
New series on the Inger
Frimansson page: Justine
Dalvik, in Hässelby, Sweden
Pip Granger: Rosie Featherby, a child raised by her Aunt Maggie and
Uncle Bert running a Soho cafe in early 1950s London, England
Michael Gregorio: Hanno Stiffeniis, a magistrate in the Napoleonic
era, in early 1800s Konigsberg, Prussia
Melodie Johnson Howe:
Claire Conrad, a tall, elegant private investigator, and her sassy
assistant, Maggie Hill, in Los Angeles, California, and New York City
Elizabeth Ironside: non-series mysteries
Susanna Jones: non-series
mysteries
Denis Kilcommons: Peter Lacey, in Spain and elsewhere
New series on the Diana
Killian page: A.J. (Anna Jolie) Alexandra,
a 30-something marketing consultant in Manhattan, New York, in the
Yoga mysteries
New series on the Jon Land page:
Michael Tiranno (The Tyrant), Mafia connected owner of the Seven Sins,
a Los Vegas casino
William Landay: non-series mysteries
Jonathan Lethem: non-series
mysteries
William F. Love: Francis
X. Regan, a wheelchair-bound Catholic Bishop, and his assistant David
Goldman, a Jewish ex-cop private eye, in New York City
Desmond Lowden: non-series mysteries
Mary E. Martin: Harry Jenkins, a lawyer in a small wills and estates
firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Osgoode Trilogy
Adrian Mathews: non-series mysteries
Seicho Matsumoto: non-series mysteries
John McEvoy: Jack Doyle,
a failed ad-man and reluctant sleuth working in the horse-racing world,
based in the Chicago, Illinois area
Eoin McNamee: non-series mysteries; Jack Valentine, a middle-aged
British intelligence agent in the 1970s, in Ireland and elsewhere (written
as John Creed)
Nicholas Meyer: Sherlock Holmes, from the posthumous memoirs of Dr.
Watson, in the 1890s in Europe
Dreda Say Mitchell: non-series mysteries
New series on the Ian
Morson page: Niccolò Zuliani, a Venetian
businessman turned bodyguard at the court of Kubilai Khan in 1262
New series on the Terri Persons page: Bernadette “Cat” Saint
Clare, an FBI agent with paranormal powers, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Henry Porter: non-series mysteries
Robert Richardson: Augustus Maltravers, a journalist turned playwright
and novelist, in fictional Vercaster, England
Trevor Scott: Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA
officer, taking care of business in Europe and elsewhere; Tony Caruso,
a private investigator working out of his home-office in an old Ford
pickup, with his German-trained bomb-sniffing dog Panzer, a Giant Schnauzer,
in Bend, Oregon; Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin, weapons experts, in
the Hypershot thrillers
José Carlos Somoza: non-series mysteries
New romantic suspense series on the Mariah
Stewart page: Mallory Russo,
ex-cop private investigator, and Charlie Wanamaker, former Philadelphia
detective, in Conroy, Pennsylvania
Terri Thayer: Dewey Pellicano, who inherits her mother’s quilt
shop Quilter Paradiso, in San Jose, California, in the Quilting mysteries;
Stamping Sisters mysteries
Sarah Waters: non-series mysteries
Anton White: non-series mysteries
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and Characters Added in March 2008
Aileen Baron: Lily Sampson, a young American graduate student archeologist,
in late 1930s and early 1940s Jerusalem and Morocco
Francis Beeding (John Palmer & Hilary Saunders): Professor Kreutzemark,
in Switzerland and Spain; Alistair Granby, a Colonel, later General,
in the British Intelligence Service in England and occasionally on
the Continent; Wilkins, a police inspector, in England; George Martin,
a police inspector, in England; James de la Cloche in the 1600s (written
as David Pilgrim)
Josephine Bell: Dr. David Wintringham, Inspector Steven Mitchell of
Scotland Yard, and barrister Claude Warrington-Reeve, in
England; Dr. Henry Frost, in England; Amy Tupper, an amateur sleuth
in London, England
Maureen Carter: Bev Morriss, a lippy but loveable detective sergeant
in Birmingham, England
New series on the William
Deverell page: Arthur Beauchamp, a scholarly,
self-doubting lawyer retired as a hobbyist farmer on Garibaldi Island,
off the coast of British Columbia, Canada
New series on the Kathy Lynn Emerson page, writing as Kaitlyn
Dunnett:
Liss MacCrimmon a 20-something dancer forced into early retirement
by a knee injury, helping at her aunt’s Scottish store, in Moosetookalook,
Maine
Charles Finch: Charles Lenox, a gentleman sleuth, in 1860s London,
England (Agatha nominee
for Best First Novel)
Jack Fredrickson: Vlodek “Dek” Elstrom,
a private investigator with a failed marriage and battered reputation,
in Chicago, Illinois (Shamus finalist
for Best First P.I. Novel)
New series on the Meg
Gardiner page: Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist,
in San Francisco, California
Beth Groundwater: Claire Hanover, 40-something proprietor of a gift-basket
business, in Colorado Springs, Colorado (Agatha nominee
for Best First Novel)
Palma Harcourt: non-series
mysteries; George Thorne, a Detective Superintendent in the Thames
Valley police, in England (written as John Penn); Dick Tansey, a Chief
Inspector in the Thames Valley police, in England (written as John
Penn)
Ray Harrison: Joseph Bragg, a down-to-earth detective sergeant, and
James Morton, an upper-crust constable, in 1890s London, England
New series on the Libby
Fischer Hellmann page: Georgia Davis, an ex-cop
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
Mick Herron: Zoë Boehm, a 40-something private investigator in
Oxford, England
Maria Hudgins: Dotsy Lamb, a recently divorced ancient and medieval
history professor from Virginia, with her friend Lettie, traveling
in Europe
New series on the Peter
King page: Ned Parker, hansom cab driver in
1870s London, England
Roberta Kray: Gangland novels in London, England
Ronald Levitsky: Nate Rosen, a civil liberties lawyer from Washington,
DC, taking cases in Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Illinois
Richard Marinick: non-series set in the mean streets of South Boston,
Massachusetts
Stephen Marlowe: Chester Drum, an ex-FBI agent private investigator,
venturing around the world; Brian Guy, a private investigator, in New
York City (written as Jason Ridgway)
Hope McIntyre: Lee Bartholomew, a ghostwriter in London, England,
and then Long Island, New York
Joan Opyr: Wilhelmina “Bil” Hardy, a baby dyke in Cowslip,
Idaho
New series on the P.J. Parrish page: Joe Frye, the only female homicide
detective in the Miami-Dade Police Department (and Louis Kincaid’s
lover), in Miami, Florida
Julian Rathbone: Colonel Nur Bey, a policeman in Turkey; Jan Argand,
a police commissioner in Brabt, a fictional European country; Renata
Fechter, head of a squad of eco-cops in Germany; Chris Shovelin, a
down-at-the-heals 50-something British private investigator, in California
and Kenya
Deanna Raybourn: Lady
Julia Grey, recently widowed, in 1880s London, England (Agatha
nominee for Best First Novel)
Derek Raymond: A police detective-sergeant in the Factory, Department
A14 — Unexplained Deaths, in Soho, London, England
New series on the Cornelia
Read page: Madeline Dare, former dubutante
in 1980s New York and Massachusetts
New series on the Matthew
Reilly page: Jack West, Jr., an adventurer
from the Australian Outback
Sandra Ruttan: Craig Nolan, Ashlyn Hart, and Tain, police constables
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Hank Phillippi Ryan:
Charlotte “Charlie” McNally, a 40-something
TV investigative reporter, in Boston, Massachusetts (Agatha nominee
for Best First Novel)
New series on the Walter
Satterthwait page: Lizzie Borden, three decades
after her acquittal of the axe-murder of her father and stepmother
Roger Silverwood: Superintendent Cawthorn, in England; Michael Angel,
a detective inspector in Bromersley, South Yorkshire, England
Fran Stewart: Biscuit McKee, a librarian, and her cat, Marmalade,
in Martinsville, a small town in northern Georgia
Duane Swierczynski: non-series mysteries
Edwin Thomas: Martin Jerrold, a lieutenant in the British Navy in
the early 1800s, in the Reluctant Adventures trilogy; Demetrios Askiates,
a former bounty hunter and bodyguard, in service to the Byzantine Emperor
in late 11th century Constantinople, in the First Crusade trilogy (written
as Tom Harper)
Livia J. Washburn: Lucas Hallam, a stuntman and former Texas Ranger,
in the 1920s; Phyllis Newsom, an elderly amateur sleuth and pie expert,
in Weatherford, Texas, in the Fresh-Baked mysteries
Dennis Wheatley: Duke de Richleau, an exiled French monarchist, along
with “Modern Musketeers” Richard Eaton, a conservative
Christian Englishman, Simon Aron, a liberal Jew, and American Rex Van
Ryn, from 1894-1960; Gregory Sallust, a British agent battling Nazis,
sometimes by occult mean; Julian Day, seeking revenge against those
who ruined his career; Roger Brook, a special agent for Prime Minister
William Pitt, from 1783-1815, in Europe, Asia, and the America; Molly
Fountain, a widowed Englishwoman and thriller writer after WWII, on
the French Riviera
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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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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: Rob Ryan and
Cassie Maddox, police detectives in Dublin, Ireland (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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