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Authors and Characters Added in July 2014
New Ellery Adams series: Jane Steward, managing Storyton Hall, a retreat in rural western Virginia, in the Book Retreat mysteries (J.B. Stanley pseudonym)
Toby Ball: dystopian thrillers set in The City
R.G. Belsky: Gil Malloy, a discredited New York City reporter (Dick Belsky)
New Stephanie Bond series: Linda Guy Smith and Octavia Guy Habersham, estranged sisters taking over a faltering private detective agency in a strip mall, in Lexington, Kentucky, in the Two Guys Detective Agency series
New Duffy Brown series: Evie Bloomfield, a Chicago girl who takes over a bike shop on tiny Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the Cycle Path mysteries
Judith Campbell: Rev. Olympia Brown, a college chaplain and amateur sleuth, and her colleague, Father Jim Sawicki, in southeast Massachusetts
New Kate Carlisle series: Shannon Hammer, a contractor in fictional Lighthouse Cove in northern California in the Fixer-Upper mysteries
Anne Cleeland: Kathleen Doyle, a new detective, and Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair (Lord Acton), at Scotland Yard, in London, England
Jessie Crockett: Dani Greene, running her family’s maple syrup business in Sugar Grove, New Hampshire, in the Sugar Grove mysteries
A.D. Garrett: Professor Nick Fennimore, a troubled forensic expert hiding away in Scotland, and Kate Simms, a detective inspector, in Manchester, England (joint pseudonym of Margaret Murphy & Dave Barclay)
New Robert Goddard series: James “Max” Maxted, a former British Great War flying ace, involved in the post-war turmoil in 1919
Jennifer Hillier: Sheila Tao, a psychology professor at Puget Sound State University, near Seattle, Washington, in the Serial Killer Files
Holly Goddard Jones: non-series
New Merry Jones series: Elle Harrison, an elementary school teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Claire Kendal: non-series suspense
New Ward Larsen series: David Slaton, an Israeli-trained assassin known as a kidon
New Marco Malvaldi series: Pellegrino Artusi, Italy’s first celebrity chef, in Tuscany
Alyssa Maxwell: Emma Cross, a young second cousin to Cornelius Vanderbilt, working as a society page reporter, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island, in the Gilded Newport mysteries
Luke McCallin: Gregor Reinhardt, a German military intelligence captain in Yugoslavia during World War II
Jon McGoran: Doyle Carrick, a Philadelphia narcotics detective, and Nola Watkins, an organic farmer, in a series of eco-thrillers
Charley Memminger: Stryker McBride, a former crime reporter living on an expensive houseboat, The Travis McGee, in Hawaii
Bernard Minier: Martin Servaz, a police commandant from Toulouse, in the French Pyrenees
New Chris Nickson series: Tom Harper, a detective inspector in 1890s Leeds, England; Dan Markham, an enquiry agent in mid-1950s Leeds, England; Laura Benton, a music journalist beginning in late 1980s Seattle, Washington
E. Phillips Oppenheim: General Besserley, retired secret service officer from Washington, now in Monaco; ouis, a crippled veteran and maitre d’ of the Milan Hotel, and his friend Lyson, a retired army officer and journalist, in London, England
Gigi Pandian: Jaya Jones, a 30-something college history professor from San Francisco, California, searching for treasure around the world, in the Treasure Hunt mysteries; Zoe Faust, a centuries-old alchemist and herbalist, and her gargoyle sidekick, in Portland, Oregon
Kate Parker: Georgia Fenchurch, an antiquarian bookseller and member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators, in Victorian London, England, in the Victorian Bookshop mysteries
Penny Pike: Darcy Burnette, a downsized San Francisco restaurant reviewer working at her aunt Abby's Big Yellow School Bus food truck in the Food Festival mysteries (Penny Warner pseudonym)
Carole Price: Caitlyn (Cait) Tilson Pepper, an Ohio cop who inherits a vineyard with two Shakespearean theaters, near Livermore, California, in the Shakespeare in the Vineyard mysteries
Lori Rader-Day: non-series
Ann Rule: Ann Rule’s Crime Files; true crime
Ashwin Sanghi: non-series mythic-historical-conspiracy thrillers
N.P. Simpson: Fran Setliff, a young NCIS special agent, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Sharon L. Smith: Pete Culnane, a veteran police detective, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Sheri Cobb South: John Pickett, a Bow Street Runner, in Regency London, England
Linda Stasi: non-series
Triss Stein: Kay Engels, a nationally-known reporter based in Brooklyn, New York; Erica Donato, a young widow with a teenage daughter, working as an urban historian at a museum, in Brooklyn, New York
Adam Sternbergh: Spademan, a garbageman turned hitman, in a dystopian, post-bomb New York City
Roderick Thorp: Joe Leland, a burned-out ex-cop turned private investigator and security consultant, in fictional Port Smith in the northeast, and then in Los Angeles, California
Diane Vallere: Samantha Kidd, a former fashion buyer in New York turned amateur sleuth, returning to her home town, fictional Ribbon, Pennsylvania, in the Style & Error mysteries; Madison Night, an interior decorator who models her life on Doris Day, in Dallas, Texas, in the Mad for Mod mysteries; Polyester “Poly” Monroe, a dress designer inheriting her family’s textile store, in fictional San Ladrón, California, in the Material Witness mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2014
New Jo Bannister series: Gabriel Ash, a grief-stricken recovering mental patient, and Hazel Best, a young police constable, in Norbold, England
DD Barant: Jace Valchek, an FBI profiler who hunts killers in a world where only one percent of the population is human, in the Bloodhound Files urban fantasy series (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
William D. Blankenship: Kay Williams, an international antiques dealer based in Connecticut
Leigh Brackett: non-series crime fiction
Jackie Chance: Belinda Cooley, known as “Bee Cool,” a high-stakes poker player, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and elsewhere (Linda Zimmerhanzel pseudonym)
Donn Cortez: Crime Scene Investigation novels; Jack Salter, a killer who hunts down serial killers (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
Christopher R. Cox: Shamus nominee for best first novel
New Judith Cutler series: Jodie Welsh, a city career woman now married to a country vicar in Lesser Hogben, England
Marc Dugain: non-series crime fiction
Dawn Eastman: Clyde Fortune, on leave from the Ann Arbor police department, in fictional Crystal Haven, a small psychic-obsessed town in western Michigan, in the Family Fortune mysteries
Rory Flynn: Eddy Harkness, disgraced former head of Boston’s police drug squad, now emptying parking meters in Nagog, Massachusetts; non-series thrillers, capers, and apocalyptic novels, written as Stona Fitch
S.J. Gazan: biological science thrillers
Rashad Harrison: non-series historical mysteries
Rebecca James: non-series crime fiction
April Kelly & Marsha Lyons: Maureen O’Brien and Blake Ervansky, police sergeants and later private investigators, in Los Angeles, California
New Mary Kennedy series: Taylor Blake, a business consultant in dream interpretation, returning to Savannah, Georgia, in the Dream Club mysteries
Dana King: Ben Doc Dougherty and Willie Grabek, police detectives in the rural town of Penns River, Pennsylvania; Nick Forte, a private investigator around Chicago, Illinois
New Janice Law series: Francis Bacon, a gay artist, beginning as an air raid warden in World War II London, England
Elizabeth Lee: Lindy Blanchard, working on the family pecan farm and at the Nut House selling pecan treats in Riverville, Texas, in the Nut House mysteries (Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli pseudonym)
Dixie Lyle: Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster, assistant to a wealthy eccentric, her reincarnated cat Tango, and Whiskey, a shape-shifting dog in the Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot paranormal mystery series (Don DeBrandt pseudonym)
Edith Maxwell: Cameron (Cam) Flaherty, an organic farmer taking over her great-uncle’s farm, in rural Massachusetts, in the Local Foods mysteries
M. Ruth Myers: Maggie Sullivan, a private investigator in 1930s Dayton, Ohio
Daniel Pyne: non-series thrillers
Robert Raker: non-series
Mark Sanderson: Johnny Steadman, an investigative journalist, and Matt Turner, a detective constable at Snow Hill police station, in mid-1930s, London, England
Saskia Sarginson: non-series suspense and thrillers
Tina Seskis: non-series crime fiction
Patricia Stoltey: Sylvia Thorn, a circuit court judge in Palm Beach County, Florida
Wendy Tyson: Allison Campbell, an image consultant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Delilah Percy Powers, owner of an all-female detective agency, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (written as W.A. Tyson)
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2014
M.J. Arlidge: Helen Grace, a detective inspector in the south of England
Adam Brookes: non-series spy thrillers
Andrew Brown: Eberard Februarie, a police detective in the Cape Winelands of South Africa
New Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke series: Laurie Moran, creator of a cold case reality drama, Under Suspicion
Richard A. Clarke: non-series political-military thrillers
Michael Craven: non-series mysteries
Mason Cross: Carter Blake, a pseudonymous professional who finds people who don’t want to be found
Chris Culver: Ash Rashid, a reluctant homicide detective and practicing Muslim, in Indianapolis, Indiana
Jen J. Danna: Leigh Abbott, a state police homicide detective, and Matt Lowell, a forensic anthropologist, in in Massachusetts [written with Ann Vanderlaan]
Christine DeSmet: Ava Oosterling, owner of an old-fashioned fudge shop in Door County, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the Fudge Shop mysteries
Joël Dicker: non-series thrillers
Sean Ferrell: non-series sci-fi mysteries
Paul Finch: Mark “Heck” Heckenberg, a detective sergeant from Manchester, transplanted to the Serial Crimes Unit at Scotland Yard, in London, England
John Florio: Jersey Leo, an albino of mixed race working as a bartender at a mob-run speakeasy, in Prohibition-era Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
David Freed: Cordell Logan, a retired military assassin, civilian flight instructor, and would-be Buddhist, based in fictional Rancho Bonita, California
Rachel Howzell Hall: Elouise “Lou” Norton, a black woman homicide detective known as “Lockjaw”, in Los Angeles, California
New Sophie Hannah series: Hercule Poirot, a Belgian private detective in London, England, created by Agatha Christie, in a followup series authorized by Christie’s family
James R. Hannibal: Nick Baron, leading his covert Triple Seven Chase Team in a military techno-thriller series
Kim Harrison: Rachel Morgan, a bounty hunter and witch, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Hollows urban fantasy, mystery, horror series
Peter Heller: non-series
Mark Henshaw: Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke, working in the Red Cell, the CIA’s out-of-the-box think tank, in Langley, Virginia
New David Hewson series: Pieter Vos, a former police detective whose daughter disappeared, in Amsterdam, Holland
Jo A. Hiestand: Brenna Taylor, a detective inspector, and Chief Inspector Geoffrey Graham, in Derbyshire, England; Michael McLaren, an ex-cop brought back in to solve cold cases, in Derbyshire, England
Antonio Hill: Héctor Salgado, a transplanted Argentine police inspector, in Barcelona, Spain
Antonia Hodgson: Tom Hawkins, a country parson’ son in a debtors’ prison, in 1720s London, England
Chris F. Holm: Sam Thornton, collector of souls of the damned, in an urban fantasy crime pulp series
Jonathan Holt: Kat Tapo, a captain in the Carabiniere, unraveling a conspiracy between the CIA and the Catholic Church, in Venice, Italy, in the Carnivia trilogy
Arlene Hunt: Sarah Kenny and John Quigley, private investigators at QuicK Investigations, in Dublin, Ireland
New John McFetridge series: Eddie Dougherty, a young beat cop in 1970s Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Yannick Murphy: non-series literary suspense
New Chris Nickson series: John, an itinerant carpenter orphaned by the Black Death, in 1360s Chesterfield, England
Howard Norman: non-series literary-criminious novels
Andrew Peterson: Nathan McBride, a Marine Corps scout sniper and CIA operations officer
Robert Pobi: non-series thrillers
Kate Racculia: non-series mysteries
Todd Robinson: non-series mysteries
Rose Senehi: non-series suspense and mystery set in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains
Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour, a tabloid journalist, in 1990s Glasgow, Scotland
Abbie Taylor: non-series thrillers
Lesley Thomson: Stella Darnell, accidental detective and CEO of a cleaning company, Clean Slate, in London, England, in the Detective’s Daughter series
Christine Trent: Violet Harper, an undertaker in 1860s Victorian London, England, in the Lady of Ashes series
Jan Elizabeth Watson: non-series suspense
Edward Wilson: non-series Cold War spy fiction
Juli Zeh: non-series suspense and thrillers
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2014
Corban Addison: non-series thrillers addressing international human rights issues
John Altman: non-series thrillers
New Lin Anderson series: Patrick de Courvoisier, a private detective and his dog Oscar, living on a converted gunboat, in Cannes, France
John Brooke: Aliette Nouvelle, a single, 35-year old police inspector aiming for Commissaire, in an unnamed medium-sized city in Alsace, later the Midi, in France
John Bude: William Meredith, a police inspector, in England; Inspector Green, in England; Inspector Sherwood, in England
New Chelsea Cain series: Kick Lannigan, kidnapped at age six and trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist, and bomb maker by her abductor, now working to track down kidnapped children
New Dorothy Cannell series: Florence Norris, housekeeper at Mullings, the Stodmarsh family estate, in 1930s England
Steph Cha: Juniper Song, a Korean American Philip Marlowe fan and amateur (later apprentice) sleuth, in Los Angeles, California
New Douglas Corleone series: Simon Fisk, a former US Marshal working as a private contractor to find kidnapped children
New Charles Cumming series: Thomas Kell, a disgraced MI-6 officer, given a chance to redeem himself
New Hannah Dennison series: Kat Stanford, a TV celebrity, and her widowed mother Iris, living in a delapidated carriage house on the Honeychurch Hall country estate in Devon, England
New Anne Frasier series: Elise Sandburg, a homicide detective in Savannah, Georgia
Samantha Hayes: Lorraine Fisher, a detective inspector in England
New Keigo Higashino series: Kyochiro Kaga, a police detective in the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, in Tokyo, Japan
New Steve Hockensmith & Lisa Falco series: Alanis McLachlan, inheriting The White Magic Five & Dime, a new-age shop, from her estranged mother, in Berdache, Arizona, in the Tarot mysteries
New Mary Ellen Hughes series: Piper Lamb, owner of Piper's Picklings, a pickle store in the small town of Cloverdale, New York, in the Pickled and Preserved series
Siri Hustvedt: non-series literary suspense
Karen Keskinen: Jaymie Zarlin, a private investigator in Santa Barbara, California
Ted Lewis: Jack Carter, a mob hit-man in London, England
Charlie Lovett: non-series literary mysteries
New Stuart MacBride series: Ash Henderson, a detective constable in fictional Oldcastle, Scotland
New Becky Masterman series: Brigid Quinn, a former FBI agent who hunted sexual predators, retired in Tucson, Arizona
Richard Matheson: non-series noir
New Val McDermid series: Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case squad in Fife, Scotland
New Scott Phillips series: Bill Ogden, a frontier photographer and libertine, beginning in 1872
Cate Price: Daisy Buchanan, owner of Sometimes a Great Notion, a quirky shop silling sewing supplies, antiques, and jewelry, in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania, in the Deadly Notions mysteries
New Thatcher Robinson series: Bai Jiang, a prominent female 30-something Chinatown people-finder, in San Francisco, California, in the White Ginger mysteries
New Marcus Sakey series: Nick Cooper, a federal agent “brilliant” with the ability to read body language so easily that he knows what people are thinking, what they will do next, and when they are lying, in The Brilliance Saga
New L.J. Sellers series: Jamie Dallas, an FBI agent specializing in undercover assignments, based in Phoenix, Arizona
Barbara Taylor Sissel: non-series mysteries
New Susan Slater series: Dan Mahoney, an insurance investigator in New Mexico
Allan Topol: Craig Page, a former CIA agent fighting terrorism in Europe and elsewhere
Mark Troy: Val Lyon, an ex-cop, ex-con, former pro basketball player turned private investigator, in Honolulu, Hawaii; Ava Rome, a former Army investigator, now a private investigator in Honolulu, Hawaii
New Lea Wait series: Angie Curtis, returning home to Haven Harbor, Maine, in the Mainely Needlepoint mysteries
New Timothy Williams series: Anne Marie Laveaud, a French-Algerian judge in 1980s-1990s, in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe
Colin Wilson: Gerard Sorme, a modern Jack the Ripper, in London, England; Gregory Saltfleet, a police inspector in London, England; true crime
S.G. Wong: Lola Starke, a private investigator, and her ghostly helper, Aubrey, in a mid-1930s alternative history where ghosts are tethered to the living and the Chinese dominate Hollywood
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2014
Brynn Bonner: Sophreena McClure, a genealogist and her business partner Esme Sabatier, a psychic, in fictional Morningside, North Carolina, in the Family History mysteries
Amanda Carmack: Kate Haywood, a musician for royalty and a friend of young Princess Elizabeth, in mid-16th century England
Vaughn Entwistle: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Susan Hasler: Maddie James, part of a team of terrorism experts working in a crumbling intelligence agency in a post-9/11 world
Marco Malvaldi: Massimo, the owner of Bar Lume, and an ensemble cast of barflies, in a small coastal resort town near Pisa, Italy, in the Bar Lume series
Lawrence Osborne: non-series suspense
Suzanne Rindell: non-series
Sofie Ryan: Sarah Grayson, owner of Second Chance, a shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine, and her adopted cat Elvis, in the Second Chance Cat mysteries (Sofie Kelly pseudonym)
Christine Wenger: Trixie Matkowski, taking over her aunt’s Silver Bullet Diner, in a small town in upstate New York, in the Comfort Food mysteries
Elizabeth Wilson: Justine Hillyard and Myra Zone, investigating murders in England
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2014
Marc Cameron: Jericho Quinn, a special agent working for a secret agency combatting international terrorism
Gwen Florio: Lola Wicks, a foreign correspondent living in Magpie, Montana, after being downsized from her job in Kabul
New Amanda Flower series: Andora “Andi” Boggs, a 12-year-old science geek living with her older sister Bethany and their eccentric twenty-something aunt in a series for young adults
New Naomi Hirahara series: Ellie Rush, a Japanese-American rookie LAPD bicycle cop in Los Angeles, California
Kendel Lynn: Elliott Lisbon, the director of the Ballantyne Foundation, and a mostly amateur sleuth, studying for her private investigator license, on Sea Pine Island, South Carolina
Lynne Raimondo: Mark Angelotti, a psychologist who became blind due to a genetic disorder, in Chicago, Illinois
New Johnny Shaw series: Jimmy Veeder, a semi-reformed brawler in the desert of Southern California, near the Calexico/Mexicali border
LynDee Walker: Nichelle Clarke, an intrepid crime reporter, in a small town on the coast of Virginia, in the Headlines in Heels mysteries
New Sally Wright series: Jo Grant, an architect who returns home in 1962 to Lexington, Kentucky, to run the family broodmare farm
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2014
E.R. Brown: Tate MacLane, a 15-year-old trying to support his family who gets involved in growing medical marijuana in rural British Columbia, Canada, in the Crime in Cascadia mysteries
New Stephen Frey series: Troy Jensen, an operative for Red Cell Seven, a highly classified intelligence agency tasked with protecting America from the most catastrophic of terrorist attacks
Michael Hiebert: Abe Teal, the 11-year-old narrator, and his mother Leah, a widowed police officer, in late 1980s fictional Alvin, Alabama
Jens Lapidus: Stockholm Noir trilogy featuring the criminal underground in Stockholm, Sweden
Lisa Moore: non-series literary/psychological thrillers
Jan Merete Weiss: Natalia Monte, a captain in the Carabinieri, in Naples, Italy
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