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Authors and Characters Added in June 2022
Alice Bienia: Jorja Knight, a private investigator, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
New Ellen Byron series: Ricki James, a 28-year-old widow who leaves Los Angeles and launches Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Vintage Cookbook mysteries
New Karen Charlton series: The York Ladies’ Detective Agency mysteries set in 1940 York, England
Aaron Philip Clark: Paul Little, an ex-con returning to a life of crime, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Trevor “Finn” Finnegan, a black LAPD detective, later a private investigator, in Los Angeles, California
Eloísa Díaz: non-series
Jackie Elliott: Andrea “Andi” Silvers, once a star reporter, starting over in Coffin Cove, a fishing village on the Vancouver coast, in British Columbia, Canada
New Mark Greaney series: Joshua Duffy, a former military contractor Close Protection Agent (professional bodyguard) working as a mall cop in Virginia after losing his lower left leg
New John Grisham series: Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct
Cheryl A. Head: Charlene “Charlie” Mack, a former Homeland Security agent, now a private investigator running Mack Investigations, in Detroit, Michigan, in the Motown mysteries
New John Keyse-Walker series: Henry Gore, a former midwesterner who works as a private investigator in 1950s Havana, in the Cuban Noir series
Heather Levy: non-series
New G.M. Malliet series: Augusta Hawke, a widowed best-selling mystery author in a small villiage in Virginia
Nev March: Jim Agnihotri, an Anglo-Indian British Army Captain, beginning in 1892 Bombay, India, and then Boston, Massachusetts
Stewart O’Nan: non-series
Jane Pek: Claudia Lin, an investigator for Veracity, a discreet agency that verifies the truth of online dating profiles, in New York City
Eric Redman: non-series
Marie Rutkoski: non-series
Robert Thorogood: Richard Poole, a detective inspector from London, seconded to the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, in the Death in Paradise series; Judith Potts, a septuagenarian crossword compiler, Suzie Harris, a dog-walker, and Becks Starling, the vicar’s wife, on the River Thames, in England, in the Marlow Murder Club series
New Simon Toyne series: Tannahil Khan, Detective Chief Inspector with the North London Murder Squad
New M.J. Trow series: Geoffrey Chaucer, Comptroller of the King’s Woollens and court poet, beginning in 1380 England
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2022
Taylor Adams: non-series thrillers
Mally Becker: non-series
Jessica Chiarella: non-series
New Michael Craft series: Dante O’Donnell, a concierge for vacation rental company Sunny Junket, and Jazz Friendly, a cop turned PI, in Palm Springs, California
New Jessica Ellicott series: Billie Harkness, a constable in the new women's police constabulary unit in Hull, England, beginning in 1940
Fiona King Foster: non-series
Lori Duffy Foster: Lisa Jamison, a newspaper reporter, in Seneca Springs, New York
Amanda Jayatissa: non-series thrillers
Dietrich Kalteis: non-series
Shari Lapena: non-series domestic suspense
Philip Miller: non-series
New Boyd & Beth Morrison series: Gerard Fox, an ex-communicated English knight, and Lady Isabel of Kentworth, beginning in 1351
Judy L. Murray: Helen Morrisey, a real estate agent, in a small town on Chesapeake Bay, in Port Anne, Maryland
A.E. Osworth: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2022
New Kelley Armstrong series: Mallory Atkinson, a police detective in present-day Vancouver, Washington, who wakes up in the body of an illiterate housemaid in 1869 Edinburgh
New David Baldacci series: Aloysius Archer, a decorated WWII vet working as a private investigator for a detective agency in Bay Town, California, beginning in 1949
David Guterson: non-series
Stephen Graham Jones: Jade Daniels, a half-Blackfeet slasher film fan from the small town of Proofrock, Idaho, on the shores of Indian Lake
Alma Katsu: non-series
Hervé Le Tellier: non-series
New Catherine Lloyd series: Lady Caroline Morton, compelled by circumstances to become a lady’s companion, in Regency England, in the Miss Morton mysteries
New Guillermo Martínez series: G, an Argentine student of mathematical logic at Oxford University
New Carol Miller series: Hope and Summer Bailey, sisters who run Bailey’s Boutique, a mystic shop in Asheville, North Carolina, in the Fortune Telling mysteries
Rob Osler: Hayden McCall, a 25-year-old five foot four gay redhead, and Hollister, a tall curvy Black lesbian with a six-inch mohawk, in Seattle, Washington
New Gigi Pandian series: Tempest Raj, a magician who was almost killed onstage when one of her illusions didn't work as expected, in the Secret Staircase mysteries
Cherie Priest: Leda Foley, owner of Foley’s Far-Fetched Flights of Fancy travel agency with unreliable psychic abilities, and police detective Grady Merritt in Seattle, Washington, in the Booking Agents series
Nita Prose: non-series
Antti Tuomainen: Henri Koskinen, loses his job as an insurance mathematician and inherits an adventure park near Helsinki, Finland
Colson Whitehead: the Harlem Trilogy
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2022
Andrea Bartz: non-series
New Janet Evanovich series: Gabriela Rose, a globe-trotting insurance fraud investigator
New John Sandford series: Letty Davenport, a researcher for the Department of Homeland Security, and Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter
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Authors and Characters Added in January and February 2022
Tove Alsterdal: Eira Sjödin, a young police detective in northern Sweden, in the High Coast series
Yasmin Angoe: Nena Knight, stolen as a child from her village in Ghana, now an elite assassin for a business syndicate called the Tribe
Gabriel Bergmoser: non-series thrillers set in Australia
Elizabeth Breck: Madison Kelly, a private investigator, in San Diego, California
Marco Carocari: non-series
New Jennifer J. Chow series: Yale Yee and her cousin Celine from Hong Kong, who open a food stall at a night market in Los Angeles, California
Katherine Cowley: Mary Bennet (the middle sister in Pride and Prejudice), involved in intrigue and spying for the British government, in the Secret Life of Mary Bennet series
Abigail Dean: non-series
Erin Flanagan: non-series
Tracy Gardner: Savanna Shepherd, a former art authenticator, now teaching art in grade school after moving back to her hometown, near her sisters, on the east side of Lake Michigan in the Shepherd Sisters mysteries; Avery Ayers, moving back home to Lilac Grove, New York, to take over the family Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised business in New York City, in the Antique Mystery series
Daryl Gregory: non-series
Carolyn Jess-Cooke: non-series; non-series thrillers written as C.J. Cooke
Callie Hutton: Lady Amy Lovell, a celebrated mystery author, in 1890s Bath, England, in the Victorian Bookclub mysteries
Thomas Kies: Geneva Chase, a veteran reporter, starting on Long Island, New York
Brian Klingborg: Lu Fei, a police inspector in rural China
Vera Kurian: non-series
Will Leitch: non-series
Robert J. Lloyd: Harry Hunt, assistant to Robert Hooke, Curator of Experiments at the new Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, beginning in 1678 London, England
David McCloskey: non-series
Taylor Moore: Garrett Kohl, a DEA agent fighting off drug cartels, on the high plains of Texas
Fabian Nicieza: Andie Stern, a suburban mother of five and former FBI profiler, and Kenneth Lee, a disgraced local journalist, in West Windsor, New Jersey
C.S. O’Cinneide: Candace Starr, an ex-con former contract killer turned private investigator, and her friend Chien-Shiung Malone, a police detective
Elizabeth Penney: Iris Buckley, managing her apron shop, Ruffles & Bows, in Blueberry Cove, Maine, in the Apron Shop series; Molly Kimball, and her mother Nina, helping Aunt Violet run the family bookshop, in Cambridge, England, in the Cambridge Bookshop series
Laura Purcell: non-series gothic suspense
Raquel V. Reyes: Miriam Quiñones-Smith, a Cuban-American cooking show star, sleuthing in Miami, Florida, in the Caribbean Kitchen mysteries
Kat Rosenfield: non-series
Connor Sullivan: non-series
JoAnne Tompkins: non-series
P.J. Vernon: non-series thrillers
Caitlin Wahrer: non-series
Beatriz Williams: Schuyler Sisters mysterious family saga, in 1912 Europe and 1964 New York City; Wicked City series, featuring two generations of women in a Greenwich Village apartment, a flapper and a modern-day Manhattanite
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2021
Ashley Audrain: non-series
New Lisa Gardner series: Frankie Elkin, a recovering alcoholic who travels the country searching for missing people, particularly minorities
Chris Hadfield: non-series
New Joanne Harris series: psychological suspense set in St. Oswald’s Grammar School for Boys in North Yorkshire, England
New Cynthia Kuhn series: Lucy and Emma Starrs, sisters running the Starlit Bookshop in Silvercrest, Colorado
New Lilja Sigurðardóttir series: Áróra, a half-Icelandic financial investigator living in the UK, returning to Iceland to find her older sister Ísafold
Wanda M. Morris: non-series
Nora Page: Cleo Watkins, a 70-something librarian, in Catalpa Springs, Georgia, in the Bookmobile mysteries (Ann Myers psuedonym)
New Daniel Pyne series: Aubrey Sentro, a former CIA agent
New Qiu Xiaolong series: Dee Renjie (Judge Dee), Empress Wu’s Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire in 7th Century China, in the Judge Dee Investigations
Hansjörg Schneider: Peter Hunkeler, a police inspector, in Basel, Switzerland
New M.J. Trow series: Margaret Murray, the real-life British archeologist, beginning in 1900 London, England
Jeff VanderMeer: sci-fi speculative thrillers
Brandon Webb & John David Mann: Chief Finn, a Navy SEAL sniper with a mysterious past Top
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