Authors and Characters Added in February 2015

Annette Dashofy: Zoe Chambers, a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Vance Township, Pennsylvania

New Laura DiSilverio series: Amy-Faye Johnson, running an event-planning business and member of the Readaholics Book Club, in Heaven, Colorado

Krista Foss: non-series crime fiction

Tod Goldberg: Michael Westen, a covert spy who goes private, in the Burn Notice TV novelization series

Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston, a former Air Force wife, now divorced from the police chief in Ellington, Massachusetts, in the Garage Sale mysteries

D.E. Ireland: Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the flower girl and professor, as amateur sleuths in early 20th century London, England (Meg Mims & Sharon Pisacreta pseudonym)

Jerusha Jones: Meredith Morehouse, a former city girl and curator of the Imogene Museum, in Platts Landing, along the Columbia River, in Washington; Nora Ingram-Sheldon, whose husband is a fugitive criminal, in Mayfield, Washington

Peyton Marshall: non-series crime fiction

New Edward Marston series: Peter and Paul Skillen, twin detectives in 18th century London, England, in the Bow Street Rivals series

Terrie Farley Moran: Mary “Sassy” Cabot and Bridget Mayfield, owners of Read ’Em and Eat, a bookstore and café in Fort Myers Beach, in the barrier islands of the Florida Gulf Coast

Susan O’Brien: Nicki Valentine, a widow with two kids, training to be a private investigator, in suburban Washington, DC

New Jon Redfern series: Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, in early 1840s London, England

Tracy Weber: Kate Davidson, a yoga instructor, in Seattle, Washington, in the Downward Dog mysteries

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Authors and Characters Added in January 2015

Lisa Alber: Merrit Chase, a Californian searching for relatives in Ireland, in the County Clare mysteries

Alex Barclay: Joe Lucchesi, a police detective in New York City; Ren Bryce, an FBI agent based in Denver, Colorado

Julia Dahl: Rebekah Roberts, a reporter in New York City, looking for her mother in the Brooklyn Hasidic community

Craig Davidson: non-series noir and thrillers; non-series thriller/horror written as Patrick Lestewka; non-series thrillers and terror written as Nick Cutter

Eva Dolan: Detective Inspector Zigic and Detective Sergeant Ferreira, of the underfunded Hate Crimes Unit, in Peterborough, England

Helen FitzGerald: Krissie Donald, who becomes a parole officer in Scotland

Thomas Hinde: non-series mysteries

Alan Hruska: non-series legal thrillers

Hans Olav Lahlum: Kolbjorn Kristiansen (K2), a detective inspector, and his wheelchair-bound assistant Patricia, starting in late 1960s, Oslo, Norway

C.B. McKenzie: Rodeo Grace Garnet, a former bronc rider working as a private detective, in a remote corner of Arizona

Kira Peikoff: non-series futuristic scientific-medical thrillers

Chapman Pincher: non-series mysteries

David Putnam: Bruno Johnson, an ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict

Anthony Quinn: Celcius Daly, a Catholic detective inspector, in Belfast, Northern Ireland; W.B. Yeats, the poet, during World War I, in Ireland

New Ian Sansom series: Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, researching a history of England, with a guide to each county, assisted by his daughter Miriam, and Spanish Civil War vet Stephen Sefton, in late 1930s England

Mel Sherratt: Allie Shenton, a detective sergeant, in Stoke-on-Trent, England; the Estate thriller saga series, on the notorious Mitchell Estate, in the fictional city of Stockleigh, England

Andy Siegel: Tug Wyler, a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, in New York City

David Thorne: Daniel Connell, a disgraced ex-City (London) lawyer now scraping a living in Essex, England

Lisa Turner: Billy Able, a police detective, in Memphis, Tennessee

Sterling Watson: non-series mostly set in Florida

Holly West: Isabel, Lady Wilde, a mistress to King Charles II, who also works as the fortune-teller Mistress Ruby, in 1670s London, England

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