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Authors and Characters Added in July 2025

New Susan M. Boyer series: Carolina Tales, set on Sulivan’s Island, a beachside town just outside Charleston, South Carolina

New Ann Cleeves series: Detective Jimmy Perez, now settled in Orkney, the group of islands off the northern coast of Scotland, with his partner Willow Reeve

New Mette Ivie Harrison series: Ada Latia, a young autistic amateur sleuth

New Thomas Enger & Johana Gustwsson series: Kari Voss, an Oslo police consultant psuchologist and expert on body language and memory known as ”the human lie detector”

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Authors and Characters Added in June 2025

Katarina Bivald: a Swedish mystery writer who has adventures

New Michelle Chouinard series: Capri Sanzio, the granddaughter of a convicted serial killer, raising tuition money by conducting serial killer tours of San Francisco, in the Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco mysteries

Laura Dave: Hannah Hall, whose husband Owen Michaels disappears, leaving her to protect her stepdaughter Bailey

Ashley Elston: non-series, YA mysteries

Jessie Garcia: non-series thrillers

Katy Hays: non-series

Louise Hegarty: non-series

Carinn Jade: non-series

New Claire M. Johnson series: Maggie Laurent, secretary for the Moore Detective Agency in 1930s San Francisco, California, in the Fog City Noir mysteries

New Ragnar Jónasson series: Helgi Reykdal, a young detective at the Reykjavik police department with a passion for Golden Age detective stories

Rachel Kushner: non-series

Laila Lalami: non-series

New Roz Noonan series: Alice Pepper, a senior citizen with a talent for figuring out people and jigzaw puzzles in the small town of West Hazel, Oregon, in the Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club mysteries

Tracy Sierra: non-series

New Karin Slaughter series: Emmy Clifton, a police officer in the small town of North Falls, Georgia, in the North Falls thrillers

Tom Spencer: non-series

Zoe B. Wallbrook: Daphne Ouverture, a young professor of European History, specializing in French colonialism, at elite Harrison University

New Darcie Wilde series: Princess Victoria, the future Queen as an amateur sleuth, beginning when she is fifteen (Sarah Zettel pseudonym)

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Authors and Characters Added in May 2025

Kimberly Belle: non-series

S.J. Bennett: Queen Elizabeth II, secretly solving crimes, in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series

Emily Critchley: non-series

Sue Hincenbergs: non-series

Bonnie Kistler: non-series

New Alan Orloff series: Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the run-down Fairfax Manor Inn, in Fairfax, Virginia

Lizzie Pook: non-series

Jason Rekulak: non-series

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson: Patrick Bird, a police academy burnout turned private detective, in 1960s Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Liann Zhang: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in April 2025

Jessica Bull: Jane Austen, secret author and amateur sleuth, beginning in 1795 England, in the Miss Austen Investigates series

Amelia Diane Coombs: Remi Finch, a nervous millennial user-interface designer, and her two older sisters Eliana and Maeve, in The Finch Sisters mysteries

Jaime deBlanc: non-series

Elizabeth Heider: non-series

New Alan Parks series: Joseph Gunner, former detective, home after being wounded on front lines of France, in 1941 Glasgow, Scotland

Marie Tierney: non-series

Kevin Wade: non-series

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Authors and Characters Added in February-March 2025

New Robert Jackson Bennett series: Ana Dolabra, a brilliant and eccentric investigator for the Empire of Khanum, and her assistant Dinios Kol, genetically altered to have the power of total recall, in the Shadow of the Leviathan fantasy-mystery series

New Tamara Berry series: Amber Winslow, a budding private investigator staying with her eccentric grandmother in the luxurious Seven Ponds Retirement Community in Draycott, Arizona, in the Seven Ponds mysteries

New Michelle Gagnon series: Amber and Grace, who bond over being stalked by a serial killer

New Rachel Howzell Hall series: Sonny Rush, who left the LAPD to work as a PI with her godfather Ivan Poole in the beach town of Haven, California, in the Haven thrillers

Sarah Harman: non-series

New Rob Hart series: Mark, an elite killer known as the Pale Horse, now retired and attending Assassins Anonymous in New York City

Jess Kidd: Sister Nora Breen, leaving her monastery to search for a former novice who has disappeared, beginning in 1954

Asia Mackay: non-series

Adam Oyebanji: Greg Abimbola, a former MI5 undercover agent, now hiding as a Russian language teacher at the elite Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Quiet Teacher series

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Authors and Characters Added in January 2025

New Ellen Byron series: Dee Stern, a former TV sitcom writer in LA, now running a motel in Foundgold, California, in the  Golden Motel mysteries

Sarah Easter Collins: non-series

Ally Condie: non-series

New Tori Eldridge series: Makalani Pahukula, after 10 years in Oregon, returns to her family home on Kaua’i, as a park ranger at Kealia Forest Reserve

Nicolás Ferraro: non-series

New Victoria Gilbert series: Jennifer “Jen” Dalton, an author and educator at Clarion University, in Virginia, in the Campus Sleuth mysteries

Kerri Hakoda: non-series

Audrey Lee: non-series

David Lewis: Caitrin Colline, a Welsh coalminer’s daughter, in a female-driven counterespionage unit, organized by Winston Churchill in World War II, in the Secret Churchill Files

C.L. Miller: Freya Lockwood, an Antiques Verifier, and her eccentric Aunt Carole, based in Little Meddingtown, England, in the Antique Hunter mysteries

Jennifer K. Morita: non-series

New Richard Osman series: Steve Wheeler, retired from investigative work, and his daugther-in-law Amy Wheeler working in private security, racing around the world

Tom Ryan: non-series

Danielle Trussoni: Mike Brink, a celebrated puzzle solver in New York City who was transformed from a normal teenager into a mathematical genius by a brain injury

Charlotte Vassell: Caius Beauchamp, a detective inspector in London, England

New Laura Jensen Walker series: three WWII Royal Air Force air ambulance nurses — Maeve, Etta, and Betty — in the Nightingale mysteries

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