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Authors and Characters Added in November 2022
Christi Daugherty: Harper McClain, a crime reporter, in Savannah, Georgia; Emma Makepeace, a spy in the British Secret Service (written as Ava Glass); YA written as C.J. Daugherty
New Barry Eisler series: Dox, a former Marine sniper, beginning in 1991
Ramona Emerson: non-series
New Gwen Florio series: Julia Geary, a public defender in the small community of Duck Creek in an unspecified state
New John MacLachlan Gray series: police officer Calvin Hook, freporter Ed McCurdy, and eavesdropping telephone operator Mildred Wickstram, beginning in 1924 Vancouver, Canada
New Roy Johansen series: Jessie Mercado, a private detective in San Diego (spin-off from Kendra Michaels series co-authored with Iris Johansen)
New David Mark series: Cordelia Hemlock, a disgraced academic recruited by MI6, beginning in 1968 Scotland
Peter Mohlin & Peter Nyström: John Adderley, an FBI Agent (half Nigerian, half Swedish) in witness protection after being exposed as an undercover agent by a Nigerian drug cartel
New Caro Ramsay series: Detective Constable Christine Caplan, seconded to the Highlands of Scotland after a minor misdemeanour
New Jeri Westerson series: Will Somers, court jester for King Henry VIII, beginning in 1529, in the King’s Fool series
New Reavis Z. Wortham series: Tom Bell, a Texas Ranger beginning in 1931
New James W. Ziskin series: Danny Jacobs, an American journalist on a new assignment in Bombay, India, beginning in 1975  Top
Authors and Characters Added in October 2022
Eliza Jane Brazier: non-series; non-series YA gothic fiction written as Eliza Wass
James Byrne: Desmond Aloysius Limerick, known as Dez, a recently retired military contractor and bass guitar player, traveling around America
New Charles Cumming series: Lachlan “Lockie” Kite, the operational commander of the secret Anglo-American spy unit known as BOX 88
New Mark de Castrique series: Ethel Fiona Crestwater, a legendary 75-year-old retired FBI agent, in Arlington, Virginia
New Christopher Chambers series: Dickie Cornish, a former homeless drug addict now working as an unlicensed priviate investigator in Washington DC
New David Hewson series: Arnold Clover, a retired archivist assisting the Carabinieri, in the Venetian mysteries
Lark O. Jensen: Stacie Calder, a tour boat guide in Alaska, in the Alaska Untamed mysteries (Linda O. Johnston pseudonym)
New Andrew Klavan series: Cameron Winter, a former spy for a covert government entity called the Division, now an English professor at a Midwestern university
New Clare Mackintosh series: Detective Constable Ffion Morgan of the North Wales Police
New Cindy Sample series: Sierra Sullivan, a former entertainer and cruise director, relocating to Spindrift Cove, Washington, to be near her daughter Melanie, who works for the Spendrift Cove police department, in the Spindrift Cove mysteries
Jeremy Scott: non-series
Gustaf Skördeman: Sara Nowak, a police detective in Stockholm, Sweden
Frederick Weisel: four detectives in Santa Rosa, California: Steve Frames, Eddie Mahler, Daniel Rivas, and Eden Somers, in the Violent Crime Investigations Team mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in September 2022
Jonathan Ames:
Happy “Hank” Doll, a former Los Angeles police officer now working as a private detective
Emma Bamford: non-series
Tom Benjamin: Daniel Leicester, an English private detective working for Faidate Investigations in Bologna, Italy
New Amanda Flower series: Emily Dickenson, the poet, sleuthing in Amherst, Massachusetts, beginning in 1855
Tom Mead: Joseph Spector, a retired stage magician assisting Scotland Yard Inspector George Flint with “impossible” crimes, beginning in 1936 London, England, in the Locked-Room mysteries
Harini Nagendra: Kaveri Murthy, a young doctor’s wife with a passion for mathematics and a talent for detection, beginning in 1921 Bangalore, India, in the Bangalore Detectives Club mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in August 2022
Lisa Barr: non-series historical art thrillers
New Laurien Berenson series: Peg Turnbull, a dog show judge, and her sister-in-law Rose Donovan, a former nun married to a former priest, in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the Senior Sleuths mysteries
Zac Bissonnette: Cindy Cooper and Jay Allan, co-owners of Hooray for Hollywood, a movie memorabilia store in Palm Springs, California, in the Hollywood Treasures series
Tamron Hall: Jordan Manning, an ambitious Black crime reporter for a television station in Chicago, Illinois
New Ausma Zehanat Khan series: Inaya Rahman, a Denver police detective sent to solve murders in immigrant communities, in Colorado
Danya Kukafka: non-series thrillers
Ellery Lloyd: non-series thrillers
Robbie Morrison: Jimmy Dreghorn, a police inspector, in 1932 Glasgow, Scotland
Rahul Raina: non-series
Katharine Schellman: Lily Adler, a young widow determined to create a meaningful single life in London society, beginning in 1815 London, England; Vivian Kelly, an orphan living with her serious and practical older sister Florence in a tenement, escaping each night to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall serving illegal drinks, beginning in 1924 New York City, in the Nightingale mysteries
Samira Sedira: non-series
Peng Shepherd: non-series mystery fantasy thrillers
New Viveca Sten series: Hanna Ahlander, a police officer in the ski resort town of Åre, Sweden, in the Åre Murders series Top
Authors and Characters Added in July 2022
Tariq Ashkanani: police detectives in a small, troubled town, Cooper, Nebraska
New Lisa Black series: Ellie Carr, a forensic expert with the FBI evidense response team in Washington DC, and Rachael Davis, with the Locard Institute forensic lab, in the Locard Institute thrillers
Veronica Bond: Nora Drake, an actress in a murder-mystery troupe performing in Castle Dark in Wood Glen, Illinois, in the Dinner and a Murder Mystery series (Julia Buckley pseudonym)
Jacqueline Bublitz: non-series
Simone Buchholz: Chastity (“Chas”) Riley, a public prosecutor, in Hamburg, Germany
Jillian Cantor: non-series, mostly historicals
W.H. Flint: non-series
Janice Hallett: non-series
Kōtarō Isaka: the Hitman series
New David Lagercrantz series: Michaela Vargas, a Swedish police officer, and Professor Hans Rekke, a specialist in interrogation techniques
New Denise Mina series: Anna McDonald, whose husband Hamish has just left her for Estelle her best friend, and Fin Cohen, Estelle's estranged husband, chasing across Europe, in the Anna and Fin mysteries
Sacha Naspini: non-series
Karin Nordin: Kjeld Nygaard, a suspended police detective, returning to his home town in Northern Sweden
New Mark Pryor series: Inspector Henri Lefort, beginning in 1940 Paris, France
Sascha Rothchild: non-series Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
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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