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Authors and Characters Added in January 2010
Alvin Abram: Gabe Garshowitz,
a Jewish homicide detective, and his beautiful young partner, Iris
Forester, a detective constable, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the
Ackerman-Zwonarz trilogy, historical mystery and saga of the Jewish
Ackerman family and the Catholic Zwonarz family, starting in 1921
in Lodz, Poland
Bevan Amberhill: Jean-Claude Keyes, an actor, writer, and amateur
sleuth, at the Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Mike Befeler: Paul Jacobson,
an 80-something amateur sleuth, in the Geezer-Lit series
Lisa Appignanesi: Marguerite de Landois, in 1899-1990 Paris, France
Robert Arellano: 2010 Edgar Best Paperback Original nominee
Sam Baker: Annie Anderson, a tabloid feature writer now fashion
editor at Handbag Magazine, based in London, England
Samm Sinclair Baker: Clark Clark Clark, in New York City
Jane Bow: non-series mysteries
Mel Bradshaw: non-series set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J.D. Carpenter: Campbell Young, a racetrack-loving homicide detective,
later a private investigator, and his friend Priam Harvey, a racetrack
journalist, mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
C.J. Carver: Jay McCaulay, former captain in the Paras, now working
with TRACE, tracking down missing children in war zones
Vera Caspary: non-series mysteries
Cassandra Chan: Jack Gibbons, a detective sergeant at Scotland Yard,
and Phillip Bethancourt his rich friend, man-about-town from university
days, in London, England
Jim Christy: Gene Castle, a private investigator in late 1930s to
1945 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Peter Clement: Dr. Earl Garnet, the Emergency Room Chief at St.
Paul’s Hospital, in Buffalo, New York; Richard Steel, a widowed
burned-out ER doctor with a teen-age son, and world-renowned geneticist
Kathleen Sullivan, in New York City
Martin S. Cohen: non-series mysteries
E.J. Copperman: Alison
Kerby, a guesthouse owner with two unexpected guests (ghosts) in
her newly acquired Jersey Shore Victorian, in the Haunted Guesthouse
mysteries (Jeffrey Cohen pseudonym)
Eileen Coughlan: non-series mysteries set in Canada
David Cristofano: 2010 Edgar Best First Novel nominee
Ursula Curtiss: non-series mysteries
David Laing Dawson: Dr. Robert Snow, at a psychiatric hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland, and then Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Karen Dudley: Robyn Devara, a field biologist, ecologist, and amateur
sleuth, based in western Canada
Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan, a manicurist and expatriate
Canadian living in Llanelen, Wales
Ruth Fenisong: Gridley Nelson, a rich, Princeton-educated homicide
lieutenant, later captain, in New York City
Trevor Ferguson: non-series mysteries; Emile Cinq-Mars, a detective
sergeant of French and Indian extraction, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(written as John Farrow)
Barbara Fister: Anni Koskinen, an ex-cop private investigator,
in Chicago, Illinois
Irene Fleming: Emily Dagett Weiss, a struggling young movie-maker
in the early 20th century, in Fort Lee, New Jersey (Kate Gallison
pseudonym)
Roy French: Daniel Riordan, the Raven, once the most feared paramilitary
enforcer in Ireland; Patrick Kelly, a Vietnam War veteran, involved
in IRA struggles
Rick Gadziola: Jake Morgan, a disgraced Boston police officer turned
blackjack dealer in Las Vegas, Nevada
Maurice Gagnon: Deirdre O’Hara, a lawyer specializing in marine
insurance cases, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tim Gautreaux: 2010 Edgar Best Novel nominee
Joseph Mark Glazner: Billy Nevers, operating in the dangerous world
of high finance, high crime, and expensive women, in New York City
and elsewhere; Evan Paris, NOT a private investigator, in Los Angeles,
California (written as Joseph Louis)
William Gibson: the
Sprawl trilogy and the Bridge trilogy, science fiction cyber-thrillers
with some recurring characters
Paul Grescoe: Dan Rudnicki,
a Ukrainian-Canadian widower with two teenage daughters, working
for TransWorld Security, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
New series on the Jackie
Griffey page: Maggie Murphy, a recently
widowed 24-year-old, whose dead husband’s ghost Horace hangs
around, and patrolman Joe Driver, in Memphis, Tennessee
Heather Gudenkauf: 2010 Edgar Best First Novel nominee
Margaret Haffner: Catherine Edison, a biologist, in fictional Kingsport,
Ontario, Canada
John Spencer Hill: Carlo Arbati, a poet and police inspector
Anne Hocking: William Austen, a chief inspector, later Superintendent,
at Scotland Yard, in London, England
Brendan Howley: non-series mysteries
Stuart Langford: Will Burns, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Levenson: Mary Magruder Katz, a half Jewish, half Southern
Baptist criminal defense attorney, in Miami, Florida
Allan Levine: Sam Klein, a street-wise Jewish immigrant and private
investigator, in 1911-1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Charles St.
Clair, a journalist in 1870s New York City
Sophie Littlefield:
Stella Hardesty, a 50-year-old widow who suffered domestic violence,
running a sewing shop and helping other abused women, in a small
town in Missouri; 2010 Edgar Best First Novel nominee
Attica Locke: 2010 Edgar
Best First Novel nominee
Tom Lowe: Sean O’Brien, a recently widowed former Miami homicide
detective, now living with his dachshund Max on the St. John’s
River, in Florida
New series on the Eric
Van Lustbader page: Jack McClure, an ATF
agent, and Special Advisor and closest friend to the President of
the United States
H. Mel Malton: Polly Deacon, escaping Toronto for a cabin in the
back woods, somewhere in Canada and elsewhere; Alan Nearing, an 11-year-old
sleuth in Canada (YA written as Mel Malton)
New series on the Nancy Martin page: Roxana “Roxy” Abruzzo,
an independent-minded niece of a Mafia boss with a teenage daughter,
in the architectural salvage business, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
New series on the Nigel McCrery page: Mark Lapslie, detective chief
inspector, and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, in Essex, England
Paul Nathan: Bert Swain, a divorced middle-aged writer and head
of public relations at a Manhattan medical research center, in New
York City
Stuart Neville:
2009 Dilys Award finalist
David Parry & Patrick Withrow: Harry Bracken, a former CIA agent
working as an insurance investigator, in New York and New England
Edward O. Phillips: Geoffrey Chadwick, an acerbic, single, gay,
50-something corporate lawyer based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
John Reeves: Andrew Coggin, a detective inspector, and sergeant
Fred Sump, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Helen Reilly: Christopher McKee, known as the “Scotsman,” a
police inspector, later head of Manhattan’s homicide squad,
mostly in New York City
John Lawrence Reynolds: Joe McGuire, a detective lieutenant in Boston,
Massachusetts, who drops out in the Bahamas from time to time
Alexandra Roudybush: non-series mysteries
Robert J. Sawyer: The sentient WWW (World Wide Web) trilogy; Sci-fi
mysteries
Stephen Jay Schwartz: 2010 Panik Award finalist
Chris Scott: non-series mysteries
Carol Shields: non-series
Jeffrey Siger: Andreas
Kaldis, a former Athens homicide detective, now the new police chief
on Mykonos Island, Greece
John Worsley Simpson: Harry Stark, a curmudgeonly homicide detective,
who listens to jazz and has a reclusive cat, in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Brad Smith: non-series mysteries
Jennifer Stanley:
Cooper Lee, a newly single office machine repair woman in Richmond,
Virginia, in the Hope Street Church mysteries (real name of J.B.
Stanley)
Betsy Struthers: Rosalie Cairns, a bookstore clerk turned academic,
in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Richard J. Thomas: D.B. Murphy, an ex-blacksmith private investigator
in the 1920s-1930s, in the Georgian Bay port town of Owen Sound,
Ontario, Canada
L.C. Tyler: Ethelred Tressider,
a mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle,
in West Sussex, England; 2010 Edgar Best Paperback Original nominee
Cathy Vasas-Brown: non-series mysteries
Gregory Ward: non-series mysteries
New series on the Penny
Warner page: Presley Parker, a former abnormal
psychological university professor who opens a party planning business
in San Francisco, California, in the Party Planning mysteries
New series on the Nancy
Means Wright page: Mary Wollstonecraft,
the 18th century English feminist, working as a governess at Mitchelstown
Castle, in County Cork, Ireland; the Northern Spy Club children’s
mysteries
Scott Young: Matteesie Kitologitok — “the great brain
of Arctic crime” — an Inuit inspector in the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, based in the Northwest Territories of Canada
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