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Authors and Characters Added in August 2010
Mark Abernethy: Alan “Mac” McQueen, a true-blue Australian
intelligence agent, in Southeast Asia and Australia
Bunty Avieson: 2002 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Lenny Bartulin: Jack Susko, a used book dealer and amateur sleuth,
in Sydney, Australia
Annette Blair: Madeira Cutler, proprietor of a vintage clothing
store in a former morgue in Mystick Falls, Connecticut, in the Vintage
Magic mysteries
Laurent Boulanger: non-series mysteries
J.R. Carroll: Don Bartholomew, an anti-hero, in Sydney, Australia;
Dennis Gatz, a homicide detective, in Melbourne, Australia
New series on the Sheila
Connolly page: Eleanor “Nell” Pratt,
fundraiser for The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques,
in the Museum mysteries
Sandy Curtis: non-series romantic thrillers set in Australia
John Dale: non-series mysteries set in Australia; true crime
Emma Darcy: K.C. Gordon, a successful romance novelist, in Australia
Peter Doyle: Billy Glasheen, a lurk merchant and milk bar cowboy,
in post-WWII Sydney, Australia
New series on the David Ellis page: Jason Kolarich, a lawyer in
Chicago, Illinois
Susan Geason: Syd Fish, a former political press secretary, now
a private investigator, in Sydney, Australia
Juan Gómez-Jurado:
Anthony Fowler, a former priest, CIA operative, and member of the
Vatican’s secret service
Jane R. Goodall: Briony Williams, a rookie police officer, later
a detective, in London, later Oxford, England
New series on the Ed Gorman page: Dev Conrad, a political consultant
in Chicago, Illinois
Nancy Grace: Hailey Dean, a former assistant district attorney in
Atlanta, now a therapist and TV personality in New York City
Wayne Grogan: non-series set mostly in Australia
Jarad Henry: Rubens McCauley,
a maverick detective in the Criminal Investigation Unit in St. Kilda,
a suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Wendy James: 2006 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Charles Kipps: Conor Bard, a homicide detective in New York City
Malcolm Knox: 2005 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Gabrielle Lord: Gemma Lincoln, a private investigator specializing
in insurance traces, in Sydney, Australia; ack McCain, an ex-crime
scene detective and forensic scientist, in Sydney, Australia; Conspiracy
365 Young Adult series
New series on the John Lutz page: Frank Quinn, a former NYPD homicide
detective, in New York City
Andrew Masterson: Joe Panther, a drug dealer, killer, messiah, and
private investigator, in Melbourne, Australia
Iain McDowall: Frank Jacobsen, a detective chief inspector, and
detective sergeant Ian Kerr, in Crowby, in the Midlands of England
Andrew McGahan: non-series set in Australia
Philip McLaren: non-series set in Australia
Russel D. McLean: J. McNee, a former cop, now private investigator,
in Dundee, Scotland
Zygmunt Miloszewski: Teodor Szacki, a world-weary state prosecutor
in Warsaw, Poland
Carolyn Morwood: Marlo Shaw, a professional female cricketer and
amateur sleuth, in Melbourne, Australia
Stuart Neville: Jack Lennon, a detective inspector in Belfast, Northern
Ireland
Alex Palmer: Paul Harrigan, a detective inspector in the New South
Wales Police Force, later a private security consultant, and his
partner Grace Riordan, a detective constable, later an undercover
intelligence agent, in Sydney, Australia
Dorothy Porter: crime novels in verse
A.E. Roman: Chico Santana, a wisecracking private investigator on
the outs with his wife, in the Bronx, New York
Arlene Sachitano:
Harriet Truman, widowed and taking over her aunt’s
quilting business and home, in fictional Foggy Point, Washington,
in the Loose Threads mysteries; Harley Spring, a divorced single
mother and supervisor with Sil-Trac, a computer chip company, in
Hillsboro, near Portland, Oregon
Angela Savage: Jayne Keeney, a 30-something Australian, former English
teacher and private investigator, in Bangkok, Thailand
Stephen Jay Schwartz: Hayden Glass, a detective in the LAPD Robbery-Homicide
Division, who also suffers from a sexual addiction, in Los Angeles,
California
Lucy Sussex: 1997 Ned Kelly nominee
Paul Thomas: Tito Ihaka, a Maori detective sergeant, in Auckland,
New Zealand
Steve Toltz: Ned Kelly First Novel nominee
Cathi Unsworth: non-series crime fiction
Lee Vance: non-series financial thrillers
Chris Womersley: 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2010
New series on the Lou Allin page: Holly Martin, a corporal in the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
Canada
Richard Asplin: Gold Dagger nominee
Belinda Bauer: Gold Dagger nominee
Sydney Bauer: David Cavanaugh, a criminal defense attorney in Boston,
Massachusetts
New series on the Christopher
Brookmyre page: Angelique De Xavier,
a police officer in Glasgow, Scotland
Karen Campbell: Anna Cameron, a police sergeant, later Chief Inspector,
in Glasgow, Scotland
Tania Carver (joint pseudonym of Martyn and Linda Waites): Philip
Brennan, a detective inspector in the Major Incident Squad, and Marina
Esposito, a psychologist, in Colchester, England
Rory Clements: John Shakespeare, an investigator and older brother
of Will, in Elizabethan (1580s-1590s) England
Simon Conway: Steel Dagger nominee
Daniel Depp: David Spandau, a former movie stuntman, now a private
investigator who specializes in serving Hollywood’s elite,
in Los Angeles, California
Patricia Duncker: Gold Dagger nominee
J.F. Englert: Randolph, a poetry-loving black Labrador, and Harry,
a struggling artist, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Bull Moose
Dog Run mysteries
Ryan David Jahn: New Blood Dagger nominee
Diane Janes: New Blood Dagger nominee
Simon Lelic: New Blood Dagger nominee
Lou Manfredo: Joe Rizzo, a veteran police detective, in Brooklyn,
New York City
Kate Morton: non-series historical mysteries
Richard Jay Parker: New Blood Dagger nominee
Randall Peffer: Cape Island mysteries, mainly involving characters
and locations around Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Craig Robertson: New Blood Dagger nominee
William Ryan: Alexei Korolev, a captain in the militia’s Criminal
Investigation Division under Stalin, in 1930s Moscow, Russia
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2010
Ellery Adams: Olivia Limoges, a restaurant owner returning with
Captain Haviland, a black standard poodle, to her old home town,
Oyster Bay, North Carolina (Jennifer Stanley pseudonym)
Lin Anderson: Dr. Rhona MacLeod, a forensic scientist in Glasgow,
Scotland
Christine Barber: Lucy Newroe, a newspaper editor and volunteer
EMT, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Elizabeth Becka: Evelyn James, a forensic expert in the medical
examiner’s office, in Cleveland, Ohio; Theresa MacLean, a forensic
scientist, in Cleveland, Ohio (written as Lisa Black)
Miriam Borgenicht: non-series mysteries
New series on the Gerry Boyle page: Brandon Blake, a loner who lives
on an old wooden cruiser, on the waterfront of Portland, Maine
M.G. Braun: Al Glenne, a French spy (“the French James Bond”)
New series on the Rita Mae
Brown page: Mags, moving from New York
City with her dachshund Baxter, to her great aunt Jeep’s ranch
near Reno, Nevada
Kathryn Casey: Sarah Armstrong, a criminal profiler lieutenant in
the Texas Rangers, and a recently widowed mother, based in Houston,
Texas
Jasmine Cresswell: Melody Beecham, a former supermodel, and Nikolai
Anwar, operatives in the ultra-secret government agency Unit One;
the Raven trilogy, concerning the double life of missing multimillionaire
and secret bigamist Ron Raven
Anna Dean: Miss Dido Kent, a 35-year-old amateur sleuth, starting
in 1805 Regency England
Jamie Freveletti: Emma Caldridge, a chemist and international ultramarathon
runner, and Edward Banner of the security company Darkview
David L. Golemon:
Jack Collins, and other operatives in the Event Group, the most secret
US agency ever, in a science fiction–paranormal–thriller
series
Mark Greaney: Court Gentry (The Gray Man), a former CIA operative,
now an international hired assassin
H. Terrell Griffin: Matt Royal, a retired trial lawyer living on
Longboat Key, off the gulf coast of Florida
Derek Haas: Columbus (The Silver Bear), a world-weary international
hired assassin
James Hayman: Mike McCabe, a former NYPD homicide detective, now
a detective sergeant living with his 13-year-old daughter in Portland,
Maine
Daniel Kalla: non-series medical thrillers
New series in the Deryn Lake page: Reverend Nick Lawrence, the new,
28-year-old vicar, in the village of Lakehurst, Sussex, England
Liza Marklund: Annika Bengtzon, a novice reporter, later crime editor,
for Kvallspressen, a tabloid in Stockholm, Sweden
Bill Noel: Chris Landrum, 50-something and heading for early retirement
on the bohemian barrier island, Folly, near Charleston, South Carolina,
in the Folly Beach mysteries
Hilary Norman: Sam Becket, an African-American homicide detective,
and wife Grace Lucca, a child psychologist, in Miami Beach, Florida
Brad Parks: Carter Ross, a 31-year-old investigative reporter for
the Eagle-Examiner, in Newark, New Jersey
Barbara Corrado Pope: Bernard Martin, an investigating magistrate
in late 19th century Provence, France
New series on the Ann Purser page: Ivy Beasley, the cantankerous
spinster from the Lois Meade series, and Gus, a newcomer to the village
of Barrington, England
Peter Rennebohm: non-series mysteries
Chris Simms: Jon Spicer, a detective inspector in Manchester, England
Jarkko Sipilä: Kari Takamäki, supervising detective in
the Violent Crimes Unit, in Helsinki, Finland, in the Helsinki Homicide
series
Charles Merrill Smith: Reverend C.P. “Con” Randollph,
a former professional football quarterback, now minister of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, housed in a skyscraper where the penthouse
serves as the manse, in Chicago, Illinois
Terrence Lore Smith: Webster Daniels, a jewel thief and author,
in Chicago, Illinois; Leo Roi, a lawyer and criminal investigator,
in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois (written as Phillips Lore)
Mel Starr: Hugh de Singleton, a surgeon in Bampton, near Oxford,
during the reign of Edward III, in 14th century England
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2010
James Scott Bell: Kathleen Shannon, moving from New York to live
with her rich aunt and pursuing a legal career, in 1903 Los Angeles,
California, in the Shannon Saga trilogy with a Christian theme [written
with Tracie Peterson]; Kathleen Shannon continues her legal career
in early 20th century Los Angeles, California, in the Trials of Kit
Shannon trilogy with a Christian theme; Ty Buchanan, a young lawyer
whose fiancée has been killed, in Los Angeles, California
Juliet Blackwell:
Lily Ivory, a witch running a vintage clothing store, Aunt Cora’s Closet, where she can feel vibrations
of the past, in San Francisco, California; Sophie Tanner, a failed
anthropologist now running her father’s construction company,
in the Historic Home Renovation mysteries
Grant Blackwood: Briggs Tanner, a veteran covert US agent on international
missions
New series on the Judith
Cutler page: Lina Townend, an orphan, and
her mentor Griffith (Griff) Tripp, an antique dealer, in England
Harry Dolan: non-series
Gerald Elias: Daniel Jacobus, a blind, reclusive, crotchety violin
teacher living in self-imposed exile in rural New England
Bente Gallagher: Savannah Martin, a real estate agent and southern
belle, in Nashville, Tennessee (real name of Jennie Bentley)
New series on the Sue
Ann Jaffarian page: Madison Rose, in Los Angeles,
California, in the Fang-in-Cheek vampire mysteries
New series on the Bernard
Knight page: Richard Pryor, a pathologist,
and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private forensic practice
in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series
New series on the Joyce and
Jim Lavene page: Dae O’Donnell,
the mayor of the small town of Duck, North Carolina, who runs a collectible
shop and uses her psychic abilities to find lost things, in the Missing
Pieces mysteries
New series on the Phillip
Margolin page: Dana Cutler, a private
detective in Washington DC, and Brad Miller, a law clerk in Oregon
Cammie McGovern: non-series thrillers
Amy Patricia Meade: Marjorie McClelland, a smart and sassy mystery
writer, and rich British expat Creighton Ashcroft, in 1930s Ridgebury,
Connecticut
Karen Robards: non-series romantic suspense
Luís Miguel Rocha: Sarah Monteiro, an international journalist
from Portugal who investigates things Vatican
Gunnar Staalesen: Varg Veum, a private investigator in Bergen, Norway
Simon Tolkien: non-series mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2010
New series on the Elizabeth
Adler page: Mac Reilly, star of a television
private eye series, and his girlfriend and partner Sunny Alvarez,
jet-setting here and there
New series on the Susan
Wittig Albert page: Miss Elizabeth Lacy
and the Darling Dahlias, a garden club, in fictional 1930s Darling,
Alabama
James Barlow: non-series mysteries
Evelyn Berckman: non-series mysteries
John Bingham: Kenneth
Ducane (also called Vandoran), chief of the Secret Intelligence Service,
in England; John “Badger” Brock,
a police superintendent in Melford, England
John Blackburn: Charles Kirk, a general, head of British Foreign
Office Intelligence, mostly in England; Bill Easterand and Peggy
Tey, agents for hire, based in England
Alison Bruce: Gary Goodhew, a detective constable at Parkside Station,
in Cambridge, England
Elizabeth Kane
Buzzelli: Emily Kincaid, a recently divorced reporter
and failed mystery writer, and Deputy Dolly Wakowski, in rural
Leetsville, in northern Michigan
James Byrom: non-series mysteries
Henry Calvin: non-series mysteries
Marjorie Carleton: non-series mysteries
Warren Carrier: Sean Fogarty, a lawyer in the fictional college
town of Silvertown, in northern Wisconsin
Robert Coover: non-series mysteries
Gordon Cotler: non-series mysteries
James Cross: non-series mysteries
Don Dahler: Huck Doyle,
a pro golfer and non-practicing lawyer working as a private investigator,
in Los Angeles, California
Harold R. Daniels: non-series mysteries
Gloria Dank: Bernard Woodruff, a curmudgeonly author of children’s
books, and his brother-in-law, Arthur “Snooky” Randolph,
in Connecticut
Ted Dekker: non-series mysteries
John F. Dobbyn: Michael Knight, a young attorney who gets a job
with his mentor, legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, in Boston,
Massachusetts
Donald McNutt Douglass: Bolivar Manchenil, a police captain, and
grandson of a freed slave, on an unnamed island in the Caribbean
Jan Dunlap: Bob White, an expert birder and counselor at Savage
High School, near the Twin Cities in Minnesota, in the Birder Murder
mysteries
Penelope Evans: non-series mysteries
A.S. Fleischman: Max Brindle mysteries
C.B. Forrest: Charlie McKelvey, a 30-year veteran police detective
whose runaway son was murdered, starting in 1999 Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Steven Gore: Graham Gage, a cop turned private investigator, caught
up in international intrigue, based in San Francisco, California
Kathryn Miller Haines: Rosie Winter, an actress during WWII, in
Manhattan, New York City
Geoffrey Holiday
Hall: non-series mysteries
Tarquin Hall: Vish Puri, a portly Punjabi founder of Most Private
Investigators Ltd., a detective agency in Delhi, India
Irene Hannon: male and female FBI agents, in the Heroes of Quantico
Christian romantic suspense trilogy
Tony Hays: Malgwyn ap Cuneglas, a one-armed soldier and counselor
to Arthur, in 5th century Britain
S.B. Hough: John Brentford, a detective inspector, in England
Geoffrey Household:
Roger Taine, a British professional hunter, who decides to see if
he can hunt a European dictator; non-series novels of intrigue and
suspense
P.M. Hubbard: non-series mysteries
E. Howard Hunt: Jack Novak, mostly in Mexico and the Caribbean;
Steve Bentley, an adventurous certified public accountant based in
Washington, DC (written as Robert Dietrich); Peter Ward, a CIA agent
undercover as a lawyer, based in Washington, DC (written as David
St. John)
William A. Johnston: non-series set mostly in New York City
William Johnston: Maxwell Smart, a bumbling secret agent working
for CONTROL [TV show novelizations]
New series on the Jon Land page: Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation
Texas Ranger, sometimes working as a psychological therapist, in
San Antonio, Texas
Eugene Meese: Ellis nominee for Best First Novel
James Mitchell: David
Callan, a British agent in the eternal struggle with the KGB, mostly
in England; Ron Hoggett, a private investigator with expertise at
finding lost things, based in London, England; John Craig, a violent
but ethical British Intelligence agent working for Department K (written
as James Munro)
Kim Moritsugu: non-series
Kenneth O’Hara: Dr. Alun Barry in England
Jeremy Potter: Sergeant Hiscock (later inspector) of the CID, in
London, England
New series on the M.J. Rose page: Reincarnationist mysteries with
past-life paranormal elements
New series on the Laura
Joh Rowland page: Charlotte Brontë,
the author, in mid-1880s England
New series on the Olen
Steinhauer page: Milo Weaver, a field agent
with the CIA’s clandestine Department of Tourism
New series on the Marc Strange page: Orwell Brennan, police chief
in rural Dockerty, Ontario, Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2010
New series on the David
Baldacci page: Shaw, an operative for a
secret global intelligence agency, and Katie James, a disgraced investigative
journalist
Edgar Bohle: non-series mysteries
Dennis E. Bolen: Barry Delta, a parole officer in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Joan Boswell: Hollis Grant, a painter and amateur sleuth, starting
in Ottawa, and mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Malcolm Braly: non-series mysteries
Herbert Brean: Reynold Frame, a young freelance writer and photographer,
and amateur sleuth, in New York City and New England; William Deacon,
a magazine writer
Daniel Broun: Harry Egypt, a thief and soldier of fortune with a
sinister master plan
Donna Carrick: non-series mysteries
Ron Chudley: non-series set in Canada, mostly British Columbia
Daniel Edward Craig: Trevor Lambert, a hotel manager and sometime
house detective in various locations in North America
Lesley Crewe: non-series mysteries
New series on the Bill
Crider page, written with Clyde Wilson: Ted
Stephens, a homicide detective sergeant in Houston, Texas
Mildred Davis: non-series
mysteries; Sport Abbott, in the Murder in Maine series (written with
daughter Katherine Roome and grandson Ren Roome)
Babs Deal: non-series mysteries
Robert Elegant: non-series mysteries
Richard Ellington: Steve Drake, a former actor turned private investigator,
based in New York City
Helen Eustis: non-series mysteries
M. Fagyas: thrillers set in eastern Europe
Elizabeth Fenwick: non-series mysteries
Pat Flower: Bert Swinton, an intuitive detective inspector, in Sydney,
Australia; non-series psychological suspense set in Australia
Menna Gallie: non-series
Sarah Gainham: Julia Homburg, a leading actress with the Burg Theater
in the late 1930s and 1940s, in Vienna, Austria
The Gordons: John Ripley, an FBI agent in Chicago, Arizona, Los
Angeles, and Washington, DC; D.C. Randall, a Persian cat in Los Angeles,
California; Gail and Mitch, newlyweds in Los Angeles, California
Alan Green: John Hugo, a police lieutenant in Florida
Elly Griffiths: Dr. Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist, and
Harry Nelson, a detective chief inspector, in the Saltmarsh area
near Norfolk, England
Brèni James: Gunnar Matson, a police sergeant in San Francisco,
California
Lane Kauffmann: non-series mysteries
Mary Kelly: Brett Nightingale, a detective inspector (later chief
inspector), in Edinburgh, Scotland; Hedley Nicholson, a private investigator
in England
Mary Anne Kelly: Claire Breslinsky, a former fashion model and world-wanderer,
turned photographer, from Queens, New York
Adam Kennedy: Roy Tucker, in prison for murdering his wife, is offered
freedom by a mysterious government agency to assassinate a politician
Hans Hellmut Kirst: Konstantin Keller, a retiring detective inspector,
in Munich, Germany
William Krasner: Sam Birge, a homicide detective captain in a big
city somewhere
Edwin Lanham: Madigan, a police lieutenant in New York City; Vern
Gray, a police lieutenant in Connecticut; Frank Luther, a city editor
in New York City
Fred Levon: non-series mysteries
Norah Lofts: non-series mysteries
Donald MacKenzie:
Henry Chalice and Crying Eddie, in England; John Raven, a tough Scotland
Yard detective inspector, later an unlicensed private investigator
living on a houseboat, mostly in England
Jassy Mackenzie: Jade de Jong, a private investigator returning
home 10 years after her police commissioner father was killed, and
police superintendent David Patel, in Johannesburg, South Africa
Vincent McConnor: Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police, and
his dog Fric-Frac, in Paris and elsewhere in France
George Milner: Ronald Anglesea, a private investigator in England
and Scotland
New series on the Amy Myers page: Tom Wasp, a chimney sweep in Victorian
times in the East End of London, England
New series on the Susan Oleksiw page: Anita Ray, an Indian-American
in Kerala, South India
Harry Olesker: non-series set in New York City
Allan Prior: non-series mysteries
Jonathan Rabb: Nikolai Hoffner, a police detective starting in 1919,
continuing into the Weimar period in Berlin, Germany
Frances Rickett: non-series
mysteries
Douglas Rutherford: Paddy Regan, a British special agent, in Europe;
Tim Ryder, the world’s youngest Grand Prix winning race car
driver
Miriam Sharman: non-series mysteries
Robert B. Sinclair: non-series mysteries
Thomas Sterling: Rizzi, a police captain in Venice, Italy
James Michael Ullman: non-series mysteries
Winfred Van Atta: non-series mysteries
Thomas Walsh: non-series set in New York City
Rubin Weber: non-series set in Pennsylvania Dutch country
C.J. West: Randy Black, a part-time stunt pilot with a fondness
for alcohol, bent on vengeance, but perhaps not beyond redemption
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2010
Stephen Amidon: non-series mysteries
John Ballem: thrillers set mainly in Canada, some in the Caribbean
Laura Benedict: non-series
Pinckney Benedict: non-series
Michael Blair: Tom McCall, a commercial photographer living on a
houseboat, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the Granville
Island mysteries; Joe “Shoe” Schumacher, an ex-cop, professional
wrestler, and bodyguard, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Lisa Bork: Jolene Asdale, owner of a sports car boutique, in the
fictional tourist town of Wachobe in the Finger Lakes region of New
York, in the Broken Vows mysteries
P.A. Brown: David Eric Laine, an in-the-closet gay LAPD homicide
detective
Mike Carey: Felix Castor, a free-lance exorcist, in supernatural
fantasy thrillers set in London, England
Meredith Cole: Lydia McKenzie, an edgy art photographer who also
works as an administrative assistant at the D’Angelo detective
agency, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York City
Robertson Davies:
the trials and travails of Dunstan Ramsay, Percy Boyd Stauntan, and
others stemming from an errant snowball, in Canada, in the Deptford
Trilogy; Sir Francis Cornish and other academics at the College of
St. John and the Holy Ghost, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the
Cornish Trilogy
Dorothy Cameron
Disney: non-series mysteries
Kerstin Ekman: Annie Raft, north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden
Margaret Erskine: Septimus Finch, a large, bland detective inspector,
later Chief Inspector, in England
Stanley Evans: Sergeant Decker, a frontier lawman in 1860s British
Columbia, Canada; Silas Seaweed, a Coast Salish Aboriginal beat cop
on the streets of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Patricia Finney: Simon Ames and David Becket, secret agents for
Queen Elizabeth, in 1580s England (real name of P.F. Chisholm)
Bill Floyd: non-series
Émile Gaboriau:
Monseiur Lecoq, a police detective with the Sûreté,
in Paris, France
Alicia Giménez-Bartlett:
Petra Delicado, an ex-lawyer police inspector, and her sidekick,
sergeant Fermín Garzón
in Barcelona, Spain
Carol Goodman: non-series
gothic thrillers
Heywood Gould: Josh Krales, a crime reporter for the New York Event,
in New York City
Andrew Grant: [1968-]
David Trevellyan, a lieutenant commander with Royal Navy Intelligence,
in New York City, and then Chicago, Illinois
Andrew Grant: [Grant
Shanks] non-series thrillers
Terry Griggs: non-series mysteries
New series on the Richard
Helms page: Judd Wheeler, chief of police
in the fictional town of Prosperity, North Carolina
Alice Hoffman: non-series
Chuck Hogan: non-series mysteries
Rupert Holmes: non-series mysteries
Dave Hugelschaffer: Porter Cassel, a ranger with the Alberta Forest
Service, in Canada
Ellen Elizabeth
Hunter: Ashley Wilkes, a historic preservationist,
and her sister Melanie Wilkes, a real estate agent, in Wilmington,
North Carolina, in the Magnolia mysteries
Jack Iams: Stanley “Rocky” Rockwell, a private investigator
based in Ohio
Kenzo Kitakata: non-series mysteries
Nigel Krauth: non-series
Lee Lamothe: non-series
Ed Lin: Robert Chow, an NYPD Chinatown beat cop in 1976 New York
City
Steve Lopez: non-series
Norman Mailer: non-series and true crime
Cormac McCarthy: non-series
John McFetridge: non-series set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vivian Meyer: Abby Faria, a bike courier and fledgling private investigator
based in the Kensington Market area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gwen Moffat: Miss Pink (Melinda Pink), a middle aged magistrate
and mountaineer who solves mysteries at various mountainous locations;
Jack Pharaoh, recently discharged from RAF Mountain Rescue after
an injury, in the Lake District of England
New series on the Rick Mofina page: Jack Gannon, a veteran crime
reporter in Buffalo, New York
John Moss: Miranda Quin and David Morgan, a “virtual couple” of
homicide detectives, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Noah: non-series mysteries
Clare O’Donohue: Nell Fitzgerald, a former Manhattan publishing
professional now helping her grandmother, Eleanor Cassidy, run a
quilting store in the Hudson River town of Archer’s Rest, New
York, in the Someday Quilts mysteries
Steve Oliver: Scott Moody, an ex-mental patient cab-driving private
investigator in the late 1970s, in Spokane, Washington
Michael Parker: non-series thrillers
Jodi Picoult: non-series
suspense, usually with a legal and/or medical
ethics twist
Stefanie Pintoff: Simon Ziele, a former New York City police detective
starting in 1905 Dobson, Westchester County, New York
Jean Potts: non-series mysteries
Mobashar Qureshi: non-series mysteries
Abraham Rodríguez:
non-series mysteries
Jeffrey Round: Bradford Fairfax, a gay 30-something special agent
with a secret organization called Box 77
Norma Schier: Kay Barth, a district attorney based in Aspen, Colorado
Diane K. Shah: Paris Chandler, a wealthy young widow, gossip reporter,
and sleuth, in 1947 Los Angeles, California
L.V. Sims: Dixie T. Struthers, a detective sergeant in the early
days of Silicon Valley (late 1980s), in San José, California
Sarah Smith: Alexander von Reisden, a young Austrian biochemist,
and Perdita Halley, a concert pianist, first in pre-WWI Boston, Massachusetts,
and then Paris, France
Gretchen Sprague: Martha Patterson, a pro bono attorney in Brooklyn,
New York
T.S. Stribling: Henry Poggioli, a psychology professor and criminologist
at Ohio State University, traveling to the Caribbean and elsewhere
David Sundstrand: Frank Flynn, a Bureau of Land Management agent,
in the Mojave Desert of southern California, in the Desert Sky mysteries
Dennis Tafoya: non-series mysteries
L.A. Taylor: J.J. Jamison, a computer engineer and investigator
with CATCH (Committee for Analysis of Tropospheric and Celestial
Happenings), in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Paul Theroux: Spencer Monroe Savage, a US diplomat
Teona Tone: Kyra Keaton, an aristocratic lady private investigator
running her own agency in 1899-1907 Washington, DC
Tom Topor: Kevin Fitzgerald, a private investigator in New York
City
Peter Townend: Philip Quest, a photographer and amateur sleuth,
in Spain, Sardinia, and Corsica
John Trench: Martin Cotterell, an erudite and untidy archaeologist,
in England
John Trenhaile: Stepan Povin, a Russian KGB general in the Cold
War; Simon Young, a British businessman and intelligence officer
struggling with Chinese and Russian agents, in Hong Kong
Miles Tripp: John Samson,
a private investigator in London, England; Hugo Baron, a gentleman
agent working for a British organization called Diecast (written
as John Michael Brett)
Gordon M. Williams:
non-series mysteries; James Hazell, a tough private investigator
in the East End of London, England (written as P.B. Yuill, joint
pseudonym with Terry Venables)
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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
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
Mike Befeler: Paul Jacobson,
an 80-something amateur sleuth, in the Geezer-Lit series
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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