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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