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Authors and Characters Added in April 2013
A.X. Ahmad: Ranjit Singh, former commander of an elite army unit in India, now an illegal immigrant working as a caretaker on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Peggy Blair: Ricardo Ramirez, a police inspector and head of the Major Crimes Unit, in Havana, Cuba
New Mel Bradshaw series: Paul Shenstone, a police detective in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Susanna Calkins: Lucy Campion, a young orphan working as a chambermaid, in 1665 London, England
New Massimo Carlotto series: Giorgio Pellegrini, a leftist Italian radical, guerilla fighter, and criminal, later a regular businessman who gets tangled up with the mob
Eoin Colfer: Daniel McEvoy, an Irish bouncer working in a seedy New Jersey bar
Deryn Collier: Bern Fortin, a former Canadian Forces commander, working for the coronor in the small town of Kootenay Landing, in British Columbia, Canada
Shelley Costa: Eve Angelotta, a 32-year old former dancer, now chef at her family’s Italian restaurant, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Maurizio de Giovanni series: Giuseppe Lojacono, a police inspector, in Naples, Italy
Claire Donally: Sunny Coolidge, a former New York City newspaper reporter returning with her cat Shadow to Kittery Harbor, Maine, in the Sunny & Shadow mysteries (Bill McCay pseudonym)
Philip Donlay: Donovan Nash, a pilot for hire
Les Edgerton: non-series thrillers
Wolf Haas: Simon Brenner, a police detective, the Columbo of Austria
New Victoria Hamilton series: Merry Wynter, an expert muffin baker who inherits a mansion in fictional Autumn Vale, New York
Anne Hillerman: continuing father Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee series
Peter Kirby: Luc Vanier, a detective inspector in the Major Crimes unit, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Chris Laing: non-series
Charlotte Link: non-series crime fiction set in England
New Kylie Logan series: Maxie Pierce, an amateur sleuth on the chili cook-off circuit
Stephen Miller: non-series thrillers
D.A. Mishani: Avraham Avraham, a police detective in Tel Aviv, Israel
Nancy J. Parra: Toni Ryder, a gluten-free baker in fictional Oiltop, Kansas, in the Baker’s Treat mysteries
Valerie Plame: Vanessa Pierson, an undercover CIA agent in pursuit of terrorists [written with Sarah Lovett]
New Jacqueline Seewald series: Jim Spencer, an amateur sleuth just entering high school, his cousin Sara Woodson, and his older brother Raven (with the “Third Eye”) in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Terry Shames: Samuel Craddock, the former chief of police in the fictional town of Jarrett Creek, in central Texas
Beverly Swerling: historical mysteries
James M. Tabor: Hallie Leland, a microbiologist and adventurer, combatting biological threats
New Aimée & David Thurlo series: Josephine Buck, a young Navajo, and other employees at a New Mexico trading post, in the Navajo Rez series
Tom Wood: Victor the Assassin, the world’s deadliest hit man for hire, later working for the CIA
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2013
New Frankie Y. Bailey series: Hannah McCabe, a police detective in the not-too-distant future, in Albany, New York
John Enright: Apelu Soifua, a detective sergeant, formerly with the San Francisco Police Department, now back home in Pago Pago, American Samoa, in the Jungle Beat mysteries
Barry Estabrook: non-series crime fiction
Will Ferguson: non-series crime fiction
William Hood: Alan Trosper, an experienced spy brought back into the CIA by a new director
Jean-Claude Izzo: Fabio Montale, a cop who goes out on his own in Marseilles, France in Marseilles, France
Julia Keller: Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, West Virginia
Fuminori Nakamura: Kizaki, a mysterious figure who controls others in evil schemes, in Japan
Tim O’Mara: Raymond Donne, a former NYPD detective, now a teacher in his old precinct, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Howard Owen: A family saga of farmer Littlejohn McCain and later his willful prodigal daughter, Georgia, in Scotland County, North Carolina; Willie Black, a hardscrabble mixed-race kid, back where he started 30-years before as a reporter, in Richmond, Virginia
Craig Robertson: Rachel Narey, a detective sergeant, and Tony Winter, a police photographer, and others, in Glasgow, Scotland
New Thomas Perry series: Jack Till, a retired LAPD homicide detective, now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, California
Mark Pryor: Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy in Paris, France
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2013
Victoria Abbott: Jordan Kelly, a researcher for an avid book collector in Harrison Falls, New York, in the Book Collector Mysteries (joint pseudonym of Victoria Maffini and mother Mary Jane Maffini)
Jerry Ahern: Dan Track, an agent with American military intelligence; David Holden, a former Navy SEAL and the Patriots, fighting urban Marxists of the Front for the Liberation of North America, in the Defenders series; Hank Frost, a one-eyed mercenary, in the They Call Me Mercenary series (written as Axel Kilgore)
New Kelley Armstrong series: Olivia Taylor Jones, from a prominent Chicago family, finds out she’s the adopted daughter of notorious serial killers, in Cainsville, Illinois, in the Cainsville trilogy
New Jessica Beck series: Victoria and Greg, running The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, in the Classic Diner mysteries (Tim Myers pseudonym)
James Carlos Blake: the Wolfe crime-family sagas, ranging from New England, to the Texas borderlands, beginning in the early 19th century
Duffy Brown: Reagan Summerside, running her consignment shop The Prissy Fox, with her Aunt KiKi, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Consignment Shop mysteries
Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot, a private investigator with a ghostly sidekick, in fictional Stella Maris, South Carolina
New Alison Bruce series: Kate Garrett, a rookie police detective, and Jake Carmedy, a private investigator who recently lost his partner, in 2016 in a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada
Mollie Cox Bryan: Annie, a former investigative journalist, now a stay-at-home mom involved with a scrapbooking club, in fictional Cumberland Creek, Virginia
Leslie Ann Budewitz: Erin Murphy, taking over her family’s century-old general store, in Jewel Bay, Montana, in the Food Lovers’ Village series
Holli Castillo: Ryan Murphy, a female prosecutor in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Crescent City mysteries
J.J. Cook: Stella Griffin, a former Chicago fire fighter, now the fire chief for Sweet Pepper, Tennessee, along with the ghost of former fire chief Eric Gamlyn, in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade mysteries (Joyce & Jim Lavene pseudonym)
Marcello Fois: Bustianu Satta, a lawyer and poet, in Sardinia, Italy
Harry Harrison: Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz, the galaxy’s greatest interstellar thief and con artist, in the 30th century; Tony Hawkin, an FBI agent
New Dana Haynes series: Daria Gibron, a former member of Israeli intelligence who has also worked for the FBI, DEA, and ATF
Brandon Hebert: non-series set in south Florida
New Betty Hechtman series: Casey Feldstein, a dessert chef inheriting her aunt's Yarn2Go business, in the Yarn Retreat series
Peg Herring: Elizabeth Tudor, and her friend Simon Maldon, amateur sleuths during the reign of her father Henry VIII, in London, England, in the Simon & Elizabeth mysteries; the Dead Detective mysteries; Loser, a homeless woman on the streets of Richmond, Virginia
Roy Innes: Mark Coswell, a homicide inspector in Vancouver, and Paul Blakemore, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in British Columbia, Canada
New Chris Kuzneski series: The Hunters, a team of renegades financed by a billionaire out to find the world's most legendary treasures
Javier Marías: Jacques (Juan, Jacobo, Jack…) Deza, in London separated from his ex-wife in Madrid, is recruited into MI-6, British Intelligence
Keith McCafferty: Sean Stranahan, a painter, fly fisherman, and private investigator, and Sheriff Martha Ettinger, in Montana
New Jenn McKinlay series: Scarlett Parker, heading from Florida to run Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop with her cousin, in London, England, in the Hat Shop mysteries
T.R. Ragan: Lizzy Gardner, a private investigator who was once terrorized by a serial killer, in Sacramento, California
Kate Rhodes: Alice Quentin, a psychologist in London, England
New Karen Robards series: Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone, an expert in criminal pathology who can communicate with the newly dead
Jeffrey S. Stephens: Jordan Sandor, a CIA agent after bad guys around the world
Simone St. James: non-series historical ghost stories set in 1920s England
New Carsten Stroud series: Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old southern Niceville family
Stephan Talty: non-series
Jaden Terrell: Jared Mckean, an ex-cop in his mid-30s, now a private investigator, with a fondness for horses, a son with Down Syndrome, and an ex-wife, in Nashville, Tennessee
S. Connell Vondrak: homicide detectives in Washington, DC
Timothy Watts: non-series mysteries
New Lis Wiehl with April Henry series: Mia Quinn, a prosecutor in the King County, Washington, district attorney's office
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2013
Isaac Adamson: Billy Chaka, ace reporter for Cleveland’s hottest-selling Asian teen magazine
Vivien Armstrong: Judith Pullen, a detective sergeant, often assisted by her former chief inspector, Ralph Arnott, in England; Roger Hayes, a detective chief inspector and former classical pianist, in the village of Newton Greys, Oxfordshire, England
Nina Bawden: non-series
Barbara Ninde Byfield: Simon Bede, an Episcopal priest and assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Helen Bullock, a world-famous photographer
Jessie Chandler: Shay O’Hanlon, co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool coffee shop, and amateur sleuth, along with her JT Bordeaux, her cop girlfriend, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Elaine Raco Chase: Nikki Holden, an investigative reporter, and Roman Cantrell, a private investigator, in Miami, Florida
Mary Clayton: John Reynolds, formerly an inspector with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, retired to write detective novels, in Cornwall, England
Laura Coburn: Kate Harrod, a homicide detective, and a single mother who thought she’d be a librarian, in fictional San Madera, California
Dean Crawford: Ethan Warner, a former war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan from Chicago, battling apocalyptic and weird forces for the US Defense Intelligence Agency
Henry Denker: non-series legal thrillers and courtroom dramas
Gene DeWeese: Joe Karns, a reporter/investigator, in sci/fi capers; non-series gothic written as Jean DeWeese
Christy Fifield: Glory Martine, inheriting her great-uncle’s souvenir shop, including ghosts, in Keyhole Bay, Florida, in the Haunted Souvenir Shop mysteries (Christina F. York pseudonym)
Eileen Fulton: Mina McFall, a TV soap opera star, and Dino Rossi, a police lieutenant, in New York City
New Heywood Gould series: Tommy Veasy, a police detective in fictional La Playita, California
Edith Piñero Green: Dearborn V. Pinch, a 70-something ladies’ man helping where the police are not wanted, in New York City
Tessa Harris: Dr. Thomas Silkstone, an American anatomist working in 1780s England
Anna Lee Huber: Lady Darby, a widow taking refuge at her sister’s estate, in 1830s Scotland
Nan & Ivan Lyons: Natasha O’Brien and Millie Ogden, culinary artistes in Manhattan, New York
Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope, the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street for Winston Churchil, in 1940s London, England
New Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini series: Sabina Carpenter, a former Pinkerton operative, and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, in late 1890s San Francisco, California
Elise Sax: Gladie Burger, a matchmaker-in-training, and her eccentric Grandma Zelda, in fictional Cannes, California, in the Matchmaker series
Christoph Spielberg: Felix Hoffmann, an experienced emergency room doctor and reluctant sleuth, and his girlfriend Celine, in Berlin, Germany
Barry Unsworth: non-series
New Robert Wilson series: Charles Boxer, a former cop turned private security professional specializing in kidnapping
Ben H. Winters: Hank Palace, a police detective living under the threat of an impending asteroid collision, in Concord, New Hampshire
Samuel Youd: non-series; Joe Dust, an American private investigator living in London, England (written as Peter Graaf)
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