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Authors and Characters Added in August 2025
New Sara Blaedel & Mads Peder Nordbo series: Liam Stark, Chief Superintendent of police, and Superintendent Dea Torp, investigating disappearances in Tommerup, Denmark
New Peter Colt series: Tommy Kelly, Massachusetts State Police detective
Ron Currie: non-series
New Paul Levine series: Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin team up to fight fascism, in 1937 Los Angeles, California
New Mindy Mejia series: Max Summerlin, an Iowa City Police Department detective, and Jonah Kendrick, a private investigator with intuitive abilities, in the Iowa mysteries
New Stuart Neville series: Rebecca Carter and her vampire daughter Moonflower starting in El Paso, Texas, in the Blood horror series
Mads Peder Nordbo: Matthew Cave, a journalist in Greenland
New Penny Warner series: Carissa Blackwood, a ghostwriter leaving her husband to help her aunts manage the Blackwood Bed ’n’ Breakfast Inn, in Pelican Point, California, in the Haunted Dead and Breakfast mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2025
Tom Baragwanath: Lorraine Henry, a Māori records clerk in the police station, in Masterson, New Zealand
New Susan M. Boyer series: Carolina Tales, set on Sulivan’s Island, a beachside town just outside Charleston, South Carolina
New Steph Broadribb series: four recently retired detectives at a luxury over-55 resort community, in Florida, in the Retired Detectives Club series
New Ann Cleeves series: Detective Jimmy Perez, now settled in Orkney, the group of islands off the northern coast of Scotland, with his partner Willow Reeve
New Thomas Enger & Johana Gustawsson series: Kari Voss, an Oslo police consultant psychologist and expert on body language and memory known as ”the human lie detector”
New Elly Griffiths series: Ali Dawson, working for the Department of Logistics in London, a top-secret department investigating cases so cold they require inter-century travel to solve
Lisa Hall: Lily Jones, who slips back in time to solve old murders while cleaning rooms in the Beverly Hills Hotel, in the Hotel Hollywood mysteries
New Mette Ivie Harrison series: Ada Latia, a young autistic amateur sleuth
Kate Alice Marshall: non-series
Katy Massey: Maureen, running Rio’s, a clean, discreet brothel in 1977 Leeds, England, amidst the Yorkshire Ripper murders
Akira Otani: non-series
New Alex Segura series: The Lethal Lynx, a comic book superhero created by Carmen Valdez in 1975 and revived by Annie Bustamante nearly 50 years later
A.J. West: non-series
New Jeri Westerson series: Tim Badger, a former member of Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street Irregulars, now running a detective agency with his partner Ben Watson in Victorian London, in the Irregular Dectective mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2025
Katarina Bivald: a Swedish mystery writer who has adventures
New Michelle Chouinard series: Capri Sanzio, the granddaughter of a convicted serial killer, raising tuition money by conducting serial killer tours of San Francisco, in the Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco mysteries
Laura Dave: Hannah Hall, whose husband Owen Michaels disappears, leaving her to protect her stepdaughter Bailey
Ashley Elston: non-series, YA mysteries
Jessie Garcia: non-series thrillers
Katy Hays: non-series
Louise Hegarty: non-series
Carinn Jade: non-series
New Claire M. Johnson series: Maggie Laurent, secretary for the Moore Detective Agency in 1930s San Francisco, California, in the Fog City Noir mysteries
New Ragnar Jónasson series: Helgi Reykdal, a young detective at the Reykjavik police department with a passion for Golden Age detective stories
Rachel Kushner: non-series
Laila Lalami: non-series
New Roz Noonan series: Alice Pepper, a senior citizen with a talent for figuring out people and jigzaw puzzles in the small town of West Hazel, Oregon, in the Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club mysteries
Tracy Sierra: non-series
New Karin Slaughter series: Emmy Clifton, a police officer in the small town of North Falls, Georgia, in the North Falls thrillers
Tom Spencer: non-series
Zoe B. Wallbrook: Daphne Ouverture, a young professor of European History, specializing in French colonialism, at elite Harrison University
New Darcie Wilde series: Princess Victoria, the future Queen as an amateur sleuth, beginning when she is fifteen (Sarah Zettel pseudonym)
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2025
Kimberly Belle: non-series
S.J. Bennett: Queen Elizabeth II, secretly solving crimes, in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series
Emily Critchley: non-series
Sue Hincenbergs: non-series
Bonnie Kistler: non-series
New Alan Orloff series: Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the run-down Fairfax Manor Inn, in Fairfax, Virginia
Lizzie Pook: non-series
Jason Rekulak: non-series
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson: Patrick Bird, a police academy burnout turned private detective, in 1960s Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Liann Zhang: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2025
Jessica Bull: Jane Austen, secret author and amateur sleuth, beginning in 1795 England, in the Miss Austen Investigates series
Amelia Diane Coombs: Remi Finch, a nervous millennial user-interface designer, and her two older sisters Eliana and Maeve, in The Finch Sisters mysteries
Jaime deBlanc: non-series
Elizabeth Heider: non-series
New Alan Parks series: Joseph Gunner, former detective, home after being wounded on front lines of France, in 1941 Glasgow, Scotland
Marie Tierney: non-series
Kevin Wade: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in February-March 2025
New Robert Jackson Bennett series: Ana Dolabra, a brilliant and eccentric investigator for the Empire of Khanum, and her assistant Dinios Kol, genetically altered to have the power of total recall, in the Shadow of the Leviathan fantasy-mystery series
New Tamara Berry series: Amber Winslow, a budding private investigator staying with her eccentric grandmother in the luxurious Seven Ponds Retirement Community in Draycott, Arizona, in the Seven Ponds mysteries
New Michelle Gagnon series: Amber and Grace, who bond over being stalked by a serial killer
New Rachel Howzell Hall series: Sonny Rush, who left the LAPD to work as a PI with her godfather Ivan Poole in the beach town of Haven, California, in the Haven thrillers
Sarah Harman: non-series
New Rob Hart series: Mark, an elite killer known as the Pale Horse, now retired and attending Assassins Anonymous in New York City
Jess Kidd: Sister Nora Breen, leaving her monastery to search for a former novice who has disappeared, beginning in 1954
Asia Mackay: non-series
Adam Oyebanji: Greg Abimbola, a former MI5 undercover agent, now hiding as a Russian language teacher at the elite Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Quiet Teacher series
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2025
New Ellen Byron series: Dee Stern, a former TV sitcom writer in LA, now running a motel in Foundgold, California, in the Golden Motel mysteries
Sarah Easter Collins: non-series
Ally Condie: non-series
New Tori Eldridge series: Makalani Pahukula, after 10 years in Oregon, returns to her family home on Kaua’i, as a park ranger at Kealia Forest Reserve
Nicolás Ferraro: non-series
New Victoria Gilbert series: Jennifer “Jen” Dalton, an author and educator at Clarion University, in Virginia, in the Campus Sleuth mysteries
Kerri Hakoda: non-series
Audrey Lee: non-series
David Lewis: Caitrin Colline, a Welsh coalminer’s daughter, in a female-driven counterespionage unit, organized by Winston Churchill in World War II, in the Secret Churchill Files
C.L. Miller: Freya Lockwood, an Antiques Verifier, and her eccentric Aunt Carole, based in Little Meddingtown, England, in the Antique Hunter mysteries
Jennifer K. Morita: non-series
New Richard Osman series: Steve Wheeler, retired from investigative work, and his daugther-in-law Amy Wheeler working in private security, racing around the world
Tom Ryan: non-series
Danielle Trussoni: Mike Brink, a celebrated puzzle solver in New York City who was transformed from a normal teenager into a mathematical genius by a brain injury
Charlotte Vassell: Caius Beauchamp, a detective inspector in London, England
New Laura Jensen Walker series: three WWII Royal Air Force air ambulance nurses — Maeve, Etta, and Betty — in the Nightingale mysteries
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