Authors and Characters Added in May 2023
New Reed Farrel Coleman series: Nick Ryan, a NYPD detective
New Mary Anna Evans series: Justine Byrne, a factory worker recruited by Army Intelligence for a code-breaking facility in Arlington Hall, a former women’s college in Virginia
New Spencer Quinn series: Loretta Plansky, a rich Florida widow in her 70s
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2023
Sarah Bonner: non-series
New Allison Brennan series: Regan Merritt, a former US Marshal whose 10-year-old son was murdered, returning to Flagstaff, Arizona
Greg Buchanan: non-series
May Cobb: non-series
New E.J. Copperman series: Fran and Ken Stein, New York City private detectives who aren’t entirely human
J.C. Eaton: Sophie “Phee” Kimball, a middle-aged single mom who moves from Minnesota, to help her mother Harriet Plunkett, as a private investigator, in Sun City, Arizona; Norrie Ellington, a successful screenwriter in New York City, who moves upstate to help in her family’s Two Witches Winery, in the town of Penn Yan, New York, in the Wine Trail mysteries; Marcie Rayner, a crime statistician in St. Paul, Minnesota, who divorces her philandering husband and takes a temporary job as an investigative assistant in New Ulm, Minnesota; Katie Aubrey, a 30-something former business tech running a sandwich shop and catering business, and sharing her house with a ghost, in Cave Creek, Arizona, in the Charcuterie Shop mysteries
S.M. Freedman: I Fidele, a mysterious group that kidnaps psychic children
Mario Giordano: Auntie Poldi, an amateur sleuth who at age 60 retires to Sicily
New Lee Goldberg series: Walter Sharpe, an arson investigator, and Andrew Walker, a former US Marshal, relentlessly pursuing wildfire arsonists, in Los Angeles, California
S.M. Goodwin: Jasper Lightner, a London Met detective sent to train New York police, and Hieronymus Law, a police detective, in 1850s New York City
Victoria Gosling: non-series
New Susan Isaacs series: Corie Geller, a former FBI agent, and her father, a retired NYPD homicide detective, in Long Island, New York
Dorothy Koomson: Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe, the only witnesses to a tragic event when they were teenagers, in Brighton, England
Hervé Le Corre: non-series historical mysteries
Nicole Lundrigan: non-series
Tim Mason: Chief Inspector Charles Field, beginning in 1860 London, England
Carlene O’Connor: Siobhán O’Sullivan, running Naomi’s Bistro, named for her mother, in Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, in the Irish Village mysteries; Tara Meehan, a New Yorker carrying her mother’s ashes back to Ireland, in the Home to Ireland mysteries; Cormac O’Brien, a detective inspector based in Killarney, Ireland, in the County Kerry mysteries
S.W. Perry: Nicholas Shelby, a physician in the last years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, in 1590s, London, England, in the Jackdaw mysteries
Mercedes Rosende: Ursula Lopez, a plump 40-something murderer with a sense of humor, in Montevideo, Uruguay
Shelly Sanders: non-series
Camilla Sten: non-series thrillers
New Leonie Swann series: Agnes Sharp and other elderly inhabitants of Sunset hall, in the country town of Duck End, England
Amy Tector: strange doings in the national archives in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Dominion Archives mysteries
Alisa Lynn Valdés: Jodi Luna, leaving Boston academia to be a game warden, in her family home of New Mexico
Elle Brooke White: Charlotte Finn, inheriting the family produce farm, sleuthing with the help of a pig, in Santa Barbara County, California, in the Finn Family Farm mysteries
W.A. Winter: non-series, true crime written as William Swanson
James Wolff: The Discipline Files espionage trilogy
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2023
Michael Bennett: Hana Westerman, a Māori detective with the Auckland CIB, in New Zealand
New Lorenzo Carcaterra series: Nonna Maria, a 70-year-old widow on the Italian island of Ischia
Delilah S. Dawson: non-series
Maria Dong: non-series
Craig Henderson: non-series
New T.C. LoTempio series: Tiffany Austin, returning home to Branson, Georgia, to work as a food critic in the Tiffany Austin Food Blogger series
Lauren Nossett: non-series thrillers
New Peter Swanson series: Henry Kimball, a police officer and then private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts
Rosie Walsh: non-series
Stacy Willingham: non-series thrillers
Erin Young: Riley Fisher, a sergeant in the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, in rural Iowa; historical fiction written as Robyn Young
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2023
New Cara Black series: Kate Rees, an American sharpshooter on missions against the Nazis in World War II
Janelle Brown: non-series
Nina de Gramont: non-series
New Barbara Hambly series: Kitty Flint, a glamorous movie star, and her widowed British sister-in-law Emma Blackstone, in 1920s Hollywood in the Sliver Screen series
Adam Hamdy: John Wallace, a photojournalist; Scott Pearce, an ex-MI6 officer
Jennifer Herrera: non-series
New Michael Jecks series: Nick Morris, a British portrait painter, in The Art of Murder series
Brendan Slocumb: non-series
New Betty Webb series: Zoe Barlow, a young painter living in Paris after being banished by her Alabama family for her scandalous behavior, beginning in 1922
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2023
Erin E. Adams: non-series
New Mally Becker series: Rebecca Parcell, recently widowed, and Daniel Alloway, an escaped British prisoner, working as spies for General Washington, beginning in 1780, in the Revolutionary War mysteries
Alicia Bessette: Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk on Cattail Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Valerie Burns: Maddy Montgomery, inheriting her great-aunt Octavia’s house, running her bakery, and caring for a 250-pound English mastiff named Baby, in New Bison, Michigan, in the Baker Street mysteries (V.M. Burns real name)
Katie Gutierrez: non-series
Meredith Hambrock: non-series
Virginia Hartman: non-series
T.G. Herren: Valerie Cooper, inheriting a major interest in New Orleans Fine Antiques, in New Orleans, Louisiana (Greg Herren pseudonym)
Gabino Iglesias: non-series, horror-tinged
Valona Jones: Twins Tabby and Sage Winslow, owners of the Book and Candle Shop, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magic Candle Shop mysteries (Maggie Toussaint pseudonym)
Claire Kells: Felicity Harland, a 32-year-old former FBI agent now working with the Investigative Services Bureau around the country, in the National Parks mysteries
James L’Etoile: John Penley, and his new partner Paula Newberry, homicide detectives in Sacramento, California; Nathan Parker, a police detective in Maricopa County, Arizona; Emily Hunter and Javier Medina, homicide detectives in Sacramento, California
Joan Long: non-series
M.A. Monnin: Stefanie Adams, a private banker on vacation, in the Intrepid Traveler mysteries
Korina Moss: Willa Bauer, running a cheese shop, Curds & Whey, in fictional Yarrow Glen, California, in the Cheese Shop mysteries
B.R. Myers: non-series
Emilya Naymark: Laney Bird, an NYPD detective turned small town private investigator, in the hamlet of Sylvan, upstate New York
Ashton Noone: non-series
A.R. Torre: Deanna Madden series
Nina Wachsman: Diana, a Talmudic scholar, and Belladonna, a notorious courtesan, are drawn together in 1612 Venice, Italy, in the Venice Beauties mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2022
Samantha Jayne Allen: Annie McIntyre, a young private investigator’s apprentice in the hardscrabble town of Garnett, Texas
New Kelley Armstrong series: Casey Duncan and her husband Sheriff Eric Dalton, relocated from Rockton to Haven’s Rock, a refuge built deep in the Yukon wilderness for people needing to disappear, in the Haven’s Rock series
New Tamara Berry series: Tess Harrow, a recently divorced bestselling thriller writer and her daughter Gertrude, turn an inherited hardware store into a book store, in small-town Winthrop, Washington, in the By the Book mysteries
Lan Samantha Chang: non-series
New Tracy Clark series: Harriet Foster, a detective in the Chicago PD
Bertie Denham: Derek Thyrde, Chief Whip in the British House of Lords
New Juan Gómez-Jurado series: Antonia Scott, a gifted forensic analysis, the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother, in Bilbao, Spain
Anastasia Hastings: Violet Manville, taking over the Miss Hermione agony aunt column, beginning in 1885 London, England, in the Dear Miss Hermione mysteries (Connie Laux pseudonym)
New Alma Katsu series: Lyndsey Duncan, a CIA intelligence agent, in the Red Widow series
New Kathleen Kent: Melvina (Mel) Donleavey, a young CIA agent, beginning in 1990
Grace D. Li: non-series
Tracey Lien: non-series
New Randye Lordon series: Mary Moody, a “concierge to the rich and the richer” in the Hamptions, New York
New Javier Marías series: Tomás Nevinson, returns to Madrid from Oxford where he has been recruited as a spy, unbeknownst to his wife Berta Isla
New Julie Mulhern series: Poppy Fields, a social influencer and super-secret spy, in Hollywood, California
Hayley Scrivenor: non-series
Charmaine Wilkerson: non-series
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