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Authors and Characters Added in October 2026
New Lin Anderson series: Earling Flett, a Detective Inspector in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
Lucy Andrew: Harriet Smith, the well-trained daughter of a con man posing as an innocent young woman in a reimagined Jane Austin universe, in the Harriet Smith Investigates series
New Amanda Flower series: Julia and Nellie Grant, wife and daughter of Ulysses S. Grant, and Frances Cleveland, wife of Grover Cleveland, solving crime in Washington DC, beginning in 1894, in the First Ladies’ Murder Club mysteries
Donna Freitas: Detective Diana González at different points in her career in and around Narragansett, Rhode Island, in the Ocean State series
Allan Gaw: Dr. Jack Cuthbert, a highly respected Scotland Yard pathologist haunted by his Great War experiences in the trenches, beginning in 1929
Michael Hogan: Charlie Boardman and his fellow dogwalkers, amateur sleuths in Framstone, a seaside English town, in the Dogwalkers’ Detective Agency series
Joseph Moldover: Lukas Moore, a young actor who returns to his hometown to care for his father Richard, a psychiatrist who has suffered brain injury; in Faith, New York
Philippa Perry: Patricia Phillips, a psychotherapist, and her friend and neighbor Prichard Knowles, in the small coastal town of Westlinke, in Sussex England
Nathaniel Rich: non-series
Paul Rudnick: non-series
Shailee Thompson: Jamie Prescott, busy working on her dissertation (All's Fair in Love and Gore: The Intersection of Romantic Comedies and Slasher Films), and Laurie Hamilton, a budding filmmaker, in New York City
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Authors and Characters Added in September 2026
New Janice Hallett series: the Fairway Players, an amateur theatre group in the small village of Lower Lockwood, England
New Tom Ryan series: Peter, Cass, and Dandy, members of the Treasure Hunters Club in Maple Bay, Nova Scotia
Kate Westbury: University of Oxford students Ginevra Bishop, a socialite, and Sidney Braithwaite, a war veteran on scholarship, beginning in 1950 Oxford, England, in the Oxford Guide mysteries
De’Shawn Charles Winslow: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2026
Caro Claire Burke: non-series
Tiffany Crum: non-series
Gillian French: Shawnee “Shaw” Connolly, lead analyst for the Latent Prints department of Bennet County Forensic Solutions in rural Maine; non-series YA mysteries
Gillian McAllister: non-series thrillers
Ross Montgomery: Miss Decima Stockingham, a sharp-tongued octogenarian, and her young servant Stephen Pike, beginning in 1910 England, in the Stockingham & Pike mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2026
Nicci Cloke: non-series
Cindy Fazzi: Domingo, a Filipino-American bounty hunter who catches criminal undocumented immigrants; Bethany Briggs, a 23-year-old analyst in the FBI’s San Francisco office
Sam Guthrie: non-series spy thrillers
Anna Fitzgerald Healy: non-series
Jo Murray: non-series
Kelly Oliver: Jessica James, a philosophy student from Montana, and amateur sleuth, in Chicago, Illinois; Fiona Figg, a British intelligence agent starting in World War One, and later including sidekick Kitty Lane; Agatha Christie and the Detection Club, beginning in 1926
Jurica Pavičić: non-series
Mel Pennant: Miss Hortense, retired nurse and amateur sleuth, solving problems for the Pardner, a group of Black investors, in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England
Andrew Reid: non-series
Michael Rigg: Jonathan Gray, MD, Chief Deputy Coroner for Orleans Parish, in Louisiana
Archer Sullivan: Annie Gore, a former Air Force special investigator, now a private investigator based in Brimstone Hollow, in the Appalachian Mountains
J.R. Thornton: non-series
Radha Vatsal: Kitty (Capability) Weeks, a journalist and amateur sleuth during World War One, in New York City
Kevin Wade: Jeep Mullane, Bayville Chief of Police in Bayville, New York, on Long Island’s North Shore
Henry Wise: Will Seems, returning home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy for the Euphoria County Sheriff’s Department
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2026
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier: Naomi Sinclair, a culinary journalist from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean Island mysteries
Jennifer N. Brown: non-series
Fergus Craig: Roger LeCarre, a police detective out to rid the world of crime starting in Devon and Cornwall, England; Carol Quinn, a former serial killer out of prison and looking forward to relaxing in a retirement home, in England
New Peggy Ehrhart series: Caroline Platt, the Associate Director and Curator of Special Collections at the Yates Museum in the small town of Banburyport, Massachusetts, in the Quilt Whisperer mysteries
Lenore Nash: Lake Harlowe, a US State Department diplomat, stationed around the world
Rebecca Philipson: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2026
Evelyn Clarke: joint pseudonym of Cat Clarke & V.E. Schwab
Brianna Heath: non-series
New Gary Phillips series: O’Conner, a master thief in Southern California
New Rochelle Staab series: Tess Hammond, a recently widowed crime beat reporter, beginning in 1932 Los Angeles
New Søren Sveistrup series: Naia Thulin and Mark Hess, detectives in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2026
Karsten Dusse: Björn Diemel, an unhappy German criminal defense attorney who discovers Mindfulness:
Yosha Gunasekera: Siriwathi Perera, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver, and public defender Amaya Fernando, in New York City
Holly Jackson: Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi, a high-school senior true crime enthusast and amateur sleuth in a small town (Buckinghamshire in UK editions; Connecticut in US editions) in the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder YA series
New Asia Mackay series: Hazel “Haze” Matthews and Nathaniel Foxton “Fox” Cabot, serial killers trying to give up the thrill of killing
Laura McCluskey: Detective Inspectors Georgina “George” Lennox and Richie Stewart, in Scotland
New Mike Ripley series: Roland Wilkes, a former book editor turned librarian, in England
Bailey Seybolt: non-series
Jennifer Trevelyan: non-series
Abbi Waxman: Julia Mann, a 60-ish retired actress, and Natasha Mason, a Gen Z adrenaline junkie, in Palm Springs, California
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2026
Adrian Andover: Reece Parker, a mixologist running Subplot, a literary-themed underground cocktail lounge in his hometown of Hope Mills, Pennsylvania, in the Mixology Lounge mysteries
A.D. Bell: non-series
Bruce Robert Coffin: John Byron, a detective sergeant, in Portland, Maine; Brock Justice, a detective with the state police, in Maine
Megan Collins: non-series
New Lee Goldberg series: Edison Bixby, a brilliant insurance investigator with coprolalia, uncontrolled and often offensive verbal outbursts
Kim Hays: Giuliana Linder, a veteran police detective, and Renzo Donatelli, her junior colleage, in Bern, Switzerland
Sandra Jackson-Opoku: Sapphire (Savvy) Summers, owner of Essie’s soul food café on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois
John Ajvide Lindqvist: The Platserna (The Places) supernatural horror thriller series; Julia Malmros, a former police officer turned best selling crime fiction author, and Kim Ribbing, a young hacker haunted by his past, in Sweden, in the Bloodstorm series
Charlotte McConaghy: non-series
Yasuhiko Nishizawa: non-series
New Richard O’Rawe series written with daughter Bernadette O’Rawe: London Detective Sergeant Grace O’Malley
Holly Seddon: non-series thrillers
Katie Siegel: Charlotte Illes, a 25-year-old former kid detective coaxed out of retirement
Matthew Spencer: Rose Riley, a homicide detective, in Sydney, Australia
Rachel Taff: non-series
Vikki Wakefield: non-series
New series by LynDee Walker & Bruce Robert Coffin: Avery Turner, a billionaire computer genius, and Carter Mosley, a deep-sea shipwreck diver, in the Turner and Mosley Files
Andrew Welsh-Huggins: Andy Hayes, a private investigator, in Columbus, Ohio; Mercury Carter, a former postal inspector, now a freelance courier willing to do just about anything to complete a delivery
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2026
Kelsey Cox: non-series
New Karen E. Olson series: Hank Tudor, a billionaire, and his wives and children in the Modern Tudor mysteries
Sally Smith: Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, an elderly barrister residing in in London’s Inner Temple, beginning in 1901, in the Trials of Gabriel Ward series
Sophie Stava: non-series
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Authors and Characters Added in January 2026
Sacha Bronwasser: non-series
Andreina Cordani: Ebenezer Scrooge mysteries
Hannah Deitch: non-series
Laurie L. Dove: Carrie Starr, former Chicago detective, returning to her reservation roots after her daughter's murder, as a tribal marshal, in Oklahoma
Allison Epstein: non-series historical mysteries
Amity Gaige: non-series
Marisa Kashino: non-series
Holly Kennedy: non-series
Jo Nichols: an eccentric group of tenants living in the Marigold Cottages owned by octogenarian Golda Bakofsky (Mrs. B) in Santa Barbara, California, in the Marigold Cottage mysteries
R.P. O’Donnell: Emma Daly, a former Garda now running the library in the small village of Castlefreke, Ireland, beginning in 1988, in the Irish Library mysteries
Trisha Sakhlecha: non-series
Chuck Storla: Brad Hanson, an insurance fraud investigator living at the Estates at Chestnut Lake in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, in the HOA Homicide mysteries
Callan Wink: non-series thrillers and general fiction set in the West
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