Authors
and Characters Added in January 2008
Karin Alvtegen: non-series
mysteries set in Sweden
Ray Bradbury: An unnamed
writer and amateur sleuth in Los Angeles, California
Gyles Brandreth: Oscar
Wilde, poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and
Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in
Victorian England, Scotland, and France
Gordon Campbell: Edgar
nominee for Best First Mystery
Gianrico Carofiglio:
Guido Guerrieri, a jaded defense lawyer in Bari, Italy
Two new series on the Max
Allan Collins page: Criminal Minds (TV Tie-in); Maggie Starr,
America's most famous ex-striptease artist, running her late husband's
newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her VP and chief troubleshooter,
in 1948 Manhattan, New York City
New series on the William
J. Coughlin page: Stoney Walsh in Detroit, Michigan
Two new series on the Judith
Cutler page: Josie Welford, new owner of the White Hart Pub in
Kings Duncombe, a West Country village, and Nick Thomas, a Food Standards
Agency inspector, in England; Fran Harman, a Detective Chief Superintendent
nearing retirement, in Kent, England
Stan Cutler: Rayford Goodman,
a jaded, once-famous private investigator, and Mark Bradley, a gay
writer of celebrity biographies, in Los Angeles, California
Gaylord Dold: Mitch Roberts,
a private investigator in 1950s Wichita, Kansas
D.H. Dublin: Madison Cross,
a former star medical student with the Crime Scenes Unit, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
P.S. Elsner: Nick Dallas,
a young but retired cop in Detroit, Michigan, now a private investigator,
in the 1950s
Tana French: Edgar nominee
for Best First Mystery
Christopher Goffard:
Edgar nominee for Best First Mystery
New series on the Ann
Granger page: Lizzie Martin, a companion to a wealthy widow slum
landlord, in 1860s London, England
Lois Greiman: Christina
McMullen, a cocktail waitress turned professional psychologist, and
homicide detective Jack Rivera, in Los Angeles, California
Isidore Haiblum: Tom
Dunjer in the future; Sisco and Block in the future; James Shaw, a
Jewish private investigator in New York City; Morris Weiss, a “Yiddish
detective” at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City
New series on the Linda
Hall page: Jake Rikker, a private investigator, kayak adventurer,
and whale-watching tour guide specializing in salvage operations,
in the mostly Christian town of Fog Point, Maine
Petra Hammesfahr: non-series
Vicki Hendricks: non-series
set in Florida
Russell Hill: non-series
mysteries, Edgar nominee for Best Paperback Original
New series on the Tami Hoag page:
Elena Estes, an ex-cop turned horse trainer, in Palm Beach, Florida
David Hosp: Non-series legal
thrillers:
Vicki Lane: Elizabeth Goodweather,
a 50-something widow and proprietor of an herb and flower farm near
Asheville, North Carolina, in the Appalachians
New series on the José Latour page:
Elliot Steil, son of an American sugar magnate, later a professor of
English at a Cuban college and then working in an import-export business,
in Havana, Cuba
New series on the Wendi Lee page, written as W.W.
Lee: Jefferson Birch, a former Texas ranger working for Tisdale
Investigations, in the American West in the second half of the 19th
century
Michael Lister: John Jordan,
a prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida
James Macomber: John Cann,
a Vietnam Special Forces veteran, now a US-based lawyer dealing with
international legal issues and ethical dilemmas in Europe
John Martel: Non-series legal
thrillers set in San Francisco, California
Craig McDonald: Edgar
nominee for Best First Mystery
Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole,
a police detective in Oslo, Norway
Derek Nikitas: Edgar nominee
for Best First Mystery
Julie Parsons: Michael
McLoughlin, a detective inspector, later retired, in Dublin, Ireland
Shari Shattuck: Callaway
(Cally) Wilde, a wealthy socialite, and LAPD detective Evan Paley,
in Los Angeles, California
Edward Sklepowich:
Urbino McIntyre, an American expatriate writer and amateur sleuth,
and his friend Barbara, Countess da Capo-Zendrini, in Venice, Italy
Caro Soles: non-series mysteries
Charlie Stella: non-series
books centered in New York City
Jennifer Sturman: Rachel
Benjamin, an investment banker and amateur sleuth, based in New York
City
Susan Sussman and Sarajane
Avidon: Morgan Taylor, a struggling actress in Chicago, Illinois,
and on a Caribbean cruise ship
Frank Tallis: Max Liebermann,
a psychoanalytic detective in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Austria
Michael Underwood:
Simon Manton, a police inspector, later superintendent, in London,
England; Martin Ainsworth, in England; Richard Monk, a lawyer in England;
Nick Atwell, a police sergeant at Scotland Yard, and detective constable
Clare Reynolds, in London, England; Rosa Epton, a solicitor in London,
England
Martyn Waites: Stephen
Larkin, a London tabloid journalist whose wife and baby were murdered,
now back in his hometown of Newcastle, England; Joe Donovan, a former
investigative journalist whose son has disappeared, in Newcastle, England
Kevin Wignall: non-series
mysteries, Edgar nominee for Best Paperback Original
Dirk Wyle: Ben Candidi, a free-spirited,
nature-loving biomedical scientist, and Rebecca Levis, a medical student,
later MD, in Florida, Washington, DC, and elsewhere
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Authors and Characters Added in February 2008
Tasha Alexander: Lady
Emily Ashton, young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England
Maggie Barbieri: Alison
Bergeron, a newly divorced English professor at St. Thomas, a small
Catholic college in the Bronx, New York City
Ronan Bennett: non-series
mysteries
Grace Brophy: Alessandro
Cenni, a maverick state police commissario, in Assisi, Umbria, Italy
Rick Copp: Jarrod Jarvis, a
former child-star and gay amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California,
and London, England
Caroline Cousins: Cousins
Margaret Ann Matthews, Bonnie Lynn Tyler, and Lindsey Fox, at Pinckney
Plantation on fictional Indigo Island, South Carolina
Ellen Crosby: Lucie Montgomery,
operating her family’s winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country
mysteries
Michael Delving: Dave
Cannon, a Connecticut Yankee, in rural Gloucestershire, England, and
in Wales; Bob Eddison, a Cherokee Indian, Dave Cannon’s partner,
in rural Gloucestershire, England
Richard Doetsch: Michael
St. Pierre, a master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe
New series on the Loren
D. Estleman page: Page Murdock, a deputy US Marshal in 1880s
American West (and Canada)
Timothy Fuller: Jupiter
Jones, a Harvard fine arts instructor and amateur sleuth, in Boston,
Massachusetts
Kathleen George: Richard
Christie, a homicide detective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Noreen Gilpatrick:
Kate MacLean, a police detective in the Seattle, Washington, area
Donald Goines: Kenyatta,
a small-time hoodlum rising to lead an organization devoted to eliminating
white cops and ridding the ghetto of drugs and prostitution, in Detroit,
Michigan, and Las Vegas, Nevada
Kate Green: Theresa Fortunato,
a tarot-reading psychic, and Oliver Jardine, a police detective, in
Los Angeles, California
Michael Gruber: Iago “Jimmy” Paz,
a Cuban-American cop, in Miami, Florida, and elsewhere
Patricia Gussin: Laura
Nelson, a medical student in late 1960s Detroit, Michigan, later a
surgeon, in 1970s Tampa, Florida
New series on the Tami Hoag page:
Sam Kovac, a hard-boiled police detective, and his wisecracking partner
Nikki Liska, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Vicky Hunnings: William “Shark” Morgan
and Dell Hassler, police detectives in Hilton Head, Beaufort County,
South Carolina
James Patrick Hunt:
Evan Maitland, a former police detective, now running an antique business
and moonlighting as a bounty hunter, based in Chicago, Illinois; George
Hastings, a police lieutenant in St. Louis, Missouri
Iceberg Slim: White Folks,
a black man able to “pass” and con whites
New series on the Michael
Innes page: Charles Honeybath, a detective at Scotland Yard,
in London, England
Claude Izner: Victor Legris,
a bookseller in late 19th century Paris, France
Henry Kisor: Steve “Two
Crows” Martinez, a Lakota Indian by birth, eastern white by upbringing,
and deputy sheriff in Porcupine City, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Suzann Ledbetter: Hannah
Garvey, a former advertising executive managing the upscale Valhalla
Springs retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks
S.L. Linnea: Major Jaime Richards,
a US Army chaplain in Iraq, searching for Eden
Lisa Lutz: Isabele “Izzy” Spellman,
a 28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation
firm, in San Francisco, California
Edward Mathis: Dan Roman,
a private investigator, in east Texas
Cody McFadyen: Smoky Barrett,
an FBI agent who was badly scarred by another serial killer, in Los
Angeles, California
Kate Morgenroth: non-series
mysteries
Steve Mosby: non-series mysteries
Sylvia Nobel: Kendall O’Dell,
a reporter at a small-town newspaper in fictional Castle Valley, Arizona
Asa Nonami: non-series mysteries
Richard Parrish: Joshua
Rabb, a Jewish lawyer in late 1940s and early 1950s working with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and privately, in Tucson, Arizona
John Pilkington: Thomas
Finbow, a master falconer in late 16th century London and Berkshire,
England; Ben Button, a boy actor with Lord Bonner’s Men, in Elizabethan
England (juvenile)
Danuta Reah: non-series mysteries,
also written as Carla Banks
Sara Rosett: Ellie Avery,
an Air Force wife and professional organizer, in the Mom Zone mysteries
Marcus Sakey: Non-series
crime novels set in Chicago, Illinois
Jean Sheldon: Kerry Grant,
a police detective and computer guru, in Chicago, Illinois
Shelley Smith: Jacob Chaos,
a police inspector, in England
Roz Southey: Charles Patterson,
a determined but impoverished musician in 18th century Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England
Jim Stinson: Spencer Churchill
(Stoney) Winston, a filmmaker at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain,
screenwriter, and film workshop teacher, in Los Angeles, California
David Stone: Micah Dalton,
a “cleaner” for the CIA, roaming the world to fix up Company
messes
New series on the Mark Terry page:
Derek Stillwater, a bioterrorism expert with the US Department of Homeland
Security
Leslie Thomas: “Dangerous” Davies,
a detective constable in north London, England
Robert Upton: Amos McGuffin,
a hard-drinking, golf-playing private investigator, based in San Francisco,
California (also in Los Angeles and New York City)
Clarissa Watson: Persis
Willum, an artist and art gallery assistant, in Long Island, New York,
and France
Carolyn Weston: Casey
Kellogg, an ex-surfer college-grad detective, teamed with Al Krug.
a seasoned cop of the old school, in Santa Monica, California
Robin A. White: non-series
mysteries
William P. Wood: legal
thrillers
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Authors and Characters Added in March 2008
Aileen Baron: Lily Sampson,
a young American graduate student archeologist, in late 1930s and early
1940s Jerusalem and Morocco
Francis Beeding (John
Palmer & Hilary Saunders): Professor Kreutzemark, in Switzerland
and Spain; Alistair Granby, a Colonel, later General, in the British
Intelligence Service in England and occasionally on the Continent; Wilkins,
a police inspector, in England; George Martin, a police inspector, in
England; James de la Cloche in the 1600s (written as David Pilgrim)
Josephine Bell: Dr. David
Wintringham, Inspector Steven Mitchell of Scotland Yard, and barrister
Claude Warrington-Reeve, in England; Dr. Henry Frost, in England; Amy
Tupper, an amateur sleuth in London, England
Maureen Carter: Bev Morriss,
a lippy but loveable detective sergeant in Birmingham, England
New series on the William
Deverell page: Arthur Beauchamp, a scholarly, self-doubting lawyer
retired as a hobbyist farmer on Garibaldi Island, off the coast of
British Columbia, Canada
New series on the Kathy Lynn Emerson page, writing as Kaitlyn
Dunnett: Liss MacCrimmon a 20-something dancer forced into early
retirement by a knee injury, helping at her aunt’s Scottish
store, in Moosetookalook, Maine
Charles Finch: Charles Lenox,
a gentleman sleuth, in 1860s London, England (Agatha nominee for Best
First Novel)
Jack Fredrickson: Vlodek “Dek” Elstrom,
a private investigator with a failed marriage and battered reputation,
in Chicago, Illinois (Shamus finalist for Best First P.I. Novel)
New series on the Meg
Gardiner page: Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist, in San Francisco,
California
Beth Groundwater: Claire
Hanover, 40-something proprietor of a gift-basket business, in Colorado
Springs, Colorado (Agatha nominee for Best First Novel)
Palma Harcourt: non-series
mysteries; George Thorne, a Detective Superintendent in the Thames Valley
police, in England (written as John Penn); Dick Tansey, a Chief Inspector
in the Thames Valley police, in England (written as John Penn)
Ray Harrison: Joseph Bragg,
a down-to-earth detective sergeant, and James Morton, an upper-crust
constable, in 1890s London, England
New series on the Libby
Fischer Hellmann page: Georgia Davis, an ex-cop private investigator,
in Chicago, Illinois
Mick Herron: Zoë Boehm,
a 40-something private investigator in Oxford, England
Maria Hudgins: Dotsy Lamb,
a recently divorced ancient and medieval history professor from Virginia,
with her friend Lettie, traveling in Europe
New series on the Peter
King page: Ned Parker, hansom cab driver in 1870s London, England
Roberta Kray: Gangland novels
in London, England
Ronald Levitsky: Nate
Rosen, a civil liberties lawyer from Washington, DC, taking cases in
Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Illinois
Richard Marinick: non-series
set in the mean streets of South Boston, Massachusetts
Stephen Marlowe: Chester
Drum, an ex-FBI agent private investigator, venturing around the world;
Brian Guy, a private investigator, in New York City (written as Jason
Ridgway)
Hope McIntyre: Lee Bartholomew,
a ghostwriter in London, England, and then Long Island, New York
Joan Opyr: Wilhelmina “Bil” Hardy,
a baby dyke in Cowslip, Idaho
New series on the P.J. Parrish page:
Joe Frye, the only female homicide detective in the Miami-Dade Police
Department (and Louis Kincaid’s lover), in Miami, Florida
Julian Rathbone: Colonel
Nur Bey, a policeman in Turkey; Jan Argand, a police commissioner in
Brabt, a fictional European country; Renata Fechter, head of a squad
of eco-cops in Germany; Chris Shovelin, a down-at-the-heals 50-something
British private investigator, in California and Kenya
Deanna Raybourn: Lady
Julia Grey, recently widowed, in 1880s London, England (Agatha nominee
for Best First Novel)
Derek Raymond: A police
detective-sergeant in the Factory, Department A14 — Unexplained
Deaths, in Soho, London, England
New series on the Cornelia Read page:
Madeline Dare, former dubutante in 1980s New York and Massachusetts
New series on the Matthew
Reilly page: Jack West, Jr., an adventurer from the Australian
Outback
Sandra Ruttan: Craig Nolan,
Ashlyn Hart, and Tain, police constables in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
Hank Phillippi Ryan:
Charlotte “Charlie” McNally, a 40-something TV investigative
reporter, in Boston, Massachusetts (Agatha nominee for Best First Novel)
New series on the Walter
Satterthwait page: Lizzie Borden, three decades after her acquittal
of the axe-murder of her father and stepmother
Roger Silverwood: Superintendent
Cawthorn, in England; Michael Angel, a detective inspector in Bromersley,
South Yorkshire, England
Fran Stewart: Biscuit McKee,
a librarian, and her cat, Marmalade, in Martinsville, a small town in
northern Georgia
Duane Swierczynski:
non-series mysteries
Edwin Thomas: Martin Jerrold,
a lieutenant in the British Navy in the early 1800s, in the Reluctant
Adventures trilogy; Demetrios Askiates, a former bounty hunter and bodyguard,
in service to the Byzantine Emperor in late 11th century Constantinople,
in the First Crusade trilogy (written as Tom Harper)
Livia J. Washburn: Lucas
Hallam, a stuntman and former Texas Ranger, in the 1920s; Phyllis Newsom,
an elderly amateur sleuth and pie expert, in Weatherford, Texas, in
the Fresh-Baked mysteries
Dennis Wheatley: Duke
de Richleau, an exiled French monarchist, along with “Modern Musketeers” Richard
Eaton, a conservative Christian Englishman, Simon Aron, a liberal Jew,
and American Rex Van Ryn, from 1894-1960; Gregory Sallust, a British
agent battling Nazis, sometimes by occult mean; Julian Day, seeking
revenge against those who ruined his career; Roger Brook, a special
agent for Prime Minister William Pitt, from 1783-1815, in Europe, Asia,
and the America; Molly Fountain, a widowed Englishwoman and thriller
writer after WWII, on the French Riviera
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Authors and Characters Added in April 2008
New series on the Rick Acker page:
Ben Corbin, a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois, in Christian legal thrillers
New series on the Harold Adams page:
Kyle Champion, a former TV news anchor, now a private investigator
Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen,
a 40-something divorcée running a coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds,
with two women friends in the small fictional town of Brookhills, Wisconsin
Lorna Barrett: Tricia
Miles, running a mystery bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, and the
cat Miss Marple, in fictional small-town Stoneham, New Hampshire, a
town full of bookstores (L.L. Bartlett pseudonym)
Peter Blauner: non-series
mysteries
Nicholas Blincoe: non-series
mysteries
Kyril Bonfiglioli: Charlie
Mortdecai, a dishonest art dealer who consorts with international crooks,
and his sidekick Jock Strapp, in England
New series co-authored by Ken
Bruen and Jason Starr:
Max Fisher, a wealthy businessman, and Angela Petrakos, his sexy assistant,
starting out in New York City
Pat Burden: Henry Bassett,
a retired Detective Chief Superintendent, in Herefordshire, England
Mark Burnell: Stephanie Patrick,
a druggie and prostitute turned government assassin, in Europe and elsewhere
Francis Clifford: non-series
mysteries
Natalie R. Collins:
non-series mysteries; Jenny T. Partridge, founder of the premier dance
academies in Ogden, Utah, in the Dance mysteries (written as Natalie
M. Roberts)
Sarah D’Almeida:
D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, of Dumas fame, serving
the king in 17th century France, in the Musketeers mysteries
K.O. Dahl: Gunnarstranda and Frank
Frolich, police in Oslo, Norway
Mark De Castrique: Sam
Blackman, a former Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation
Detachment of the U.S. military who lost part of his leg in Iraq, in
Asheville, North Carolina
Ben Elton: non-series mysteries
New series on the Inger Frimansson page:
Justine Dalvik, in Hässelby, Sweden
Pip Granger: Rosie Featherby,
a child raised by her Aunt Maggie and Uncle Bert running a Soho cafe
in early 1950s London, England
Michael Gregorio: Hanno
Stiffeniis, a magistrate in the Napoleonic era, in early 1800s Konigsberg,
Prussia
Melodie Johnson Howe:
Claire Conrad, a tall, elegant private investigator, and her sassy assistant,
Maggie Hill, in Los Angeles, California, and New York City
Elizabeth Ironside:
non-series mysteries
Susanna Jones: non-series
mysteries
Denis Kilcommons: Peter
Lacey, in Spain and elsewhere
New series on the Diana
Killian page: A.J. (Anna Jolie) Alexandra, a 30-something marketing
consultant in Manhattan, New York, in the Yoga mysteries
New series on the Jon Land page:
Michael Tiranno (The Tyrant), Mafia connected owner of the Seven Sins,
a Los Vegas casino
William Landay: non-series
mysteries
Jonathan Lethem: non-series
mysteries
William F. Love: Francis
X. Regan, a wheelchair-bound Catholic Bishop, and his assistant David
Goldman, a Jewish ex-cop private eye, in New York City
Desmond Lowden: non-series
mysteries
Mary E. Martin: Harry Jenkins,
a lawyer in a small wills and estates firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
in the Osgoode Trilogy
Adrian Mathews: non-series
mysteries
Seicho Matsumoto: non-series
mysteries
John McEvoy: Jack Doyle, a
failed ad-man and reluctant sleuth working in the horse-racing world,
based in the Chicago, Illinois area
Eoin McNamee: non-series
mysteries; Jack Valentine, a middle-aged British intelligence agent
in the 1970s, in Ireland and elsewhere (written as John Creed)
Nicholas Meyer: Sherlock
Holmes, from the posthumous memoirs of Dr. Watson, in the 1890s in Europe
Dreda Say Mitchell:
non-series mysteries
New series on the Ian Morson page:
Niccolò Zuliani, a Venetian businessman turned bodyguard at the
court of Kubilai Khan in 1262
New series on the Terri Persons page:
Bernadette “Cat” Saint Clare, an FBI agent with paranormal
powers, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Henry Porter: non-series
mysteries
Robert Richardson: Augustus
Maltravers, a journalist turned playwright and novelist, in fictional
Vercaster, England
Trevor Scott: Jake Adams,
a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, taking care of business
in Europe and elsewhere; Tony Caruso, a private investigator working
out of his home-office in an old Ford pickup, with his German-trained
bomb-sniffing dog Panzer, a Giant Schnauzer, in Bend, Oregon; Chad Hunter
and Frank Baldwin, weapons experts, in the Hypershot thrillers
José Carlos Somoza:
non-series mysteries
New romantic suspense series on the Mariah
Stewart page: Mallory Russo, ex-cop private investigator, and
Charlie Wanamaker, former Philadelphia detective, in Conroy, Pennsylvania
Terri Thayer: Dewey Pellicano,
who inherits her mother’s quilt shop Quilter Paradiso, in San
Jose, California, in the Quilting mysteries; Stamping Sisters mysteries
Sarah Waters: non-series
mysteries
Anton White: non-series mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in May 2008
Jakob Arjouni: Kemal Kayankaya,
a private investigator of Turkish background, in Frankfurt, Germany
Jake Arnott: Harry Starks,
a charismatic homosexual gangster in 1960s London, England
Rick Blechta: non-series
mysteries
Anna Blundy: Faith Zanetti,
a contemporary war correspondent in the Mid-East, Russia, and Europe
Liz Brady: Jane Yeats, a Harley-riding
journalist and crime writer, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alex Brett: Morgan O’Brien,
a Canadian government investigator specializing in science fraud, based
in Ottawa, Ontario
Terry Carroll: Carl North,
a small-town cop and amateur hockey goalie, in Belleford and then St.
Thomas, Ontario, Canada
New series on the Patricia
Cornwell page: Win Garano, mixed-race state investigator, and
Monique Lamont, District Attorney, in Boston, Massachusetts
C.R. Corwin: Dolly Madison
(Maddy) Sprowls, a 60-something newspaper archivist for the Herald-Union,
and cub reporter Aubrey McGinty, in Hannawa, Ohio, in the Morgue Mama
mysteries
Jon Evans: non-series mysteries
Reg Gadney: Alan Rosslyn, a
private investigator in England and elsewhere in Europe
New series on the Dean R. Koontz page:
Odd Thomas, a fry cook who can communicate with the dead, in the fictional
small town of Pico Mundo, California
New series on the Jayne Ann
Krentz page: Arcane Society, a secret organization devoted to
paranormal research (some books written as Amanda Quick)
Stieg Larsson: the Millenium
trilogy
Conyth Little: non-series
mysteries
Kaye Morgan: Liza Kelly, a
former publicist in Hollywood, now a sudoku columnist for a paper in
her hometown of Maiden’s Bay, Oregon, in the Sudoku mysteries
Francis M. Nevins: Loren
Mensing, a law-school professor, in St. Louis, Missouri; Milo Turner,
a con-man and private investigator, in St. Louis, Missouri
Geoffrey Norman: Morgan
Hunt, a Vietnam vet, ex-con, private investigator working for a crusading
lawyer, in Pensacola, Florida
New series on the Barbara
Parker page: C.J. Dunn, a flashy criminal attorney in Miami, Florida
Andrew Pyper: non-series
mysteries
R.T. Raichev: Antonia Darcy,
a librarian at the Military and Naval Club, and grandmother, along with
Major Hugh Payne, in London, England
Jon Redfern: non-series mysteries
Jan Rehner: non-series mysteries
Christopher Rice: non-series
mysteries
Peter Steiner: Louis Morgon,
a Middle East policy expert dismissed from the CIA, taking refuge in
France
Ilona Van Mil: non-series
mysteries
Michael Walters: Nergui,
ex-head of the Serious Crime Squad, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Chris Wiltz: Neal Rafferty,
a third-generation cop turned private investigator, in New Orleans,
Louisiana
Eve Zaremba: Helen Keremos,
a 40-something lesbian private investigator and former intelligence
operative based in Vancouver, British Columbia, also operating in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, and elsewhere
Mark Zuehlke: Elias McCann,
the reluctant community coroner, in Tofino, Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, Canada
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Authors and Characters Added in June 2008
Mario Acevedo: Felix Gomez,
a private investigator who became a vampire as a soldier in Iraq, in
various places in the United States
Sarah Atwell: Emmeline
(Em) Dowell, a glassblower, in Tucson, Arizona, in the Glassblowing
mysteries (Sheila Connolly pseudonym)
New series on the Edna
Buchanan page: Michael Venturi, a deputy U.S. marshall involved
in running the Federal Witness Protection Program
Henry Chang: Jack Yu, a police
detective in Chinatown, New York City
Sean Chercover: Ray Dudgeon,
a former newspaper reporter turned private investigator, in Chicago,
Illinois
New series on the Ann
Cleeves page: Jimmy Perez, a police detective inspector in the
Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, in the Shetland Island Quartet
New series on the Gabriel Cohen page:
Jack Leightner, a homicide detective in Brooklyn, New York City
Sheila Connolly: Meg Corey,
taking over her mother’s colonial home and apple orchard, in fictional
Granford, Massachusetts
New series on the P.T. Deutermann page:
Cam Richter, a former lieutenant in a sheriff’s office, now running
a private detective agency, in Manceford County, North Carolina
Margaret Doody: Aristotle,
the philosopher, and Stephanos, a former student, in 330s BCE Athens
under the rule of Alexander
David Downing: John Russell,
a British journalist working as an amateur spy in 1939 Berlin, Germany
Two new series on the Kate
Ellis page: Lady Katheryn Bulkeley, under the reign of King Henry
VIII in 1539, in Liverpool, England; Joe Plantagenet, a detective
inspector in Eborby, North Yorkshire, England
New series on the Robert Ellis page:
Lena Gamble, a young police detective just promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide
Division, in Los Angeles, California
Zoë Ferraris: Dagger
nominee
Elena Forbes: Mark Tartaglia,
a detective inspector in London, England, Dagger nominee
Rebecca Forster: Josie
Baylor-Bates, a criminal defense lawyer in greater Los Angeles, California,
in the Witness series
Melissa Glazer: Carolyn
Emerson, middle-aged proprietor of a do-your-own-pottery shop, Fire
at Will, in fictional Maple Ridge, Vermont, in the Clay and Crime mysteries
(Tim Myers pseudonym)
New series on the Philip
Gooden page: Thomas Ansell, a London attorney who travels to British
cathedral towns during the Victorian era
New series on the Deborah
Grabien page: John “JP” Kincaid, a member of Blacklight,
a legendary British rock group
New series on the Timothy
Hallinan page: Poke Rafferty, a “rough-travel” writer
living with Rose, a former go-go dancer, in Bangkok, Thailand
Sophie Hannah: Simon Waterhouse,
a detective constable, and Charlie Zailer, a detective sergeant, in
rural England
New series on the Julie Hyzy page:
Alex St. James, a TV reporter based in Chicago, Illinois
New series on the Quintin
Jardine page: Primavera Phillips, Oz Blackstone’s ex-wife,
in Spain
Rebecca Kent: Meredith
Llewellyn, the headmistress of Bellehaven House, a finishing school
in the Cotswolds, and her two cohorts, no-nonsense Felicity Cross and
timid ex-socialite Esmerelda Pickard, in Edwardian England (Kate Kingsbury
pseudonym)
Dominique Manotti: Daquin,
a gay police detective, in Paris, France, Dagger nominee
New series on the Evan Marshall page:
Anna Winthrop, a Department of Sanitation garage supervisor in Manhattan,
New York City
New series on the Marilyn Meredith page, written as F.M.
Meredith: Doug Milligan, a police detective in the fictional beach
community of Rocky Bluff, California
New series on the Chris Mooney page:
Darby McCormick, holding a doctorate in criminal psychology and working
as a crime scene investigator, in Boston, Massachusetts
R.N. Morris: Porfiry Petrovich,
the police inspector in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,
in 1860s St. Petersburg, Russia, Dagger nominee
Jason Pinter: Henry Parker,
a 20-something freshman journalist with the New York Gazette, in New
York City
Neil Plakcy: Kimo Kanapa’aka,
a gay police detective in Honolulu, Hawaii
Caro Ramsay: Dagger nominee
New series on the Deborah & Joel
Shlian page: Lili Quan, a China-born California physician, who
travels to China
Tom Rob Smith: Dagger nominee
Martin Suter: Dagger nominee
New series on the Therese
Szymanski page: Shawn Donnelly, a police detective, in Detroit,
Michigan
Simon Wood: non-series mysteries
Ann Woodward: Lady Aoi, a
lady-in-waiting, trained in Chinese healing arts, in the late Heian
period (1020s), at the Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan
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Authors and Characters Added in July 2008
Brett Battles: Jonathan
Quinn, an ex-cop freelancing for the Office, a secret US intelligence
agency
New series on the Don Bruns page:
Skip Moore and James Lessor, best friends since grade school, in Florida
New series on the Margaret
Coel page: Catherine McLeod, an investigative reporter in Denver,
Colorado
R.J. Ellory: non-series mysteries
Brent Ghelfi: Alekei “Volk” Volkovoy,
a wounded Chechnya veteran, now a gangster and covert military operative,
in Russia
New series on the Tim Green page:
Casey Jordan, a criminal defense attorney in Dallas, Texas
Joe Hill: Macavity nominee
Elspeth Huxley: Superintendant
Vachell, a former Canadian mountie, in British colonial Africa
New series on the Larry
Karp page: Scott Joplin, in the Ragtime series
Clare Langley-Hawthorne:
Ursula Marlowe, an Oxford-educated heiress, suffragette, and aspiring
journalist in Edwardian London, England
Jay MacLarty: Simon Leonidovich,
a high-tech, international “package” courier
New series on the Craig McDonald page:
Hector Lassiter, a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives
and lives what he writes, in the 1930s-1950s
Bridget McKenna: Caley
Burke, a 30-something private investigator, in Northern California
John Ramsey Miller:
Winter Massey, a deputy U.S. Marshal (later an ex-marshal), in New Orleans,
Louisiana, and elsewhere in the South
Joyce Carol Oates: non-series
suspense
Michael Prescott: Abby
Sinclair, a freelance security consultant who hunts stalkers, and Tess
McCallum, an FBI special agent, in Los Angeles, California
Fran Rizer: Calamine “Callie” Parrish,
a mortuary cosmetologist, in South Carolina
Craig Russell: Jan Fabel,
a Scottish-German police detective (Kriminalhauptkommissar), in Hamburg,
Germany
New series on the Sheila Simonson page:
Rob Neill, a sheriff’s investigator, and Meg McLean, a librarian,
in the Latouche County mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in August 2008
Kelley Armstrong: Nadia
Stafford, an ex-cop turned hitwoman, in Ontario, Canada
Lindsay Ashford: Dr. Megan
Rhys, a forensic psychologist, in Birmingham, England
Ira Berkowitz: Jackson Steeg,
a suspended cop with a drinking problem, in Hell’s Kitchen, New
York City
Michael A. Black: Ron
Shade, a tough-guy private investigator, with a soft heart, and martial
arts expert, in Chicago, Illinois
Jan Brogan: Hallie Ahern, an
investigative newspaper reporter, and gambling addict, leaving Boston
for Providence, Rhode Island
Robert Gregory Browne:
non-series mysteries
Bill Bryan: Shamus nominee
for Best First P.I. Novel
New series on the Robin Burcell page:
Sydney Fitzpatrick, an FBI forensic artist in San Francisco, California
Mary Burton: non-series romantic
suspense
Thomas B. Cavanagh: Mike
Garrity, a 40-something retired police detective, now a private investigator,
with a brain tumor named Bob, in Orlando, Florida
New series on the Michael
Connelly page: Mickey Haller, a lawyer in Los Angeles, California
Heather Graham: Donna Miro
and Lorna Doria in Massachusetts and New York City; The Flynn Brothers,
private investigators inheriting a haunted mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana;
the Vampire series, mostly set in New Orleans, Louisiana (written as
Shannon Drake)
Rosemary Harris: Paula
Holliday, a 30-ish former TV executive opens a landscaping-gardening
business in Springfield, Connecticut, in the Dirty Business mysteries
Marion Moore Hill: Juanita
Wills, a librarian in fictional Wyndham, Oklahoma, in the Scrappy Librarian
series
Claire M. Johnson: Mary
Ryan, a pastry chef in San Francisco, California
Kathryn Lilley: Kate Gallagher,
a plus-sized TV producer laid off and left by her boyfriend, in Durham,
NC, in the Fat City mysteries
Kate Pepper: non-series mysteries
Kat Richardson: Harper
Blaine, a private investigator who can see ghosts, zombies, and the
like, after being dead for two minutes, in Seattle, Washington, in the
Greywalker series
Wendy Roberts: Sadie Novak,
a former teacher now running Scene-2-clean, a cleaning company specializing
in cleaning up death scenes, in Seattle, Washington, in the Ghost Dusters
series
Ona Russell: Sarah Kaufman,
a Jewish probate court official in 1920s Toledo, Ohio, later visiting
Dayton, Tennessee
Thomas B. Sawyer: non-series
mysteries
Tom Schreck: Duffy Dombrowski,
an Elvis-loving boxer and social worker, and his basset hound, Al, in
a town near New York City
Jane Tesh: Madeline “Mac” Maclin,
a divorced former local beauty queen, and struggling private investigator,
in Celosia, North Carolina
Dave White: Jackson Donne,
an ex-cop private investigator, or night security guard when times are
hard, in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Michael Wiley: Joe Kozmarski,
a private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
Dave Zeltserman: non-series
mysteries
Authors and Characters Added in September 2008
Lori Andrews: Dr. Alexandra
Blake, a geneticist and forensic specialist working for the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC
Maureen Ash: Bascot de Marins,
a Templar Knight recovering from imprisonment in the holy lands, in
the early 1200s, in England
Kate Atkinson: Jackson Brodie,
an ex-cop, ex-husband, and private investigator, in the UK
New series on the Cynthia
Baxter page: Mallory Meadows, a recent widow with a new career
as a travel writer
Chelsea Cain: Archie, a police
detective, and Gretchen Lowell, a serial killer who tortured and released
him, in Portland, Oregon
Susan Taylor Chehak:
non-series mysteries
New series on the Laura
Childs page: Three semi-desperate, 40+ women running the egg-themed
Cackleberry Club
New series on the Mary Jane
Clark page: Eliza Blake, a TV news morning show host, along with
producer Annabelle Murphy, cameraman B.J. D’Elia, and psychiatrist
Dr. Margo Gonzalez, in New York City, in the Sunrise Suspense Society
series
Rebecca Drake: non-series
mysteries
J.T. Ellison: Taylor Jackson,
a homicide lieutenant, and her lover, FBI profiler John Baldwin, in
Nashville, Tennessee
Chris Ewan: Charlie Howard,
a mystery writer and professional thief, in Europe
Steve Fisher: Lt. Commander
Sheridan Doome, in Hawaii and at sea
John Galligan: Ned “Dog” Oglivie,
traveling the United States in a 1984 RV, trout fishing until his money
runs out, in the Fly Fishing mysteries
Sally Goldenbaum: Po
Paltrow, a writer and quilter, and the Queen Bees quilting group, in
the fictitious college town of Crestwood, Kansas; Isabel “Izzy” Chambers,
a lawyer who leaves Boston to open the Seaside Knitting Studio, in Sea
Harbor, Massachusetts
Robert Gott: William Power,
a would-be private detective leading a troupe of incompetent Shakespearean
actors during World War II, in Australia
New series on the Carolyn
Hart page: Bailey Ruth Raeburn, who dies during a storm and then
returns as a ghost to help solve crime in her hometown of Adelaide,
Oklahoma
Donald Honig: Major Thomas
Maynard, a detective in 1875-76 in Dakota and Montana Territory
N.M. Kelby: non-series mysteries
New series on the Joyce
and Jim Lavene page: Mary Catherine Roberts, a four-time widow
and a radio show pet psychic, in Wilmington, North Carolina
Mike Lawson: Joe De Marco,
a lawyer and trouble-shooter for the Speaker of the House, as Counsel
Pro Tem for Liaison Affairs, based in Washington, DC
Maria Lima: Keira Kelly, a
half-breed descendant of a powerful paranormal family living among humans
in Rio Seco, Texas
Tony Lindsay: David Price,
a professional freelance security escort, in the African-American community,
in Chicago, Illinois
Adrian Magson: Riley Gavin,
a freelance journalist, and Frank Palmer, an ex-military policeman and
private investigator, in London, England
G.M. Malliet: Detective Chief
Inspector St. Just of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Sergeant Fear,
in the UK
Cricket McRae: Sophie Mae
Reynolds, a 30-something soapmaker and amateur sleuth, in the Pacific
Northwest, in the Home Crafting mysteries
New series on the Penny
Mickelbury page: Phil Rodriquez, a Puerto Rican ex-cop private
investigator, and his partner, computer whiz Yolanda Aguillera, in
New York City
James C. Mitchell: Roscoe
Brinker, a former INS agent, now a private investigator, in Tuscon,
Arizona
Allan Pedrazas: Harry Rice,
a 30-something tavern owner and part-time sleuth, based in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida
Thomas A. Roberts: non-series
mysteries
David Rosenbaum: non-series
mysteries
Philip Ross: James Marley,
a private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts; Tom Talley, a CIA operative
Randy Russell: Alton Benjamin “Rooster” Franklin,
a retired car thief, ex-con, and gambler, mostly in Kansas City, Missour
Gerald Seymour: non-series
international intrigue
Juanita Sheridan: Lily
Wu, a sleuth, and her “Watson” Janice Cameron, a writer,
first in New York City, then in Hawaii
Steven Sidor: non-series
mysteries
Mark T. Sullivan: non-series
mysteries
Maggie Toussaint: Cleopatra
Jones, an accountant, golfer, and divorced mother of two, in Hogan’s
Glen, Maryland
New series on the Livia
J. Washburn page: Delilah Dickenson, the owner of a travel agency
in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Literary Tour mysteries
New series on the Betty Webb page:
Theodora “Teddy” Bentley, a zookeeper living on a houseboat
on the central coast of California, in the Zoo mysteries
John Babbington Williams:
non-series mysteries, including short stories featuring James Brampton,
America’s first private detective
Bruce Zimmerman: Quinn
Parke, a phobia therapist and wealthy amateur sleuth, in San Francisco,
California
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Authors and Characters Added in October 2008
Kevin Allman: Kieran O’Connor,
a freelance journalist in Hollywood, California
W. Edward Blain: non-series
mysteries
Andrew Coburn: Rita Gardella
O’Dea, a mafia princess in Massachusetts; James Morgan, police
chief in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts
Charles Cumming: Alec
Milius, a young college graduate recruited by British intelligence (MI6)
Joan M. Drury: Tyler Jones,
a lesbian feminist newspaper columnist, based in San Francisco, California
L.L. Enger: Gun Pedersen, an
ex-major-league ballplayer and recluse, mostly in the north woods of
Minnesota; also non-series under real names Leif Enger and Lin Enger
Dean Feldmeyer: Rev. Daniel
Thompson, a small-town Methodist minister with some personal problems,
in Baird, Kentucky
Peter Heath Fine: Jason
Starr, a genius and discredited scientist, and Adam Cyber, a superman
from the future (written as Peter Heath)
Mark Frost: Arthur Conan Doyle,
a doctor, author, and student of the paranormal, in late 19th century
London, England
George Dawes Green:
non-series mysteries
Marcy Heidish: non-series
mysteries
Peter Helton: Chris Honeysett,
an artist and private investigator, in and around Bath, England
New series on the Charlotte
Hughes page: Dr. Kate Holly, a clinical psychologist
Michael Kurland: The Man
from W.A.R. series; Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime and nemesis
of Sherlock Holmes, in 1890s London, England; Lord Darcy, Chief Investigator
for the Duke of Normandy, in contemporary times of an alternative history
Anglo-French empire where the laws of magic prevail; Alexander Brass,
a newspaper columnist in 1935 New York City
John Logue: John Morris, an
Associated Press sportswriter focusing on golf and football, based in
1970s Atlanta, Georgia
Arthur Maling: Brock
Potter, a Wall Street securities analyst
Billie Sue Mosiman:
non-series mysteries
Darian North: non-series
mysteries
Kem Nunn: non-series surfer-noir
set in southern California
Philip Reed: Harold Dodge,
a 50-ish, overweight former car salesman, in Los Angeles, California
Craig Smith: non-series mysteries
C.P. Snow: non-series mysteries
David Stout: non-series mysteries
Deborah Valentine: Katharine
Craig, a sculptor, and Kevin Bryce, an ex-sheriff’s detective,
in Lake Tahoe, California
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Authors and Characters Added in November 2008
Beverly Barton: The Protectors
series; Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, trilogy; Griffin Powell, and the
Powell Agency (all romantic suspense)
R.D. Brown: Cheney Hazzard,
a private security agent in Brownsville, Texas
New series on the Alafair Burke page:
Ellie Hatcher, a detective for the NYPD in New York City
C.S. Challinor: Rex Graves,
a Scots barrister specializing in criminal litigation, prosecutor at
the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ron (Roland) Cutler: non-series
mysteries
J. Madison Davis: Delbert “Dub” Greenert
and Vonna Saucier, white and black private investigators, in New Orleans,
Louisiana; Law & Order TV novelizations
Kenn Davis: Carver Bascombe,
a black poet and private investigator, in San Francisco, California
The Destroyer Series: Remo Williams,
an ex-cop and Vietnam veteran, trained in the ancient (and fictional)
Korean martial art “Sinanju” by venerable Master Chiun,
and agent of CURE, an organization outside the law serving to protect
the law (written by various authors)
Gary Devon: non-series mysteries
Timothy Findley: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Norman Green page:
Alessandra (Al) Martillo, working as an assistant to Marty Stiles, an
ex-NYPD cop turned PI
Andrew Gross: non-series
mysteries
Richard Harper: Tom Ragnon,
a cop living in a trailer in Arizona
Will Harriss: Cliff Dunbar,
a former English professor turned private investigator, in Los Angeles,
California
Lynne Heitman: Alex Shanahan,
general manager of Majestic Airlines, in Boston, Massachusetts, and
elsewhere, sometimes undercover investigator in the airline industry,
and later a private investigator
Doug Hornig: Loren Swift,
a laid-back Vietnam veteran private investigator, in Charlottesville,
Virginia; Steven Kirk, a burned-out CIA agent, in Charlottesville, Virginia
Tom Hyman: non-series mysteries
New series on the Lisa
Jackson page: Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli, police detectives
in Pinewood County, Montana
Mari Jungstedt: Anders
Knutas, a police inspector on Gotland island, Sweden
Joseph Koenig: non-series
mysteries
Deirdre Laiken: non-series
mysteries
John Lawton: Frederick Troy,
a police sergeant and later Chief Inspector, from the late 1940s to
the 1960s, in London, England
Christopher Leach: non-series
mysteries
Jack Lynch: Peter Bragg, a
former reporter turned private investigator and part-time bartender,
in Sausalito and San Francisco, California, and elsewhere
Patrick McGinley: non-series
mysteries
L.A. Morse: Sam Hunter, a
crude private investigator, in Los Angeles, California
Warren Murphy: Ed Razoni
and William “Tough” Jackson, white and black cops, respectively,
in New York City; Julian “Digger” Burroughs, a freelance
insurance investigator, in Las Vegas, Nevada; Devlin “Trace” Tracy,
a freelance insurance investigator, in Las Vegas, Nevada; Grandmaster,
world champion chess and spy (with wife Molly Cochran); Forever King,
a Holy Grail duo (with wife Molly Cochran); Amelia Pierce, daughter
of a US intelligence agent (written as Dev Stryker, joint pseudonym
with wife Molly Cochran)
Raymond Obstfeld: Harry
Gould, a small-time grifter in New York City; Cliff Remington; Christian “Dagger”Daguerre,
an investigative freelance reporter working news magnate, Hannibal S.
Kydd (written as Carl Stevens)
Anthony Olcott: Ivan Kuvakin,
a bureaucrat in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia
William Pearson: non-series
mysteries
A.J. Quinnell: Creasy, an
American middle-aged, broken down, ex-marine, and retired mercenary
New series on the Gillian
Roberts page: Emma Howe, the 50-something owner of a private detective
agency, and Billie August, a young single mother, in Tiburon (Marin
County), California
Leah Ruth Robinson:
Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe, an emergency room physician at Manhattan Hospital,
in New York City
John Saul: The Blackstone Chronicles,
serial suspense-horror novellas
Eric Sauter: Robert Lee Hunter,
a wealthy 30-something private investigator, in New Jersey; Patrick
Paige, a police detective in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mark Schorr: Simon Jaffe,
known as “Red Diamond”, a taxi-driver, pulp fiction collector,
and private investigator, in New York City, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas;
Robert Stark, a private investigator; Brian Hanson, a Vietnam veteran
and psychologist in a mental health clinic in Portland, Maine
Seymour Shubin: non-series
mysteries
Mitch Silver: non-series
mysteries
Murray Sinclair: Ben Crandel,
a pornographic novel author and amateur detective, in Los Angeles, California
Alison Smith: Judd Springfield,
police chief in Coolidge Corners, Vermont
Kay Nolte Smith: non-series
mysteries
Marta Stephens: Sam Harper,
a homicide detective in Chandler, Massachusetts
Ted Thackrey, Jr.: Preacher,
a poker player and mystic, in the American Southwest (Nevada, New Mexico,
California)
New series on the Ronald
Tierney page: Carly Paladino, a private investigator formerly
with a large security firm, and Noah Lang, a streetwise PI, in San
Francisco, California
Teri White: Spaceman Kowalski
and Blue Maguire, Vietnam vets and cops, in Los Angeles, California
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2008
H.C. Bailey: Reginald Fortune,
a surgeon and medical consultant to Scotland Yard, in London, England;
Joshua Clunk, a Bible-spouting, hymn-singing lawyer, in London, England
Ray Banks: Callum “Cal” Innes,
an ex-con working as an unlicensed private investigator, in Manchester,
England
Cynthia Blair: Susan
and Christine, the Pratt Twins (books for young adults, Cynthia Baxter
pseudonym)
Robert J. Bowman: non-series
mysteries
James Brownley: Alison
Glasby, a crime reporter, in 1970s London, England
Clyde B. Clason: Theocritus
Lucius Westborough, an elderly scholar of the Roman Empire, in Chicago,
Illinois, and Los Angeles, California
John Darnton: non-series
mysteries
New series on the Vicki Delany page:
Fiona MacGillivray, owner of the Savoy dance hall, her 12-year old son
Angus, and constable Richard Sterling, in the gold rush of 1898, in
Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada
Sharon Dunn: Ruby Taylor,
a 30-something Christian amateur sleuth, in Montana; The Bargain Hunters
Network (Ginger the baby boomer, Kindra the college student, Suzanne
the pregnant mother of three, and Mary Margret the silver-haired real-estate
agent) in Three Horses, Montana
Brian Freemantle: Charlie
Muffin, an experienced, rumpled, working-class British agent; Dimitri
Danilov, a Colonel in the Moscow People’s Militia, later the Organized
Crime Bureau, and William Cowley, an FBI agent and Russian expert; Sebastian
Holmes, fathered out of wedlock by Sherlock Holmes while recuperating
from his tumble off the Reichenbach Falls; Claudine Carter, an Anglo-French
forensic psychologist and criminal profiler working for Europol, in
Europe
James N. Frey: Joe Zanca,
an ex-boxer private investigator working for The Agency, in San Francisco,
California
Michelle Gagnon: Kelly
Jones, an FBI agent in New England
Randall Garrett: Lord
Darcy, Chief Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, in contemporary
times of an alternative history Anglo-French empire where the laws of
magic prevail; Kenneth Malone, in then-future 1970s New York City (written
as Mark Phillips)
Michael Harvey: Michael
Kelly, an ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois
John Harwood: non-series
gothic suspense
Conrad Haynes: Henry “Harry” Bishop,
a college professor, in Portland, Oregon
Christiane Heggan: non-series
romantic suspense
Patrick A. Kelley: Harry
Colderwood, a professional magician
Charles Kenney: non-series
mysteries
Gabrielle Kraft: Jerry
Zalman, a Beverly Hills lawyer and deal-maker, in Los Angeles, California
Ward Larsen: non-series mysteries
Margaret Lucke: non-series
mysteries
Mike Lupica: Peter Finley,
a TV reporter in New York City; Jack “The Jammer” Molloy,
former Las Vegas casino concierge, now owner of the New York Hawks football
team
New series on the T.J.
MacGregor page: Nora McKee, a college professor, and librarian
Alex Kincaid, fighting shadowy government agents using time travel
James McCahery: Lavina
London, a 70-something retired radio personality, in New York
Fidelis Morgan: Lady Ashby
de la Zouche, Countess of Clapham, a 60-something former mistress of
the deceased Charles II, fallen on hard times, and her former maid Alpiew,
around 1700 in London, England
Eddie Muller: Billy Nichols,
a boxing columnist for the Inquirer newspaper, in late 1940s San Francisco,
California
Dallas Murphy: Artie Deemer,
a jazz aficionado supported by his dog Jellyroll, a movie and dog-food
commercial star, in New York City
Edward A. Pollitz, Jr.:
non-series mysteries, also written as Nick Christian
Edogawa Rampo: non-series
mysteries
Harold Schechter: Edgar
Allan Poe, himself, in the 1830s-1840s, in Baltimore, Maryland, New
York City, and Massachusetts
Elizabeth Sims: Lillian
Byrd, a sometime reporter, street musician, and amateur sleuth based
around Detroit, Michigan; Rita Farmer, an aspiring actress and single
mother, in Los Angeles, California
Mehmet Murat Somer:
a nameless male computer technician by day and a transvestite nightclub
hostess, in Istanbul, Turkey
Michael Stanley: David
Bengu, a large assistant police superintendent known as “Kubu” (hippopotamus),
in Botswana
New series on the Jon Talton page:
Will Borders, a former homicide detective, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Melinda Wells: Della
Carmichael, owner of a cooking school and star of “Della Cooks,” a
cable TV cooking show, in Santa Monica, California (Linda Palmer pseudonym)
Wade Wright: Bart Condor,
a tough private investigator in New York City; Paul Cameron, a private
investigator in southern California; Calhoun, a Vietnam vet working
for a U.S. internal security agency run by “The Man”
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