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Authors and Characters Added in January 2012
Roberto Ampuero: Cayetano
Brulé, a Cuban-born private investigator based in Valparaiso,
Chile
New Aileen G. Baron series:
Tamar Saticoy, an archaeological consultant for Interpol
Robert Jackson Bennett:
non-series speculative fiction horror thrillers
H.S. Bhabra: David Medina,
a slightly sinister billionaire and power broker, in Egypt and elsewhere
(written as A.M. Kabal)
Lisa Brackmann: non-series
thrillers
New Christopher
Brookmyre series: Catherine McLeod, a detective superintendent,
and Jasmine Sharp, a former actress, now a private investigator,
in Glasgow, Scotland
Thomas Caplan: non-series
Sally Carpenter: Sandy
Fairfax, a ’70s teen idol from Indiana, trying to make a comeback
and put his family back together, in southern California, in the
Teen Idol mysteries
Philippe Claudel:
non-series crime fiction
William Doonan: Henry
Grave, an 80-something investigator for the Association of Cruising
Vessel Operators
David Duffy: Turbo Vlost,
an ex-KGB operative, now a private investigator in New York City
New Janet Evanovich series:
Diesel, from the Stephanie Plum series, with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker,
in North Shore, Boston, Massachusetts
Tricia Fields: 2010 Hillerman
Prize
Stephen Gallagher:
non-series suspense and thrillers
Eli Gottlieb: non-series
crime fiction
Paul Grossman: Willi
Kraus, a decorated soldier in WWI, and the most celebrated Jewish
detective in Weimar Germany
Darrell James: Del Shannon,
a young, female missing-persons investigator, based in Tucson, Arizona
June Hampson: Daisy Lane,
caught up in gangster life starting in 1960s London and Gosport,
England
Sara J. Henry: Troy Chance,
an independent young woman and freelance writer, in the Adirondacks
in upstate New York
Tammy Kaehler: Kate Reilly,
an aspiring race car driver and amateur sleuth on the racing circuit
Jessie Keane: Annie Bailey,
later Annie Carter, on the streets of London, a gangster’s
moll, and more, in early 1970s London, England
M.E. Kemp: Hetty Henry, a
twice-widowed and wealthy young Puritan, and Increase “Creasy” Cotton,
a young minister, based in 1690s Boston, Massachusetts
William Kennedy: The
Albany Cycle, some criminous/noir or political thrillers, some not,
following an ensemble of characters with Albany, New York, in common
Robert Knightly: Harry
Corbin, a homicide detective in New York City
Michael Ondaatje:
mysterious literary fiction
Daniel Palmer: non-series
thrillers
Leonard Rosen: Henri
Poincaré, a veteran Interpol agent
Lori Roy: non-series
Rochelle Staab: Liz
Cooper, a clinical psychologist who didn't believe in paranormal
stuff, in Los Angeles, California, in the Mind for Murder mysteries
Dan Vyleta: non-series crime
fiction
Tina Whittle: Tai Randall,
running a Confederate-themed gun shop, and Trey Seaver, a corporate
security expert, in Atlanta, Georgia
Merla Zellerbach:
Hallie Marsh, a publicist, breast cancer survivor, and accidental
detective, based in San Francisco, California
Richard Zimler: the
Sephardic Cycle thrillers with a Portuguese-Jewish theme  Top
Authors and Characters Added in February 2012
Robin Allen: Poppy Markham,
a former sous chef turned public health inspector, in Austin, Texas,
in the Culinary Cop series
Ella Barrick:
Stacy Graysin, part owner of a ballroom dance studio, in Old Town
Alexandria, Virginia, in the Ballroom Dance mysteries (Laura DiSilverio
pseudonym)
Josie Belle: the
Good Buy Girls, a group of skilled bargain hunters, in St. Stanley,
Virginia (Jenn McKinlay pseudonym)
Karen Bergreen: non-series
crime fiction
Heather Blake:
Darcy Merriweather, from a long line of witches who can cast spells
by making a wish, in the Enchanted Village section of Salem, Massachusetts,
in the Wishcraft mysteries (Heather Webber pseudonym)
Hilary Bonner: Rose Piper,
a detective chief inspector with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary,
experiencing marital difficulties, in England; John Kelly, a former
Fleet Street reporter with addiction problems, and Karen Meadows,
a detective inspector with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, in
England
Sandra Brannan: Liv
Bergen, manager of a limestone mine, and her boyfriend FBI agent
Streeter Pierce, near Fort Collins, Colorado, and then in the Black
Hills of South Dakota
Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton,
an amateur sleuth whose husband is MIA in WWI, in 1920s Bradford,
Yorkshire, England
Haggai Carmon: Dan Gordon,
an Israeli Mossad veteran, now an investigating attorney acting worldwide
for the CIA and U.S. Department of Justice
Miles Corwin: Ash Levine,
a former Israeli paratrooper and top detective in the elite LAPD
Felony Squad, in Los Angeles, California
Donna Fletcher Crow:
The Lord Danvers fictionalized Victorian true crime trilogy, in mid-19th
century England; Elizabeth Allerton and Richard Spencer, courting
and then newlyweds; Felicity Howard, a young American studying for
the Anglican priesthood at the College of the Transfiguration in
Yorkshire, England, in the Monastery Murders series
Peter de Jonge: Darlene
O’Hara, a homicide detective in the 7th precinct, and her partner,
Serge “K.” Krekorian, in New York City
Matthew Dunn: Will Cochrane,
the most prized asset of the CIA and MI-6, on missions around the
world
Giorgio Faletti: non-series
thrillers
John A. Flanagan: Jesse
Parker, an ex-Denver police detective, returning to his hometown
to work on the ski patrol, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Sulari Gentill: Rowland
Sinclair, a young artist and gentleman from a wealthy family, and
reluctant amateur sleuth, in 1930s Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Kaye George: Imogene Duckworthy,
a 22-year-old waitress, living with her mother Hortense, and baby
daughter Nancy Drew, in Saltlick, Texas
Judith K. Ivie: Kate
Lawrence, a middle-aged legal secretary, later real estate agent,
and amateur sleuth, in Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut
Alice LaPlante: non-series
crime fiction
John Le Beau: Franz Waldbaer,
Bavarian Kommissar of Police, assisted by CIA operational specialists,
in Germany and elsewhere
Peter Maas: non-series crime
fiction
Debbi Mack: Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae,
a lawyer in Maryland
Scott Mariani: Ben Hope,
a former British Special Air Service (SAS) officer investigating
apocalyptic mysteries
Shirley McKay: Hew Cullan,
a young lawyer, starting in 1579 St. Andrews, Scotland
Gary McKinney: Gavin
Pruitt, the Sheriff of Willapa County and a fan of the Grateful Dead
since the ’60s, in southwest Washington
Jake Needham: Jack Shepherd,
an American ex-patriot lawyer, whose wife left him for a proctologist,
now teaching in a business school in Bangkok, Thailand
Leif GW Persson: police
procedurals, with ensemble casts, centered in Stockholm, Sweden
Dale T. Phillips: Zack
Taylor, an ex-con, in Maine
Oliver Pötzsch:
Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of town hangman Jakob
Kuisl, in mid-17th century Bavaria, Germany
Erik Rosenthal: Dan
Brodsky, an unemployed mathematician who pays the rent as a private
investigator, based in San Francisco, California
Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore:
Cotten Stone, a television journalist on assignment for SNN (Satellite
News Network) reporting on apocalyptic events; Seneca Hunt, a magazine
journalist investigating archeological mysteries
Efrem Sigel: non-series
crime fiction
Kari Lee Townsend:
Sunny Meadows, a fortune teller leaving New York City for rural Divinity,
in upstate New York, in the Fortune Teller mysteries
Robert Traver: mysteries,
courtroom dramas, and legal stories based on fact
Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson:
non-series thrillers and detective novels set in Iceland
Marcos M. Villatoro:
Romilia Chacón, a young bilingual cop in Nashville, Tennessee,
later an FBI agent in Los Angeles, California
C.M. Wendelboe: Manny
Tanno, a former Oglala Lakota tribal cop, now an FBI Special Agent
returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota
Michael Lee West:
Teeny Templeton, a short pastry chef and cooking instructor, in Charleston,
South Carolina
Reavis Z. Wortham:
Ned Parker, a farmer and part-time constable, in mid-1960s Center
Springs, Lamar County, Texas, in the Red River mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in March 2012
Lucy Arlington:
Lila Wilkins, a 45-year-old unemployed journalist working as an intern
at a literary agency, in the utopian town of Inspiration Valley,
North Carolina, in the Novel Idea mysteries [joint pseudonym of Ellery
Adams (pseudonym of J.B. Stanley) and Sylvia May]
J. Mark Bertrand: Roland
March, a homicide detective with family and professional problems,
in Houston, Texas, with a religious perspective
Lucy Burdette:
Hayley Snow, a 20-something food critic for Key Zest magazine, in
Key West, Florida, in the Food Critic mysteries (Roberta Isleib pseudonym)
Mike Cooper: Silas Cade,
a black-ops Iraq war veteran and contract consultant working for
Wall Street hedge fund managers and investors, based in New York
City
New J.T. Ellison series:
Samantha Owens, a medical examiner from Tennessee
Lee Hollis: Hayley
Powell, a single mother writing the food column for the Island Times,
in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the Food and Cocktails mysteries (joint
pseudonym of Rick Copp and Holly Simason)
Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway,
a CPA and Criminal Investigations Division agent with the IRS, based
in Dallas, Texas, in the Death and Taxes series
Susan Kenney: Roz Howard,
an American literature professor, and her lover Alan Stewart, a British
artist, set in England and in Maine
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser:
Dr. Haley McAlister, a 41-year-old psychologist and professor specializing
in lie detection, in Houston, Texas
Valerie Kershaw: Mitch
Mitchell, a long-time radio journalist, and her 70-year-old Chinese
partner in the detective agency Mitchell and Orient Bureau, former
Royal Navy laundryman Tommy Hung, in Birmingham, England
Marek Krajewski: Eberhard
Mock, a police detective, and university classics dropout, starting
in 1919 Breslau (now Wroclaw, in Poland)
Alison Preston: Frank
Foote, a police inspector, later a home renovator, in the Norwood
Flats area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
New Maggie Sefton series:
Molly Malone, a senator’s daughter and the widow of a congressman,
working as a consultant for a senator, in Washington, DC
Dorothy St. James:
Casey Calhoun, an organic gardener in Washington, DC, in the White
House Gardener mysteries Top
Authors and Characters Added in April 2012
James Barney: non-series
thrillers
Campbell Black: non-series
crime fiction, Frank Pagan, a detective from Special Branch, Scotland
Yard, in London, England, combating international spies and terrorists
(written as Campbell Armstrong); Lou Perlman, a Jewish police detective,
in Glasgow, Scotland (written as Campbell Armstrong)
New Joanne Dobson & Beverle
Graves Myers series: Helluva War series, set in New York City
during World War II
Alan Dunn: Billy Oliphant,
an ex-cop, security consultant and occasional private investigator,
in England
Norm Foster: non-series
crime fiction
New Shelley
Freydont series: Liv Montgomery, a burned out New York City
event planner, moving to a small lakeside town in rural New York,
in the Celebration Bay series
Helen Grant: non-series
crime fiction
Ian Hamilton: Ava Lee,
a petite young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant specializing
in tracking large debts, working for “Uncle” based in
Hong Kong
New Steven James series:
Jevin Banks, an investigative film-maker
New Andrea Kane series:
a team of unconventional investigators including a behaviorist, a
techno-wizard, an intuitive, a former Navy S.E.A.L, and a retired
FBI Victim Recovery dog, in the Forensic Instincts series
Eleanor Kuhns: Will Rees,
a former soldier in the American Revolution, working as a traveling
weaver in 1790s Maine
Melinda Leigh: non-series
romantic suspense
Paul McEuen: non-series
thrillers
H.T. Narea: non-series thrillers
Fraser Nixon: non-series
crime fiction
Sharon Sala: Cat Dupree,
a bounty hunter after her father’s murderer in Mexico; the
Storm Front trilogy set in Louisiana; the Rebel Ridge series set
in the Appalachians of Kentucky; non-series romantic suspense
Sean Slater: Jacob Striker,
a homicide detective in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
New Wallace Stroby series:
Crissa Stone, a career thief based in New York City
Leslie Tentler: FBI
agents in the Chasing Evil trilogy
Jane Waterhouse: Garner
Quinn, a best-selling true crime writer, in Spring Lake, New Jersey
Lionel White: non-series
crime fiction
Roger White: Conn Anderson,
a former public servant, now owner of a British classic car repair
shop, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the Capital Crime series Top
Authors and Characters Added in May 2012
New Raymond Benson series:
Judy Cooper, a 1950s costumed female vigilante known as the Black
Stiletto
Nancy Bilyeau: Joanna
Stafford, a young aristocratic nun in 1530s England
Robin Blake: Titus Cragg,
a coroner, and Luke Fidelis, a doctor, in 1740s Lancashire, England
New Laura Bradford series:
Claire Weatherly, owner of an Amish speciality shop in the fictional
Amish town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania
New James Church series:
Bing, Inspector O’s nephew, the director of state security
in a region of China bordering North Korea
Patrick Conrad: non-series
set in Antwerp, Belgium
Maurizio de Giovanni:
Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, 31-year-old Commissario of Police in 1930s
Naples, Italy
New Aaron Elkins & Charlotte
Elkins series: Alix London, a young art consultant, whose father
was a convicted art forger, based in Seattle, Washington
Frances Ferguson:
Jane Perry, a French-speaking, university-educated detective sergeant
in Canterbury, Kent, England
G.G. Fickling: Honey West,
a private eye combination of Marilyn Monroe and Mike Hammer, mostly
in southern California; Erik March, a personal consultant and private
investigator for large corporations, in Hollywood, California
Valerie Frankel: Wanda
Mallory, owner of the Do It Right Detective Agency, in Times Square,
New York City
Sara Fraser: Thomas Potts,
the reluctant constable of Tardebrigge parish, in 1820s Worcestershire,
England
Daniel Friedman: Buck
Schatz, an 80-something retired cop with memory problems, in Memphis,
Tennessee
Carin Gerhardsen:
Conny Sjöberg, a police detective in the Hammarby police station
in Stockholm, Sweden
Jeanne Glidewell:
Lexie Starr, a widowed 40-something library worker, aspiring B&B
operator, and amateur sleuth, in Shawnee, Kansas
Paul Goldstein: Michael
Seeley, a bi-coastal (New York & California) intellectual property
litigator with serious personal problems
Keigo Higashino: Manabu
Yukawa (“Detective Galileo”), a brilliant physics professor,
and police detective Kusanagi, in Tokyo, Japan
Anna Jansson: Maria Wern,
a police detective in the town of Visby, on Gotland island, Sweden
Katherine John: Trevor
Joseph, a depressed police sergeant, later inspector, of the Serious
Crimes Squad, in medical thrillers set in England and Wales
Allison Kingsley:
Clara Quinn, returning home from New York City to work in Raven's
Nest Bookstore owned by her cousin Stephanie, in rural Maine (Kate
Kingsbury pseudonym)
Gail Lukasik: Leigh Girard,
a teacher moving from Chicago to work as a reporter for the Door
County Gazette, in the remote artist community of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
Peter Mayle: Sam Levitt,
a former corporate lawyer, crime expert, and wine connoisseur, in
Los Angeles and France
Steven Owad: non-series
Chris Pavone: non-series
New Greg Rucka series:
Jonathan “Jad” Bell, a retired Delta Force special operative
James Runcie: Sidney Chambers,
a 32-year-old bachelor, vicar of Grantchester, and amateur sleuth,
in Cambridgeshire, England, in the Grantchester mysteries
Johnny Shaw: non-series
New Paige Shelton series:
Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother (Gram) who
runs a cooking school in the fictional town Broken Rope, in southern
Missouri, in the Country Cooking School mysteries
Lynn Shepherd: non-series
literary historical suspense
New Stav Sherez series:
Jack Carrigan, a detective inspector, and Geneva Miller, a detective
sergeant, in London, England
Elizabeth Speller:
Laurence Bartram, a World War I veteran and young widower in 1920s
England
Lyndon Stacey: Gideon
Blake, an artist and animal behaviorist, in England; Daniel Whelan,
a 28-year-old ex-police dog handler, and his retired police dog,
Taz, in Devon, England
Paul Sussman: Yusuf Khalifa,
a police detective in Luxor, Egypt
Morley Torgov: Hermann
Preiss, a police inspector dealing with the likes of Robert & Clara
Schumann and Richard Wagner in mid-19th century Düsseldorf and
Munich, Germany
Karin Wahlberg: Claes
Claesson, a detective, later Police Commissioner, and his wife Veronika
Lundborg, a surgeon, in Oskarshamn, Sweden
Felicity Young: Stevie
Hooper, a mother and a detective sergeant in the Sex Crimes unit,
in Perth, Western Australia; Dody McCleland, a doctor in turn of
the 20th century Edwardian London, England Top
Authors and Characters Added in June 2012
Hal Ackerman: Harry Stein,
an aging hippie and soft-boiled private investigator, once the foremost
authority on cannabis, in Los Angeles, California
Lou Berney: Charles “Shake” Bouchon,
a professional wheelman who walks out of prison after a three-year
sentence for grand theft auto determined to change his life and become
a chef
Daniel Blake:
Franco Patrese, a homicide detective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
later an FBI agent, in New Orleans, Louisiana (Boris Starling pseudonym)
John C. Boland: Donald
McCarry, a commodities trader at Morgenstern Ozick, on Wall Street;
Richard Welles, a young financial advisor at the investment bank
Ambrose and Welles, in Baltimore, Maryland
Frederick Busch: non-series
Connie Dial: Mike Turner,
a sergeant in the LAPD Internal Affairs Division, in Los Angeles,
California; Amanda Cleveland, the 12-year-old daughter of the chief
of detectives, in 1901 San Francisco, California [YA]
Peggy Ehrhart: Maxx Maxwell,
a blues singer, bandleader, and amateur sleuth, in Manhattan, New
York
Richard Falkirk:
Edmund Blackstone, a Bow Street runner in early 19th-century London,
England (Derek Lambert pseudonym)
Flo Fitzpatrick: P.L.
McGinnis, an actress playing a detective on Crime Unit New Jersey,
in South Amboy, New Jersey
Sara Foster: non-series
psychological suspense
Nelson George: D (Dervin)
Hunter, owner of D Security, providing bodyguard and security services
to the music world, in New York City
Camilla Grebe & Åsa
Träff: Siri Bergman, a 34-year-old psychologist living
in an isolated cottage, working in Stockholm, Sweden
Beth Gutcheon: non-series
Elizabeth Hand: Cass “Scary” Neary,
an amoral speedfreak kleptomaniac murderous alcoholic bisexual heavily-tattooed
American female photographer
Michael Haskins: Mick
Murphy, a journalist in Key West, Florida, with ties to Boston, Massachusetts
Brenda Hill: Madison Young,
a newspaper food critic put on the crime beat, in Yucaipa, California
Ken Hodgson: non-series
mysteries
Al Lamanda: John Tibbets,
a homeless amnesia victim, starting in Manhattan, New York City;
John Bekker, a former police detective, now a drunken beach bum after
his wife was killed and daughter institutionalized
Derek Lambert: non-series
Maurice Leblanc: Arsène
Lupin, the young, handsome, brave, and roguish Prince of Thieves,
who also sometimes helped the police in Paris, France
Christopher Lee: James
Boswell Hodge Leonard, a police inspector in Bath, England, in the
Bath Detective series
Allison Leotta: Anna
Curtis, a sex crimes prosecutor in the US Attorney’s office
in Washington, DC
William Le Queux:
non-series mysteries, spy stories, and adventure-thrillers, many
with science fiction elements
New Peter May series:
Fin Macleod, a detective inspector in Edinburgh, returns to his birthplace,
the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, in the Lewis
trilogy
M.J. McGrath: Edie Kiglatuk,
a former polar bear hunter and the best guide in her isolated Inuit
community in the Canadian Arctic
New R.N. Morris series:
Silas “Quick-fire” Quinn, Detective Inspector in charge
of the Special Crimes Unit of Scotland Yard, beginning in 1914
Frank Muir: Andy Gilchrist,
a detective inspector in St. Andrews, Scotland
Alec Nevala-Lee: international
art thriller trilogy, with secret societies, Russian mafia, and more
Jim Nisbet: Martin Windrow,
a private investigator in a world of noir and bad craziness
Troy D. Nooe: Frankie McKeller,
a low budget private detective from Baltimore, now the house detective
at the Ocean Forest Hotel, in post-World War II Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina
Gerard O’Donovan:
Mike Mulcahy, a detective inspector, and Siobhan Fallon, chief reporter
for the Sunday Herald, in Dublin, Ireland
New Hank Phillippi
Ryan series: Jane Ryland, a disgraced newspaper reporter, and
Jake Brogan, a homicide detective, in Boston, Massachusetts
Nick Santora: non-series
Kieran Shields: Archie
Lean, newly appointed deputy marshal, and Perceval Grey, a part-Indian
Pinkerton agent, in 1890s Portland, Maine
Daniel Suarez: Daemon,
a computer program, in a near-future cyberwar on humanity
Peter Tasker: Kazuo Mori,
a down-at-heel ex-radical private investigator, in Tokyo, Japan
Karen White: Melanie Middleton,
inheriting an historic home with ghosts, in Charleston, South Carolina Top
Authors and Characters Added in July 2012
Tanya Byrne: New Blood
Dagger nominee
Wiley Cash: New Blood Dagger
nominee
New Carolyn Hart series:
Nela Farley, with a talent for understanding the thoughts of cats
Cara Hoffman: New Blood
Dagger nominee
Anthony Horowitz:
Tim Diamond, the world’s worst detective, and his brainy younger
brother Nick, in the Diamond Brothers novellas for children; Alex
Rider, the teenage nephew of a former British secret agent [YA]
Seppo Jokinen: Sakari
Koskinen, a police officer in Tampere, Finland
Alan Judd: Charles Thoroughgood,
a commando in Northern Ireland, then with MI-6 and later the Secret
Intelligence Agency
New Bernard Knight series:
Tom Howden, a newly-qualified pathologist in 1954 British Malaya
Anthony Lejeune: Adam
Gifford, a crime reporter recruited by the War Office, based in London,
England, and Africa; James Glowery, a professor in England
New Adrian McKinty series:
Sean Duffy, a detective sergeant in 1980s Northern Ireland, in the
Troubles Trilogy
D-L Nelson: Annie Young,
a 30-someting contract technical writer born in the US, living mostly
in Europe, in the Third-Culture Kid mysteries
New Michael Palmer series:
Dr. Lou Welcome, a physician caught up in political intrigue, in
Washington, DC
New Karen Robards series:
Jessica Ford, a young attorney surviving the death of the First Lady
in a car crash, and Secret Service agent Mark Ryan, in Washington,
DC
Kinley Roby: Harry Brock,
a private investigator, as well as an amateur painter and naturalist,
on an island in southwest Florida
New James Rollins & Rebecca
Cantrell series: The Order of the Sanguines, the Vatican’s
Vampires
New Chris Simms series:
Iona Khan, a feisty detective constable in the Counter Terrorism
Unit, in Manchester, England
Scott Thornley: MacNeice,
a homicide detective superintendant, who likes jazz and classical
music, in fictional Dundurn (Hamilton), Ontario, Canada
Sheila York: Lauren Atwill,
a screenwriter, and private investigator Peter Winslow, based in
1940s Hollywood, California Top
Authors and Characters Added in August 2012
Ben Aaronovitch: Peter Grant, a police constable, apprentice wizard,
and all round nice guy, in London, England, in the Rivers of London
urban fantasy series
Connie Archer: Lucky
Jamieson, inheriting the By the Spoonful Soup Shop, in fictional
Snowflake, Vermont, in the Soup Lover’s
mysteries
David Ashton: James McLevy, a police inspector in 1880s Edinburgh,
Scotland
New David Baldacci series:
John Puller, a combat veteran, now Special Agent in the U.S. Army's
Criminal Investigation Division
Tom Benn: Henry Bane, a gang fixer and loanshark, in mid-1990s Manchester,
England
Parker Bilal: Makana, a political refugee and former Sudanese police
inspector, now a low-rent private investigator, in Cairo, Egypt
New John Billheimer series: Lloyd Keaton, a local sportswriter with
a gambling addiction
Colleen Coble: Bree Nichols and her search and rescue dog Samson,
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the Rock Harbor Christian
mystery series
New Sheila Connolly series: Maura Donovan, fulfilling her grandmother’s
wish by returning from Boston to the original family home in the
small town of Leap, Ireland, in the County Cork mysteries
Cheryl Crane: Nikki Harper, a celebrity realtor and amateur sleuth,
in Hollywood, California
Carol Culver: Hanna Denton, returning home to take over her grandmother’s
pie shop, in fictional Crystal Cove, California, in the Pie Shop
mysteries
Glen Ebisch: Laura Magee, the advice columnist at the Ravensford
Chronicle, in a small town in New England; Lou Dunlop, a high school
student and son of a police officer [YA]
Michael Ennis: non-series
New Earlene Fowler series: Ruby McGavin, inheriting a ranch in fictional
Tokopah County, California, in a suspenseful family saga
Dorothy Francis: Keely Moreno, a foot reflexologist who solves crimes
in her spare time, in Florida
Penny Hancock: non-series psychological thrillers
Oliver Harris: Nick Belsey, a detective constable in London, England
Mischa Hiller: non-series thrillers
Eve Houston: village saga, with some criminous and mysterious doings,
set in a pretty border town in Scotland, in the Prior’s Ford
series
Ewart Hutton: Glyn Capaldi, a half-Italian, half-Welsh detective
sergeant exiled to mountainous mid-Wales
Loretta Jackson & Vickie Britton: Ardis Cole, an archaeologist
working in Egypt; Arla Vaughn, an archaeology professor at Chicago
University, in the Pre-Columbian Treasure series; Jeff McQuede, a
sheriff in Wyoming, in the High Country mysteries
Grant Jerkins: non-series
crime fiction
Michael Kardos: non-series thrillers
C.E. Lawrence: Lee Campbell, a criminal profiler with the NYPD,
in New York City (Carole Buggé pseudonym)
Molly MacRae: Kath Rutledge, a textile preservationist, inheriting
her grandmother’s wool shop, along with a depressed ghost,
in fictional Blue Plum, Tennessee, in the Haunted Yarn Shop series
Nora McFarland: Lilly Hawkins, a TV news photographer in Bakersfield,
California
Louise Millar: non-series psychological thrillers
Nele Neuhaus: Oliver von Bodenstein, Kriminalhauptkommissar (chief
superintendant), and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff, a police detective,
in the Tanus mountain region of Germany
Mike Nicol: Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, former spies, arms dealers,
freedom fighters, and mercenaries, now working as security consultants,
in Cape Town, South Africa, in the Revenge trilogy
New Frederick Ramsay series: Gamaliel, the chief rabbi and head
of the Sanhedrin, tangles with Pontius Pilate in the late 20s CE,
in the Jerusalem mysteries
Linda Rodriguez: Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion, a half-Cherokee
ex-Kansas City homicide detective, now chief of the campus police
force at Chouteau University, in Brewster, Missouri
Michael Sears: Jason Stafford, a former Wall Street trader trying
to put his life together after two years in prison, and his young
autistic son, in Manhattan, New York
Scott Spencer: non-series mysteries
Neal Stephenson: swashbuckling historical action in the 17th century,
in the Baroque Cycle; non-series techno-thrillers
Franck Thilliez: Lucie Hennebelle, a detective in Lille, Belgium,
and Franck Sharko, a police inspector in Paris, France
Marco Vichi: Bordelli, a police inspector (commissario) in 1960s
Florence, Italy
Kim Westwood: post-apacalypse fiction set in Australia Top
Authors and Characters Added in September 2012
Russell Banks: non-series literary suspense and crime
David Bell: non-series thrillers
Harry Bingham: Fiona Griffiths, a young detective constable with a philosophy degree from Cambridge, in Cardiff, Wales
Grace Carroll: Rita Jewel, selling clothes and accessories to socialites at Dolce's Boutique, in San Francisco, California, in the Accessories mysteries (Carol Culver pseudonym)
Carlos Cisneros: Alejandro “Alex” del Fuerte, fresh out of law school, and other characters in the Tex-Mex legal thrillers set in south Texas
Peg Cochran: Lucille Mazzarella, a middle-aged Jersey girl, in the Patron Saint mysteries; Giovanna (Gigi) Fitzgerald, leaving New York City to run a gourmet shop in Woodstone, Connecticut, in the Gourmet De-Lite mysteries
Amanda Coetzee: Harry O’Connor, abandoned as a boy and raised by a clan of Irish Travellers, where he was known as Badger, later joining the Metropolitan Police in London, England
Amy Corwin: the Archer Family and their heartaches arising from ownership of the Peckham emerald necklace, in 1810s London, England; the Second Sons Inquiry Agency mysteries, set in 1810s London, England
Stephanie Jaye Evans: Walker “Bear” Wells, a former college football player now serving as a minister, in Sugar Land, Texas
Chrystle Fiedler: Willow McQuade, a naturopathic physician, on Long Island’s North Fork, New York, in the Natural Remedies mysteries
Tricia Fields: Josie Gray, the police chief in the small border town of Artemis, Texas
Joseph Flynn: Jim McGill, a former cop in Chicago, whose wife is elected President of the United States, in Washington, DC, and elsewhere
Rick Gavin: Nick Reid, a repo man, and his best friend Desmond, in the Mississippi Delta
Victoria Jenkins: Irene Chavez, widowed with a 14-year-old son, working as a detective in the Mason County sheriff’s department, on Puget Sound, in Washington
Matti Joensuu: Timo Harjunpää, a detective sergeant in the Criminal Investigation Department, in Helsinki, Finland
Tabish Khair: non-series crime fiction
Owen Laukkanen: Kirk Stevens, a veteran Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent, and Carla Windermere, a young FBI special agent, based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota
Meg London: Emma Taylor, moving back home to help run her aunt’s lingerie boutique, in Paris, Tennessee, in the Sweet Nothings Lingerie mysteries (Peg Cochran pseudonym)
M.L. Longworth: Antoine Verlaque, the chief magistrate of Aix, and his love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet, in Aix-en-Provence, France
David Mark: Aector McAvoy, a detective sergeant in Hull, East Yorkshire, England
Ian McEwan: non-series literary noir, psychological suspense, and thrillers
Félix J. Palma: H.G. Wells, Thomas Edison, and other historical characters, in a historical-fantasy-thriller Victorian trilogy
Two new John Pilkington series: Betsy Brand, an actress in 1670s London, England; Martin Marbeck, an intelligencer working for Sir Robert Cecil during the Elizabethan wars with Spain, in 1600s England
Mark Russinovich: Jeff Aiken, an ex-government analyst, later running a cyber-security company, confronting menacing worldwide computer malfunctions, based in Washington, DC
New Fay Sampson series: Aidan and Jenny Davison, and their seven-year-old daughter Melangell, come to the House of the Hare hotel, in Pennant Melangell, North Wales
Rob Scott: Samuel (Sailor) Doyle, a homicide detective in the Virginia State Police
Scott Sherman: Kevin Connor, a 20-something gay escort and amateur sleuth, with attention deficit disorder, in New York City
Jeff Sherratt: Jimmy O’Brien, a former LAPD cop, now a criminal defense attorney in the early 1970s, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California
Wilbur Smith: non-series thrillers set mostly in Africa
New Randy Wayne White series: Hannah Smith, a fishing guide in Florida Top
Authors and Characters Added in October 2012
Árni Thórarinsson: Einar, an investigative reporter for The Afternoon News, based in Reykjavík, Iceland
Albert Ashforth: non-series mysteries
Jenn Ashworth: non-series psychological suspense
Robert Olen Butler: Christopher (Kit) Marlowe Cobb, an American newspaper war correspondent, in 1914 Vera Cruz, Mexico
Alyse Carlson: Camellia (Cam) Harris, a 30-something public relations guru, in Roanoke, Virginia, in the Garden Society mysteries
Elliott Chaze: Kiel St. James, a bumbling city editor for the Catherine Call, Crystal Bunt, his photographer girlfriend, and Chief of Detectives Orson Boles, in Alabama
Bruce Elliott: non-series mysteries
Daryl Wood Gerber: Jenna Hart, an avid reader, admitted foodie, and owner of a cookbook store in the fictional coastal town of Crystal Cove, California, in the Cookbook Nook mysteries (real name of Avery Aames)
James Lilliefors: Jon Mallory, an investigative reporter, and his brother Charles, a private intelligence contractor and former CIA operative, based in Washington, DC
Casey Moreton: non-series thrillers
Andrew Rosenheim: Jimmy Nessheim, a young FBI agent in late 1930s Chicago, Illinois
Giorgio Scerbanenco: Duca Lamberti, a physician just released from prison for performing euthanasia, now turned private investigator, in Milan, Italy Top
Authors and Characters Added in November 2012
Sparkle Abbey: the Pampered Pets mysteries set in Laguna Beach, California
Shannon Baker: Nora Abbot, operator of a ski resort in northern Arizona
New David Baldacci series: Will Robie, a hit man employed by the US government when all else fails
Iain Banks: non-series fantasy and futuristic thrillers
Robert Bernard: Dame Millicent Hetherege, a wacky elderly Englishwoman who fancies herself an amateur detective, at a university in New England, later in England
New Lisa Brackmann series: Ellie Cooper, an American Iraq War veteran, involved in the dissident art world in Beijing, China
Declan Burke: Karen, a doctor’s receptionist and armed robber, and her new boyfriend Ray, a kidnapper for hire, in Ireland and elsewhere
Caroline Burnes: the Fear Familiar (a black cat) romantic suspense series; the Legend of Blackthorn romantic suspense series (Carolyn Haines pseudonym)
David Carnoy: non-series, with some repeating characters, set in Silicon Valley, California
Sam Christer: religious conspiracy thrillers (Michael Morley pseudonym)
Alex Connor: non-series historical thrillers set in the art world
James F. David: Nick Paulson, Director of the Office of Security Science, coping with a time wave disaster that brings dinosaurs into the present
New Lindsey Davis series: Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, born in Britain, working as a private investigator during the reign of Emperor Domitian, in ancient Rome
Susan Froetschel: non-series mysteries
Alex Grecian: The Murder Squad, Scotland Yard, in 1890s London, England
Andrew Hunt: Art Oveson, a 20-something Mormon sheriff’s deputy, in 1930s Salt Lake City, Utah
Ted Kosmatka: non-series speculative science thrillers
Ed Kovacs: Cliff St. James, a former cop, martial arts expert, and private investigator, in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana
Richard Lange: non-series
New Lizbeth Lipperman series: Elaina (Lainey) Garcia, a talk-show host, in Grapevine, Texas, in the Dead Sister Talking mysteries
New Kylie Logan series: The League of Literary Ladies
Alice Loweecey: Giulia Falcone, a former nun now working for Frank Driscoll, an ex-cop private investigator, in Pennsylvania
James McGee: Matthew Hawkwood, a former English army officer, now a Bow Street Runner, in early 19th century London, England
Kelsey Roberts: romantic suspense (Rhonda Pollero pseudonym)
Gillian Royes: Shad Myers, a bartender, private investigator, and unofficial sheriff in a fishing village in Jamaica
James Sheehan: Jack Tobin, a prominent trial lawyer formerly in Miami, now crusading for justice in rural Florida
Antti Tuomainen: non-series Finnish crime fiction
Urban Waite: non-series thrillers Top
Authors and Characters Added in December 2012
James Barrington: Paul Richter, a British secret agent combating the forces of evil around the world (Peter Stuart Smith pseudonym)
New Colin Bateman series: The Small Bookseller with No Name becomes an investigator when the detective agency next door goes out of business, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the Mystery Man series
James Becker: Chris Bronson, a detective sergeant, later working undercover for the Metropolitan Police, based in London, England, in an historical conspiracy thriller series (Peter Stuart Smith pseudonym)
Maggie Bishop: A variety of characters, including Jemma Chase, a CSI wannabe, and detective Lucky Tucker, in the mountains near Boone, North Carolina, in the Appalachian Adventure mysteries
Joy Castro: Nola Céspedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Bailey Cates: Katie Lightfoot, a novice witch and professional baker working at her aunt and uncle's bakery, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magical Bakery mysteries (Cricket McRae pseudonym)
Erika Chase: Lizzie Turner, a tutor and literacy teacher, returning to her old home town, Ashton Corners, Alabama, in the Ashton Corners Book Club mysteries
New Evelyn David series: Maggie Brooks, a former Newsweek reporter, widowed with two kids, in New York, in the Sound Shore Times mysteries
Jason Dean: James Bishop, an ex-Marine leading a team of private bodyguards, framed for murder
Laurel Dewey: Jane Perry, a police detective, later a private investigator dealing with hauntings and demons, in Denver and elsewhere in Colorado
New Joel Goldman series: Jack Davis, a former FBI agent who was forced to retire for a nervous disorder, now a private investigator in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri
James Henry: R.D. Wingfield’s Jack Frost, a detective sergeant in a prequel series set in 1980s Denton, England
New Graham Hurley series: Jimmy Suttle, a detective sergeant fleeing the urban crime of Portsmouth to join the Major Crimes unit in Dartmoor, in the West Country of England
New Anne Holt series: Dr. Sara Zuckerman, chief cardiologist at Bærum Hospital, in Norway
Leena Lehtolainen: Maria Kallio, a police inspector in Espoo, Finland
Margaret Leroy: non-series mysteries and romantic suspense
Howard Linskey: David Blake, a white-collar criminal, working for gangster Bobby Mahoney, in Newcastle, England
Jenny Milchman: non-series suspense
New Joel C. Rosenberg series: David Shirazi, a CIA agent assigned to Iran
Anne Rutherford: Suzanne Thornton, a former kept woman, organizing a troupe of actors at the Globe, in 1660s London, England, in the Restoration mysteries
Brad Taylor: Pike Logan, head of the Taskforce, a US top-secret elite counter-terrorism unit charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats
Peter Tickler: Susan Holden, a detective inspector in Oxford, England, in the Blood in Oxford mysteries
Ferdinand von Schirach: non-series crime fiction
Haley Walsh: Skyler Foxe, a gay high school English teacher in Redlands, California, in a romantic mystery series (Jeri Westerson pseudonym)
Kate Watterson: Ellie MacIntosh, a homicide detective, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lee Weeks: Johnny Mann, a half-Chinese, half-English police detective, in Hong Kong; Ebony Willis, a female detective constable in London, England
Alana White: Guid’Antonio Vespucci, a lawyer, and his nephew Amerigo, in 1480s Florence, Italy
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