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Authors and Characters Added in January 2013
Isaac Adamson: Billy Chaka, ace reporter for Cleveland’s hottest-selling Asian teen magazine
Vivien Armstrong: Judith Pullen, a detective sergeant, often assisted by her former chief inspector, Ralph Arnott, in England; Roger Hayes, a detective chief inspector and former classical pianist, in the village of Newton Greys, Oxfordshire, England
Nina Bawden: non-series
Barbara Ninde Byfield: Simon Bede, an Episcopal priest and assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Helen Bullock, a world-famous photographer
Jessie Chandler: Shay O’Hanlon, co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool coffee shop, and amateur sleuth, along with her JT Bordeaux, her cop girlfriend, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Elaine Raco Chase: Nikki Holden, an investigative reporter, and Roman Cantrell, a private investigator, in Miami, Florida
Mary Clayton: John Reynolds, formerly an inspector with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, retired to write detective novels, in Cornwall, England
Laura Coburn: Kate Harrod, a homicide detective, and a single mother who thought she’d be a librarian, in fictional San Madera, California
Dean Crawford: Ethan Warner, a former war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan from Chicago, battling apocalyptic and weird forces for the US Defense Intelligence Agency
Henry Denker: non-series legal thrillers and courtroom dramas
Gene DeWeese: Joe Karns, a reporter/investigator, in sci/fi capers; non-series gothic written as Jean DeWeese
Christy Fifield: Glory Martine, inheriting her great-uncle’s souvenir shop, including ghosts, in Keyhole Bay, Florida, in the Haunted Souvenir Shop mysteries (Christina F. York pseudonym)
Eileen Fulton: Mina McFall, a TV soap opera star, and Dino Rossi, a police lieutenant, in New York City
New Heywood Gould series: Tommy Veasy, a police detective in fictional La Playita, California
Edith Piñero Green: Dearborn V. Pinch, a 70-something ladies’ man helping where the police are not wanted, in New York City
Tessa Harris: Dr. Thomas Silkstone, an American anatomist working in 1780s England
Anna Lee Huber: Lady Darby, a widow taking refuge at her sister’s estate, in 1830s Scotland
Nan & Ivan Lyons: Natasha O’Brien and Millie Ogden, culinary artistes in Manhattan, New York
Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope, the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street for Winston Churchil, in 1940s London, England
New Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini series: Sabina Carpenter, a former Pinkerton operative, and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, in late 1890s San Francisco, California
Elise Sax: Gladie Burger, a matchmaker-in-training, and her eccentric Grandma Zelda, in fictional Cannes, California, in the Matchmaker series
Christoph Spielberg: Felix Hoffmann, an experienced emergency room doctor and reluctant sleuth, and his girlfriend Celine, in Berlin, Germany
Barry Unsworth: non-series
New Robert Wilson series: Charles Boxer, a former cop turned private security professional specializing in kidnapping
Ben H. Winters: Hank Palace, a police detective living under the threat of an impending asteroid collision, in Concord, New Hampshire
Samuel Youd: non-series; Joe Dust, an American private investigator living in London, England (written as Peter Graaf)  Top
Authors and Characters Added in February 2013
Jerry Ahern: Dan Track, an agent with American military intelligence; David Holden, a former Navy SEAL and the Patriots, fighting urban Marxists of the Front for the Liberation of North America, in the Defenders series; Hank Frost, a one-eyed mercenary, in the They Call Me Mercenary series (written as Axel Kilgore)
New Kelley Armstrong series: Olivia Taylor Jones, from a prominent Chicago family, finds out she’s the adopted daughter of notorious serial killers, in Cainsville, Illinois, in the Cainsville trilogy
New Jessica Beck series: Victoria and Greg, running The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, in the Classic Diner mysteries (Tim Myers pseudonym)
James Carlos Blake: the Wolfe crime-family sagas, ranging from New England, to the Texas borderlands, beginning in the early 19th century
Duffy Brown: Reagan Summerside, running her consignment shop The Prissy Fox, with her Aunt KiKi, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Consignment Shop mysteries
Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot, a private investigator with a ghostly sidekick, in fictional Stella Maris, South Carolina
Mollie Cox Bryan: Annie, a former investigative journalist, now a stay-at-home mom involved with a scrapbooking club, in fictional Cumberland Creek, Virginia
Leslie Ann Budewitz: Erin Murphy, taking over her family’s century-old general store, in Jewel Bay, Montana, in the Food Lovers’ Village series
Holli Castillo: Ryan Murphy, a female prosecutor in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Crescent City mysteries
J.J. Cook: Stella Griffin, a former Chicago fire fighter, now the fire chief for Sweet Pepper, Tennessee, along with the ghost of former fire chief Eric Gamlyn, in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade mysteries (Joyce & Jim Lavene pseudonym)
Marcello Fois: Bustianu Satta, a lawyer and poet, in Sardinia, Italy
Harry Harrison: Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz, the galaxy’s greatest interstellar thief and con artist, in the 30th century; Tony Hawkin, an FBI agent
New Dana Haynes series: Daria Gibron, a former member of Israeli intelligence who has also worked for the FBI, DEA, and ATF
Brandon Hebert: non-series set in south Florida
New Betty Hechtman series: Casey Feldstein, a dessert chef inheriting her aunt's Yarn2Go business, in the Yarn Retreat series
Peg Herring: Elizabeth Tudor, and her friend Simon Maldon, amateur sleuths during the reign of her father Henry VIII, in London, England, in the Simon & Elizabeth mysteries; the Dead Detective mysteries; Loser, a homeless woman on the streets of Richmond, Virginia
Roy Innes: Mark Coswell, a homicide inspector in Vancouver, and Paul Blakemore, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in British Columbia, Canada
New Chris Kuzneski series: The Hunters, a team of renegades financed by a billionaire out to find the world's most legendary treasures
Javier Marías: Jacques (Juan, Jacobo, Jack…) Deza, in London separated from his ex-wife in Madrid, is recruited into MI-6, British Intelligence
Keith McCafferty: Sean Stranahan, a painter, fly fisherman, and private investigator, and Sheriff Martha Ettinger, in Montana
New Jenn McKinlay series: Scarlett Parker, heading from Florida to run Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop with her cousin, in London, England, in the Hat Shop mysteries
T.R. Ragan: Lizzy Gardner, a private investigator who was once terrorized by a serial killer, in Sacramento, California
Kate Rhodes: Alice Quentin, a psychologist in London, England
New Karen Robards series: Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone, an expert in criminal pathology who can communicate with the newly dead
Jeffrey S. Stephens: Jordan Sandor, a CIA agent after bad guys around the world
Simone St. James: non-series historical ghost stories set in 1920s England
New Carsten Stroud series: Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old southern Niceville family
Stephan Talty: non-series
Jaden Terrell: Jared Mckean, an ex-cop in his mid-30s, now a private investigator, with a fondness for horses, a son with Down Syndrome, and an ex-wife, in Nashville, Tennessee
S. Connell Vondrak: homicide detectives in Washington, DC
Timothy Watts: non-series mysteries
New Lis Wiehl with April Henry series: Mia Quinn, a prosecutor in the King County, Washington, district attorney's office Top
Authors and Characters Added in March 2013
New Frankie Y. Bailey series: Hannah McCabe, a police detective in the not-too-distant future, in Albany, New York
John Enright: Apelu Soifua, a detective sergeant, formerly with the San Francisco Police Department, now back home in Pago Pago, American Samoa, in the Jungle Beat mysteries
Barry Estabrook: non-series crime fiction
Will Ferguson: non-series crime fiction
William Hood: Alan Trosper, an experienced spy brought back into the CIA by a new director
Jean-Claude Izzo: Fabio Montale, a cop who goes out on his own in Marseilles, France in Marseilles, France
Julia Keller: Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, West Virginia
Fuminori Nakamura: Kizaki, a mysterious figure who controls others in evil schemes, in Japan
Tim O’Mara: Raymond Donne, a former NYPD detective, now a teacher in his old precinct, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Howard Owen: A family saga of farmer Littlejohn McCain and later his willful prodigal daughter, Georgia, in Scotland County, North Carolina; Willie Black, a hardscrabble mixed-race kid, back where he started 30-years before as a reporter, in Richmond, Virginia
Craig Robertson: Rachel Narey, a detective sergeant, and Tony Winter, a police photographer, and others, in Glasgow, Scotland
New Thomas Perry series: Jack Till, a retired LAPD homicide detective, now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, California
Mark Pryor: Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy in Paris, France Top
Authors and Characters Added in April 2013
A.X. Ahmad: Ranjit Singh, former commander of an elite army unit in India, now an illegal immigrant working as a caretaker on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Peggy Blair: Ricardo Ramirez, a police inspector and head of the Major Crimes Unit, in Havana, Cuba
New Mel Bradshaw series: Paul Shenstone, a police detective in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Susanna Calkins: Lucy Campion, a young orphan working as a chambermaid, in 1665 London, England
New Massimo Carlotto series: Giorgio Pellegrini, a leftist Italian radical, guerilla fighter, and criminal, later a regular businessman who gets tangled up with the mob
Eoin Colfer: Daniel McEvoy, an Irish bouncer working in a seedy New Jersey bar
Deryn Collier: Bern Fortin, a former Canadian Forces commander, working for the coroner in the small town of Kootenay Landing, in British Columbia, Canada
Shelley Costa: Eve Angelotta, a 32-year old former dancer, now chef at her family’s Italian restaurant, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Maurizio de Giovanni series: Giuseppe Lojacono, a police inspector, in Naples, Italy
Claire Donally: Sunny Coolidge, a former New York City newspaper reporter returning with her cat Shadow to Kittery Harbor, Maine, in the Sunny & Shadow mysteries (Bill McCay pseudonym)
Philip Donlay: Donovan Nash, a pilot for hire
Les Edgerton: non-series thrillers
Wolf Haas: Simon Brenner, a police detective, the Columbo of Austria
New Victoria Hamilton series: Merry Wynter, an expert muffin baker who inherits a mansion in fictional Autumn Vale, New York
Anne Hillerman: continuing father Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee series
Peter Kirby: Luc Vanier, a detective inspector in the Major Crimes unit, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Chris Laing: non-series
Charlotte Link: non-series crime fiction set in England
New Kylie Logan series: Maxie Pierce, an amateur sleuth on the chili cook-off circuit
Stephen Miller: non-series thrillers
D.A. Mishani: Avraham Avraham, a police detective in Tel Aviv, Israel
Nancy J. Parra: Toni Ryder, a gluten-free baker in fictional Oiltop, Kansas, in the Baker’s Treat mysteries
Valerie Plame: Vanessa Pierson, an undercover CIA agent in pursuit of terrorists [written with Sarah Lovett]
New Jacqueline Seewald series: Jim Spencer, an amateur sleuth just entering high school, his cousin Sara Woodson, and his older brother Raven (with the “Third Eye”) in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Terry Shames: Samuel Craddock, the former chief of police in the fictional town of Jarrett Creek, in central Texas
Beverly Swerling: historical mysteries
James M. Tabor: Hallie Leland, a microbiologist and adventurer, combatting biological threats
New Aimée & David Thurlo series: Josephine Buck, a young Navajo, and other employees at a New Mexico trading post, in the Navajo Rez series
Tom Wood: Victor the Assassin, the world’s deadliest hit man for hire, later working for the CIA Top
Authors and Characters Added in May 2013
Kevin J. Anderson: Rebecca Tamerlane, a victim of the Joan of Arc serial killer, seeking revenge as a shape-shifter, in California [written with Kristine Kathryn Rusch]; Craig Kreident, an FBI agent investigating terror threats in top-secret government facilities [written with Doug Beason]; Dan Shamble, a zombie private investigator at Shamble & Die (Chambeaux & Deyer) Investigations, in the Big Uneasy
New Mike Befeler series: Van and Vanna, invisible when naked and capable of changing into one another, running a detective agency, in Boulder, Colorado
Tony Black: Gus Dury, a failed journalist turned investigator, in Edinburgh, Scotland; Rob Brennan, a detective inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police, in Scotland; Doug Michie, a private investigator returning to his hometown of Ayr, on the west coast of Scotland
John Dandola: Jeffrey Devereaux-Kirsten Eriksson, at Hammond Castle Museum, in New England; Edie Koslow and Tony del Plato in 1940s West Orange, New Jersey
Bryan Forbes: Alec Hillsden, an MI-6 agent, in England and Russia
Bernie Lee: Tony Pratt, a middle-aged mystery writer and former advertising executive, and his wife Pat, a financial consultant, based in Oregon
Jim Lynch: non-series
Alex Marwood: non-series thrillers (Serena Mackesy pseudonym)
Becky Masterman: non-series
New Lorena McCourtney series: Cate Kinkaid, a fledgling private investigator in Eugene, Oregon, in The Cate Kinkaid Files
Julie Moffett: Lexi Carmichael, a klutzy computer geek working for the National Security Agency, in Washington, DC
Kathryn O’Sullivan: Colleen McCabe, the fire chief and amateur sleuth, in the small town of Corolla, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Michelle Rowen: Sarah Dearly, a fledgling vampire working with master vampire Thierry de Bennicoeur, an agent of the Ring, policing vampires worldwide, in the Immortality Bites mysteries
New Sheldon Siegel series: David Gold, a highly decorated police detective in Chicago, Illinois
Scott Smith: non-series suspense/thrillers
Robin Spano: Clare Vengel, a rookie police officer who goes undercover, starting out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Denise Weeks: Jacquidon Carroll, out of work and recently diagnosed with diabetes, and her sister Chantal, amateur sleuths in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas; Ariadne French and her older sister Zoe, amateur sleuths in Marfa, Texas
G. Willow Wilson: non-series
Tom Wright: non-series Top
Authors and Characters Added in June 2013
Barbra Annino: Stacy Justice, a 20-something reluctant witch, working as a reporter, and her Great Dane Thor, in fictional Amethyst, Illinois
Michael Brandman: continuation of the Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker
Diane Capri: Wilhelmina (Willa) Carson, a federal judge in Tampa, Florida
New Ellen Crosby series: Sophie Medina, a photojournalist based in Washington DC
Jen Estes: Cat McDaniel, a rookie baseball sportswriter starting with the Las Vegas Chips baseball team, and moving on to the Buffalo Soldiers
Sebastian Faulks: non-series crime fiction
Caryl Férey: non-series mysteries
Lawrence Goldstone: non-series mysteries
Helen Goodman: Fonnie Beachum, a 65-year old retired nurse, recovering stroke victim, and amateur sleuth, in North Carolina; Allison Aldridge, a 40-something schoolteacher in Holliston, North Carolina
Ellie Grant: Maggie Grady, returning home to help with her aunt’s pie shop in Durham, North Carolina, in the Pie in the Sky mysteries (Joyce and Jim Lavene pseudonym)
Seth Harwood: Jack Palms, a washed up actor who gets entangled in drug wars, in San Francisco, California
Alaric Hunt: Clayton Guthrie and Rachel Vasquez, private detectives in New York City
Geoffrey Jenkins: Geoffrey Peace, a British submarine commander after World War II, off the coast of South Africa
Sarah Jio: non-series psychological/romantic suspense
G.B. Joyce: Brad Shade, a journeyman pro hockey player for 14 years, now scouting for Los Angeles in the National Hockey League
Bob Judd: Forrest Evers, a champion international race car driver, tangled up in shenanigans around the world
Raymond Khoury: Sean Reilly, an FBI anti-terrorist specialist, and Tess Chaykin, an archaeologist, dealing with historical secrets and threats
Pierre Lemaître: Camille Verhoeven, a very short, pugnacious police commandant (detective chief inspector), in Paris, France
Joan Lock: Ernest Best, a detective sergeant, later inspector, starting in 1870s London, England
Adam Mitzner: non-series legal thrillers
Yxta Maya Murray: Juana Sanchez, an archaeologist, and her daughter Lola, a bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop, searching treasure around the world in the Red Lion thriller/adventure series
Darden North: non-series medical thrillers
New Charles O’Brien series: Jeremiah Prescott, a private detective in 1890s New York City, in the Gilded Age mysteries
Niamh O’Connor: Jo Birmingham, a detective inspector and single mother, in Dublin, Ireland
Richard Powell: Andy Blake, an antique dealer, and his adventurous sharpshooting wife Arab (Arabella)
Mike Resnick: Eli Paxton, a former Chicago cop now barely making it as a private investigator, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Robert Rotstein: Parker Stern, a trial lawyer who has developed stage fright, in Los Angeles, California
Lynn Shepherd: Charles Maddox, a former Metropolitan police officer now working privately as a thief taker (detective) in 1850s London, England
Thomas E. Sniegoski: Remy Chandler, an angel turned private investgator, in Boston, Massachusetts, in an urban fantasy series
Kate Sweeney: Kate Ryan, a middle-aged, accident prone, ex-private investigator, who later returns to Ryan, Costello, and Winfield Investigations, in Chicago, Illinois; Sebastian, a vampire who has wandered Europe for five centuries, and her lesbian lover, Dr. Alex Taylor, in the Dawn romantic thriller series; Grayson MacCarthaigh, a detective sergeant, in Chicago, Illinois
Vanda Symon: Sam (Samantha) Shephard, a young detective constable, in Dunedin, New Zealand
Ingrid Thoft: Fina Ludlow, a law school dropout working as a private investigator in her father’s law firm, in Boston, Massachusetts
Walter Walker: non-series mostly legal thrillers set in San Francisco, California, or Boston, Massachusetts
Chuck Zito: Nicky D’Amico, a gay stage manager in Pennsylvania and New York City Top
Authors and Characters Added in July 2013
Jeffrey Allen: Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad and amateur sleuth, in fictional Rose Petal, Texas (Jeff Shelby pseudonym)
Lauren Beukes: non-series sci-fi thrillers
New Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison series: Nicholas Drummond, American-born chief inspector at Scotland Yard, London, England
Matt Coyle: Rick Cahill, a former Santa Barbara cop falsely accused of killing his wife, now a restaurateur in the San Diego suburb, La Jolla, California
New Blake Crouch series: Ethan Burke, a Secret Service agent who becomes trapped in the strange village of Wayward Pines, Idaho
New Krista Davis series: Holly Miller, returning home to run the pet-friendly Sugar Maple Inn, in fictional Wagtail, Virginia, in the Paws and Claws mysteries
Jennifer Egan: non-series contemporary fiction with suspense and thriller elements
New series by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg: Kate O’Hare, an FBI agent and former Navy Seal, and Nick Fox, an international thief and con man, in the Fox & O’Hare mysteries
New Jim Fusilli series: Sam, a longtime drifter after his wife was murdered, playing the good Samaritan as he wanders America
New Alison Gaylin series: Breanna Spector, a missing persons investigator in New York with Hyperthymestic Syndrome, the ability to remember her own past with all five senses
Hanna Jameson: a rotating cast of underworld narrators who frequent The Underground, a club in London, England
Liz Jensen: non-series dystopian thrillers
C.T. Jorgensen: Casey Jansen, a police detective in Ridgewood, Colorado [Christine T. Jorgensen]
Mary Lou Kirwin: Karen Nash, a small town librarian from Minnesota who moves to London to open a bookstore (Mary Logue pseudonym)
New Chris Knopf series: Arthur Cathcart, a market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons searching for the truth about his murdered wife
M.A. Lawson: Kay Hamilton, a DEA agent in San Diego, California (Mike Lawson pseudonym)
New John Lawton series: Joe Wilderness, with a dubious past in the military and MI-6 after World War II, now working covertly for his former black market partner in 1963 Berlin, Germany
Malcolm Mackay: Frank MacLeod, an aging underground hit man in Glasgow, Scotland, in the Glasgow Trilogy
Thomas Mogford: Spike Sanguinetti, a lawyer based in Gibraltar, sleuthing around the Mediterranean
Mark Oldfield: the Vengeance of Memory trilogy, following three time-lines: Ana María Galindez, a Guardia Civil forensic investigator in contemporary Madrid, Spain; Comandante Leo Guzmán, in the 1950s under Franco; and the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s
New Gail Oust series: Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee running a spice shop, in fictional Brandywine Creek, Georgia
Clive Rosengren: Eddie Collins, a part-time actor and part-time sleuth, in Hollywood, California
Michael Russell: Stefan Gillespie, a Garda detective sergeant in 1930s Dublin, Ireland
New Phyllis Smallman series: Singer Brown, once part of the rock band Vortex, whose members are being murdered, in Glenphiddie Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada
M.D. Villiers: non-series crime fiction Top
Authors and Characters Added in August 2013
Siân Busby: non-series crime fiction
Anders de la Motte: Henrik “HP” Petterson, a slacker who finds a strange cell phone on a commuter train in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Game trilogy
Philippe Georget: Gilles Sebag, a police detective based in Perpignan, in the Catalan area of France
New Leonard Goldberg series: Dr. David Ballineau, a Los Angeles emergency room chief and Special Forces veteran, and his girlfriend, nurse Carolyn Ross, in a series of medical thrillers
New Laurie R. King series: Harris Stuyvesant, a former investigator for the U.S. Justice department, and Bennett Grey, a recluse with heightened senses after his near death in WWI, in the 1920s
Zane Lovitt: Ned Kelly Best First Fiction nominee
David Lyons: Jock Boucher, a federal judge of Cajun background, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Frédérique Molay: Nico Sirsky, the precocious chief of the criminal investigation division, La Crim’, in Paris, France
Carolyn Mulford: Phoenix Smith, a wounded former CIA operative, recovering in her hometown in Missouri
Sue Williams: Ned Kelly Best First Fiction nominee
Dick Wolf: Jeremy Fisk, a detective in the NYPD intelligence division, in New York City Top
Authors and Characters Added in September 2013
Pieter Aspe: Pieter Van In, a police inspector, in Bruges, Belgium
Max Barry: non-series thrillers, with a satirical, dystopian edge
Michael Castleman: Ed Rosenberg, a newspaper reporter for the Foghorn, in San Francisco, California
Marc Davis: non-series
Don Easton: Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Henry Farrell: non-series
Martin Fletcher: non-series historical thrillers
Matthew Glass: non-series futuristic political thrillers
Lotte & Søren Hammer: Konrad Simonsen, a detective inspector in Copenhagen, Denmark
Linda Joffe Hull: Maddie Michaels, recovering from her husband’s loss of their savings, becomes Mrs. Frugalicious, an anonymous blogger of shopping and financial advice, in Denver, Colorado
Martin Jensen: Winston, a manuscript illuminator, and Halfdan, a half-Dane, half-Saxon, working for King Canute in 11th century Oxford, England
Adam LeBor: Yael Azoulay, a behind-the-scenes negotiator for the United Nations who goes rogue
New Patrick Lee series: Sam Dryden, a former Special Forces operative retired to a small town on the coast of southern California
Leonard Merrick: non-series crime fiction
Mary Miley: Roaring Twenties mysteries
Alberto Mussa: non-series set in Brazil
Carla Norton: non-series; true crime
Jeanine Pirro: Dani Fox, an ambitious young assistant district attorney, in mid-1970s Westchester County, New York
Barbara Rogan: Jo Donovan, a young widow running a literary agency in New York City
William Shaw: Cathal Breen, a detective sergeant, and WPC Helen Tozer, of the Metropolitan Police, in the late ’60s music scene, in London, England
Liad Shoham: non-series legal thrillers set in Israel
Dan Smith: non-series thrillers
Lachlan Smith: Leo Maxwell, a newly minted lawyer emulating his brother, a criminal defense attorney, in 1999 San Francisco, California
Linda Stratmann: Frances Doughty, the young daughter of a pharmacist, and an amateur sleuth (later professional detective), in Victorian London, England; true crime
Vidar Sundstøl: Lance Hansen, a Forest Service officer and the grandson of Norwegian immigrants, in Cook County, Minnesota, on the north shore of Lake Superior, in the Minnesota Trilogy
Ovidia Yu: Rosie “Aunty” Lee, a feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of a home-cooking restaurant, in Singapore Top
Authors and Characters Added in October 2013
Rachel Abbott: non-series thrillers
Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan, a Welsh-Canadian professor and criminologist, based in British Columbia, Canada, and traveling here and there
Gretchen Archer: Davis Way, on the security team at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Davis Way crime capers
New Heather Blake series: Carly Bell Hartwell, owner of Little Shop of Potions in Hitching Post, Alabama, in the Magic Potion mysteries (Heather Webber pseudonym)
Armand Cabasson: Quentin Margont, an officer and investigator in the Grande Armée, in the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic Wars
Eleanor Catton: non-series
Nancy Coco: Allie McMurphy, renovating her family's old hotel, on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the Candy-Coated mysteries (Nancy J. Parra pseudonym)
Emma Donoghue: non-series
Robert Edric: Leo Rivers, a private investigator in Hull, England, in the Song Cycle trilogy
Pascal Garnier: non-series crime fiction
Jørn Lier Horst: William Wisting, chief inspector of police and head of CID, in Larvik, Norway
Ellen Larson: Natalie Joday, an investigative reporter in Bergen County, New Jersey
Paul D. Marks: Duke Rogers, a private investigator in early 1990s Los Angeles, California
Holly Menino: Tink Elledge, a 50ish nationally-ranked equestrian and horse trainer living with her fourth husband on a horse farm near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Llwyd Owen: non-series crime and suspense set in Wales
Ross Pennie: Zol Szabo, a public health doctor and medical detective, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Randy Rawls: Arthur Conan Edwards (Ace Edwards), a private investogator in Dallas, Texas; Beth Bowman, a private investigator in south Florida
New Cath Staincliffe series: Janet Scott, a straight-laced detective constable, and Rachel Bailey, a detective constable from a deprived childhood, in Manchester, England
New Rebecca Tope series: Persimmon “Simmy” Brown, a florist in the Lake District of England Top
Authors and Characters Added in November 2013
Allyson K. Abbott: Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton, the owner of a bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Synesthesia, a neurological condition enabling her to smell noises or taste color, in the Mack’s Bar Mysteries (Beth Amos pseudonym)
Bernard Besson: John Spencer Larivière, a former French intelligence officer, Victoire, his karate-trained Eurasian partner, and Luc, their computer-genius sidekick, in international eco-thriller-dom
Jorgen Brekke: Odd Singsaker, a police inspector in Trondheim, Norway
Graham Brown: Danielle Laidlaw, an investigator for a covert branch of the National Research Institute
New Jane Casey series: Jess Tennant, a 15-year old investigating her cousin’s death, in Port Sentinal, England [YA]
Joyce Cato: Jenny Starling, a traveling cook and caterer in England (Faith Martin pseudonym)
New J.J. Cook series: Zoe Chase, the new owner of a fixer-upper diner, and running a food truck in Mobile, Alabama, in the Biscuit Bowl Food Truck series (Joyce & Jim Lavene pseudonym)
K.A. Delaney: Max Tyger, a former cop running a one-man detective agency in Darlington, Connecticut (John R. Corrigan pseudonym)
Kate George: Bree MacGowan, a 30-year-old doing what she can to get by in Vermont
New Martha Grimes series: Paul Giverney, a suspense novelist dealing with cut-throat publishers in New York City
Paul Halter: Dr. Alan Twist and Chief Inspector Hurst; Owen Burns, an Edwardian dilletante and amateur sleuth assisting Scotland Yard, and Achilles Stock
New Iris Johansen series: Catherine Ling, a shadowy CIA operative raised on the streets of Hong Kong
Annie Knox: Izzy McHale, opening the Trendy Tails Pet Boutique, in fictional Merryville, Minnesota, in the Pet Boutique series (Wendy Lyn Watson pseudonym)
Bette Golden Lamb & J.J. Lamb: Gina Mazzio, an registered nurse at Ridgewood General Hospital, in San Francisco, California
J.J. Lamb: Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III, a private investigator specializing in gambling-related crimes, based in Las Vegas, Nevada
Barry Lancet: Jim Brodie, a bilingual part-owner of Brodie Investigations, a detective agency founded by his father in Tokyo, and operator of a Japanese art and antique gallery in San Francisco, California
Robert K. Lewis: Mark Mallen, a former undercover cop with drug problems, estranged from his wife and daughter, in San Francisco, California
Eleazar Lipsky: non-series
Catherine Lloyd: Robert Kurland, an army major wounded at Waterloo, and his childhood friend and housekeeper, Lucy Harrington, the rector’s daughter, in Kurland St. Mary, in Regency England
Christopher Lord: Simon Alastair, a gay bookstore owner and amateur sleuth in fictional Dickens Junction, Oregon
Liz Mugavero: Kristan “Stan” Connor, retreating from corporate public relations to a small town in Connecticut, in the Pawsitively Organic series
Mukoma Wa Ngugi: Ishmael, an African American police detective in Madison, Wisconsin, teams up with O (David Odhiambo), a police detective in Nairobi, Kenya
Terri Nolan: Birdie Keane, an investigative journalist in Los Angeles, California
Leigh Perry: Georgia Thackery, an English professor who moves back into her parents’ house with her teenaged daughter and discovers a skeleton named Sid already in residence, in the Family Skeleton mysteries (Toni Kelner pseudonym)
New Sheila Quigley series: Mike Yorke, a detective inspector returning from London to northeast England, in the Holy Island trilogy
Matthew Quirk: Mike Ford, a Harvard Law School grad groomed for the highest circles of political and financial control
New James Rollins & Grant Blackwood series: Tucker Wayne
Charles Rosenberg: non-series legal thrillers
Lloyd Shepherd: Charles Horton, Thames River Police Chief, and John Harriott, a River Police magistrate, in 1810s London, England
Orest Stelmach: Nadia Tesla, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, in New York City, the Ukraine, and elsewhere
Stephan Talty: Absalom “Abbie” Kearney, a police detective with a Harvard education, in Buffalo, New York
Sam Thomas: Bridget Hodgson, a widowed midwife, and Martha Hawkins, her apprentice, in 1640s York, England
New Aimée and David Thurlo series: Charlie Henry, an Iraq war special-ops veteran, now owner of the Three Balls pawnshop, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Maggie Toussaint series: Baxley Powell, a landscaper and pet-sitter with “dreamwalking” powers, assisting the county sheriff, in Georgia, in the Dreamwalker mysteries
Gérard de Villiers: Malko Linge, SAS — Son Altesse Sérénissime (His Serene Highness) — an Austrian prince and international agent for the CIA
Jean Zimmerman: non-series historical mysteries set in New York City Top
Authors and Characters Added in December 2013
Chris Abani: non-series mysteries
Stephen Anable: Mark Winslow, a gay improv comic, from Boston, Massachusetts
Peter Antony: Mr. Verity, a large, cigar-smoking sleuth who investigates only between tea and supper, in England (joint pseudonym of twins Anthony & Peter Shaffer)
Terri L. Austin: Rose Strickland, a struggling waitress at Ma’s Diner and part-time college student, in fictional Huntingford, Missouri
R.B. Chesterton: non-series thrillers (Carolyn Haines pseudonym)
Hy Conrad: Amy Abel, a shy, risk-averse woman running a travel agency specializing in adventure; Adrian Monk, an obsessive-compulsive police detective, in San Francisco, California, based on the Monk TV show (continuation of Lee Goldberg series)
Amanda Cooper: Sophie Taylor, a failed New York restaurateur and chef, returning to her grandmother's restaurant, Auntie Rose's Victorian Tearoom, in Gracious Grove, New York, in the Teapot Collector mysteries (Donna Lea Simpson pseudonym)
Roberto Costantini: Michele Balistreri, a police commissario in charge of World Cup security, in 2006 Rome, Italy, in the “Evil” trilogy [Trilogia del Male] reaching into the past
Waverly Curtis: Pepe, a talking Chihuahua, and Geri Sullivan, a novice private investigator, in the Barking Detective mysteries (joint pseudonym of Curt Colbert & Waverly Fitzgerald)
Brian D’Amato: Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the ancient Maya and a math prodigy, traveling back in time to save the world from apocalypse
Jill Downie: Ed Moretti, a detective inspector, and his partner, detective sergeant Liz Falla, on the Island of Guernsey, in the English Channel
New David Downing series: Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman who collects intelligence for His Majesty's Navy around the world, beginning in 1913
Kendra Elliot: the Bone Secrets romantic suspense series, set in Oregon
J.S. Fletcher: Mr. Poskitt, a Yorkshire farmer, in England; Inspector Skarratt of Scotland Yard, in London, England; Ronald Camberwell, a private investigator (“specialist in criminology … I have nothing to do with the police”), in London, England; Sergeant Charlesworth, a police detective in England
Melissa Foster: non-series thrillers and suspense
Robert Galbraith: Cormoran Strike, a private detective, and his secretary Robin Ellacott, in London, England (J.K. Rowling pseudonym)
Casey Hill: Reilly Steel, a US-trained CSI investigator in Dublin, Ireland (Melissa Hill & Kevin Hill joint pseudonym)
M.R.C. Kasasian: Sidney Grice, London’s most famous personal detective, and his goddaughter and ward, March Middleton, in 1880s London, England
Max Kinnings: Ed Mallory, a detective chief inspector and hostage negotiator, blinded 13 years ago in the line of duty, in London, England
Jenifer LeClair: Brie Beaumont, a wounded Minneapolis homicide detective, recovering on the coast of Maine, in the Windjammer mysteries
Carol Ann Martin: Della Wright, owner of a weaving studio in Briar Hollow, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, in the Weaving mysteries
James E. Martin: Gil Disbro, a young, conservative, non-drinking private investigator, in Cleveland, Ohio
William Martin: Peter Fallon, an antiquarian bookseller involved in Harvard intrigues, and later hunting historical treasures with Evangeline Carrington, in Boston, Massachusetts
J.D. Masters: Donovan Steele, a rugged police lieutenant, in New York City (Simon Hawke pseudonym)
J.K. Mayo: Harry Sedall, a British military intelligence colonel, based in London, England
Marja McGraw: Sandi Webster, a private investigator, in Los Angeles, California; Chris Cross, looking like Humphrey Bogart, running a 1940s-themed restaurant, in Los Angeles, California
Carol Miller: Daisy McGovern, a pastry chef barely supporting her invalid mother, in a small town in southwestern Virginia, in the Moonshine mysteries
Lee Mims: Cleo Cooper, a geologist in North Carolina
Laura Morrigan: Grace Wilde, an animal behaviorist who can communicate psychically with animals, in Florida, in the Call of the Wilde series
John D. Nesbitt: non-series western and frontier mysteries
Baroness Orczy: Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious English baronet who rescues French aristocrats from certain death after the French revolution; Bill Owen, the Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who sits in a restaurant playing with string, and relates the solution of crimes to Polly Burton, a young journalist, in London, England; Lady Molly de Mazareen, of Scotland Yard, in London, England
Lauran Paine: non-series crime fiction written under his own name and pseudonyms including John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Mark Carrel, Robert Clarke, Richard Dana, J.F. Drexler, Jared Ingersol, John Kilgore, Hunter Liggett, J.K. Lucas, John Morgan
Louise Phillips: Dr. Kate Pearson, a criminal psychologist working with the police, in Dublin, Ireland
Sarah Pinborough: Dr. Thomas Bond, a physician assisting the police investigating brutal serial killings, in 1880s London, England
Robert Reginald: Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom of 1930s-40s fame), drawn out of retirement, in 1950s southern California, in the Phantom Detective Agency mysteries
Delia Rosen: Gwen Katz Silver, from Manhattan, inheriting a Jewish deli, Murray’s Pastrami Swami, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the Deadly Deli mysteries
Barbara Ross: Julia Snowden, returning to her hometown to run the Snowden Family Clambake Company, in fictional Busman’s Harbor, Maine, in the Maine Clambake mysteries
Randy Singer: non-series legal thrillers with a Christian angle
Christopher Valen: John Santana, a homicide detective originally from Colombia, in St. Paul, Minnesota
Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men — Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, & Merrell (who was killed in 1902) — dedicated to punishing those whom the law cannot touch, in England, Europe, and Amerca; Commissioner Sanders, an English official in colonial Africa; T.B. Smith, an assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, in London, England; Lieutenant Bones, in colonial Africa; Elk, a detective sergeant, later inspector, at Scotland Yard, in London, England; J.G. Reeder, a small middle-aged detective with an sword-umbrella, working at various times for Scotland Yard, Banker’s Trust, and the public prosecutor, in London, England; Superintendent Minter (“The Sooper”) of Scotland Yard, in London, England
Tim Weaver: David Raker, a missing persons investigator, based in London, England
Dan Wells: John Wayne Cleaver, a teenager obsessed with serial killers and trying to avoid becoming one, in Clayton County, North Dakota
New Neil White series: Joe Parker, an ingenious criminal defense lawyer, and his brother Sam, a tenacious homicide detective, in Manchester, England
James W. Ziskin: Ellie (Eleonora) Stone, a young journalist working for a small town daily newspaper, in 1960s New Holland, New York
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