Authors and Characters Added in January 2025
New Ellen Byron series: Dee Stern, a former TV sitcom writer in LA, now running a motel in Foundgold, California, in the Golden Motel mysteries
New Tori Eldridge series: Makalani Pahukula, after 10 years in Oregon, returns to her family home on Kaua’i, as a park ranger at Kealia Forest Reserve
New Victoria Gilbert series: Jennifer “Jen” Dalton, an author and educator at Clarion University, in Virginia, in the Campus Sleuth mysteries
Audrey Lee: non-series
Jennifer K. Morita: non-series
New Richard Osman series: Steve Wheeler, retired from investigative work, and his daugther-in-law Amy Wheeler working in private security, racing around the world
New Laura Jensen Walker series: three WWII Royal Air Force air ambulance nurses — Maeve, Etta, and Betty — in the Nightingale mysteries
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Authors and Characters Added in December 2024
New Ava Barry series: Rainey Hall, a private investigator in Hollywood, California
Elise Bryant: non-series
Christoffer Carlsson: Leo Junker, a police officer with drug and other problems, in Stockholm, Sweden; the Halland Suite set in Marbäck, Sweden
Ash Clifton: Noland Twice, a former University of Florida football star working as a private detective in Central Florida
Emma Cook: non-series
Kemper Donovan: a ghostwriter and amateur sleuth, sometimes using the pseudonym Belle Currer, in the Ghostwriter mysteries
New Tana French series: Cal Hooper, a former Chicago police detective relocated to the small Irish village of Ardnakelty, and near-feral teenager Trey Reddy
New Bryan Gruley series: Jimmy Baker, a former hockey star now the Zamboni driver for the amateur team in his hometown of Bitterfrost, Michigan
Emily Layden: non-series
New Amy Patricia Meade series: Evelyn Galloway, a script supervisor in Hollowood, beginning in 1939
New Rob Osler series: Harriet Morrow, a new detective with the Prescott Dectective Agency in Chicago, beginning in 1898
New Jonathan Payne series: Orlov, a fishmonger accidently turned governmeent minister for an unnamed country on the brink of civil war in central Europe, in the Citizen Orlov series
Kristen Perrin: Annabelle (Annie) Adams, a young aspiring mystery novelist and amateur sleuth in a small English village, in the Castle Knoll Files
New Adam Plantinga series: Kurt Argento, a former Detroit cop
New Michael Robotham series: Philomena McCarthy, an ambitious young police officer whose family members are notorious criminals, with the Metropolitan Police in London
New Julia Seales series: Beatrice Steele, a young English private detective in the early 19th century
New Jesse Q. Sutanto series: Vera Wong, a San Francisco teashop owner in her 60s who loves cooking, snooping, and using the skills she learned watching CSI
Ruby Todd: non-series
C.M. Waggoner: Sherry Pinkwhistle, a senior citizen librarian, solving crimes and fighting the supernatural, in the small village of Winesap in upstate New York
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