Authors whose first name starts with C, page 3 of 8

Carsen Taite writes lesbian romance and romantic suspense, with subject records naming women lawyers, women bounty hunters, murder trials and missing persons. The catalogue lists 35 books from Truelesbianlove.com (2008) to Trial Run (2024). Series include Luca Bennett Bounty Hunter, Lone Star Law, Courting Danger and Crime & Defense.

Carson McCullers

14 books

Carson McCullers, born in 1917 and died in 1967, was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), traces the isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small Southern town, and her later books keep to the same ground, most are set in the Deep South, and critics read the work as Southern Gothic with a reach beyond its region. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), The Member of the Wedding (1946) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) followed, and her stories have been adapted for stage and screen. Fourteen titles are catalogued.

Carter Wilson writes psychological suspense. Eleven books are catalogued: Final Crossing (2012), The Boy in the Woods (2014), The Comfort of Black (2015), Revelation (2016), Mister Tender's Girl (2018), The Dead Girl in 2A (2019), The Dead Husband (2021), The New Neighbor (2022), The Father She Went to Find (2024), Tell Me What You Did (2025) and When They Find Me. Marriage, murder and the long aftermath of abuse run through the subjects.

Casey Hill writes forensic crime fiction. The CSI Reilly Steel series is Hill's one sequence, built around forensic scientist Reilly Steel, and runs to 10 books from Taboo / Serial (2011) to The Profiler (2026). Serial murders, criminal investigation and Irish settings recur across the novels, several of which carry different titles in different markets: Inferno also appears as Victim and as Torn, and Trace as One Little Mistake. Hill remains actively publishing.

Casey McQuiston

5 books• 1 series

Casey McQuiston writes contemporary romance for new adult and young adult readers. The debut, Red, White & Royal Blue (2019), puts the son of America's first female president in love with an English prince. One Last Stop (2021) is sapphic, and I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022) marked McQuiston's move into young adult fiction. Time magazine named McQuiston to its 2022 Time 100 Next list. Five books make up the catalogue, through The Pairing in 2024 and The Private Correspondence in 2026.

Foster care accounts for the whole of Casey Watson's catalogue: 31 books published between 2011 and 2023, drawn from therapeutic fostering in Great Britain. The run opens with The Boy No One Loved (2011) and ends with I Want My Daddy (2023). Subject headings cover foster children, abused children, foster mothers and biography. Short stories and novellas sit alongside the full-length titles. Nothing new has appeared since 2023, and the catalogue is dormant.

Cassandra Clare

82 books• 13 series

Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis, born Judith Rumelt on July 27, 1973. Clare is an American author of young adult fiction, known above all for The Mortal Instruments. The catalogue lists 82 books under the name, from City of Bones (2007) to The Last King of Faerie (2026). The Shadowhunter Chronicles, Magisterium, the Bane Chronicles and the Chronicles of Castellane all appear on the page, alongside graphic novel and manga editions. Holly Black is credited with Clare on 3 of those books. Subjects include magic, demonology, vampires and orphans.

Cassandra Clark is an English novelist and playwright, and her catalogue divides in two. The earliest titles carry the name Sally Heywood and belong to romance: Impossible To Forget (1987), Fantasy Lover (1988), Jungle Lover (1990), The Gemini Bride (1990). The later work is historical mystery, with Abbess Hildegard of Meaux as its investigator and a second series around Brother Chandler. Thirty-three books are catalogued, published between 1987 and 2023 and ending with The Night of the Wolf (2023). Nuns, Great Britain and history run through the subject headings.

Cassandra King, born in Alabama in 1944, writes novels about women, friendship, marriage and clergy households. The Sunday Wife (2002) draws on her own years married to a pastor, and The Same Sweet Girls (2005), Queen of Broken Hearts (2007) and Moonrise (2013) followed. King taught at Jefferson State and Gadsden State community colleges and at the University of Montevallo, where she took an MFA in 1988. She married the writer Pat Conroy in 1998, and her 2019 memoir Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy, published as Cassandra King Conroy, covers that marriage. Seven books are catalogued, at a median of 401 pages.

Cassandra Robbins has 11 books in the catalogue, published between 2018 and 2024. The Enlightened and The Entitled both appeared in 2018. One-word titles follow: Atone and Lethal (2019), Ignite and Repent (2020), Rise (2021), Power and Force (2022), and Rule (2023). Reign (2024) is the newest title. Disciples and Entitled are the two series on the author page.

Cassie Alexander is an American writer and nurse whose catalogue mixes urban fantasy, paranormal romance and medical fiction. The 40 books run from Nightshifted (2012) to Guarded by the AI (2025), with Moonshifted and Shapeshifted also from 2012 and Deadshifted (2013) and Bloodshifted (2014) after them. Series include Edie Spence, Dark Ink Tattoo, Sleeping With Monsters, Moth and the Monster, Prince of the Other Worlds and Wardens of the Other Worlds. Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifting and gay romance appear among the subjects.

Cassie Edwards wrote historical romance set on the American frontier. Her 117 catalogued titles open with four books in 1982, Rapture's Rendezvous among them, and are organised into long runs: Savage, Savage Secrets, Wild Tribes, Wild Arizona, Chippewa and the Dreamcatcher Indian novels. Native American subjects, Ojibwa settings and women pioneers recur throughout. Edwards published with Dorchester, Signet, Kensington and Harlequin, and her output stopped after it emerged that she had extensively plagiarised other writers. The catalogue records titles through 2015.

Romance author Cat Johnson has 98 books in the catalogue, published from 2006 to 2026. Subjects include contemporary, western and erotic romance, military fiction, United States Navy SEALs, cowboys and Oklahoma. Hot SEALs and Studs in Spurs are listed as recurring character groups, and series include Smalltown Secrets, Red, Hot & Blue, Oklahoma Nights, Midnight Cowboys and Maverick Ranch. The first catalogued title is Black Cat (2006); the newest is Cadaver Lab 5: Mind Over Murder (2026). Johnson has also worked as a marketing manager, professional harpist, bartender, tour guide and radio show host.

Cat Sebastian writes queer romance, much of it historical. We Could Be So Good won a Lambda Literary Award in 2024, and Sebastian's books have drawn starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. The catalogue holds 23 books from The Soldier's Scoundrel (2016) to Star Shipped (2026), across the Seducing the Sedgwicks, Regency Imposters, Page & Sommers and Queer Principles of Kit Webb series. Recorded subjects include gay men, the Regency aristocracy, cross-dressing and gender nonconformity.

Cate C. Wells writes romance across motorcycle club, mafia, small-town and paranormal settings, with a focus on character-driven stories and long roads to redemption, and lives in Baltimore. The catalogue holds 26 Wells books, starting in 2019 with Charge, Nickel's Story, Scrap and Twitch, followed by Dizzy, Forty, Plum and Wall in 2020. Ravaged Wolf (2025) is the newest release, and The Moon Blessed Wolf's Rejected Mate is scheduled for 2027. Wells series include Steel Bones Motorcycle Club, Five Packs, Stonecut County and Underboss Insurrection.

Cate Conte writes cozy mysteries with cats at the centre. The Cat Cafe Mystery series opens with Cat About Town (2017) and runs through Purrder She Wrote, The Tell Tail Heart and Claws for Alarm; the Full Moon Mysteries, starting with Witch Hunt (2020), are the second series. Massachusetts, islands and coffeehouses supply the settings. Thirteen books reach Purranormal Activity in 2026.

Cate Quinn writes thrillers, and the catalogue holds 4 books. Black Widows (2021) opens the run, followed by The Clinic (2024), The Bridesmaid (2025) and Before I Disappear (2026). Utah is the one setting named in the subject tags. Quinn has published a title a year since 2024 and the catalogue remains open.

Cate Tiernan is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American author. The Sweep books are her best known work under the Tiernan name, following a cast of high school students through Wiccan practice; the same series is published as Wicca in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia, and as White Magic in Italy and France. Balefire and Immortal Beloved follow it. Under her own name Charbonnet is known for the Princess, American Gold Gymnasts and Disney Girls children's books. Twenty-three titles run from 2001 to Darkest Fear (2014).

Cath Staincliffe writes crime fiction set in England, built around women investigators. Sal Kilkenny, a private investigator, is the recurring character, and the catalogue opens with Looking for Trouble (1994), continuing through Go Not Gently (1997), Dead Wrong (1998), Stone Cold Red Hot (2001) and Bitter Blue (2003). Staincliffe also writes the Janine Lewis novels, the Scott & Bailey books and the Detectives Donovan & Young series. The 35 catalogued titles reach Secrets on the Fells (2026).

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg writes the League of Pensioners, a humorous crime series about older people who turn to theft in Stockholm. Four books are catalogued: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (2012), The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! (2014), The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly (2017) and The Little Old Lady Strikes Back (2023). The catalogue is dormant.

Nineteen books stand under Catharina Maura in the catalogue, published from 2020 onward and filed under romance. Maura is a Dutch writer of contemporary romance, of Caribbean-Indian descent, living in Hong Kong. Serendipity and Stolen Moments date from 2020, and the series listed are Windsors, Off Limits and Tie That Binds. The newest entry is The Devious Husband (2024), and a further title is scheduled for 2027.

Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan and Constable Crosby work the murders in Catherine Aird's English police procedurals. The Religious Body (1966) opens a catalogue of 29 titles, followed by A Most Contagious Game (1967), Henrietta Who? (1968), The Stately Home Murder (1969), A Late Phoenix (1971) and His Burial Too (1973). Short stories sit alongside the novels, and the last catalogued title is Constable Country, published in 2023.

Catherine Alliott writes romantic fiction about English women in the middle of their lives: marriage, separation, single motherhood, love triangles and country life. Nineteen books are catalogued, opening with Going Too Far and The Old-Girl Network (both 1994) and reaching Annabel and Her Sisters (2025). Rosie Meadows Regrets... (1998), A Married Man (2002) and A Crowded Marriage (2006) sit in the middle of the run.

Catherine Anderson writes romance across historical, contemporary and western settings. The Comanche books, the Kendrick, Coulter and Harrigan family novels, Mystic Creek and the Valance Family form the series work, with Oregon ranches and Colorado recurring in the subjects. Forty-two books are catalogued between Coming Up Roses (1970) and Maple Leaf Harvest in 2021.

Catherine Asaro

38 books• 7 series

Catherine Asaro, born on 6 November 1955, is an American science fiction and fantasy author as well as a singer and teacher. The Saga of the Skolian Empire, about the Ruby Dynasty, is the best-known Asaro work. The catalogue lists 38 books, from Primary Inversion (1995) through Catch the Lightning (1996), The Last Hawk (1997) and The Radiant Seas (1998) to Gold Dust (2025). Series include Skolian Empire, Skolian Empire: Ruby Dynasty, Lost Continent, Major Bhaajan, Sunrise Alley/Charon, Lightning Strike and Dust Knights. Subjects include space opera, androids and Kelric Garlin.

Catherine Bruns has 37 books in the catalogue, published between 2015 and 2026. Killer Transaction and Tastes Like Murder both appeared in 2015, and Sifting Through Secrets (2026) is the newest. Bruns writes the Cookies & Chance Mysteries, the Cindy York books and the Italian Chef Mysteries. Subjects include murder investigation, bakeries, bakers and fires. Other titles include Baked to Death (2016), Burned to a Crisp (2016), Frosted with Revenge (2017) and For Sale By Killer (2018).

Catherine Bybee

47 books• 13 series

Before writing full time, Catherine Bybee worked as a registered nurse, mostly in urban emergency rooms. Bybee grew up in Washington State and moved to Southern California hoping for a film career. Bybee's 45 books have sold more than 11 million copies in over twenty languages, and several reached The New York Times and USA Today lists. The catalogue lists 48 titles, from Binding Vows (2009) to Lead Me Home (2026), with Always Been You due in 2027. Series include Not Quite, Weekday Brides, Most Likely To, First Wives, MacCoinnich Time Travels, Canyon Creek and Richter.

Catherine Coles writes cozy historical mystery across four series: Tommy & Evelyn Christie, Martha Miller Mysteries, Lady Matilda Investigates and the Seacrest Siblings. Murder at the Manor (2020) opens the mystery work, and village fetes, country fairs, churchyards and Belgrave Square supply the crime scenes. Nineteen catalogued books run from Doctor Behind the Mask (2016) to Murder at the Christmas Ball (2026).

Dame Catherine Cookson (born Catherine Ann McMullen, 20 June 1906 to 11 June 1998) was a British novelist. A hard childhood in South Shields, North East England, shaped the novels and supplied their setting. By 2003 Cookson's books had sold an estimated 100 million copies, and 104 titles appeared under the Cookson name and two pen names. The catalogue records 112 books, from Kate Hannigan (1950) to The Rag Maid (2017). Series include Mary Ann Shaughnessy, the Bailey Chronicles, the Mallen Trilogy and the Hamilton Trilogy. Working-class life, family sagas and historical romance appear among the subject tags.

Historical romance and FBI suspense make up Catherine Coulter's two main bodies of work. Regency and medieval romances such as the Sherbrooke Brides and Medieval Song sequences date back to the 1979 debut The Rebel Bride, while the FBI Thriller series and A Brit in the FBI follow government investigator Dillon Savich. Coulter's catalogue runs to 95 books, reaching The Heir of Whitestone in 2026.

Catherine Cowles writes romance, with 36 books catalogued from Further to Fall (2018) to Beneath a Midnight Moon (2026) and Through the Gathering Storm set for 2027. Cowles's series are Tattered & Torn, Sparrow Falls, Sutter Lake, Starlight Grove and Shady Cove. The Beautifully Broken titles appeared from 2019 to 2021. Cowles lives in Oregon and listens to true crime podcasts outside writing.

Catherine Doyle is an Irish author of children's and young adult fiction, born in 1990, whose novels have been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. The catalogue lists 15 books between 2015 and 2026, beginning with Vendetta (2015), Inferno (2016) and Mafiosa (2017). Later titles include The Storm Keeper's Island (2018), The Lost Tide Warriors (2019) and Twin Crowns (2022). Doyle's series are Twin Crowns, City of Fantome and Storm Keeper. Subjects include the mafia, love stories, grandparents, islands and the supernatural. King of Beasts (2026) is the newest title.

Catherine Hokin's catalogue holds 16 books dated 2016 to 2026, built on two series: Hanni Winter and Vivi Von Rhomberg. Blood and Roses (2016) opens it, and the run proper begins in 2020 with The Fortunate Ones and What Only We Know. The Lost Mother (2021), The Secretary (2021), The Commandant's Daughter (2022), The Pilot's Girl (2022), Her Last Promise (2023), The Girl in the Photo (2023) and The Children We Lost (2024) follow. Hokin has published two titles a year since 2020.

Catherine Lloyd writes historical mysteries in two series: the Kurland St. Mary books, whose titles all open with the words Death Comes to, and the Miss Morton mysteries. Murder, poisoning and English society supply the plots, with a woman sleuth in front. Fourteen catalogued titles run from Death Comes to the Village (2013) through Death Comes to Bath (2018) and Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder (2022) to Miss Morton Takes the Waters in 2026.

Catherine Mack writes the Vacation Mysteries, comic crime novels whose titles give away the plot: Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (2024), No One Was Supposed to Die at this Wedding (2025) and This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone (2026). Three books make up the catalogue so far, and the series is ongoing.

Catherine Mann is an American author of romance fiction and a winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, with books at Berkley, Sourcebooks and Harlequin Desire. Mann holds a master's degree in theatre from UNC-Greensboro and a fine arts degree from the College of Charleston. The catalogue holds 87 books, from Grayson's Surrender (2002) to The Sweet Tea Odyssey (2026), and the 2010s are the heaviest decade. Wingman Warriors, Dark Ops, Elite Force, Alaskan Oil Barons, Top Dog Dude Ranch and Landis Brothers are among the series credited to Mann. Suspense, undercover operations and the United States Air Force appear in the subject records.

Catherine Marshall was an American author of inspirational non-fiction, devotional writing and fiction, married to the minister Peter Marshall. A Man Called Peter (1951) opens a catalogue of 42 books, and Christy (1967) sits in it alongside the Christy of Cutter Gap series. Christian life, faith, prayer and biography are the recurring subjects, with teachers and schools among them. The catalogue closes with Moments That Matter (2001).

Catherine McKenzie's catalogue holds 14 books published between 2009 and 2023, from Spin (2009) to Have You Seen Her (2023). Subjects recorded against the titles include suspense and thrillers, rehabilitation centres, celebrities and press coverage, arranged marriage, natural disasters, women lawyers and loss. No series is catalogued to McKenzie; the listing is a set of standalone novels that takes in Forgotten (2012), Smoke (2015), Fractured (2016), The Good Liar (2018) and I'll Never Tell (2019). One title, The Murder Game (2016), is catalogued under the name Julie Apple.

Catherine Newman, born in 1968, is an American author who writes for both children and adults. The catalogue lists 9 books from Waiting for Birdy (2005) to Wreck (2025), along with the Rocky series. Titles in between include Catastrophic Happiness, Stitch Camp, How to Be a Person, We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. Best friends, family life and black humor appear among the subjects. Newman's publishing is ongoing.

Catherine Palmer writes Christian romance, much of it historical and set in frontier America. The catalogue holds 56 books dated between 1974 and 2010, grouped into Treasures Of The Heart, Town Called Hope, English Ivy and Miss Pickworth. Titles include The Burning Plains (1988), Land of Enchantment (1990), Forbidden (1991), Outlaw Heart (1992) and Gunman's Lady (1993), and the newest listing is The Gunman's Bride (2010). Recorded subjects include marriage, inheritance, pioneer life and American Christmas stories. The list is marked likely complete.

Catherine Ryan Howard writes psychological thrillers and crime suspense, with missing persons, serial murder and criminal investigation as recurring subjects. Self-Printed (2011) opens the catalogue, and self-publishing sits among the recorded subjects. The novels start with Distress Signals (2016) and run through The Liar's Girl (2018), Rewind (2019), The Nothing Man (2020), 56 Days (2021), Run Time (2022) and The Trap (2023) to Buyer Beware (2026). Ten books are catalogued, and the subject index files the work as Irish literature.

Catherine Ryan Hyde writes standalone novels about families, friendship and people in motion, with California and New York among the settings and homelessness, siblings and travel among the subjects. Pay It Forward (1999) comes early in a catalogue that opens with Funerals for Horses (1997) and reaches The Other Kind of Lion in 2026. Fifty books are listed, short fiction, non-fiction and picture books included.

Catherine Steadman writes psychological thrillers. Something in the Water (2018) is the first catalogued book, followed by Mr. Nobody (2020) and The Disappearing Act (2021). The Family Game and Stockholm both date from 2022, and Look In the Mirror appeared in 2024. Nine Lives (2026) is the newest title. Married life, honeymoons, women psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals appear in the subject tags.

Catherine Walsh has 8 catalogued books, published from One Night Only (2021) to How to Write a Love Story (2026). The run includes Holiday Romance (2022), The Rebound (2022), A Mistletoe Kiss (2023), Snowed In (2023), The Matchmaker (2023) and Merrily Ever After (2025). One series is listed, Fitzpatrick Christmas. Walsh's release status is ongoing.

Motorcycle club series dominate Cathleen Cole's catalogue: Vikings MC and its Tucson Chapter, Saint's Outlaws MC: Phoenix Chapter, and Berserker's Rage MC: Wyoming Chapter, alongside Discord, Soldiers of Misfortune and Three Sisters' War. Thirty-four books have appeared since 2021, seven of them in that first year, among them Havoc, Ruin, Heart of Steel and Bass & Trouble. Bolo's Curveball arrived in 2026 and Relay's Salvation is scheduled for 2027.

Cathryn Fox has 155 books in the catalogue, published from 2006 through 2026. Pleasure Control (2006) is the earliest and Broken Stick (2026) the newest. Subjects attached to the books include erotica, contemporary romance and man-woman relationships, along with shapeshifting. Fox's series include Players on Ice, Scotia Storms, Boston Bucks, Bad Boy Confessions, Firefighter Heat and Boys of Beachville. Cathryn Fox is still publishing new titles.

Cathryn Grant's catalogue runs to 74 books between 2010 and 2026, with murder, obsession and secrets among the listed subjects. The earliest titles, from 2010, are Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour and The Demise of the Soccer Moms. Grant's series are Alexandra Mallory, Madison Keith and the Haunted Ship Trilogy. The Secret in Our Marriage (2026) is the newest entry, and Grant continues to publish.

Cathy Ace writes crime fiction. The Cait Morgan Mysteries are her main sequence, running on titles of the form The Corpse with the Silver Tongue (2012), The Corpse with the Golden Nose (2013) and The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (2014), and the WISE Enquiries Agency books form a second series, catalogued under Wales, villages and nobility. Ace has 32 books published between 2008 and 2026, from Murder Knows No Season (2008) to The Corpse with the Steely Gaze (2026).

Cathy Bramley writes contemporary romance set in England, with family secrets, inheritance and self-realisation among the recurring subjects. Seventeen books are catalogued from Conditional Love (2013) to Somewhere Only We Know (2025), running long at a median of 464 pages. Ivy Lane (2014), Appleby Farm (2015), Wickham Hall (2016), The Plumberry School of Comfort Food (2016), A Match Made in Devon (2018), Hetty's Farmhouse Bakery (2018) and A Patchwork Family (2020) fill the middle of the catalogue, and Lemon Tree Cafe is the one recorded series. Bramley is British and still publishing.

Cathy Gillen Thacker is an American romance novelist. The catalogue lists 153 books published from 1982 to 2025, from Island of Desire to Stand-In Texas Dad. Texas appears among the subjects, alongside cowboys, ranchers, physicians, single fathers and single mothers, and the romance is tagged as both contemporary and western. Family series under the Thacker name include McCabes of Texas, McCabe Multiples, Lockharts of Texas, Deveraux Legacy and Texas Legacies: The Carrigans.

Cathy Glass writes accounts of fostering. Damaged and Hidden both appeared in 2007, and 54 titles are catalogued through Helpless: Part 3 (2024). Foster children, foster mothers, abused children and therapeutic foster care fill the subject tags, with the books filed under biography and British social conditions. Non-fiction, novels and short works all sit on the list.

Cathy Gohlke writes Christian historical fiction. Catalogue subjects place the novels in the American Civil War, on the Underground Railroad, in Maryland and among Irish emigration and immigration, with family life and sisters recurring. The listing holds 14 books published between 2006 and 2026, opening with William Henry is a Fine Name (2006) and running through Band of Sisters (2012), Saving Amelie (2014) and The Medallion (2019) to Every Given Day (2026). Gohlke holds the sole credit on all 14.

Cathy Kelly writes women's fiction. Twenty-seven books are catalogued from Woman To Woman (1997) to The Island Retreat (2026), most of them standalone novels, with short stories and novellas beside them. Ireland, families, sisters, female friendship and life change events recur as subjects. Kelly, born in 1966, worked as a journalist before this, and Someone Like You took the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2001. The median book runs 455 pages.

Family secrets and the lives of women drive Cathy Lamb's fiction. Her 20 catalogued books open with Julia's Chocolates (2007) and reach Ten Kids, Two Lemon Pies, and a Miracle (2026), taking in Henry's Sisters (2009), Such a Pretty Face (2010) and What I Remember Most (2014). Recurring subjects include sisters, brothers, marriage and family life. The Deauville Street Families series sits within the catalogue.

Cathy Marie Hake wrote Christian historical romance, and widows, widowers and Texas appear among the subjects. The catalogue records 31 books from Redeemed Hearts (1999) to Serendipity (2010), and the run is marked likely complete. Only in Gooding, California Brides and California Historical are the series, and Twin Victories (2000), Let Freedom Ring (2001) and Ramshackle Rose (2004) are among the titles.

Cathy Maxwell writes historical romance, with 46 books in the catalogue from All Things Beautiful (1994) to Curves for the Rakish Duke (2026). Why people fall in love is the question Maxwell spends hours pondering, according to the author bio, and Maxwell lives in Virginia. Early titles include Treasured Vows (1996), Because of You (1999) and Married in Haste (1999). Series include Cameron Sisters, Scandals and Seductions, Marrying the Duke, Chattan Curse, Brides of Wishmore, Spinster Heiresses and A Logical Man's Guide to Dangerous Women. Subjects include Regency romance, nobility, arranged marriage and Scotland.

Cathy Pickens has 10 books in the catalogue, published between 2004 and 2022. Southern Fried Mystery is the series name, and Avery Andrews, women lawyers, Charleston, South Carolina, and haunted places are among the recorded subjects. Southern Fried (2004) is the first title, followed by Done Gone Wrong (2005), Hog Wild (2007), Hush My Mouth (2008) and Can't Never Tell (2009). Later titles include Charlotte True Crime Stories (2019), Triangle True Crime Stories (2021) and True Crime Stories of Upstate South Carolina (2022).

Catie Murphy writes the Dublin Driver Mysteries, a crime series set in Ireland. Murphy's 7 catalogued books run from Dead in Dublin (2019) to Death in an Irish Bog (2026), passing through Death on the Green (2020), Death of an Irish Mummy (2021), Death in Irish Accents (2023), Death by Irish Whiskey (2024) and Death of an Irish Druid (2025). Every title after the first opens on the word Death, and the series continues.

Catriona McPherson is a Scottish writer best known for the Dandy Gilver novels, historical mysteries built around a woman private investigator. Two further series, the Last Ditch Mysteries and Helen Crowther, sit alongside. Forty books are catalogued between After the Armistice Ball (2005) and The Dead Room (2026). McPherson's awards include an Agatha, two Anthonys, six Leftys and two Macavitys. Scotland, family secrets and murder are the recurring subjects.

Catriona Ward

7 books• 1 series

Horror is the field of Catriona Ward, a British novelist born in the United States. Catriona Ward's honours include three British Fantasy Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award. Seven books are catalogued, from Rawblood / The Girl from Rawblood (2015) through Little Eve, The Last House on Needless Street (2021), Sundial and Looking Glass Sound to Nowhere Burning, dated 2026. Subjects on record include gothic, thriller and mystery.