Authors whose first name starts with C, page 5 of 8

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

101 books• 21 series

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, September 15, 1942 to August 31, 2025, was an American writer known for a sequence of historical horror novels about Count Saint-Germain, the one character the catalogue attaches to the run. The catalogue records 101 books, from 1976, when Ogilvie, Tallant and Moon and Time of the Fourth Horseman appeared, to Siren Song in 2025. Other groupings under the Yarbro name include Charlie Moon Mysteries, Atta Olivia Clemens, Madelaine de Montalia, Vildecaz Talents, Messages From Michael and Sisters Of The Night.

Cherie Priest

37 books• 7 series

Cherie Priest, born July 30, 1975, is an American novelist and blogger based in Seattle, Washington. Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2005) is the first catalogued book, and Boneshaker (2009), Clementine (2010) and Dreadnought (2010) follow later. Clockwork Century, Eden Moore, Cheshire Red Reports, Borden Dispatches, Leda Foley / Booking Agents and Princess X are the series. Vampires, zombies, monsters, historical fantasy and horror feature in the subjects, and Talking in Circles (2026) is the newest title.

Cherise Sinclair writes erotic contemporary romance built on dominance and submission between partners. Sinclair's 40 catalogued books open with Club Shadowlands (2009) and reach The Living Edge (2026). Masters of the Shadowlands, Mountain Masters & Dark Haven, Wild Hunt Legacy, Sons of the Survivalist and Chains are the named series, with standalone novels alongside them. Sinclair remains in active publication.

Cherry Adair, born 2 April 1951, is a South African-American writer of romantic fiction who lives near Seattle, Washington. The catalogue lists 38 books from The Mercenary (1994) to Whirlpool (2018). Kiss and Tell (2000), Hide and Seek (2001), In Too Deep (2002), Out of Sight (2003), On Thin Ice (2004) and Edge of Danger (2006) mark the middle of the run. T-FLAC anchors several series, including the Wright Family, Black Rose, Edge and Bodyguard trilogies and Fallen Agents of T-FLAC, alongside Cutter Cay and Lodestone. Romantic suspense, terrorism prevention, salvage and treasure appear in the subject tags.

Cheryl Bradshaw writes mystery and detective fiction, with private investigators and women sleuths among the recorded subjects and Sloane Monroe listed as a recurring character. The catalogue holds 67 books published between 2011 and 2026, opening with Black Diamond Death (2011) and reaching Little Missing Pieces (2026). Series include Sloane Monroe Stories, Georgiana Germaine, Addison Lockhart, Maisie Fezziwig, Till Death Do Us Part and Sloane & Maddie, Peril Awaits. Utah appears among the settings recorded for the books.

Cheryl Hollon writes cozy mysteries in two series. Webb's Glass Shop puts murder in a Florida stained-glass business, opening with Pane and Suffering (2015) and continuing through Shards of Murder, Etched in Tears and Shattered at Sea. The Paint and Shine mysteries follow, from Still Knife Painting (2020) to Death a Sketch (2022). The catalogue holds 9 titles and has been dormant since 2022.

DI Winter Meadows leads Cheryl Rees-Price's detective series, which accounts for most of a 13-book catalogue. Echoes (2014) is the earliest title, followed by The Silent Quarry (2015), Frozen Minds (2016) and Suffer the Children (2017), and Where Darkness Dwells (2026) is the newest. Murder investigation and detective fiction fill the subject tags.

Cheryl Strayed, born Cheryl Nyland on September 17, 1968, is an American writer and podcast host. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail tells the story of the 1995 hike Strayed made up the Pacific Crest Trail; the book became an international bestseller and was adapted as the 2014 film Wild, a picture nominated for Academy Awards. Torch is Strayed's novel, while Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough are works of nonfiction. The catalogue lists 7 books for Strayed, with subjects that include hiking, travel and the healing power of nature, and the newest entry is Two Women Walk into a Bar (2024).

Chester Himes

23 books• 2 series

Chester Himes (July 29, 1909 - November 12, 1984) was an American writer, several of whose works were filmed. If He Hollers Let Him Go appeared in 1945. Himes is best known for the Harlem Detective novels, set in the 1950s and early 1960s, whose leads are two black policemen, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. France awarded Himes the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1958. The catalogue lists 23 books, including Lonely Crusade (1947), For Love of Imabelle / A Rage in Harlem (1957), The Real Cool Killers (1958) and All Shot Up (1960).

Chevy Stevens writes psychological thrillers set in British Columbia, built on abduction, serial murder and women rebuilding an identity afterwards. Still Missing (2010) is the first of nine catalogued books, followed by Never Knowing, That Night, Those Girls, Never Let You Go, Dark Roads (2021) and The Hitchhikers (2025). Every Stevens title stands alone. Median length is 380 pages.

Cheyenne McCray, born in Miami, Arizona in 1965, writes paranormal romance, erotic romance, romantic suspense and urban fantasy. St. Martin's Press published a number of her novels, and she has self-published others as e-books and paperbacks; USA Today has covered her work and she has appeared in New York Times bestselling anthologies. Her series include the Seraphine Chronicles, Night Tracker, Dark Sorcery, King Creek Cowboys, Riding Tall and Lexi Steele. Eighty-nine titles run from Forbidden (2002) to Country Winds (2025).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

16 books• 2 series

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer of fiction, nonfiction and lectures, recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. Born into an Igbo family in Enugu, Adichie studied medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for a year and a half, then moved to the United States at 19 to attend Drexel University, later studying at Eastern Connecticut State, Johns Hopkins and Yale. Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Americanah (2013) and We Should All Be Feminists (2014) are listed works.

China Mieville

29 books• 4 series

China Miéville, born 6 September 1972, is a British writer of speculative fiction and a literary critic who calls the work weird fiction and is linked with the loose New Weird movement. Miéville's awards include the Hugo, Locus, BSFA, British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards, plus three Arthur C. Clarke Awards, a record for that prize. Locus placed Perdido Street Station sixth among the 20th century's best fantasy novels. Miéville served as writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 2012–13. The catalogue lists 29 books from King Rat (1998) to The Rouse (2026), with New Crobuzon, Dial H and BRZRKR: Bloodlines among the series.

Chinua Achebe

30 books• 1 series

Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 - 21 March 2013), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic and a central figure of modern African literature. Things Fall Apart (1958) is Achebe's first novel and the most widely studied, translated and read African novel; together with No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964) it completes the African Trilogy. A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) followed among the later novels. Readers commonly call Achebe the father of modern African literature, a description Achebe rejected. The catalogue holds 30 books, closing with There Was a Country (2012).

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

23 books• 3 series

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born Chitralekha Banerjee in 1956, is an American author and poet born in India. Divakaruni holds the Betty and Gene McDavid Professorship of Writing in the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. The short story collection Arranged Marriage (1995) received an American Book Award in 1996. Film adaptations exist of The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart and the short story The Word Love. The 23 catalogued books run from The Reason for Nasturtiums (1990) to Independence (2023). Divakaruni's works are mostly set in India and the United States and often concern the experiences of South Asian immigrants.

Chloe Gong

12 books• 4 series

Chloe Gong, born in 1998, is a New Zealand novelist working mainly in young adult fantasy and historical fiction. Gong's debut, These Violent Delights (2020), reached the New York Times bestseller list and opened a series set among gangs in China; Foul Lady Fortune, Flesh and False Gods and Coldwire followed. Forbes named Gong to its 30 Under 30 list in 2024. Twelve catalogued books run to Eyes of Kings (2026).

Chloe Liese has 17 books catalogued between 2019 and 2027. Liese's series are Bergman Brothers, Tough Love and Wilmot Sisters. He's a Brute, She's a Spitfire, They're a Match and They're Strictly Friends all date from 2019. Always Only You (2020), The Mistletoe Motive (2021) and Happy Ending (2026) come later, and Love Interest is set for 2027.

Urban fantasy and paranormal romance are Chloe Neill's genres. Neill, born May 17, 1975, is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Chicagoland Vampires and Devil's Isle series. The catalogue lists 34 books from Some Girls Bite (2009) to Ember Eternal (2025), also covering Heirs of Chicagoland, Captain Kit Brightling and Souls Burn Brightest. Vampires, magic, good and evil, and the city of Chicago recur among the recorded subjects.

Chloe Peñaranda has three catalogued books. A Flame of the Phoenix (2023) is the sixth entry in An Heir Comes to Rise. The Stars are Dying (2023) and The Night Is Defying (2025) are the first two books of Nytefall. Peñaranda is recorded as actively publishing.

Chloe Walsh writes New Adult and Adult contemporary romance for mature readers and is best known for The Boys of Tommen series, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller that gained a wide following on TikTok and has been translated into several languages. Walsh's stories give weight to the mental health of the characters. The catalogue holds 34 books from 2014 to 2025, starting with Break My Fall and Fall On Me (both 2014). Other series include Carter Kids, Pocket, Ocean Bay, Faking It, DiMarco Dynasty and Crellids.

Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist whose books include Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016) and The Flight Attendant (2018). Steve Yockey turned The Flight Attendant into a television drama starring Kaley Cuoco, and three Bohjalian novels have become films. Translations exist in more than thirty languages. The catalogue counts 31 books from A Killing in the Real World (1988) to The Amateur (2026), including Water Witches (1995), The Law of Similars (1998) and Trans-Sister Radio (2000). Sleepwalker / Ahlberg is a series, and subject headings name Vermont, midwives, air pilots, twins and missing persons.

Chris Carter is catalogued as the author of the Robert Hunter series, with police procedurals, serial murder investigation and Los Angeles among the recorded subjects. Catalogued titles include The Crucifix Killer (2009), The Executioner (2010), The Night Stalker (2011), The Death Sculptor (2012), One by One (2013), An Evil Mind (2014), I am Death (2015) and The Caller (2017). Hide and Seek (2026) is the newest title, and the catalogue is ongoing. Carter's standalone novels are listed alongside the series, and the books have a median length of 480 pages.

Chris Cleave

4 books

Chris Cleave is a British writer and journalist, born in 1973, with 4 catalogued books. Incendiary (2005) opens the run, followed by Little Bee, also published as The Other Hand (2008), Gold (2012) and Everyone Brave is Forgiven (2016). Terrorism and suicide bombing, Nigerian migration and identity, working-class life and the Second World War supply the subjects across those four novels, at a median of 270 pages.

Chris Colfer

20 books• 6 series

The Land of Stories is Chris Colfer's main series, with fairy tales, twins and the characters of literature among its subject tags. The Wishing Spell (2012) and Struck by Lightning (2012) are the earliest of 20 catalogued titles, which reach Roswell Johnson Saves the Galaxy! (2025). A Tale of Magic, the Land of Stories picture books and the graphic novels extend the work. Magic, fairies, secrets and books and reading recur.

Chris Collett writes the DI Mariner novels, a police series built on Detective Inspector Tom Mariner. Eleven books run from The Worm in the Bud (2004) to Costly Lies (2026), and most carry a second title ending in Lies: Deadly Lies, Innocent Lies, Killer Lies, Baby Lies, Married Lies, Buried Lies and Missing Lies. Murder investigation, missing persons, police questioning and child witnesses are the recurring subjects.

Chris Culver writes crime fiction, and the catalogue subjects include homicide investigation, police, murder, suspense and Indianapolis. Detective Ash Rashid leads one of Culver's series; the others follow Joe Court, Detective Homer Watson, Hana Blackwood and Gabe Ward. The 31 listed books run from Just Run (2011) to The Man in the Grass (2026).

One series is catalogued for Chris Durbin, the Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventures, alongside 19 books published between 2017 and 2026. The run opens with The Colonial Post-Captain (2017) and reaches Straits of Anián (2026). Titles name stations, squadrons, fortresses and shores: The Jamaica Station, The Leeward Islands Squadron, The Cursed Fortress, Niagara Squadron, Perilous Shore. The catalogue is ongoing.

Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction, best known for The Last Dragon Chronicles. Dragons run through much of the work, the Erth Dragons, the Dragons Of Wayward Crescent, alongside the Unicorne Files. Thirty-nine books are catalogued between A Hole At The Pole (1994) and The New Age (2018). Five titles appeared in 1998 alone: A Break in the Chain, Fly, Cherokee, Fly, Henry Spaloosh!, The Snail Patrol and The Table Football League. Magic, the supernatural, secret societies and adventure recur as subjects.

Chris Ewan, also credited as C.M. Ewan, is a British crime and mystery writer. The Good Thief's Guide series follows Charlie Howard, a thief who writes crime novels of his own, through Amsterdam (2007), Paris (2008), Vegas (2010), Venice (2011) and Berlin (2012). Fifteen books are catalogued to 2025, including Safe House (2012), Dark Tides (2014) and Long Time Lost (2017), with the Isle of Man among the recorded subjects.

Chris Fabry writes Christian fiction and non-fiction. Humour comes first in the catalogue, with Spiritually Correct Bedtime Stories (1995) and The 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians (1997), before the novels take over in Dogwood (2008), June Bug (2009) and Almost Heaven (2010). NASCAR and stock car racing supply the RPM series, and the catalogue holds Blind Spot (2007), Over the Wall (2007), Checkered Flag (2008) and Overdrive (2008). A John Maxwell non-fiction line sits alongside. Twenty-seven Fabry titles reach The Forge (2024).

Chris Fox writes science fiction and fantasy, and a second line of books on the craft and business of writing. Authorship, creative writing and marketing are the catalogued subjects of the Write Faster, Write Smarter series, which holds 5,000 Words Per Hour (2015), Lifelong Writing Habit (2015) and Launch to Market (2016). The fiction runs across the Deathless, Magitech Chronicles, Magitech Legacy, Shattered Gods, Void Wrath, Void Wraith Origins, Ganog Wars, Battleforged Chronicles, Project Solaris and Mitch Dinkle series, opening with No Such Thing as Werewolves (2014). The catalogue holds 63 books dated to 2026.

Chris Grabenstein

54 books• 14 series

Chris Grabenstein is an American author who writes for adults and for children, the children's books often with collaborator James Patterson. Grabenstein's first novel, Tilt-a-Whirl, appeared in 2005; the John Ceepak mysteries are the police-procedural strand, set in New Jersey. On the children's side sit Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Welcome to Wonderland, the Haunted Mystery books, Dog Squad and The Smartest Kid In The Universe. Fifty-seven books are catalogued through 2026, the newest being Mr. Lemoncello's Wondermous Christmas Gift.

Chris Hadfield

6 books• 2 series

Chris Hadfield is a retired Canadian astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions and commanded the International Space Station. His six catalogued books start with An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (2013) and You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes (2014), filed under space flight, photographs from space and Canadian biography. The Apollo Murders series carries Hadfield's fiction, running from The Apollo Murders (2021) through The Defector (2023) to Final Orbit (2025).

Eleven catalogued books by Chris Hammer run from The River (2010) to Full Circle (2026). Hammer writes Australian crime fiction across two series: Martin Scarsden, named for its recurring character, and Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan. Rivers, environmental conditions and journalism recur as subjects. Hammer, an Australian journalist born in 1960, remains actively publishing.

Chris Hauty, born in 1956, is an American screenwriter who also writes political thrillers. Deep State, published by Simon & Schuster in January 2020, opened the Hayley Chill series and a catalogue that now runs to six books. Washington, D.C., espionage and insurrection supply the material across Savage Road (2021), Insurrection Day (2022), Storm Rising (2022) and The Devil You Know (2023). Dead Ringer (2025) is the most recent Hauty novel.

Chris Jericho is a professional wrestler who writes memoir. Four Jericho titles are catalogued: A Lion's Tale (2007), Undisputed (2011), The Best in the World (2014) and No Is a Four-Letter Word (2017). Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment and life in entertainment are the recorded subjects, and the books sit under personal memoir and biography.

Chris Keniston has 86 books catalogued since Aloha Texas (2013), with Ryan published in 2026 and Flicker of Hope listed for 2027. Series include Aloha, Farraday Country, Hart Land, Firefighters of Hart Land, Honeysuckle, Texas, Billionaire Barons of Texas, Honeymoon and Main Street Romance. Honeymoon for One and Hope's Corner came out in 2013, and Mai Tai Marriage and Dive Into You in 2014.

Chris Knopf has 18 books in the catalogue, from The Last Refuge (2005) to Blood Bank (2023). Sam Acquillo is the recurring figure of the Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series, and Knopf also writes the Jackie Swaitkowski and Arthur Cathcart series. Titles include Two Time (2005), Head Wounds (2008), Hard Stop (2009), Short Squeeze (2010), Black Swan (2011) and Dead Anyway (2012). Subjects include murder investigation, missing persons, carpenters, construction workers, women lawyers, middle-aged men and barrier islands.

Chris Kuzneski

13 books• 3 series

Chris Kuzneski writes treasure-hunt thrillers. Thirteen books are catalogued between The Plantation (2000) and The Malta Escape (2018), across two series, Payne & Jones and Hunters: Origins. Antiquities, tombs, treasure troves and archaeologists supply the subject headings. Kuzneski, an American novelist born in 1969, took the International Thriller Writers award for 2016 Book of the Year with The Prisoner's Gold, and the work has also been honoured by the Florida Book Awards. Nothing new has appeared since 2018.

Chris Mooney writes American thrillers. Fourteen books are catalogued between 2000 and 2020, opening with Deviant Ways (2000) and closing with Blood World (2020). Darby McCormick and Malcolm Fletcher are the two series names, and Remembering Sarah (2004), The Missing (2007), The Secret Friend (2008), The Dead Room (2009), The Soul Collectors (2010), The Killing House (2012) and Fear the Dark (2015) fill out the run. Serial murders, missing children, psychopaths and revenge recur as subjects. Mooney was born in 1969.

Chris Nickson began in celebrity biography, with books on Brad Pitt (1995), Mariah Carey (1995), Soundgarden (1995), Denzel Washington (1996) and Keanu Reeves (1996), then turned to historical crime fiction. The DI Tom Harper, Richard Nottingham, Simon Westow, John the Carpenter and WPC Lottie Armstrong series carry that later work. Sixty-three books are catalogued between 1995 and 2026, with murder investigation, English history and police procedure recurring as subjects.

Chris Offutt is an American writer of short stories, novels and memoir, born in 1958. Eleven books are catalogued, opening with the story collection Kentucky Straight (1992) and reaching The Reluctant Sheriff (2025). Kentucky, Montana and the lives of American authors recur as subjects. The Mick Hardin novels are his one series here, and recent titles include The Killing Hills (2021), Shifty's Boys (2022) and Code of the Hills (2023). Offutt has also written episodes for the television series True Blood and Weeds.

Chris Ould writes police mysteries. Seven catalogued books span thirty years, from Road Lines in 1987 and A Kind of Sleep in 1988 to the Faroes trilogy of The Blood Strand (2016), The Killing Bay (2017) and The Fire Pit (2018). Knock Down in 2012 and The Killing Street in 2013 belong to Street Duty. Murder, gangs, family secrets, whaling and animal rights activists appear among the subjects. Nothing new has appeared since 2018.

Chris Pavone

8 books• 2 series

Chris Pavone writes espionage thrillers about Americans in Europe. Kate Moore leads the Expats sequence, which opens with The Expats (2012) and continues in The Paris Diversion (2019). Eight catalogued books run from The Wine Log (1999) to The Doorman (2025), with The Accident (2014), The Travelers (2016) and Two Nights in Lisbon (2022) between them. Family secrets and publishing recur as subjects.

Chris Ryan

76 books• 16 series

Chris Ryan is the pen name of Colin Armstrong, a British author, television presenter and security consultant born in 1961 who served as a sergeant in the Special Air Service. After fellow patrol member Andy McNab published Bravo Two Zero in 1993, Ryan told the story of that mission in The One That Got Away (1995). Strike Back became a Sky 1 television series, and Ryan co-created the ITV action series Ultimate Force. The catalogue lists 76 Ryan books up to Traitor (2024), including Stand By, Stand by (1996) and The Kremlin Device (1998). Series include Danny Black, Agent 21, Geordie Sharp, Matt Browning and Special Forces Cadets.

Chris Stewart is an American author, businessman and politician, born in 1960, who represented Utah's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until resigning in 2023. Stewart graduated from Utah State University in 1984, joined the United States Air Force, and later led the Shipley Group as president and CEO. The Great and Terrible series and the bestsellers Seven Miracles That Saved America and The Miracle of Freedom are the best known of 29 catalogued books, which open with Shattered Bone (1997) and close with I Can't Eat No Pippin Apples (2018). Terrorism, military aviation, spiritual warfare and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supply the subject matter.

Chris Van Allsburg

20 books• 5 series

Chris Van Allsburg, born June 18, 1949, is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both written and illustrated by Van Allsburg, won Caldecott Medals and were later filmed, and The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979) was a Caldecott runner-up in 1980. Van Allsburg was the 1986 U.S. nominee for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award. The catalogue lists 20 books through The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie (2014), including The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984) and Two Bad Ants (1988).

Chris Van Dusen is an American author and illustrator of picture books, born in 1960, and writes in rhyme. Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee (2000) opens a catalogue of 12 titles that reaches If I Built a Town (2025). Mr. Magee carries one series, the If I Built... books another: a car (2005), a house (2012), a school (2019), a town (2025). The Circus Ship (2009), King Hugo's Huge Ego (2011) and Hattie & Hudson (2017) sit outside the series. Van Dusen has also illustrated the Mercy Watson books by Kate DiCamillo.

Chris Whitaker

5 books• 2 series

Chris Whitaker is a British novelist with 5 catalogued books: Tall Oaks (2016), All The Wicked Girls (2017), We Begin at the End (2020), The Forevers (2021) and All the Colors of the Dark (2024). Tall Oaks, the debut, took the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 2017. We Begin at the End reached the New York Times bestseller list, won the CWA Gold Dagger, the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and the 2021 Ned Kelly Award, and has been translated into 28 languages. Catalogue subjects include suspense, thrillers, missing children and Alabama.

Chris Wooding is a British writer, born in Leicester on 28 February 1977 and now based in London. Wooding wrote a first book, Crashing, at nineteen, and Crashing was published in 1998. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray was silver runner-up for the Nestle Smarties Book Prize, and Poison won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. The catalogue records 37 books from 1998 to 2023, with subjects spanning fantasy, science fiction, young adult and children's fiction. Wooding's series include Broken Sky, Tale of the Ketty Jay, Braided Path, Darkwater Legacy and Jack From the Earth. The catalogue marks Wooding as dormant.

Christelle Dabos

6 books• 1 series

Christelle Dabos is a French author. The Mirror Visitor Quartet is her main work: A Winter's Promise (2013), The Missing of Clairdelune (2015), The Memory of Babel (2017) and The Storm of Echoes (2019). A Winter's Promise took first place at the 2013 Gallimard-RTL-Telerama First Novel competition, and the quartet has sold over a million copies at Gallimard Jeunesse and appeared in twenty languages. Dark and contemporary fantasy, dystopia and coming of age are its subjects, written for young adults. Here, and Only Here (2023) and We (2026) follow the quartet.

Christi Caldwell writes Regency historical romance, 102 books deep. Heart of a Duke, Scandalous Seasons, Wicked Wallflowers, Lords of Honor, Sinful Brides, the McQuoid Family Saga and the Lost Lords of London are among the series. Nobility, aristocracy and English social custom are the recurring subjects. Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride (2013) is the earliest title and The Forsaken the newest.

Harper McClain, a journalist in Savannah, Georgia, carries Christi Daugherty's three catalogued novels. The Echo Killing (2018) opens the series, A Beautiful Corpse followed in 2019 and Revolver Road in 2020. Murder, investigation and crime reporting are the recurring subjects. No new Harper McClain title has appeared since 2020, and the series is likely complete.

Christian Cameron

43 books• 9 series

Christian Cameron, born Christian Gordon Cameron on August 16, 1962, is a Canadian novelist trained as a historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. Cameron also writes as Miles Cameron, and as Gordon Kent for novels written with Kenneth Cameron, Cameron's father. The historical series Tyrant is Cameron's best-known work and had sold over 100,000 copies by 2009. The catalogue lists 44 books, from Washington and Caesar (2001) through Tyrant (2008), Killer of Men (2010) and Marathon (2011) to The Captain of Venice (2026), with The French Ambassador due in 2027. Other series include Long War, Tom Swan, Chivalry, Age of Bronze and Commander, and ancient Greece and the Battle of Salamis are recorded subjects.

Christian Jacq

37 books• 7 series

Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist, born in 1947, and ancient Egypt is the subject of the fiction. A five-book sequence on the pharaoh Ramses is the best known work, joined by the Stone of Light, the Mysteries of Osiris, the Judge of Egypt, the Queen of Freedom and the Vengeance of the Gods. The catalogue holds 37 titles from Magic and Mystery in Ancient Egypt (1983) to The Beloved of Isis (2011), non-fiction on hieroglyphics and a Mozart series among them.

Christian White is an Australian novelist, screenwriter and film producer. Nine books are catalogued, from The Nowhere Child (2018) to The Long Night and Unfollowed (both 2025). The novels are domestic and small-town suspense, with missing persons, kidnapping, photographers, Kentucky and Australia among their subjects. The Wife and the Widow (2019) and Wild Place (2021) sit in the middle of the run.

Christianna Brand

32 books• 5 series

Christianna Brand was the professional name of Mary Christianna Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne on 17 December 1907 in British Malaya, now Malaysia, a British writer of crime fiction and children's books who died on 11 March 1988. Inspector Cockrill is a series, with subject headings naming police procedurals and traditional English detective stories. The catalogue lists 32 books, beginning with Death in High Heels and Heads You Lose (both 1941), Green for Danger (1944), Death of Jezebel (1949) and Tour de Force (1955). Nurse Matilda, Inspector Charlesworth and Inspector Chucky are further series, and humorous children's stories appear among the subjects.

A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother (2014) opens Christie Barlow's catalogue of 27 books, which reaches The Clockmaker's Cottage in 2026. Barlow is a British author of women's fiction, and the work runs to romance and comedy set in English villages and countryside. Three series are catalogued: Love Heart Lane, Puffin Island and the School Gates Comedy. Kitty's Countryside Dream (2016), A Home at Honeysuckle Farm (2018), Foxglove Farm (2019) and Clover Cottage (2020) sit along the way.

Christie Craig writes romantic suspense, with private investigators, police and divorced women among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 34 books from 2007 to 2022. Divorced, Desperate and Delicious (2007) is the first title, and series include Divorced and Desperate, Tall, Hot & Texan, Hotter In Texas and Shadow Falls: After Dark. The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel (2008) is a non-fiction entry, and The Trouble with Exes (2022) is the latest book.

Christin Brecher writes mysteries in two settings. The Nantucket Candle Maker books came first, with Murder's No Votive Confidence (2019), 15 Minutes of Flame and Murder Makes Scents (2020). A Snapshot of NYC followed, with Photo Finished (2022) and Mugshots of Manhattan (2023). Five books are catalogued in all, and nothing has been added since 2023.