Authors whose first name starts with D, page 12 of 12

719 authors, each with their books in publication order. Authors are filed by the first letter of their name as written, in alphabetical order.

Authors 661–719 of 719

Page 12 of 12

DD

Dorothy Dunnett

28 books 6 series

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was a Scottish novelist whose work is mostly historical fiction. The six-book Lymond Chronicles, opening with The Game of Kings (1961), follow the sixteenth-century adventurer Francis Crawford of Lymond; the eight-book House of Niccolò is a prequel sequence whose central figure is Nicholas Vander Poele. Dunnett also wrote King Hereafter (1982), a novel about Macbeth of Scotland, and the Johnson Johnson mysteries, whose detective works as a portrait painter and spy. Twenty-eight books are catalogued, at a median length of 470 pages.

Dorothy Dunnett books in order
DE

Dorothy Eden

40 books

Dorothy Eden was a New Zealand novelist and short story writer working mainly in the gothic mode. Her 40 catalogued books run from The Laughing Ghost (1943) to Important Family (1982), the year of her death, and many carry alternate titles: Cats Prey, also Let Us Prey (1952), and Lamb To The Slaughter, also The Brooding Lake (1953). Subjects cover gothic novels, romantic thrillers, romantic suspense and New Zealand love stories.

Dorothy Eden books in order
DG

Dorothy Garlock

63 books 9 series

Dorothy Garlock (1919-2018) wrote historical romance, much of it set on the American frontier. The catalogue runs to 63 books published between 1980 and 2017, from Love and Cherish (1980) to The Nearness of You (2017), with the 1980s her heaviest decade. Series include Wyoming Frontier, Dolan Brothers, Wabash River, Route 66, Colorado Wind and the Tucker Family books. Garlock also published as Johanna Phillips, Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Glenn.

Dorothy Garlock books in order
DG

Dorothy Gilman

36 books 2 series

Dorothy Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer known above all for the Mrs. Pollifax spy novels, whose heroine Emily Pollifax is a grandmother who takes up spying in her 60s. The Mystery Writers of America gave Gilman its Grand Master Award in 2010. The catalogue holds 36 titles published between 1949 and 2002. Early books such as Enchanted Caravan (1949), Carnival Gypsy (1950) and The Calico Year (1953) appeared under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters. Madame Karitska is Gilman's second series, and the last listed title is Kaleidoscope (2002).

Dorothy Gilman books in order
DH

Dorothy Howell

41 books 6 series

Dorothy Howell began in historical romance: Defiant Enchantress (1988) opens the catalogue, and a run of period and western romances followed under the name Judith Stacy. The later books are mysteries, with the Haley Randolph novels setting murder cases around Los Angeles department stores, and the Sewing Studio Mysteries, Dana MacKenzie and Hollis Brannigan books after them. 41 titles run from 1988 to Shear Terror (2024), and Howell continues to publish.

Dorothy Howell books in order
Photo of Dorothy Koomson, author

Dorothy Koomson

25 books 2 series

Dorothy Koomson is a British novelist, born in London in 1971 and of Ghanaian descent, described as Britain's biggest-selling black author of adult fiction. Twenty-five books are catalogued from The Cupid Effect (2003) to The Quiet Girls (2026), among them The Chocolate Run (2004), My Best Friend's Girl (2006), Goodnight, Beautiful (2008), The Ice Cream Girls (2010) and The Flavours of Love (2013). Poppy & Serena and That Girl From Nowhere are the series. Secrecy, female friendship, marriage and suspense recur as subjects, and the median book runs 458 pages.

Dorothy Koomson books in order
Photo of Dorothy L. Sayers, author

Dorothy L. Sayers

68 books 8 series

Lord Peter Wimsey, a private investigator, is the figure Dorothy L. Sayers is known for. Whose Body? (1923) opens the series, followed by Clouds of Witness (1926), Unnatural Death (1927), Strong Poison (1930) and Five Red Herrings (1931). Sayers wrote English detective fiction, short stories and non-fiction; the catalogue holds 68 titles, with collections dated as late as 2024.

Dorothy L. Sayers books in order

Dorothy Parker, born Rothschild in 1893, was a New York poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1967. Parker was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table and published in magazines including The New Yorker. Screenwriting in Hollywood brought 2 Academy Award nominations before left-wing politics put Parker on the blacklist. The catalogue lists 23 books, including Enough Rope (1926) and Laments for the Living (1930), with collections still appearing as late as 2024.

Dorothy Parker books in order
DS

Dorothy Sheldon

60 books 15 series

Dorothy Sheldon's 60 catalogued books were published between 2021 and 2026. The first is Christmas Encounter With A Duke (2021), and The Unnoticed Lady the Duke Chose (2026) is the most recent. Series credited to Sheldon include Regency Expedient Marriages, Love Beyond Expectations, Willenshires, Marriage and Duty, Tillewood Sisters and Lords in Waiting. Louisa, The Scarred Governess and An Amiable Lady for His Lordship are two more titles from 2021.

Dorothy Sheldon books in order
DS

Dorothy Simpson

17 books 1 series

Inspector Luke Thanet, an English police detective, appears throughout Dorothy Simpson's mysteries. Simpson (1933-2020) wrote police procedurals, and took a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain for Last Seen Alive (1985). The series opens with The Night She Died (1980) and runs through Puppet For A Corpse (1982), Close Her Eyes (1984), Dead on Arrival (1986), Suspicious Death (1988) and Doomed To Die (1991). The 1980s were Simpson's heaviest decade, at a median of 238 pages a book.

Mystery
Dorothy Simpson books in order
DS

Dorothy St. James

12 books 5 series

Mystery is Dorothy St. James's form, across five series: the White House Gardener Mysteries, the Southern Chocolate Shop Mysteries, the Beloved Bookroom Mysteries, Aloha Pete and Raven's Run. Twelve books are catalogued between 2011 and 2022, from Birds in Paradise, published under the name Dorothy McFalls, to A Book Club to Die for (2022). Women gardeners, Washington D.C., journalists and murder investigation recur as subjects. Nothing has been catalogued since 2022.

Dorothy St. James books in order
DH

Dot Hutchison

6 books 1 series

Dot Hutchison writes thrillers built on kidnapping, murder and missing persons. The Butterfly Garden (2016), The Roses of May (2017), The Summer Children (2018) and The Vanishing Season (2019) put government investigators onto those cases. Boarding schools, ghost stories and revenge run through the wider catalogue, which opens with A Wounded Name (2013). Six books end at Deadly Waters (2020).

Action / Thriller
Dot Hutchison books in order
DD

Doug Dandridge

50 books 11 series

Doug Dandridge has 50 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2020, opening with The Deep Dark Well (2011). Series credited to Dandridge include Exodus: Empires at War, Exodus: Machine War, Exodus: Tales of The Empire, Deep Dark Well, Prometheus Saga, Chronicles of the Eirish, Kinship War and Quantum Universe. The Hunger (2011), Afterlife (2012) and Doppelganger (2012) are among the other titles, and The Rebirth (2020) is the newest.

Doug Dandridge books in order
Photo of Doug Johnstone, author

Doug Johnstone

19 books 2 series

Doug Johnstone, born in 1970, is a Scottish crime writer based in Edinburgh. Tombstoning (2006) and The Ossians (2008) opened the catalogue, and The Jump (2015) was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime writing. Fault Lines, Johnstone's ninth novel, appeared in 2018. The Skelfs series and the Enceladons Trilogy organise the later work, which reaches The Transcendent Tide in 2025. Nineteen titles are catalogued at around 272 pages each. Johnstone has held Royal Literary Fund fellowships, including one at Queen Margaret University from 2014 to 2016.

Doug Johnstone books in order
DR

Doug Richardson

8 books 1 series

Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist working in action and thriller territory. Richardson wrote the films Die Hard 2, Bad Boys and Hostage, and was the first Hollywood screenwriter to sell a spec script for a million dollars. The 8 catalogued books run from Dark Horse (1997) to Hip Slick and Dead (2019), with the Lucky Dey series among them. Subjects record thrillers, suspense and mystery and detective fiction. True Believers, The Safety Expert, Blood Money, 99 Percent Kill, The Smoking Gun and The Night is Never Black complete the list.

Doug Richardson books in order
DA

Douglas Adams

32 books 8 series

Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist and screenwriter, born in Cambridge and died in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack at 49. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a BBC radio comedy in 1978 and grew into a five-book trilogy that sold more than 14 million copies during Adams's lifetime, with a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) appear in the catalogue, as do The Meaning of Liff (1983) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987).

Science Fiction
Douglas Adams books in order
DB

Douglas Bond

29 books 9 series

Douglas E. Bond, born in 1958, is an American author of more than 30 books, primarily historical fiction. Bond holds a master's degree in Teaching from St. Martin's University and a Preliminary Certificate in Theology from Moore Theological College. The Reformation, the Covenanters, the Presbyterian Church, hymns and hymn writers run through the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 29 books, from Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation (1999) to The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts (2024), with Mr. Pipes, Crown and Covenant, Faith and Freedom, John Knox and Wycliffe's England among the series.

Douglas Bond books in order
DC

Douglas Clegg

40 books 5 series

Douglas Clegg writes horror and dark fantasy, and was an early mover in electronic publishing. Haunted houses, vampires and the contest of good and evil run through the subject headings, and the work divides into Harrow House, Vampyricon, the Chronicles of Mordred, Criminally Insane and Dark Coming of Age. The catalogue holds 40 titles from The Halloween Man (1988) to The Poisoner's Garden and Others: Selected Poems (2019), at a median of 359 pages, with the 2000s the densest decade. Goat Dance (1989), Neverland (1991) and Naomi (1998) sit on the list.

Douglas Clegg books in order
DC

Douglas Corleone

16 books 4 series

Douglas Corleone writes contemporary crime fiction, taking in both psychological and international thrillers. A former criminal defense attorney in New York City, Corleone now lives in Hawaii. The debut novel One Man's Paradise (2010) won the First Crime Novel Award given by Minotaur Books and the Mystery Writers of America. Sixteen books are catalogued through 2026, across the Kevin Corvelli, Simon Fisk and Black Atlas series, and Live Through This (2026) is a standalone psychological thriller published by Thomas & Mercer. Recorded subjects include lawyers, kidnapping, murder, missing children and Hawaii.

Douglas Corleone books in order
DE

Douglas E. Richards

38 books 10 series

Douglas E. Richards, born May 7, 1962, is an American writer of science fiction and of fiction and non-fiction for children. The catalogue lists 38 Richards books from Trapped and Wired (both 2005) to Nexus (2026). Genetic engineering, bioterrorism, extraterrestrials and women medical scientists appear among the subjects. The Richards series include Nick Hall, Prometheus Project, Alien Artifact, Split Second, Frequency, Rift, Epic of Atlantis and Galactic Resurgence.

Science Fiction
Douglas E. Richards books in order
DJ

Douglas Jackson

20 books 5 series

Imperial Rome is Douglas Jackson's territory. The Gaius Valerius Verrens novels run through the catalogue, with Rufus, Marcus Flavius Victor, the Warsaw Quartet and the Glen Savage Mystery alongside. Twenty catalogued books open with Caligula (2008) and Claudius (2009), continue through Hero of Rome (2010), Defender of Rome (2011), Avenger of Rome (2012), Sword of Rome (2013) and Enemy of Rome (2014), and reach Blood Enemy (2026). Gladiators, soldiers and Roman history fill the subject list.

Douglas Jackson books in order

Douglas Kennedy, born in 1955, is an American novelist. The Pursuit of Happiness, The Big Picture, The Moment and Leaving the World are the international bestsellers among the fiction. Travel writing opens the catalogue, Beyond The Pyramids (1988), In God's Country (1989) and Chasing Mammon (1992), before the novels take over with The Dead Heart (1995). Twenty-one titles are catalogued through Afraid of the Light (2021), with marriage, journalists and missing persons among the recurring subjects.

Douglas Kennedy books in order
DL

Douglas Lindsay

64 books 9 series

Barney Thomson, a barber, is the figure Douglas Lindsay started with, in The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson (1999), and that series sets serial murder against comedy. Lindsay went on to build a run of Scottish police series: Detective Thomas Hutton, DI Buchan, DCI Jericho, DI Ben Westphall, DI Pereira & DS Bain and Sam Vikstrom. The catalogue holds 64 books through to The Vikstrom Papers: Cold Harbor (2026), at a median of 339 pages.

Douglas Lindsay books in order

Douglas Murray, born 1979, is a British conservative political commentator, cultural critic and journalist, and an associate editor of The Spectator. Ten Murray titles are catalogued, from Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas (2000) to On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization (2025). The Strange Death of Europe (2017) takes up immigration, identity and Islam; The Madness of Crowds (2019) turns to gender, race and identity; The War on the West follows in 2022. Murray contributes regularly to The Times, The Daily Telegraph and other papers.

Douglas Murray books in order
Photo of Douglas Niles, author

Douglas Niles

60 books 28 series

Douglas Niles, born December 1, 1954 in Brookfield, Wisconsin, is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles helped create the Dragonlance world, wrote the first three Forgotten Realms novels, and designed the Star Frontiers space opera setting and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game. The catalogue holds 60 books from Against the Cult of the Reptile God (1982) to A Noble Cause (2015), taking in the Forgotten Realms Moonshae, Maztica and Druidhome trilogies and the Dragonlance Icewall, Dwarf Home and Rise of Solamnia sequences. The Fox on the Rhine series and the subject heading World War, 1939-1945 mark a strand outside fantasy. The listing is marked likely complete.

Douglas Niles books in order
DP

Douglas Phillips

11 books 3 series

Douglas Phillips has 11 books catalogued under science fiction, from Quantum Incident and Quantum Space (both 2017) to Second Ascent (2026). Phillips's series are Quantum, Ascending Carbon and Lost at L3. Quantum Void (2018), Quantum Time (2019), Phenomena (2020) and Quantum Chaos (2023) are among the titles.

Douglas Phillips books in order
DP

Douglas Pratt

35 books 5 series

Douglas Pratt is a thriller and mystery novelist with 37 catalogued books. The run starts with Blood Remembered (2011) and reaches No Good Deed (2026), with Fool's Gold scheduled for 2027. Five series divide the work: Chase Gordon Tropical Thrillers, Max Sawyer, Corsair Novels, Rikki Talens Adventure and Jay Delp Mystery. Titles such as Diamond Reef (2020) and Dark Cay (2021) mark the tropical strand of the catalogue.

Douglas Pratt books in order
Photo of Douglas Preston, author

Douglas Preston

54 books 9 series

Douglas Preston writes thrillers with horror and science fiction edges, built on serial murder, antiquities and government investigation. Aloysius Pendergast is the character the catalogue is best known for, with Nora Kelly, Gideon Crew, Wyman Ford and the Cash & Colcord books beside him. Fifty-seven catalogued titles run from Dinosaurs in the Attic (1986) through Relic (1995) and Riptide (1998) to Pendergast, and Resurrection is scheduled for 2027.

Douglas Preston books in order

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child write thrillers together, and 16 of their joint books are catalogued here. Relic (1995) starts the collaboration and Angel of Vengeance (2024) is the most recent entry. Aloysius Pendergast, a government investigator, carries most of them through serial murder cases in New York. The pair keep publishing.

Action / Thriller
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child books in order
DR

Douglas R. Casey

12 books 1 series

Douglas R. Casey's catalogue pairs books on investing and personal finance with a series called High Ground. The catalogue lists 12 books from The International Man (1978) to Assassin (2020). Crisis Investing (1979), The Expatriate Investor (1979) and Strategic Investing (1982) are among the early titles. Totally Incorrect, Right on the Money and Speculator date from 2012 to 2016. Subject tags include inflation, hedging, international business, libertarianism and abuse of administrative power.

Douglas R. Casey books in order
DR

Douglas Reeman / Alexander Kent

69 books 2 series

Douglas Reeman wrote naval fiction under his own name and as Alexander Kent. Richard Bolitho heads one series and the Blackwood Family books form a second. The catalogue lists 69 titles published between 1958 and 2011, from A Prayer for the Ship (1958) to In the King's Name (2011). Sea stories, the Royal Navy, the Second World War and the Napoleonic wars run through the subjects. The books are long, at a median 320 pages, and output peaked in the 1970s.

Douglas Reeman / Alexander Kent books in order
DS

Douglas Skelton

31 books 4 series

Douglas Skelton wrote Scottish true crime before he wrote crime fiction. Blood on the Thistle (1992), Frightener (1992), Deadlier Than the Male (2003) and Scotland's Most Wanted (2006) set out real cases; the Davie McCall, Dominic Queste and Rebecca Connolly novels came later. Crime, murder and criminal investigation run through all of it. Thirty-one catalogued titles reach Ship of Thieves (2025).

Douglas Skelton books in order

Shuggie Bain (2020) took the 2020 Booker Prize and opened a catalogue that now runs to three novels: Young Mungo followed in 2022 and John of John in 2026. Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer who worked in fashion design in New York before publishing fiction. His books are catalogued under Scotland, coming of age, family life, the bildungsroman and LGBTQ fiction, and run to a median of 432 pages.

Douglas Stuart books in order
DB

Dr. Block

47 books

Dr. Block writes children's fiction pitched at grades 3 to 5, with games, computers and computer software logged among its subjects. Diary of a Surfer Villager 1 (2015) opens a catalogue of 47 books that runs to Pyrrhic Victory, Part 2 in 2025. The 2020s account for most of the output, and the median volume runs 160 pages.

Dr. Block books in order
DR

Dr. Rebecca Sharp

59 books 14 series

Dr. Rebecca Sharp has 60 books in the catalogue, from The Artist's Touch (2017) to Tracked (2026), with Tamed scheduled for 2027. Series include Country Love, Covington Security, Carmel Cove, Winter Games, Kinkades, Reynolds Protective, Gentlemen's Guild, Odyssey Duet and Sacred Duet. Early titles include Enjoy the Ride (2018), The Painter's Passion (2018), In Too Deep (2019) and The Fall of Troy (2019).

Dr. Rebecca Sharp books in order
Photo of Dr. Seuss, author

Dr. Seuss

95 books 4 series

Dr. Seuss is the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), an American children's author, illustrator, animator and cartoonist who adopted it as a Dartmouth College undergraduate. Geisel wrote and illustrated more than 60 books as Dr. Seuss, and sales passed 600 million copies by 1991. The catalogue lists 95 Dr. Seuss titles, beginning with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) and including Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) and Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949); releases continue after Geisel's death, through 2026. Stories in rhyme, nonsense verse and picture books dominate the subjects, and Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant are among the series.

Dr. Seuss books in order
DS

Dreda Say Mitchell

26 books 5 series

Dreda Say Mitchell is the professional name of Louise Emma Joseph, a British novelist, broadcaster, journalist and campaigner born in 1965. Mitchell received an MBE in 2020 for services to literature and for educational work in prisons, and Tony Mason co-wrote many of her books. Her 26 catalogued London crime thrillers run from Running Hot (2004) to Watching You Fall (2026), across series such as Flesh and Blood, Gangland Girls and Rio Wray & Mac.

Dreda Say Mitchell books in order
DA

Drethi Anis

12 books 6 series

Drethi Anis has 12 catalogued books published between 2020 and 2026, each credited to Anis alone. Three series are recorded: Tales of Obsession, Quarantine, and Forbidden Ice - Hockey Gods of Olympus. Isolation (2020) and Quarantined (2020) open the run, followed by Essential (2021), Discord (2022), Organized Chaos (2022), Lust (2022), 5000 Nights of Obsession (2023) and Fatal Obsession (2024). Angels Are Falling is listed for 2026, and Anis remains actively publishing.

Drethi Anis books in order
DD

Drew Daywalt

37 books 4 series

Drew Daywalt, born January 5, 1970, is an American author and filmmaker. The Day the Crayons Quit (2013) and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home (2015), picture books illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, are Daywalt's best-known work. Daywalt has also written scripts for American television and Hollywood studios and made short horror films for the internet. The catalogue lists 38 books from 2013 to 2026, with Happy Birthday from the Crayons due in 2027; series are Crayons, Monkey & Cake and No Sam!.

Drew Daywalt books in order
DH

Drew Hayden Taylor

31 books 1 series

Drew Hayden Taylor, born 1 July 1962, is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Drama makes up much of the catalogue, from Toronto at Dreamers Rock (1990) through Bootlegger Blues, Someday, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth and alterNatives. Humour runs alongside it, in the Funny You Don't Look Like One essay series on being of mixed Ojibwe and white descent. 31 titles span 1990 to On Thin Ice in 2026.

Drew Hayden Taylor books in order
DH

Drew Hayes

48 books 11 series

Drew Hayes is the author of the Super Powereds and Fred, the Vampire Accountant series. Super Powereds: Year 1 (2013) and Super Powereds: Year 2 (2013) sit among the early titles, alongside Pears and Perils (2013) and NPCs (2014). The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (2014) and Undeath and Taxes (2015) followed. Other series include Spells, Swords, & Stealth, Villains' Code, Roverpowered and 5-Minute Sherlock.

Drew Hayes books in order
DM

Drew Magary

8 books

Drew Magary is an American journalist, humour columnist, podcast host and novelist. Magary reported for GQ, spent years as a columnist at Deadspin, and now writes for Defector Media and SFGate. Three of his books are novels, and The Night the Lights Went Out (2021) is a memoir of life with brain damage. The 8 titles catalogued under his name run from Men with Balls (2008) to that memoir, with subject headings for humour, parenting, fatherhood, sports and aging.

Drew Magary books in order
DS

Drew Strickland

25 books 4 series

Drew Strickland writes in three sequences: the Sheriff Elven Hallie books, the Carolina McKay novels and Soulless Wanderers, which opens the catalogue in 2018 alongside Patriarch. Twenty-seven titles had appeared by 2026, ending at Betrayal on the Backroads. Several carry two titles, among them Her Deadly Homecoming, also published as Wake of Buzzards, and Her Killer Confession, also published as Mutation of Thrushes.

Drew Strickland books in order
DB

Duane Boehm

33 books 5 series

Westerns make up Duane Boehm's catalogue of 33 books, organised into five series: A Gideon Johann Western, Wild Horse Westerns, Hand Of Westerns, Never Too Old Westerns and Saddle Tramps. Ranchers and murder investigations supply the plots. A run of Last titles, among them Last Chance, Last Stand, Last Hope and Last Ride, appeared between 2014 and 2016, and Boehm reached The Marshal And Me in 2026.

Duane Boehm books in order
DL

Duane Lindsay

24 books 4 series

Duane Lindsay is credited with 24 books from 2004 to 2024. With a Vengeance (2004) came first, and the next title, Missing Amanda, followed in 2016. Lindsay writes four series: Lou Fleener Mystery, Grifter's Daughter, Morgans vs. The Mob and War Corps. Black and White: And Dead All Over (2024) is the most recent.

Duane Lindsay books in order
DS

Duane Swierczynski

71 books 17 series

Duane Swierczynski (Duane Louis Swierczynski, born February 22, 1972) is an American crime writer whose work spans non-fiction, novels and comic books. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons (2002) is the first catalogued title, and Secret Dead Men (2005) and The Wheelman (2005) are early titles. Series in the listing include Cable, Birds of Prey, Bloodshot, Black Hood, Level 26 and Charlie Hardie. Comics, superheroes, Judge Dredd, ex-police officers and Philadelphia appear among the subjects.

Duane Swierczynski books in order
DP

Dudley Pope

37 books 2 series

Dudley Pope wrote nautical fiction and naval history. Pope lived from 1925 to 1997 and published 37 catalogued books between Flag 4 (1954) and Ramage & the Dido (1989). The Nicholas Ramage novels are the best known work, set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and Ramage (1964) and Ramage and the Drum Beat (1968) sit early in that sequence. Buccaneer Ned Yorke is the second series. Histories of naval actions stand beside the novels, among them The Battle of the River Plate (1956) and 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea 1942 (1958). C.S. Forester was the acknowledged influence, and Pope's work is often set beside Patrick O'Brian's.

Dudley Pope books in order
DB

Duffy Brown

11 books 3 series

Duffy Brown writes cozy mysteries in two series, Consignment Shop Mystery and Cycle Path Mysteries, with 11 books between 2012 and 2021. Iced Chiffon (2012) comes first, followed by Killer in Crinolines (2013), Geared for the Grave (2014) and Pearls and Poison (2014). Later titles include Demise in Denim (2015), Braking for Bodies (2016) and Tandem Demise (2018). Subjects include consignment shops, bicycle stores, divorced women and political campaigns. Wedding Day and Foul Play (2021) is the newest.

Duffy Brown books in order
DF

Duncan Falconer

11 books 3 series

Duncan Falconer is a pen name used by a former Special Boat Service commando. The writer grew up in an orphanage in North London and was later adopted by a family from Battersea. The catalogue lists 11 books from First Into Action (1998) to The Becket Approval (2019), grouped as the John Stratton series, standalone novels and non-fiction. The Hijack, Undersea Prison and Assassin are other titles. Subjects cover thrillers, intelligence officers, terrorism, hostage negotiations and the Iraq War.

Duncan Falconer books in order
DM

Duncan M. Hamilton

19 books 6 series

Duncan M. Hamilton writes fantasy. Dragons, hunters and imaginary places recur as subjects across 19 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2023. The Tattered Banner (2013) opens the catalogue and The Demon Hunter (2023) closes it. Hamilton's series are the Society of the Sword, the Wolf of the North, Dragonslayer, Alpha Protocol and the Middle Sea. No new title is listed after 2023.

Duncan M. Hamilton books in order
DT

Duncan Tonatiuh, born in 1984, is a Mexican-American author and illustrator of children's books that have won awards. Pre-Columbian art shapes the illustrations, and the stories take up the Latino experience through social justice, art, history and immigration. Tonatiuh also advocates for workers' rights. The catalogue lists 13 books from Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin (2010) to Día de Muertos (2023), including Diego Rivera: His World and Ours (2011), Separate Is Never Equal (2014) and Undocumented: A Worker's Fight (2018). The median book is 32 pages.

Duncan Tonatiuh books in order
DB

Dustin Brady

9 books

Dustin Brady writes children's fiction for readers in grades 3 to 5, and video games are the subject that runs through the catalogue. Nine books are recorded under the name, published between 2018 and 2023. Trapped in a Video Game (2018) is the first title and The Lost Files (2023) the most recent, with Return to Doom Island, Robots Revolt, The Invisible Invasion, The Final Boss, The Secret of Phantom Island, Mystery on the Starship Crusader and The Endgame in between. Nothing later than 2023 appears under this name.

Dustin Brady books in order
DS

Dustin Stevens

86 books 14 series

Dustin Stevens has a catalogue that starts with Number Four (2010) and runs to The Transfer (2026). The series list is long: Reed & Billie, Hawk Tate, My Mira, Ham, Zoo Crew, Danny The Dreamer, Hobby Lobby Mystery, Translator, Jumper, Kerrin Thoms and City of Sin Thrillers. Titles from the early years include 21 Hours, Just a Game, Zombie Kill and Dead Peasants.

Dustin Stevens books in order
DT

Dustin Thao

4 books 2 series

Dustin Thao is a Vietnamese-American author based in New York City who writes contemporary young adult fiction with magic realism. The catalogue lists 4 books: You've Reached Sam (2021), When Haru Was Here (2024), You've Found Oliver (2025) and The Price of Admission (2026). You've Reached Sam is also the name of Thao's series. Subjects include grief, loss, second chances, moving on and romance.

Dustin Thao books in order
DR

Dusty Richards

58 books 13 series

The westerns of Dusty Richards fill a catalogue of 58 books from 1992 to 2025. Noble's Way (1992) opens the list, followed by By the Cut of Your Clothes and From Hell to Breakfast (both 1994). Lawless Land and Servant of the Law date from 2000, and The Abilene Trail from 2003. Rambling Down the Range (2025) is the newest title. Series include Byrnes Family Ranch, Brandiron, Frank Brothers, O'Malleys of Texas, Texas Badge Mysteries, Battling Harrigans of the Frontier and Rodeo Riders. Ranch life, cattle drives, outlaws, sheriffs, Texas Rangers and Arizona appear in the subject tags.

Dusty Richards books in order
DH

Dwight Holing

17 books 2 series

Dwight Holing writes mystery and suspense across two series, the Nick Drake novels and the Jack McCoul Capers. Holing's 17 catalogued books open with California Works (2013) and reach The Yellow Hair (2026). Thriller and suspense subject matter runs through the whole catalogue, and Holing continues to publish.

Dwight Holing books in order
DC

Dyan Chick

19 books 9 series

Dyan Chick published 19 catalogued books across four years, from Fae Cursed (2017) to The Night King (2020), every one credited to Chick alone. Illaria, Forbidden Queen, Dark Fae Mage, Siren Problems and Captive Mates are the five series filed under the Chick name. Titles in the run include Battle of Illaria (2017), Court of Secrets (2018) and Magic Awakens (2018). The catalogue records no new title after 2020.

Dyan Chick books in order
DD

Dylan Doose

10 books 2 series

Dylan Doose has 10 catalogued books published between 2015 and 2021, and Sword and Sorcery and Red Harvest are the listed series. Catacombs of Time and Fire and Sword date from 2015, followed by The Pyres (2016), As They Burn (2017) and Ice and Stone (2017). Black Sun Moon appeared in 2018, and Crow Mountain and Embers on the Wind in 2020. Graves of the Gods (2021) is the newest title.

Dylan Doose books in order
DP

Dylan Page

8 books 3 series

Dylan Page has 8 books in the catalogue, all released from 2021 to 2024. Ashes and the two-part Torment (Torment: Part One and Torment: Part Two) appeared in 2021. Mercy, Rowe and Envy followed in 2022, Echoes in 2023 and Vulfu in 2024. Page is listed as still publishing.

Dylan Page books in order