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Devon C. Ford has 47 catalogued books published between 2016 and 2026. Survival (2016) is the earliest listed title and Legacy (2026) the newest. Ford works in series: After It Happened, Toy Soldiers, Expansion, Territory Wars, Wasteland, Nocturnus, Nation Down and Tranquility. After It Happened and Toy Soldiers are also carried as recurring character entries. Most of the run dates from the 2020s, and Ford continues to publish.

Devon Monk writes urban fantasy and steampunk. Magic to the Bone (2008) opens both the catalogue and the Allie Beckstrom series; Broken Magic, House Immortal, Age of Steam, West Hell Magic and the Ordinary Magic and Ordinary Oregon Mystery books follow. Forty-six titles are catalogued through A Seer and Present Danger (2026), with magic, immortality and the line between good and evil as recurring subjects, at a median length of 354 pages.

Naval historical fiction is Dewey Lambdin's genre, following the Royal Navy officer Alan Lewrie through sea stories set in British waters and the Caribbean. The King's Coat (1989) opens the sequence, followed by The French Admiral, The King's Commission, The King's Privateer, The Gun Ketch, H.M.S. Cockerel and A King's Commander. Twenty-seven titles make up the catalogue, which ends with Much Ado about Lewrie in 2019.

Di Morrissey, born Grace Diane Cairns in 1948, is an Australian novelist. Australia is the constant setting, and family secrets, friendship and pioneer life are the recurring subjects. Thirty books are catalogued between 1992 and 2025, from The Last Rose of Summer to The Endless Sky, most of them standalone and long at around 480 pages. Queenie and TR, and Lily Barton, are the two series among them.

Diamond D. Johnson has 112 books in the catalogue, published between 2014 and 2026. A Miami Love Tale (2014) opens the run, and A Miami Love Tale 2 and A Miami Love Tale 3 followed in 2015 alongside I Choose You, Ready 4 Whatever and The Matrimony. The 305 Lovin' line reached a fourth book by 2016. Series headings include Free Me From You, Spin, Down With the King of the South, Who Do You Luv, My Good Girl, From the Pole to the Palace, Little Miami Girl and Finding My Way Back to Love. The newest listed title is Queen of the Pole (2026).

Diana Gabaldon

33 books• 12 series

Diana Gabaldon is best known for the Outlander book series. Gabaldon, born January 11, 1952, is an American author and television writer whose novels mix historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction or fantasy. Starz premiered a television adaptation of the Outlander novels in 2014. The catalogue lists 33 titles, from Outlander / Cross Stitch (1991) to Besieged (2022), with Dragonfly in Amber (1992) and Voyager (1993) early in the run. Lord John Grey is a second named series. Time travel, Scotland, Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall appear among the subject headings.

Time travel and Highlanders are Diana Knightley's combination. Kaitlyn and the Highlander (2018) opens a catalogue of 36 books that also holds Torin and the Princess, Luna's Story, Rules of Time Travel and the Campbell Sons. The run reaches Where the Forest Remembers Us in 2026. Knightley has published in every year since 2018 and keeps adding to the connected series.

Cozy mystery is Diana Orgain's form, usually with a woman sleuth and a comic edge. The Maternal Instincts Mysteries open the catalogue with Bundle of Trouble (2009) and put a new mother onto murder cases; the Love or Money, Roundup Crew, iWitch, Gold Strike and Killer Foursome series follow. Dog owners, private investigators and false arrest recur across 34 catalogued books, which reach Pumpkin Pie Prison (2024).

Diana Palmer is the pen name of Susan Kyle, born Susan Spaeth on December 11, 1946, an American novelist publishing romance since 1979. Kyle spent sixteen years as a journalist under the name Susan Spaeth before turning to fiction, and has also written as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie and Susan Kyle, with a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle. The catalogue lists 199 books from 1979 to 2026, opening with titles such as Dream's End and Sweet Enemy and reaching Blaze of Glory (2026). Wyoming Men, Soldiers of Fortune, Men of Medicine Ridge and Morcai Battalion are among the series, and Long, Tall Texans is a listed grouping. Diamond Girl became a 1998 television film. Subjects name ranchers, cowboys, Texas, Wyoming and western romance.

Regency romance is Diana Quincy's genre. Her 13 books, published between 2013 and 2025, sit in four series: Accidental Peers, Rebellious Brides, Clandestine Affairs and Sirens in Silk. Dukes, earls and viscounts fill the titles, The Duke Who Ravished Me (2018), Her Night with the Duke (2020), The Viscount Made Me Do It (2021). Seducing Charlotte (2013) opens the catalogue and The Earl That Got Away (2025) is the newest entry.

Diana Rowland writes urban fantasy, best known for the Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series. Fifteen books are catalogued between 2009 and 2022. Mark of the Demon (2009) opens the catalogue, followed by Blood of the Demon (2010), Secrets of the Demon (2010), Sins of the Demon (2012), Touch of the Demon (2012), Fury of the Demon (2014) and Rise of the Demon (2022), while My Life as a White Trash Zombie (2011) names the second sequence. Before writing, Rowland worked as a bartender, blackjack dealer, pit boss, street cop, detective, computer forensics specialist, crime scene investigator and morgue assistant. She graduated from the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and in 2005 took first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for the short story Schroedinger's Hummingbird. Rowland lives in south Louisiana.

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 to 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, critic and short story writer. The speculative fiction of Diana Wynne Jones for children and young adults is usually called fantasy but draws on science fiction ideas such as time travel and parallel universes, along with realism. The Chrestomanci heptalogy, the Dalemark Quartet, the Moving Castle trilogy, Dark Lord of Derkholm and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland rank among the best-known works. The catalogue lists 61 books, from Changeover (1970) and The Ogre Downstairs (1974) to The Islands of Chaldea (2014). Magic, witches and wizards run through the subjects.

Diane Capri writes thrillers, among them the Hunt For Reacher series, whose subject tags name Jack Reacher as a fictional presence. Eighty-four titles run from Annabelle's Attack / Raw Justice (2011) to Shadow Jack, with No Way Jack dated 2027. Hunt For Justice, the Jess Kimball thrillers, Jordan Fox Mysteries, Michael Flint and the Park Hotel Mysteries are the other series. Private investigators, women journalists and missing persons fill the subject tags.

Domestic fiction is Diane Chamberlain's form: mothers and daughters, sisters, marriages and friendships, with North Carolina and New Jersey as the usual settings. Chamberlain's 32 catalogued books open with Lovers and Strangers (1990) and include the Keeper of the Light Trilogy, Before The Storm, Necessary Lies and Pretending To Dance. The Last House on the Street is the most recent title, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

Diane Duane

71 books• 22 series

Diane Duane is an American science fiction and fantasy author who has long lived in Ireland. Young Wizards, which opens with So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983), and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels are the best known work. Seventy-one titles are catalogued between 1979 and 2018, taking in the Tale of the Five from The Door Into Fire (1979), Spider-Man and X-Men tie-ins, Space Cops, Cat Wizards and SeaQuest DSV. Wizards, whales and Star Trek characters recur as subjects.

Diane Fanning, born 21 June 1950, is an American crime writer working in both non-fiction and mystery fiction. Case studies of murder and serial murderers sit in the catalogue beside the Lucinda Pierce and Libby Clark mystery series. The listing holds 30 books published between 2000 and 2019, from The Windwalkers (2000) to Death on the River (2019). Subjects also record investigation, women sleuths, Tennessee and the Second World War.

Diane Kelly's mysteries run on humour. Tara Holloway chases tax evasion through the Death, Taxes titles that open the catalogue in 2011; Paw Enforcement puts a policewoman with a police dog; and the House-Flipper, Mountain Lodge, Southern Homebrew and Trouble In Tumbleweed mysteries follow. Fifty-four books reach The Barn Identity in 2026, at 336 pages on median.

Diane Moody writes Christian fiction. Confessions of a Prayer Slacker (2010) opens 19 catalogued books that reach A Time of Rage, A Time of War (2025). Four series divide the list: the Teacup Novellas, the War Trilogy that begins with Of Windmills and War (2012), the Braxton Mysteries and Moody Blue. Pastors and their families, illness and survival, and cancer treatment supply the subject matter.

Catering and murder run together in Diane Mott Davidson's mysteries, which put the caterer Goldy Bear Schulz into criminal investigations. The run opens with Catering to Nobody (1990) and the catalogue reaches 19 titles, among them Dying for Chocolate, The Cereal Murders, Killer Pancake and a Goldy's Kitchen Cookbook. Cooking sits beside detection throughout, and the catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Diane Saxon's 25 books divide across three series: Atlantic Divide, Montgomery's Sin and the DS Jenna Morgan police novels. The earliest titles date from 2013, among them Gun Shy, Loving Lydia and Finding Zoe, and Find Her Alive, also issued as The Keeper, arrived in 2019. Saxon published The Caretaker in 2026, and the catalogue stays open.

The Thirteenth Tale (2006) is Diane Setterfield's debut and her best known novel: it reached number one on the New York Times list, took the 2007 Quill Award for debut author of the year, and was adapted for BBC Two in 2013 with Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman and Sophie Turner in the cast. Setterfield, an English writer born in 1964, works in the Gothic tradition, with ghosts, family secrets and historical English settings. Four books span 2006 to Once Upon a River in 2018.

Diane Vallere writes cozy mysteries with women sleuths and a strong line in fashion. Samantha Kidd works the buying trade in the Style & Error books, Madison Night heads the Mad For Mod series, and the Material Witness Mysteries put a fabric shop at the centre; Sylvia Stryker moves the formula into space in Space Case. Fifty books span 2012 to 2026, from Designer Dirty Laundry to My Nightmare Is Yours, with Rocket Girl scheduled for 2027.

DiAnn Mills is an American author working in Christian fiction. The catalogue holds 58 books published between 1998 and 2025, opening with Rehoboth (1998) and reaching Canyon of Deceit (2025). Romance and suspense run alongside the Christian material, with FBI investigations, missing persons, and frontier and pioneer life among the recurring subjects. Series under Mills's name include FBI Task Force, FBI: Houston, Crime Scene: Houston, Nebraska Legacy, Texas Legacy, Texas Charm and Hope of Sudan, and the catalogue also carries a non-fiction strand on writing.

Paranormal romance is Dianne Duvall's genre and immortals are her subject. The Immortal Guardians books, opening with Darkness Dawns (2011), put vampires and immortal warriors into romance plots, and the Gifted Ones and Aldebarian Alliance sequences follow. 26 titles are catalogued between 2011 and The Renegade Akseli Cyborg (2024), holiday novellas and anthology pieces among them. Duvall is still publishing.

Dianne Freeman writes the Countess of Harleigh Mysteries, a series in which a widow investigates murders in England. All 10 catalogued books belong to it, from A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (2018) through A Bride's Guide to Marriage and Murder (2022) and An Art Lover's Guide to Paris and Murder (2024) to A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder (2026).

Dianne Harman has 232 books in the catalogue, published between 2012 and 2026. Blue Coyote Motel (2012) is the first, followed by Coyote in Provence and Tea Party Teddy (2013), then Cornered Coyote, Kelly's Koffee Shop and Murder at Jade Cove (2014). The Vanished Heart (2026) is the newest. Series include Cedar Bay Mystery, Liz Lucas Mystery, High Desert Mystery, Northwest Cozy Mystery, Midwest Cozy Mystery, Ozarks Cozy Mystery, Cottonwood Springs and Chef Dani Rosetti. Murder investigation, women detectives, caterers and the United States Forest Service appear in the subject tags.

Dick Francis (Richard Stanley Francis, 1920 to 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey who turned to crime fiction set in English horse racing. After RAF service in wartime, Francis rode as a jump jockey, became champion jockey of the British National Hunt and rode for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The catalogue records 44 books, from the autobiography The Sport of Queens (1957) and the novel Dead Cert (1962) to Under Orders (2006). Sid Halley and Kit Fielding are recurring figures.

Dilly Court is an English author of historical fiction and family sagas, born in 1940, who also publishes as Lily Baxter. Court published a first book at the age of 65, and by 2023 the novels had sold more than four million copies. Fifty-five titles are catalogued from Mermaids Singing (2005) to The Midwinter Daughter (2026), with The Spring Bride scheduled for 2027. London, family life and social conditions are the standing subjects, and the books are long, at a median of 512 pages.

Dinah Jefferies, born in 1948, is a British novelist and writer of short stories and articles. Her historical fiction travels: tea plantations and colonial households in Sri Lanka and India, wartime Vietnam, Tuscany, Marrakech. The Separation (2013) opens a catalogue of 12 books, followed by The Tea Planter's Wife (2015), The Silk Merchant's Daughter, The Sapphire Widow, the Daughters Of War series and The Lost Château (2026).

Diney Costeloe writes historical fiction and romance, much of it around the Second World War, Jewish families, widows and siblings. Costeloe trained as a primary school teacher and published her first novel, The Slopes of Love (1981), with Robert Hale after a BBC Woman's Hour shortlisting; early titles appeared under the name Diney Delancey. Her 27 catalogued books reach The Girls Who Dared to Love (2024), across the Throwaway Children, Girl With No Name, Children of the Siege and Girls Who Dared series. Volumes median 296 pages.

Django Wexler writes fantasy across age ranges. The Shadow Campaigns (2013–2018) is a flintlock fantasy built on soldiers and imaginary wars; the Forbidden Library is a middle-grade series set around a library; Dark Lord Davi runs a comic time loop. Wells of Sorcery, Burningblade & Silvereye, John Golden, Spelljammer and Ikoria fill out 31 catalogued titles, from Memories of Empire (2005) to The Only Way Out Is Up (2026). Wexler lives near Seattle, Washington.

Dolly Alderton

4 books

Dolly Alderton, born 31 August 1988, is a British author, screenwriter and Sunday Times columnist. The memoir Everything I Know About Love (2018) won a National Book Award for autobiography, reached the shortlist for Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards, and became a BBC and Peacock television drama. The catalogue lists 4 books: that memoir, Ghosts (2020), Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom (2022) and Good Material (2024). Alderton also wrote a 2026 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter whose 13 catalogued books run from Coat of Many Colors (1994) to Star of the Show: My Life on Stage (2025). Parton has won eleven Grammy Awards from fifty-five nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. The books include Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business (1994), Dolly Parton, Songteller (2020) and Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones (2023). Parton also has a Billy the Kid series, and children's fiction and stories in rhyme are recorded subjects. Run, Rose, Run was written with James Patterson.

Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) was an American mystery novelist who wrote steadily from 1938 until her death. She published as D. B. Olsen and under the pseudonyms Dolan Birkley and Noel Burke, and many of her mysteries turn on the character Rachel Murdock. With her second husband Bert Hitchens, a railroad detective, she wrote five railroad mysteries, police procedurals about a squad of railroad police, and she worked in western fiction as well. Professor A. Pennyfeather, Lt. Stephen Mayhew and Jim Sader head her other series. Forty-two books run from The Clue in the Clay (1938) to In a House Unknown (1973).

Dominick Dunne (1925-2009) came to fiction after a career producing films, among them The Boys in the Band (1970) and The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The murder of his daughter Dominique in 1982 turned Dunne's writing toward the way wealth and high society meet the courts, a subject he pursued in novels and in reporting for Vanity Fair. Eleven catalogued books run from The Winners (1982) to Too Much Money (2009), with murder trials, celebrity and upper-class New York families as the constant material.

Don Bentley, born August 25, 1974, is an American thriller novelist. Bentley writes Jack Ryan Jr. novels in the Ryanverse built on Tom Clancy's characters, the Matt Drake series, and the current Mitch Rapp novels, a series Vince Flynn began. The catalogue lists 10 books, starting with Without Sanction (2020) and reaching Double Tap (2026). Espionage and intelligence officers are among the subjects.

Don Brown writes military and legal thrillers drawn from the United States Navy. Navy JAG officer Zack Brewer anchors the Navy Justice series, with courts-martial, submarines, terrorism and international crises supplying the plots. Fourteen books span 2005 to 2023, from Treason and Hostage (2005) through Black Sea Affair, The Malacca Conspiracy and Extortion 17 to 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary (2023). No new title has appeared since.

Don Coldsmith (February 28, 1926 - June 25, 2009) was an American writer mainly of Westerns and a past president of Western Writers of America. Coldsmith produced more than 40 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. The Spanish Bit Saga, a sequence of related novels, reshaped the Western by telling events from the Native American point of view. The catalogue lists 41 books from Horsin' Around (1975) to Moon of Madness (2013), including Trail of the Spanish Bit (1980), Buffalo Medicine (1981) and Pale Star (1986). The Great Plains and horses recur in the subjects.

Don DeLillo

23 books• 2 series

Don DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist whose subjects reach across consumerism, nuclear war, language, art, television, mathematics, politics and sport. White Noise (1985) brought wide recognition and the National Book Award for fiction, and Libra (1988) followed, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Twenty-two books are catalogued between Americana (1971) and The Silence (2020), taking in End Zone (1972), Ratner's Star (1976), Players (1978) and The Names (1982). New York settings and psychological fiction recur as subjects.

Don Mann's catalogue mixes handbooks with thrillers and runs to 21 books published between 2001 and 2023. The United States Navy SEALs are the recurring subject: Inside SEAL Team Six (2011) and The U.S. Navy SEAL Survival Handbook (2012) sit alongside titles such as Hunt the Wolf (2012), Hunt the Scorpion (2013) and Hunt the Fox (2015). SEAL Team Six is the series the catalogue records for Mann. Special operations, counter-terrorism and cyberterrorism appear among the subjects. History's Assassins: Motives for Murder (2023) is the newest entry.

Don Miguel Ruiz writes short non-fiction, with prayer and spiritual life among its subjects. The Four Agreements (1997) opens the catalogue and The Mastery of Love (1999) follows, each with companion volumes and collections built on it. The Toltec Wisdom and Toltec Mastery lines group most of the 16 catalogued titles, which are brief, at a median of 96 pages. The Mastery of Life (2021) is the last entry.

Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 to October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction who created Mack Bolan, a character with hundreds of millions of copies sold since a 1969 debut. From 1980, other authors wrote the Bolan books under the Pendleton name, at first with Pendleton's editorial guidance. Pendleton also wrote six Joe Copp, Private Eye novels and six Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective novels. Early titles include The Insatiables (1967), War Against the Mafia (1969) and Miami Massacre (1970).

Don Winslow

36 books• 11 series

Don Winslow is an American crime novelist, born October 31, 1953, whose works include Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy. Winslow's 36 catalogued books begin with A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) and reach The Irish Goodbye (2026). Series titles include Neal Carey, Power of the Dog, Danny Ryan, Boone Daniels and Frank Decker. Drug trafficking, Mexico, California and private investigators recur across the subjects.

Donal Ryan

8 books

Donal Ryan is an Irish literary novelist, born in 1976, whose eight catalogued books comprise seven novels and a collection of short stories. Ireland supplies the ground: families, fathers and sons, bereavement, land, and the aftermath of financial collapse. The Spinning Heart (2012) opens the run and Heart, Be at Peace (2024) closes it, taking in The Thing About December (2013), All We Shall Know (2016), From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018) and Strange Flowers (2020). Every Ryan novel has reached number one in Ireland, and Heart, Be at Peace took the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Donald Bain (March 6, 1935 - October 21, 2017) was an American author and ghostwriter credited with more than 115 books over a 40-year career. Murder, She Wrote is the series listed for Bain, and the subjects include Jessica Fletcher and the fictional Cabot Cove, Maine. The catalogue holds 59 books, from Coffee, Tea or Me? (1967) to A Time for Murder (2019), and also lists Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake (1969).

Donald E. Westlake

127 books• 11 series

Donald E. Westlake (July 12, 1933 to December 31, 2008) was an American writer credited with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books. Crime fiction was Westlake's specialty, comic capers above all, with occasional science fiction. Westlake created two professional criminals with long-running series: the hardboiled Parker, published under the pen name Richard Stark, and John Dortmunder, the lead of a more humorous series. Westlake won the Edgar Award three times. The catalogue holds 127 Westlake books from 1959 to 2022, and other listings include Alan Grofield, Sam Holt and the Mitch Tobin books written as Tucker Coe.

Donald Hamilton (1916-2006) was a Swedish-American writer of novels, short stories and outdoor non-fiction. The Matt Helm books, running from 1960 to 1993, are the best-known work, following an undercover counter-agent employed by a secret American government agency. Hamilton also wrote crime fiction and westerns, The Big Country (1958) among them. 41 titles are catalogued, from Date With Darkness (1947) to The Damagers (1993), and the 1960s are the densest decade. Espionage and thrillers carry the subject tags.

Donald L. Robertson has 25 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2026. Logan's Word (2014) opens the run and Home Beneath The Star (2026) is the newest entry. Three sequences carry the catalogue: the Jack Sage Western, the Logan Family Western and the Logan Mountain Man Western series. Most of the titles date from the 2020s, and Robertson continues to publish.

Donato Carrisi

12 books• 3 series

Donato Carrisi is an Italian writer, film director and screenwriter, born in 1973. The Whisperer (2009) opens a catalogue of 12 books that closes with The Whisperer's Game (2022), taking in The Lost Girls of Rome (2011), The Hunter of the Dark (2014) and Into the Labyrinth (2017). Mila Vasquez, Marcus and Pietro Gerber head the three series. Carrisi directed the 2017 film of his own novel The Girl in the Fog and won the 2018 David di Donatello for Best New Director. Serial murder investigation, missing persons and Rome recur as subjects.

Dragons carry most of Donita K. Paul's fantasy, which the subject tags also mark as Christian fiction. DragonSpell (2004) opens the DragonKeeper Chronicles, followed by DragonQuest, DragonKnight, DragonFire and DragonLight. The Valley of the Dragons books, the Realm Walkers and The Dragon and the Turtle complete a catalogue of 15 titles, ending with Two Renegade Realms (2014). Wizards, quests and friendship fill the subject tags.

Donna Alam has 31 books in this catalogue, dated 2014 to 2026. Pretty Hot (2014) opens the run and The Stranger (2026) closes it, with Pretty Liar (2014), One Hot Scot (2017), Single Daddy Scot (2017), Two Wrongs (2017) and Gentleman Player (2018) listed in between. Hot Scots, Great Scots, Aussies, No Ordinary Men and My Kind of Hero are the five series credited to Alam.

Donna Alward is a romance novelist who writes for Harlequin's Romance line. Alward earned an Arts degree in English Literature in 1994, finished a first full-length novel in 2001 and sold a first manuscript in 2006. That debut, Hired by the Cowboy (2006), took the 2008 Booksellers Best Award for Best Traditional Romance. The catalogue lists 82 books through 2025, with subjects including western, contemporary and billionaire romance, ranchers, cowboys, single fathers and Maine. Series include Cadence Creek Cowboys, Jewell Cove, Darling, VT, Crooked Valley Ranch and South Shore Billionaires.

Donna Andrews is an American mystery writer with two award-winning amateur sleuth series, Meg Langslow and Turing Hopper. Subjects mark the books as humorous mysteries with women sleuths. Murder With Peacocks (1999) is the earliest catalogued title, and later titles include Murder With Puffins (2000), You've Got Murder (2002) and We'll Always Have Parrots (2003). Jay to the World (2026) is the newest, and Andrews is still publishing.

Christmas and summer settings alternate through Donna Ashcroft's catalogue: 20 books published between 2018 and 2026, from Summer at the Castle Cafe to Christmas, Actually. The Castle Cove and Honey Haven series carry most of the run, and the Scottish Highlands supply the setting for a 2021 pair, Christmas in the Scottish Highlands and Summer in the Scottish Highlands. Ashcroft continues to publish.

Donna Ball, born in North Georgia in 1951, has published mainly romantic novels since 1982, under that name and as Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd, and jointly with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. The catalogue holds 109 books from Winners (1982) to Bones From the Sky (2026), several 1983 and 1984 titles carrying the Rebecca Flanders byline. Raine Stockton Dog Mystery, Ladybug Farm, Dogleg Island Mystery, Hummingbird House and Blood River are the series listed. Debra Dixon, Sandra Chastain, Deborah Smith, Virginia Ellis and Nancy Knight are each credited beside Ball on one title. Subjects include romance, historical romance, western romance, female friendship and time travel.

Donna Douglas writes historical sagas about nurses. The Nightingale Girls (2012) opens a catalogue of 19 books that reaches A Nurse's Secret (2025). Three series are catalogued: the Nightingales, the Yorkshire Blitz books and Steeple Street. Nurses, hospitals, London and English social life across the First and Second World Wars carry the work, and Douglas remains actively publishing.

Donna Everhart writes Southern historical fiction about families, sisters and coming of age in Alabama and the Carolinas. The Education of Dixie Dupree (2016) opens a catalogue of seven books, followed by The Road to Bittersweet, The Forgiving Kind, The Moonshiner's Daughter, The Saints of Swallow Hill and When the Jessamine Grows. Women of a Promiscuous Nature arrives in 2026.

Paranormal romance is the field of Donna Grant, and the recorded subjects take in dragons, druids, shapeshifting, magic, vampires, man-woman relationships and Scotland. The listing holds 162 books and reaches Dragon Sieged in 2026, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Series credited to Grant include Dark Kings, Reapers, Dark Warriors, Dark Sword, Druids Glen, Skye Druids, Elven Kingdoms, Sisters of Magic, Chiasson and LaRue. A Dark Guardian, A Kind of Magic, Highland Dawn, Highland Mist and Highland Nights all carry a 2006 date. Grant is still publishing.

Donna Kauffman writes contemporary romance, and the site catalogues 70 books from Illegal Motion (1993) to Under a Firefly Moon (2020). Early novels include Black Satin (1994), Bounty Hunter (1994) and Wild Rain (1995), and Loveswept appears among the subjects. Blue Hollow Falls, Cupcake Club, Hot Scot Trilogy, Bachelors of Blueberry Cove, Men Of Rogues Hollow, Glass Slipper, Inc. and Unholy Trinity are among the series. Subjects also include Scotland, advice columnists and romantic suspense.

Donna Leon

42 books• 4 series

Venice is where Donna Leon sets her police procedurals, and Guido Brunetti is the character the books return to, in cases of murder and criminal investigation. Leon's 42 catalogued titles open with Death at La Fenice (1992) and reach Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life in 2025, with a Brunetti companion volume and non-fiction beside the novels. Leon remains actively publishing.