Authors whose first name starts with J

Twenty-four books carry J. Bree's name, published between 2019 and 2025, from Just Drop Out (2019) to Broken Ties (2025). Bree writes in series: Hannaford Prep, Bonds That Tie, Mortal Fates, Queen Crow, Mounts Bay Saga, Witches of Morgensterne and Unseen MC. The Butcher of the Bay appeared in two parts in 2020, alongside All Hail (2020), Angel Unseen (2020) and Blood Bonds (2021). Bree remains actively publishing.

J. Courtney Sullivan

9 books

J. Courtney Sullivan - Julie Courtney Sullivan, born 1982 - is an American novelist and a former writer for The New York Times. Family life, friendship, women's lives, dating and mate selection carry the fiction. Nine catalogued books run from Dating Up (2007) through Commencement (2009), Maine (2011), The Engagements (2013) and Saints for All Occasions (2017) to The Cliffs (2024), and Sullivan continues to publish.

J. Robert Kennedy writes action thrillers. The archaeologist James Acton heads one series, the James Acton Thrillers, and others follow Special Agent Dylan Kane, Delta Force Unleashed, the Templar Detective, Detective Shakespeare, Wolfgang Vogel, Just Jack and Zander Varga: Vampire Detective. The catalogue holds 85 books published between 2010 and 2025, from The Protocol (2010) to Crypt of the Gladiator (2025). Excavations, espionage and crime run through the subject headings, with Egypt and Italy among the named places.

J. Rose has 19 books in the catalogue, published from 2021 to 2026. Forever Ago, Twisted Heathens and When You Fall date from 2021. Corpse Roads, Desecrated Saints, Drown in You, Sacrificial Sinners and Departed Whispers followed in 2022, and A Crimson Carol and Hollow Veins in 2023. Trapped Truth (2026) is the newest title. Series on the author page are Blackwood Institute, Sabre Security, Anaconda Tales, Briar Valley and Harrowdean Manor, alongside standalone novels.

J. Todd Scott writes crime novels set largely in Texas, with sheriffs, missing persons and motorcycle gangs as recurring material. The Chris Cherry series opens the catalogue with The Far Empty (2016). Seven books are catalogued in all, through High White Sun (2018), Lost River (2020) and The Flock (2022) to Scar the Sky (2025), at a median length of 456 pages.

J.A. Andrews opened the Keeper Chronicles with A Threat of Shadows (2016), followed by Pursuit of Shadows (2018) and Siege of Shadows (2019). Keeper Origins and Aenigma Lights extend the same catalogue, which runs to 15 books and includes Dragon's Reach (2020), Ghost of the White Wood (2021) and Phoenix Rising (2022). Lastlight (2025) is the most recent title, and Andrews is still publishing.

Twenty-one books stand under J.A. Baker's name, published between 2017 and 2026, many of them under two titles apiece: Her Dark Retreat, also The Retreat, and Undercurrent, also The Girl In The Water, both 2017; Finding Eva, also The Toxic Friend, and The Uninvited, also The Intruder, both 2018; The Cleansing, also The Stranger, in 2019. The Other Mother (2017), The Woman at Number 19 (2019), In the Dying Minutes (2020) and Looking For Leo (2021) follow, and Such a Strange Little Girl (2026) is the newest. No series is recorded, and the books run to a median of 270 pages.

J.A. Huss writes romantic suspense, erotica and science fiction, often mixing them. Rook and Ronin and its spinoff, Dirty, Dark, and Deadly, Creeping Beautiful and Bossy Brothers cover the romance and thriller side; I Am Just Junco and Harem Station carry the science fiction. One hundred and eight books span 2012 to 2026, from Clutch to Skulls and Lace, and Huss remains actively publishing.

J.A. Jance writes mysteries and police procedurals, with J.P. Beaumont, Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds as recurring leads. The catalogue lists 82 books, starting with After the Fire (1984) and Until Proven Guilty (1985). The Taken Ones arrived in 2026, and Smoke and Mirrors is scheduled for 2027. Subjects include sheriffs, policewomen and women sleuths, and the Joanna Brady books form a named series alongside Jance's standalone novels.

Westerns make up J.A. Johnstone's catalogue: 20 books published between 2009 and 2020, with gunfights, revenge, bounty hunters and kidnapping among the recorded subjects. Loner is the series the books belong to, opening with The Devil's Badland and The Loner in 2009 and running through Rattlesnake Valley (2010), The Big Gundown (2010) and The Blood of Renegades (2011). Knockdown (2020) is the newest entry, and the list is marked likely complete. William W. Johnstone is credited alongside J.A. Johnstone on one title.

J.A. Konrath writes crime thrillers, and the subject tags point to Chicago, policewomen and women sleuths, along with horror and women spies. Whiskey Sour (2004) is the first catalogued title, followed by Bloody Mary (2005), Rusty Nail (2006) and Dirty Martini (2007). Dark and Stormy (2026) is the most recent title. Jacqueline Daniels, known as Jack, is the character named in the subject tags. Series on the author page include Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, Codename: Chandler, Timecaster, Phineas Troutt Mysteries, Harry McGlade Mystery and the Konrath/Kilborn Collective.

J.A. Low is catalogued with 39 books published between 2016 and 2026, every one credited to Low alone. The run opens with a 2016 group, Suddenly Begins, Suddenly Dirty, Suddenly More and Suddenly Together, and reaches Dirty Ever After in 2026. Series include Dirty Texas, Playboys of New York, Manhattan Mavericks, Paradise Club, Italian Nights, Bratva Jewels, Hartford Brothers and Under the Spanish Sun. The catalogue holds no subject headings and no page counts for the run.

J.A. Owenby writes romance across four series: Love & Ruin, Whitmore Elite, Wicked Intentions and Beautifully Damaged. The catalogue opens with Torn, also published as The Truth She Knew, in 2016. The Love & titles - Love & Deception, Love & Ruin, Love & Consequences, Love & Corruption and Love & Seduction - form the largest run, dated 2018 to 2020. Thirty-three books are catalogued through 2026.

J.A. Whiting writes cozy mysteries, many of them with a paranormal element. Twelve series divide a catalogue of 162 titles: Sweet Cove, Lin Coffin, Claire Rollins, Paxton Park, Olivia Miller, Ella Daniels, the Good Harbor Witches, the Spellbound Bookshop, Snow Creek and the Tipperary Carriage Company among them. Red Julie (2014) is the earliest title and Sweet Silent Night (2026) the newest. Whiting publishes continuously.

J.B. Lynn writes crime fiction about a female assassin. The Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman series dominates a catalogue of 78 books running from The First Victim (2011) to The Hitwoman Rights a Wrong (2026), with titles such as The Hitwoman and the Family Jewels (2013), The Hitwoman Gets Lucky (2013), The Hitwoman and the 7 Cops (2014) and The Hitwoman Hunts a Ghost (2014). The Cursed Chicks Club, the Kiki Long Mysteries, the Psychic Consignment Mysteries and Unjustly Accused run alongside. Murder for hire, organised crime and contemporary women are the recurring subjects.

Conspiracy, revenge and assassins drive J.B. Turner's thrillers. Jon Reznick heads the main series, with American Ghost, Jack McNeal and the Deborah Jones crime thrillers beside it. The word Hard marks the Reznick run: Hard Road (2013), Hard Kill (2014), Hard Wired (2015), Hard Way (2017). Twenty-five catalogued books reach Hard Shadows, and Hard Blood is scheduled for 2027.

J.C. Cervantes writes children's fiction, with 9 books catalogued between 2018 and 2023. The Storm Runner (2018) is the first title, and The Fire Keeper (2019) and The Shadow Crosser (2020) follow. Storm Runner, Shadow Bruja and Flirting With Fate are the series. The Lords of Night (2022) and Dawn of the Jaguar (2023) are later titles. Subjects include gods, fathers and sons, and people with disabilities.

J.C. Eaton is the byline on 29 mysteries published between 2017 and 2025. Booked 4 Murder (2017) opens the catalogue and Planted 4 Murder (2025) is the newest title. Four series run under the name: the Sophie Kimball Mysteries, the Wine Trail Mysteries, the Charcuterie Shop Mysteries and Marcie Rayner. New York and Arizona are the settings tagged, and publication continues.

Historical fiction is J.C. Jarvis's genre. Eight books have appeared since 2023: Alderauge and Ryskamp (2023), Ludsecke and Rotterdam (2024), Evasion, Falken and Nordland (2025), and Catacombs (2026). Jarvis publishes two or three titles a year and the sequence continues.

J.C. Ryan publishes across seven series, two of which follow the recurring characters Rex Dalton and Carter Devereux. Ryan's catalogue holds 44 books between The 10th Cycle (2014) and Sins Of Power (2026), taking in the Rossler Foundation, Exonerated, A Plea of the Innocent, Snark Files and Brainstorm sequences. Four titles arrived in 2014 alone, among them Genetic Bullets, Ninth Cycle Antarctica and The Sword of Cyrus, and the pace has held at roughly three books a year since.

J.D. Barker writes suspense, horror and gothic fiction. The catalogue lists 17 titles from Hybrid (2011), a short story, to The Probability of Murder (2026). The Fourth Monkey (2017), Dracul (2018), The Fifth to Die (2018) and The Sixth Wicked Child (2019) sit in the middle of the list. 4MK and Shadow Cove Saga are the named series. Serial murderers, vampires, police procedure and Chicago appear among the subject headings.

Scottish police procedurals are J.D. Kirk's output, led by the DCI Logan crime thrillers. A Litter of Bones (2019) opens a catalogue that reaches 34 titles by 2026, closing on Better the Devil. Robert Hoon and DI Heather Filson head series of their own, with a Constable Tyler Neish novella and standalone novels alongside. Kirk publishes roughly every three months at a median of 352 pages.

J.D. Robb

41 books• 3 series

J.D. Robb is the name under which Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, publishes police procedurals with science fiction elements. The catalogue holds 42 J.D. Robb books from 1995 to 2027, opening with Naked in Death (1995). Subjects include Eve Dallas, women detectives and New York City. Fury in Death (2026) is the newest release, and Perfect in Death is scheduled for 2027. Nora Roberts also publishes romance under the Nora Roberts name and has used the names Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.

J.D. Salinger

6 books• 1 series

J.D. Salinger (January 1, 1919 to January 27, 2010) was an American writer whose best-known work is the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published short stories in Story magazine in 1940, then served in the Second World War. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker in 1948, and the magazine went on to publish much of Salinger's later work. The Catcher in the Rye sold widely from the start and drew controversy, and its portrait of adolescent alienation and lost innocence influenced young readers in particular. The catalogue also lists Nine Stories (1953), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour (1955) and Franny and Zooey (1961).

J.D. Vance

2 books• 1 series

J.D. Vance has two catalogued books, both memoir. Hillbilly Elegy (2016) writes about mountain people, working-class white families and social mobility in the United States, partly as a family account and partly as a case study of economic and social conditions. Communion follows in 2026.

J.E. Rowney has 27 books in the catalogue, running from Charcoal (2012) to Nothing But Questions (2026). Two series are listed: Lessons of a Student Midwife and Survivor Stories. Early titles include five seven five, Desire Lines and How the Heart Behaves, and 2020 brought Ghosted, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Love Lessons and The On Call Midwife at Christmas. Rowney continues to publish.

J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist and essayist whose fiction takes the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media as its subject. Post-apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World (1962) among them, tied Ballard to New Wave science fiction; the story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) and the novel Crash (1973), about car-crash fetishists, brought controversy. Forty-five books are catalogued, from 1962 to a 2023 volume of selected non-fiction, at a median length of 222 pages.

J.H. Markert writes horror and thriller. Nine books date from 2023 to 2027, beginning with Mister Lullaby and The Nightmare Man, both 2023, then Sleep Tight (2024), Wicked Games (2024) and Spider to the Fly (2025). Three titles carry 2026 dates: Dig, The Book of Jonah and The Chain House. Ransom Burning is scheduled for 2027. Markert has published at a rate of roughly two books a year since the debut.

J.J. McAvoy writes romance, often about crime families and dynasties. Ruthless People (2014) opens the catalogue and its own series, and Children of Vice, the DuBells, Prince's Bride, Rainbows, Childstar and a vampire romance sequence follow. Twenty-six catalogued books take in Black Rainbow (2015), A Bloody Kingdom (2016) and That Thing Between Eli & Gwen (2016), and reach Hathor and the Prince (2024).

J.J. Miller is credited with 13 books published between 2018 and 2025, opening with Code of Justice (2018) and reaching The Midnight Witness (2025). The listed series are Brad Madison Legal Thriller, Cadence Elliott Legal Thriller and Hank Luger / Savannah Lawyer. Force of Justice (2018), Divine Justice (2019), Game of Justice (2020) and The Lawyer's Truth (2021) are among the titles.

J.K. Ellem's catalogue runs to 32 books published between 2016 and 2026, organised into the No Justice, Killing Seasons, Ravenwood and Octagon series. Octagon (2016) opens the run. Later titles include No Justice (2017), Soldiers Field (2017), American Justice (2018), Cold Justice (2018), A Winter's Kill (2019) and Mill Point Road (2019). Ellem remains actively publishing.

13 books stand under J.K. Franks's name, published between 2016 and 2026, from Downward Cycle (2016) to Storm Warning (2026). Five series divide the catalogue: Catalyst, Savage Earth, Cade Rearden, Pike Shepard and Command & Control. Titles in the run include American Exodus (2017), Ghost Country (2018), State of Chaos (2019) and Eradication (2023). Franks continues to publish.

J.K. Rowling is the pen name of Joanne "Jo" Murray, OBE (born Rowling), a British author who created the Harry Potter fantasy series. The idea for Harry Potter came to Rowling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and been adapted into a film series. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's / Philosopher's Stone (1997) opens the catalogue, followed by Chamber of Secrets (1998), Prisoner of Azkaban (1999), Goblet of Fire (2000) and Order of the Phoenix (2003). Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them appeared under the name Newt Scamander and Quidditch Through the Ages under Kennilworthy Whisp. Cormoran Strike is also listed among the author's characters.

J.L. Beck has 75 catalogued books, published between 2014 and 2026, with Reckless & Ruined scheduled for 2027. The run opens with Indebted (2014) and reaches Branded & Broken (2026). Beck's series include Doubeck Crime Family, King Crime Family, Torrio Empire, Oakmount Elite, Dark Lies, Ties and Trio of Lovers. C. Hallman shares the credit on 2 titles and Darcy Rose on 1.

J.L. Bourne writes apocalyptic horror. Day by Day Armageddon (2004) opened a zombie sequence continued in Beyond Exile (2010) and Shattered Hourglass (2012), with Origin to Exile (2011) collecting part of it. The Tomorrow War books, Tomorrow War (2015), Ghost Run (2016), Serpent Road (2017), form a second series, and Trilobyte a third. Survival, the end of the world and dystopian science fiction are the standing subjects across 10 catalogued titles, the last of them in 2020.

The Blackstone, Quiet Mafia, Dark Water, Devil's Reach, Havoc of Sins and Stonewall series are among J.L. Drake's work. The catalogue records 32 books starting with Darkness Lurks (2014), followed by Darkness Falls and Darkness Follows in 2015. Breathe Me In (2026) is the latest published title. J.L. Drake has Pull Me Under scheduled for 2027.

J.L. Hyde writes suspense in three small-town sequences: Delta County, the Grady Lake Mysteries and the Westridge Cove Mystery books. Delta County (2021) opens the catalogue, with Underground, Midnight in Delta County, Summer of '99, Grady Lake, Magnolia Court and Ghosts of Grady following. Twelve titles run to The Widow Nora in 2026, short ones at a median of 238 pages.

J.L. Seegars has published 10 books since 2022, arranged into the New Haven series, the Fairview novellas and Passion and Politics. Again (2022) opens the catalogue, followed by Restore Me and the three parts of Revive Me, then Reclaim Me and Release Me. A Taste of Sin, the second Passion and Politics title, is the most recent entry.

J.M. Barrie

43 books• 3 series

Sir James Matthew Barrie, born in 1860 and died in 1937, was a British novelist and playwright, born and educated in Scotland before moving to London. There Barrie met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who prompted him to invent a baby boy having magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, first in the 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird and then in the 1904 West End fairy play Peter Pan, about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy in Neverland. The Thrums books and Sentimental Tommy account for much of the rest; 43 catalogued titles run from Better Dead (1887) onward.

J.M. Dalgliesh writes English crime fiction across three regional series: Hidden Norfolk, Dark Yorkshire and the Misty Isle books. The catalogue opens in 2018 with Blacklight, Blood Money, Divided House and The Dogs in the Street, and holds 32 titles through The Missing Dead in 2026, standalones included.

Thirsk Garden Centre Mysteries is J.M. Hall's series, catalogued in places under the name Liz, Pat and Thelma. Four books arrive at one a year: A Spoonful of Murder (2022), A Pen Dipped in Poison (2023), A Clock Stopped Dead (2024) and A Brush with Death (2025). Hall remains actively publishing, and the run reads in publication order, since no separate chronological ordering has been catalogued.

J.N. Chaney is credited with 266 books in the catalogue, starting with The Amber Project (2015) and running to The Queen of Darkness (2026). Early entries include Hope Everlasting (2016), Transient Echoes (2016), Renegade Star (2017) and Renegade Moon (2017). Chaney's series include Backyard Starship, Renegade Star, Last Reaper, Messenger, Homeworld Lost, Star Scrapper, Slip Runner, First Peacemaker, Starcaster and Peacemaker Wars.

J.P. Delaney writes psychological thrillers, and the name also covers earlier work published as Tony Strong, including the Terry Williams books and Believe Me, issued as The Decoy. The catalogue holds 9 titles, from The Poison Tree (1997) to The Move (2026), taking in The Girl Before (2017), The Perfect Wife (2019), Playing Nice (2020) and The New Wife (2023). Murder, entrapment, actresses and androids appear across the subject tags.

J.P. Pomare writes psychological suspense about cults, missing persons, secrecy and children in danger. Call Me Evie (2018) opens the catalogue, followed by In The Clearing (2019), Tell Me Lies (2020), The Last Guests (2021), The Wrong Woman (2022), Home Before Night (2023) and 17 Years Later (2024). The Vince Reid PI Thriller books form the one named series. Twelve titles reach The Gambler (2026), at a median of 331 pages.

Yorkshire supplies the setting for every one of J.R. Ellis's crime novels, which run as a single series of English police mysteries. The Body in the Dales (2017), also published as The Body in Jingling Pot, opens the run, followed by The Quartet Murders, The Murder at Redmire Hall, The Royal Baths Murder, The Nidderdale Murders and The Whitby Murders. Thirteen books had appeared by 2026, ending at The Secret Garden Murders, at a median of 304 pages.

J.R. Rain has 224 books in the catalogue, from Ararat (2006) to Gladiator Moon (2026), with Dead Mom Walking due in 2027. Series include Vampire For Hire, Samantha Moon Short Stories/Novellas, Jim Knighthorse, Alexis Silver, Spinoza, Zeb Clemens, PSI and the Watson Files. Subjects on file include vampires, private investigators, murder and Orange County, California. Moon Dance and The Body Departed are both dated 2009, and the 2010s were the busiest decade.

J.R. Thorn writes romance. The catalogue lists 58 books published between 2016 and 2026, opening with Succubus in Seattle (2016) and reaching Their Rejected Queen (2026). Series recorded against the name include Fortune Academy, Fortune Academy Underworld, Fortune Fae Academy, Elemental Fae Academy, Dark Arts Academy, Unicorn Shifter Academy, Royal Covens, Hell Fae, Noir Reformatory and Crescent Five. Thorn holds the sole credit on all 58 titles.

Paranormal romance built on vampires, angels and the deadly sins is J.R. Ward's territory. Ward began as Jessica Bird with Leaping Hearts (2002) and Heart of Gold (2003), then started the Black Dagger Brotherhood with Dark Lover (2005), continuing through Lover Eternal and Lover Awakened (2006) and Lover Revealed (2007). 61 catalogued books also take in Black Dagger Legacy, Prison Camp, Fallen Angels, Lair Of The Wolven, Firefighters and the Bourbon Kings. Lover Enthroned is the most recent title.

J.R.R. Tolkien

61 books• 13 series

J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 3 January 1892 to 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist, author of The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954 to 1955). At the University of Oxford, Tolkien held the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and a Pembroke College fellowship from 1925 to 1945, then the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature until retiring in 1959. Tolkien belonged to the Inklings and was a close friend of C. S. Lewis. The catalogue lists 61 books from A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary (1921) to The Battle of Maldon (2023), including the History of Middle-Earth, poetry and children's titles.

J.S. Cooper writes contemporary and erotic romance, with billionaires, businessmen and women executives among the recorded subjects. The catalogue counts 136 books from 2013 to 2026. The 2013 titles include Crazy Beautiful Love, Scarred, Healed and The Ex Games, and Next Time We'll Fall is the newest listing. J.S. Cooper's series include Forever Love, One Night Stand, Inappropriate Bachelors, Brothers at Horseshoe Ranch and Four Valenti Brothers.

J.S. Scott writes contemporary romance, much of it about billionaires and the women who meet them at work. The Billionaire's Obsession, the Sinclairs, the Walker Brothers, the Accidental Billionaires and the British Billionaires are her main series, and paranormal runs such as Vampire Coalition, Sentinel Demons and Changeling Encounters sit beside them. Ninety-four books have followed Mine for Tonight (2012), with Billionaire Undefeated ~ Gideon scheduled for 2027.

Matthew Riker carries all five of J.T. Baier's books. Ghost Agent and The Import both appeared in 2020, followed by Long Way Home (2021), Relentless Pursuit (2022) and Fatal Alliance (2024). The series is listed as ongoing.

J.T. Edson, full name John Thomas Edson, was an English writer of Westerns, escapist adventure and police-procedural novels, with 137 Westerns to that name. Edson was born on 17 February 1928, lived near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire from the 1950s, stopped writing in 2005 because of ill health, and died on 17 July 2014. The catalogue lists 143 books from Slaughter's Way (1965) to Texas Teamwork (1997). Floating Outfit, Calamity Jane, Waco, Ole Devil, Rockabye County and Bunduki are among the series, and Dusty Fog and the Texas Rangers feature in the subject records.

J.T. Ellison

50 books• 8 series

Nashville police work and forensic pathology supply J.T. Ellison's material. Taylor Jackson leads the first series from All the Pretty Girls (2007), Dr. Samantha Owens heads a second, and Jayne Thorne, CIA Librarian, a third. Serial murder, missing persons and criminal investigation are the recurring subjects. Forty-nine books are catalogued through You Know Why in 2026, at 408 pages on median.

J.T. Geissinger moves between paranormal romance and romantic suspense: shapeshifting and the occult on one side, rock musicians and dark contemporary romance on the other, with California and Barcelona among the settings. Queens & Monsters, Wicked Games, Night Prowler, Bad Habit, Morally Gray and Beautifully Cruel are among her series. Forty-four catalogued books run from Shadow's Edge and Edge of Oblivion (2012) to Afterlife in 2026.

Jaci Burton is an Oklahoma-based romance author who came to writing after years in the business world. The subject tags list erotic romance, contemporary romance, small towns, baseball players and football players. The catalogue holds 110 books from Mesmerized (2003) to Designs on You (2024). Play by Play, Wild Riders, Demon Hunters, Kismet, Holloway, Boots and Bouquets and Kent Brothers are among the series.

Jack Arbor writes espionage thrillers around assassins and former Soviet intelligence. Russians, the KGB and a bombing in London appear among the catalogued subjects. Arbor's 9 books divide into the Max Austin, Kira Nomura Thriller and Joe Pound series. The Russian Assassin, Cat & Mouse and The Pursuit all appeared in 2016, followed by The Attack (2017), The Hunt (2019), The Abyss (2020), Endgame (2022) and The Japanese Assassin (2023). Ghosts of Mendoza is dated 2025.

Jack Benton writes mysteries. Slim Hardy is the recurring investigator, and the Slim Hardy Mysteries make up most of the catalogue, with Tokyo Lost as the second series. Fourteen Benton titles run from Broken (2016) to The House beyond the Trees (2026), taking in Stolen (2016), Frozen (2017), The Clockmaker's Secret (2018), The Games Keeper (2019), The Angler's Tale (2020) and When the Wind Blows (2022).

Jack Campbell

44 books• 13 series

Jack Campbell is the pen name of John G. Hemry, born April 14, 1956, a retired United States Navy officer who writes military science fiction. Under the Campbell name, Hemry has written 21 volumes of The Lost Fleet and the steampunk and fantasy Pillars of Reality series. Beyond the Frontier continues The Lost Fleet as a spin-off. As Hemry, the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series appeared, along with short stories in Analog. The 44 catalogued books run from Dauntless (2006) to Squad Kill (2026).

Jack Carr is the pen name of George Petersen, an American novelist born on 3 July 1975 who served as a Navy SEAL sniper and also works as a screenwriter, producer and podcaster. Carr writes the James Reece thrillers, which open with The Terminal List (2018); that novel became a television series starring Chris Pratt, with a second season and a spin-off starring Taylor Kitsch. Targeted: Beirut marks a move into non-fiction, and The Fourth Option is a thriller series co-written with M.P. Woodward. The catalogue lists 11 Carr books from 2018 to 2027, with State of Exile due in 2027.