Authors whose first name starts with J, page 10 of 13

Joey W. Hill writes erotic romance and paranormal erotica. Sixty-six books are catalogued between 2000 and 2025, across the Nature Of Desire, Knights Of The Board Room, Mistresses Of The Board Room, Arcane Shot, Daughters Of Arianne and Cantrips series, with Vampire Queen a recurring name. Dominance and submission, bondage, vampires, mermaids and angels fill the subject index. Make Her Dreams Come True (2000) opens the catalogue, followed by Holding the Cards (2002), Choice of Masters (2003), Natural Law (2004), Board Resolution (2005) and Ice Queen (2006). Naughty Dreams (2025) is the newest title, at a median of 374 pages.

Johanna Lindsey wrote historical romance across pirates, Vikings, the English aristocracy and the American west. Captive Bride (1977) opens a catalogue of 57 books, and the Malory-Anderson family novels are the best known strand, alongside the Reid family, the Viking Haardrad family, Sherring Cross and the Ly-San-Ter books. The run closed in 2019 with Temptation's Darling.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

14 books• 4 series

John Ajvide Lindqvist, born 2 December 1968, is a Swedish author of horror novels and short stories. Lindqvist is married to the author Mia Ajvide and is the father of the author Fritiof Ajvide. The catalogue lists 14 books from Let the Right One In / Let Me In (2004) to Anden i maskinen (2024), with Handling the Undead (2005), Harbor (2008) and Little Star (2010) in between. Platserna, Blodstormen and Let the Right One In are listed series. Vampires, Stockholm and revenge appear among the subjects, and Jack Thorne is credited on 1 book.

John Bellairs (John Anthony Bellairs, January 17, 1938 to March 8, 1991) was an American writer of the fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969) and Gothic mysteries for children. Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday are the recurring characters, and Edward Gorey illustrated most of the books. Catalogued titles include The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973) and The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (1978). By 1991 the books had sold a quarter of a million hardcovers and over one and a half million paperbacks.

John Berendt, born in 1939, is an American author of narrative non-fiction with three catalogued books. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) was a best-seller and a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The City of Falling Angels (2005) draws on the people Berendt met while living in Venice in the months after the 1996 fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. My Baby Blue Jays followed in 2011. True crime, murder trials, travel writing and social history are the subjects indexed against the catalogue.

John Birmingham

45 books• 11 series

John Birmingham, born 7 August 1964, is a British-born Australian writer. The 1994 memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand opens the catalogue, and Birmingham is also known for the Axis of Time trilogy and the Cruel Stars space opera trilogy. The catalogue lists 45 books through World War 3.3 (2026), including Weapons of Choice (2004), A Time for War (2005), Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney (1999) and the Dave vs. The Monsters series. World War II and thrillers appear in the subjects.

John Boyne

30 books• 2 series

John Boyne is an Irish novelist born in 1971. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), a historical novel, became a 2008 film, has sold more than 11 million copies and appears in over 58 languages; All the Broken Places (2022) is its sequel. Boyne's work spans novels for adults and younger readers, novellas and short stories. The catalogue lists 30 books from The Thief of Time (2000) to The Elements (2026), including Crippen (2004), Mutiny on the Bounty (2008) and Noah Barleywater Runs Away (2010).

John Brownlow has three catalogued books. The first, Sylvia: The Shooting Script (2003), is the screenplay of the motion picture Sylvia. Seventeen, published also as Agent Seventeen, followed in 2022, and Assassin Eighteen in 2023. Nothing has been added since.

John Buchan

84 books• 4 series

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 to 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, army officer and Unionist politician who served as the 15th Governor General of Canada. Buchan published a first novel in 1895, the year of Sir Quixote of the Moors, the earliest catalogued title, and went on to write more than a hundred books, The Thirty-Nine Steps the best known among them. Series include Richard Hannay, the Leithen Stories and Dickson McCunn. Buchan studied at Glasgow and Oxford, practised as a barrister, and in 1901 was private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa near the end of the Boer War. Subjects include the First World War, the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, the intelligence service and Scotland.

John Bude was the pseudonym under which Ernest Carpenter Elmore (4 November 1901 – 8 November 1957), an English theatre producer and director, wrote crime novels; Elmore also wrote fantasy. The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder, both from 1935, open a catalogue of 28 books, followed by The Sussex Downs Murder (1936), The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937), Loss of a Head (1938) and Death On Paper (1940). Superintendent Green and Inspector Sherwood are the series, and Superintendent William Meredith is a named character. Golden Age mystery and police procedurals appear among the subjects, and the listing links British Library Crime Classics.

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a police officer in Thailand, carries John Burdett's longest sequence, which includes Bangkok 8 (2003), Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts, The Godfather of Kathmandu, Vulture Peak and The Bangkok Asset (2015). The English crime novelist, born in 1951, has 10 catalogued books published between 1996 and 2017, from A Personal History Of Thirst (1996) to Death Effect (2017). Lawyers, murder trials and London appear in the subject headings alongside the Thai material.

John C. Maxwell

208 books• 10 series

Leadership is the main subject of John C. Maxwell, an American author, speaker and pastor. Maxwell's leadership books include The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader and The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, and some have reached the New York Times Best Seller list. The catalogue lists 208 titles from Think on These Things: Meditations for Leaders (1979) to The Resilient Leader (2026). The Winning Attitude (1984), Be a People Person (1989), Developing the Leader Within You (1993) and The Power Of Attitude (1995) are earlier entries. Series include Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Leadership Gold, John C. Maxwell's 101 and Lunch & Learn. Success, attitude and Christian life run through the subject tags.

Police thrillers make up John Carson's 58 catalogued books, organised around a run of named detectives: DCI Harry McNeil, DI Frank Miller, DCI James Craig, DCI Sean Bracken, DCI Liam Brodie, DCI Ewan McCall and Calvin Stewart. Crash Point (2014) opens the catalogue, with Silent Marker (2015), Rain Town (2016) and Watch Me Bleed (2016) after it. Killing Time is the 2026 entry.

John Case writes thrillers. Seven titles are catalogued between 1983 and 2006. The business history Enterprise: The Making of Business in America (1983) opens the list, and the fiction follows with The Genesis Code (1997), The First Horseman (1998), The Syndrome, also published as Trance State (2001), The Eighth Day (2002), The Murder Artist (2004) and Ghost Dancer, also published as Dance of Death (2006). Private investigators, billionaires, Rome and Washington, D.C. run through the subjects. No new Case title has appeared since 2006.

John Connolly

51 books• 11 series

John Connolly is an Irish writer, born in 1968, best known for the novels featuring private detective Charlie Parker. The catalogue opens with Every Dead Thing (1999), followed by Dark Hollow (2000) and The Killing Kind (2001), and lists 52 books to 2026. Other series include Samuel Johnson vs. the Devil, Chronicles of the Invaders and Nocturnes, and The Book of Lost Things appeared in 2006. Subjects include private investigators, Maine, serial murders and fantasy. The Castle is scheduled for 2027.

John Conroe writes urban fantasy and supernatural thrillers, with vampires as recurring material. The Demon Accords is the backbone of the catalogue, extended by the Demon Accords Compendium and Demon Accords Generations, alongside the Zone War and Shadows of Montshire series. Thirty-six books span 2010 to 2026, opening with God Touched and Demon Driven (both 2010) and reaching Contention (2026).

John Corwin writes paranormal fiction and urban fantasy. The Overworld Chronicles head a catalogue of 59 books, with the Overworld Arcanum, Overworld Underground, the Chronicles of Cain and the Amos Carver novels around them. No Darker Fate (2011) opens the list, Dead Red Revenge arrives in 2026, and titles appear three or four times a year.

John Creasey (17 September 1908 to 9 June 1973) was an English novelist of detective and crime fiction who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns, producing more than six hundred novels under twenty-eight pseudonyms. Creasey characters include The Toff (Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Dr Emmanuel Cellini and Dr Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. Gideon, introduced in Gideon's Day (1955), was the basis for the 1958 John Ford film Gideon's Day and the television series Gideon's Way (1964 to 1966). The catalogue lists 497 books from Seven Times Seven (1932), with early titles as M.E. Cooke and Margaret Cooke.

John D. MacDonald wrote hard-boiled crime fiction, most of it in Florida, and created the Fort Lauderdale salvage investigator Travis McGee. 82 catalogued titles open with The Brass Cupcake (1950) and continue through Judge Me Not (1951), Murder for the Bride (1951) and Weep For Me (1951), with early science fiction in Wine of the Dreamers (1951) and Ballroom of the Skies (1952). Standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction fill out a catalogue that closed in 2019.

John Deacon has published 30 books across a short span, every title dated between 2022 and 2026. The catalogue opens in 2022 with A Man Called Justice, Justice Returns, Justice Rides Again and Heck's Journey, then continues through a run of Heck titles - Heck's Gamble, Heck's Gold, Heck's Stand and Heck's Valley - in 2023. Deacon's series are Heck and Hope, Silent Justice, the Provider Saga, Lobo, Kip Callahan, Conn Sullivan, A Sweeping Oregon Trail Saga, Fletch and Faith and the Regulator Chronicles, with standalone novels alongside them. The newest title is Conn 3 (2026).

John Dean writes mystery and detective fiction, with catalogue subjects including murder, police, investigation and England. The catalogue lists 29 books, from The Long Dead (2006) to The Informer (2026). Dean's series are DCI John Blizzard, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris and Danny Radford, and John Blizzard also appears as a listed subject. Other titles include Strange Little Girl (2007), To Honour the Dead (2012) and The Railway Man (2017).

John Dickson Carr wrote traditional detective fiction, most of it set in England. It Walks by Night (1930) opens the catalogue with the investigator Henri Bencolin, Hag's Nook (1932) starts the Dr. Gideon Fell series, and the Sir Henry Merrivale novels appeared as Carter Dickson. Eighty-seven catalogued titles, reissues included, run to 2022, at a median of 251 pages.

Cliff Janeway, a Denver ex-policeman turned antiquarian bookseller, is the detective John Dunning is remembered for, introduced in Booked to Die (1992). Dunning (1942-2023) was an American writer working in both detective fiction and non-fiction, and his reference books on old-time radio, including Tune in Yesterday (1976), stand beside the novels. The catalogue holds 16 titles from The Holland Suggestions (1975) to Dreamer (2013), at a median of 432 pages. No Dunning book has appeared since 2013.

John E. Douglas

20 books• 2 series

John E. Douglas is a retired FBI special agent, born in 1945, who served as a unit chief in the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit and helped build criminal profiling in the United States. Mindhunter (1995) is the best known of 20 catalogued books, which open with the Crime Classification Manual (1992) and end with When a Killer Calls (2022). Sexual Homicide (1993), Unabomber (1996), Journey Into Darkness (1997) and The Anatomy of Motive (1999) work through serial murder investigation as case studies.

Legal thrillers are John Ellsworth's form. Thaddeus Murfee heads the main series, with Michael Gresham, Sisters In Law and Spies In The Rose Garden as further lines. Fifty-two catalogued books start in 2014 with The Defendants, Attorney at Large and Beyond a Reasonable Death, and reach The Redemption Manuscript (2024). Criminal defence lawyers, malpractice cases and revenge recur as subjects.

John Farrow is the name on the Émile Cinq-Mars series, which the catalogue subjects place in police procedural territory in the province of Quebec. The 13 listed books run from The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater (1993) to Bright Shining As the Sun (2025), and The Timekeeper (1995) is listed under the name Trevor Ferguson. City Of Ice (2000), Ice Lake (2001), River City (2011), The Storm Murders (2015) and Seven Days Dead (2016) are among the titles.

John Feinstein (1955-2025) was an American sportswriter and commentator, for many years a reporter at the Washington Post. A Season on the Brink (1986) is his best known book, an account of a season inside Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers basketball programme, and it opens a catalogue of 51 titles reaching The Ancient Eight (2024). Basketball, golf, football and college sport run through the nonfiction, and the Sports Beat, Benchwarmers and Bobby Kelleher series were written for younger readers.

John Flanagan

37 books• 6 series

John Flanagan writes fantasy adventure for readers in grades 6 to 8. The Ruins of Gorlan (2004) opens Ranger's Apprentice, which extends into The Royal Ranger and The Early Years; the Brotherband Chronicles are a second series, and seafaring life and pirates sit in the subject tags. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued through Ambush at Sorato (2024). Apprentices, heroes, courage and friendship recur across the books.

John Fowles was an English novelist whose work sits between modernism and postmodernism, with Sartre and Camus among the influences on it. The Collector opened the catalogue in 1963. The Magus (1965) came out of a spell teaching English on the Greek island of Spetses after Oxford, and sold immediately, in tune with the anarchism and experimental philosophy of the 1960s. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) followed: a Victorian-era romance given a postmodern turn, set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life. Twenty-one titles run to The Journals: Volume 2 in 2005, taking in The Ebony Tower (1974) and Daniel Martin (1977).

Horse racing runs through every John Francome thriller. Francome, born in 1952, was a seven-time British champion jump jockey, then a racing trainer and a Channel 4 broadcaster, before writing. 27 catalogued books span Born Lucky (1985) to Storm Rider (2010), with Declared Dead (1988), Blood Stock (1989), Stone Cold (1990) and Rough Ride (1993) among them. Jockeys, steeplechasing and crime in British racing fill the subjects, and the catalogue is likely complete.

John Galligan writes mysteries in two sequences. The Fly Fishing Mystery books are The Nail Knot (2003), The Blood Knot (2005), The Clinch Knot (2008) and The Wind Knot (2011). Bad Axe County (2019), Dead Man Dancing (2020), Bad Moon Rising (2021) and Bad Day Breaking (2022) form the second. Nine books are catalogued in all, opening with Red Sky, Red Dragonfly (2001). Fly fishing, murder investigation, police procedure and women sleuths are the recurring subjects, and a character named Dog runs through the catalogue. No new Galligan title has appeared since 2022.

John Galsworthy

78 books• 3 series

The Forsyte Saga made John Galsworthy's name: a trilogy about the Forsyte family, begun with The Man of Property in 1906 and completed over the following fifteen years. Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright, born into a prosperous upper-middle-class family and steered toward the law before turning to writing instead. Two further trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, extended the sequence, and the Nobel Prize in Literature went to Galsworthy in 1932. The catalogue holds 78 titles, from Jocelyn in 1898 onward, including work issued under the name John Sinjohn; the 1920s were the densest decade.

John Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English author of spy and thriller novels, best known for continuing the James Bond books. Gardner also wrote the Boysie Oakes series and three novels featuring Professor Moriarty, the villain created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Gardner joined the Home Guard at 13 during the Second World War and went on to serve in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines; after demobilisation Gardner studied theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained a Church of England priest in 1953. The Liquidator (1964) opens a catalogue of 60 books that includes Understrike (1965), Amber Nine (1966), Madrigal (1967) and Traitor's Exit (1970) and ends with Moriarty (2008). Herbie Kruger, Derek Torry and Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford are further series.

Hostage rescue, kidnapping and fugitives drive John Gilstrap's thrillers. Jonathan Grave stands at the centre of the main series, with Victoria Emerson and Irene Rivers heading others and non-fiction alongside. Forty-one catalogued books run from Nathan's Run (1996) through Hostage Zero (2010) and High Treason (2013) to Scorched Earth in 2026.

John Glatt is a British American writer of biographies and true crime, born in London, who moved to New York in 1981. The catalogue lists 31 books from Rage & Roll (1993) to Tangled Vines (2023). Biographies include River Phoenix: The Biography (1995), The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (1997) and The Royal House of Monaco (1998). Other titles include For I Have Sinned (1998), Evil Twins (1999), Cradle of Death (2000) and Cries in the Desert (2002). Subjects include murder case studies, film actors, rock music, princes and family.

John Gray

7 books

John Gray's catalogue holds 7 books published between 2017 and 2025. It opens with God Needed a Puppy in 2017 and continues through Keller's Heart (2019), Manchester Christmas (2020), Sweet Polly Petals (2020), Chasing Manhattan (2021), Chasing Rome (2022) and The Carpenter's Son (2025). The books are catalogued as American literature and children's fiction, and dogs, deafness and disability are their recurring subjects. Gray continues to publish.

John Green

13 books• 4 series

John Green, born John Michael Green on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an American author and YouTuber who grew up in Orlando, Florida. Green's books have more than 50 million copies in print, and The Fault in Our Stars (2012) ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Looking for Alaska (2005), An Abundance of Katherines (2006), Paper Towns (2008), Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) and Turtles All the Way Down (2017) are other listed titles, and Hollywood, Ending (2026) is the newest. Young adult fiction, grief, boarding schools and missing persons are among the subjects. Green also makes online video with Green's younger brother, Hank Green.

John Grisham

65 books• 11 series

Legal thrillers are the core of John Grisham's work. Grisham is an American writer, lawyer and former politician, born in 1955, who studied at Mississippi State University and took a law degree from the University of Mississippi in 1981. The catalogue holds 65 books, running from A Time to Kill (1989) through The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Client to Shaken (2026). Series include Jake Brigance, Mitch McDeere, Camino Island, Rogue Lawyer and Theodore Boone. The American Academy of Achievement credits Grisham with 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers and 300 million copies sold.

John Gwynne

14 books• 4 series

John Gwynne writes epic fantasy at length: the median catalogued book runs to 628 pages. Malice (2012) is the earliest of 14 catalogued titles, which take in The Faithful and the Fallen, the Bloodsworn Saga and Wolves of War, and reach The Wolves of War in 2026. Imaginary wars, magic, demons and angels supply the material.

Buck Reilly is the pilot at the centre of John H. Cunningham's adventure thrillers, and the series names its books by colour: Red Right Return (2011), Green To Go (2012), Crystal Blue (2013), Second Chance Gold (2014), Maroon Rising (2015), Free Fall to Black (2017), Silver Goodbye (2018), White Knight (2019) and Indigo Abyss (2021). Salvage work and flying are the recurring subjects. Thirteen books are catalogued, reaching Under the Charcoal Sky (2025).

John Hagee is an American pastor and televangelist with 54 catalogued books to his name. Hagee, born in 1940, founded John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts across the United States and Canada, and chairs Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist organisation in America. The books run from Invasion of Demons (1973) to God's Prophetic Clock (2026), on biblical prophecy, Christian living, theology and Jerusalem. Hagee's remarks about the Catholic Church, Jewish people and Islam, and his promotion of the blood moon prophecy, have drawn controversy.

North Carolina is where John Hart sets his crime novels, which turn on families, fathers and sons, and murder. The King of Lies (2006) opens a catalogue of seven books that runs through Down River (2007), The Last Child (2009), Iron House (2012), Redemption Road (2016) and The Hush (2018) to The Unwilling (2021). Johnny Merrimon carries one short series; the rest stand alone. Nothing new has been published since 2021.

John Harvey is a British crime novelist, screenwriter and poet, best known for the Charlie Resnick novels, which are set in Nottingham and shaped by jazz. Harvey has also published under several pen names. The catalogue lists 153 titles from 1974 onward, beginning with Knife in the Night and The First Death (both 1974), then Angel Alone, Avenging Angel and Death Train (1975). Series on the author page include Charlie Resnick and Frank Elder, along with Apache, Hawk, Peacemaker, Gringos, Lawmen and Hart: The Regulator. Police procedurals, England and westerns appear in the subject tags.

John Irving

20 books• 1 series

John Irving is an American novelist whose 20 catalogued books begin with Setting Free the Bears (1968) and take in The World According to Garp (1978), The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985) and A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989). Family life, fathers and sons, young men and physicians recur as subjects. Queen Esther is the most recent title, published in 2025.

Aviation is the through-line of John J. Nance's catalogue: 22 books published between 1984 and 2017, from Splash of Colors, an account of the collapse of Braniff International, to 16 Souls (2017). Nance, born in 1946, is an American pilot, attorney and analyst of aviation and healthcare safety as well as a novelist. Air pilots, airlines, aircraft accidents and their investigation fill the subjects, alongside terrorism and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Kat Bronsky is the one series, and the catalogue is likely complete.

John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 to March 11, 2023) was an American writer of historical and speculative fiction. Jakes wrote The Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South trilogy set in the American Civil War, and used the pen name Jay Scotland. The catalogue lists 73 books from The Texans Ride North (1952) to The Gods of Newport (2006). Other series include Johnny Havoc, Lou Largo, Brak the Barbarian and the Crown Family Saga. Subjects range across westerns, frontier life, science fiction and private investigators.

John Katzenbach

16 books• 2 series

Psychological thrillers are John Katzenbach's territory: serial murderers, stalkers, criminals and the journalists who write about them. Born in 1950, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and the Miami News before leaving newspapers for fiction. The first novel, In the Heat of the Summer (1982), was nominated for an Edgar Award and reached the screen in 1985 as The Mean Season. Sixteen books are catalogued through The Architect (2026), among them Just Cause (1992), Hart's War (1999) and The Analyst (2002).

The Second World War and the Cold War frame John Lawton's thrillers, set in London and built on police work and espionage. Frederick Troy heads the Inspector Troy series, Joe Wilderness leads a second, and standalone novels and short fiction sit beside them. Seventeen catalogued books run from Black Out (1995) through Old Flames (1996), A Little White Death (1998) and A Lily of the Field (2010) to Smoke and Embers in 2025.

John Le Carre

30 books• 5 series

John le Carré was the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, an English novelist of espionage who lived from 19 October 1931 to 12 December 2020. During the 1950s and 1960s Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and late in life took Irish citizenship. The catalogue counts 30 books, from Call for the Dead (1961) to A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré (2022). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), the third novel, was an international bestseller and an award-winning film. George Smiley is the recurring figure, with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) and Smiley's People (1979) in the list. Subjects include the Cold War, spies and intelligence officers.

John Lescroart, born January 14, 1948, writes legal and crime thrillers built around three recurring characters: Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt. More than 10 million copies of Lescroart's novels have sold, in 22 languages across more than 75 countries, and 18 titles have reached the New York Times bestseller list. San Francisco appears in the subject tags. The catalogue lists 35 books, opening with Sunburn (1981), then Son of Holmes (1986), Rasputin's Revenge (1987) and Dead Irish (1989). The Vig (1990), Hard Evidence (1993) and The 13th Juror (1994) come next. The Auguste Lupa Mystery series and standalone novels also appear.

John Locke writes thrillers and crime suspense. Forty-six catalogued books run from Lethal People in 2009 to The Enemy Next Door in 2022, built around four recurring figures: Donovan Creed, Dani Ripper, Emmett Love and Gideon Box. Kidnapping, missing persons and murderers supply the plots, and the 2010s are the densest decade. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

John Lutz

66 books• 6 series

John Lutz (1939-2021) was an American writer in mystery, crime and suspense, with a career past fifty years, at least fifty books and roughly 250 short stories to it. Three private investigators carry the series work, Alo Nudger, Fred Carver and Frank Quinn, with St. Louis, Florida and New York among the settings. SWF Seeks Same, filmed in 1992 as Single White Female, is his best known title, and Lutz led both the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America as president. The catalogue holds 66 books, from The Truth of the Matter (1971) to Single White Female Seeks Same (2022).

John Marrs is a British writer of psychological thrillers and speculative fiction and a former journalist. Marrs's novel The One (2016) was adapted into an eight-part Netflix series, and a sequence of standalone near-future novels shares its fictional universe. The catalogue lists 14 Marrs books, from The Wronged Sons / When You Disappeared (2013) to Dead in the Water (2026), including The Passengers (2019), The Minders (2020) and The Marriage Act (2023).

Georgia is where John McMahon sets his police procedurals, with Detective P.T. Marsh working murder, arson and the legacy of lynching. The Good Detective (2019) opens the series, followed by The Evil Men Do and A Good Kill. Head Cases (2025) starts a second sequence around a federal Patterns and Recognition unit, continued in Inside Man. Five books make up the catalogue, at a median of 352 pages.

John Angus McPhee, born on 8 March 1931, is an American writer regarded as a pioneer of creative nonfiction. McPhee was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in General Nonfiction four times and won in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, a collection of five books. The George Polk Career Award followed in 2008, and McPhee has held the Ferris Professorship of Journalism at Princeton University since 1974. The catalogue lists 45 McPhee books, from A Sense of Where You Are (1965) to They're in the River (2025), including Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1967) and Encounters with the Archdruid (1971). Subjects include geology, essays and travel.

Sir John Mortimer (1923-2009) practised as a barrister in Britain and wrote plays, screenplays and fiction. Horace Rumpole, the barrister of Rumpole of the Bailey, is the creation Mortimer is known for, and the Rumpole short stories were worked up from episodes of the television series Mortimer wrote himself. Forty-three titles are catalogued, from Charade (1947) to Forever Rumpole (2011), with the Rapstone Chronicles alongside the Rumpole books and London courtrooms and English politics across the subject list.

John Norman is the pen name of John Frederick Lange Jr., born in 1931, an American writer and philosophy professor. The Gor novels are the main work: science fantasy set on the imaginary world of Gor, with Tarl Cabot recurring, running from Tarnsman of Gor (1967) to Treasure of Gor (2024) and filling most of a 53-book catalogue. The Telnarian Histories form a second series, and The Cognitivity Paradox (1970) is a work of philosophy. Slavery, adventure and erotica recur as subjects, in books with a median length of 488 pages.

John Patrick Green is an American author and illustrator, known for creating the children's graphic novel series InvestiGators and for illustrating the comic Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden. Alligators, detectives, humour, friendship and sibling rivalry appear among the subjects of 26 catalogued books published between 2010 and 2026, from Nothing but Trouble to Weather or Not. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T., Kitten Construction Company, Teen Boat! and the Phineas and Ferb Comic Readers are the named series.

John Pilkington writes historical mysteries set in Tudor and Stuart England. The Thomas the Falconer Mysteries open with The Ruffler's Child (2002); the Martin Marbeck Elizabethan spy novels, the Justice Belstrang Mysteries, the Bishopsgate Ward Mysteries and the Will Revill and Betsy Brand books follow. Treason, theft, political corruption and the playhouse supply the plots. Thirty catalogued titles reach Death of a Renegade (2026).

John Ringo, born March 22, 1963, is an American author of science fiction and military fiction, with several New York Times best sellers. The work ranges from straight science fiction to military and political thrillers, and more than seven million copies are in print in seven languages. The catalogue starts with A Hymn Before Battle (2000), followed by Gust Front, March Upcountry and March to the Sea in 2001, and reaches Beyond the Rift (2026). Series include Posleen War, Black Tide Rising, Council Wars, Looking Glass, Troy Rising, Von Neumann's War and Special Circumstances. Subjects include space warfare, human-alien encounters, Navy SEALs and survival.