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Jane Gardam wrote for children and for adults and worked as a literary critic, with reviews in The Spectator and The Telegraph and writing for BBC Radio. Gardam took the Whitbread Award twice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005 and appointed OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours. Thirty-five books are catalogued between A Few Fair Days (1971) and The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014), with Old Filth the one series listed. England, family life, adolescence and girls recur as subjects.

Jane Godman writes contemporary romance and romantic suspense, with thrillers also among the recorded subjects. Thirty-seven books are catalogued between 2013 and 2020, from The Rebel's Promise (2013) to Colton Manhunt (2020). Series in the listing include the Arctic Brotherhood, Sons of Stillwater, Powder and Patch, the Jago Legacy, Georgian Rebel, Cunning Prophet and Children of the Ombra. Nothing has been catalogued since 2020.

Jane Goodger is the pen name of Jane Blackwood, who worked as a journalist for twelve years before turning to fiction, and who lives in New England. The catalogue holds 22 books published between When There is Hope (1996) and The Reluctant Duchess (2019). Brides of St. Ives and Lost Heiresses are the series recorded under the name. Recorded subjects include historical romance, marriage, man-woman relationships, amnesia, time travel, New England, San Francisco, and social life and customs.

Jane Green is an English novelist, born in 1968, who lives in the United States. By 2014 Green's books had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into 31 languages, and Green has been called one of the first chick lit writers. The catalogue lists 32 books from Straight Talking (1997) and Jemima J (1998) to The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke (2026). Subjects include single women, female friendship, dating, family secrets and London.

Jane Haddam was the pen name of Orania Papazoglou, an American mystery writer who lived from 1951 to 2019. Gregor Demarkian, a private investigator of Armenian American background working in Philadelphia, heads her longest series. Patience McKenna and Georgia Xenakis head two more, and some early titles carry the Papazoglou name. The catalogue holds 39 books published between 1984 and 2020, from Sweet, Savage Death (1984) to One of Our Own (2020), which appeared after her death.

Jane Hamilton

8 books

Jane Hamilton is an American novelist, born in 1957, with eight books catalogued. The Book of Ruth (1988) opens the run and The Phoebe Variations (2025) is the most recent, with A Map of the World (1992), The Short History of a Prince (1998), Disobedience (2000), When Madeline Was Young (2006), Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009) and The Excellent Lombards (2016) between them. Family life, mothers and daughters, small-town Wisconsin and dairy farms are the recurring subjects.

Jane Harper

6 books• 2 series

Jane Harper writes crime fiction about homicide investigations in remote country, where secrecy holds a community together. Federal agent Aaron Falk recurs across the work. Six catalogued books run from The Dry (2016) through Force of Nature (2017), The Lost Man (2018), The Survivors (2020) and Exiles (2023) to Last One Out (2026). Harper also publishes standalone novels, and remains actively writing.

Jane Healey is a novelist with three catalogued books, all of them standalone. The Animals at Lockwood Manor (2020) came first, followed by The Ophelia Girls (2021) and Crescendo (2026). The novels run to roughly 304 pages each, and Healey remains in publication.

Jane Henry is a USA Today bestselling romance author. Henry's books are character-driven and pair dominant anti-hero alpha males with strong heroines. The catalogue lists 92 books from 2016 to 2026, beginning with A Thousand Yesses, Begin Again and Claimed on the Frontier in 2016, and Wicked Scars (2026) is the latest. Series include Bratva Kings, Boston Doms, NYC Doms, Dangerous Doms, Ruthless Doms, Wicked Vows, Montavio Brotherhood and McCarthy Family Legacy. Erotic romance, BDSM, romantic suspense, enemies to lovers and second chances appear in the subject tags.

Poetry came first for Jane Holland, an English writer born 17 November 1966 who took the Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award in 1996. She now works mainly in commercial fiction, using the bylines Betty Walker, JJ Holland, Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good and Hannah Coates. The Victoria Lamb name carries Witchstruck, a young adult novel that took the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Young Adult Romantic Novel of the Year in 2013. Holland's catalogue holds 82 titles from 1998 to 2025, including the Wishing Well Cottage, Lucy Morgan, Stella Penhaligon and Tudor Witch series. Her sister is the novelist Sarah Holland.

Jane Isaac writes crime and mystery fiction, and the three series on record are DCI Helen Lavery, DC Beth Chamberlain and DI Will Jackman. The catalogue holds 14 books from An Unfamiliar Murder (2014) to In the Shadows (2023). Recorded subjects include murder, kidnapping, missing persons, thrillers and Great Britain. The Truth Will Out (2014), Beneath the Ashes (2017), After He's Gone (2018) and Hush Little Baby (2020) are other listed titles. Isaac is marked as dormant.

Jane Johnson

19 books• 4 series

Jane Johnson, born in 1960, is an English fiction editor and a writer of books for adults and children. Two pseudonyms appear besides the real name: Gabriel King, shared with M. John Harrison, and Jude Fisher. The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion (2001) carries the Jude Fisher name. The 19 catalogued books run from The Wild Road (1997) to Secrets of the Bees (2025), with Eidolon Chronicles, Tag, the Cat, Knot Garden and Moroccan among the series.

Antiques appraiser Josie Prescott is the detective Jane K. Cleland is known for. The Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries are traditional mysteries set in New Hampshire, beginning with Consigned to Death in 2006 and continuing through Deadly Appraisal (2007), Antiques to Die For (2008) and a strand of short stories and novellas. The American author also writes non-fiction on the craft of writing, and earlier titles handled business communication, among them How to Create High-Impact Newsletters in 1996. Cleland has won and been nominated for numerous awards, the Josie Prescott series has been optioned for film and television, and the catalogue reaches Beat the Bots in 2025.

Jane Kelly's catalogue runs to eight books published between 1997 and 2023, divided between the Meg Daniels Bonus Mystery and Widow Lady Mysteries listings. Women detectives and women sleuths are the recorded subjects, New Jersey the recorded setting, and place names run through the titles from Ocean City to Seaside Heights, Atlantic City and Ventnor City. Killing Time in Ocean City (1997) is the earliest and Strangers in the Avalon Dunes (2023) the most recent. Five books total 1,534 pages.

Women pioneers on the American frontier are Jane Kirkpatrick's subject, written as Christian historical fiction and often set in Oregon. Kinship and Courage, Tender Ties, Change and Cherish, Portraits of the Heart and Women of Cannon Beach are among her series, with non-fiction alongside. Sixty-five catalogued books run from Homestead (1991) to With the Enduring Tides in 2026.

Jane L. Rosen writes contemporary fiction about women in New York. Seven catalogued books run from The Thread (2013) to Songs of Summer (2025), taking in Nine Women, One Dress - also published as The Dress - along with Eliza Starts a Rumor (2020), A Shoe Story (2022), On Fire Island (2023) and Seven Summer Weekends (2024). Single women, relationships and New York City supply the material.

Jane Langton (1922–2018) wrote children's literature and mystery novels, and illustrated her own books. Two sequences carry most of the work: the Homer Kelly mysteries, built on a recurring detective of that name, and the Hall Family Chronicles, which run to magic and fairy tale. Thirty-four books are catalogued, from The Majesty of Grace (1961) to The Dragon Tree (2008), with Massachusetts and Cambridge among the settings, at a median length of 252 pages.

Jane Lindskold writes fantasy and science fiction, in novels and short stories. Her 34 catalogued books run from Chronomaster (1989) to House of Rough Diamonds (2023), at a median of 368 pages, densest in the 2000s. Her series include the Firekeeper Saga, recorded under its first title Through Wolf's Eyes, along with Athanor, Breaking the Wall, Over Where, Artemis Awakening and Captain Ah-Lee. Wolves, feral children, magic and life on other planets run through the subject index. Lindskold is American, born in 1962, and wrote a 1993 book about Roger Zelazny.

Jane Linfoot writes romance set in Cornwall. The Little Wedding Shop by the Sea is the main series, opening in 2016 and adding Christmas at the Little Wedding Shop, Christmas Promises at the Little Wedding Shop and Summer at the Little Wedding Shop; The Little Cornish Kitchen (2018) starts a second. Weddings, bridal shops and Christmas supply much of the material. Eighteen books are catalogued between 2000 and 2025, from How to Win a Guy in 10 Dates to The Cosy Croissant Café.

Yorkshire supplies most of the settings for Jane Lovering, a British novelist writing romance since 2008. Two of her books have taken Romantic Novelists' Association honours: Please Don't Stop the Music as Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012, and Christmas at the Little Village School as Love Story of the Year in 2018. Vampires and other paranormal figures fill the Otherworlders strand, alongside the Yorkshire Romances and Seasons by the Sea series. 35 titles span 2008 to 2026, from Slightly Foxed to The Cottage at the Edge of the Woods.

Jane O'Connor is the writer of Fancy Nancy, a children's picture book series begun in 2005 and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. The first Fancy Nancy book stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly 100 weeks, and the series grew past 100 titles and 50 million copies sold, with translations into 20 languages including Hungarian and Hebrew. Nancy moved into chapter books in April 2012 with Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. The catalogue lists 134 O'Connor books from Yours Till Niagara Falls, Abby (1979) to Besties for Eternity (2025), across series such as Lulu the Witch, Sir Small and Miranda Bookman.

Jane Peart wrote suspense, historical fiction and romance for both secular and Christian readers, and died in 2007. Before writing full time, Peart attended college in New England and worked as an airline attendant. Brides of Montclair heads the series list, with Westward Dreams, American Quilt, Orphan Train West and Edgecliffe Manor completing five recorded lines. Plantation life and Virginia appear in the subject record alongside orphans, women pioneers and Christian life. The catalogue holds 51 titles dated 1980 to 2004, averaging 230 pages.

Jane Porter's 74 catalogued books span 2001 to 2026, opening with Christos's Promise (2001) and reaching A Soldier's Promise (2026). Subjects place the work in contemporary romance and romantic suspense, with arranged marriage, princesses, kings and rulers, and single mothers among the listed themes. Series include Wyatt Brothers of Montana, Taming of the Sheenans, Galvan Brides, Desert Kings, Brennan Sisters, Bellevue Wives and Disgraced Copelands. Jane Porter is still publishing.

Nine books are catalogued under Jane Renshaw, published between 2019 and 2024. The Sweetest Poison (2019) opens the run and The Au Pair (2024) is the most recent title, with The Child Who Never Was, The Time and the Place, Watch Over Me, No Place Like Home, The Stepson, The Lost Boy and The Other Sister recorded in between. Pitfourie is the one series listed under this name, and Renshaw is still publishing.

Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author and poet who described herself as a psychic and spirit medium channelling a personality named Seth. The resulting Seth Material made Roberts a leading figure in writing on paranormal phenomena, through The Seth Material (1970), Seth Speaks (1972) and The Nature of Personal Reality (1974). Roberts also wrote fiction, including the Oversoul Seven novels. Reincarnation, parapsychology and the nature of reality run through 47 catalogued titles.

Jane Shemilt writes psychological suspense about families under pressure: missing persons, runaway children, mothers and daughters. Seven catalogued books run from The Daughter in 2014 to The Vacation House, also published as All Her Secrets, in 2023, taking in The Drowning Lesson in 2015, The Playground in 2019, Little Friends in 2020 and The Patient in 2022. Africa appears among the settings, and nothing new has been recorded since 2023.

Jane Smiley

40 books• 6 series

Jane Smiley, born September 26, 1949, is an American novelist and the winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Thousand Acres (1991). The catalogue holds 40 Smiley books from Barn Blind (1980) to Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (2026). The Greenlanders (1988), Moo (1995) and The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) are among the titles. Series include Horses Of Oak Valley Ranch, Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga and Ellen and Ned. Subjects include horses, ranch life and rural families.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

8 books• 1 series

Jane Stanton Hitchcock was an American author, playwright and screenwriter who lived from 1946 to 2025. Grace (1982) opens a catalogue of 8 books, and the mysteries made the name: Trick of the Eye (1992), The Witches' Hammer (1994), One Dangerous Lady (1990), Social Crimes (2002), Mortal Friends (2009) and Bluff (2019), which took the 2019 Hammett Prize. Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love. New York socialites, rich people and their manners supply the settings.

Jane Steen writes historical fiction with romance and suspense in it. The House of Closed Doors (2012) opens her first series and takes unmarried motherhood as its subject; the Scott-De Quincy Mysteries follow, from Lady Helena Investigates (2018) to Lady Ambition's Dilemma (2024). Nine catalogued books span the two series, and Steen is listed as ongoing.

Jane Thornley has 24 books catalogued across six series: the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found, Crime by Design, None of the Above, Time Shadows, the Cosmati Chronicles and the Timewalker Chronicles. Frozen Angel (2013) opens the run, and Rogue Wave (2014), The Warp in the Weave (2015), Beautiful Survivor (2016), The Plunge (2018) and Consider Me Gone (2020) follow it. Sigrid's Hoard (2025) is the most recent title.

Jane Thynne writes historical espionage. The British novelist, journalist and broadcaster has 14 books catalogued from Patrimony (1997) to The Judgement of Stars (2025). Clara Vine is her main series, Black Roses (2013), The Winter Garden (2014), A War of Flowers (2015) and Faith and Beauty (2015), several of them retitled for other markets, and Rose Ransom is the second. Actresses, intelligence officers, murder and wartime Germany supply the material.

Jane Toombs was born Jane Ellen Jamison on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles and grew up largely in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Toombs trained and worked as a registered nurse, attended Michigan State University and Northern Michigan University, and later moved to Carson City, Nevada. The catalogue lists 82 books from A Topaz for My Lady Fair (1975) to Bride of the Baja (2018), with subjects spanning historical romance, paranormal romance, westerns and science fiction. Series include Moonrunner, Californios, Dagon House Ghosts and A Darkness of Dragons.

Jane Washington has 22 books in the catalogue, with romance as the listed subject. The earliest is Hereditary (2013), and later titles include Charcoal Tears (2015), Lead Heart (2016), I Am Grey (2018) and A Tempest of Shadows (2020), with One Twisted Hymn (2026) the newest. Washington's series are Ironside Academy, Seraph Black, Beatrice Harrow, Bastan Hollow Saga and Shadowsong.

Jane Willan's catalogue holds 7 books, from Jump Start This Church! (2014) to The Beekeeper's Last Confession and Widow's Walk (both 2025). Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery is the series listed, and subjects include abbeys, nuns, murder, investigation, Wales and cheese. The Hour of Death and The Shadow of Death appeared in 2018, Abide With Me in 2020 and The Christmas Camel Caper in 2024.

Jane Yolen

237 books• 22 series

Jane Yolen (Jane Hyatt Yolen, February 11, 1939 to June 11, 2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and children's books. The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella, is the best-known Yolen work, and Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite are among the others. The short works Sister Emily's Lightship and Lost Girls both won Nebula Awards. The catalogue counts 237 books from The Witch Who Wasn't (1964) to Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (2026). Series include Commander Toad, How Do Dinosaurs...?, Pit Dragons, the Young Merlin Trilogy, Books of the Great Alta and Tartan Magic. Yolen worked as an editor, collaborated most often with Adam Stemple, and in 2012 became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Janelle Brown, born September 12, 1973, is an American novelist and former technology and culture journalist. Brown worked at Wired from 1995 to 1998, helping launch Wired News, then wrote for Salon.com from 1998 to 2002, and co-founded the early online feminist zine Maxi. Five novels have made the New York Times bestseller list. The 7 catalogued books run from All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (2008) to What Kind of Paradise (2025), and Pretty Things (2020) is being adapted for television.

Janelle Mowery is credited on nine books published between 2008 and 2013. Subjects recorded against them include ranch life, ranchers, librarians, murder and religious fiction. Where the Truth Lies (2008) opens the list and Showdown at Barncastle Inn (2013) closes it. Two series stand under the name, Massachusetts Mayhem and Colorado Runaway. Died in the Wool (2009), Love Finds You in Silver City, Idaho (2010), Inn Plain Sight (2011) and three 2011 titles beginning with the word When fill out the list, at a median of 288 pages.

Savage Ecstasy, Defiant Ecstasy and Forbidden Ecstasy all appeared in 1982, the first year in Janelle Taylor's catalogue. Taylor is an American author of historical romance, born June 28, 1944, in Athens, Georgia. Brazen Ecstasy and Tender Ecstasy followed in 1983, and Golden Torment and Valley of Fire in 1984. Series include Gray Eagle, Western Wind, Lakota Skies, Sedgwick Sisters, Southern Historical, Saar and Viking Fantasy. Subject headings name Indians of North America, the American West, mixed descent and romantic suspense, and the catalogue counts 58 books in all.

Janet Bolin is the author of the Threadville Mystery series. Catalogue subjects include embroidery, sewing machines and Pennsylvania. The catalogue lists 9 books, starting with Dire Threads (2011), Threaded for Trouble (2012), Thread and Buried (2013), Night of the Living Thread (2014) and Seven Threadly Sins (2015). Blame the Beignets and Double Grudge Donuts followed in 2024, Sour Crime Donuts in 2025 and Killer Donuts in 2026. Subjects also include women sleuths, murder and missing persons.

Janet Chapman wrote paranormal and contemporary romance set in Maine, with Scots and time travel in the mix. Charming the Highlander (2003) opens the Pine Creek Highlanders series, followed by Loving the Highlander and Wedding the Highlander in the same year. Spellbound Falls, Midnight Bay, Puffin Harbor and the Logger books follow. Twenty-six titles are catalogued, the last of them Call It Magic in 2020.

Janet Dailey

161 books• 16 series

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (1944-2013) was an American author of romance novels, translated into nineteen languages and sold in the hundreds of millions of copies. The Dailey catalogue holds 161 books opening with No Quarter Asked (1974), followed by state-titled entries including Savage Land: Texas (1974), Darling Jenny: Wyoming (1975) and Dangerous Masquerade: Alabama (1976). Subjects cover contemporary and historical romance, western romance, ranch life, love stories, Christmas stories and the Calder family. Series listed include the Calder Saga, New Americana, Tylers of Texas, Bannon Brothers and Christmas Tree Ranch. The listing also carries titles dated after 2013, running to Kill for a Million (2026).

Janet Dawson, born 31 October 1949, is an American mystery writer. Thirteen novels follow the private eye Jeri Howard, and three more make up the California Zephyr series, where the detective is Jill McLeod and the setting is a passenger train. Kindred Crimes (1990) took the best first private-eye novel prize from St. Martin's Press and the Private Eye Writer's Association, and the short story Voice Mail won a Macavity Award in 2004. Dawson's 34 catalogued books end with The Things We Keep (2023), at a median of 262 pages.

Janet E. Morris (1946-2024) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction, best known for fantasy and science fiction and for authoring a non-lethal weapons concept for the United States military. The catalogue holds 34 titles published between 1977 and 2020, opening with High Couch of Silistra (1977). Ancient warfare, soldiers, gods and sorcery run through the Sacred Band books, which reach into the shared world of Thieves' World and its city of Sanctuary. Silistra, the Kerrion Empire, Sacred Band Tales and Heroika are the other series, and the 1980s are the busiest decade. Chris Morris is credited on one title.

Janet Evanovich

79 books• 13 series

Stephanie Plum, a bail bond agent turned bounty hunter, is the recurring lead of Janet Evanovich's longest series. Evanovich writes humorous mystery and romance, and the catalogue holds 79 books from Full House (1981) to Split Second in 2026. Other recurring lines include Kate O'Hare & Nicolas Fox, Lizzy & Diesel, Knight and Moon, Alexandra Barnaby and the Culhane Family.

Kelly Jackson is the amateur sleuth in Janet Finsilver's cozy mysteries, set in California. Each of the 6 books opens its title with the same word: Murder at Redwood Cove (2015), Murder at the Mansion (2016), Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table (2017), Murder at the Mushroom Festival (2018), Murder at the Marina (2019) and Murder in the Wine Country (2020). Nothing has followed since 2020.

Janet Fitch

5 books• 1 series

Janet Fitch is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1955 and a graduate of Reed College, where she first intended to become a historian. White Oleander (1999) is the best known novel and reached the screen in 2002. Five books are catalogued: Kicks (1995), White Oleander, Paint it Black (2006), The Revolution of Marina M. (2017) and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (2019). Foster children, mothers and daughters, Los Angeles and drug abuse recur as subjects.

Janet Louise Roberts (1925-1982) wrote contemporary, historical and gothic romance, plus a strand of occult horror romance taking in The Devil's Own, Lord Satan, Isle of the Dolphins and Her Demon Lover. Several pen names appear on the books: Janette Radcliffe, Rebecca Danton and Louisa Bronte. Roberts was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the daughter of a missionary, and died in Dayton, Ohio. The listing holds 65 titles dated 1968 to 1984, with Greystone and American Dynasty as the series, at a median of 247 pages.

Mystery writer Janet McGiffin has 11 catalogued books spanning 1991 to 2025, in two series: Maxine St. Clair Mystery and Empress Irini. Emergency Murder (1991) is the first, followed by Prescription for Death (1993) and Elective Murder (1995). Murder by Art (2009), Killer Art (2017) and Poison is a Woman's Weapon (2023) are among the later books. Subject headings list women physicians and artists. The Price of Eyes (2025) is the newest title.

Janet Neel wrote detective fiction, 11 books of it catalogued between 1988 and 2002. The Wilson & McLeish series carries most of the run, from Death's Bright Angel (1988) through Death on Site (1989), Death of a Partner (1991), Death Among the Dons (1993) and A Timely Death (1996) to O Gentle Death (2000); two titles, The Highest Bidder (1992) and Children of a Harsh Winter (1994), appeared as Janet Cohen. Many of the books carry two titles. Lawyers and legal stories supply the material, and Ticket to Ride (2002) closes the catalogue.

Janet Skeslien Charles writes fiction set between Eastern Europe, France and the United States. Moonlight in Odessa (2009) opens the catalogue, with a Ukrainian dating agency for its material. The Paris Library (2020) and Miss Morgan's Book Brigade, also published as The Librarians of Rue de Picardie (2024), turn to librarians in wartime France. Charles also writes the Wynd Brothers series. Five titles are catalogued in all, running to Mistress of Wyndview (2026).

Janet Sketchley is credited on 12 books published between 2011 and 2023, writing Christian fiction and devotional work, the catalogue records Christian life, Christian authors and Canadian literature in English among its subjects. Sketchley's series are Redemption's Edge, Green Dory Inn and Tenacity Christian Devotionals. A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider (2011) is the earliest catalogued title and Deadly Burden (2023) the newest, with Heaven's Prey (2013), Without Proof (2015), A Year of Tenacity (2017) and Hidden Secrets (2019) in between.

Janet Tashjian, born in 1956, is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction based in Los Angeles, published by Henry Holt and Company. The catalogue lists 11 books for grades 3-5, beginning with My Life as a Book (2010) and followed by My Life as a Stuntboy (2011) and My Life as a Cartoonist (2013). My Life as a Cartoon Dictionary (2025) is the newest title. Tashjian's son Jake Tashjian illustrated the My Life books and the Einstein the Class Hamster series. Tashjian's books frequently mix formats and blur the line between fiction and nonfiction.

Janet Tronstad writes inspirational and Christian romance, much of it recorded against Montana, with subjects covering marriage, single mothers, western romance and love stories. The catalogue holds 37 books, from An Angel for Dry Creek (1999) to Wyoming Mail-Order Bride (2023), and the 2000s are the heaviest decade. Dry Creek, Return to Dry Creek, North to Dry Creek, Sisterhood of the Dropped Stitches and Webster's Crossing are the series on record, and Dry Creek also stands as a character entry. No new title has been listed since 2023.

Janet W. Ferguson writes Christian fiction with romance in it; football coaches and hurricanes also appear in the subject records. Leaving Oxford (2016) is the earliest of 12 catalogued books and Until April (2026) the newest. Coastal Hearts is the series recorded under the name, and Magnolia Storms (2017), The Art of Rivers (2019) and Healing Skye (2021) sit in the listing. Titles have come at an average gap of 0.9 years, and the median Ferguson book runs 296 pages.

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Janette Rallison

40 books• 8 series

Janette Rallison, born 1 April 1966, is an American writer known mainly for light romance novels aimed at young adults. Rallison also uses two pen names: C. J. Hill for young adult science fiction and fantasy, and Sierra St. James for romantic novels for adults. The catalogue holds 40 books from Blue Eyes and Other Teenage Hazards (1996) to We Are Never Getting Together (2026), with Trial of the Heart (1999) among the Sierra St. James titles. My Fair Godmother, Slayers, Erasing Time and Pullman High are listed series.

Janice Cantore writes Christian police fiction. Policewomen, cold cases and missing persons run through the subjects, and the work divides into Line of Duty, Pacific Coast Justice, Cold Case Justice and the Brinna Caruso books. Sixteen catalogued titles run from Critical Pursuit (2007) to Edge of Truth in 2026, at a median 400 pages.

Janice Cole Hopkins has 84 books in the catalogue, from Cleared For Planting (2014) to Gwendolyn's Groom (2026). Sown in Dark Soil (2015), Transplanted to Red Clay (2016) and Uprooted by War (2016) follow the first title. Hopkins's series include Appalachian Roots, Farmers Trilogy, Time-Told Tales, In From the Storms, Another Chance and Idioms & Cliches. Janice Cole Hopkins is still publishing.

Janice Frost writes the DS Ava Merry and DI Jim Neal series and the Warwick & Bell series. The 12 catalogued books span 2015 to 2025. Dead Secret (2015) comes first, and other titles include Dark Secret (2016), Their Fatal Secrets (2017), Dirty Secrets (2018) and Murderous Secrets (2019). Murder Among Friends (2020) and Murder Against The Odds (2023) came afterwards, and Murder On The River (2025) is the newest.

Janice Hallett writes crime novels told through documents: emails, letters, transcripts and case files that the reader assembles. The Appeal (2021) opens the catalogue, followed by The Twyford Code, The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, The Christmas Appeal and The Examiner. Nine books reach Death at the Museum in 2026.