Authors whose first name starts with K, page 2 of 7

Karen White writes about family secrets, old houses and the women who inherit them. 36 catalogued books run from In the Shadow of the Moon (2000) to That Last Carolina Summer, with Whispers of Goodbye (2001), Falling Home (2002), After the Rain (2003), The Color of Light (2005) and Pieces of the Heart (2006) among the early titles. The Tradd Street series turns on a real estate agent and a haunted historic property; Royal Street and Falling Home form separate groupings. The Birds on Newcomb Boulevard is scheduled for 2027.

Karen Witemeyer writes Christian historical romance, with 38 books catalogued from 2010 onward. A Tailor-Made Bride and Head In The Clouds both appeared in 2010, followed by To Win Her Heart (2011), Short-Straw Bride (2012) and Stealing the Preacher (2013). Wooing the Wallflower is scheduled for 2027. Series include Ladies of Harper's Station, Patchwork Family, Hanger's Horsemen, Texas Ever After, Secret Society of Spinsters and Kissing Tree Novella. Texas, preachers, outlaws, cowboys and kidnapping recur in the subject tags.

Kari Lynn Dell wrote western romance and competed in rodeo. Raised on a Montana ranch, Dell studied sports medicine at Montana State University, taught high school science and worked as an athletic trainer in Texas, and wrote during the summers when school was out. Two series are catalogued, Texas Rodeo and Blackfeet Nation, across eight books published between 2015 and 2020, from In From the Cold (2015) to Relentless in Texas (2020). Cowboys, cowgirls and rodeo performers fill the subject headings.

Karin Fossum

17 books• 2 series

Karin Fossum writes Norwegian crime fiction headed by Inspector Konrad Sejer. In the Darkness, also published as Eva's Eye (1995), opens the run, which continues through Don't Look Back (1996), He Who Fears the Wolf (1997), Calling Out for You (2000), Black Seconds (2002) and The Water's Edge (2007). Seventeen books are catalogued, standalone novels included, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2021.

Karin Slaughter

39 books• 10 series

American crime writer Karin Slaughter was born in 1971. Her debut, Blindsighted (2001), made the Crime Writers' Association shortlist for best thriller debut, and Cop Town won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in 2015. The catalogue carries 39 of her books through The Secrets We Hide (2026). Will Trent, Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver are recurring figures, and her series listings include Andrea Oliver, North Falls Thriller, Pretty Girls and Good Daughter alongside standalone novels. Subjects cover police work, medical examiners, murder and the state of Georgia. Slaughter's books are published in 120 countries.

Karin Smirnoff has 2 books in the catalogue, both published in 2022: My Brother and The Girl in the Eagle's Talons. The listing connects Smirnoff to the Jana Kippo series and to the Millennium characters, under the subject Germanic literature.

Urban fantasy and paranormal romance account for the 41 books catalogued under Karina Espinosa since 2014. The Mackenzie Gray Universe is the largest group, with Mackenzie Grey: Origins beside it, and the Last Valkyrie, Sins of the Fallen, Blood Weaver Trilogy, Fated Fae Elementals, Dragon's Ballad and Shadows of the Crescent series follow. Sins of the Fallen (2014) is the first catalogued title and Wrath of the White Wolf (2026) the newest.

Karina Halle has 90 books in the catalogue, from Darkhouse (2011) to Bonetide (2026). Contemporary romance, romantic suspense, paranormal fantasy, ghost stories and drug trafficking are among the recorded subjects. Series include Experiment In Terror, McGregor Brothers, Underworld Gods, Artists Trilogy, Nordic Royals, Dirty Angels, North Ridge, Dumonts and Where Sea Meets Sky. Titles from 2011 include Dead Sky Morning, Lying Season, Red Fox and The Benson.

Karla Sorensen has 33 books in the catalogue, filed under comedy and published between 2015 and 2026. By Your Side, Light Me Up and Tell Them Lies all appeared in 2015, and How Not to Fall in Love (2026) is the most recent title. Four series carry Sorensen's name: Bachelors of the Ridge, Ward Family, Three Little Words and Washington Wolves. The 2020s are the heaviest decade on the list, and Sorensen is still publishing.

Kasey Michaels is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author credited with more than 110 books, and the catalogue lists 123 from The Belligerent Miss Boynton (1982) to Her Royal Pain-In-The-Highness (2023). Early titles include The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane (1982), The Rambunctious Lady Royston (1983), The Savage Miss Saxon (1985) and Compliments of the Groom (1987). Michaels has received a RITA, four Publishers Weekly starred reviews and a Romantic Times Career Achievement award for Regency historical romance, and is on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. Series include Maggie Kelly, Romney Marsh, Redgraves, Daughtry Family, Crown Family and Sunshine Girls.

Kasey Stockton has 48 books catalogued since 2019, tagged with romance and historical subjects. His Amiable Bride / To Be Loved by the Earl and A Duke for Lady Eve both date from 2019, as do Love for the Spinster and Snowed In on Main Street. Series include Women of Worth, Ladies of Devon, Bradwell Brothers, Hearts of Harewood, Belacourts, Myths of Moraigh, Arcadia Creek and Nashville Romantics. A Most Faithful Companion is the newest title, from 2026.

Kasie West writes young adult fiction about dating, families and school life, with one series turning to the supernatural. Pivot Point (2013) and Split Second make up that pair, while The Distance Between Us, On the Fence, The Fill-In Boyfriend and P.S. I Like You are standalone romances. Twenty-six books reach 2027, when The View from Here follows.

Kass Morgan

7 books• 2 series

Kass Morgan is the pen name of Mallory A. Kass, an American author and editor born in 1984. The 100 (2013) is the work Morgan is known for, a dystopian science fiction series for young adult readers, and it heads a catalogue of 7 books that runs through Day 21 (2014), Homecoming (2015) and Rebellion (2016) to Light Years (2018), Supernova (2019) and Royal Summer (2026). Morgan studied English and History at Brown University and took a master's at Oxford in nineteenth-century literature, works as a senior editor at Scholastic in New York City, and appeared on Jeopardy! in May 2022.

Kat Ailes writes the Expectant Detectives series. Both catalogued books appeared in 2024: The Expectant Detectives and Dead Tired. The series is Ailes's only one, it stands at 2 titles, and it continues.

Kat Bammer writes across three series: Moon Lake Protectors, Ruthless Rogues Mafia and Sec Ops Group. Seventeen books run from Moon Lake Beginnings / Love You (2020) to Secret Obsession (2026), among them Shattered Stone (2020), Midas Touch (2021), Red Hunt (2022), Smoke Screen (2022) and Guarded Blaze (2023). Bammer publishes about three books a year and remains active.

Kat Martin is a pen name of Kathleen Kelly Martin, born July 14, 1947, an American writer of romance novels who has also published as Kathy Lawrence and Kasey Marx. The catalogue holds 81 books from Magnificent Passage (1988) to The Unseen (2025), split between historical romance and romantic suspense, with private investigators among the recorded subjects. Series include the Raines of Wind Canyon, Maximum Security, the Brodies of Alaska, the Sinclair Sisters Trilogy and BOSS, Inc. Martin is married to the writer and photographer Larry Jay Martin.

Kat Mizera's series take their names from teams and places: Las Vegas Sidewinders and Sidewinders: Generations, Lauderdale Knights, Alaska Blizzard, L.A. Phantoms, Crimson Edge, Gamebreakers and Pucks & Penalties. Royal Protectors, Rock Harder, Romancing Europe and the Nowhere Trilogy sit beside them. Eighty-nine books are catalogued between 2016 and 2026, opening with a run of single-name titles in 2016, Anatoli, Dominic, Drake, Karl, Zakk, and reaching Wild Shot in 2026.

Kat Singleton has 14 catalogued books published between 2020 and 2025, written in short linked series. Aftershock opens the catalogue with The Consequence of Loving Me (2020) and The Road to Finding Us (2020), followed by the Mixtape books: Founded on Goodbye (2021), Founded on Temptation (2021), Founded on Deception (2022) and Founded on Rejection (2022). Bad for Business, the second Pembroke Hills title, is the newest entry.

Twenty-eight books are catalogued under Kat T. Masen, published between 2014 and 2025. The series are Dark Love, Secret Love, #Co-Worker, Roomie Wars and Cinnamon Springs. Chasing Love / Into the Darkness (2014) opens the catalogue, and How to Break My Heart (2025) is the most recent entry. Masen remains actively publishing.

Katarina Bivald has six catalogued books, published between 2013 and 2026. The run opens with The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend and reaches The Woman Who Wouldn't Die Quietly, taking in Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins in 2018, The Murders in Great Diddling in 2024 and Just Another Dead Author in 2025. Books, reading, booksellers, pen pals and friendship recur as subjects. Berit Gardner is Bivald's one named series.

Kate Alice Marshall writes young adult fiction and horror, with 16 books catalogued from 2018 to 2027. I Am Still Alive (2018) comes first, followed by Rules for Vanishing (2019), Thirteens (2020) and Our Last Echoes (2021). These Fleeting Shadows (2022), The Narrow (2023) and What Lies in the Woods (2023) come next, and Close Friends Only (2026) is the most recent release. The One We Buried is scheduled for 2027. Secrets Of Eden Eld is the series on the author page. Survival, murder, revenge, fathers and daughters, romance and sapphic themes appear in the subject tags.

Kate Allenton writes action and thriller fiction, with women private investigators, murder and revenge among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 86 books published between 2012 and 2026, opening with Intuition and The Reckoning in 2012 and reaching Grave Duty in 2026. Series under Allenton's name include Bennett Sisters, Fractured Minds, Lost Souls Society, Linked Inc., Cree Blue Psychic Eye, Bennett Dynasty and Phantom Protectors. The recorded editions run to a median of 201 pages.

Kate Anslinger has 19 catalogued books published between 2016 and 2026, across the McKenna Mystery series and a second sequence, Town. Underwater Secrets (2016) opens the catalogue, followed by Saving Jason (2017), The Gift (2017), Buried Secrets (2019) and Never Tell (2020). Later titles include Chasing Ghosts (2022), Bad Things (2023) and The Things We Carry (2023), with Borrowed Lies (2026) the newest.

Kate Archer writes historical romance. Thirty-eight books are catalogued between Violet (2017) and Poppy and Pansy (2026). Titles name their aristocrats: The Lord's Desperate Pledge (2020), The Marquess' Daring Wager (2020), The Viscount's Sinful Bargain (2020), The Baron's Dangerous Contract (2021) and The Earl's Iron Warrant (2021). Series run to Dukes' Pact, A Series of Worthy Young Ladies, A Series of Senseless Complications, Chemsworth Hall, League of Meddling Butlers, Very Fine Muddle and Spectacular Swinsons.

Kate Atkinson

19 books• 6 series

Kate Atkinson is an English author of novels, plays and short stories, born 20 December 1951. The fiction spans historical, detective and family novels with postmodern and magical realist elements. Behind the Scenes at the Museum, the 1995 debut, won the Whitbread Book Award; Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Novel Award in 2013 and 2015. The Jackson Brodie detective series became the BBC One series Case Histories. The catalogue holds 19 books from 1995 to Our Noble Selves (2026), and a Todd Family series appears alongside Jackson Brodie.

Kate Belli writes the Gilded Gotham mysteries, which account for most of a catalogue of 5 books. Deception by Gaslight (2020) opens the series, followed by Betrayal on the Bowery (2021), Treachery on Tenth Street (2022) and Opulence and Ashes (2023). The Gallery Assistant (2025) is the newest title, and Belli continues to publish.

Kate Bold writes FBI suspense thrillers at volume: 234 catalogued titles since 2021, from Let Me Go to Get Close, with Against the Dead dated 2027. Each series carries a lead character's name, among them Harley Cole, Addison Shine, Morgan Reid, Gemma Forge, Parker Hand, Kelsey Hawk, Heather King, Lucy Crimson, Meg Thorne, Brynn Justice, Beth Drake and Alexa Chase.

Kate Breslin's catalogue holds six novels, published between 2014 and 2022: For Such a Time (2014), Not by Sight (2015), High as the Heavens (2017), Far Side of the Sea (2019), As Dawn Breaks (2021) and In Love's Time (2022). Nothing has followed In Love's Time, and the catalogue is dormant.

Kate Brody has one catalogued book, Rabbit Hole, published in 2024. No series and no subject index are recorded against the name, and no second title has followed, so the entry rests on that single 2024 novel.

Kate Canterbary has published 33 books since 2014, organised into eight series: the Walshes, Talbott's Cove, Vital Signs, Benchmarks, the Loew Brothers, Adventures In Modern Dating, Eye Candy Bookstore & The Hype PR, and Friendship, Rhode Island. The Space Between and Underneath It All opened the catalogue in 2014, followed by Necessary Restorations (2015), The Cornerstone (2015) and Preservation (2017). The Santillian Triplets arrived in 2026, and the catalogue is ongoing.

Kate Carlisle writes mystery and detective fiction with women sleuths. Catalogue subjects add rare books, women bookbinders, conservation and restoration, murder, crime and man-woman relationships, and name Brooklyn Wainwright as a recurring fictional character. The 35 catalogued books span 2009 to 2024, from Homicide in Hardcover (2009) to The Knife Before Christmas (2024), with If Books Could Kill (2009), Murder under Cover (2011) and One Book in the Grave (2012) along the way. Bibliophile Mystery, Fixer-Upper Mystery, Island Paradise Duet and MacLaren's Pride are the series credited to Carlisle.

Kate Clayborn writes contemporary romance. Her 9 catalogued books open with Beginner's Luck (2017), the start of the Chance of a Lifetime series, and run through Love Lettering (2019), Love at First (2021) and Georgie, All Along (2023) to The Paris Match (2026). Clayborn is actively publishing.

Abby Knight, a florist, investigates murders in Kate Collins's Flower Shop Mysteries, a series whose titles include Mum's the Word (2004), Slay It with Flowers (2005) and A Rose from the Dead (2007). Collins's catalogue opens earlier, with Promised to a Stranger (1998) and Courting Claire (1999), holds 37 books in all, and reaches A Vase in the Window in 2025. The Goddess of Greene St. Mysteries form a second series.

Kate DiCamillo

45 books• 8 series

Because of Winn-Dixie (2000) opens Kate DiCamillo's catalogue of 45 books for children in grades one to three. The Tale of Despereaux (2003), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006) and the Mercy Watson books about a pig sit among them, with Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Bink & Gollie, the Norendy Tales and Orris and Timble as further series. Animals, friendship and humour run through the subjects, and the books are short at a median 112 pages.

Kate Elliott is the pen name of Alis A. Rasmussen, an American fantasy and science fiction writer born in 1958. The catalogue lists 39 books, beginning with The Labyrinth Gate (1988), published as Alis Rasmussen, and reaching Barnacle (2025). A Passage of Stars, Revolution's Shore and The Price of Ransom appeared in 1990, followed by Jaran (1992) and King's Dragon (1997). Series include Crown of Stars, Jaran, Spiritwalker, Court of Fives, Black Wolves, Sun Chronicles and Witch Roads. Epic fantasy, revolutions and social classes feature in the subjects.

Kate Ellis writes police procedurals in which archaeology recurs alongside murder investigation. Wesley Peterson heads the main series, opening with The Merchant's House (1998), and Joe Plantagenet and Inspector Albert Lincoln lead two more. Forty-four catalogued books reach The Chapel of Bones (2026), at a median length of 346 pages. England, police work and archaeologists recur as subjects.

Kate Flora writes two crime series. Thea Kozak is an educational consultant who investigates, catalogued under women sleuths, and Joe Burgess is a police sequence set in Boston and Massachusetts. Flora's 25 books run from Chosen for Death (1994) through Death at the Wheel (1996), Liberty or Death (2003) and The Angel of Knowlton Park (2008) to Deliver Us from Evil (2025).

Kate Forster has 27 books in the catalogue, published between 2012 and 2025. The earliest titles, all from 2012, include Audition, Chance, The Perfect Audition and The Perfect Location. Later books include Beauty and the Beat, Hashtag Love and Head Over High Heels (2013). The most recent is Second Act at Appleton Green (2025), and Kate Forster is still publishing.

Kate Furnivall is a British historical novelist. The Russian Concubine (2007), her debut, opens a catalogue of 15 titles and gives its name to a series. Under a Blood Red Sky (2008), The Concubine's Secret (2009) and The Jewel of St. Petersburg (2010) follow, then The White Pearl (2011), Diamonds in the Dust (2012), Shadows on the Nile (2012), The Far Side of the Sun (2013), The Italian Wife (2014) and The Liberation (2016), reaching The Crash in 2024. Russia, China, the Second World War, labour camps and female friendship run through the subjects.

Kate Gable writes mystery, thriller and suspense fiction. Four series carry the catalogue: Alexis Forrest FBI Mystery Thriller, Detective Kaitlyn Carr, Charlotte Pierce Mystery, and River Collins FBI Mystery Thriller. Gable's 29 catalogued books begin with Girl Hidden (2021) and run to Forest of Hope (2026); the 2021 titles alone include Girl Forgotten, Girl Found, Girl Lost, Girl Missing and Girl Taken. Gable is still publishing.

The Sacred Stones trilogy is Kate Golden's best known work, a USA Today bestselling run of A Dawn of Onyx in 2022 and A Promise of Peridot and A Reign of Rose in 2024. Six catalogued books extend to Cursed City and Half City in 2026, with If Not for My Baby in 2025 and the Harker Academy series alongside. Romance, contemporary settings, forced proximity and music are the listed subjects. Golden lives in Los Angeles and works in the film industry, developing movies with screenwriters and filmmakers.

Kate Grenville

18 books• 2 series

Kate Grenville, born in 1950, is an Australian author of fiction, non-fiction, biography and books about the writing process. The Idea of Perfection took the Orange Prize in 2001, and The Secret River won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006 and reached the Man Booker shortlist; Andrew Bovell adapted The Secret River for the stage and the Sydney Theatre Company toured it in 2019. Three of Grenville's novels have become feature films. Eighteen titles are catalogued, from Bearded Ladies (1984) to Restless Dolly Maunder (2023), the Singer Family and Thornhill Family among them.

Kate Hewitt has 154 catalogued books, from The Man Who Could Never Love (2002) to The Amanti Heir Arrangement (2026), with A Second Chance at Lighthouse Cove due in 2027. Some titles, including Another Country and Far Horizons (both 2007), carry the name Katharine Swartz. The Italian's Chosen Wife (2007), Ruthless Boss, Hired Wife (2008) and The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride (2008) are among the early books. Series include Willoughby Close, Wildflower Valley, Amherst Island, Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite and Emerald Sisters, and contemporary romance, marriage, pregnancy and billionaires appear in the subjects.

Knitting and female friendship hold Kate Jacobs's four books together. The Friday Night Knitting Club (2006) opens the run, and Comfort Food (2008), Knit Two (2008) and Knit the Season (2009) follow, all four published inside four years. Mothers and daughters, cooking, competition and New York are the recurring subjects. Nothing further has been catalogued since 2009.

Kate Kessler writes crime thrillers across two series, Audrey Harte and Killian Delaney. The 8 catalogued books open with It Takes One (2016) and move through Two Can Play (2016), Three Strikes (2017) and Four of a Kind (2018) to Seven Crows (2019) and Call of Vultures (2020). Police psychologists, women psychologists, family secrets, threats of violence and murder investigation are the recorded subjects. No book has followed 2020.

Kate Khavari writes the Saffron Everleigh mysteries, in which a botanist turns her knowledge of plants on murder investigations. A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (2022) opens the series, and every title since keeps the formula: Flowers and Fatality, Society and Secrets, Rituals and Revenge and Tradition and Treachery. Five books make up the catalogue, one a year through 2026.

Kate King publishes in five short series: Wilde Fae, Enchanted Legacies, A Blissful Omegaverse, Gentlemen and Shakespeare After Dark. Fifteen books have appeared since Pack Origin (2021), among them Thieves' Honor (2021), Pack Bliss and Pack Bound (2022), By Any Other Name and Lords of the Hunt (2023) and A Kingdom of Monsters (2024). A Hunger in Every Heart followed in 2026.

Kate Kingsbury is a pseudonym of Doreen Roberts, a romance writer. The catalogue lists 70 books from 1987 to 2025, beginning with Gambler's Gold (1987) under the Doreen Roberts name. As Kate Kingsbury, the series include Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries, Manor House Mysteries, Merry Ghost Inn Mysteries and Misty Bay Tearoom. Other lines appear as Allison Kingsley and Rebecca Kent. Subjects include the Pennyfoot Hotel in England, Cecily Sinclair Baxter, women sleuths and World War II. A Nice Cup of Tea (2025) is the newest title.

Kate Meader writes contemporary romance, and catalogue subjects put the books among firefighters, cooks, restaurants and weddings, with Chicago as a recorded setting. The listing holds 43 books published between 2013 and 2026, from Feel the Heat (2013) to Secret Husband (2026), and Fan Friction is scheduled for 2027. Series include Hot in Chicago, Chicago Rebels, Rookie Rebels, Chicago Players, Hot in the Kitchen and Tall, Dark, and Texan.

Greenglass House (2014) is the Kate Milford novel that won the Edgar Award for juvenile literature and was long-listed for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Ghosts of Greenglass House (2017) is the sequel, and five further Milford books share the same world. The catalogue holds 12 titles, from The Boneshaker (2010) to Rialto (2026), with Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree due in 2027. Milford is a New York Times bestselling author who has also written for stage and screen.

Kate Moore writes historical romance. Subjects name marriage and mate selection, the aristocracy and nobility, impostors and false personation, extortion, and the clergy of the Church of England. The catalogue holds 23 titles across a long span, from To Kiss a Thief (1992) and Sweet Bargain (1993) to The Lady and the Secret Lord in 2025. The series listed are Husband Hunters, Canyon Club and Ring of Truth.

Kate Morton

7 books• 1 series

Kate Morton writes historical fiction about family secrets, old houses and the past reaching into the present. The House at Riverton, also published as The Shifting Fog, opened the catalogue in 2006, followed by The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House, The Clockmaker's Daughter and Homecoming (2023). Seven long novels make up the whole catalogue, at a median of 490 pages, and it is now dormant.

Kate Mosse

21 books• 6 series

Kate Mosse is a British novelist, non-fiction writer, short story writer and broadcaster. Her 21 catalogued titles begin with Becoming a Mother in 1993 and take in Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007), The Winter Ghosts (2010) and Citadel (2012). Labyrinth alone has been translated into more than 37 languages. The work divides into the Languedoc novels, the Joubert Family Chronicles, standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction, with grief, history, families and ghost stories as recurring subjects. Mosse co-founded the prize now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction in 1996, and her newest title, Autumn, appeared in 2026.

Historical mystery with women investigators is Kate Parker's line. The catalogue opens with The Vanishing Thief (2013) and continues through The Counterfeit Lady (2014), The Conspiring Woman (2015), The Royal Assassin (2015) and Deadly Scandal (2016). The named series are the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries, the Milliner Mysteries and the Christmas Revels novellas, with booksellers, kidnapping and cold cases among the subjects. Twenty-eight books reach Deadly Ruse in 2026.

Kate Pearce is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance writer, born in England into a large family of girls. After a history degree and a spell in the British Civil Service, Pearce moved to California and then Hawaii. Pearce is known for unconventional heroes and for turning romance clichés on their head, and also self-publishes science fiction erotic romance and historical romance. The catalogue lists 87 books from Eden's Pleasure (2005) to The Mad Marchams (2026). Series include House Of Pleasure, Sinners Club, Tudor Vampire Chronicles, Morgan Ranch, Millers of Morgan Valley, Turner Brothers and Three Cowboys. Erotica, vampires and Great Britain appear in the subject tags.

Historical fiction is Kate Quinn's field, and the 17 catalogued books run from Mistress of Rome (2010) to The Astral Library (2026). Rome, gladiators, the Borgia family, nobility, both World Wars and espionage all appear among the subjects. Quinn's series are Empress of Rome and the Borgia Chronicles, and The Alice Network (2017) and The Huntress (2019) are among the later titles. Quinn is an American writer and still publishing.

Kate Rhodes is a British poet and novelist, born in London in 1964. Rhodes published the poetry collection Reversal in 2005 as the first volume of the Enitharmon New Poets Series, after a Hawthornden Literary Institute fellowship in 2004 and years teaching English in a sixth form college and lecturing at university. Crime fiction followed, in the Alice Quentin novels and the DI Ben Kitto series, with women psychologists and murder investigation among the subjects. The catalogue holds 16 titles to 2025, taking in Crossbones Yard (2012), A Killing of Angels (2013), The Winter Foundlings (2014), Blood Symmetry (2016), Hell Bay (2018) and Burnt Island (2019). Deadman's Pool is dated 2025.

Roger the Chapman, who gave up a monk's cell to peddle goods on the road, features in the medieval whodunnits of Kate Sedley. Kate Sedley was the pen name of Brenda Margaret Lilian Clarke, born Brenda Honeyman in Bristol on 30 July 1926, an English historical novelist educated at The Red Maids' School in Westbury-on-Trym, who died on 28 February 2022 aged 95. The catalogue lists 45 books from Richmond and Elizabeth (1967) to The Christmas Wassail (2013). Early titles such as Brother Bedford (1972), Good Duke Humphrey (1973) and The Queen and Mortimer (1974) carry the Brenda Honeyman name. Subject headings name England, peddlers and the Wars of the Roses, and In The Shadow Of The Throne is a listed series.

Kate Stewart has 36 books catalogued between 2013 and 2025, beginning with Titan (2013) and running to Birds of a Feather (2025). Stewart's series include Ravenhood, Ravenhood Legacy, Reluctant Romantics, Lust & Lies, Balls in Play, Underdogs, Predator and Prey and the Bittersweet Symphony Duet. Anything but Minor and Major Love both date from 2016, and the author is still releasing new work.

Kate Summerscale

7 books

Kate Summerscale writes narrative non-fiction, most of it drawn from British criminal and social history. Seven books are catalogued: The Queen of Whale Cay (1997), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008), Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace (2012), The Wicked Boy (2016), The Haunting of Alma Fielding (2020), The Book of Phobias and Manias (2022) and The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024). The Suspicions of Mr Whicher was adapted as a television drama, and Summerscale took the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008. Murder, London history, eccentrics, detectives and biography recur as subjects. Summerscale, an English writer and journalist, was born in 1965.