Authors whose first name starts with L

L. A. Dobbs writes action and thriller fiction. Five books stand in the catalogue: Exposing Truths and Keeping Secrets (both 2017), Betraying Trust and Killing Dreams (both 2018), and Seeking Justice (2024). The gap between 2018 and 2024 marks the longest pause in the run, which remains open.

L. Frank Baum

84 books• 12 series

L. Frank Baum, born Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) in Chittenango, New York, was an American author of children's fantasy best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Beyond 14 Oz books, Baum produced 41 other novels, 83 short stories, more than 200 poems and at least 42 scripts, and four further novels were lost unpublished. The 1939 film of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema. The catalogue opens with Our Landlady (1891), Mother Goose in Prose (1897) and Father Goose, His Book (1899), and series include Aunt Jane's Nieces, Boy Fortune Hunters, Mary Louise, Flying Girl and Trot & Cap'n Bill. Baum moved west after an unsuccessful spell as a theater producer and playwright.

L. Ron Hubbard

110 books• 5 series

L. Ron Hubbard (Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, March 13, 1911 to January 24, 1986) was an American writer and the founder of Scientology. The early career produced a large body of pulp science fiction and fantasy. The catalogue holds 110 books, starting in 1934 with Sea Fangs, Dead Men Kill, Hurtling Wings and Twenty Fathoms Down. Series include Mission Earth, Slaves of Sleep and collections of western and science fiction short stories. Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950, a book described as pseudoscientific, created Scientology in 1952 and led the Church of Scientology until 1986. Subjects include air pilots, sea stories, westerns and crime.

L. Steele's catalogue holds 71 books, organised into short series: Arranged Marriage, Big Bad Billionaires, Morally Grey Billionaires, the Hamiltons, Knotted Omega and Fae's Claim among them. Earlier speculative titles sit at the start of the list, The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer (2012), The Destiny of Shaitan (2012), The First Life of Vikram Roy (2015). The Bride Swap arrives in 2026, at a median 208 pages.

L. Wilder has 58 books catalogued from 2014 to 2026, most organised into Satan's Fury MC and related lines. Those lines include Satan's Fury MC- Little Rock, Satan's Fury MC: Memphis and Satan's Fury MC Second Generation, alongside Ruthless Sinners MC, Devil Chaser's MC and What Bad Boys Do. Ignite, Inferno and Smolder date from 2014, followed by Combust, Maverick and Stitch in 2015. Smitty is the newest title, from 2026.

L.A. Banks has 46 books catalogued from 1996 to 2011, and the author is listed as likely complete. Sundance (1996) and Slow Burn (1997) are the earliest, followed by Love Lessons, Love Notes and Rivers of the Soul (2001), then Soul Food and Through the Storm (2002). Minion appeared in 2003. Series include Vampire Huntress, Crimson Moon, Betrayal of the Trust and Scarface. Vampires, werewolves, Damali Richards, African American women and women martial artists appear in the subject tags, along with romance, horror and paranormal fiction.

L.B. Dunbar is a romance author with 67 books catalogued since Speak From The Heart in 2013. Early titles include Fight From The Heart (2014), Look With Your Heart (2014) and The Legend of Arturo King (2015). Series include Sterling Falls, Sexy Silver Foxes, Heart Collection, Legendary Rock Stars, Silver Foxes of Blue Ridge and Lakeside Cottage. Sterling Stone is dated 2026, and Midsummer Mishap is scheduled for 2027.

Posie Parker, a woman detective working in the 1920s, is the figure L.B. Hathaway's mysteries follow. The Posie Parker Mystery series accounts for a catalogue of 18 books, opening with Murder Offstage (2014) and reaching Murder at the Villa Amalfi (2026). Country houses, the Metropolitan Police and historical crime make up the listed subjects. Hathaway is British, Cambridge-educated, and practised law in London for almost a decade before writing full time; her other specialism is Tudor history, and she writes for popular history magazines.

L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

87 books• 11 series

The Saga of Recluce made L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s name: 25 novels of wizards, magic and imaginary wars by 2025, with the first 18 selling close to three million copies. Modesitt, born Leland Exton Modesitt Jr. in 1943, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose 87 catalogued books run from The Timegod / The Fires of Paratime (1982) to Last of the First (2026). The Imager Portfolio, Corean Chronicles, Spellsong Cycle, Ecolitan Matter and Forever Hero stand beside Recluce. Modesitt also publishes poetry, columns and technical studies, and his volumes median 501 pages.

L.J. Andrews has 46 catalogued books published between 2016 and 2026. Rise of a Guardian (2016) is listed first, with Fire and Ice (2016), Trinity Rises (2016) and Island of Bones (2017) among the early titles. Andrews's series include Broken Kingdoms, Djinn Kingdom, Lost Relics, Ever Seas, Marked in Shadow's Keep and Broken Souls and Bones. The Stolen Crown (2026) is the newest title.

L.J. Shen writes contemporary romance, and the catalogue tags the books dark romance, mafia romance, enemies to lovers, forced proximity and slow burn. Shen is a USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author and lives in Florida. The listing holds 42 books published between 2015 and 2026, from Tyed to Fallen Rook, with series including Sinners of Saint, All Saints High, Boston Belles, Cruel Castaways, Dark Prince Road and Society of Villains.

Lisa Jane Smith (1958-2025), writing as L.J. Smith, produced young adult horror and fantasy about vampires, witches and the supernatural. The Vampire Diaries is her best known series and was adapted for television; Night World, the Secret Circle and Dark Visions sit beside it. Both The Vampire Diaries and Night World reached the New York Times bestseller list, and Smith's books took five award nominations. Fifty-four titles run from The Night of the Solstice (1987) to Paradise Lost (2014).

L.M. Montgomery

57 books• 9 series

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 to April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author who published as L. M. Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables (1908) began the body of work Montgomery is known for, and the orphan Anne Shirley brought Montgomery fame and an international readership. The career produced 20 novels plus more than a thousand short stories and poems, alongside essays. The catalogue lists 57 books, from Anne of Green Gables to editions dated 2025, and holds the Anne Shirley, Emily and Silver Bush series and the published journals.

Karl Alberg is a police officer in British Columbia, and Cassandra Mitchell recurs beside him across L.R. Wright's crime novels. That series takes in The Suspect (1985), A Chill Rain In January (1990), Prized Possessions (1992) and A Touch of Panic (1994), with the Edwina Henderson mysteries as a second run. Wright's catalogue holds 15 titles, from Neighbours (1979) to Menace, and is listed as likely complete.

L.T. Ryan is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling thriller author with 137 books in the catalogue, from Noble Beginnings (2012) to Noble Reckoning, with Cold Light announced and the list reaching 2027. The Jack Noble and Rachel Hatch series head Ryan's profile. Other series listings include Maddie Castle, Cassie Quinn, Bear & Mandy Logan, Dalton Savage, Blake Brier, Alex Hayes Legal Thrillers, Affliction Z, Stella LaRosa, Avril Dahl and Jane Cannon. Subjects include the CIA, special operations, conspiracies, betrayal and human smuggling. Ryan also runs a publishing company.

L.T. Vargus's catalogue runs from Casting Shadows Everywhere (2013) to Kiss of Death (2025). Fade to Black (2014), Back in Black (2015), Red on the Inside (2015) and Beyond the Blue (2016) are among the titles. The series listed are Violet Darger, Scattered and the Dead, Victor Loshak Thriller, Awake in the Dark, Charlotte Winters and Shadows of Love.

Lacy Williams writes Christian romance and Christian historical fiction, with subjects that include marriage, arranged marriage, wagon trains and Oregon. The catalogue holds 90 books from Marrying Miss Marshal (2011) to Long Trail Home (2026). Series include Wind River Hearts, Cowboy Fairytales, Heart of Oklahoma, Wagon Train Matches, Snowbound in Sawyer Creek, Looking Back, Texas and Hometown Sweethearts. Rival (2013) appeared under the name Lacy Yager.

Royal biography is what Lady Colin Campbell is catalogued for. Diana in Private (1992), The Royal Marriages (1993), The Real Diana (2005), The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (2012) and Meghan and Harry (2020) run through the British monarchy, and the memoir A Life Worth Living (1997) and the novel Empress Bianca (2008) sit alongside them. Eleven titles open with Lady Colin Campbell's Guide to Being a Modern Lady (1986).

Laila Ibrahim writes historical fiction about slavery, race relations and family in the southern United States. Eight books are catalogued, from Yellow Crocus (2010) to Falling Wisteria (2024), taking in Mustard Seed (2017), Paper Wife (2018), Golden Poppies (2020) and Scarlet Carnation (2022). The Freedman/Johnson series accounts for much of the run. Plantation life, women slaves, freed persons, mothers and daughters and female friendship carry the subject tags.

Lainey Davis is a romance author with 35 books catalogued from Hard Edge (2017) to Playing It Safe (2026). Stag Brothers, Brady Family, Bridges and Bitters, Oak Creek, Stone Creek University, Forging and Planted and Plowed are the series. A Stag Family Christmas (2018) is an early title, and The Botanist and the Billionaire, The Midwife and the Money and The Nerd and the Neighbor all appeared in 2019.

Laini Taylor

11 books• 3 series

Laini Taylor writes young adult fantasy. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011) and its sequels are her best known work, alongside Strange the Dreamer (2017) and Muse of Nightmares (2018), and Taylor has been a National Book Award finalist in Young People's Literature. The earlier Dreamdark books, starting with Blackbringer (2007), are children's fantasy. Fairies, magic and the supernatural fill the subject tags. The catalogue holds 11 titles and has been quiet since 2023.

Laird Barron

19 books• 4 series

Horror, noir and dark fantasy account for much of the writing of Laird Barron, an American author and poet born on 5 March 1970. Barron was managing editor of Melic Review, a now-defunct online literary magazine, and lives in Upstate New York. The catalogue lists 19 books from The Imago Sequence (2007) to Agate Way (2025), with short story collections, crime and missing persons among the subjects. Series are Isaiah Coleridge and the Nanashi Novellas. Other titles include The Croning (2012) and A Little Brown Book of Burials (2015).

Lana Ferguson's catalogue holds 10 books published between 2023 and 2026. The Nanny and The Fake Mate (2023) are the earliest, followed by The Game Changer and Under Loch and Key (2024), then Overruled, Room for Two, The Mating Game and Trick R Sweet (2025). The Final Score and The Soul Mate close the run in 2026, and the books run 416 pages at the median.

Witches of Thistle Grove is Lana Harper's main series, a run of witchy romantic comedies that opens with Payback's a Witch (2021) and continues through From Bad to Cursed (2022), Back in a Spell (2023), In Charm's Way (2023), Rise and Divine (2024) and Cards on the Table (2026). Sapphic and lesbian romance runs through the books. Seven Harper titles are catalogued in all, with Firstdawn scheduled for 2027.

Lana Williams has 59 books catalogued since A Vow to Keep (2012), with The Apothecary's Poison (2026) the newest and The Gravedigger's Secret due in 2027. Series include Seven Curses of London, Rogue Chronicles, Mayfair Literary League, Field & Greystone, Vengeance Trilogy, Falling For A Knight, Secret Trilogy and Duke's Lost Treasures. A Knight's Christmas Wish (2014), A Knight's Kiss (2015) and A Knight's Quest (2015) are early titles.

Lance McMillian writes the Atlanta Murder Squad novels, a crime series of seven books to date. The Murder of Sara Barton opened it in 2020, followed by Death to the Chief and To Kill A Lawyer (2021), A Hard Way to Die (2022), The Just and the Unjust (2023), Street Girls (2024) and A Town on Trial (2025). Courtrooms and killings give the titles their vocabulary, and the books run near 350 pages.

Thrillers set on and around the Great Lakes are Landon Beach's subject. The Great Lakes Saga opens with The Wreck (2018) and continues through The Cabin, The Sail and The Hike, while the Sunrise-Side Mystery books add Huron Breeze (2021) and Huron Nights (2022). Espionage enters with The Blue Hour Sanction (2023). Ten catalogued titles reach Snow (2025).

Lane Hart has 100 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2026. The All In titles open the run, with All In: Betting on a Full House and All In: Double or Nothing in 2014 and All In: Calling His Bluff and All In: Playing to Win among the 2015 entries, alongside Blood Drive, Blood Ties and Wild & Out. Series headings include Savage Kings MC with its South Carolina and Virginia offshoots, Dirty Aces MC, Gambling With Love, Playing Dirty, Out of the Cage, Sin City Mafia, New York City Mafia, Bound By Blood, Mercy Academy and the Playboy Billionaire Club. Cocky Cage Fighter appears in the character field, and His Savage Claim (2026) is the newest listed title.

Lane R. Warenski writes frontier fiction in two series, Grizzly Killer and Frontier Scout. Twenty-eight books are catalogued between 2017 and 2026, opening with a 2017 group that includes The Making of a Mountain Man, Under The Blood Moon, The Medicine Wheel and Hell Hath No Fury. Trail Of The Vanished (2018), Where The Buffalo Dance (2018), Smoke On The Water (2019), The Painted Skull (2019), White Snake (2019) and Spirit Talkers (2020) follow, and White Warrior is the newest title, dated 2026. Warenski is still publishing.

Poetry accounts for most of Lang Leav's catalogue: Love & Misadventure opened it in 2013, followed by Lullabies, Memories, The Universe of Us, Sea of Strangers and Love Looks Pretty on You. Anthology of Love and Sad Girls both arrived in 2017. Thirteen catalogued books reach I Know the Ants in 2026, with love, friendship, guilt and coming of age as the recurring subjects. Leav is an Australian novelist and poet, born in 1980.

Lani Lynn Vale writes romantic suspense. The catalogue counts 166 books from Boomtown (2013) onward, with Hos in this House (2026) the newest listed title and A Little on the Trashy Side scheduled for 2027. The work is organised into series including the Carter Brothers, SWAT Generation 2.0, Code 11-KPD SWAT, Bear Bottom Guardians MC, Dixie Warden Rejects MC and the Freebirds. Releases follow one another at an average recorded gap of 0.1 years.

Lara Adrian is listed with 52 books, from Lord of Vengeance (1995) to For 100 Forevers (2026). The biography attached to this name is that of Tina St. John, who sold Lord of Vengeance as a first completed manuscript in 1995 and went on to write medieval romances, after leaving a full-time corporate job. That writer is a Michigan native descended from Mayflower passenger Governor William Bradford and lives in coastal New England. Subject headings include vampires, paranormal romance, Breedmates, vampire warriors and knights. Series include Midnight Breed, 100, Hunter Legacy, Dragon Chalice and Phoenix Code.

Laramie Briscoe has 108 books in the catalogue, beginning in 2013 with Meant to Be and Losing Control and reaching Arrested by the Deputy in 2026. Heaven Hill is a central series, extended by Heaven Hill Shorts and Heaven Hill Generations. Other series include Moonshine Task Force, Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team, Rockin' Country, Broken Falls and Bradford Station. Laramie Briscoe is still publishing.

Larissa Ione is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance. Ione publishes under that name with Samhain, Red Sage, Kensington and Grand Central Publishing. With Stephanie Tyler, Ione is also half of the writing team Sydney Croft, published by Bantam Dell. Ione lives in Wisconsin. Pleasure Unbound (2008), Desire Unchained (2009), Passion Unleashed (2009) and Ecstasy Unveiled (2010) are among the catalogued titles, and Legacy of Desire (2025) is the newest. Series on the author page are Demonica Underworld, Demonica Birthright, MoonBound Clan Vampires and ACRO. Demonology, vampires and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in the subject tags.

Lark Taylor has 22 books catalogued between 2022 and 2026, across six series: Reckless Damned, Damned Connections, Hopeless Blessed, Caffeine Daydreams, Wild Edges and the Shadow Duet. Devil May Care and Devil's Mark opened the run in 2022, followed by Deal With the Devil, Luck of the Devil, Green Light, Patience and White Noise in 2023, then Conflicted, Humility and Justice in 2024. Enchanted (2026) is the most recent title.

Larry A. Winters writes legal thrillers. Jessie Black is the recurring figure in one of the series, with the Hal and Kristina Nolan books and the Ashley Hale novels alongside. Twenty-two titles run from Burnout in 2013 through Informant (2014), Web of Lies (2015), Deadly Evidence (2016), Fatal Defense (2017) and False Justice (2018) to Original Sin in 2026.

Military and technological thrillers make up Larry Bond's work - submarines, intelligence officers and terrorism. Battles of the Third World War (1987) opens the catalogue, and Red Phoenix (1989), Vortex (1991) and Cauldron (1993) follow. Jerry Mitchell heads one series; Larry Bond's First Team and Red Dragon Rising head others. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, the last of them Arctic Gambit in 2018.

Larry Correia

50 books• 14 series

Larry Correia, born 1977, is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction known for Monster Hunter International, the Grimnoir Chronicles and the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. The catalogue lists 52 books from Monster Hunter International (2009) to Monster Hunter Alien Files: First Contact (2026), with Reap the Whirlwind due in 2027. Monster Hunter Vendetta (2010), Hard Magic (2011) and Dead Six (2011) came early. Correia has written or co-written more than 30 novels and over 50 short works and has co-edited four anthologies. Honours include a 2011 John W. Campbell Award nomination, two Audie Awards and four Dragon Awards.

Larry McMurtry

48 books• 10 series

Larry McMurtry (Larry Jeff McMurtry, June 3, 1936 to March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter. Most of McMurtry's fiction takes place in the Old West or in contemporary Texas, and the early novels Horseman, Pass By (1961), The Last Picture Show (1966) and Terms of Endearment (1975) trace the decline of small-town Texas life. Screen adaptations of McMurtry's work received 34 Oscar nominations and 13 wins. The catalogue lists 48 books from 1961 to Thalia (2017), including the Lonesome Dove and Berrybender Narratives series and non-fiction.

Larry Millett writes in two registers. One is architectural history: Millett was the architecture critic at the St. Paul Pioneer Press until retiring in 2002, and wrote Lost Twin Cities (1992), Twin Cities Then and Now (1996) and further books on the history of Minnesota buildings. The other is crime fiction, a Sherlock Holmes series set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s, in which the character Shadwell Rafferty assists Holmes, beginning with Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon in 1996. Twenty-five titles make up the catalogue, reaching Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul in 2024.

Larry Niven

93 books• 21 series

Larry Niven, born Laurence van Cott Niven in 1938, is an American science fiction writer working primarily in hard science fiction, with elements of detective fiction and adventure. Ringworld (1970) took the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Ditmar awards, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Niven its Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in 2015. Jerry Pournelle co-wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977) with Niven. The catalogue holds 93 titles from The Coldest Place (1964) to Starborn and Godsons (2020). Series listed include Known Space, Ringworld Prequel / Fleet of the Worlds, Dream Park, Heorot, Moties, State and Magic Goes Away, a fantasy sequence treating magic as a non-renewable resource.

Sam Jameson is the figure Lars Emmerich writes about, in espionage thrillers running to 12 catalogued books. Devolution (2014) opens the catalogue and Monarch (2021) is the last entry. The Incident titles, Inferno Rising and Reckoning in 2014 and Fallout in 2016, run as a sub-sequence, and Mindscrew (2015), Descent (2016), Meltdown (2016), Burn (2017) and The Blowback Protocol (2017) follow. No new title has appeared since 2021.

Lars Kepler writes the Detective Inspector Joona Linna thrillers, with 11 books catalogued from The Hypnotist (2009) to The Sleepwalker (2025). The Nightmare (2010), The Fire Witness (2011) and The Sandman (2012) are the next titles on the list, followed by Stalker (2014) and The Rabbit Hunter (2017). Subject tags include serial murders, police investigation, murder victims and Stockholm, Sweden. The median page count across catalogued editions is 528, and Lars Kepler is still publishing.

Laura Beers writes historical romance, with 66 books in the catalogue from 2019 to 2027. Series include Proper Regency Matchmakers, Regency Spies & Secrets, Regency Brides: A Promise of Love, Lords & Ladies of Mayfair and Gentlemen of London, Courting the Unconventional, Beckett Files, Lockwood Family and Brides of Forsaken Bank. Lawfully Courted, A Clever Alliance, An Unlikely Suitor and The Heiress are 2019 titles. A Risky Deception appeared in 2026, and A Calculated Charade is due in 2027.

Laura Bradford writes mysteries across 6 listed series: Amish Mysteries, Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries, Jenkins & Burns Mysteries, Emergency Dessert Squad Mysteries, Tobi Tobias and Friend for Hire Mystery. Subject headings name the Amish, sewing, South Carolina, librarians and murder, and romance appears too. The catalogue counts 48 books from Jury of One / Deadly Readings (2005) to The Big Picture (2026). Sew Deadly (2009), Death Threads (2010), Pinned for Murder (2010), Dangerous Alterations (2011) and Deadly Notions (2011) are among the titles, alongside Kayla's Daddy, A Mom for Callie and Miracle Baby from 2010.

Laura Burton has 38 catalogued books, published between 2014 and 2026. Pregnancy is not an illness and A Mother's Survival both date from 2014, and the listing then resumes in 2018 with Love Me, Crazy. Love Me, Darling, Love Me, Dreamy, Love Me, Sweetie and Who Wants to Love a Billionaire? all appeared in 2019, and How to Fire Your Billionaire Boss and How to Nanny a Billionaire's Baby followed in 2020. Series headings are Billionaires In The City, Fairytales Reimagined, Be My Fake Fiance, Truth or Dare, Magic of Dragons, Love is a Mystery and Snowdrop Valley. Spellbound (2026) is the newest listed title.

Laura Childs writes cozy mysteries in three series: the Tea Shop Mysteries, with Theodosia Browning in Charleston, South Carolina, the Scrapbooking Mysteries and the Cackleberry Club Mysteries. Death by Darjeeling (2001) opens the catalogue, which holds 56 books and reaches Death at a Firefly Tea. Buttermint Bomb is scheduled for 2027.

Laura Clery has three catalogued books. Idiot (2019) opens the run, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes followed in 2022, and What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter is dated 2026. Clery is actively publishing.

American novelist Laura Dave was born on July 18, 1977. Dave's novel The Last Thing He Told Me reached the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted for television. The catalogue holds 8 books, from London is the Best City in America (2006) to The First Time I Saw Him (2026), and lists one series, Hannah Hall. Subjects tagged on the books include marriage, family life, missing persons, journalists and Rhode Island. The author's publishing remains ongoing.

Weddings supply the setting for Laura Durham's mysteries. Annabelle Archer works in the wedding industry in Washington, D.C., and is the recurring sleuth across the one named series. Twenty books run from Better Off Wed (2005) to Aisle's Well That Ends Well (2024), with the titles built on wedding puns: For Better or Hearse (2006), Death on the Aisle (2017), Night of the Living Wed (2017), Groomed for Murder (2018) and Marry and Bright (2018). Durham is actively publishing.

Laura Elliot is the pen name of June Considine, an Irish novelist and children's author. Twelve books are catalogued under the Elliot name between 2015 and 2024, among them Fragile Lies, Stolen Child, The Betrayal and The Prodigal Sister (all 2015), Sleep Sister (2016), The Wife Before Me (2018) and The Silent House (2020). Deception, divorce, sisters, birth parents and the bond between mothers and daughters run through the subjects. Not Their Daughter (2024) is the newest title.

Laura Frantz writes Christian historical romance set on the American frontier. The Frontiersman's Daughter (2009) opens a catalogue of 19 books, with the Ballantyne Legacy as the one series and Kentucky, Pennsylvania and pioneer life among the subjects. The Belle of Chatham arrives in 2026, and the novels run to a median 409 pages.

Laura Gail Black writes the Antique Bookshop Mystery series, a run of 4 mysteries published between 2020 and 2023. For Whom the Book Tolls (2020) opens the sequence, followed by Murder by the Bookend (2021), Bound by Murder (2022) and Caught on the Book (2023). Every title turns on a book-trade pun. Nothing has been added since 2023.

Laura Griffin writes romantic suspense around forensic investigators, police officers and FBI cases. One Last Breath (2007) opens a catalogue of 38 books, and the Tracers series and the Texas Murder Files are the central strands, with Alpha Crew, Wolfe Security, Borderline and the Glass Sisters alongside them. Serial murder investigations carry much of the work, which continues into 2026.

Laura Hillenbrand

2 books

Laura Hillenbrand, born in 1967, writes narrative nonfiction, and her catalogue holds exactly two books: Seabiscuit (1999), about the racehorse and the sport around him, and Unbroken (2014), a Second World War story of survival. The two have sold more than 13 million copies between them, and both were adapted for film. Hillenbrand fell ill at college and left without completing her degree, an experience she wrote up as the essay A Sudden Illness for The New Yorker in 2003.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

67 books• 7 series

Laura Ingalls Wilder (7 February 1867 to 10 February 1957) was an American writer, teacher and journalist. The Little House on the Prairie children's books, published from 1932 to 1943, drew on Wilder's childhood in a pioneer settler family. Catalogued Wilder titles from those years include Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), The Long Winter (1940), Little Town on the Prairie (1941) and These Happy Golden Years (1943). Catalogue subjects include frontier and pioneer life, farm life and families.

Laura Jensen Walker started in humour and Christian writing and moved into mystery. The catalogue holds 27 books published between 1997 and 2026, opening with Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde (1997) and reaching The Postmistress of Pudlington (2026). Thanks for the Mammogram! (2000), Mentalpause (2001) and God Rest Ye Grumpy Scroogeymen (2003) sit in the early humour. Six series follow, among them the Getaway Girls, Phoebe Grant, A Bookish Baker Mystery, A Faith Chapel Mystery, the Nightingale Mystery and the Alphabet Girls Mystery.

Feudal Japan is where Laura Joh Rowland's best known books take place. The Sano Ichiro novels put a samurai investigator to work in Edo during the late seventeenth century, starting with Shinju (1994). Rowland, born in 1953, also wrote a series casting Charlotte Bronte as a detective and another set in Victorian England around the Jack the Ripper killings. Twenty-seven catalogued books reach to River of Fallen Angels (2023), and nothing has followed.

Laura Kaye

39 books• 9 series

Laura Kaye is the name an American historian and author publishes romance under; historical fiction appears under the name Laura Croghan Kamoie. Forty-one books are catalogued as Kaye between 2011 and 2021, across series including Hard Ink, Raven Riders, Blasphemy, Hearts Of The Anemoi, Warrior Fight Club and Vampire Warrior Kings. Forever Freed and Hearts in Darkness opened the run in 2011, and Fighting the Fire (2021) closed it. Veterans, special forces, motorcyclists and gods recur as subjects.

Laura Kinsale writes historical romance and has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award twice. Knighthood and the Middle Ages, English social custom and France supply the settings, gathered into the Medieval Hearts and Victorian Hearts series. Kinsale's 12 catalogued books run from The Hidden Heart (1986) to Lessons in French (2010), taking in Seize the Fire (1989), The Prince of Midnight (1990), The Shadow and the Star (1991), Flowers from the Storm (1992) and For My Lady's Heart (1993). The 1990s were the heaviest decade.