Authors whose first name starts with L, page 2 of 14

Lana Axe published 21 fantasy-titled books between 2013 and 2017. A Story of River, Beyond the Wildlands, Memoirs of a Sorcerer and War of the Wildlands all appeared in 2013. A Bird of White, Red of the Woods, The Blind King and The Third Apprentice followed in 2014. Lana Axe's series is Clockwork Calico, and The First Lesson (2017) is the final title.

Lana Dash has 94 books catalogued between 2020 and 2025. Series include Sincerely Yours, Bad Bridesmaids, Mountain Men Matchmaker, Curvy Girls Guide, Nice Girls' Naughty Book Club, Mountain Creek Ranch, Wild Knight's Ridge Mountain Men, Alaskan Mountain Bush Pilots and Knight's Ridge Fire Department. Titles from 2020 include A Knight's Ridge Mountain Christmas and Sparks Under the Mistletoe, and the newest is Stone Cold Mountain Man (2025).

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 Stone has 58 books in the catalogue, published from 2016 to 2026. The early titles include Küss mich, Cowboy! (2016), Vom Milliardär gekauft: Dominanz & Unterwerfung (2016) and Ewige Liebe (2017). Stone's series include Billionaires of New York, Hot Guys, New York Firefighters, Ice Intruders, Kämpferherz, Red River Ranch and Pierce Brothers. Breathless for my Boss (2026) is the newest title.

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.

Dystopian science fiction thrillers about insurgency make up the 20 catalogued books of Lance Erlick, published from 2013 to 2019. The Rebel Within and Rebels Divided (both 2013) begin the list, followed by The Rebel Trap (2014) and Unintended Rebel (2015). Erlick's series are Regina Shen and Android Chronicles, Annabelle Scott appears among the subjects, and Origins (2019) is the final title.

Lance Horner's catalogue holds 14 books published between 1956 and 1975, all of them credited to Horner alone. Santiago Blood (1956) is the earliest and Golden Stud (1975) the most recent, which also names the one series the catalogue groups under this author. Recorded subjects are slavery, gay rulers and LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall. Other titles include Rogue Roman (1965), Falconhurst Fancy (1966), The Mustee (1967) and The Mahound (1969). Five counted volumes have a median length of 350 pages.

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.

Lara Lacombe writes romantic suspense. Kidnapping, physicians, man-woman relationships and thriller suspense are the recorded subjects across 21 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2022. Deadly Contact (2013) opens the catalogue and Colton's Baby Motive (2022) is the newest title. Rangers of Big Bend and Doctors in Danger are the two series listed, and Coltons Of Grave Gulch is recorded among the recurring names. The 2010s are the busiest decade, with a median recorded length of 288 pages. The catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

Lara Temple writes historical romance set among the aristocracy, and catalogue subjects record Regency romance, historical fiction, and family life, marriage and divorce. All 14 catalogued books carry Temple's credit and appeared between 2016 and 2022, from Lord Crayle's Secret World (2016) to The Wrong Way to Catch a Rake (2022). Titles name lords, dukes and viscounts: Lord Hunter's Cinderella Heiress (2017), The Duke's Unexpected Bride (2017), The Reluctant Viscount (2017), The Earl's Irresistible Challenge (2018) and Unlaced by the Highland Duke (2019). Wild Lords and Innocent Ladies, Sinful Sinclairs and Return of the Rogues are the series recorded under this name.

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.

Larissa Reinhart is a mystery author with 19 books catalogued from 2012 to 2024. Three series carry the Reinhart name: Cherry Tucker Mysteries, Maizie Albright Star Detective and Finley Goodhart. Portrait of a Dead Guy (2012) is the earliest title, with Hijack in Abstract and Still Life in Brunswick Stew following in 2013. Subjects on the books include women painters, portraits, murder investigation and romance. 19 Criminals (2024) is the newest release, and Larissa Reinhart is still publishing.

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 Cockerham is credited on nine books published between 2015 and 2017. Revelation: Prophetic Addresses to the Seven Churches (2015) opens the list, followed by Beyond Eternity, Beyond the Cosmos and Beyond the Stars (2016), then Beyond the Realm, Sanctuary of the Damned, Ten Major Signs of the Lord's Return in Our Generation, The Rapture and The Symbolism in the Mortalis Series in 2017. Mortalis is the series recorded under the name.

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 D. Sweazy writes westerns and mysteries, has won multiple awards, and also works as a freelance indexer. The 22 catalogued books span 2004 to 2024. The Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series includes The Rattlesnake Season (2009), The Scorpion Trail (2010) and The Gila Wars (2013). Sweazy also writes the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery, Sonny Burton, Lucas Fume, Trusty Dawson and Hallie Mae Edson series. The Buffalo Trace (2024) is the newest title.

Larry E. Linder writes westerns, and the series names say so: Oldest Lawman In The West, Bounty Hunter Western and A Dallas Barlowe Western. Jennette Delcroix Lady Pirate is a fourth series. The Gunfighter (2019) is the first of 21 books, followed by Halfbreed - Journey to Oregon and October's Comet (2020). Peacemaker 45, Band of Outlaws and Hobo Junction are later titles, and Teufelshunde (2025) is the newest.

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.

Larry Tye is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction, known for biographies of prominent Americans: Edward Bernays, Satchel Paige, Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph McCarthy. Nine catalogued books run from The Father of Spin (1998) to The Jazzmen (2024), taking in Rising from the Rails (2004), Superman (2012), Bobby Kennedy (2016) and Demagogue (2020). Subject headings name Pullman porters, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, railroad labour unions, African American history and baseball players. Tye is the sole credit on each book, and the books reach a median of 392 pages.

In a Dark Time (1980) begins the 12-book catalogue of Larry Watson, which ends with The Lives of Edie Pritchard (2020). Montana 1948 (1993), Justice, White Crosses, Laura, Orchard, American Boy, Let Him Go (2013) and As Good as Gone (2016) are among the titles. Subject tags include Montana, North Dakota, family life, artists and serial murders. Watson, born in 1947, is an American author of novels, poetry and short stories.

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.

László Krasznahorkai

15 books

László Krasznahorkai, born 5 January 1954, is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025. Krasznahorkai novels are known as difficult and demanding, often called postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Béla Tarr directed film adaptations of Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance. The catalogue lists 16 books, dating The Melancholy of Resistance to 2001 and including War & War (2006) and Seiobo There Below (2013). Enough About Angels (2026) is the newest, and The Prisoner of Urga is scheduled for 2027.

Laura Alden's catalogue splits in two. The early work is children's non-fiction and picture books, Saying I'm Sorry (1982), Dinosaur Jokes (1988), Houdini (1989) and the Read Around Alphabet Town and Circle The Year With Holidays series, at a median 32 pages. The later work is the Beth Kennedy mystery series, in which murder arrives by way of a parents' and teachers' association, ending with Poison at the PTA in 2014. Thirty-five books span 1982 to 2014, with the 1990s the peak decade.

Alternate history shapes Laura Andersen's catalogue: kings and rulers, queens, inheritance and succession, and Elizabeth I of England head the recorded subjects. Eight books are listed, grouped into the Anne Boleyn Trilogy and the Tudor Legacy Trilogy. The Boleyn King (2013) is the first title and The Forgotten Boy (2024) the most recent, with The Virgin's Daughter and The Virgin's Spy both dated 2015. Five books total 1,816 pages at a median of 358. Laura Andersen books in order begin with The Boleyn King.

Laura Anne Gilman

50 books• 15 series

Laura Anne Gilman is an American fantasy author, born in New Jersey in 1967. Magic, paranormal investigation, vampires and murder recur across a catalogue of 50 books published between 1995 and 2023, from Double or Nothing (1995) to Uncanny Vows (2023). Gilman's series include the Retrievers, the Vineart War, Paranormal Scene Investigations, Sylvan Investigations, the Gin & Tonic Mysteries, the Devil's West, Portals and Huntsmen, with non-fiction strands on unsolved mysteries and on economics. No title is listed after 2023.

Laura Ashwood's catalogue holds 9 books from 2021 to 2026. A Groom for Ruby, A Groom for Violet and A Groom By Surprise all appeared in 2021, followed by Royally Unexpected and Summer at Bluefin Bay (2022) and Sunset at Bluefin Bay (2023). Two series are named, Bluefin Bay and Caribou Falls. A Life Rewritten (2026) is the latest title.

Laura Barnard is catalogued with the Debt & The Doormat, Babes of Brighton and One Month Til I Do series. The Debt & the Doormat (2013) is the earliest title, and The Baby & the Bride (2014) is also listed. Dopey Women (2015), Sex, Snow & Mistletoe (2015) and Adventurous Proposal (2016) follow. Later titles include Excess Baggage (2017), Love Uncovered (2017), Bagging Alice (2018) and Marrying Mr Valentine (2018).

Laura Bates

10 books• 2 series

Laura Bates, born in 1986, is an English feminist writer who founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in 2012. A first book, Everyday Sexism, followed in 2014. Ten books are catalogued through 2025, with sexism and misogyny recorded as subjects alongside children's fiction. Nonfiction titles include Girl Up (2016), Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism (2018), Men Who Hate Women (2020), Fix the System, Not the Women (2022) and The New Age of Sexism (2025). The Sisters of Sword and Shadow series is also catalogued to Bates.

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 Benedict writes horror and suspense with a supernatural edge. Isabella Moon (2007) opens a catalogue of 11 books that ends at The Stranger Inside (2019), and Bliss House Novels is the series recorded under the name. Ghosts, missing children, criminal investigation, crime and family life appear in the subjects, with Virginia and Kentucky as settings. The median Benedict book runs 352 pages, and nothing new has been catalogued since 2019.

Laura Bickle / Alayna Williams is a combined listing for two bylines, covering 23 books from 2010 to 2021. The series list includes Wildlands, Anya Kalinczyk, Crow's Curse, Hallowed Ones, Mane Shift and Hellbrary. Dark Oracle (2010) and Rogue Oracle (2011) sit beside Embers and Sparks. Tarot cards, criminal profilers, the Amish and coming of age all appear in the subjects. Shifting Summer (2021) is the most recent title.

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 Caldwell (October 24, 1967 to March 1, 2020) was an American civil trial lawyer and law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Caldwell was the founding director of Life After Innocence and wrote 14 novels and two non-fiction books. Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted (2017) was co-edited by Caldwell. The catalogue lists 15 books from Burning The Map (2002) to The Dog Park (2014), including the Izzy McNeil series and Red Hot Lies (2009).

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.

Laura D. Bastian has 35 books in the catalogue, published between 2014 and 2023, with romance and historical fiction the two recorded subjects. Eye On Orion and Guardians of the Gates both date from 2014, and Beyond Orion, Echoes of Summer, Heart of Orion and Sink or Swim followed in 2015. Sparks Fly (2023) is the most recent title. Brides of Birch Creek, Firefighters of Emerald Cove, Crazy Rich Crushes and Inn at Emerald Lake are the four series credited to Bastian, and Kennedy Larsen shares the credit on one title.

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.

Mystery and detective fiction is where Laura DiSilverio's catalogue sits, with subject records naming women private investigators, women sleuths, Colorado, shopping malls and book clubs. DiSilverio has 15 catalogued books published between 2010 and 2017, all credited to DiSilverio. Charlie Swift, Mall Cop Mysteries and the Incubation Trilogy are the three series filed under the name. The run opens with Swift Justice (2010) and ends at That Last Weekend (2017), taking in Die Buying (2011), Malled to Death (2013) and The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco (2015).

Laura Drake is an American contemporary romance author. The Sweet Spot won the 2014 RITA Award for Best First Book from the Romance Writers of America. Drake's catalogue has 14 books from Her Road Home (2013) to Amazing Gracie (2023), grouped in part into the Sweet on a Cowboy, Chestnut Creek and Widow's Grove series. Subjects include bull riding, ranch life, Texas and grief.

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 Ellen Anderson

26 books• 4 series

Laura Ellen Anderson is an illustrator and children's author with 26 books in the catalogue, published between 2015 and 2025. Four series appear: Evil Emperor Penguin, Amelia Fang, Rainbow Grey and Marnie Midnight. Evil Emperor Penguin (2015) is the first title, and Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball followed in 2017. Subjects include comics, penguins, octopuses and good and evil. Marnie Midnight and the Minibeast Mission (2025) is the newest title.

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 Greenwood is credited with 379 books, dated from What Lies Beneath the Mask (2016) to Gift of the Empress (2026), with Dresses and Messes scheduled for 2027. Series under the Greenwood name include Forgotten Gods, Apprentice Of Anubis, Grimm Academy, Obscure Academy, Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency, Cauldron Coffee Shop, Shifter Season and Grimalkin Academy. Assassin Princess, Cloaked, Moonrise and Ocean's Serenade are among the 2017 titles. Gina Kincade shares credit on 2 books, and Laura Greenwood continues to publish.

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.