Authors whose first name starts with M, page 3 of 19

Mai Corland's catalogue holds 4 books published between 2024 and 2026. Three of them form the Broken Blades series: Five Broken Blades (2024), Four Ruined Realms (2025) and Three Shattered Souls (2025), a descending count carried through the titles themselves. Verity Guild (2026) is the newest entry, and Corland remains actively publishing.

Maia Chance writes historical mysteries with women sleuths. Snow White Red-Handed (2014) opens the catalogue, and fairy tales run through its titles: Cinderella Six Feet Under (2015), Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (2016), Sleeping Beauty, Borrowed Time (2017). Three series divide the list, Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery, Discreet Retrieval Agency and An Agnes and Effie Mystery, and Prohibition, actresses, hotels and castles appear among the subjects. 13 titles reach The Ravine (2026).

Maia Kobabe

9 books• 1 series

Maia Kobabe, born in 1989, is an American cartoonist. Gender Queer: A Memoir (2019) is an autobiographical graphic novel recounting Kobabe's life and identification as non-binary. Identity, sexuality, anti-fascism, fairy tales and homesickness run through the work. Nine books are catalogued, from The Thief's Tale chapter 1 (2014) to Opting Out (2026), with Tom O'Bedlam (2015), The Nonbinary Bunny (2019), Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding (2024) and Saachi's Stories (2025) among them. Port Glas is the series recorded here, and the catalogue files the books under LGBTQ memoir and comics.

Maile Meloy, born January 1, 1972, is an American novelist and short story writer. The 10 catalogued books run from Half in Love (2002) to The Octopus Escapes (2021). Liars and Saints (2003), A Family Daughter (2006), Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It (2009) and Do Not Become Alarmed (2017) are among them. Meloy also wrote the Apothecary series, and The Apothecary (2011), The Apprentices (2013) and The After-Room (2015) are listed. Catalogue subjects include families, adventure stories, the American West and parents and adult children.

Mainak Dhar writes military thrillers and post-apocalyptic fiction, and also publishes on brand management and marketing. The catalogue holds 34 books dated 2002 to 2024, at a median of 222 pages, from Flashpoint to The 5th Fanatic. Alice in Deadland (2011) heads the zombie series of the same name, with Unit 22 and 7even alongside it. Non-fiction entries include Brand Management 101 (2007), The Funda of Mix-ology (2008) and The Cubicle Manifesto (2011). India, Pakistan and the Middle East recur as settings.

Maisey Yates is the author of 184 catalogued books, from His Virgin Acquisition (2010) to First Witches Club (2026), with Challenging Her Cowboy scheduled for 2027. Subject headings cover contemporary and western romance, cowboys, ranchers, Oregon, princes and princesses. Series include Gold Valley, Gold Valley Vineyards, Copper Ridge, Four Corners Ranch, Jasper Creek, Mustang River, Deacons of Bourbon Street and Once Upon a Seduction. A Mistake, a Prince and a Pregnancy (2010), The Argentine's Price (2011) and A Royal Without Mercy (2012) are early titles.

Maisie Thomas is the author of the Railway Girls and Wartime Hotel series, with 13 books in the catalogue published from 2020 to 2026. The Railway Girls (2020) is the first title and Changing Times at Calico House (2026) the newest. Secrets of the Railway Girls (2020), The Railway Girls in Love (2021), Courage of the Railway Girls (2023) and A New Home at the Wartime Hotel (2025) are among the others. The median book is 424 pages, and Thomas is still publishing.

Every Makenna Jameison series takes the military as its frame: Alpha SEALs with its Coronado and Hawaii branches, Shadow Ops Team and Shadow Ops: Bravo Team, Sinful Marines and Soldier. The catalogue holds 56 books published between 2012 and 2026, from Christmas with a Soldier (2012) to Knox (2026). Books run to a median 211 pages and Jameison continues to publish.

Malala Yousafzai

8 books

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and a producer of film and television, and the youngest Nobel laureate in history, awarded the Peace Prize in 2014 at seventeen. Yousafzai campaigns for the education of women and children in her home district of Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times barred girls from school. Eight books are catalogued, opening with I Am Malala (2012) and its 2014 edition for younger readers, and continuing through Malala's Magic Pencil (2017), We Are Displaced (2018), My Name Is Malala (2022), Malala Speaks Out (2023) and Finding My Way (2025).

Malcolm Archibald writes Scottish historical fiction and history. 85 catalogued books run from Scottish Battles (1990) to For Freedom Alone (2026), with the 2020s the busiest decade. Jack Windrush, Detective Watters, the Mendick Mystery books, Swordswoman, Soldier's Son and Kennett's Campaigns are among the series. Subjects range over the Napoleonic Wars, the South African War, whaling, crime and Scottish folklore. The median book runs 250 pages.

Malcolm Gladwell

13 books• 1 series

Malcolm Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist, author and public speaker, born 3 September 1963, and a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. The catalogue lists 13 books, opening with The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) and followed by Blink (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), David and Goliath (2013), Talking to Strangers (2019) and The Bomber Mafia (2021). The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic (2026) is the newest. Gladwell's writing draws on social science research in sociology and psychology. Gladwell hosts the podcast Revisionist History, co-founded Pushkin Industries, and joined the Order of Canada in 2011.

Malcolm Hollingdrake writes police mysteries, with 20 books published from 2012 to 2025. Bridging The Gulf (2012) came first, and 2016 brought Flesh Evidence, Hell's Gate, Only the Dead and Shadows from the Past. DCI Cyril Bennett is the detective of the DCI Cyril Bennett / Harrogate Crime series, and a second series is Merseyside Crime. Subjects include murder, missing persons and investigation. The Hidden Eye (2025) is the newest.

Malcolm Lowry

15 books

Malcolm Lowry, born Clarence Malcolm Lowry on 28 July 1909 and died on 26 June 1957, was an English poet and novelist. Under the Volcano (1947) placed No. 11 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels. Ultramarine (1933) is the first title in the catalogue. Books dated after 1957 include Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961), Selected Poems (1962), Lunar Caustic (1963), Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (1968) and October Ferry To Gabriola (1971).

Malcolm Mackay, born on 1 September 1981 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, writes Scottish crime fiction. The Glasgow Underworld books and the Saviors books make up nine catalogued titles, from The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter (2013) to Saviors (2019), with gangsters, organised crime and hired killers throughout. How a Gunman Says Goodbye took the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2013. Nothing has followed since 2019.

Malcolm Pryce, a British author born in 1960, writes humorous noir detective fiction set in Wales. The Aberystwyth Noir series features the private investigator Louie Knight and opens with Aberystwyth Mon Amour (2001). Last Tango in Aberystwyth (2003) and From Aberystwyth with Love (2009) followed. Pryce also writes Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective, and catalogue subjects include the Great Western Railway and historical mystery. The 11 listed books run to A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth (2024), and Pryce is still publishing.

Malcolm Rose, born 1953, is a British author of young adult fiction. Many Rose books, the Traces and Lawless & Tilley series among them, are mysteries or thrillers whose hero applies science to catch a criminal or terrorist. Catalogue subjects include forensic scientists, police procedurals, cloning, robots and the character Luke Harding. The 48 listed books run from Rift (1985) to Chasing the Rapture (2019), including Son of Pete Flude (1991) and Concrete Evidence (1995).

Malcolm X is the name on 11 catalogued books published between 1964 and 2012, and the subject headings date Malcolm X to 1925-1965. The Ballot or the Bullet (1964) is the earliest title, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements date from 1965. Later titles include By Any Means Necessary (1970), Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (1989) and Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard (1991). Subject headings cover African Americans, civil rights, Black Muslims and race relations.

Malinda Lo

9 books• 2 series

Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels who also researches diversity in young adult literature and publishing. Nine books are catalogued under the Lo credit, opening with Ash (2009) and reaching A Scatter of Light (2022). Between them sit Huntress (2011), The Fox (2011), Adaptation (2012), Inheritance (2013), Natural Selection (2013), A Line in the Dark (2017) and Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021). Adaptation is catalogued as a series under the same credit. Recorded subjects include lesbians, sexual orientation, coming of age, fairy tales, fairies, stepfamilies and extraterrestrial beings.

Malka Ann Older

9 books• 2 series

Malka Ann Older, born 30 October 1977, writes science fiction and works as an academic and a humanitarian aid worker, serving as executive director of Global Voices. The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs named Older its 2015 Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk. Nine books are catalogued, from Tear Tracks (2015) to The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (2025). Infomocracy (2016) began The Centenal Cycle, continued by Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018); State Tectonics drew a Prometheus Award nomination in 2019, and the cycle a Hugo nomination that same year. Mossa & Pleiti is the other series recorded here.

Malla Nunn, born in 1963, is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter, film director and author. The Detective Emmanuel Cooper mysteries are set in South Africa and open with A Beautiful Place to Die (2008), followed by Let The Dead Lie (2010), Blessed Are the Dead (2012) and Present Darkness (2013). Nunn then turned to young adult fiction with the award-winning When the Ground Is Hard (2019) and Sugar Town Queens (2021). Six books are catalogued in all.

Mallory Crowe has 106 catalogued books, published between 2015 and 2026 and credited to Crowe alone. Falling Secrets, Cross Falls and Binding Fire are among the 2015 titles; Shifters Reckoning (2026) is the newest. Series in the listing include Stolen Hearts, Hot Criminals, Bad Boys of the Underworld, the Fractured Farrells, the Devereaux Billionaires, the Secret Academy, Big City Magic and Blood & Shadows. No subject headings and no genre are recorded.

Mallory Kane writes romantic suspense, with 56 books catalogued from The Lawman Who Loved Her (2001) to The Trouble with Deke (2021). Subjects include kidnapping, police, murder investigations and single mothers. Series include Delancey Dynasty, Ultimate Agents, Black Hills Brotherhood, Louisiana Lawmen, Bayou Bonne Chance and Rise of the Deviants. Bulletproof Billionaire (2004), Covert Makeover (2006) and Juror No. 7 (2007) are among the titles.

159 catalogued books stand under Mallory Monroe's name, published from Romancing the Bulldog (2011) to Trina Gabrini (2026). The Gabrini and Sinatra families run through most of them: Reno Gabrini/Mob Boss, Sal Gabrini, Tommy Gabrini, Mick Sinatra, Teddy Sinatra, Amelia Sinatra and the Sinatras of Jericho County. Alex Drakos, The President's Girlfriend, Rags to Romance, Trevor Reese and Monk Paletti are the other series. Contemporary romance meets organized crime, and interracial relationships between African American and Italian American characters recur as a subject.

Malorie Blackman

78 books• 10 series

Malorie Blackman, born Oneta Malorie Blackman on 8 February 1962, is a British writer and was Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Blackman writes books and television drama for children and young adults and uses science fiction to examine social and ethical questions. The Noughts and Crosses series uses a fictional alternative Britain to examine racism. Blackman won the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize and became a dame in the King's 2026 Birthday Honours. The 78 catalogued books run from Not So Stupid! (1990) to Just Sayin': My Life In Words (2022).

Historical romance is the register of Manda Collins's catalogue, whose subjects list nobility, aristocracy, England, betrothal, horse racing, and social life and customs. The 26 catalogued books run from How to Dance with a Duke (2012) to Ghost Me, Maybe (2026), with How to Romance a Rake (2012), Why Dukes Say I Do (2013), Why Earls Fall in Love (2014) and A Good Rake is Hard to Find (2015) in between. Wicked Widows, A Lady's Guide, Studies In Scandal, Ugly Ducklings, Lords of Anarchy and A Wallflower's Guide are the series credited to Collins.

Manda Scott

21 books• 5 series

Manda Scott, born in 1962, trained as a veterinary surgeon at the University of Glasgow before becoming a novelist, columnist, blogger, podcaster and occasional broadcaster. Scott grew up in Glasgow and now lives in Shropshire. Her 21 books start with Hen's Teeth (1996). Dreaming the Eagle (2003), Dreaming the Bull, Dreaming the Hound and Dreaming the Serpent Spear followed, and the Iceni, Romans and Britons are listed subjects. Scott's series are Boudica, Rome, Kellen Stewart, Storycuts and Capitaine Inés Picaut, and Any Human Power (2024) is her newest book.

Mandasue Heller writes crime thrillers set in England, with subjects covering organized crime, gangsters, drug dealers, sisters and friendship. The 22 catalogued Heller books run from The Front (2002) to The Child (2026). Early titles include Forget Me Not (2003), Tainted Lives (2004), The Charmer (2005) and The Club (2006). Shafted (2007), Snatched (2009) and The Driver (2010) followed. Heller is still publishing.

Mande Matthews has 10 catalogued books published from 2011 to 2021. The series listed under Matthews are Quest: Tales Of Lady Guinevere and Shirley Lock Mysteries, and ShadowLight Saga is also linked. Bonded (2011) is the earliest title, followed by Betrothal (2012), Quest (2012) and The Light Keepers (2012). Ring of Fire: A Mythica Novella (2019) carries the credit Jessa Knight, and If Angels Whisper (2021) is the newest.

Mandy Baggot writes contemporary romance, often with a holiday setting. Greece, London and New York supply the backdrops across titles including One Wish in Manhattan (2015), One Greek Sunrise and That First French Summer. Many of the books carry two titles, one for each market. Thirty-two catalogued works run from 2008 to Winter With You (2026), and the Freya Johnson series sits inside them.

Mandy Harbin is catalogued with 27 books published between 2011 and 2022, every one credited to Harbin alone. Summer opened the listing in 2011 alongside Surrounded by Pleasure and Surrounded by Woods, and Bear (2022) is the newest entry. Several titles carry alternate forms: Super Hot Supervisor appears as Against Company Policy, and Brody as Darkest Sin. Series include Bang Shift, Love Against Odds / Tender Tarts, Woods Family, Beau's Backdoor and Season's Change. The catalogue records no subject headings and marks the run dormant.

Paranormal romance and cozy paranormal mysteries are published under the name Mandy M. Roth, an American novelist with New York Times and USA Today list credits; erotic romance appears under the pen name Reagan Hawk. The catalogue records 114 books starting with Daughter of Darkness and Immortal Ops in 2004. Rain with a Chance of Deer is dated 2026, and Midsummer with a Chance of Night is scheduled for 2027. Immortal Ops, PSI-Ops, Grimm Cove, King of Prey and Beast Masters are among the series.

Mandy Morton writes the No.2 Feline Detective Agency series of mysteries featuring cats, with Hettie Bagshot among the subject tags. The catalogue holds 16 books from The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency (2014) to The Tabby in Black (2026). Subject tags include women sleuths, private investigators, murder, Halloween and body snatching. Cat Among the Pumpkins (2014), The Death of Downton Tabby (2016), Magical Mystery Paws (2018) and The Cat and the Pendulum (2022) are among the titles.

Mandy Robotham writes historical fiction set in the Second World War, much of it in Germany. The catalogue holds 11 books published between 2018 and 2026, opening with A Woman of War (2018), also published as The German Midwife, and reaching The Spy and the Snake (2026). The Secret Messenger (2019), The Berlin Girl (2020), The Girl Behind the Wall (2021), The Resistance Girl (2022) and The War Pianist (2023) follow. Mrs Spy (2025) names the one series catalogued, and Robotham published The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux (2024) as M.J. Robotham.

Manning Coles was two people: Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965), neighbours in East Meon, Hampshire, who wrote spy thrillers together from 1940 into the early 1960s. Coles served with British Intelligence in both World Wars and Manning worked at the War Office in the first. Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, a Foreign Office man, carries 26 of the books, and a second series follows Charles and James Latimer. Drink to Yesterday (1940) opens a catalogue of 29 titles, with ghosts turning up in part of the later work.

Manuel Ramos is a mystery writer with 11 catalogued books from The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz (1993) to Angels in the Wind (2021). Subject headings include Denver, Colorado, Mexican Americans, lawyers and private investigators, and name Luis Montez as a fictitious character. The series on the site are Luis Montez, Mile High Noir and Sherlock Homie. Other titles include The Last Client of Luis Montez (1996), Blues for the Buffalo (1997), King of the Chicanos (2010), Desperado (2013) and My Bad (2016). The author is listed as dormant.

Mara Rutherford writes young adult fantasy. Crown of Coral and Pearl (2019) and Kingdom of Sea and Stone (2020) form her one duology; Luminous, The Poison Season, A Multitude of Dreams, A Curious Kind of Magic and My Unfamiliar (2026) stand alone. Seven books span 2019 to 2026.

Witches and cozy mystery run through all twelve of Mara Webb's series: Hallow Haven Witch Mysteries, Wicked Witches of Pendle Island, Spellcaster Creek and Vanish Valley, Seaspray Isle Witch Mysteries, English Enchantment Witch Mysteries, Wildes Witches, Compass Cove Cozy Mysteries, Paws and Poltergeists, Cordelia Rose Paranormal Mysteries, Raven Bay Mysteries and Strife After Death. Webb's 104 catalogued books open with Over the Broomstick (2019) and reach The Dough Must Go On (2026), at roughly a dozen a year. Broom puns carry many of the early titles.

Marc Alan Edelheit writes military fantasy, starting with Stiger's Tigers (2015) and the Chronicles of an Imperial Legionary Officer. The Karus Saga, Tales of the Seventh, the Eli Chronicles, Way of Legend, Born of Ash and Command Decision extend the catalogue to 38 titles, reaching Off Indigo Station (2026). Edelheit also published a guide to indie publishing, Every Writer's Dream (2019).

Marc Brown

47 books• 1 series

Marc Brown, born 25 November 1946, is an American children's author and illustrator who writes and draws the Arthur books. The Arthur series became an animated television show broadcast on PBS Kids. The catalogue lists 47 books by Marc Brown between 1996 and 2009, starting with Arthur's Reading Race (1996) and ending with Arthur's Reading Trick (2009). Arthur, a fictitious aardvark, heads the subject records, alongside schools, friendship, brothers and sisters, and Spanish language editions.

Marc Cameron, born 1961, is an American novelist of action adventure fiction. Cameron writes the Jericho Quinn and Arliss Cutter series and has written Jack Ryan novels set in the Ryanverse built on Tom Clancy's characters. The 26 catalogued books span 2005 to 2026. The earliest, Hard Road to Heaven (2005) and The Hell Riders (2006), appeared as Mark Henry. Later titles include National Security (2011) and Act of Terror (2012), and Backtrack (2026) is the newest.

Marc Cerasini is catalogued under media tie-in, children's fiction, science fiction and suspense, with titles dated 1986 to 2025. The listing opens with Robert E. Howard (1986) and How to Write Horror and Get It Published (1989), and includes Godzilla Returns (1996) and Godzilla Saves America (1996). Series on file include Godzilla, Ace Ventura, 7th Heaven, 47 R.O.N.I.N. and Star Wars: Jedi Readers, and Wolverine: Violent Tendencies (2025) is the newest entry.

Marc Eliot writes biographies and memoirs of show business figures, and has ghost-written for film stars. The subjects run from musicians to actors: Phil Ochs in Death of a Rebel (1979), Burt Reynolds, Bruce Springsteen in Down Thunder Road, Walt Disney in Hollywood's Dark Prince, and Merle Haggard in The Hag (2022). Rockonomics and American Television take on the industries themselves. 28 titles span 1979 to 2022, at a median of 322 pages.

Marc Guggenheim

47 books• 13 series

Marc Guggenheim, born September 24, 1970, is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer and novelist. Guggenheim created the television series Eli Stone (2008 to 2009), Arrow (2012 to 2020) and Legends of Tomorrow (2016 to 2022), was executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia (2016 to 2021), and wrote the films Green Lantern (2011) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013). The catalogue lists 47 entries from 2007 to 2026, with comics and graphic novels, superheroes and media tie-ins among the subjects, including Justice Society of America (2011), Arrow, Volume 1 (2013) and Spider-Man & Wolverine Vol. 1: The Janus Directory (2026). Series include X-Men Gold, Star Wars: Jedi Knights and Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad.

Marc Levy

14 books• 1 series

French novelist Marc Levy was born on 16 October 1961. The catalogue lists 14 Levy books, from If Only It Were True / Just Like Heaven (2000) to Symphony of Monsters (2026), and names Et si c'était vrai as a series. Subject tags include love stories, the Second World War, underground movements, archaeologists and astrophysicists. The Children of Freedom (2007), The Shadow Thief (2010), Replay (2012) and P.S. from Paris (2015) are among the listed titles. Levy continues to publish.

Marc Olden (1933-2003) was an American author of mystery and suspense. Angela Davis (1973) opens the catalogue, and Black Samurai follows in 1974 with Killer Warrior, The Deadly Pearl, The Golden Kill and The Inquisition arriving the same year. Four series divide the 28 titles: Black Samurai, the Harker File, Manny Decker and Frank DiPalma. New York, Japanese corporations, race relations and international trade recur as subjects, and The Ghost (1998) closes the run at a catalogue median of 336 pages.

Jeff Trask is the recurring figure across Marc Rainer's catalogue, which carries the Jeff Trask Crime Drama series. Eight books run from Capital Kill and Horns of the Devil, both 2012, to Oracle in 2023, taking in Death's White Horses (2014), A Winter of Wolves (2016), Death Votes Last (2017), Mob Rules (2019) and The Grinding Wheel (2021). Readers looking up Marc Rainer books in order work through eight titles, at a median length of 332 pages.

Marc Timms published 15 catalogued books in 2020 and 2021, divided between the Shock and Eyewitness series. Shock (2020) is the first listed title. The other 2020 titles include The Capture, The Chaos, The Chase, The Quest, The Return and The Truth. The Eyewitness books followed in 2021, and no release after 2021 is recorded.

Marcel Proust

28 books• 2 series

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist. In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and running to roughly 1.25 million words, is the work he is known for; critics rank him among the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Proust was born in the Auteuil quarter of Paris to a wealthy family, his father Adrien a pathologist and epidemiologist. The catalogue here holds 28 titles, from Pleasures and Days (1896) to the 2021 collection The Mysterious Correspondent.

Marcella Bell writes contemporary romance, with catalogue subjects recording billionaires, royalty, multicultural and interracial pairings, and own voices. Eight Bell books appeared between 2020 and 2023, across two series, Queen's Guard and Closed Circuit. Stolen to Wear His Crown (2020) opens the catalogue; His Stolen Innocent's Vow, Pregnant After One Forbidden Night and The Wildest Ride are dated 2021; His Bride with Two Royal Secrets, Snowbound in Her Boss's Bed and The Rodeo Queen 2022; and Reclaimed by His Billion-Dollar Ring closes the run in 2023.

Marci Bolden has 19 catalogued books, published between 2015 and 2021. The Road Leads Back, The Forgotten Path and Friends Without Benefits all appeared in 2015, and The Breaking Point (2021) closes the run. Four series carry the name: Stonehill, the Women of HEARTS, A Life Without Water and Chammont Point. The catalogue is dormant.

Marcia Clark writes legal thrillers set in Los Angeles. Clark was the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case and has also worked as a television correspondent and producer. Her two series are Rachel Knight and Samantha Brinkman, and her 13 catalogued books run from Without a Doubt (1997) to Trial by Ambush (2024), taking in Guilt by Association (2011), Killer Ambition (2013), The Competition (2014), Blood Defense (2016) and Moral Defense (2016). Public prosecutors, criminal defence lawyers and murder investigation are the standing subjects. Clark is actively publishing.

Marcia Muller, born September 28, 1944 in Detroit, is an American mystery and thriller author who created the female private detective Sharon McCone. Vanishing Point won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel after four earlier nominations, and Mystery Writers of America named Muller a Grand Master in 2005. Muller studied English at the University of Michigan and worked at Sunset magazine. Muller is married to Bill Pronzini, a collaborator on several novels. The catalogue lists 74 books, including Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) and Circle in the Water (2024).

Marcia Talley is an American mystery novelist and a former librarian who took early retirement in 2000 to write full-time. Hannah Ives carries Talley's series, which opens with Sing It To Her Bones in 1999 and continues through Unbreathed Memories, Occasion of Revenge, In Death's Shadow and Dead Man Dancing. Maryland and the Bahamas supply the settings, and two collaborative novels and a body of short stories sit beside the 33 catalogued books. Circles of Death is dated 2024.

Marcia Thornton Jones, born July 15, 1958, is an American writer of children's books and the author or co-author of more than 135 elementary chapter books, picture books and mid-grade novels. Named among them is The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids; other work was co-written with Debbie Dadey, who carries a credit on 7 of the 125 catalogued titles. The listing opens with Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (1990) and ends with Writing for Kids (2019). Further series include Ghostville Elementary, Bailey City Monsters, Barkley's School for Dogs and Keyholders. The books are short, at a median of 75 pages, and subjects name monsters, ghosts, teachers and humorous stories.

Marcia Willett (1945-2022) was a British writer of women's fiction who also published as Willa Marsh. The catalogue holds 38 titles published between 1995 and 2022, opening with A Friend of the Family (1995) and The Courtyard (1995) and closing with Christmas at the Keep (2022). The Chadwick Family Chronicles is Willett's one continuing series; the rest are standalone novels and novellas. Family life, family secrets, brothers and sisters, widows and the county of Cornwall recur across the subjects.

Marcie R. Rendon

8 books• 2 series

Marcie R. Rendon, born in 1952, is a Native American playwright, poet, novelist and community arts activist based in Minneapolis, and an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. The Cash Blackbear crime series opens with Murder on the Red River (2017), which took the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction; Girl Gone Missing (2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Sue Grafton Memorial Award, and Sinister Graves (2022) and Broken Fields (2025) follow. Rendon also wrote nonfiction for children, among it Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (2001), and founded Raving Native Productions theater. The catalogue holds 8 books dated 1996 to 2025.

Marco Vichi is an Italian novelist and short story writer, born in Florence in 1957 and living in the Chianti hills. The Inspector Bordelli novels are the best known work: police procedurals set in 1960s Italy and translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. Seven titles are catalogued, from Perché dollari? (2005) through Death in August (2011), Death and the Olive Grove (2012), Death in Sardinia (2012), Death in Florence (2013) and Death in the Tuscan Hills (2016) to Ghosts of the Past (2018). Vichi has also edited crime anthologies.

Marcus Brotherton's catalogue runs across two subject areas: the Second World War, including the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and Christian life, taking in divorce, children of divorced parents and Christian youth. Fifteen books are recorded between 2006 and 2022, starting from three 2006 titles, Blur, Buzz and Split. Later entries include We Who Are Alive and Remain (2009), A Company of Heroes (2010), Shifty's War (2011), Feast for Thieves (2014) and A Bright and Blinding Sun (2022).

Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham is an English author, business consultant and motivational speaker, born on 11 January 1966 and based in California. The catalogue lists 11 books from First, Break All the Rules (1998) to Love and Work (2022). Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), Go Put Your Strengths to Work (2008), StandOut (2011) and Nine Lies About Work (2019) are among them. Subject headings cover management, leadership, employee motivation, executive ability, performance and self-actualization. The listing is marked dormant.

Marcus Cass writes the Artificer series, with 12 books catalogued in 2025 and 2026. The Living Stone (2025) is listed first, and Eye of the Basilisk and The Mirror of Power are also from 2025. The 2026 titles include Beacon of Hope, Gatemaster, Keys Between Worlds, Soul Wardens and The Shadow Mask. Lady of the Mountain (2026) is the newest, and Marcus Cass is still publishing.