Authors whose first name starts with M, page 4 of 9

Martha Bond writes the Lottie Sprigg cozy mysteries, split into a Travels series and a Country House series. Eight of her nine books appeared in 2023, each naming a place in its title: Murder in Cairo, Murder in Monaco, Murder in Paris, Murder in Venice, Murder in Vienna, Murder in the Grotto and Murder in the Library. Murder in the Bay followed in 2024.

Martha Carr's catalogue opens with Wired (1993) and resumes in 2016 with The Keeper and The List. The Keeper Returns (2017), The Circle Rises (2018), The Watchers' Revolt (2018), Ascendant, Descendant and Transcendent (all 2018) and Return of the Dwarf King (2019) follow. Wallis Jones, Adventures of Finnegan Dragonbender, Peabrain Adventures and Queen of the Flightless Dragons are the listed series, and the Oriceran Universe is a linked entry. Detective and mystery stories is the listed subject.

Martha Grimes is an American detective novelist born on May 2, 1931. The best-known Grimes series features Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, and Melrose Plant, an aristocrat who became an amateur sleuth. The catalogue opens with The Man With a Load of Mischief (1981), followed by The Old Fox Deceiv'd and The Anodyne Necklace, and totals 40 books through The Red Queen (2025). Emma Graham, Andi Oliver and Foul Matter are among the other series.

Martha Hall Kelly writes historical fiction, and the catalogue lists 6 books between 2016 and 2025. Lilac Girls / The Lilac Girls of Ravensbrück (2016) is first, followed by Lost Roses (2019), Sunflower Sisters (2021), Naomi's Gift (2022) and The Golden Doves (2023). The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club (2025) is the newest. Kelly's series is Caroline Ferriday / Lilac Girls. Subjects include both World Wars, the Ravensbrück concentration camp, underground movements and female friendship.

Martha Keyes has 41 catalogued books, starting in 2019 and reaching Forbidden to Fall in 2026, with Off Script due in 2027. Eleanor, Cecilia, Isabel, Phoebe, Wyndcross and Goodwill for the Gentleman all date from 2019. Families of Dorset, Tales from the Highlands, Sheppards in Love, Chronicles of Misadventures, Romance Retold and Matchify are the listed series. The Christmas Foundling (2020), The Road Through Rushbury (2020) and A Matchmaking Mismatch (2020) are other titles.

Martha Waters writes Regency romantic comedy set in England. The Regency Vows series opens with To Have and to Hoax (2020) and continues through To Love and to Loathe, To Marry and to Meddle, To Swoon and to Spar and To Woo and to Wed, published across 2021 to 2024. 8 catalogued books reach to Spellstruck in 2026, and Waters remains actively publishing.

Martha Wells

38 books• 8 series

Martha Wells is an American writer of speculative fiction, born September 1, 1964. The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series, has brought Wells five Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards and three Locus Awards, and the fantasy series Ile-Rien and The Books of the Raksura are also well known. Wells traces an interest in building detailed, realistic societies to an academic background in anthropology. Output spans novels, young adult fiction, media tie-ins, short stories and essays, with translations in 30 languages. The catalogue lists 38 books from The Element of Fire (1993) to Platform Decay (2026).

Martin Amis

31 books

Martin Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic who died in 2023. Money (1984) and London Fields (1989) are his best known novels; Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991 and Yellow Dog longlisted in 2003, and the memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Amis taught creative writing at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2011. The catalogue holds 31 titles, from The Rachel Papers (1973) to Chess Players (2024).

Legal suspense with a comic streak is Martin Clark's form. The 6 catalogued books run from The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living (2000) through Plain Heathen Mischief (2004), The Legal Limit (2008), The Jezebel Remedy (2015) and The Substitution Order (2019) to The Plinko Bounce (2023). Judges, the law, brothers and corrupt practices recur as subjects. No book has followed 2023.

Martin Cruz Smith

30 books• 4 series

Arkady Renko, a Moscow police investigator, is the character Martin Cruz Smith is known for, heading a crime series that reaches Hotel Ukraine in 2025. The Inquisitor and Roman Grey books sit alongside it, and the catalogue's 1970s titles include thrillers published under other names. Thirty-one books are listed, starting at The Indians Won (1970).

Martin Dugard writes narrative non-fiction. Exploration, discovery, travel, biography and endurance sport are his subjects, drawn from a career that began in 1988 writing for endurance sports magazines and took in the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008. Dugard's 16 catalogued books run from On the Edge (1995) to The Long Run (2026), taking in Knockdown (1999), Survivor: The Ultimate Game (2000), Chasing Lance (2001), Farther Than Any Man (2001), Into Africa (2002), The Last Voyage of Columbus (2005) and To Be a Runner (2011). The 1998 Sydney-Hobart race, yachting accidents and search and rescue sit among the catalogued subjects.

Martin Edwards is a crime writer who took a first in law at Balliol College, Oxford, trained as a solicitor in Leeds, moved to Liverpool on qualifying in 1980 and became a partner at Mace and Jones in 1984. Harry Devlin, Lake District Mysteries and Rachel Savernake are the series. Edwards belongs to the Murder Squad collective, chairs the nominations sub-committee for the CWA Diamond Dagger and became Archivist of the Crime Writers Association in 2007. Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) is the newest title.

Martin Limón writes mysteries set in Korea, drawn from his own time there. George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sergeants with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command, carry 16 of the books, from Jade Lady Burning (1992) through Slicky Boys (1997), Buddha's Money (1998), The Door to Bitterness (2005), G.I. Bones (2009) and Mr. Kill (2011), with the short story collection Nightmare Range among them. Nineteen books are catalogued in all, reaching Strip Rules (2026); Tales from the East Riding (2006) and More Tales from the East Riding (2008) sit outside that series, with Yorkshire in the subject headings. Limón was born in 1948.

Martin Walker

51 books• 3 series

Martin Walker, born 1947, is a Scottish former journalist and historian who writes the Bruno detective novels, featuring Bruno Courrèges, a police chief in rural France. Walker worked at The Guardian from 1971 to 1999, joined United Press International in 2000 as a Washington correspondent, and is now UPI's editor-in-chief emeritus. The 51 catalogued titles run from The National Front (1977) to A Murder in Springtime (2026). Non-fiction in the list includes The Waking Giant: Soviet Union Under Gorbachev (1986) and The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World (1993).

London's gangster underworld is Martina Cole's territory. The British crime writer has 29 catalogued books published between 1992 and 2025, from Dangerous Lady (1992) to No Regret (2025). Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway were adapted as television dramas, and UK sales pass fourteen million. Two named series sit in the catalogue, DI Kate Burrows and Maura Ryan, alongside standalone novels and non-fiction. Criminals, families and crime in London are the standing subjects. Cole is actively publishing.

Marty Wingate's catalogue starts in gardening non-fiction, with Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens (2003), The Big Book of Northwest Perennials (2005) and Landscaping for Privacy (2011), then turns to cozy mystery in the Potting Shed Mysteries, the Birds Of A Feather Mysteries, the First Edition Library Mysteries and the London Ladies' Murder Club. The Garden Plot (2014) opens the fiction. Twenty-nine books are catalogued, reaching The German Sisters in 2026.

Mary Alice Monroe is an American novelist, born in Evanston, Illinois, on 25 May 1960, and resident in South Carolina. Monroe's fiction draws parallels between nature and human nature: The Beach House and Swimming Lessons both involve injured sea turtles, and Time Is a River follows breast cancer survivors in a North Carolina fly-fishing group. The catalogue holds 33 books from The Long Road Home (1995) to Where the Rivers Merge (2025), with The Rivers' End due in 2027, plus the Beach House, Lowcountry Summer, Islanders and Rivers series. One title appeared under the name Mary Alice Kruesi.

Mary Anna Evans writes archaeological mystery fiction. Faye Longchamp, an archaeologist, is the recurring investigator, and the Faye Longchamp series is the one named sequence in a catalogue of 28 books running from Wounded Earth (1995) to The Dark Library (2025). Artifacts (2003), Relics (2005), Effigies (2007), Findings (2008) and Offerings (2010) mark the early run. Excavations, murder investigation, private investigators and Florida settings recur as subjects.

Mary B. Morrison writes romance and erotica, and subjects include African American women, love triangles and Atlanta. The catalogue lists 28 books published between 1999 and 2020. Soulmates Dissipate (2000), Who's Making Love (2001), Never Again Once More (2002) and Sweeter Than Honey (2007) are among them. Morrison's series are Soulmates Dissipate and If I Can't Have You, and the catalogue also links Honey Diaries. Careful What You Click For (2020) is the newest, and the run is listed as likely complete.

Historical romance set in the Regency and the wider Georgian period is Mary Balogh's territory. Born Mary Jenkins in Swansea on 24 March 1944, Balogh moved to Canada in 1967, taught in Kipling, Saskatchewan, and became a school principal there before the first novel appeared in 1985. The catalogue runs to 106 books, from A Chance Encounter (1985) to A Waltz to Remember (2026). Series headings include Westcott, Bedwyn Family, Survivor's Club, Huxtable Quintet, Simply Quartet, Dark Angel and Ravenswood. Mary Balogh is still publishing.

Mary Berry is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter, born on 24 March 1935. Berry trained in catering at college and went to France at 22 to attend Le Cordon Bleu. The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook (1970) was the first Mary Berry book, and the Baking Bible followed in 2009 among more than 75 cookery titles. Berry has presented television series for the BBC and Thames Television. The catalogue opens with Mary Berry's Cookbook (1970) and covers baking, cakes, desserts, freezer cooking and make-ahead cooking, with titles such as Popular Freezer Cookery (1972) and Family Cooking (1978).

Mary Beth Keane

5 books

Mary Beth Keane is an American novelist who writes about families, Irish America and New York. Five books stand in the catalogue: Whale Harbor (2026), The Half Moon (2023), Ask Again, Yes (2019), Fever (2013) and The Walking People (2009). Typhoid fever, family secrets and the lives of women are among the subjects. The National Book Foundation named Keane one of its 5 Under 35 in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction followed in 2015.

Mary Burton grew up in a Southern family that loved telling stories, and that interest led to an English degree from Hollins University in Virginia, completed in 1983. The catalogue lists 48 Burton books, from A Bride for McCain (2000) to Trust No One (2026). Burton's series include Criminal Profiler, Morgans of Nashville, Forgotten Files, Texas Rangers and Senseless Duo. Subjects on the books cover romantic suspense, historical romance, serial murder investigations and police work.

The Mary Calmes catalogue is tagged for gay romance, and also carries tags for romantic suspense, fantasy, science fiction and shapeshifting. The listing counts 102 books from Change of Heart (2009) to Found Objects (2026), with one title co-credited to Poppy Dennison. Mary Calmes series include A Matter of Time, Marshals, Torus Intercession, Mangrove Stories, L'Ange, Timing and House of Maedoc. His Hearth, Ice Around the Edges and Tooth & Nail all appeared in 2010.

Mary Connealy, born 1956, is an American Christian fiction author who specialises in romantic comedy set in the cowboy era of the American West. Connealy's catalogue holds 70 books, opening with Petticoat Ranch (2006). Series include Kincaid Brides, Lassoed in Texas, Sophie's Daughters, Trouble in Texas, Cimarron Legacy, High Sierra Sweethearts, Brides of Hope Mountain and Wyoming Sunrise. The Heart's Most Wanted came out in 2026, and Heart of an Outlaw is listed for 2027.

Two mystery series carry most of Mary Daheim's catalogue: the Bed-and-Breakfast books around Judith McMonigle Flynn, and the Emma Lord novels about a newspaper publisher in Washington state. Eighty-four titles are catalogued between The Royal Mile (1983) and Lady MacDeath in 2020, with historical romances among the early work. The 1990s were the densest decade.

Mary Doria Russell

7 books• 2 series

Mary Doria Russell is an American novelist, born in 1950 and since retired from writing. The Sparrow (1996) and Children of God (1998) form one pair, sending a Jesuit priest to a distant planet and setting belief against what he finds. Historical novels make up the rest: A Thread of Grace (2005), Dreamers of the Day (2008), and Doc (2011) with Epitaph (2015) on Doc Holliday. The Women of the Copper Country (2019) closes a catalogue of seven books.

Mary Downing Hahn writes ghost stories and mysteries for young readers. Born in 1937 and once a school librarian, Hahn published The Sara Summer in 1979 and has 41 catalogued books through The Old Willis Place (2024). Wait Till Helen Comes and Stepping On The Cracks are among the best known titles, and the Gordy Smith books form the one named series. Ghosts, witches, stepfamilies and family life recur as subjects.

Mary E. Pearson

23 books• 5 series

Mary E. Pearson, born August 14, 1955, is an American children's author best known for young adult fiction. A Room on Lorelei Street (2005) won the 2006 Golden Kite Award for fiction. The Adoration of Jenna Fox was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award and is being adapted for film. The catalogue lists 23 titles, from Pickles in My Soup (1999) and David v. God (2000) to The Last Wish of Bristol Keats (2025). Series include the Jenna Fox Chronicles, Remnant Chronicles, Dance Of Thieves and Courting of Bristol Keats. Bioethics, biotechnology, princesses, stories in rhyme and fantasy appear in the subject tags.

Craft shops, craft fairs and the women who work them supply Mary Ellen Hughes with her murders. Fifteen catalogued books run from Resort to Murder and Wreath of Deception in 2000 to Knits, Knots, and Knives in 2022, across the Craft Corner, Keepsake Cove, Pickled & Preserved and Craft Fair Knitters series, plus the Maggie Olenski books. Widows and women teachers appear among the subjects. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

Mary Ellen Taylor has 11 catalogued books, from The Union Street Bakery and Sweet Expectations (both 2013) to The Promise of Tomorrow (2024). At the Corner of King Street (2015), The View from Prince Street (2016), Winter Cottage (2018), Spring House (2019), Honeysuckle Season (2020) and The Words We Whisper (2021) are other titles. Union Street Bakery is the listed series. Bakeries, family secrets, single women, self-realization and Virginia appear among the subjects.

Mary Ellis writes Christian romance and romantic suspense, and Amish life, farm life and widowhood recur in the subject tags. The catalogue lists 26 books from 2009 to 2024. A Widow's Hope and Never Far from Home (both 2009) are the first, followed by Sarah's Christmas Miracle (2010), A Marriage for Meghan (2011) and An Amish Family Reunion (2012). What Goes 'Round... (2024) is the newest. Series include Miller Family, Wayne County, Civil War Heroines, Secrets Of The South Mysteries, Kate Weller/Marked For Retribution and Bourbon Tour Mystery. Private investigators and history are also tagged.

Mary Higgins Clark

62 books• 8 series

Mary Higgins Clark, born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins, was an American suspense novelist who lived from December 24, 1927 to January 31, 2020. Where Are the Children? (1975) was the debut suspense novel, and by 2015 that book was in its 75th printing. Each of Clark's 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and in European countries. The catalogue starts with Aspire to the Heavens / Mount Vernon Love Story (1968) and reaches It Had to Be You (2024). Alvirah and Willy are recurring characters, and Under Suspicion is a Clark series. Clark worked as a secretary, a copy editor and for one year a Pan-American Airlines flight attendant, and short stories supplemented the family income.

Television news is the setting for most of Mary Jane Clark's suspense. The KEY News series, opening with Do You Want to Know a Secret? (1998), follows journalists and producers through murder cases; the Piper Donovan wedding cake mysteries came later. Eighteen books are catalogued, ending with That Old Black Magic in 2014, at 352 pages on median.

Mary Jane Maffini is a Canadian mystery writer, credited with three mystery series and 12 novels. Short stories by Maffini have appeared in Chatelaine, Storyteller and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and in the Ladies Killing Circle and RendezVous Crime anthologies, and two of those stories won Arthur Ellis Awards. The catalogue records 26 books from Menopause Is Murder (1999) to You Light Up My Death (2022). Series include Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Charlotte Adams Mystery, Fiona Silk Mystery and the Book Collector Mystery Series, published as Victoria Abbott. Subjects include women sleuths, women lawyers and book collectors.

Mary Jo Putney, born in New York, is an American author of historical and contemporary romance who also publishes romantic fantasy as M.J. Putney. Putney novels address unusual subjects, including alcoholism, death and domestic abuse. The catalogue lists 58 Putney books, from The Diabolical Baron (1987) to Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know (2024). Series include Bride Trilogy, Silk Trilogy, Rogues Redeemed, Circle Of Friends, Davenport Family, Dangerous Gifts, Stone Saints, Fallen Angels and Lost Lords. Subjects include Regency romance, nobility and widows.

Mary Karr

10 books• 2 series

Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas, and the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. The Liars' Club (1995) is her best known book, a bestselling memoir, followed by Cherry (2000) and Lit (2009). Poetry runs alongside the prose: Abacus (1987), The Devil's Tour (1993), Viper Rum (1998), Sinners Welcome (2006) and Tropic of Squalor (2018). The Art of Memoir (2015) completes ten catalogued titles.

Mary Kay Andrews writes women's fiction and mysteries set in Georgia. Every Crooked Nanny (1992) opens the catalogue and introduces Callahan Garrity, an Atlanta woman sleuth. Andrews wrote the Truman Kicklighter mysteries as Kathy Hogan Trocheck, and later work turns to contemporary romance and beach-town novels, with the Weezie & Bebe mysteries in between. The catalogue holds 39 titles through Road Trip (2026).

Mary Kennedy's catalogue runs to 196 books published between 2019 and 2026, most of them titled with a single character's name: Ian, Carter, Lars, Noa, Trevor, Ace, Chris, Doc. Seven series carry the run, namely REAPER-Patriots, REAPER Security, Voodoo Guardians, Steel Patriots MC, Gray Wolf LEGACY, My SEAL Boys and Strange Gifts. Grayson (2026) is the newest entry, and Kennedy is actively publishing.

Mary Kingswood is catalogued with 51 books published between 2016 and 2026. The run opens on a set of single-name titles in 2016 - Amy, Belle, Connie, Dulcie and Mary - and reaches The Duke's Gardener (2026). Seven series carry the work: Daughters of Allamont Hall, Sons of the Marquess, Mercer's House, the Silver Linings Mysteries, the Sisters of Woodside Mysteries, the Chaplain's Legacy and Black Sheep. Publication is ongoing.

Mary Kubica writes psychological suspense, all of it standalone. Ten catalogued novels run from The Good Girl (2014) to It's Not Her (2026), and kidnapping, amnesia, strangers and secrets recur in their subject tags. No series sequence links the books, so publication order is simply chronology. Kubica is actively publishing.

Mary Lancaster writes historical romance. Ninety-three books are catalogued between 2004 and 2026, spread across the Blackhaven Brides, Season of Scandal, Imperial Season, Unmarriageable, Crime & Passion, Pleasure Garden and Lord Petteril Mysteries series. The run opens with An Endless Exile (2004), then A World to Win (2006) and A Prince to be Feared (2013), before the Vienna titles of 2016 and the Wicked titles of 2017. Lancaster remains actively publishing.

Mary Lawson is a Canadian novelist. Rural Ontario, farm life, dysfunctional families and the distance between generations are the standing subjects, handled as psychological fiction. Lawson has 4 catalogued books: the award-winning Crow Lake (2002), The Other Side of the Bridge (2006) and A Town Called Solace (2021), both longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Road Ends (2013). No further title has been catalogued since 2021.

Mary Logue's 36 catalogued books span 1987 to 2026 and cross several forms: mystery fiction, juvenile literature and biography all appear among the recorded subjects, which also list women detectives, murder, investigation and Wisconsin. The Claire Watkins novels take their name from a recurring character, and the Bloodwater Mysteries, Brigid Reardon Mystery, Laura Malloy and Deadwood Mystery series are also listed. Red Lake of the Heart (1987) is the first title and A Wasp in the Beehive (2026) the most recent. One book carries a joint credit with Doug Ohman.

Mary Marks writes cozy mysteries built around quilting. The Quilting Mysteries account for all 9 of her catalogued books, published between 2014 and 2021, with Martha Rose, a middle-aged quiltmaker in California, as the recurring sleuth. Forget Me Knot (2014) opens the series, and almost every title that follows works a pun on the word knot, through to Knot Ready for Murder (2021). No new book has been catalogued since 2021.

Mary McNear's Butternut Lake novels set family and romance stories by a Minnesota lake. Up at Butternut Lake and Butternut Summer opened the run in 2014, Moonlight on Butternut Lake followed in 2015, and The Space Between Sisters (2016), The Light in Summer (2017) and The Secrets We Carried (2018) completed a catalogue of 7 titles. Mothers and daughters, single mothers, widows and divorce carry the books.

Mary Mecham has 17 books catalogued, the first being Ugly (2020). Series include Legends of Neverland, Laurel of Locksley and Mary Mecham Young Adult. Titles from 2023 include A Curse of Gold and Beauty, Becoming Hook, Hunting Sirens and Scarlett and the Dark Woods. Bluebeard's Bride came out in 2026, and Training Shadows is scheduled for 2027.

Mary Monroe writes African American fiction about women, friendship and family life. The God Don't Like Ugly novels run through the catalogue, joined by the Mama Ruby books, the Lexington, Alabama and Wiggins novels, Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart and Neighbors. Monroe's catalogue holds 35 titles, from The Upper Room (1986) to Bad Seeds, with publication continuing into 2026.

Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet whose subject was the natural world. The Pulitzer Prize came to Oliver in 1984, and the National Book Award followed in 1992. The catalogue holds 37 titles dated 1972 to 2026, from The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems to Goldfinches, taking in American Primitive (1983), Dream Work (1986), House of Light (1990) and A Poetry Handbook (1994). The volumes are short, around 80 pages at the median, and essay collections sit beside the poetry.

Mary Pope Osborne

166 books• 9 series

Mary Pope Osborne, born May 20, 1949, is an American children's author and audiobook narrator best known for the Magic Tree House series, which had sold more than 134 million copies worldwide by 2017. Awards have gone to both the series and Osborne, including recognition for work promoting children's literacy. Osborne attended the University of North Carolina and published a first book in 1982. The catalogue counts 166 Osborne books, from Run, Run, As Fast As You Can (1982) to Sea Otter Sunrise (2025). Time travel, tree houses, history, folklore and Greek mythology appear among the subjects.

Mary Renault

17 books• 2 series

Mary Renault was the pen name of Eileen Mary Challans, a British novelist best known for historical fiction set in ancient Greece. Renault studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, worked as a nurse and began with contemporary romances such as Purposes of Love (1939). The ancient-Greek novels followed, among them The Last of the Wine (1956) and The King Must Die (1958), which opens the Theseus series. A move to South Africa in 1948 with her partner, Julie Mullard, let Renault write openly gay characters away from English censorship. The Alexander the Great novels close the 17-title catalogue at Funeral Games (1981).

Mary Roach

11 books• 5 series

Mary Roach, born March 20, 1959, is an American writer of popular science and humour. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) was the first of eight New York Times bestsellers, which also include Bonk (2008), Gulp (2013), Grunt (2016) and Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (2025). The catalogue holds 11 books between 2003 and 2025. Other titles include My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (2013) and Packing for Mars for Kids (2022). Subjects include cadavers, dissection, autopsy, experiments and the relationship between religion and science.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

65 books• 3 series

Mary Roberts Rinehart, who lived from 1876 to 1958, wrote American detective and mystery fiction and has often been called the American Agatha Christie. Her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase (1908), introduced the “had I but known” style of narration. Rinehart is also the earliest known source of the phrase “the butler did it”, traced to her 1930 novel The Door, though those exact words never occur in her writing. She reported the experiences of front line soldiers in the First World War, one of the first women to reach the Belgian front. Sixty-five titles are catalogued, including the Tish, Hilda Adams and Miss Cornelia Van Gorder series.

Mary Robinette Kowal

29 books• 3 series

Mary Robinette Kowal (born Mary Harrison, February 8, 1969) is an American author, translator, art director and puppeteer. Kowal has won four Hugo Awards plus Nebula and Locus Awards, and was president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2019 to 2021. Puppetry credits include Jim Henson Productions and LazyTown. The Lady Astronaut and Glamourist Histories are series, and the 29 catalogued books run from Evil Robot Monkey (2008) to The Martian Contingency (2025). Subjects include historical fantasy, Regency romance and science fiction.

Mary Shelley

15 books

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), born Mary Godwin, was an English novelist. Her 15 catalogued titles open with Frankenstein (1818), a Gothic novel and an early instance of science fiction, and extend through The Last Man (1826), The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837), with Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot printed in 1998. Shorter works including The Mortal Immortal and Transformation appeared in 1831. Monsters, scientists, plague and the end of the world run through the subjects. Shelley also edited and promoted the poetry of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley; her parents were the philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Stewart wrote romantic suspense and, later, Arthurian historical fiction. The suspense novels begin in 1954 and continue through Wildfire at Midnight (1956), Thunder on the Right (1957), Nine Coaches Waiting (1958), My Brother Michael (1959) and The Ivy Tree (1961). The Arthurian Saga retells the legend of Merlin and the kings around him. 25 titles are catalogued in all, including children's books, short stories and poetry, the last being The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One.

Mary Stone has 213 books in the catalogue, published between 2019 and 2027 and filed under mystery. Stone's series include Shadow Island, Emma Last FBI Mystery, Journey Russo FBI Mystery and Genevieve Steel FBI Mystery, and the character list names Winter Black, Amelia Storm, Autumn Trent, Ellie Kline, Stella Knox, Charli Cross and Kylie Hatfield. Deadly Beginnings (2019) is the first title listed, Winter's Divide (2026) the latest, and Almost a Memory is scheduled for 2027.

Mary Wesley was the pen name of Mary Aline Siepmann CBE (1912-2002), an English novelist who sold three million copies and had ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life. The Sixth Seal and Speaking Terms both appeared in 1969, and the novels that made the name came later: Jumping the Queue (1983), The Camomile Lawn (1984), Harnessing Peacocks (1985), The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1986), Not That Sort of Girl (1987) and A Sensible Life (1990). Fifteen titles are catalogued through the 2017 letters volume Darling Pol. The Second World War, marriage and English family life recur as subjects.

Mary Wine writes historical romance and erotica, much of it set among Scottish clans, and her stories range from the pages of history to the far reaches of space. Her 42 catalogued books span 2004 to 2024, from Dream Shadow to Master of Mayhem, and include the Highland Weddings, Sutherlands, McJames, English Tudor, Courtly Love, Steam Guardians, Breaking Boundaries, Enchanted Well and Alcandians series. Marriage, inheritance and aristocratic households recur in the subject index. Wine took a 2008 EPPIE Award for erotic western romance, and makes historical garments, from corsets to court dresses of Elizabeth I, when away from the keyboard.

Maryann Jordan writes romance, and the catalogue counts 113 books from Emma's Home (2014) to Falling For the Hero (2026), with Frazier due in 2027. Baytown Boys, Baytown Heroes, Saints Protection & Investigations, Lighthouse Security Investigations, Lighthouse Security Investigations West Coast, Lighthouse Security Investigations Montana, Hope City, Heroes at Heart and Alvarez Security are among the series.