Authors whose first name starts with P

P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast are credited jointly on 5 young adult novels published between 2007 and 2015. Marked (2007) opens the run, and Destined (2013), Hidden (2014), Revealed (2015) and Redeemed (2015) follow. Vampires, magic, occultism and the character Zoey Redbird are the listed subjects, set among teenage girls and questions of good and evil. The joint run is likely complete.

P. Djèlí Clark is the pen name of Dexter Gabriel, an American historian and writer of speculative fiction born in 1971 who is an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut. The name Djèlí refers to the griots, West African storytellers, historians and poets, and keeps the fiction apart from the academic work; A. Phenderson Clark is another byline. A Master of Djinn won the Nebula and Locus Awards in 2022. The 14 catalogued books run from A Dead Djinn in Cairo (2016) to Cronus (2025), and include The Black God's Drums (2018) and Ring Shout (2020).

P.C. Cast, born Phyllis Christine Cast on April 30, 1960, is an American romance and fantasy author. Cast writes the House of Night series, which is edited by Cast's daughter Kristin Cast, as well as the Goddess Summoning and Partholon series. The catalogue lists 59 books from Divine by Mistake (2001) to Queen of Shadow (2026), including Goddess of the Sea (2003) and Betrayed (2007). Subjects include vampires, goddesses, magic, time travel and Oklahoma. Other listings include Tales Of A New World, Sisters Of Salem and Moonstruck, and Cast is still publishing.

P.D. James

27 books• 7 series

P.D. James was the professional name of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (3 August 1920 to 27 November 2014), an English novelist and life peer. Fame arrived through the detective novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a police commander who also writes poetry. A second series follows Cordelia Gray. The catalogue lists 27 books from Cover Her Face (1962) to The Victim (2019), including standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction.

P.F. Ford writes detective mysteries, 38 of them catalogued between 2014 and 2026. The run opens with A Complete Fiasco, also published as The Making of A Scapegoat (2014), and reaches A Body in the Garden (2026). DS Dave Slater is Ford's longest-running lead, paired with Norman across the Slater and Norman mysteries. The West Wales Murder Mysteries, the Nolan Cormac Files, the Donald & Gamble Mysteries and the Burnham Files run alongside, and publication continues.

P.G. Wodehouse

145 books• 13 series

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 1881 to 14 February 1975) was an English humorist, one of the most widely read of the 20th century. Wodehouse created Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, the talkative Psmith, Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle circle, the Oldest Member with golf stories, and Mr. Mulliner with tall tales. Born in Guildford, Wodehouse attended Dulwich College. The catalogue records 145 books from The Pothunters (1902) through 2019, including school stories, the Jeeves, Psmith, Ukridge and Uncle Fred series, short stories and non-fiction.

P.J. Parrish writes crime fiction built around Louis Kincaid, a private investigator. Sixteen books are catalogued, from Dark of the Moon (1999) to Our Noir (2019), taking in Dead of Winter (2001), Paint It Black (2002), Island of Bones (2004) and A Thousand Bones (2007). Florida, serial murders, murder investigation and racially mixed people appear among the subject headings. Standalone novels and short stories sit beside the Kincaid books. No new title has appeared since 2019.

P.J. Skinner writes across four series. The Sam Harris Adventure books open the catalogue with Fool's Gold (2017) and continue through Hitler's Finger, The Star of Simbako and The Bonita Protocol; the Seacastle Mysteries and the Green Family books follow, and the Tilly Tales are for children, among them Daddy's New Shed (2019) and My Silly Auntie (2019). Twenty-nine titles reach Final Script (2026).

P.J. Tracy writes police procedurals and thrillers set in Minneapolis. Monkeewrench, also published as Want to Play?, opened the catalogue in 2003 and named the series that follows a group of computer software specialists who help police hunt serial killers. Sixteen books reach The Deepest Cut in 2025, and the Detective Margaret Nolan novels run alongside.

P.L. Travers

17 books• 1 series

Mary Poppins made P.L. Travers' name. Travers (1899-1996), born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. Mary Poppins (1934) opens a sequence continued by Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935), Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), Mary Poppins in the Park (1952) and Mary Poppins from A to Z (1962), and the magical nanny of the title is the character Travers is known for. Seventeen titles are catalogued through Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories (2014), among them I Go by Sea, I Go by Land (1941), The Fox at the Manger (1962) and Friend Monkey (1971). Travers grew up in the Australian bush at Maryborough, Queensland, went to boarding school in Sydney, published as a teenager, worked briefly as a Shakespearean actress, and took her pen name after moving to England at 24.

P.T. Deutermann writes naval fiction and thrillers drawn from United States Navy service. Scorpion in the Sea (1992), The Edge of Honor and Official Privilege sit early in a catalogue of 29 books, the World War II Navy novels form its largest strand, and the Cam Richter mysteries run alongside. The Screaming Sands is scheduled for 2027.

Paige Shelton's mysteries put amateur sleuths in bookshops, farmers' markets and small towns. The Scottish Bookshop Mysteries, the Farmers' Market Mysteries, the Alaska Wild Mysteries and the Country Cooking School Mysteries are the main series, with Broken Rope and the Dangerous Type Mysteries alongside. Chewy Moon (2007) is the earliest catalogued title, and The Bone Woman arrives in 2026. Thirty-six books in all, at 304 pages on median.

Paige Toon writes romance, along with the Jessie Jefferson young adult series. Toon grew up in Australia, the United States and England, and worked as a magazine reviews editor before writing full time. The catalogue holds 26 books published between 2007 and 2026, opening with Lucy in the Sky (2007) and including the Johnny Be Good and One Perfect series. First loves, holidays, and fathers and daughters recur as subjects.

Paige Tyler works in paranormal and suspense romance, with shapeshifters, werewolves, police tactical units and erotica among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 101 books published between 2005 and 2026, opening with Bridezilla & A Date for the Wedding and The Magic Spell in 2005 and reaching Wolf Revealed in 2026. Series credited to Tyler include SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team, X-Ops, SEALs Of Coronado, STAT: Special Threat Assessment Team, Paranormal Investigations Unlimited and Men Of Alaska. Tyler is still publishing.

Paisley Hope writes the Silver Pines Ranch and Soldiers of Bedlam series. The catalogue lists 9 books published from 2024 to 2026, beginning with Holding the Reins (2024). Training the Heart (2024), Freeing the Wild (2025) and Chasing the Fire (2026) are among the other titles, and Paisley Hope is still publishing.

Pam Godwin has 30 books in the catalogue, from Dead of Eve (2012) to Rise of Ink and Smoke (2026). Beneath the Burn (2013), Deliver (2014), Vanquish (2014), Blood of Eve (2015), Dirty Ties (2015), Dark Notes (2016) and Heart of Eve (2016) are among the titles in between. Godwin series include Deliver, Trilogy of Eve, Frozen Fate, Tangled Lies, Trails of Sin and Sea of Ruin.

Pam Jenoff is an American novelist, lawyer and law professor at Rutgers University who lives in New Jersey. Jenoff writes love stories and historical novels, many of them bestsellers and some nominated for awards. The Second World War, Jews and Poland recur in the subject tags. The catalogue holds 19 books, starting with The Kommandant's Girl (2007) and The Diplomat's Wife (2008). Last Twilight in Paris (2025) is the most recent release, and The Society of Forgotten Wives is scheduled for 2027. Series listed are Kommandant's Girl, Jordan Weiss and Winter Guest, next to titles such as The Other Girl (2014) and The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach (2015).

Pamela Beason writes mystery and romantic suspense across four catalogued series: Summer Westin Mystery, Neema Mystery, Run for Your Life and Langston Family. Her 20 books run from Endangered (2009) to If Only (2025) and include The Only Witness (2011), Bear Bait (2012), SAVE Your Money, Your Sanity, and Our Planet (2009) and So You Want to Be a PI? (2012). Beason remains actively publishing.

Pamela Clare writes historical romance and contemporary romantic suspense. Her 37 catalogued books run from Sweet Release (2003) to Bound to Fall (2022), at a median of 348 pages, densest in the 2010s. Five series are recorded: Colorado High Country, Cobra Elite, MacKinnon's Rangers, the Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy and Wildest Alaska, with I-Team a recurring group of characters. Women journalists, single mothers and western settings sit in the subject index. Clare studied archaeology, lived in Denmark for close to three years, and traces her historical writing to years spent visiting ruins and castles in Europe; colonial America, eighteenth-century Ireland and the Viking age are among her settings. Nothing new has been catalogued since 2022.

Pamela Crane has 19 catalogued books published between 2015 and 2025. The run opens with A Secondhand Lie (2015) and continues through The Scream of Silence (2016), A Secondhand Life (2018), The Art of Fear (2018), One Perfect Morning (2020), A Slow Ruin (2021) and Pretty Ugly Lies (2021), reaching Tell Me What She Knows (2025). Crane is actively publishing.

Fiction and nonfiction sit side by side in Pamela Fagan Hutchins's catalogue of 50 books. The nonfiction draws on Hutchins's own life as a former employment attorney and human resources executive, an endurance athlete, and a parent to five children and stepchildren. The fiction spreads across six series, among them What Doesn't Kill You, Patrick Flint, Detective Delaney Pace and Jenn Herrington Wyoming Mysteries. Saving Grace (2012) opens the run, and The Surprise Party is scheduled for 2027.

Pamela Kelley writes romance. Eight books are catalogued between 2020 and 2024, among them The Restaurant and Christmas at the Restaurant (2020), The Hotel (2021), The Christmas Inn (2024) and The Seaside Sisters (2024). Three entries belong to the Nantucket Beach Plum Cove sequence, numbered six through eight: Nantucket Threads, Nantucket News and Nantucket Homes.

Pamela M. Kelley has 48 catalogued books, beginning with Six Months in Montana (2013) and reaching Nantucket Second Chances (2026). Montana titles came early, including Match-Making in Montana (2014) and Mistletoe in Montana (2014). Series include Nantucket Beach Plum Cove, Montana Sweet Western Romance, Nantucket Restaurant, Waverly Beach Cozy Mystery, Fifth Avenue Apartment and Court Street Investigations. Subject tags include murder investigation, high school teachers and women cooks.

Paolo Bacigalupi

18 books• 3 series

Paolo Bacigalupi, born August 6, 1972, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and a National Book Award nominee. Bacigalupi's awards include the Hugo, the Nebula, the Michael L. Printz, the Theodore Sturgeon, the Compton Crook and the John W. Campbell Memorial. Stories have run in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and High Country News, and essays in Salon.com. The catalogue lists 18 books from Pocketful of Dharma (1999) to Navola (2024), including The People of Sand and Slag (2004), Pump Six and Other Stories (2006), The Windup Girl (2009) and Ship Breaker (2010). Series are Ship Breaker, Windup Universe and Khaim, and subjects name dystopia, genetic engineering and survival.

Parker S. Huntington writes romance. Nine books are catalogued between 2017 and 2021, across two series, Five Syndicates and Cruel Crown. Asher Black (2017) opens the run, followed by Niccolaio Andretti (2017), Ranieri Andretti (2018), Bastiano Romano (2019), Damiano De Luca (2019), Renata Vitali (2019), Devious Lies (2019) and The Anti-Fling (2019), with Darling Venom in 2021. Several of the titles are single personal names. No new Huntington book has been catalogued since 2021.

Parnell Hall (October 31, 1944 to December 15, 2020) was an American mystery writer, known for the Puzzle Lady and Stanley Hastings series. Hall also wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film C.H.U.D. The Puzzle Lady stories carried crosswords made with Manny Nosowsky and sudoku made with Will Shortz. Writing as J.P. Hailey, Hall produced the Steve Winslow series, and co-wrote Smooth Operator with Stuart Woods. Malice Domestic gave Hall a Lifetime Achievement award in 2019. The catalogue lists 57 books, from Detective (1987) to The Dead Client (2020). Cora Felton, crossword puzzle makers and New York private investigators appear in the subject tags.

Pat Barker

17 books• 3 series

Pat Barker, born in 1943, is an English novelist whose work returns to memory, trauma and survival. The Regeneration trilogy - Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995) - sets poets, soldiers and psychiatrists against the First World War and the treatment of war neurosis. A later sequence retells the Trojan War, opening with The Silence of the Girls in 2018 and running to The Voyage Home in 2024. Barker's catalogue holds 17 books, beginning with Union Street in 1982.

Pat Conroy

13 books• 2 series

Pat Conroy wrote fiction and memoir about fathers and sons, families and the American South. 13 catalogued books run from The Boo (1970) to A Lowcountry Heart, including The Water is Wide (1972), an account of teaching at Yamacraw Elementary School, and the novels The Great Santini (1976), The Lords of Discipline (1980), The Prince of Tides (1986) and Beach Music (1995). Conroy published standalone novels and non-fiction rather than a series. The catalogue is likely complete.

Patience Griffin writes romance set largely in Scotland. Her 12 catalogued books run from To Scotland with Love (2014) to Hitched in Scotland (2025), with Meet Me In Scotland (2015), The Accidental Scot (2015), The Trouble With Scotland (2016) and Blame It on Scotland (2018) along the way. Two series hold the catalogue: Kilts and Quilts, and Sweet Home, Alaska. Widows, single fathers, physicians, reporters and marriage recur as subjects. Griffin is still publishing.

Patricia A. McKillip wrote fantasy and science fiction, and grew up in Oregon and England. Her settings borrow from the Middle Ages: forests, castles, kings and lords, minstrels, tinkers and wizards, with characters caught up in powers past their understanding. McKillip won both the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. Twenty-nine titles are catalogued, from The House on Parchment Street (1973) through the Riddle-Master books that begin with The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976) to The Karkadann Triangle (2018).

Patricia Bradley writes Christian romantic suspense and mystery. The catalogue lists 23 books published between 2014 and 2025, opening with Matthew's Choice (2014) and reaching On the Edge of Trust (2025). Four series are recorded: Logan Point, Memphis Cold Case, Natchez Trace Park Rangers and Pearl River. Subjects include sheriffs, women physicians, siblings and family secrets. Bradley holds the sole credit on all 23 titles.

Werewolves, vampires and shapeshifters populate Patricia Briggs's paranormal fantasy. Mercy Thompson, a shapeshifter who works as a car mechanic, leads the sequence that carries her name, and Alpha and Omega runs beside it, both with graphic novel adaptations. Briggs started with Masques (1993) and the Sianim and Hurog books before turning to the modern-day novels. The catalogue holds 54 titles and reaches Steel Rain in 2027.

Patricia Cornwell

45 books• 6 series

Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the character that made Patricia Cornwell's name. Cornwell, born Patricia Carroll Daniels on June 9, 1956, is an American crime writer. The first Scarpetta novel drew on a string of murders in Richmond, Virginia, the city where most of the books take place, and the plots lean heavily on forensic science. The catalogue lists 46 Cornwell titles, from Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham (1983) and Postmortem (1990) through True Crime (2026), with Rapid and Fatal due in 2027. Other series include Andy Brazil/Judy Hammer, Winston Garano and Captain Chase. Cornwell has also named Walter Sickert as Jack the Ripper.

The Amish and Christian inspirational romance appear in the subject headings for Patricia Davids, with widows, Christmas stories and Love Inspired also named. Davids was born in rural Kansas and worked as a nurse. The catalogue holds 48 books from 2006 to 2022, starting with Love Thine Enemy, Prodigal Daughter and His Bundle of Love (all 2006) and reaching Christmas on His Doorstep (2022); the listing is now dormant. Series include Brides of Amish Country, North Country Amish, Amish Bachelors, Amish of Cedar Grove, Matchmakers of Harts Haven and Mounted Color Guard.

Patricia Gaffney wrote historical romance and women's fiction. Fortune's Lady (1989) opens 17 catalogued books that end with Mad Dash (2007). The Wyckerley Trilogy is the one series; To Have and To Hold (1995), To Love and to Cherish (1995) and Forever & Ever (1996) sit in the middle of the catalogue. Physicians, friendship and the manners of an older England run through the subjects, alongside the bodice-ripper shelf the early books are filed under.

Crime fiction is Patricia Gibney's field, and Detective Lottie Parker is her investigator. The D.I. Lottie Parker novels follow an Irish policewoman through murder investigations and missing-person cases. Gibney's first crime thriller sold 100,000 copies as an e-book; her total sales passed 500,000 in 2018 and one million by 2019. Sixteen books stand in the catalogue, from The Missing Ones (2017) to The Family Secret (2026), and Gibney continues to publish.

Patricia Harman writes about midwives, in memoir and in fiction. 10 catalogued books run from The Blue Cotton Gown (2008) to Lost on Hope Island 3: Quarantine (2022). The Hope River novels, The Midwife of Hope River (2012), The Reluctant Midwife (2015) and Once a Midwife (2018), sit beside autobiographical titles such as Arms Wide Open (2011) and the Amazing Tale of the Little Goat Midwives books. Midwifery, nursing and women's lives carry the subjects, and no new title has appeared since 2022.

Patricia Highsmith

36 books• 1 series

Psychological suspense was Patricia Highsmith's territory: criminals, psychopaths, murder, and the strain that identity puts on ordinary morality. Highsmith (1921-1995), born Mary Patricia Plangman, was an American novelist and short story writer whose work drew on existentialist literature and produced more than two dozen film adaptations. Five novels follow the character Tom Ripley, starting with The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955). The catalogue holds 36 titles, from Strangers on a Train (1950) to the collected diaries and notebooks issued in 2021, with the 1960s her heaviest decade.

Patricia Johns writes Christian and clean contemporary romance, with Amish and Mennonite settings, cowboys and Montana recurring in the subject tags. The catalogue holds 63 books from His Unexpected Family (2013) to Innocent Amish Target (2026). The Rancher's City Girl (2014), A Firefighter's Promise (2015) and Her Stubborn Cowboy (2016) are among the earlier titles. Series include Hope, Montana; Home to Eagle's Rest; Comfort Creek Lawmen; Montana Twins; Amish Country Matches; Butternut Amish B&B; Amish of Shepherd's Hill and Amish Chocolate Shop Brides. Western romance and small-town life are also tagged.

Patricia MacDonald writes psychological suspense. Twenty books are catalogued between The Unforgiven (1981) and Safe Haven (2018), among them Stranger in the House (1983), Little Sister (1986), Mother's Day (1994), Lost Innocents (1998) and The Girl Next Door (2004). Murder, mothers, marriage, sisters and the parents of murder victims are the recurring subjects. Nothing has been catalogued since 2018.

Patricia MacLachlan (March 3, 1938 to March 31, 2022), born Patricia Marie Pritzkau, was an American children's writer. MacLachlan's novel Sarah, Plain and Tall won the Newbery Medal in 1986 and gave its name to a series. The catalogue holds 63 books for young readers, including the Barkus series, Arthur, for the Very First Time and My Poet (2022). Family life, dogs, grandparents, friendship and frontier life are frequent subjects.

Wyoming runs through Patricia McLinn's fiction, in the mysteries and the romance alike. Caught Dead in Wyoming and Secret Sleuth sit beside Wyoming Wildflowers, Marry Me, Seasons in a Small Town, Bardville Wyoming and the Wyoming Marriage Association. Ranchers, brides, television journalists and women lawyers people the stories. Sixty-five catalogued books run from Hoops (1990) to Head Room (2025).

Patricia Moyes wrote traditional English detective fiction, 20 books published between 1959 and 1996. Moyes, born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in 1923 and dead in 2000, built the catalogue around Inspector Henry Tibbett of the C.I.D. Emmy Tibbett recurs beside him, and the subject headings name married people, police spouses, England and London. Dead Men Don't Ski (1959) opens the run and Who Killed Father Christmas? (1996) closes it. Who Saw Her Die (1970), published in the United States as Many Deadly Returns, drew an Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination in 1971, the year Moyes joined the Detection Club. Juvenile fiction and short stories sit beside the Tibbett novels.

Patricia Rice has been publishing since 1984, and the catalogue now holds 114 books, from Surrender (1984) to The Killer's Dastardly Intrigue (2026). Historical romance, Regency England, widows and mystery and detective fiction all appear in the recorded subjects. The Magical Malcolms are the recurring figures the character records name, and Unexpected Magic, Crystal Magic, School of Magic, Rebellious Sons, Rogues and Desperadoes and the Gravesyde Priory Mysteries are among the series under the Rice name.

Patricia Scanlan is an Irish novelist born in 1956. The catalogue lists 26 Scanlan books from Apartment 3B (1991) to City Girls Forever (2025), with subject tags for female friendship, marriage, sisters, weddings, family life and Dublin. City Girl (1992) and City Woman (1999) appeared in the early run, and City Girls and Forgive and Forget are the named Scanlan series. Finishing Touches, Mirror, Mirror and Francesca's Party are other titles in the list.

Dave Cubiak anchors Patricia Skalka's mystery series, 7 books published between 2014 and 2022. Death Stalks Door County (2014) opens the run and every later title keeps the same pattern, through to Death Casts a Shadow (2022). Wisconsin, sheriffs and murder investigation fill the subject tags. Skalka has published nothing since 2022.

Patricia Sprinkle writes mystery fiction set in Georgia. MacLaren Yarbrough and Sheila Travis are the recurring investigators, with women judges, genealogy and murder investigation among the subjects. Sprinkle's catalogue holds 29 books published between 1988 and 2011, across the Thoroughly Southern, Sheila Travis and Job's Corner Chronicles series. Murder at Markham (1988) opens it, followed by Murder in the Charleston Manner (1990), Murder on Peachtree Street (1991), Somebody's Dead in Snellville (1992) and A Mystery Bred in Buckhead (1994). Friday's Daughter (2011) is the last catalogued title.

Patricia Wentworth was the pen name of Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, born Elles), a British crime writer who lived from 15 October 1877 to 28 January 1961. Miss Maud Silver, a woman private investigator in England, is the recurring character of the Miss Silver series. The Wentworth list begins with A Marriage Under the Terror (1910), and the 1930s are the busiest decade. Benbow Smith, Ernest Lamb and Frank Garrett are the other series characters.

Patricia Wolf writes the DS Walker series. The catalogue holds 5 books published between 2022 and 2026: Outback (2022), Paradise (2023), Opal (2024), Nemesis (2025) and Hero (2026). Every catalogued title belongs to the DS Walker line, and Wolf remains actively publishing.

Patrick Carman is an American writer, born February 27, 1966, in Salem, Oregon, and a graduate of Willamette University. The Dark Hills Divide (2005) was Carman's first book and opened the five-book Land of Elyon series, whose books were New York Times bestsellers translated into more than twenty languages. The Atherton trilogy came next and was shortlisted for the Texas Bluebonnet. Skeleton Creek, Floors, Pulse, Dark Eden and Fizzopolis are among more than two dozen later books for middle grade and young adult readers. The catalogue holds 9 books from The Black Circle (2009) to Seven Secret Stories (2023), with subjects including mystery and detective stories, legends and urban folklore.

Patrick F. McManus

23 books• 2 series

Patrick F. McManus (1933-2018) was an American educator and humour writer who wrote about the outdoors. Columns for Field & Stream from 1977 and Outdoor Life from 1983 were collected into books, beginning at A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) and continuing through They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? (1981), Never Sniff a Gift Fish (1983) and The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw (1989). McManus later wrote the Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, closing at Circles in the Snow (2014), with hunting, fishing and camping the recurring subjects.

Patrick Gale writes English literary fiction about families, sexuality and the lives of gay men. The Aerodynamics of Pork (1985) opens the catalogue, and Kansas in August (1988), Facing the Tank (1989), The Cat Sanctuary (1990), The Facts of Life (1995) and Tree Surgery for Beginners (1997) follow. The Harry Cane books sit inside a run of 24 catalogued titles that reaches Love Lane (2026).

Patrick Lee writes technothrillers. The first three of his 7 catalogued books form a trilogy around Travis Chase, an ex-convict pulled into events involving highly advanced technology: The Breach (2009), Ghost Country (2010) and Deep Sky (2011). Three more take Sam Dryden, a former soldier, into high-tech trouble that shades into the supernatural: Runner (2014), Signal (2015) and Dark Site (2019). The Breach reached the USA Today bestseller list in January 2010. The list closes with Wild Night (2022) and has been dormant since.

Patrick Logan has 92 books in the catalogue, published between 2015 and 2026, starting with Skin, Flesh and Crackers (2015) and reaching Broken Dolls (2026). Murder investigation, serial murders, private investigators and the fictional detective Damien Drake appear in the subjects. Logan's series include Detective Damien Drake, Chase Adams FBI Thriller, Bad Priest, Dr. Beckett Campbell, Medical Examiner, Insatiable, Veronica Shade Thriller and Tommy Wilde.

Patrick Ness

20 books• 4 series

Patrick Ness FRSL is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter, born on 17 October 1971 in the United States and later settled in London. Ness received the Carnegie Medal in 2011 for Monsters of Men and in 2012 for A Monster Calls, becoming one of seven two-time winners. The Chaos Walking trilogy ran from 2008 to 2010. Ness wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film of A Monster Calls and created the Doctor Who spin-off Class. The catalogue lists 20 books from The Crash of Hennington (2003) to Piper at the Gates of Dusk (2026).

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, a ship's captain and a ship's physician, carry Patrick O'Brian's sea novels from Master and Commander (1969). The catalogue holds 41 books reaching back to Caesar (1930), with standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction beside the Aubrey/Maturin run. Naval history and sea adventure supply the material, and the 1990s were the densest decade.

Patrick Radden Keefe

6 books

Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and a staff writer at The New Yorker, who has also written for Slate and The New York Times Magazine. Six books are catalogued under his name: Chatter (2005) on eavesdropping and intelligence services, The Snakehead (2009) on human smuggling, Say Nothing (2018), Empire of Pain (2021), Rogues (2022) and London Falling (2026).

Patrick Robinson, born in 1940, is a British novelist and newspaper columnist best known for naval thrillers. Those novels build each plot around a crisis facing the world in the early 21st century, with US Navy SEALs, submarine warfare and terrorism as recurring material; Admiral Arnold Morgan and Mack Bedford anchor the two main series. Robinson also wrote four non-fiction books on thoroughbred horses, plus True Blue, an account of the 1987 Oxford Boat Race mutiny co-written with Dan Topolski that won the first William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989, and One Hundred Days, a biography of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward. The catalogue holds 24 books from 1985 to 2023.

Patrick Rothfuss

11 books• 4 series

Patrick Rothfuss is an American fantasy author, born in 1973, known for The Kingkiller Chronicle. The Name of the Wind (2007) was Rothfuss's first novel and took several awards; the sequel, The Wise Man's Fear (2011), reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Eleven catalogued books run through to The Narrow Road Between Desires (2023), covering quests, orphans and demons alongside The Adventures of Princess and Mr. Whiffle picture books and graphic novel work. No new title has followed 2023.

Patrick Ryan's listing combines novels such as Send Me (2006) and Buckeye (2025) with books published as P.E. Ryan, including Saints of Augustine (2007), In Mike We Trust (2009) and Gemini Bites (2011). The listing also carries juvenile country and state titles, among them Indonesia (1997), South Korea (1998), Greece (2003) and Arizona: The Grand Canyon State (2013), and Countries: Faces and Places is the only named series. Juvenile literature, travel, Indonesia, Greece and children's fiction appear among the subjects.