Authors whose first name starts with P, page 2 of 7

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 Adeff writes romance, with 17 catalogued books published from 2013 to 2024. The listed series are Second Chances DO Happen!, Largo Bay and Lovers Key. To Protect and Serve (2013) is the earliest title, and Take Another Chance appeared in 2021. The 2022 titles include A Christmas Kiss, Mahi-Mahi Matrimony and The Romance Writer and the Geek, followed by Beauty and the Books and Courting Charlie in 2023. The Medic (2024) is the newest.

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 Cadigan

30 books• 5 series

Pat Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author whose work sits with the cyberpunk movement and returns to the relationship between the human mind and technology. Mindplayers, the 1987 debut, drew a Philip K. Dick Award nomination the following year, and Synners (1991) and Fools (1992) follow it. The catalogue lists 30 books through 2025, at a median of 280 pages, with the 1990s the heaviest decade. Virtual reality, computer hackers and conscious automata recur as subjects, and Alita: Battle Angel and Artificial Reality Division are the named series.

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.

Pat McIntosh writes the Gil Cunningham historical mysteries, set in Scotland during the Middle Ages. Subjects list notaries, murder investigation and missing children. The 11 catalogued books span 2004 to 2016, from The Harper's Quine (2004) through The Nicholas Feast (2005) and A Pig of Cold Poison (2010) to The Lanimer Bride (2016). Median length is 320 pages.

Pat Murphy

24 books

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy, born March 9, 1955, is an American science writer who also writes science fiction and fantasy novels. Murphy's 24 catalogued works start with The Shadow Hunter (1982) and include The Falling Woman, The City, Not Long After and Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles, along with stories published in Asimov's. Neanderthals, time travel, women archaeologists and the Maya appear among the subjects, and a Nebula Award for a novel is recorded. The Adventures of Mary Darling (2025) is the latest title.

Pat Pritchard writes contemporary and historical romance, with 12 books catalogued from 1993 to 2014. The Candy Dad and Rough Edges both date from 1993. Wish Upon a Hero, Yankee Wife, King Of Hearts, Luck Of The Draw and A Lawman For Christmas followed between 2000 and 2003. A Very Special 4th of July (2014) is the newest. Subject tags include steamboats, gamblers, ship captains, boardinghouses and businesswomen.

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 C. McKissack (1944–2017) was an African American children's author credited with more than 100 books. McKissack wrote Dear America diaries, the Royal Diaries novel Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, and standalones such as Flossie & the Fox (1986). Her nonfiction covers Black history, from the Negro baseball leagues to Sojourner Truth. The catalogue holds 25 of her books, spanning Ask the Kids (1981) to 2015, and the Clone Codes and Scraps of Time series.

Patricia C. Wrede

26 books• 9 series

Patricia Collins Wrede, born 27 March 1953, is an American writer of fantasy. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, written for young adults, is the work Wrede is recognised for, and it placed 84th in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list. Lyra, Cecelia and Kate, Frontier Magic and Mairelon are the other series in the catalogue, which holds 26 books from Shadow Magic (1982) to The Dark Lord's Daughter (2023). Magic, wizards, dragons, fairy tales and humorous stories appear among the subjects, and nothing has been listed since 2023.

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.

Patricia D. Eddy writes romance and has 54 books in the catalogue. The first titles, from 2013, are Freed, Destined and Secrets in Blood. Eddy's series include Away From Keyboard, By the Fates, Elemental Shifter, Gone Rogue, Restrained, L.A.S.T. Defense, In Blood, Divine Guardians and Twisted Ever Alpha. Flint's Strike (2026) is the most recent release, and Falling for the Princess is scheduled for 2027.

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 Finney is an English author and journalist who has published twenty-one novels, many set in Elizabethan times, across spy thrillers, crime novels and children's books. A Shadow of Gulls, written when Finney was 18, won the 1977 David Higham Award for Best First Novel, and BBC Radio 3 broadcast her play The Flood the same year. Finney writes as P.F. Chisholm and as Grace Cavendish, the name on the Lady Grace Mysteries. The David Becket and Simon Ames novels - Firedrake's Eye (1992), Unicorn's Blood (1998), Gloriana's Torch (2003) - sit beside the Jack books about a dog. Twenty-eight titles are catalogued.

Patricia Furstenberg writes children's animal stories and books about Romania. Happy Friends, Animal Stories for Kids and Africa's Bravest Creatures hold the children's work, starting with Little Friends, Big Adventures (2015) and a run of Little Tail titles in 2016; Romania in 100-Word Stories and Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows take the other direction. The catalogue holds 31 books published between 2015 and 2025, reaching When Secrets Bloom most recently.

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 Gussin writes medical thrillers and mystery fiction. Laura Nelson Mystery is the series recorded under her name. Eight books run from Shadow of Death (2006) to Come Home (2017), by way of Twisted Justice (2007), The Test (2009), And Then There Was One (2010), Weapon of Choice (2012) and After the Fall (2015). Recorded subjects include women surgeons and women physicians, murder and homicide investigation, rape victims, television news anchors and decedents' estates.

Patricia H. Rushford is an award-winning author and speaker with more than sixty fiction and nonfiction books. Rushford holds a nursing degree and a master's in counseling and is also an artist and quilter. The Jennie McGrady Mysteries for young adults have sold over 500,000 copies, and Silent Witness won the Silver Angel Award and received an Edgar nomination. The catalogue lists 50 books from 1983 to 2018, opening with Have You Hugged Your Teenager Today? (1983). Series include Helen Bradley, McAllister Files, Angel Delaney and Max & Me Mysteries.

Patricia Hall writes mystery and detective fiction set in England, and the subject records name Laura Ackroyd and Michael Thackeray as fictitious characters alongside women journalists, police procedure, London and women sleuths. The catalogue holds 33 books, opening with The Poison Pool (1991) and reaching Cover Up (2019). The Coldness of Killers (1992), Death by Election (1993), Dying Fall (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) fall early in the run. Ackroyd and Thackeray and Kate O'Donnell are the two series on record, and both also stand as character entries. The run is likely complete.

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.

Regency romance is Patricia Haverton's territory, and dukes, marquesses and debutantes fill the titles. 92 catalogued books run from The Haunted Knight of Lady Canterley (2019) to A Family for the Ruthless Duke (2026), with almost the whole run inside the 2020s. Series include Regency Guardians, Dukes & Beast, Dukes of Power, Unwanted Debutants, Winston Siblings, Regency Sky and Art of Falling for a Duke.

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 Kennealy-Morrison (March 4, 1946 - July 21, 2021) was an American author and journalist, born Patricia Kennely. In the late 1960s Kennealy-Morrison wrote for Jazz & Pop magazine and then became its editor-in-chief, as one of the first women rock critics. The published work includes rock criticism, a memoir, The Keltiad and The Rock&Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries. The catalogue lists 12 books from The Copper Crown (1984) to Light Our Fire: My Wedding to Jim Morrison (2014). Kennealy-Morrison also worked as an advertising copywriter and received two Clio nominations.

Patricia Lynch (1894-1972) was an Irish children's writer and journalist who blended Irish rural life with fantasy, most famously in The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. Lynch wrote some 48 novels and 200 short stories. The catalogue here lists 38 titles dated between 1934 and 1984, built around two series, Brogeen and The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, with folklore, magic and Irish saints across the subjects.

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 PacJac Carroll has 120 catalogued books, from Liberty Belle (2012) to Dreams in the Mist (2026). Mail-order brides feature in several series names, among them Mail Order Brides of Hickory Stick, Mail Order Brides of Black Horse Mesa and Mail Order Brides of Misfit Ranch Bluebonnet, Texas. Other series include Montana Brides of Solomon's Valley, Independent Women of Horseshoe Hill, Love in Wyoming, Sundown Ranch and Rand Ketcham. Carroll is still publishing.

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 Burford Ryan, born August 9, 1954 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, writes romance as Patricia Ryan and mysteries as P.B. Ryan, and is the twin sister of the romance writer Pamela Burford. A Golden Heart award came in 1994, in the short contemporary series category, along with two Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, and Silken Threads took the Romance Writers of America RITA for Best Long Historical Romance of 2000. The catalogue lists 31 titles from A Burning Touch (1995) to Writing the Novel They Can't Put Down (2012), with Nell Sweeney recurring as a character. Series include Nell Sweeney Mysteries, Hidden Grotto, North Moon Bay, Hot City Nights and Hero For Hire.

Patricia Sargeant writes romance with African American characters at the centre; the subject records list African Americans, dating and man-woman relationships, and an African American advertising agency. Sweet Deception (2009) opens a catalogue of 14 books that reaches Above the Law in 2026. Meet the Bridegrooms, Toure Security Group and Justice Hunters are the three series recorded under the name. The median Sargeant book runs 343 pages, and the listing is marked ongoing.

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 Smiley writes mysteries with women detectives. Three series are recorded against the name: Tucker Sinclair, Detective Davie Richards and Justice Bay Mystery. Tucker Sinclair is listed as a fictitious character, and subjects place the books among business consultants and consulting firms in Los Angeles. False Profits (2004) opens the catalogue of 9 books and A Cold November Murder (2026) is the newest entry, with Pacific Homicide, Outside the Wire and The Second Goodbye in between.

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 Waddell wrote historical romance, with Regency romance and marriage of convenience among the catalogue subjects. The 14 books run from Sara's Promise (1999) to The Alliance (2007), and the list is likely complete. Titles include A Gentleman's Bargain (2001), A Stylish Marriage (2002), He Said Yes (2003) and He Said No (2004). Betrothal, impostors and businessmen also appear as subjects.

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 Werner writes romance across historical, suspense, gothic and western settings, with subject headings that also name political corruption, frontier and pioneer life, and the Creek and Cherokee nations. Twenty-six books are catalogued between 1985 and 2004, opening with If Truth Be Known and taking in Timbers and Gold Lace (1987), The Swirling Mists of Cornwall (1990), Cimarron Seductress and Mistress of Blackstone Castle (1991) and Cherokee Bride (1992). Dazzling Knits closed the listing in 2004, and the books run to a median of 320 pages.

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 E. Craig's catalogue holds 16 books from The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch (2008) to Death Shall Be Their Shepherd (2026). Series on the author page are Porch Swing Mysteries, Apple Creek Dreams, Paradise Chronicles and Adventures of Punkin and Boo. The Amish, foundlings, family secrets and suspense are listed subjects. A Quilt for Jenna (2013), The Amish Heiress (2015), The Mennonite Queen (2019) and The Gettysburg Letter (2021) are among the titles.

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).

Legal thrillers dominate the catalogue credited to Patrick Graham, and three series run under the name: Max Harrison, Dean Wilder Legal Thrillers and Detective Pratt. Max Harrison is the recurring figure. The 10 catalogued books cluster between 2014 and 2017 - Burning Justice, Criminal Justice, Defending the Innocent and The Paid Juror all appeared in 2014, followed by Justice (2016), True Criminal (2016), Legal Testimony (2017) and The House of Justice (2017). Don't Save the Cat, from 2025, is the newest entry.

Patrick Higgins is catalogued under Christian and religious books, with 16 titles from 2011 to 2025. The Pelican Trees and Coffee In Manila both date from 2011. The Higgins series is Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye, and titles such as The Aftermath (2015), The Unveiling (2016) and The Countdown Begins (2017) appear in the listing. Going Home - Hallelujah! (2025) is the most recent title.

Conversation is the subject Patrick King returns to across a self-help catalogue of 38 books. The Art of Witty Banter (2016) opens the run, followed by Improv(e) Your Conversations (2017), Better Small Talk (2020), How to Listen with Intention (2020) and Read People Like a Book (2020). Oral communication, charisma and likability recur as topics, and Science-Based Social Skills (2025) is the newest title. The median King book runs 177 pages.

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 Modiano

29 books• 2 series

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist, born Jean Patrick Modiano on 30 July 1945, and took the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. Modiano writes autofiction, mixing autobiography with historical fiction, and returns repeatedly to the experience of the Second World War in France and its effect on identity, memory and loss. La Place de l'Étoile (1968) opens the catalogue, with Night Rounds and The Night Watch (1969), Ring Roads (1972), Villa Triste (1975) and Missing Person (1978) following; the Occupation Trilogy is the one series listed. The 29 catalogued titles reach Ballerina in 2025, at a median of 146 pages.

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 Quentin is a pen name, used mainly by Hugh Callingham Wheeler and, in various combinations, by Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelly and Mary Louise White Aswell. The mysteries published under it, and under the related name Q. Patrick, start with Cottage Sinister (1931) and take in Murder at Cambridge (1933), S.S. Murder (1933) and A Puzzle for Fools (1936). Four series are catalogued: Peter Duluth Mystery, Timothy Trant, Dr. Westlake and Crimefile. The 36 titles reach Death Freight and Other Murderous Excursions (2022).

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).