Authors whose first name starts with P, page 3 of 4

Slow Motion Riot (1991), the first novel by Peter Blauner, won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named an International Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement. Blauner, born October 29, 1959, is an American author, journalist and television producer. The catalogue holds 10 books through Picture in the Sand (2023), including Casino Moon (1994), The Intruder (1996) and Sunrise Highway (2018), plus the Lourdes Robles series. Subjects include New York, police procedurals, women detectives and probation officers.

Peter Boland writes two series: the Charity Shop Detective Agency mysteries and the John Savage action thrillers. The Savage books, Savage Lies (2018), Savage Children and Savage Games (2019) and Savage Gods (2020), precede the detective agency titles, which run from The Charity Shop Detective Agency (2022) through Death at the Dog Show and The Beach Hut Murders (2023) to The Christmas Market Murder. Eleven books are catalogued, the earliest The Girl by the Thames (2016).

Peter Bowen (1945-2020) was an American novelist who settled in Livingston, Montana, and had worked as a cowboy, hunting and fishing guide, folksinger and poet. Two series hold the fiction: the Gabriel Du Pre mysteries, set in Montana, and the Yellowstone Kelly historical novels. Luther Sage Kelly (1849-1928), the Nez Perce, the Spanish-American War and the South African War are among the subjects. Nineteen books are catalogued, from Gentleman and Scout (1987) to Solus (2018). Bowen also wrote humour and hunting pieces as Coyote Jack.

Lou Prophet, Sheriff Ben Stillman and Gideon Hawk are among the named figures in the westerns of Peter Brandvold, whose subject headings also cover outlaws, sheriffs, bounty hunters, revenge and frontier life. The catalogue counts 86 books from Once a Marshal (1998) to Finn and the Spirit Wolves (2026). Blood Mountain (1999), Dakota Kill (2000), Once a Lawman (2000) and Once Hell Freezes Over (2001) are early titles. Series include Lou Prophet, Sheriff Ben Stillman, Rogue Lawman, Bloody Joe Mannion, .45-Caliber, Rusty Spurr, Bush Riders, Lonnie Gentry, Tom Navarro and Bear Haskell: U.S. Deputy Marshal.

Peter Brown

15 books• 5 series

Peter Brown, born February 24, 1979, is an American writer and illustrator based in New York, known for children's picture books. The catalogue lists 15 Brown books from Flight of the Dodo (2005) to The Wild Robot on the Island (2025), including Chowder (2006), The Curious Garden (2009), Children Make Terrible Pets (2010), Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (2013) and The Wild Robot (2016). Series are Wild Robot, Chowder, Lucy and Chipwell Boys, and robots, dogs, tigers and camps are among the subjects.

Peter Carey, born in 1943, is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for over three decades. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice, taking it in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang, and he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize in May 2008. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is named often as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Twenty titles are catalogued from The Fat Man In History (1974) to A Long Way From Home (2017), including War Crimes (1979), Bliss (1981), Illywhacker (1985), The Tax Inspector (1991), The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) and Jack Maggs (1997).

Peter Cawdron has 51 books in the catalogue, published from 2011 to 2026, and the site files the name under Science Fiction. Anomaly (2011) is the earliest title, followed by The Road to Hell (2011) and Galactic Exploration (2012). Series include First Contact, Z is for Zombie, Mars Endeavour, Galactic Exploration and Van Helsing's Diaries. Little Green Men and Xenophobia date from 2013, and The Song of the Sirens (2026) is the newest title on file.

Peter Clines

15 books• 2 series

Peter Clines built his catalogue on Ex-Heroes, a series that sets superheroes against zombies and opens with Ex-Heroes (2010). Fifteen books date from 2010 to 2025, including the Lovecraftian Threshold novels 14 (2012) and The Fold (2015), plus short stories gathered in anthologies. Los Angeles, werewolves, super-soldiers and Project Krypton recur across the work. Clines, born in 1969, worked as a props master in film for 15 years before writing full time.

Peter Colt writes detective fiction across two series, An Andy Roark Mystery and Detective Tommy Kelly. Seven books are catalogued, published between 2019 and 2026: The Off-Islander (2019), Back Bay Blues (2020), Death at Fort Devens (2022), The Ambassador (2023), The Judge (2024), Cold Island (2025) and The Driftwood Bones (2026). The catalogue is ongoing.

Peter Darman began in military history with Uniforms of World War II (1998), Heroic Voices of the Spanish Civil War (2009) and Blood, Sweat and Steel (2011), and the Gulf, Iraq and Afghan wars sit among his catalogued subjects. From The Parthian (2011) onward the work turns to historical fiction, in the Parthian Chronicles, Crusader Chronicles, Catalan Chronicles, Alpine Warrior and Satrap series. Darman's 46 catalogued books reach Warrior of Ishtar (2026), and he is still publishing.

Peter F. Hamilton

48 books• 18 series

Peter F. Hamilton is a British author of science fiction space opera, born in 1960. Catalogue entries run from Mindstar Rising (1993) to The Helium Sea (2026). Series include Greg Mandel, Night's Dawn, Commonwealth Saga, Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers, Salvation Sequence, Arkship Trilogy, Archimedes Engine and Queen of Dreams. The Suspect Genome (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Reality Dysfunction (1996) are among the earlier titles. Space colonies, telepathy and space warfare appear in the subjects.

Historical fiction about Vikings and Saxons fills most of Peter Gibbons's catalogue. Gibbons has 33 books published between 2021 and 2026, grouped into the Viking Blood and Blade Saga, Saxon Warrior, Arthurian Chronicles, Jack Kane and Time Travelling Warrior. The Wrath of Ivar (2021) and Viking Blood and Blade (2021) are the earliest titles, and Rise of Bloodaxe (2026) is the newest.

DC Smith is the detective at the centre of Peter Grainger's police novels, which continue as the Kings Lake Investigation series. Grainger's catalogue holds 24 books published between 2012 and 2026, beginning with Afon (2012) under the name Robert Partridge. Willows and Lane forms a second police line, and Some Sort of Justice is the newest catalogued title.

Peter Hamilton's catalogue holds 3 books spread across fourteen years. The Demon Trap (2008) opens it, and A Hole in the Sky (2021) and The Captain's Daughter (2022) follow after a thirteen-year gap. No series groups the three titles, and no new book has appeared since 2022.

Peter Heller writes both novels and outdoor non-fiction, the second drawn from kayaking, surfing and voyages against whaling fleets. Hell or High Water (2004), The Whale Warriors (2007) and Kook (2010) are the reported books; The Dog Stars (2012) begins the fiction, followed by The Painter, Celine, The Orchard and Burn. Eleven titles make up the catalogue, at a median of 328 pages.

Peter Hollins writes self-help about discipline and learning. The Science of Self-Discipline (2017) opens 21 catalogued books that reach Self-Discipline On Autopilot (2026). Focus, habit and willpower supply the titles, among them Finish What You Start (2018), Neuro-Discipline (2019), 30 Days to Self-Discipline (2021) and 41 Self-Discipline Habits (2021). Continuing education, self-managed learning and the psychology of learning are the catalogued subjects.

Peter James

56 books• 12 series

Peter James, born Peter John James on 22 August 1948 in Brighton, is a British crime writer and the son of Cornelia James, glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. Roy Grace appears in the subjects alongside police procedurals, murder investigations and England, and a Roy Grace short-fiction line is part of the catalogue. The listed books start with Dead Letter Drop (1981) and Atom Bomb Angel (1983) and run to John Grebble Is Gone (2026). Max Flynn and Cold Hill are further series, and Possession (1988), Sweet Heart (1990) and Prophecy (1992) are among the early titles.

Peter Kirkland writes legal thrillers across four series: Small Town Lawyer, Spencer Dunn, Maggie Gallagher and Lily Greco. Defending Innocence (2021) opens the catalogue, which reaches 14 books through Influencing Justice (2022), Burning Evidence (2023), Prescribing Doubt (2024) and Small Town Trial (2025) to Small Town Conviction. Small Town Verdict is scheduled for 2027.

Peter Lovesey

56 books• 8 series

Peter Harmer Lovesey (10 September 1936 to 10 April 2025) was a British author of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories, and also published as Peter Lear. The best-known Lovesey series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian police detective in London, and Peter Diamond, a present-day police detective in Bath. Lovesey was also a leading track and field statistician. The catalogue lists 56 books, beginning with Five Kings of Distance (1968), with Wobble to Death (1970), Abracadaver (1972) and Waxwork (1978) among the early titles. Other series include Inspector Henrietta Mallin and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

Peter Matthiessen

41 books• 3 series

Peter Matthiessen is the only writer to win the National Book Award in both nonfiction, for The Snow Leopard in 1979, and fiction, for Shadow Country in 2008. Matthiessen, an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, Zen teacher and one-time CIA agent, was born May 22, 1927, died April 5, 2014, and co-founded The Paris Review. Nonfiction covered nature, travel and American Indian history, including In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983) on the Leonard Peltier case, and Matthiessen was also a prominent environmental activist. The catalogue lists 41 books from The Year of the Tempest (1957) to In Paradise (2014), including Wildlife in America (1959), The Cloud Forest (1961) and At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965).

Peter May

33 books• 5 series

Peter May, born 20 December 1951, is a Scottish novelist, crime writer and television screenwriter. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and France's Cezam Prix Litteraire, and The Lewis Man took Le Telegramme's Grand Prix des Lecteurs. Entry Island won two awards in 2014, and May received France's Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 2025. Sales exceed twelve million copies. The catalogue lists 33 books, from The Reporter (1978) to The Black Loch (2024), with the China Thrillers, the Enzo Files and the Lewis Tetralogy among the series.

Provence made Peter Mayle's name, in travel writing about French village life, food and neighbours. The earlier work is very different: illustrated guides for children and parents, starting with 'What's Happening to Me?' (1975) and 'Where Did I Come From?' (1977), plus the Wicked Willie cartoons. Sam Levitt heads a later crime series. Fifty-four titles make up the catalogue, which closes with My Twenty-Five Years in Provence in 2018.

Peter O'Mahoney builds his catalogue around recurring leads: Tex Hunter, Jack Valentine, Bill Harvey, Dean Lincoln and Tom Whiskey each head a series, alongside the Southern Lawyer books. Justice supplies half the titles, Redeeming Justice, Whiskey Justice, A Time for Justice, Fire and Justice, Truth and Justice, Will of Justice. Thirty-five books span 2012 to 2026, from The Meaning of Theft to Deadly Secrets.

Peter Rimmer has 28 books catalogued across four series: the Brigandshaw Chronicles, Tides of Empire, Bend with the Wind and Pioneers. Cry of the Fish Eagle (1993) opens the run, and Vultures in the Wind (2014), Bend with the Wind (2015), Elephant Walk (2016), Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2017), To the Manor Born (2018) and On the Brink of Tears (2019) follow. Beneath a Divided Sky arrives in 2026, and the books run long, at a median of 379 pages.

Peter Robinson

49 books• 6 series

Born in Britain on 17 March 1950 and later a Canadian, Peter Robinson wrote crime novels featuring Inspector Alan Banks and set in Yorkshire, and died on 4 October 2022. Robinson's catalogue opens with Gallows View (1987), followed by A Dedicated Man (1988), A Necessary End (1989) and The Hanging Valley (1989), and lists 49 books through Standing in the Shadows (2023). Beyond the Banks series, the output includes standalone novels, short stories and novellas, along with some poems and two articles on writing. Police procedure, murder investigation and England are recorded subjects.

Peter Soyer Beagle, born April 20, 1939, is an American novelist and screenwriter, mainly of fantasy fiction. The Last Unicorn (1968) is Beagle's best-known work, and Locus subscribers voted the book the number five All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987. Beagle received a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011, and SFWA named Beagle a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in 2018. The catalogue holds 35 books from A Fine and Private Place (1960) to I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (2024), with the Innkeeper's World series among them.

Peter Schweizer writes non-fiction about political corruption, espionage and power in the United States. 20 catalogued titles run from Friendly Spies (1993) through Victory (1994), Disney: The Mouse Betrayed (1998), The Fall of the Berlin Wall (2000), Reagan's War (2002) and The Bushes (2004), reaching The Invisible Coup. Cold War history, business intelligence and government conduct are the recurring subjects.

Peter Straub

39 books• 2 series

Horror and psychological crime define Peter Straub's work, with the Vietnam War and its veterans behind a good deal of it. Ghost Story (1979), Shadowland (1980) and Floating Dragon (1982) belong to the horror line, while the Blue Rose Trilogy brings in serial murder and Tom Pasmore. Thirty-nine catalogued titles run from Ishmael (1972) to The Process (is a Process All Its Own) in 2017.

Peter Swanson

14 books• 4 series

Psychological suspense is Peter Swanson's field. The American author, born May 26, 1968, is best known for The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear. Swanson spent ten years writing fiction before an agent read one of the short stories online, which led to the debut The Girl with a Clock for a Heart (2014). The Kind Worth Saving (2023), the ninth novel, is a sequel to The Kind Worth Killing. Swanson also writes short stories and poetry. The catalogue lists 14 books through Do You See What I See? (2026).

Peter Temple

11 books• 2 series

Peter Temple was an Australian crime novelist, known mainly for the Jack Irish series. Bad Debts opened the catalogue in 1996, and Black Tide (2000), Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2004) followed. The Broken Shore arrived in 2005 and named a second series. Temple took the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first Australian to do so, and worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist and editor. Private investigators, crime and Australian settings define the books, and eleven titles make up the catalogue through The Red Hand in 2020.

Peter Tremayne

67 books• 3 series

Peter Tremayne is a pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis, a British historian, literary biographer and novelist born on 10 March 1943. Ellis has published more than 98 books under that name and as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, along with 100 short stories, and the work has appeared in 25 languages. As Tremayne, Ellis writes the Sister Fidelma historical mysteries, an international bestseller. The catalogue lists 67 titles from 1974 to 2026, opening with The Cornish Language and its Literature, issued under the Ellis name. Dracula Unborn and Hound of Frankenstein (both 1977) follow, and Blood on the Wind (2026) is the newest. Nuns, the Celtic Church, Ireland and horror appear in the subject tags.

Peter Turnbull writes police procedurals. 48 catalogued books run from Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) to Cold Wrath (2018), across three series: Hennessey & Yellich, Harry Vicary and Maurice Mundy. George Hennessey and Somerled Yellich are the recurring detectives, and England and Scotland are both settings across the run. Turnbull, born in Rotherham in 1950, studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, at Huddersfield and at Cardiff, and worked as a social worker for Strathclyde Regional Council in Glasgow from 1978 to 1995.

Peter V. Brett

18 books• 3 series

Peter V. Brett, born February 8, 1973, is an American fantasy novelist and the author of the Demon Cycle. The first Demon Cycle volume appeared in 2008 under two titles: The Painted Man from HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in the UK and The Warded Man from Del Rey Books in the US. The catalogue lists 18 Brett books, including The Desert Spear (2010) and The Daylight War (2013), with The Demon King (2026) the newest. Red Sonja: Unchained and Nightfall Saga are also listed, and the subjects include epic fantasy, demonology and magic.

Peter Wacht writes fantasy for young adult readers. The Sylvan Chronicles opens the catalogue in 2019 with The Legend of the Kestrel, The Makings of a Warrior, The Raptor of the Highlands and The Call of the Sylvana, and runs on through The Claiming of the Highlands, The Lord of the Highlands and The Lost Kestrel Found in 2020. Five further series follow: Tales of Caledonia, the Fallen Knight, the Legend of the Dragon Lord, Tales of the Territories and the Tragedy of the Blackgards. Thirty-five books are catalogued through Rise of the Dragon Lord (2026).

Peter Watts

15 books• 3 series

Peter Watts is a Canadian author of hard science fiction, born January 25, 1958. Watts earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of British Columbia's Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology, went on to academic research and teaching posts, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist; fiction publication began around the end of graduate school. The catalogue lists 15 books from 1994 to 2026, among them Starfish (1999), Maelstrom (2001), Blindsight (2006) and Fold Catastrophes (2026). Rifters and Firefall are the series credited to Watts.

Peter Wohlleben

12 books• 1 series

Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author who writes about ecology in popular language, and who has argued, controversially, for plant sentience. The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) reached the New York Times bestseller list and appeared in English in 2016. Twelve books are catalogued between 2012 and 2022, from The Weather Detective (2012) to Forest Walking (2022), among them The Inner Life of Animals (2016), The Secret Wisdom of Nature (2017), The Heartbeat of Trees (2019) and The Power of Trees (2021). Mysteries of Nature is the one series catalogued, and trees, forests, symbiosis and food chains are the constants.

Peyton Corinne writes hockey romance set around college sport. The Undone series opens with Unsteady (2023) and continues through Unloved (2025), Unbound (2026) and Undone (2026). Friends-to-lovers plots, flawed characters, hurt and comfort, and an eventual happy ending mark the books. Corinne wrote from an early age before publishing, and the series remains open.

Phaedra Patrick writes contemporary fiction about ordinary people changing course, widowers and the people around them included. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (2016) opens the catalogue, followed by Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone (2017), The Library of Lost and Found (2019), The Secrets of Love Story Bridge (2020) and The Messy Lives of Book People (2022). Self-realisation and humour run through them. Eight titles are catalogued, reaching The Time Hop Coffee Shop in 2025.

Phil Rickman wrote supernatural and mystery novels, publishing under the pen names Will Kingdom and Thom Madley as well as his own. Merrily Watkins, a woman priest in England, is the recurring figure, and exorcism, ghosts and the occult run through those books. 30 catalogued titles span Candlenight (1991) to The Echo of Crows (2026), among them The Wine of Angels (1998), Midwinter of the Spirit (1999) and A Crown of Lights (2001). The John Dee Papers and the Grayle Underhill and Bobby Maiden novels sit alongside. Rickman, born in 1950, died in 2024.

Philip C. Quaintrell writes across four series: the Echoes Saga, the Terran Cycle, A Time of Dragons and the Ranger Archives. Intrinsic (2016) opens the catalogue, and Rise of the Ranger (2017), Relic of the Gods (2018), The Fall of Neverdark (2018), Age of the King (2019) and Kingdom of Bones (2019) follow. 21 books reach Tides of Blood and War (2026). Volumes run long, at a median of 579 pages, and Quaintrell remains actively publishing.

Philip Gulley writes about Quaker life in Indiana, in essays and in fiction. Front Porch Tales (1997) opens a catalogue of 24 books, and the Harmony novels, Home to Harmony (2000), Just Shy of Harmony (2001), Christmas in Harmony (2002), build a small town around a Quaker congregation. Christian life, clergy and universalism run through the subjects, and nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Venice holds Philip Gwynne Jones's fiction. Nathan Sutherland, a consul, investigates across a series whose titles almost all name the city: The Venetian Game (2017), The Venetian Masquerade (2019), Vengeance in Venice (2019), Venetian Gothic (2020), The Angels of Venice (2022) and The Venetian Sanctuary (2024). Eleven books are catalogued from The Venice Project (2013) to 2025. Murder investigation, travel and Venetian social life are the recorded subjects.

Philip K. Dick

86 books• 4 series

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 to March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick wrote 45 novels and roughly 121 short stories, most of them first published in science fiction magazines. The fiction asks what is real and probes perception, identity and human nature. Characters in Dick's work contend with alternate realities, illusory worlds, monopoly corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian states and altered consciousness. Dick ranks among the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction. Catalogued titles include Beyond Lies the Wub (1951), Paycheck (1953) and Adjustment Team (1954), and the VALIS Trilogy appears as a series. Androids and life on other planets feature in the subject tags.

Philip Kerr

39 books• 5 series

Bernie Gunther, a private investigator, is the figure Philip Kerr is known for. That sequence opens with March Violets (1989), The Pale Criminal (1990) and A German Requiem (1991), and the Second World War runs through its subjects. Kerr's catalogue holds 39 books, reaching Metropolis (2019), and takes in the Scott Manson novels, standalone thrillers and the Children Of The Lamp series written as P.B. Kerr.

Philip Margolin appears in this catalogue with two short stories rather than novels: The Girl in the Yellow Bikini (1974) and Angie's Delight (1998). Both sit in a short stories and novellas grouping, and no other title is recorded against the name here.

Philip Pullman

51 books• 10 series

Philip Pullman's catalogue covers fantasy and children's adventure, with detective stories, fairy tales and graphic novels alongside. His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust are the sequences it is built around, joined by the Sally Lockhart mysteries, the New Cut Gang, the Canongate Myths and The Adventures of John Blake. Sixty-five catalogued titles run from The Haunted Storm (1972) through The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) to The Rose Field in 2025.

Philip R. Craig (December 10, 1933 to May 8, 2007) was a writer known for the Martha's Vineyard mysteries. The catalogue holds 23 books, from Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (1969) and A Beautiful Place to Die (1989) to Vineyard Chill (2008). Titles in between include Off Season (1994), A Case of Vineyard Poison (1995), Death on a Vineyard Beach (1996) and A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (1997). A second series, Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson, also appears. Subjects include private investigators, Jeff Jackson, Brady Coyne, Massachusetts and art.

Philip Reeve

48 books• 12 series

Philip Reeve, born on 28 February 1966, is an English author and illustrator of children's books, known above all for Mortal Engines (2001) and its sequels, the Mortal Engines Quartet published between 2001 and 2006. Here Lies Arthur (2007), Reeve's novel drawn from the Arthurian legend, won the Carnegie Medal. Forty-eight catalogued titles reach Bridge of Storms: A Mortal Engines Novel (2026), across Fever Crumb, Larklight, Railhead, Goblins, Buster Bayliss, Utterly Dark, Adventuremice and the Not-So-Impossible Tales, written largely for readers in grades 6 to 8.

Philip Roth

38 books• 3 series

Philip Roth wrote American fiction about Jewish men, academics and the country they lived in. The Conversion of the Jews (1958) opens the catalogue, Goodbye, Columbus followed in 1959, and Portnoy's Complaint arrived in 1969. Nathan Zuckerman, David Kepesh and the American Trilogy are the recurring structures. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued, ending with Why Write? in 2017.

Philip Yancey

71 books• 1 series

Philip Yancey writes about Christian faith and spiritual questions. Born November 4, 1949, and now retired, the American author has sold more than 15 million books in English, with translations into 40 languages. The Jesus I Never Knew won the ECPA Christian Book of the Year Award in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? won it in 1998. Publishers include Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press and Penguin Random House. The catalogue lists 71 titles, from After the Wedding (1976) to Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions (2023). Grace, pain, the Bible and theology lead the subject tags.

Philipp Schott's catalogue holds eight books. The Accidental Veterinarian (2019), How to Examine a Wolverine (2021) and The Battle Cry of the Siamese Kitten (2022) take veterinary practice as their subject, and the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series turns it into crime fiction: Fifty-Four Pigs (2022), Six Ostriches (2023), Eleven Huskies (2024) and Three Bengal Kittens (2026), each title a count of animals. The Willow Wren (2021) sits apart from both.

Philippa Gregory

46 books• 11 series

Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist, born in Kenya on 9 January 1954, publishing since 1987. The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2002 and became two films. AudioFile magazine named Gregory the queen of British historical fiction. The catalogue holds 46 books from Wideacre (1987) to Royal Witch (2026). Series include Plantagenet and Tudor, Order of Darkness, Wideacre, Fairmile, Tradescant and Princess Rules, alongside children's books and non-fiction. Queens, kings and rulers, England and sisters recur in the subjects.

Phillip Margolin

35 books• 6 series

Legal thrillers built on murder trials are the work of Phillip Margolin. Gone, But Not Forgotten (1993) sits early in a catalogue of 35 books that reaches 2026, and Margolin's series follow the lawyers Robin Lockwood, Amanda Jaffe, Madison Kincaid, and Brad Miller with Dana Cutler. Courtroom suspense and criminal investigation carry the novels, which run to a median of 362 pages.

Phillip Strang writes crime fiction in two settings. British police procedurals run through the DCI Isaac Cook, DI Tremayne, DI Tobias Stone and Sergeant Natalie Campbell series and the Freya Tulloch Orkney mysteries; the Australian outback supplies the Maya Thorne, Sarah Reeves, Jodi Brennan and Odysseus Kalaris thrillers. Ninety-three catalogued books run from The Haberman Virus (2015) to Feral Ground (2026).

Cornwall is Phillipa Ashley's territory. Her later novels, Summer at the Cornish Cafe (2016), Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles (2017), Confetti at the Cornish Café (2017), One Cornish Summer With You (2025), put romance against the county's coast and islands. The earlier books, from Decent Exposure (2006) and Dating Mr. December (2010), sit closer to chick lit. 30 titles are catalogued between 2006 and 2025, and Ashley continues to publish.

Mystery, romance and suspense make up the subject records for Phillipa Nefri Clark, whose 43 catalogued books run from 2017 to 2026. The Stationmaster's Cottage and Jasmine Sea both date from 2017, and Books & Crooks is listed for 2026. Series include Rivers End, Charlotte Dean Mysteries, Daphne Jones Mysteries, Detective Liz Moorland, Temple River, Maple Gardens Matchmakers and Doctor Grok's Peculiar Shop.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor, born in Boston in 1909 and died there in 1976, wrote mystery novels under her own name and as Freeman Dana and Alice Tilton. Her first, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), introduced Asey Mayo, the Codfish Sherlock, who went on to appear in 24 novels; Leonidas Witherall heads a second series. Taylor drew on her own Boston childhood and her knowledge of Cape Cod for the local detail, and the critic Dilys Winn placed her as the mystery writer's answer to Buster Keaton. She graduated from Barnard College in 1930 and married the surgeon Grantley Walder Taylor in 1951. Thirty-three catalogued titles date from 1931 to 1987.

Phoebe MacLeod has published 16 catalogued books since 2022, four of them in that first year: Fred and Breakfast, Let's Not Be Friends, Not The Man I Thought He Was and Someone Else's Honeymoon. An (Un)Romantic Comedy, Love at First Site and Never Ever Getting Back Together followed in 2023, My Not So Perfect Summer in 2024, and Out of Office in 2026. No series is recorded, and MacLeod continues to publish.

Phyllis A. Whitney

77 books• 2 series

Phyllis A. Whitney published across five decades: 77 catalogued books, from A Place for Ann (1941) to Amethyst Dreams (1997), with the 1960s the busiest decade. The work splits between mystery, suspense and romance for adults and fiction written for younger readers, so early titles such as A Star for Ginny (1942) and The Mystery of the Gulls (1949) sit beside later romantic suspense. Whitney also wrote on craft, including Writing Juvenile Fiction (1947). Murder, detection, families and fathers and daughters are the recurring subjects.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

131 books• 11 series

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, born in 1933, wrote 131 catalogued books for children and young adults across half a century. Shiloh, a quartet of children's novels, won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the Alice McKinley series became one of the most frequently challenged sets of books of the early 21st century. The Boy/Girl Battle, Bessledorf Mysteries, Witch Saga, Cat Pack and Roxie and the Hooligans fill out the list, which runs from To Make a Wee Moon (1969) to Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost (2018). Family life, schools, friendship and siblings are the constant subjects, at a median of 154 pages.