Authors whose first name starts with S, page 4 of 10

Scott Hahn

86 books• 8 series

Scott Walker Hahn, born October 28, 1957, is an American Roman Catholic author, theologian and apologist who was a Presbyterian minister before converting. Hahn has written over 50 books on Catholic theology, Church history and Bible study, and teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Rome Sweet Home and The Lamb's Supper are among Hahn's works. The catalogue lists 86 books from The Acts of the Apostles (1991) to Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testaments (2024). Series include Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, Catholic for a Reason and Didache.

Scott Hunter writes crime fiction around DCI Brendan Moran, a detective chief inspector. Eighteen books are catalogued from The Ley Lines of Lushbury (2010) to In the Key of Death (2024), with Black December (2011), Creatures of Dust (2013), Death Walks Behind You (2015) and Silent as the Dead (2018) among them. Power of the Stones, Chronicles of Britannia and Cameron Kyle are Hunter's other series, and historical subjects including Rome appear in the catalogue. The median book runs 258 pages.

Scott Lynch

11 books• 3 series

The Gentleman Bastard Sequence is the series American fantasy writer Scott Lynch, born April 2, 1978, is best known for. The Lies of Locke Lamora, bought by Orion Books in August 2004, came out in June 2006 from Gollancz in the United Kingdom and Bantam in the United States. Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) and The Republic of Thieves (2013) continued the sequence, and The Thorn of Emberlain is planned as the fourth of seven books. The catalogue holds 11 books through Kaiju Agonistes (2026), including The Effigy Engine (2018) and Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent (2024). Swindlers, robbers and epic fantasy appear in the subjects.

Scott Mariani, born 1 January 1968 in St Andrews, Scotland, is a British Sunday Times bestselling thriller writer. Ben Hope, a former SAS Major who once studied theology, is the hero of the thrillers Mariani is best known for, and the first of them, The Alchemist's Secret (2007), held No.1 on the UK Amazon Kindle chart for six weeks running. The catalogue counts 45 books from How to Write a Thriller (2007) to The Black Eagle (2026). Will Bowman, Vampire Federation and DI Tom McAllister are other series.

Adam Drake carries all 15 of Scott Matthews's catalogued books, an action thriller series opening with The Assassin's List in 2012 and reaching Silent Coup in 2026. Terrorists supply the antagonists and San Diego the setting. Oath to Defend (2013), Call It Treason (2015) and Special Counsel (2016) sit along the way, and Matthews continues to publish.

Scott McEwen writes about American special operations: Navy SEALs, snipers, undercover work and counter-terrorism. Eleven books are catalogued between 2010 and 2021. Eyes on Target (2013) collects inside accounts from the SEAL brotherhood, and the novels One-Way Trip (2013), Target America (2014), The Sniper and the Wolf (2015), American Commander (2016) and Ghost Sniper (2016) follow, with Sniper Elite a recurring name. Camp Valor is the one recorded series, opening with Camp Valor (2018). Nothing new has been catalogued since Hell Week and Beyond (2021).

Scott Medbury has 44 catalogued books, published between 2012 and 2026. The listing opens with Time Snare (2012) and runs to Blood Reckoning (2026), taking in After Days and Sanctuary (2014), Attrition (2015), Sinthetica (2016) and Apex Risen (2019). Series in the catalogue include America Falls, the After Days Trilogy, Rabid States, both seasons of Blackout Nation, Max Havok, Redux Protocol, Sound of Rust and Monetized Writer. Every title is credited to Medbury alone.

Scott Pratt writes legal thrillers, and the 27 catalogued books run from Russo's Gold (2007) to Vindicate (2025). Joe Dillard and Darren Street are Pratt's recurring characters, and further series follow Billy Beckett, Presley Carter and Miller & Stevens. Murder investigations, criminal defense lawyers and public prosecutors are the main subjects. An Innocent Client (2008) and Conflict of Interest (2012) are among the titles.

Scott Reintgen writes science fiction and fantasy for younger readers. The Nyxia Triad opened the catalogue in 2017 and closed with Nyxia Uprising in 2019, and Ashlords, Waxways, Talespinners, Dragonships and Celia Cleary followed. Life on other planets, mining, heroism and books themselves recur as subjects. Seventeen titles are catalogued, from Nyxia to The Void Dragons (2026), at a median of 384 pages.

Scott Sigler

36 books• 11 series

Scott Sigler is an American author of science fiction and horror, a podcaster and a No. 1 New York Times bestseller who lives in San Diego. Sigler co-founded Empty Set Entertainment, the publisher of the young adult Galactic Football League series. Earthcore (2001), Ancestor (2007), Infected (2008) and Contagious (2008) are among the listed novels, alongside The Rookie (2007), The Starter (2010) and Warpath (2026). Infected, Generations Trilogy and Crypt are further series, and parasites, survival, amnesia and football appear in the subjects.

Scott Smith

2 books

Scott Smith is an American author and screenwriter, born in 1965, with two novels to his name: A Simple Plan (1993) and The Ruins (2006). Both were filmed from Smith's own screenplays, in 1998 and 2008, and the A Simple Plan screenplay earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Smith also wrote the screenplays for Siberia (2018) and The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019). Guilt, theft, murder and suspense run through both novels.

Scott Turow

20 books• 4 series

Scott Turow writes legal fiction set largely in the invented Kindle County. The Kindle County Legal Thrillers, featuring Rusty Sabich, anchor a catalogue of 20 books that starts with One L (1977), a title tagged to Harvard Law School, and reaches Presumed Guilty (2025). Non-fiction and standalone novels fill out the list. Lawyers, legal stories and missing persons are the recurring subjects.

Scott W. Cook's catalogue holds 51 books published between 2018 and 2026, from The Ledger (2018) to Be Not Quietly Devoured (2026). Eight series divide it: Scott Jarvis Private Investigator, the USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller, Decker's Marine Raiders, Immortal Dracula, Fightin'est Ship in WWII, the Catherine Cook Sea Adventure, Wheels in the Sky and Terrors of the Deep. Early titles include Play the Hand You're Dealt (2018), Isle of Bones (2019), A Fortune in Blood (2020) and A Heart of Oak (2021). Cook is still publishing.

Scott Westerfeld

42 books• 18 series

Scott David Westerfeld, born May 5, 1963, is an American young adult writer known for the Uglies and Leviathan series. Other series include Midnighters, Peeps, Impostors, Zeroes and Spill Zone. The 42 catalogued books include Polymorph (1997), Fine Prey (1998), Evolution's Darling (2000) and The Risen Empire (2003). Subjects include science fiction, personal beauty, brainwashing and teenage girls. The Mortons (2026) is the newest title.

Scott William Carter has 68 books in the catalogue, from a 2003 short story to City of Angels (2026). Carter is an American fiction writer working in fantasy, mystery and young adult fiction. Titles include The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys (2010) and President Jock, Vice President Geek (2010), and The Gray and Guilty Sea (2010) appeared under the name Jack Nolte. Series include Garrison Gage, Myron Vale Investigations, Karen Pantelli, Lost Lands of Rymadoon and Byrd & Hart Mystery. Coming of age, crime, magic and friendship appear among the subjects.

Ryan Lock is the recurring character in Sean Black's thrillers, which take in bodyguards, undercover operations and New York. Thirty-three catalogued books run from Lockdown (2009) to The Removal (2026), across Ryan Lock & Ty Johnson, Ty Johnson alone, Byron Tibor, the Malibu Mysteries, the Neil Brody Crime Thrillers and Extolziby Gruff. Black continues to publish.

Sean Chercover writes crime and suspense. Big City, Bad Blood (2007) introduces Ray Dudgeon, a private investigator working in Chicago, and Trigger City (2008) follows. Prophecy drives the second series, built around Daniel Byrne, and The Trinity Game (2012), The Devil's Game (2015) and The Savior's Game (2017) close the catalogue. 10 books span 2007 to 2017, and organized crime and murder supply the recurring material.

Sean Dietrich

12 books

Sean Dietrich, who writes as Sean of the South, is an American author and newspaper columnist whose subject is the Southern United States and the people in it. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Dietrich moved to Walton County, Florida at 14 after a father's suicide, left school for construction work and then music, and returned to education before turning to writing. Twelve books are catalogued, from Lyla (2015) to the 2026 memoir I Would Walk Five Hundred Miles, with Stars of Alabama (2019) and The Incredible Winston Browne (2021) among the novels. Columns have run in the Mobile Press Register, the Tallahassee Democrat and The Bitter Southerner.

Sean Liscom's catalogue holds 13 books, published between Jack Sterling's Legacy (2017) and Aeros (2026). Whisper Ridge: After the Pulse is the named series, and the titles around it arrive in pairs in most years: A Legacy of Darkness and A Legacy of Violence (2019), Evolutions and Interims (2021), Junta Rising (2022), Feral Outbreak (2023). Liscom remains actively publishing.

Sean McFate writes on mercenaries and modern warfare, and writes thrillers about them. The Modern Mercenary (2014), Mercenaries and War (2019) and The New Rules of War (2019) are his non-fiction, alongside Building Better Armies on security sector reform and nation-building. The Tom Locke novels turn the same material into fiction: Shadow War (2016), Deep Black (2017), Goliath (2020) and High Treason (2020). Eight titles are catalogued.

Sean Oswald's catalogue holds 46 books published between 2020 and 2026, with She Who Befriends Monsters scheduled for 2027. Watcher's Test (2020) opens the run and Unity (2026) is the newest title. Nine series divide the work: Welcome to the Multiverse, Life in Exile, Magic Eater, Dragon Sorcerer, Apocalypse Breaker, Class Shift, Draconic Core, Shaman's Call and Apprentice of the Past. Early titles include Watcher's Question (2020), Frostburn (2021), A Temperamental Enchantress (2022) and Spirit Song (2022). Oswald is still publishing.

Sean Parnell writes military non-fiction and thrillers. Outlaw Platoon (2012) is a first-person account of the Afghan War and of the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army, with counterinsurgency and army officers among its recorded subjects. Four more titles follow - Man of War (2018), All Out War (2019), One True Patriot (2020) and Left for Dead (2021) - and Eric Steele is the series Parnell writes. Five Parnell books are catalogued between 2012 and 2021.

Seana Kelly writes urban fantasy romance with a horror edge, and every title names a drinking establishment. Nine books run from The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar in 2020 to The Ferryman's Rest Inn & Grogshop in 2026, taking in The Wicche Glass Tavern (2021), Biergarten of the Damned (2022), The Viper's Nest Roadhouse & Cafe (2023) and The Bloody Ruin Asylum & Taproom (2024). Kelly continues to publish.

Seanan McGuire

160 books• 32 series

Seanan McGuire, born January 5, 1978, is an American writer and filker known for urban fantasy. McGuire writes science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the Up-and-Under children's portal fantasy series as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, and the work has earned the Alex, Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. The catalogue records 162 titles, starting with Rosemary and Rue (2009) and A Local Habitation (2010), with A Divided Duty (2026) the newest and A Song of Sugar Sparrows due in 2027. Series include October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, Newsflesh, Velveteen, Alchemical Journeys and Parasitology.

Sebastian Barry, born 1955, is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet who served as Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2018 to 2021 and became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2024. A Long Long Way (2005) made the Booker Prize shortlist. The Secret Scripture (2008) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Costa Book of the Year and was also Booker shortlisted, and On Canaan's Side (2011) was longlisted. The 30 catalogued books run from Macker's Garden (1982) to The Newer World (2026), with McNulty Family and Days Without End as series.

Sebastian Faulks

24 books• 5 series

Sebastian Faulks is a British writer, born on 20 April 1953, who also works in journalism and broadcasting. Faulks's reputation rests chiefly on three novels of French history: The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989), Birdsong (1993) and Charlotte Gray (1998). Later books with present-day settings include A Week in December (2009) and Paris Echo (2018). Faulks also wrote two continuation novels: Devil May Care (2008) for James Bond, and Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013) for Wodehouse's Jeeves. Faulks was a team captain on The Write Stuff, a BBC Radio 4 books quiz. The catalogue lists 24 titles from A Trick Of The Light (1984) to The Seventh Son (2023).

Sebastian Fitzek

17 books• 1 series

Sebastian Fitzek is a German writer and journalist of psychological thrillers. His first book, Therapy (2006), pushed The Da Vinci Code off the top of the German bestseller list, and Fitzek has been among the country's most successful novelists since. 17 titles are catalogued through Mimik (2025), among them Amok (2007), Splinter (2008), The Eye Collector (2013), Passenger 23 (2014), The Child (2014) and The Package (2016). Psychologists, missing children, memory and psychic trauma supply the plots.

Sebastian Junger

7 books

Seven books across twenty-seven years make up Sebastian Junger's catalogue. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) came first and stays the best known, taking the boat Andrea Gail and the 1991 Halloween nor'easter as its subject. Junger, born in 1962, works as a journalist and filmmaker as well as an author, and a decade covering Afghanistan for Vanity Fair fed both the book War (2010) and the documentary Restrepo, released the same year. A Death in Belmont (2006), Tribe (2016), Freedom (2021) and In My Time of Dying (2024) complete the run.

Sebastien de Castell is a Canadian fantasy writer, known for the Greatcoats and Spellslinger series. Traitor's Blade (2014) and Knight's Shadow (2014) are the earliest catalogued titles, and Spellslinger (2017) names the second series. Twenty-nine titles are catalogued to 2026, the Court of Shadows and Malevolent Seven series among them. Swordsmen, magicians, conspiracies and revenge are the recurring subjects.

Sedona Ashe writes romance and suspense with a heavy paranormal streak. Twelve series carry the name, among them But Did You Die?, the Royal Storm of Atlantis, Dragon Goddess, Dino Magic, Slaymore Academy, the Vampire Veterinary Mystery books and Kinky Kryptids. Klutz: Phoenix Down (2021) opens a catalogue of 31 books that reaches It's Kind of a Bunny Story (2025), and Ashe is actively publishing.

Seicho Matsumoto

7 books

Seicho Matsumoto, born Kiyoharu Matsumoto on 21 December 1909 and died on 4 August 1992, is credited with popularising detective fiction in Japan. Matsumoto brought human psychology and ordinary life into the genre, set crime inside a wider social context and a postwar nihilism that darkened its atmosphere, and wrote about corruption among police officials as well as criminals, so that the society under investigation mattered as much as the crime. Seven books appear here in English translation, from Points & Lines, also published as Tokyo Express (1957), to Suspicion (1982), taking in Point Zero (1959), Inspector Imanishi Investigates (1961), The Voice and Other Stories (1964) and A Quiet Place (1971).

Seishi Yokomizo

4 books• 1 series

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi is the investigator in Seishi Yokomizo's Japanese mysteries. The Honjin Murders (1946) opens the catalogued run, followed by Death on Gokumon Island (1948), The Village of Eight Graves (1949) and The Inugami Curse (1972); later entries include The Devil's Flute Murders (2023) and Murder at the Black Cat Cafe (2025). Eight titles are listed, the most recent She Walks at Night (2026).

Selena is catalogued with 36 books published between 2016 and 2026, filed under romance, family and psychological subjects. Just Sing (2016) opens the listing and A Moth to a Flame (2026) is the newest entry. Five Willow Heights Prep Academy lines are listed, The Elite, The Enemy, The Envy, The Exile and The Endgame, alongside Fallen Gods of Thorncrown University, Chasing Chase London, Last Show and Valenti Family Ties. Titles from 2020 and 2021 include Bully Me, Bury Me, Mafia Princess, Broken Doll and Boys Club.

SenLinYu is an American writer, born in 1990 or 1991, whose Manacled (2018) began as adult dystopian fan fiction drawing on Harry Potter and The Handmaid's Tale. Manacled supplies an alternate ending to the Harry Potter books and pairs Hermione Granger with Draco Malfoy. By 2024 SenLinYu's online work had been downloaded more than 16 million times and translated into 19 languages. Alchemised (2025), a rewrite of Manacled set outside the Harry Potter universe, is SenLinYu's first traditionally published novel. 3 catalogued titles run from 2018 to 2025.

Seraphina Nova Glass writes domestic and psychological thrillers. Ten books are catalogued: Another Stone to Carry (2014), Someone's Listening (2020), Such a Good Wife (2021), On a Quiet Street (2022), The Vanishing Hour (2023), The Vacancy in Room 10 (2024), Nothing Ever Happens Here (2025), and Old Ham, The Swamps and Too Close to Home in 2026.

Serena Akeroyd has 110 books in the catalogue, from Sinfully Theirs (2013) to The Capo: Part Two (2026), and The Boyfriend Experiment is scheduled for 2027. Series include Dark and Dirty Sinners' MC, Filthy / Five Point Mobs, Valentini Family, TriAlpha Chronicles, Salsang Chronicles, Caelum Academy Trilogy and Eight Wings Academy. Earlier titles include Claimed by Caden (2014), McKinnon's Mate (2016) and Ghost Detective (2017).

Serena B. Miller

31 books• 6 series

Serena B. Miller has 31 books catalogued from Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio (2010) to The Quiet Soldier (2025). Series include Secrets of Sugarcreek, Love's Journey in Sugarcreek, Love's Journey on Manitoulin Island, Michigan Northwoods and Doreen Sizemore Adventures. The Measure of Katie Calloway (2011), An Uncommon Grace (2012) and Murder On The Texas Eagle (2013) are among the other titles. Miller, born January 20, 1950, is an American author of inspirational and historical fiction, Amish romance and cozy mysteries.

Serena Valentino works in comics and in fairy tale retellings. GloomCookie Volume 1 (2001) opens a catalogue of 28 titles that reaches Heartbroken (2025), and the Disney Villains books are among the series, with GloomCookie, Nightmares & Fairy Tales and a Villains graphic novel line beside them. Goth subculture, horror, monsters and good versus evil fill the subject tags.

Serenity Woods has 109 catalogued books, published between 2011 and 2026 and credited to Woods alone. Something Blue and Surrender Your Heart both appeared in 2011; The Forbidden Billionaire (2026) is the newest listed. Series in the catalogue include Billionaire Kings, Billionaire Princes, Christmas Wishes, Avalon Cafe, Bay of Island Brides, Between the Sheets and Three Wise Men. Titles arrive at an average recorded gap of 0.1 years, and no subject headings are recorded.

Sergei Lukyanenko is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author whose books set action against a moral question: how to stay human while holding power. The Night Watch sequence runs through the catalogue in Night Watch (1998), Day Watch (2000), Twilight Watch (2004), The Last Watch (2006), New Watch (2012) and Sixth Watch (2014), with vampires, magic and the balance of good and evil worked out across Moscow. Labyrinth of Reflections (1996) and The Genome (1999) sit on the science fiction side, among spaceships and interplanetary voyages. Thirteen catalogued books reach 2015, at a median of 424 pages, and several have been filmed from Lukyanenko's own screenplays.

Seth Godin

82 books• 1 series

Seth Godin (Seth W. Godin, born 1960) is an American author, marketing expert, entrepreneur and former dot-com business executive who has also written as F. X. Nine. The catalogue lists 82 books between Business Rules of Thumb (1987) and This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (2024). Guerrilla Marketing for the Home-Based Business (1991) is an early title. Subjects include marketing, management, success in business, creative thinking and the Internet.

Seth Hunter is the pen name of Paul Bryers, a British film director, screenwriter and novelist born in Liverpool in 1955. Under the Hunter name he writes naval historical fiction: Nathan Peake, a Royal Navy officer, carries all 9 catalogued books, from The Time of Terror (2008) to The Force of Fate (2024). Sea stories, naval history and espionage fill the subject tags.

Seth Ring writes LitRPG. 53 catalogued books run from Titan (2018) to Imperator (2026), with Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer's World 4 scheduled for 2027. Ring's series include Tower, Battle Mage Farmer, Iron Tyrant, Dreamer's Throne, Soul Caller, Exlian Syndrome and Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer's World, and Battle Mage Farmer also runs as a light novel line. The median Seth Ring book counts 256 pages.

Shade Owens has 37 books catalogued from 2019 to 2026 and is filed under young adult. Eden, Beasts of Prey, Primal Instincts, Prisoner 0001, Reign of Blood and The Feral Sentence all appeared in 2019. Owens's series include Feral Sentence, Immortal Ones, Garden of Evil, Dark Sanctuary, Demon Employment, Blood Kings, Catch Me, Monster We Made and Project Ambrosia. The Halloween Stranger (2026) is the newest title.

Shain Rose writes romance with suspense. The Hardy Billionaire Brothers, the Stonewood Brothers, Tarnished Empire, Kept in Paradise and the New Reign Mafia Duet are the series lines. Sixteen catalogued books run from Inevitable, Reverie and Thrive (2020) to In the Dark, and Hush Hush is scheduled for 2027. The median book runs 392 pages.

Shalini Boland's 31 catalogued books span 2011 to 2026, from Hidden to The Other Twin. The listing names two series, Marchwood Vampires and Outside. Subjects range from vampires and paranormal romance to kidnapping, secrecy, friendship and parental grief. Titles include The Clearing, The Perimeter, Hunted, The Best Friend and The Girl from the Sea. Boland is still publishing.

Shami Stovall has 40 books in the catalogue, from The Ethereal Squadron (2018) to Elder Arcanist (2026). Titles in between include A Company of Monsters (2019), Knightmare Arcanist (2019), Dread Pirate Arcanist (2019), Coliseum Arcanist (2020), World Serpent Arcanist (2020) and Star Marque Rising (2021). Stovall's series include Frith Chronicles, Astra Academy, Chronos Chronicles, Nexus Games, Kirin Arcanist, Half-Life Empire, Star Marque Trilogy and Knights of the Silver Fog.

Shamini Flint

50 books• 7 series

Shamini Flint, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, writes from Singapore. Inspector Singh Investigates is her crime series, published in many languages, and she also writes children's books on cultural and environmental themes, including the Sasha in Singapore picture books and the Diary Of A... series. Flint worked as a corporate lawyer at Linklaters before turning to writing in 2004, promotes fair trade goods in Singapore and gives part of the proceeds of her environmental titles to WWF. Fifty catalogued books close with The Beijing Conspiracy (2019).

Shana Abé is an American romance novelist who has received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and several Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. The catalogue records 18 books from A Rose in Winter (1998) to A Crown of Stars (2026). Drakon and Sweetest Dark are the series, and The Smoke Thief (2005), The Dream Thief (2006) and Queen of Dragons (2007) are listed titles. Subjects include dragons, metamorphosis, historical and fantasy romance, England and Scotland.

Shana Galen is the pen name of Shane Bolks, an American author of historical romance and chick lit born in 1972. Seventy books are catalogued, from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Men I've Dated (2005) to Golden Kingdom (2026). Regency London, the nobility, courtesans and marriage supply the subjects, across series including Lord and Lady Spy, Covent Garden Cubs, Jewels of the Ton, Sons of the Revolution and Heiress Hunters.

Shandi Boyes has 79 catalogued books, published between 2016 and 2026. Four of her series take their names from organised crime, Italian Cartel, Russian Mob Chronicles, Bobrov Bratva and Caruso Cosa Nostra, alongside Perception, Ballsy Boy, Marital Privileges and One Night Only. The catalogue opens with Enigma: Isaac's Story and Perception of Life, both 2016, and 2017 brought at least eight further titles, among them Beneath the Sheets, Chains, I Married a Mob Boss and Spy Thy Neighbor. Chaos in Disguise (2026) is the newest, at a median of 282 pages.

Shanna Swendson writes romance and light fantasy. Katie Chandler is the best-known series, beginning with Enchanted, Inc. (2005) and continuing in Once Upon Stilettos (2006), Damsel Under Stress (2007) and Don't Hex with Texas (2008), where magic is played for humour. Earlier romances date from 1993, among them A Storybook Hero and Dateless In Dallas, and Swendson has also published as Samantha Carter. Rebel Mechanics, the Lucky Lexie Mysteries and Tales of Rydding Village came later. Thirty-seven titles are catalogued, reaching Pottery & Peril in 2026.

Shannon Baker writes mysteries and thrillers, with women sleuths among the subject tags. The catalogue lists 23 books from Tainted Mountain / Height of Deception (2013) to Scorched Line (2026), with South Forty announced for 2027. Kate Fox, Nora Abbott and Michaela Sanchez are the series listings. Subjects include murder investigations, ski resorts, environmentalists, embezzlement and Hopi Indians. Stripped Bare (2016), Bitter Rain (2018) and Ashes of the Red Heifer (2019) are among the titles.

Shannon Hale

62 books• 11 series

Shannon Hale, born Shannon Bryner on January 26, 1974, is an American author mainly of young adult fantasy. Princess Academy (2005) earned a Newbery Honor, and The Goose Girl (2003) opens the catalogue. Austenland (2007), the first novel for adults, became a film in 2013. Hale graduated from the University of Utah and the University of Montana, and has co-written with husband Dean Hale. The catalogue lists 63 titles through The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble (2026), across series including Princess In Black, Books of Bayern, Real Friends and Kitty-Corn.

Shannon Hollinger has published 15 crime novels since 2023, split between the Chief Maggie Riley series and the Cassidy Knox series. Best Friends Forever opened the catalogue in 2023 and Her Broken Dreams followed in 2026. Hollinger works at a rate of several titles a year and remains active.

Shannon Mayer has 98 books in the catalogue, published from 2011 to 2026 and tagged as urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy and paranormal romance. Dark Waters (2011) opens the list and Forged by Fate (2026) is the newest. Rylee Adamson appears as a character listing, and subjects include missing children, psychic ability and investigations. Series listings include Forty Proof, Desert Cursed, Alpha Territories, Nix, Questing Witch, Nevermore Trilogy, Celtic Legacy, Honey and Ice Trilogy, Golden Wolf and Inkbound.

Shannon McKenna writes romantic suspense, and the catalogue subjects also take in erotica, private investigators, revenge and murder. The listing holds 35 books from 2002 to 2025, beginning with Behind Closed Doors and running to Nobodies. Series include McClouds & Friends, Hellbound Brotherhood, Obsidian Files, Men of Maddox Hill and Unredeemables. Lori Foster shares the credit on 1 title, and McKenna is still publishing.

Shannon Messenger

16 books• 3 series

Shannon Messenger is an American author of middle-grade and young adult fantasy, published by Simon & Schuster. Keeper of the Lost Cities, begun in 2012, is her best-known series and a New York Times bestseller; its book 8.5, Unlocked, reached number 8 on the USA Today list in 2020. The young adult Sky Fall trilogy runs alongside, and a graphic novel adaptation of Keeper continues into 2025. Elves, psychic ability, memory and foster families are the standing subjects across 16 catalogued books.

Shannon Stacey writes contemporary romance, with subject headings naming fire fighters, emergency medical technicians, Maine, homecoming, divorced women and unmarried mothers. The catalogue counts 64 books from Interstellar Sparks (2005) to Their Campfire Romance (2026). Twice Upon A Road Trip (2005), Forever Again (2006), Taming Eliza Jane (2007), Becoming Miss Becky (2008) and No Surrender (2009) are early titles. Series include Kowalski Family, Boston Fire, Sutton Place, Devlin Group, Blackberry Bay, Riverside Inn, Gardiner, Texas, Burke Siblings, Cedar Street and Wayward Harbor Romance.

Shannon Work writes the Mountain Resort Mystery series. Six books are catalogued between 2020 and 2025: Now I See You (2020), Everything To Lose (2021), Murder in the San Juans (2022), The Killing Storm (2022), Death in a Harsh Land (2023) and Echoes in the Dark (2025). Work is still publishing.