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Violet Hamers writes historical romance about dukes, earls and marquesses. Ninety-five books are catalogued between 2019 and 2026, with series titled Four Dukes, Gentlemen of Sin, Devil's Masquerade, Devil's Auction, Duchess in Distress, Marriage Bargains and Taming the Gillets. The titles follow a fixed pattern - Sins of an Intoxicating Duchess, Conquered by the Ravishing Duke, Caught in the Web of a Rakish Marquess - and the newest is Duchess Needed (2026).

Two books are catalogued under Virginia Evans: Within the Walled City (2015) and The Correspondent (2025). A decade separates them, and the catalogue records no series and no further titles under that name.

Virginia Heath writes historical romance. The subject list names the Regency period, heiresses, marriage, social life and customs, and the Harlequin Historical imprint. The catalogue holds 31 books, opening in 2016 with That Despicable Rogue, Her Enemy at the Altar and The Discerning Gentleman's Guide, and reaching Pride Comes Before a Fall in 2026. Series include the Wild Warriners, King's Elite, Talk of the Beau Monde, the Merriwell Sisters, A Very Village Scandal, Miss Prentice's Protegees and A Season to Wed.

Virginia Henley

35 books• 4 series

Virginia Henley is a British-Canadian novelist working in historical romance, across medieval, Renaissance and Regency settings. Her 35 catalogued books run from The Irish Gypsy (1982) to Smuggler's Lair (2018), taking in The Raven and the Rose (1987), The Hawk and the Dove (1988) and The Falcon and the Flower (1989). The catalogue groups into the Medieval Plantagenet Trilogy, the Medieval DeWarenne Trilogy, the Peers of the Realm Trilogy and Clan Kennedy. Henley's novels are long, at a median of 408 pages.

Bloodhounds give Virginia Lanier's mystery series its titles. Lanier (1930-2003) was an American mystery writer whose six catalogued books follow the bloodhound trainer Jo Beth Sidden: Death in Bloodhound Red (1995), The House on Bloodhound Lane (1996), A Brace of Bloodhounds (1997), Blind Bloodhound Justice (1998), Ten Little Bloodhounds (1999) and A Bloodhound To Die For (2003). Georgia, dog trainers, dog breeders and women sleuths are the recurring subjects. The series is complete.

Virginia Lowell wrote the Cookie Cutter Shop Mysteries, a six-book cozy series published between 2011 and 2015. A Cookie Before Dying (2011) opens it and Dead Men Don't Eat Cookies (2015) ends it. Baking, gingerbread, a town bakery and a friendship surround the murders, and every title turns on a cookie. No book has followed since 2015.

Virginia Woolf

74 books• 6 series

Modernist writing in English owes a great deal to Virginia Woolf, who lived from 1882 to 1941 and did more than most to establish stream-of-consciousness narration as a working technique. Woolf was born in South Kensington, the seventh child of Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Jackson, and grew up among eight siblings, the painter Vanessa Bell among them. The catalogue collects her diaries, journals, letters and Collected Essays, together with biography and criticism of Woolf herself.

Viveca Sten

17 books• 4 series

Swedish crime is Viveca Sten's field. The Sandhamn novels open with Still Waters (2008) and run through Closed Circles (2009), Guiltless (2010), In Harm's Way (2013) and In the Name of Truth (2015); the Are Murders and the Whispering Sea Mysteries follow, with a cookbook listed beside the fiction. Police work, murder investigation and a woman lawyer recur across the subjects. Sten's catalogue holds 18 books, and Hidden in Mercy is scheduled for 2027.

Vivian Arend, born March 2, 1965, is a Canadian author of contemporary romance, romantic suspense and paranormal romance. Harlequin Enterprises, Berkley, Samhain Publishing and Entangled have all published Arend, and titles have reached the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists. The Six Pack Ranch books are set in Canada. The catalogue runs to 95 titles, from a 2009 group that takes in Wolf Signs, Rocky Mountain Heat and First Howl to A Heart Falls Cowboy Christmas in 2026. Series include Rocky Mountain House, Granite Lake Wolves, Takhini Wolves, Heart Falls, Thompson & Sons and Adrenaline Search & Rescue, and subjects run to cowboys, erotica, and search and rescue operations.

Eight mystery series sit under Vivian Conroy's name: Miss Ashford Investigates, Lady Alkmene, Murder Will Follow, the Country Gift Shop books, A Tea and Read Mystery, the Stationery Shop Mystery, the Cornish Castle Mystery and A Merriweather and Royston Mystery. Her 28 catalogued titles open with A Proposal to Die For (2016) and reach Trouble in the Alps (2025), with Peril in Positano scheduled for 2027. Tearooms and the tea trade appear among the listed subjects.

Vivian Shaw

6 books• 1 series

Vivian Shaw writes contemporary and paranormal fantasy. Six books are catalogued between 2017 and 2025, at a median of 431 pages. The Dr. Greta Helsing series carries the catalogue: Greta Helsing runs a clinic in London whose patients have supernatural abilities, and Shaw built the books on classical vampire literature. Strange Practice (2017) opens the run, followed by Dreadful Company (2018), Grave Importance (2019), The Helios Syndrome (2023), Bitter Waters (2024) and Strange New World (2025). Murder, medicine and cults sit in the subject index. Shaw was born in Kenya and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Vivian Wood writes romance, and catalogue subjects add contemporary romance, second-chance romance, military fiction and erotica. The 91 recorded books run from Promise To Bite (2012) to Darkest Kiss (2026). Series by Vivian Wood include Dirty Royals, Werewolf's Harem, Sinfully Rich, Louisiana Shifters, Broken Slipper, Ruined Castle, Winter Pass Wolves and Walker's Ranch. Vivian Wood remains active.

Vivien Chien writes the Noodle Shop Mysteries, culinary cozy mysteries set in and around a Chinese restaurant. Death by Dumpling (2018) opens the series, followed by Dim Sum of All Fears, Murder Lo Mein, Wonton Terror and Egg Drop Dead. Fourteen books are catalogued through And Then There Were Bun in 2026. Waitresses, amateur sleuths and murder are the recurring subjects.

Historical romance set among the English aristocracy is Vivienne Lorret's field, with wallflowers, rakes, widows, wagers and matchmaking driving the plots. Lorret's 24 catalogued books run from The Cowboy Way (2006) to This Much Is True (2025) and group into the Wallflower Weddings, Rakes of Fallow Hall, Mating Habits of Scoundrels, Season's Original and Misadventures in Matchmaking series. Lorret remains actively publishing.

Volker Kutscher

5 books• 1 series

Volker Kutscher is a German novelist, born in 1962, and the Gereon Rath crime novels are the work the name carries. Babylon Berlin (2016) opens 5 catalogued titles and gave the Sky series of the same name its source; The Silent Death (2017), Goldstein (2018), The Fatherland Files (2019) and The March Fallen (2020) follow. Berlin, police work, organized crime and murder investigation supply the material.