Authors whose first name starts with V, page 3 of 3

Thrillers and private investigators head the subject tags for Vincent Zandri, whose catalogue lists 114 books from Permanence (1995) to The Garbage Man (2026). Recurring characters include Dick Moonlight and P.I. Jack Marconi, and further tags include revenge, conspiracy, drug trafficking and Albany, New York. Moonlight Falls (2009), Moonlight Rises (2011) and Murder by Moonlight (2012) appear in the list. Zandri series include Chase Baker, Handyman, Sam Savage Sky Marshal and Rebecca Underhill, and one book is shared with Benjamin Sobieck.

Viola Davis is an American actress and film producer, born in 1965, with two catalogued books. Corduroy Takes a Bow, published in 2018, is a 32-page children's book about the teddy bear Corduroy and the theatre. Finding Me followed in 2022, a memoir. Davis holds both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT, was named by Time among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and again in 2017, and was placed ninth by The New York Times in 2020 on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Viola Grace has 596 books in the catalogue, published from 2006 to 2026. The Wench and the Giant (2006) is the earliest title, followed by Champions of Terra, Grapes and Gravity and Tilting Rose in 2007. Series include Terran Times, Sector Guard, Blind Date Corporation, Shattered Stars, Warders, Obscure Magic, Nexus Chronicles and Covert Dragons, and the catalogue also lists Tales of the Citadel. The newest release is From the Edge (2026).

Viola Shipman writes family stories built around heirlooms: a charm bracelet, a hope chest and a recipe box name the first three books. Fourteen titles run from The Charm Bracelet (2016) through 2025, with the Heirloom series, standalone novels and short fiction among them. Mothers and daughters, grandparents, bakers, Chicago and family life fill the subject tags.

Violet Duke writes romance across six catalogued series: Can't Resist, Cactus Creek, Unfinished Love, Juniper Hills, Luxe Springs and Fourth Down. Fourteen books are recorded from 2013 to 2022. Resisting the Bad Boy (2013) is listed first and Jackson's Trust (2022) last. Falling for the Good Guy, Love, Chocolate, and Beer and Before That Night are among the titles. No release is recorded after 2022, and the catalogue marks Duke as dormant.

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).

Eleven series stand under Violetta Rand in the catalogue, among them Devil's Den, Blind, Viking's Fury, Highlands Forever, Heart of a Viking, Sons of Odin MC, Iron Norsemen MC, Lies & Leather and House of Bane. Twenty-six books are listed, dated 2013 to 2026 and credited to Rand alone. Blind Allegiance opened the run in 2013, Blind Mercy and Blind Redemption followed in 2014, and a 2015 group takes in Loving Lucas, Persuasion, Seduction, Sin and Surrender. Merciful Salvation is dated 2026, and the books run to a median of 208 pages.

Violette Malan

8 books• 3 series

Violette Malan is a Canadian fantasy writer and editor, with a doctorate in 18th-century English literature, and past work as a teacher and as a book reviewer. The 8 catalogued novels span 2006 to 2023, opening with The Mirror Prince (2006) and reaching The Court War (2023), across the Dhulyn and Parno, Mirror Prince and Godstone series. Subjects record mercenary troops, exile, memory, princes, orphans and magic. The Sleeping God (2007), The Soldier King (2008), The Storm Witch (2009), Path of the Sun (2010) and Shadowlands (2012) fill the middle of the run, and measured volumes reach about 348 pages.

Virgil Knightley writes fantasy built around dungeons, summoning and levelling, with games listed among the subjects. The series names carry a comic register: Solar Dragons Need Love, Too!, Incubus R.A., Billy the Barbarian, Monster Masseur, Nosferatu Academy, Warwitch Academy and X-Treme American Dungeon League. The catalogue holds 94 books published between 2021 and 2026, from It's The One With The Dragon (2021) to Lucky Inn Love (2026), and Knightley remains in active publication.

Virginia Coffman (1914-2005) was an American writer of gothic romance with more than 100 novels to her name. Moura (1959) opens the catalogue listed here, which holds 77 titles and ends with Golden Gate People (2001). Moura, Lucifer Cove, Royles Saga and Jewels are the named series. Suspense, mystery, historical settings, France and the Second World War appear among the subjects. Output peaked in the 1970s and the books run to a median 299 pages.

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 Hamilton (March 12, 1936 to February 19, 2002) was an American children's author who wrote 41 books. M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1975 Newbery Medal. Hamilton's work explores the African-American experience, which Hamilton termed "Liberation Literature". Further honours were the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1995. The catalogue lists 44 entries from Zeely (1967) to Liberation Literature (2024), including The House of Dies Drear (1968), The Planet of Junior Brown (1971) and Justice and Her Brothers (1978).

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.

Virginia Kantra writes romance, across contemporary, suspense and paranormal registers. Selkies, single fathers, single mothers and police work run through the catalogue subjects, with North Carolina as a recorded setting. The listing holds 30 books published between 1998 and 2026, from The Reforming of Matthew Dunn (1998) to Anne of a Different Island (2026). Five series are catalogued: Dare Island, Children of the Sea, Children of the Earth, Trouble In Eden and Sweet Home Carolina.

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 Smith writes Christian and inspirational fiction, with catalogue subjects spanning romantic suspense, mystery, murder, sisters and the Amish. The catalogue lists 46 books, from Just as I Am (2006) to Wed and Gone (2026). Murder By Mushroom and Bluegrass Peril date from 2007, and A Taste of Murder from 2008. Series include Tales from the Goose Creek B&B, Classical Trio, Sister to Sister, Falsely Accused and Just As I Am. Beth Adams shares a credit on 1 book.

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.

Virginie Despentes

9 books• 1 series

Virginie Despentes, born 13 June 1969, is a French author, screenwriter, director and actress whose work takes up gender, sexuality and lives lived in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Nine books are catalogued under the name, from Baise-Moi (1993) to Dear Dickhead (2022). Vernon Subutex is the series recorded here, running Vernon Subutex 1 (2017), Vernon Subutex 2 (2018) and Vernon Subutex 3 (2020). King Kong Theory (2006), Apocalypse Baby (2013), Bye Bye Blondie (2016) and Pretty Things (2018) also appear. Catalogue subjects record French literature, feminism, revenge and French women writers.

Vito Zuppardo has 21 catalogued books from Making Losing Fun (2010) to Death In The Bayou (2026). The True Blue Detective series began with a 2015 title of the same name. Crescent City Detective (2018) and Escape To New Orleans (2019) are among the later titles. Zuppardo's other series are Voodoo Lucy, Eli Fletcher Thriller and Howard Blitz Thriller. Vito Zuppardo is still publishing.

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.

Vivek Shraya

10 books

Vivek Shraya is a Canadian writer, musician and visual artist, and a seven-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Shraya founded the publishing imprint VS. Books, which mentors and publishes emerging BIPOC writers, and sits on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation. How to Fail as a Popstar began as a stage play and a book, then became a CBC Gem web series in 2023. Ten books are catalogued from God Loves Hair (2010) to The Hystericals (2026), among them She of the Mountains (2014), The Boy & The Bindi (2016), I'm Afraid of Men (2018), Death Threat (2019) and The Subtweet (2020). Recorded subjects include transgender people, adolescence, India and picture books.

Vivi Anna writes paranormal romance, with vampires, werewolves, fantasy, erotica and murder among the catalogue subjects. The 39 books run from Hungry Like the Wolf and Bad to the Bone (2005) to Seducing the Demon (2021). Series include Valorian Chronicles, Vampire Affair, Otherworld Crime Unit, Blackthorn Wolves, Hell Kat, Nina Decker, League of Illusion and Captive Souls.

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 V.A. Stuart has 78 catalogued books, beginning with Along Came Ann (1953), and several carry the names Alex Stuart and William Stuart Long. Early titles include The Captain's Table (1953), Ship's Nurse (1954) and Doctor in the Tropics (1955). Romance, doctors in fiction, the Royal Navy, naval history and the Crimean War appear among the subjects. The two series are Phillip Hazard and Alexander Sheridan.

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.

Fantasy is the genre recorded for Vivienne Savage, credited on 8 catalogued books published between 2016 and 2019. The titles pair two names each: Beauty and the Beast (2016), then Belle and the Pirate, Goldilocks and the Bear, Red and the Wolf and Zarina and the Djinn in 2017, Rapunzel and the Griffin Prince in 2018, and Sea Witch and the Magician with Sigurd and the Valkyrie in 2019. No Savage title has been catalogued since.

Vladimir Megre, born Puzakov on 23 July 1950, is a Russian entrepreneur and writer. The Ringing Cedars of Russia books, also known as the Anastasia series, are the work he is known for, and from the 1990s they gave rise to a socio-religious movement of the same name. Nine titles are catalogued between Anastasia (1996) and Rites of Love (2006), including The Ringing Cedars of Russia (1997), The Space of Love (1998), Co-Creation (1999), Who Are We? (2000), The Book of Kin (2002), The Energy of Life (2002) and The New Civilization (2005). Subjects record spirituality, human ecology, nature and child rearing.

Vladimir Nabokov

41 books

Vladimir Nabokov, born 22 April 1899 and died 2 July 1977, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist who also published as Vladimir Sirin. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian between 1926 and 1938 while living in Berlin, where he married Véra Slonim, and switched to English after moving to the United States. The catalogue runs to 41 titles, from Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928) and The Luzhin Defense (1929) through Invitation to a Beheading and The Gift, both 1938, to the collection Think, Write, Speak in 2019, long after Nabokov's death.

Vladimir Sorokin

10 books• 1 series

Vladimir Sorokin, born in 1955, is a postmodern Russian writer of novels, short stories and plays. Sorokin's work is satirical and provocative, mixing dystopia, alternative history, science fiction and the grotesque, and a signature method is stylistic mimicry: imitating everything from socialist realism to classical Russian prose. Books by Sorokin have repeatedly drawn public argument in Russia, lawsuits included. The catalogue lists 10 titles from The Queue (1984) to Dispatches from the District Committee (2025), including Ice (2002), Day of the Oprichnik (2006), The Blizzard (2010), Telluria (2022), Their Four Hearts (2022), Blue Lard (2024) and Red Pyramid (2024). Catalogue subjects record Russian fiction in English translation, Soviet social conditions, consumer behaviour and eugenics.

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.

Vox Day

39 books• 11 series

Vox Day is the pen name of Theodore Robert Beale, born 1968, an American writer and activist who started out in video game development. Science fiction and social commentary on religion, race and gender make up a catalogue of 39 titles, from Rebel Moon (1996) to Sigma Game: The Complete Socio-Sexual Hierarchy (2026). Eleven groupings organise it, including Arts of Dark and Light, published as Theodore Beale, plus Quantum Mortis, Eternal Warriors, Alt-Hero Collections and Laws of Social Justice. Beale was expelled from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and stood at the centre of the Rabid Puppies campaign around the Hugo Awards.