Authors whose first name starts with W, page 2 of 4

Wendy Higgins, born May 15, 1977, is an American author of romantic fantasy and paranormal fiction for young adults, with books on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists. Higgins has published both traditionally and independently. Sweet Evil (2012) opens the catalogue's 15 books, followed by Sweet Peril (2013), Sweet Reckoning (2014) and Sweet Temptation (2015). Flirting with Maybe (2013) and See Me (2014) are also listed. The Great Hunt (2016) and The Great Pursuit (2017) appear with the Eurona Duology among the series, and Rise of the Melody (2024) is the newest. Subjects include angels, demonology, good and evil, and princesses.

Wendy Holden writes comic contemporary novels about young women, money and celebrity, most of them set in London and the English countryside. Simply Divine (1999) opens the catalogue, and Bad Heir Day (2000), Farm Fatale (2001), Gossip Hound (2002), Filthy Rich (2008) and Beautiful People (2009) follow. The Laura Lake books turn on a journalist, and the Royal Outsiders novels close the run at The Princess (2023). Twenty-four titles are catalogued.

Wendy Hornsby writes mysteries featuring women sleuths, with the Maggie MacGowen and Kate Teague mysteries as the listed series. Recorded subjects include women film producers and directors, women college teachers, police, serial murders, California and Los Angeles. The catalogue holds 15 books from No Harm (1987) to A Bouquet of Rue (2019). Half a Mind (1991), Telling Lies (1992), Midnight Baby (1993), 77th Street Requiem (1995) and The Paramour's Daughter (2010) fall in between.

Wendy James, born in Sydney in 1966, is an Australian author of crime and literary fiction who lives in Newcastle, New South Wales. Nine books are catalogued between 2005 and 2021, opening with Out of the Silence (2005) and closing with A Little Bird (2021). Subjects record Australian fiction, families, mothers and daughters, teenagers and cyberbullying. The Steele Diaries, Why She Loves Him, Where Have You Been, The Mistake, The Lost Girls, The Golden Child and An Accusation fill out the listing. James is the eldest sister of the young adult author Rebecca James.

Wendy Mass, born 22 April 1967, is an American author of children's books and young adult novels. A Mango-Shaped Space (2003) received the ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004, and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life was adapted into a feature film in 2011. 11 Birthdays and Every Soul a Star are other noted titles. The catalogue holds 46 books from 1997 to 2023, beginning with Teen Drug Abuse (1997) and ending with Lo and Behold (2023). Willow Falls, Candymakers, Space Taxi and Time Jumpers are among the series.

Wendy May Andrews writes romance, with catalogue subjects that include England, the nobility, mistaken identity, social life and customs and women household employees. The catalogue lists 47 books, from Tempting the Earl (2012) to A Scoundrel to Reform (2026). The Duke Conspiracy and The Governess' Debut both appeared in 2015. Series include Sherton Sisters, Northcott Kinship, Gentleman Scholars, Ladies of Mayfair, Mayfair Mayhem and Bequest.

Wendy Meadows writes mysteries in quantity: 154 catalogued books between Blackvine Manor (2016) and Decaf Deceit (2026), at a median length of 150 pages. Bakeries and sweet shops name many of the series, Sweet Peach Bakery, Twin Berry Bakery, Sweet Shop, Chocolate Cozy Mysteries, while Sweetfern Harbor, Rosemary Harbor, Maple Hills and Snow Falls Alaska Cozy name the towns. Murder and confectionery meet in the titles, from Raspberry Truffle Murder to Sea Salt Caramel Murder.

Wendy Owens has published 25 books between 2011 and 2025, starting with Sacred Bloodlines (2011). The Wendy Owens series list covers Stubborn Love, Tynder Crown Chronichles, Penny Preston, Sydney Booth, My Husband's Fiancée and Couple Seeking. Early titles include The Shield Prophecy and Only in Dreams, both from 2013. Couple Seeking Boyfriend is the newest release.

Wendy Roberts is a Canadian mystery novelist with 12 books in the catalogue, from Dating Can Be Deadly (2005) to Burning Hope (2022). Four series are on record: A Ghost Dusters Mystery, Bodies of Evidence, Grounds To Kill and A Red Hooper Mystery. Recorded subjects include clairvoyants, women detectives, Seattle, ghost stories and demonology. The Remains of the Dead (2007), Dead and Kicking (2009), Drop Dead Beauty (2013), A Grave Calling (2017) and A Grave End (2019) are other titles.

Wendy Tyson has 11 mysteries in the catalogue, published between 2013 and 2020 across three series: A Greenhouse Mystery, Allison Campbell Mystery and A Delilah Percy Powers Mystery. Killer Image (2013) is the first book. Deadly Assets, Dying Brand, A Muddied Murder, Bitter Harvest and Ripe for Vengeance come later, and Sowing Malice (2020) is the newest. Subjects include organic farming, women farmers, amateur sleuths and Pennsylvania.

Wendy Vella writes romance in two registers: Regency historicals and contemporary small-town novels. The Langley Sisters, Sinclair and Raven, the Deville Brothers, Notorious Nightingales, Lords of Night Street and Regency Rakes belong to the first; Lake Howling and Ryker Falls to the second. Seventy-eight catalogued books start at Christmas Wishes and The Reluctant Countess in 2013 and reach A Hint Of Danger (2026).

Wendy Walker writes psychological suspense, and the catalogue holds 14 books from 2006 to 2026. Knots (2006) is the earliest, followed by Four Wives (2008), Social Lives (2009) and Thanks Mom (2010). All Is Not Forgotten (2016) and Emma in the Night (2017) come next, then The Night Before (2019), Don't Look for Me (2020), Hold Your Breath (2020) and American Girl (2022). Marriage, wives, friendship, suburban life, wealth and Connecticut appear in the subject tags.

Witches fill Wendy Wang's fiction. 21 books are catalogued between Love Lacey (2015) and Haunted Paradise (2023), grouped into the Witches of Palmetto Point, Serenity Island Witches, Midlife Spirit Guides and Book of Kaels series. Hauntings and spirits carry most of the plots, in titles such as Haunting Charlie (2017), The Witches Ladder (2018) and Natural Born Witch (2019). No new Wang title has been catalogued since 2023.

Female friendship holds Wendy Wax's women's fiction together, often with a house restoration or a reality television programme in the plot. Key to My Heart (1999) opens the catalogue and 7 Days and 7 Nights (2003) follows. Ten Beach Road is the named series. Twenty-seven titles are catalogued, reaching Just Beachy in 2025.

Wendy Webb writes gothic suspense built on family secrets. Born in 1962, Webb won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011 and again in 2017. Her nine catalogued books run from The Tale of Halcyon Crane (2010) to The Witches of Santo Stefano (2024). Widows, single mothers, divorced women, artists and homecomings recur across the subjects Webb returns to, alongside horror and thriller elements.

Wensley Clarkson is an English true crime writer, biographer and television producer, born in 1956. The catalogue holds 74 books dated 1991 to 2021, from Dog eat dog (1991) to Serial Killers of Russia (2021). Murderers, organised crime, serial murder and female offenders are the standing subjects, with case studies of British crime running through the list. Clarkson also published a biography of Quentin Tarantino in 1995. Books average 288 pages, and the 2000s were the peak decade.

Werner Herzog

8 books• 1 series

Werner Herzog, born in 1942, is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director and author, counted as a pioneer of New German Cinema. Eight books carry the Herzog name in the catalogue, between The Bad Lieutenant (2009) and The Future of Truth (2025). Conquest of the Useless (2010), Every Night the Trees Disappear (2012), Scenarios II (2018), Scenarios III (2019), The Twilight World (2022) and Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023) make up the rest. The attached subjects are cinematic: motion picture plays, German drama translated into English, film production and direction, and Heart of Glass.

Wes Allen published 47 books in four years, from A Click Away in 2023 to Final Target in 2026. The catalogue splits into 4 series, Dan Radford, Kurt Harm, Jake Adler and Triumph Fleet, and the Kurt Harm titles play on that name, among them Do No Harm, Harm Free, In Harm's Way and No Harm Done. Allen remains actively publishing.

Wes DeMott writes thrillers. Defense contracts, government corruption, conspiracy, the FBI, and prisoners of war and the missing in action of the Vietnam War head the recorded subjects. Eight books are catalogued, from Walking K (1998) to Toxic (2016), taking in The Fund (1999), Vapors (1999), Heat Sync (2005) and three 2011 titles: Loving Zelda, The Typhoon Sanction and Tortuga Gold.

Wes Markin writes police thrillers across four series: DCI Yorke, the Yorkshire Murders, Whitby's Forgotten Victims and Jake Pettman. One Last Prayer (2019) sits among the earliest of 30 catalogued books, which arrive two or three months apart and reach Forgotten Christmas in 2026.

Wes Moore

8 books• 1 series

Wes Moore, born on 15 October 1978, is an American author, businessman and former U.S. Army officer, and has served as governor of Maryland since 2023. Moore wrote The Other Wes Moore (2010) and The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters (2014); the source record credits him with five books published between 2010 and 2015, one of them a young-adult novel. Discovering Wes Moore (2012) and This Way Home (2015) also carry the name. Recorded subjects include African American men, prisoners, criminals, violence, soldiers and social conditions. The listing mixes in further titles that fall outside that account.

Wesley Chu

12 books• 5 series

Wesley Chu, born in Taipei in 1976, is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction. Twelve books are catalogued between 2013 and 2025, from The Lives of Tao (2013) to The Art of Legend (2025). Four series carry the Chu credit: Tao, War Arts Saga, Time Salvager and Io. Subject headings cover science fiction, space opera, time travel, espionage, extraterrestrial beings and post-apocalyptic fiction. The Rise of Io (2016), Time Siege (2016), Typhoon (2019) and The Art of Prophecy (2022) also sit in the catalogue.

Wesley Cross is credited on nine catalogued books published between 2016 and 2025. Two series stand under the name, Upgrade and Alex Watts. The Blueprint (2016) opens the list and Darkness (2025) is the newest entry, with Rogue (2019), The Loop (2019), Vertigo (2019), Fata Morgana (2021), Spare Parts (2021), Deux Ex Machina (2022) and Madness (2024) between. Three of the nine carry 2019 dates, and the catalogue lists Cross as still publishing.

Wesley King writes children's fantasy and science fiction, with supervillains, orphans, kidnapping and humorous stories among the recorded subjects. The catalogue opens with The Vindico (2012), and five series run under the King name: Vindico, Dragons vs. Drones, OCDaniel, Wizenard and Beast Ballerz. The listing reaches Wolf Season in 2026 and has Revenge of the Chow Chows scheduled for 2027. One entry, a study of film adaptation, sits outside that body of work.

Weston Ochse

33 books• 8 series

Weston Ochse (June 20, 1965 - November 18, 2023) was an American author and educator whose catalogue holds 33 books, from Natural Selection (2001) to Alpha Wave (2023). Ochse took the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and a Pushcart Prize nomination for short fiction, and wrote Alien novels for Titan Books, among them Aliens: Infiltrator. SEAL Team 666 and Task Force Ombra are the series recorded under Ochse's name, and subject headings across the run cover horror, the occult and supernatural, military special operations, psychological fiction and cults.

Weston Parker has 188 books in the catalogue, published between 2015 and 2026. Blood Money, Dirty Money and Hard Money all date from 2015, followed by Cash Money (2016), Captain Hotness (2017), Mister Big Stuff (2017) and Air Force Hero (2018). Series include Lost Breed MC, Devil's Luck MC, Kings of Philly, Castaletta Syndicate, Bad Money, Bad Boy Bachelors, Billionaire Legacy, Faux Love, Searing Saviors and Military Man Romance. Yours to Keep (2026) is the newest.

Whitley Strieber

49 books• 4 series

Whitley Strieber, born Louis Whitley Strieber on June 13, 1945, is an American writer best known for the horror novels The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1980) and for Communion, a non-fiction account of Strieber's reported encounters with non-human entities. Alongside fiction, Strieber promotes metaphysical ideas through bestselling non-fiction, the Unknown Country website and the Dreamland podcast. The catalogue holds 49 books, including Black Magic (1982), The Night Church (1983), Warday (1984), Cat Magic (1986) and Nature's End (1986), and runs to Transformation 2026. Communion, Hunger and Alien Hunter are the series, and UFOs, alien abduction and vampires appear in the subjects.

Whitney D. Grandison's catalogued run begins with A Love Hate Thing (2020) and reaches eight books by 2025. The Right Side of Reckless followed in 2021, then Away From the Sun and The Gilded in 2024. Listed titles dated 2025 include Hold You Down, Playin' Hard, The Chemistry of Everything and The Reality of Everything. Grandison's catalogued series is the Everything Duet, and the catalogue remains ongoing.

Whitney Dineen has 43 catalogued books from She Sins at Midnight (2014) to Pity Prank (2026). The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan and Wilhelmina and the Willamette Wig Factory followed in 2015, and Mimi Plus Two and Who the Heck is Harvey Stingle? in 2016. Dineen series include Pity, Seven Brides for Seven Mothers, An Accidentally in Love Story, Creek Water, Mimi Chronicles, Relativity and Wilhelmina Adventures. Man-woman relationships is the one subject tag on record.

Whitney G. writes contemporary erotic romance. 52 books are catalogued between 2009 and 2026, spread across the Steamy Coffee Collection, Reasonable Doubt, Empire of Lies, Wasted Love, Forbidden Wishes, One Week, Jilted Bride, Single at Thirty and the Verdict Trilogy. Reasonable Doubt appeared as three parts in 2014, and several titles carry alternate names, among them Mid Life Love, also published as Resisting the Boss (2013). Cordially Not Invited (2026) is the most recent entry.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Whoopi Goldberg

15 books• 2 series

Whoopi Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson in 1955, is an American actor, comedian and television personality who also writes books. Fifteen titles are catalogued, from Alice (1992) to Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (2024), among them Whoopi's Big Book of Manners (2006) and the Sugar Plum Ballerinas series for children, which runs through Plum Fantastic (2008), Toeshoe Trouble (2009), Perfectly Prima (2010) and Dancing Diva (2012). Goldberg is one of 28 entertainers to hold the EGOT, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, and has also taken a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010 and the Disney Legend Award in 2017.

Wil Haygood is an American journalist and author, born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 19, 1954. A 2008 Washington Post article by Haygood about the White House butler Eugene Allen became the basis for the 2013 film The Butler. Haygood later wrote a book about Allen, The Butler: A Witness to History. The catalogue lists 11 titles from Two on the River (1988) to The War Within a War (2026), including King of the Cats (1993), Sweet Thunder (2009), Showdown (2015) and Tigerland: 1968-1969 (2018). Subjects include biography, African Americans, history and travel.

Hard science fiction is Wil McCarthy's field. Born in 1966, McCarthy co-founded the solar technology company RavenBrick, writes a science column for Syfy and lives in Colorado. McCarthy popularized the idea of programmable matter under the name wellstone. Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award. Dirtyside Down (1991) opens a 21-book list that includes The Collapsium (2000) and continues into 2026, with the Queendom of Sol and Waisters among the series.

Wilbur Smith was a British-South African novelist born in Northern Rhodesia. Smith's historical fiction covers four centuries of international involvement in Southern Africa. The catalogue lists 66 books, from When the Lion Feeds (1964) to Flashpoint (2026). Series include Courtney, Jack Courtney, Ancient Egypt, Hector Cross and Prey Zone. Recurring character listings include the Courtney family, Ballantyne and Hector Cross. David Churchill and Tom Harper each share the credit on 1 book. Subjects include Africa, Egypt, revenge, espionage and terrorism.

Wiley Cash is catalogued with four novels of suspense and family drama set in North Carolina. A Land More Kind Than Home (2012) opens the run, followed by This Dark Road to Mercy (2014), The Last Ballad (2017) and When Ghosts Come Home (2021). Brothers, sisters, fathers and daughters, textile workers and working mothers carry the subject tags. No further title is listed, and the catalogue is dormant.

Wilkie Collins

88 books

Wilkie Collins, born William Wilkie Collins on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889, was an English novelist and playwright. The Woman in White (1860) is an early sensation novel; The Moonstone (1868) set out much of what the modern detective novel came to do, and stands as an early example of the police procedural. Collins was the son of the London painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, spent two years in Italy and France from the age of twelve, learned Italian and French there, and worked at first as a tea merchant. The catalogue holds 88 titles, from Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was (1840) onward, with the 1850s the heaviest decade.

Archaeology drives Will Adams's thrillers. The Daniel Knox novels put an archaeologist into Egypt and Greece across The Alexander Cipher (2007), The Exodus Quest (2008), The Lost Labyrinth (2009) and The Eden Legacy (2010); the Rossi & Nero and Warne & Elias series follow. Kidnapping, missing persons and underwater exploration recur. Thirteen catalogued titles reach Epiphany (2026).

Will Carver is an English writer of crime, mystery and thriller fiction who lives in Reading, Berkshire. The Detective Inspector January David series, made up of Girl 4, The Two and Dead Set, is the work Carver is chiefly known for. The catalogue lists 14 books from 2011 to Bad Influence (2026) and names two further series, Detective Sergeant Pace and the Beresford Trilogy. Good Samaritans (2018), Hinton Hollow Death Trip (2021) and Suicide Thursday (2022) are among the later titles.

Will Dean is a British-born crime writer living in Sweden. The Tuva Moodyson Mystery series is Dean's best known work, built on a deaf journalist of that name and set in Sweden: Dark Pines (2018), Red Snow (2019), Black River (2020), Bad Apples (2021), Wolf Pack (2022) and Ice Town (2024). Kidnapping, captivity and escape number among the subjects of the other books, The Last Thing to Burn (2021), First Born (2022) and The Chamber (2024) among them. Eleven Dean titles are catalogued, reaching Adrift (2026).

Canadian travel writer and novelist Will Ferguson, born October 12, 1964, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419 (2012). Ferguson's 21 catalogued books begin in 1998 with humorous travel writing such as Hokkaido Highway Blues and The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan. His Canadian humour includes Why I Hate Canadians (1999) and Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw (2004). Ferguson also writes the Miranda Abbott Mystery series, and Killer on the First Page (2025) is the newest title.

Will Henry and Clay Fisher are the two names on this western catalogue, and the earliest titles carry the Clay Fisher name: Red Blizzard (1952), Santa Fe Passage (1952) and Warbonnet (1952). 62 books span 1952 to 2020, ending with The Texas Rangers (2020). The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Apache, the Nez Perce, frontier life and gold mining run through the subjects. Sons of the Western Frontier is the named series, output peaked in the 1960s, and books run to a median 226 pages.

Vampires, secret service work and horror run through Will Hill's catalogue, which centres on Department 19, an imaginary organisation, and names Count Dracula among its recorded characters. Two series carry the Hill name: Department 19 and Department 19 Files. The 10 catalogued books open with Department 19 (2011) and continue through The Rising (2012), Battle Lines (2013), Zero Hour (2014) and Darkest Night (2015), with several shorter Files entries published in 2013. After the Fire (2017) closes the listing.

Will Hobbs

24 books• 5 series

Will Hobbs (22 August 1947 - 31 March 2025) was an American author of twenty novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, plus two picture book stories. Fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado gave Hobbs a sense of audience, and the stories are set mostly in wild places known at first hand. Bearstone, the second novel, drew national attention on replacing Where the Red Fern Grows as the unabridged novel in a Prentice-Hall seventh grade literature anthology. The catalogue holds 24 books from Changes in Latitudes (1988) to City of Gold (2020), with Bearstone and Jason's Gold as series headings. Subject tags name survival, wildlife conservation, Ute Indians and canoeing.

Ryan Drake carries Will Jordan's thrillers across most of a 12-book catalogue, from Redemption (2012) through Sacrifice, Betrayal, Black List and Ghost Target. Single-word titles are the pattern throughout. Jordan published Dark Harvest in 2022 and has added nothing since, leaving the catalogue dormant.

Will Mara's catalogue mixes juvenile literature with thrillers: schools, school principals, practical jokes, birds, blue jays and tsunamis sit among the subjects alongside victims of terrorism. The 27 books run from What's Up with the New Principal? (1999) to The Secret of Locker 24 (2022), and the median length is 120 pages. NFL, Jason Hammond Novels and Izzy Jeen the Big-mouth Queen are the three series credited to Mara. The Draft (2006), The Cut (2007) and The Comeback (2008) fall in the middle of the run, and nothing has been listed since 2022.

Will Shindler has 8 catalogued books. One series sits under the name, DI Alex Finn, and the subject headings record mystery and detective fiction. The Twilight Kingdom (2004) stands well apart from the rest of the run and is filed with Doctor Who as a character. The Burning Men (2020), The Killing Choice (2021), The Hunting Ground (2022), The Blood Line (2023) and The Cold Case (2023) follow in quick succession. The Bone Queen carries a 2026 date and Chasing Demons is scheduled for 2027.

Will Thomas, born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is an American novelist behind the Barker & Llewelyn Victorian mysteries. Cyrus Barker is a Scottish private enquiry agent, and Thomas Llewelyn is Barker's Welsh assistant. The novels are set in the 1880s, draw on historical events and people, and feature martial combat throughout. The catalogue counts 20 books from Some Danger Involved (2004) to For Services Rendered (2026), including The Limehouse Text (2006) and Hell Bay (2016). Barker is modelled on figures such as Richard Francis Burton and Edward William Barton-Wright. Before the novels, Thomas wrote essays for Sherlock Holmes societies and lectured on Victorian crime fiction.

Will Weaver, born William Weller in Park Rapids, Minnesota in 1950, is an American writer. The catalogue lists 17 books published between 1986 and 2023, opening with Red Earth, White Earth (1986) and closing at Power & Light (2023). Farm life, the Midwest, wilderness survival, schools and automobile racing run through the subject headings, with Minnesota named directly. Three series carry the Weaver credit: Motor, Billy Baggs and Memory Boy. Doug Ohman shares the credit on Barns of Minnesota (2005).

Will Wight, born August 11, 1989, as William Lawrence Wight III, is an American fantasy author. Cradle, which Wight published independently, has topped the Amazon Kindle Store bestseller list more than once and reached the New York Times Best Seller list. Wight also wrote the Traveler's Gate trilogy and the Elder Empire books, split into Sea and Shadow sequences. The catalogue lists 30 titles from 2013, including House of Blades, to Threshold: Stories from Cradle (2025), and Overworld is set for 2027.

Willa Cather

59 books• 1 series

Willa Cather wrote about the Nebraska plains, frontier and farm life, and the immigrants who settled them. Her earliest catalogued titles are short stories from 1896, and the Great Plains Trilogy is the sequence her fiction is grouped around. Sixty-nine catalogued titles, poetry and collected editions included, run through reissues dated to 2022.

Willard Price

42 books• 1 series

Willard Price (1887-1983) was a traveller, journalist and author, born in Canada and later American. The Hal & Roger Hunt Adventures are adventure stories built around the brothers Hal and Roger Hunt, with deep diving, explorers and the Arctic among the subjects. Before the adventure novels came Price's reporting on Japan and the Pacific: Mysterious Micronesia (1936), Japan Reaches Out (1938) and Japan Rides the Tiger (1942). The catalogue holds 42 titles dated from 1914, with the 1960s the busiest decade.

William Alan Webb has 79 catalogued books from 2016 to 2026, filed under post-apocalyptic fiction, with Standing Through The Fire due in 2027. Standing The Final Watch and The Last Attack (both 2016) are the earliest, followed by Standing In The Storm (2017), Standing At The Edge (2018) and Standing Before Hell's Gate (2019). Series listings include Last Brigade, Task Force Zombie, Collapse, Killing Hitler's Reich, Ghost Cavalry Battalion and Freedom Rising. Subjects include war and military fiction, action and adventure, fantasy and World War II campaigns. Larry Hoy is named on 3 books, one of them under the spelling LarryHoy.

William Bayer

20 books• 3 series

William Bayer is an American novelist with twenty-one books, among them the New York Times best-sellers Switch and Pattern Crimes. NYPD lieutenant Frank Janek leads a series of Bayer's New York crime novels. Switch became the basis for seven CBS prime-time television movies, two of them four-hour mini-series, all starring Richard Crenna as Janek. Bayer also writes for television, and his other series are Foreign Detective and Kay Farrow.

The lawyer Ben Kincaid is the recurring character in William Bernhardt's legal mysteries. Primary Justice (1991) is the earliest of 77 catalogued titles, followed by Blind Justice (1992), Deadly Justice (1993) and Perfect Justice (1994), and the listing reaches The Superman Wars (2026). Daniel Pike, Splitsville, Susan Pulaski and the Red Sneaker Writers books are further series. Tulsa, Oklahoma, murder trials and serial murder fill the subject tags.

William Black writes post-Civil War westerns. 64 catalogued books run from Harper's Justice in Canyon (2018) to The Giant of Cold River (2026), with the 2020s holding most of the output. The three series name the subject plainly: American Post-Civil War Westerns, Post-Civil War Western Justice and U.S. Marshal. Lawmen, cattle wars and frontier justice drive titles such as Justice Fight at Fort Sill, Texas Cattle War and The Sheriff's Vengeance.

William Boyd

33 books• 2 series

Born on 7 March 1952, William Boyd is a Scottish writer who works as a novelist, short story author, screenwriter and film director. The catalogue holds 33 books from A Good Man in Africa (1981) to Cold Sunset (2026), with An Ice-Cream War (1982), Brazzaville Beach (1990), Any Human Heart (2002) and Restless (2006) among them. Boyd scripted the film Chaplin (1992) and directed The Trench (1999), a drama of the First World War. Prizes include the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Costa Book Award. Gabriel Dax is a Boyd series, and subjects include Africa, artists and both world wars.

Brooklyn crime is William Boyle's subject. Gravesend (2013) opened a run of novels about ex-convicts, witnesses, vigilantes and the people around them in New York, continued in The Lonely Witness (2018), A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself (2019), City of Margins (2020) and Shoot the Moonlight Out (2021). Eight books are catalogued, with Saint of the Narrows Street published in 2025 and Heavy Sugar scheduled for 2027.

William Brinkley

9 books

William Brinkley (1917-1993) was an American writer and journalist. Two of his novels carry the source record's attention: Don't Go Near the Water (1956), which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filmed in 1957, and The Last Ship (1988), which TNT turned into a television series. Nine books are catalogued, opening with The Deliverance Of Sister Cecilia (1954) and closing with The Last Ship (1988), taking in Quicksand (1958), The Fun House (1961), The Two Susans (1963), The Ninety and Nine (1966), Breakpoint (1978) and Peeper (1981). Recorded subjects include Texas, voyeurism, humorous fiction and children's fiction.

William Brodick writes suspense and mystery with a monastic thread: monks, clergy and retribution appear in the subject records alongside the Second World War, atrocities and war criminals. Father Anselm is the recurring figure, and Father Anselm Mysteries and Benson and De Vere are the two series on file. The Sixth Lamentation (1999) opens a catalogue of 10 books that reaches Fatal Proof in 2024. Titles have arrived at an average gap of 2.8 years, and the median runs 332 pages.