Extortion book series in reading order

H.M. Ward has 93 books in the catalogue, published between 2011 and 2022. The first titles in 2011 include Demon Kissed, Cursed and Torn, and demonology appears among the subjects alongside contemporary romance and erotic stories. The Ferro Family series runs through several branches, including The Arrangement, Secrets & Lies, Stripped and Damaged. Secret Life Of Trystan Scott and Vampire Apocalypse are also listed. The Dark Prince (2022) is the latest title, and Ward is listed as dormant.

Jayne Ann Krentz, born Jayne Castle on 28 March 1948 in Cobb, California, is an American romance novelist with New York Times bestsellers under seven pseudonyms. Three names remain in use: Krentz for contemporary romantic suspense, Amanda Quick for historical romantic suspense and Jayne Ann Castle for futuristic and paranormal romantic suspense. More than 35 million copies are in print. The catalogue lists 205 books, from Vintage of Surrender (1979, as Jayne Castle) to Enter the Nightmare (2026), with The Book Hunter due in 2027. Early titles also appeared as Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor and Stephanie James. Series include Burning Cove, Eclipse Bay and the Dreamlight Trilogy.

Roald Dahl

89 books• 2 series

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British writer of children's books and short stories, and also a poet, screenwriter and wartime fighter ace. Born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents, Dahl lived mostly in England and served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, first as a fighter pilot and then as an intelligence officer. The catalogue lists 89 titles from The Gremlins (1943) to Marvelously Revolting Recipes (2024), among them Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946), Kiss Kiss (1959), James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). Dahl's books have sold more than 300 million copies.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Harlan Coben

41 books• 8 series

Harlan Coben, born January 4, 1962, is an American writer whose honours include an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award and an Anthony Award. Coben's books have been translated into 46 languages and have sold more than 90 million copies. The 41 books catalogued here start with Play Dead (1990) and reach Plot Twist (2026). Subjects attached to them include thrillers, missing persons, sports agents and the fictional character Myron Bolitar. Coben's series include Mickey Bolitar, Wilde and Windsor Horne Lockwood III.

Clive Cussler

104 books• 9 series

Clive Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. Cussler founded and chaired the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has located more than 60 shipwreck sites. Cussler's thrillers, many of them featuring Dirk Pitt, reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. The catalogue lists 105 books under Cussler's name, beginning with The Mediterranean Caper (1973), with The Serpent's Eye due in 2027. Robin Burcell shares credit on 6 of them, Jack Du Brul on 5 and Grant Blackwood on 3. Series include Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files and Sea Hunters.

Sue Grafton

33 books• 4 series

Sue Grafton is known for the alphabet mysteries, a California series starring the private investigator Kinsey Millhone that runs from A is for Alibi (1982) to Y is for Yesterday (2017). Grafton's catalogue holds 33 books in total, beginning with the novel Keziah Dane in 1967 and taking in standalones and non-fiction. The catalogue is listed as complete.

Elmore Leonard

65 books• 12 series

Elmore Leonard (October 11, 1925 to August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Leonard began with Westerns in the 1950s and moved on to crime fiction and suspense, and many of those books were filmed. The story "Three-Ten to Yuma" became the film 3:10 to Yuma (1957), which was remade in 2007. Anthony Lane, a British journalist, called Leonard one of the best crime writers in the land. Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, Glitz and LaBrava rank among Leonard's best-known works. The catalogue lists 65 titles starting with The Bounty Hunters (1953), plus series featuring Raylan Givens, Chili Palmer, Jack Foley and Carl Webster.

Andrew Gross

16 books• 3 series

Andrew Gross, born Howard Andrew Gross on May 18, 1952, was an American thriller novelist who died on April 9, 2025, and whose collaborations with James Patterson are the best known part of the career. Gross novels were published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and four became New York Times bestsellers. The catalogue holds 16 entries from The Blue Zone (2007) to The Fifth Column (2019), counting No Way Back (2013) and its three parts separately. The Dark Tide (2008), Don't Look Twice (2009), Reckless (2010), Eyes Wide Open (2011) and 15 Seconds (2012) are among them. Ty Hauck is the recurring character, and subjects include World War II, organized crime and extortion.

Bill Pronzini, born April 13, 1943, is an American detective fiction writer and the creator of the Nameless Detective, a San Francisco private investigator who appeared in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s. Pronzini has also compiled more than 100 anthologies of mystery, western and science fiction stories. The catalogue lists 115 books, from The Stalker (1971) and The Snatch (1971) to The Hanging Man & Other Western Stories (2024). Other series include Carpenter and Quincannon and Academy Mystery.

James Hadley Chase was the pen name of Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, an English crime writer who lived from 1906 to 1985. Ninety-six books are catalogued between No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) and Hit Them Where It Hurts (1984), and some early titles appeared as by Raymond Marshall. Recurring characters carry the series: Vic Malloy, Steve Harmas, Dave Fenner, Frank Terrell, Tom Lepski, Mark Girland, Helga Rolfe and Don Micklem. Fifty of the books have been filmed, the work was widely translated into Russian, and Chase was called the king of thriller writers in Europe. The median book runs 204 pages.

Baseball runs through the children's fiction David A. Kelly writes. Cousins, friendship, clubs and theft recur as subjects, and the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are among the teams named in the listing. Kelly's catalogue holds 37 books published between 2009 and 2025, from Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse (2009) to The Bobblehead Bunt (2025). Ballpark Mysteries is the recurring set, with MVP, the Ballpark Mysteries Super Specials and Football Mysteries beside it.

Allan Guthrie, born Allan Buchan in 1965, is a Scottish crime writer who also works as a literary agent and editor. Guthrie was born in Orkney and has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life; Edinburgh heads the places indexed in the catalogue, alongside hard-boiled mystery, revenge, extortion and ex-convicts. Two-Way Split (2004) was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and took the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007, and Kiss Her Goodbye (2005) drew Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe nominations. Ten books are catalogued through to Bad Men (2013), and the Pearce series carries the Guthrie credit.

Jason Matthews (1951-2021) was an American espionage novelist and a former CIA officer. Matthews wrote three books, forming one trilogy: Red Sparrow (2013), Palace of Treason (2015) and The Kremlin's Candidate (2018). Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash carry the story across all three, which turn on Russian intelligence, women spies, extortion and an American presidential election. The novels are long, near 470 pages each, and the sequence closed in 2018.

Two books by Howard Roughan are catalogued: The Up and Comer (2001) and The Promise of a Lie (2004). Both are thrillers with a legal and psychological cast, taking in lawyers, extortion, deception, false testimony and the relationship between psychotherapist and patient. No further title has been catalogued since 2004.