Laura Anne Gilman

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1998
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Bonnie Torres

1 - Illumination (Dec-2008)

The Devil's West

1 - Silver on the Road (Oct-2015)
2 - The Cold Eye (Jan-2017)
3 - Red Waters Rising (Jul-2018)
4 - West Wind's Fool (Feb-2019)
5 - Gabriel's Road (Apr-2019)

Grail Quest

1 - The Camelot Spell (Feb-2006)
2 - Morgain's Revenge (Jul-2006)
3 - The Shadow Companion (Nov-2006)

Huntsmen

1 - Uncanny Times (Oct-2022)
2 - Uncanny Vows (Dec-2023)

Paranormal Scene Investigations

1 - Hard Magic (May-2010)
2 - Pack of Lies (Jan-2011)
3 - Tricks of the Trade (Nov-2011)
4 - Dragon Justice (Jul-2012)

The Portals

1 - Heart of Briar (Aug-2013)
2 - Soul of Fire (Sep-2013)

A Retrievers Novel

1 - Staying Dead (Aug-2004)
2 - Curse the Dark (Jul-2005)
3 - Bring It On (Jul-2006)
4 - Burning Bridges (Jun-2007)
5 - Free Fall (May-2008)
6 - Blood from Stone (May-2009)

Sylvan Investigations

1 - Miles to Go (Nov-2013)
2 - Promises to Keep (Nov-2013)
3 - Work of Hunters (Feb-2016)
4 - An Interrupted Cry (Jun-2016)

The Vineart War

1 - Flesh and Fire (Oct-2009)
2 - The Weight of Stone (Oct-2010)
3 - The Shattered Vine (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Don't You Want to Be Beautiful?

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Treachery and Treason

    A collection of stories focusing on the most devious side of human nature includes the work of William C. Dietz, Esther Friesner, Dennis L. McKiernan, Irene Radford, Anne Bishop, and others. Original....

  • Catseye

    in Familiars

    KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * JODY LYNN NYE LAURA RESNICK * P. N. ELROD * VON JOCKS JEAN RABE * ANDRE NORTON * BILL MCcAY LAURA ANNE GILMAN * DIANE A. S. STUCKART GARY A. BRAUNBECK * SUSAN SIZEMORE JOSEPHA SHERMAN * JOHN HEIFERS MICHELLE WEST The...

  • Staying Dead

    A Retrievers Novel - 1

    Manhattan's night life just got weirder... It starts as a simple job -- but simple jobs, when you're dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing -- and then b...

  • Palimpsest

    in Powers of Detection

    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...

  • Curse the Dark

    A Retrievers Novel - 2

    Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her and her partner on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart. On the o...

  • The Camelot Spell

    Grail Quest - 1

    On the eve of the Quest for the Holy Grail, every adult in King Arthur's castle falls into an enchanted sleep. The future of Camelot rests on the shoulders of fourteen-year-old squire Gerard, who has dreamed of becoming a Knight of the Round Table hi...

  • Bring It On

    A Retrievers Novel - 3

    Nobody said juggling a career and a relationship would be easy... Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval -- all right, the theft -- and she would use her magical Talent to carry it ou...

  • Morgain's Revenge

    Grail Quest - 2

    King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are preparing once again to set out in search of the legendary Holy Grail. This time Morgain le Fay is determined to stop them at any cost, and she knows exactly who is standing in her way. When she kidnaps Ai...



  • The Shadow Companion

    Grail Quest - 3

    The Quest for the Holy Grail has begun. Three teenagers, Gerard, Ailis, and Newt, have earned a place on the Quest alongside the Knights of the Round Table. But they are not the only ones seeking this treasured cup. King Arthur's sinister half sister...

  • Burning Bridges

    A Retrievers Novel - 4

    The best Retrievers go unnoticed, sliding into the shadows, gliding through crowds without entanglement. Wren Valere used to be almost invisible. But now she's not only being seen, she's getting involved. Recent attacks against nonhuman Fatae h...

  • Free Fall

    A Retrievers Novel - 5

    Nothing in life is free. Even if you steal it. The Cosa Nostradamus is in disarray; the Truce holding violence in check has been broken. Magical Manhattan is at war, and Wren Valere is left without her partner/lover Sergei, whose past loyalties keep...

  • Illumination

    in Unusual Suspects
    Bonnie Torres - 1

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...

  • Blood from Stone

    A Retrievers Novel - 6

    Wren Valere's job is driving her crazy. She's still Manhattan's most sought-after Retriever, but after last year's deadly confrontation with the Silence, all this magic-user wants is a break. With her apartment going co-op and her relationship with t...

  • Flesh and Fire

    The Vineart War - 1

    Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and woo selfishly used them to their own gain. Now, fourteen centuries after a demigod shattered the Vine, it is the humble Vinearts who know the secret ...

  • Stories of the Cosa Nostradamus

  • Hard Magic

    Paranormal Scene Investigations - 1

    WELCOME TO P.U.P.I. PRIVATE, UNAFFILIATED, PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch--crimes of magic. My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I...

  • The Weight of Stone

    The Vineart War - 2

    An island nation has vanished. Men of honor and magic have died unnatural deaths. Slaves flee in terror. . . . Are the silent gods beginning to speak? Or is another force at work in the Lands Vin? Laura Anne Gilman's critically acclaimed, Nebula Awa...

  • Pack of Lies

    Paranormal Scene Investigations - 2

    FUNNY HOW LIFE CAN TURN YOU UPSIDE DOWN... My name is Bonita Torres, and eight months ago I was an unemployed college graduate without a plan. Now I'm an investigator with the Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations team of New York. Pretty a...



  • The Shattered Vine

    The Vineart War - 3

    An island nation has vanished. Men of honor and magic have died unnatural deaths. Slaves flee in terror. . . . Are the silent gods beginning to speak? Or is another force at work in the Lands Vin? Laura Anne Gilman's critically acclaimed, Nebula A...

  • Tricks of the Trade

    Paranormal Scene Investigations - 3

    When magic goes wrong, who are you going to call? The name's Torres, Bonnie Torres, and I'm a paranormal scene investigator -- rooting out the truth about crimes of magic. It's dangerous and boring and scary and fascinating. Though not everyone in...

  • Dragon Justice

    Paranormal Scene Investigations - 4

    In my time with PUPI, formally known as Private, Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations, I've seen a lot. Learned a lot. And not all of it's been good. But what we do -- make people accountable for crimes committed with magic -- is important work. ...

  • Dragon Virus

    It began soon after the Millennium. Reports of newborns with strange malformations, too weak to live…caused by a single genetic mutation. Or, as the press quickly dubbed it, the Dragon Virus. Scientists predicted that it was an evolutionary dead en...

  • Heart of Briar

    The Portals - 1

    "He has been taken. And you are his only chance." That wasn't something Jan expected to hear -- especially from strangers who'd just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape...

  • Soul of Fire

    The Portals - 2

    save the world -- early and often Three months ago Jan learned that elves were real, our world wasn't safe and it was up to her to save her boyfriend -- and the world -- from being englamoured into slavery. Now Jan has a new deadline -- ten weeks...

  • Miles to Go

    Sylvan Investigations - 1

    Danny Hendrickson: Human mother, faun father, 100% Attitude. For the most part, he's made his own way, first as a member of the NYPD and then - when they started looking too closely at non-humans in the force - as a private investigator, straddling t...

  • Promises to Keep

    Sylvan Investigations - 2

    The person you pass on the street…may not be human.They are known as the fatae, the various non-human species that make up the Cosa Nostradamus, the magic-using community. And they could be your neighbors, your teachers, your fellow commuters. Your...

  • Silver on the Road

    The Devil's West - 1

    A heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic, but at what price? Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes the choice to work for the devil in his territory west of the Mi...

  • Work of Hunters

    Sylvan Investigations - 3

    Danny Hendrickson - ex-cop turned PI - and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.

    Except Danny's father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer.

    Togethe...



  • An Interrupted Cry

    Sylvan Investigations - 4

    Danny Hendrickson -- ex-cop turned PI -- and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.Except Danny’s father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer.Which means that ...

  • Darkly Human

    Alien landscapes. Run-down pool halls. Modern kitchens. Ghost-ridden memorials. There are shadows everywhere, housing the dark things that make us human.Love. Hate. Fear. Hope.Although best known for her urban fantasy, and her award-nominated epic fa...

  • The Cold Eye

    The Devil's West - 2

    In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious t...

  • The Death of All Things

    Lie.Cheat.Bargain.Fight.Accept.Bribe.Conquer.Evade.No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins. Or does it?Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the myth...

  • Red Waters Rising

    The Devil's West - 3

    In the last novel of The Devil’s West trilogy, Isobel, the Devil’s Left Hand, and Gabriel ride through the magical land of the Territory to root out evil by the way of mad magicians, ghosts, and twisted animal spirits. As Isobel and Gabriel tr...

  • West Wind's Fool

    The Devil's West - 4

    Visit an American West that never was, but could have been.A woman in search of her fate, a people looking for a new place to call home, a young girl about to become more than she could ever dream, a magical creature trapped between What Is and what ...

  • Gabriel's Road

    The Devil's West - 5

    Most folk in the Territory never think about the magic around them. They’ve never encountered a magician, fought a spell-beast, or bargained with the devil.Gabriel Kasun is not most folk.A year spent mentoring Isobel Lacoyo Távora, the Devil’s ...

  • The Collected Cases of Duchess, PI

    The Alley is no place for the innocent, the unwary, or the just plain foolish. But if they didn’t exist, Duchess would be out of work. For a fee, she can solve your problem - or make it go away. When trouble’s on your tail, and you can’t go...

  • Lightning Strikes

    There is magic in the modern world. It surrounds you, hiding in plain sight. The commuter next to you may be Talent. The barista behind the counter may not be human. The sound you hear just outside your window? May be far more dangerous than you t...

  • Finder's Keeper

    Forbidden to practice the magic she inherited from her mother, Davida Sanderson left her comfortable  Boston home for a wilderness farm, and freedom. There, she finds respect, and peace, able to use her gifts to find what had gone missing, and r...



  • The Dance

    None of this is real. I'm dreaming, that's all. But she so rarely had such pleasantly exciting dreams. More often they were anxiety-filled, or stodgily pedestrian this-is-what's-wrong-with-your-life reminders. Or I fell, I'm in a coma, hallucinating ...

  • Something Perfect

    Jenny knows that her marriage with Nic is rock-solid.  But she also knows that they're missing something.  Someone.  But she's not sure she can go through another round of love-and-loss.

 Nic knows better than to use ...

  • Uncanny Times

    Huntsmen - 1

    Huntsmen, according to the Church, were damned, their blood unclean, unholy. Yet for Rosemary and Aaron Harker the Church was less important than being ready to stand against the Uncanny as not being prepared could lead to being dead.The year is 1913...

  • Uncanny Vows

    Huntsmen - 2

    Following the events of the high-stakes and propulsive Uncanny Times, Rosemary and Aaron Harker, along with their supernatural hound Botherton, have been given a new assignment to investigate…but the Harkers believe it’s a set-up, and there’s s...

  • His Essential Nature

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Anne Gilman has published 44 books.

Laura Anne Gilman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Uncanny Vows, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Laura Anne Gilman, Don't You Want to Be Beautiful?, was published in February 1998.

Yes. Laura Anne Gilman has 9 series.
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