Kate Wilhelm

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Barbara Holloway

1 - Death Qualified (Jul-1991)
2 - The Best Defense (Jun-1994)
3 - Malice Prepense // For the Defense (Jul-1996)
4 - Defense for the Devil (Feb-1999)
5 - No Defense (Jan-2000)
6 - Desperate Measures (Jul-2001)
7 - Clear and Convincing Proof (Aug-2003)
8 - The Unbidden Truth (Sep-2004)
9 - Sleight of Hand (Sep-2006)
10 - A Wrongful Death (Sep-2007)
11 - Cold Case (Jul-2008)
12 - Heaven Is High (Feb-2011)
13 - By Stone, by Blade, by Fire (Dec-2012)
14 - Mirror, Mirror (Feb-2017)

A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery

1 - The Hamlet Trap (May-1988)
2 - The Dark Door (Sep-1988)
3 - Smart House (Feb-1989)
4 - Sweet, Sweet Poison (Aug-1990)
5 - Seven Kinds of Death (Oct-1992)
6 - Whisper Her Name (Aug-2012)
6.5 - Sister Angel (Jun-2012)
6.6 - All For One (Jun-2012)
6.7 - The Gorgon Field (Jun-2012)
6.8 - Torch Song (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • More Bitter Than Death

    A DARK AND DEADLY SECRET Seven people stood at the open grave of Janey Halstead; the beautiful and cruel Janey who had once been the center of their island world and the focal point of their hatred. Only one of them had wielded the murder weapon ...

  • The Hounds

  • The Infinity Box

    A man's eerie ability to enter--and control --the mind of a vulnerable young woman turns into a sexual nightmare. . . A hack writer with fading skills finds his soap operas foretelling the future. . . . His retirement present, a watch, takes a man ba...

  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

    Before becoming one of today’s most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was celebrated as a writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novel retu...

  • Clarion

    Contains: "Landscape with Aliens", by Larry W. Martin; "A Matter of Honor", by Pat (P.C.) Hodgell; "Closed Circuit", by Carter Scholz; "The Leader of the Club", by Marc Scott Zicree; "The Bellman's Wonder Ring", by Gene Wolfe; "The Enemy You Killed, ...

  • Margaret and I

  • A Sense of Shadow

    THEY CAME TO HIS DEATHBED. FOUR DUTIFUL CHILDREN. Each the child of a different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved murder, mysterious disappearance. As he sank away they glowered their hatred. It was a hatred he expecte...

  • Juniper Time

    In a World now ravaged by drought and famine...Jean Brighton and Arthur Cluny grew up in the limelight, children of space pioneers who built the orbiting space laboratory. Now Arthur carried on his father's work at the lab, but Jean fled into isolati...

  • Fault Lines

    Emily Carmichael was always her own woman -- as the men in her life found out -- from the days when she was an aristocrat's wife in New York high society, through the great events of an era, to the years that bring her to San Francisco, divorced and ...



  • The Clewiston Test

    Anne Clewiston would soon be hailed as a miracle worker. She had almost perfected the formula for a drug which would banish all pain from the world. The Lab tests went on; the caged apes were thriving, all the results positive. The next step - huma...

  • Sense Shadow

    THEY CAME TO HIS DEATHBED. FOUR DUTIFUL CHILDREN. Each the child of a different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved murder, mysterious disappearance. As he sank away they glowered their hatred. It was a hatred he expecte...

  • City of Cain

  • Oh, Susannah!

    Susannah runs away from her husband, loses her memory, and--with new innocence--rediscovers life in America, becoming involved with thieves and terrorists, relating to people on disconcerting levels, and falling for a most unlikely Mr. Right...

  • Listen Listen

    Includes four provocative novellas--"The Winter Beach" and "With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope," previously unpublished, and "Moongate" and "Julian"--as well as an essay on the author's philosophy of fiction, "The Uncertain Edge of Reality"...

  • Welcome, Chaos

    What would happen to the precarious balance of power if scientists could extend life for centuries? If one power bloc had biological protection against radiation and the other did not? Whose thumb would press the button first? When Lyle Taney too...

  • Huysman's Pets

    First came the chimpanzee experiments, which made Stanley Huysman famous- a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist. Then came the studies with human children, which were unknown to the public, and stashed away in top government files. Now, Huysman is dead. H...

  • Crazy Time

    Zapped by an experimental laser, "Corky" Corcoran is dispersed into space and must gather himself in the form of an apparition around psychologist Lauren Steele, while a paranoid colonel from the Pentagon pursues them, thinking they are Soviet spies...

  • The Hamlet Trap

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 1

    To kill or not to kill... That's the question most of the cast at an Oregon repertory theater seem to be pondering. An arrogant new director is stirring up deadly jealousies, and a sinister tarot-reading playwright is giving chills to the entire comp...

  • The Dark Door

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 2

    Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl were an unlikely pair of detectives. He was a former arson investigator, she was a psychologist, and the two were looking forward to the quiet relaxation of country life. But Charlie and Constance had a knack fo...



  • Smart House

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 3

    Former N.Y. arson investigator and retired cop Charles Meiklejohn and his wife, Constance Leidl, a psychologist, return in a taut, high-tech mystery abounding with ingenuity. The ultimate dream of child prodigy Gary Elringer, the founder of Bellringe...

  • Children of the Wind

    Contains these novellas: Children of the Wind; The Gorgon Field; A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls; The Blue Ladies; The Girl Who Fell Into The Sea....

  • Cambio Bay

    While fleeing killers, Iris Latham and her daughter, Bonnie meet an odd assortment of travelers at Miss Luisa's Guest House in Cambio Bay and are drawn into the mysterious web of the house and into a mystery reaching back into American Indian legend...

  • Sweet, Sweet Poison

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 4

    The detectives. Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl were an unlikely pair of detectives. He was a former arson investigator, she was a psychologist. They had a knack for unraveling a mystery, and mystery always seemed to find its way to their door...

  • Children of the Wind: Five Novellas

    Contains these novellas: Children of the Wind; The Gorgon Field; A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls; The Blue Ladies; The Girl Who Fell Into The Sea....

  • Death Qualified

    Barbara Holloway - 1

    It begins with a nude body in a river, then a phone message: "Bobby, I need you" These two events change the direction of Barbara Holloway's life. Barbara had given up the law five years before, but she's still "death qualified;" still able to def...

  • And the Angels Sing

    A collection of twelve fantasy tales by the author of Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos and Cambio Bay includes the Nebula-winning story "Forever Yours, Anna," the chilling "The Scream," and "The Look Alike."...

  • Seven Kinds of Death

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 5

    Tootles runs a secluded retreat for artists, and is ready to go on a tour with her works of sculpture, the best known of which is titled Seven Kinds of Death. Constance, a long-time friend, attends the pre-tour party at the retreat. But Tootlesȁ...

  • Justice for Some

    Judge Sarah Drexler is still trying to recover from her husband's death, when she is asked to run for Oregon State judge. She leaves for her father's California home to think about it, and reunite with her moody son and pregnant daughter. Then her fa...

  • The Best Defense

    Barbara Holloway - 2

    The neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, is blue-collar; the cafe holds only three tables and four booths. But it's the only place attorney Barbara Holloway feels both productive and peaceful. Laptop computer on the table, coffee refilled regularly by the...



  • Malice Prepense // For the Defense

    Barbara Holloway - 3

    Teddy Wendover is a hulking twenty-eight-year-old with the mind of a child. An accident at eight left him severely retarded. But did it turn him into a cold-blooded killer? Someone has bludgeoned Oregon congressman Harry Knecht to death. Knecht wa...

  • The Good Children

    It started with a promise. A pact. It became a secret that no one must tell--that their parents were dead and gone. Including the one they'd buried in the backyard. Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, careers. But...

  • Defense for the Devil

    Barbara Holloway - 4

    In her three previous novel appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants -- hopeless messes, all of them -- and with the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time. But even from the star...

  • No Defense

    Barbara Holloway - 5

    Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on difficult cases and winning. But in every previous case, there's been some fragment on which to build an argument. This time, she may have taken on a case with no defense at all. Lara and Vinny Jess...

  • An Imperfect Gift

    Charlie Meiklejohn is a former arson detective turned private investigator. His wife Constance Leidl, is a professional psychologist. Together, they're an unbeatable team, ready to take on the most convoluted cases. The Hamlet Trap--Roman Cavanaugh r...

  • The Deepest Water

    When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon, his daughter Abby's world starts to fall apart. Who wanted her father dead and why? More puzzling is how anyone could have gotten to the cabin unde...

  • Desperate Measures

    Barbara Holloway - 6

    Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases...and winning them. But this time she's up against an unbeatable opponent -- her father, the lawyer who taught her all she knows. Gus Marchand, a hardworking, God-fearing farmer, i...

  • Skeletons

    Lee Donne is an appendix in a family of overachievers. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius and her grandfather is a world-renowned Shakespearean scholar. After four years of college and three majors, Lee is nowhere clos...

  • Clear and Convincing Proof

    Barbara Holloway - 7

    The Kelso/McIvey rehab center is a place of hope and healing for its patients -- and for the dedicated staff who volunteer there. But David McIvey, a brilliant surgeon whose ego rivals his skill with a scalpel, wants to change all that. His plan to c...

  • The Unbidden Truth

    Barbara Holloway - 8

    Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases -- and winning them. But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete ano...



  • The Price of Silence

    Disappearances. Murder. The Price of Silence in a Small Town. In dire need of a job, Todd Fielding accepts the offer to work at The Brindle Times -- even if she has to move to the lackluster town of Brindle. As she settles into her new home, Todd...

  • Sleight of Hand

    Barbara Holloway - 9

    Gregarious Vegas entertainer Wally Lederer hasn't always enjoyed the attention of center stage--something he learned about himself over thirty years ago when he was in the slammer serving time for picking pockets. He claims he's turned his life aroun...

  • A Wrongful Death

    Barbara Holloway - 10

    Who knew that being a Good Samaritan would lead Barbara Holloway to face her biggest challenge ever: being named prime suspect in a high-profile kidnapping? Barbara's peace at her retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy...

  • Cold Case

    Barbara Holloway - 11

    With no strong evidence, attorney Barbara Holloway's legal instincts are all she has. If they can't lead her to the truth, her client will die. But if she succeeds, her own life will be on the line. Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge...

  • Fear Is a Cold Black

    If you are in a plague-ridden spaceship with no idea what is killing off your passengers and crew one by one, what do you do? How will you deal with the panic and the fear, and your own feelings of despair that you may not be able to save the people ...

  • Heaven Is High

    Barbara Holloway - 12

    Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene, Oregon who left her father's high powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her own next move. But while trying to sort out her own future, two people, desperate for h...

  • Death of an Artist

    THE FINISHING STROKE… Marnie Markov is ready for trouble when her renowned artist daughter, Stef, begins a messy divorce from her fourth husband/business partner, Dale. After all, the best relationship Marnie's ever been able to manage with her...

  • With Thimbles, With Forks, And Hope

    It started with an insurance fraud investigation that took Constance and Charlie to a luxurious resort hotel in Florida where they found their suspect being stalked by an enigmatic woman. It ends with the couple aboard a fishing boat alone with a rut...

  • All For One

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 6.6

    Charlie didn’t want this case, working for three young people, all under twenty-five, who he suspected were setting him up. With one mother and two fathers, the trio had bonded with one another and presented a solid front when Sam, one of the ...

  • The Gorgon Field

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 6.7

    What is Ramón’s hold on Carl Wyandot, one of the richest men in the country? Carl’s daughter hires Constance and Charlie to find out why her father intends to give a hidden valley in Colorado to him. In the valley there is the mammoth formation ...



  • Sister Angel

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 6.5

    Wanda believed her murdered husband was communicating with her, using Brother Amos as a go-between. Brother Amos and his daughter Sister Angel were moving into her life, into her home. Charlie and Constance were hired to expose him as a charlatan. Th...

  • Torch Song

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 6.8

    Charlie is being framed as a serial arsonist, fires that have resulted in five deaths so far. Their search settles on Peter Eisenbeis as the arsonist, a recently released convict that Charlie was responsible for convicting. Also, Charlie was part of ...

  • The Bird Cage

    The Bird Cage is a collection of four stories.The Bird Cage - The research is in cold sleep, suspended animation allowing those with incurable diseases to survive until cures are found. Chimps have been the subjects, but the dying millionaire who is ...

  • Music Makers

    Music Makers is a collection of five stories.Music Makers - Jake is sent to Memphis to do a puff article about an old, recently-deceased jazz pianist. There he learns about the true power of music, especially the “other music” that permeates an o...

  • Whisper Her Name

    A Charlie Meiklejohn / Constance Leidl Mystery - 6

    In a quiet college town in New Jersey five million dollars in cashiers’ checks were hidden in the dead man’s house, and whoever finds the checks gets to keep it all. Two brothers of the deceased, his sister, and the son of another brother have fo...

  • By Stone, by Blade, by Fire

    Barbara Holloway - 13

    Travis Morgan's case seems open-and-shut: a plot to kill his estranged father, fundamentalist preacher Arlie Morgan, goes awry and his bullet slays an innocent bookkeeper. Two eyewitnesses seal Travis' fate. But despite damning evidence, Travis staun...

  • Fullness of Time

    Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime. His son John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market or any other financial deal. Now Cat, a documentarian, her researcher Mercy, and Cr...

  • In Between

    Sam and Lori had only just met and now they are dead, the result of a car accident. Accident? No. Dead? Not exactly. In life, Sam was a successful playwright, Lori a secretary for Ben Carnahan, a scheming movie producer who wants Sam's new script and...

  • Kate Wilhelm in Orbit

    This collection of short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Kate Wilhelm is a must-have for science fiction fans and book lovers everywhere! From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit series of anthologies of science fiction...

  • Yesterday's Tomorrows

    Yesterday’s Tomorrows contains 11 new short fiction work by Kate Wilhelm. Opening the collection is the title story, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” a haunting tale about a woman who glimpses another side of time. It was the feature novella in the 2...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Barbara Holloway - 14

    Chaos has descended on the Valducci family. Gina Valducci’s grandmother, mentor, and founder of the family’s thriving nursery business, has died. Her death sets off a string of seemingly unrelated events, including two horrific murders. Gina...

Award-Winning Books by Kate Wilhelm

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1977 Hugo Award -- Novel
1977 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kate Wilhelm has published 60 books.

Kate Wilhelm does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mirror, Mirror, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Kate Wilhelm, More Bitter Than Death, was published in January 1962.

Yes. Kate Wilhelm has 2 series.
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