The L. P. Hoffman award-winning brand is literary fiction—using mystery and suspense to write about culturally relevant, sometimes controversial, issues—written from a multiple third-person viewpoint with a braided plot chain that propels the reader through the story. Literary-fiction novels by L. P. Hoffman include The Canaan Creed, Shadow of the Piper, The Third Peril Trilogy: The Third Peril, The Third Woe, and The Third Day.