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In the President's Service Books in Order

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See the In the President's Service books in order by Ace Collins, with short summaries, Helen Meeker series background, and tips on where to start.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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19 books

1

A Date with Death

by Ace Collins

2013

In the early days of World War II, Helen Meeker is handed a case that could cost either an innocent pastor or a world leader his life. The result is a fast historical mystery packed with spies, danger, and impossible choices.

2

The Dark Pool

by Ace Collins

2013

Helen Meeker races to save her partner and her sister while a shadowy scientific threat grows in the background. The stakes stretch from the White House to secret labs and foreign battle zones.

3

Blood Brother

by Ace Collins

2014

Helen Meeker's fight against wartime evil grows more personal in a case shaped by loyalty, betrayal, and hidden ties. To find the truth, she must figure out whether blood really means trust.

4

Fatal Addiction

by Ace Collins

2014

Helen Meeker impulsively heads toward Nazi Germany to save Henry Reese, while a sinister drug-fueled plot threatens far more than one life. The rest of the team scrambles to stop a scheme that could enslave whole populations.

5

The Devil's Eyes

by Ace Collins

2014

Helen Meeker faces another high-stakes World War II case, where danger wears a human face and evil hides in plain sight. The deeper she looks, the more deadly the answers become.

6

Bottled Madness

by Ace Collins

2015

What begins as another wartime mystery turns dangerous when Helen Meeker uncovers a scheme with deadly consequences. To stop it, she has to move fast through lies, fear, and a trail that keeps twisting.

7

Shadows in the Moonlight

by Ace Collins

2015

Helen Meeker enters a darker case where appearances deceive and danger hides just beyond the obvious. The story blends suspense, wartime intrigue, and the kind of night journey that never feels safe.

8

The Dead Can Talk

by Ace Collins

2015

Helen Meeker talks the president into sending her behind enemy lines in Germany on a desperate mission. The case turns into a high-risk race through wartime Europe, where survival depends on nerve and timing.

9

Evilution

by Ace Collins

2016

Helen Meeker faces a new wartime conspiracy in which science, power, and ideology turn deadly. As the case widens, she has to sort real allies from dangerous zealots before the plan spreads.

10

The 13th Floor

by Ace Collins

2016

A strange case draws Helen Meeker into a closed world of secrets, suspicion, and wartime danger. As clues pile up, she has to work out who is trapped, who is lying, and who may not leave alive.

11

The White Rose

by Ace Collins

2016

Helen Meeker is pulled toward a case that touches the hidden resistance to Nazi power. Murder, courage, and secret messages shape a story about people fighting back from the shadows.

12

Uneasy Alliance

by Ace Collins

2016

Forced to work with people she cannot fully trust, Helen Meeker enters a wartime investigation full of shifting loyalties. Every partnership feels temporary, and one bad decision could hand victory to the enemy.

13

The Cat's Eye

by Ace Collins

2017

A kidnapped child, a murdered Japanese American woman, and a hidden Nazi project send Helen Meeker across continents. The case mixes Chicago murder, wartime espionage, and a desperate mission behind enemy lines.

14

The Red Suit Case

by Ace Collins

2017

On the eve of Christmas, Helen, Teresa, and Lancelot tackle three seemingly separate mysteries, from a child who thinks Santa was murdered to a deadly case of mistaken identity. Their investigations collide in a tense hunt for a Nazi contact in Washington.

15

Set for Danger

by Ace Collins

2018

Helen Meeker, Teresa Bryant, and Napoleon Lancelot split up across Hollywood, Mexico, the Pacific, and the American West to solve linked cases. Nazi spies, movie-star intrigue, and wartime danger converge in one breathless 1943 adventure.

16

The Trojan Horse

by Ace Collins

2020

Helen Meeker and her wartime team chase a case built on deception, hidden enemies, and layered double-crosses. What looks manageable soon opens into a far bigger threat to national security.

17

The Wolf Pack

by Ace Collins

2020

A new case pulls Helen Meeker into a coordinated wartime threat where enemies move fast and strike together. To stop the damage, her team has to read the pattern before the next attack lands.

18

Black or White

by Ace Collins

2021

Helen Meeker faces a case where nothing stays simple and every answer splits into two possibilities. In wartime, moral lines blur fast, and she has to reach the truth before someone else decides it for her.

19

Time Walker

by Ace Collins

2024

In late 1943, Helen Meeker and her team reunite to learn why a soldier refuses the Medal of Honor he earned. The answer leads into hit men, buried treasure, Nazi intrigue, and hard choices about honor and sacrifice.

Series background & context

This is the Ace Collins series for readers who want their mysteries mixed with World War II danger, fast-moving plots, and a lead character who refuses to be pushed aside. The central figure is Helen Meeker, a sharp investigator whose cases pull her into murders, kidnappings, sabotage, espionage, and the kind of wartime secrets that can shift far more than one life at a time. She was first introduced in The Yellow Packard, and once this series gets going, her world grows bigger with every book.

Helen is the engine.

What makes the series work is the way Collins blends detective fiction with large historical stakes. Helen is not just solving tidy puzzles from a desk. She is often working cases tied to national security, powerful officials, or military plans, and that means a single clue can lead from Chicago or Washington to Europe, the Pacific, Mexico, Hollywood, or a hidden lab. The books are set against the pressure of the war, so even personal mysteries often open into something wider, Nazi agents, blackmail, propaganda, betrayal, or technology that could tilt the balance of power.

The cast around Helen helps keep the books from feeling one-note. Over the course of the series she works with a recurring team that includes Teresa Bryant, Napoleon Lancelot, Henry Reese, and other allies who each bring a different skill set and rhythm. Sometimes they split up to chase connected leads. Sometimes they collide head-on while trying to solve what look like separate cases. That gives the novels a nice mix of teamwork and tension, because nobody has the full picture for long.

The tone sits somewhere between historical whodunit, spy adventure, and old-school serial thriller. Collins likes cliff-edge pacing, but he also clearly enjoys period detail, classic cars, old movie culture, wartime politics, and the feel of the 1940s. Some books lean more toward covert missions. Others start with a murder, a child in danger, or a seemingly impossible mystery. Either way, readers can expect twists, shifting loyalties, and villains who are dangerous because they can hide inside respectable places.

There is also a lighter thread running through the books now and then. Helen is capable and serious, but the stories are not grim all the time. Collins leaves room for dry humor, friendship, and the occasional romantic complication. That matters, because it keeps the series readable even when the stakes get very large. You are not just following wartime plots, you are following people who have learned how to keep going under constant strain.

If you like historical suspense with a strong female lead, this series has plenty to offer. The books are episodic enough to enjoy one by one, but the bigger appeal is watching Helen and her circle grow through repeated tests. There is always another case. During a world war, there has to be.

The series has also been adapted as a radio drama, which fits the books surprisingly well. They have that same brisk, cliffhanger-friendly energy built into them from the start.

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