M Ruth Myers Books in Order

Drawn to Peru by a message from the father she has never met, a young woman finds herself in danger among rival archaeologists near Machu Picchu. The mountain setting adds real peril as family questions turn into a suspenseful mystery.

In sixteenth-century Peru, Catherine is caught in political upheaval and forced into a marriage born of power, pride, and survival. Historical adventure and romance meet as she tries to claim a life that belongs to her, not to the men around her.

One of Myers' early relationship novels, this is a compact contemporary story about love, privacy, and the trouble that starts when deeply personal choices stop staying private. The focus is emotional, not flashy, with everyday life doing most of the pressure.

TV talk-show host Tess Bondurant has built a solid life in Ohio until a child's game turns tragic and her nine-year-old son is caught in the fallout. As her job and public standing wobble, she fights to help him heal and rebuild her own future.

Air Force Captain Judith Clarke serves at a missile base in Cheyenne, where career pressures and personal loyalties keep colliding. Her feelings for civilian Wade Lowell grow harder to manage as work, friendship, and duty all pull in different directions.

Screenwriter Laura Fitzgerald returns to Hollywood determined to succeed on her own, only to collide with her glamorous movie-star mother. Their rivalry turns sharper when both women are drawn to the same man.

Set around a wealthy family in the international jewelry trade, this novel mixes romance with betrayal and old-fashioned intrigue. Luxury may be everywhere, but so are divided loyalties and secrets with a price tag of their own.

Alice and Josh Frye's marriage is strained by the birth of a son with special needs and the grief, exhaustion, and distance that follow. Old relationships and new attention only deepen the question of what love requires when life gets hard.

Amateur magician Channing Stuart is pulled into a dangerous government mission after stolen passport film falls into terrorist hands. To stop a killer, she must rely on nerve, stagecraft, and an uneasy partnership with an irritated federal agent.

In Depression-era Dayton, private investigator Maggie Sullivan lands in trouble when a threatening stranger turns up dead and a crime boss decides she knows too much. She digs through lunch counters, alleys, and city politics to stay alive and crack the case.

An invitation to dine with a millionaire turns ugly when Maggie Sullivan finds herself staring down a gun and untangling a swindle that has fooled Dayton's elite. Then the missing mastermind surfaces dead, and someone wants Maggie next.

Two elderly sisters hire Maggie Sullivan to learn what really happened to their father after Dayton's 1913 flood. The cold case leads to political ambition, old grudges, and enemies willing to kill to keep the past buried.

After their father's death leaves them broke, three sheltered New England sisters turn to rum-running in the 1920s aboard the family schooner. Adventure, class tension, and danger at sea shape a sweeping story of survival and forbidden love.

A blonde's job offer leads Maggie to a warm corpse in an alley, still wearing a gold watch but missing his shoes and socks. This short story gives her a compact, sharp-edged mystery with classic Depression-era flavor.

A working woman hires Maggie to find her missing younger sister, then dies before she can tell the whole story. Maggie's search uncovers a predatory agency, a rich man's mansion, and uglier secrets than she expected.

A routine inquiry into a possible hotel jewelry theft becomes far messier when a maid is found dead and a jeweler of fake gems is murdered. Maggie is pushed into a world of wealthy guests, wartime unease, and polished lies.

Days before Pearl Harbor, Maggie is hired to find a missing engineer and soon runs into secrets, violence, and fears of sabotage. As Dayton braces for war, she races to learn whether her quarry is a victim, a traitor, or both.

When a man is killed at a construction site, the evidence points straight at Maggie's closest friend, Rachel Minsky. Maggie must cut through wartime suspicion, buried secrets, and Rachel's own silence to learn who the real target was.

Emily and her new friend Russell suspect someone is sneaking around the Salem house her family has just moved into. Their search leads to an attic trunk, an old magician's legend, and a treasure mystery with real stakes.

After Dayton's first wartime blackout drill, a murder victim is found carrying Maggie Sullivan's name and address. Her hunt for the killer ties together false identities, a second killing, and a city darkened by war and private grief.

Relatives of a Japanese-American man blamed for a deadly fire hire Maggie to find out whether he is guilty, missing, or framed. Her search runs straight into wartime prejudice, official secrecy, and a killer ready to strike again.

A hunt for a replacement tire sends Maggie Sullivan into a case involving a nervous client, a dubious redhead, and killers with money on the line. It is a brisk wartime short story with classic PI energy.

A young woman's brutal death looks like a traffic accident until Maggie spots signs of murder. Inside her wealthy fiance's household, resentments, secrets, and a hush-hush war project make every family member worth suspecting.

Maggie agrees to help a crime boss's wife find their missing daughter, even though the family has every reason to hate her. What looks like a quiet disappearance soon opens into danger, deception, and old criminal scores.

Heebs Kelly comes to 1950s Cheyenne expecting a new job with an Army friend and finds him murdered instead. To clear the dead man's name, he and his scrappy little dog must push past corruption, thugs, and buried secrets.

After Eleanor Sinclair dies under suspicious circumstances, her five daughters hire Heebs Kelly to look into the family's glamorous modeling school. A second death and a tangle of secrets make this mid-century case far darker than it first appears.

A Christmas theft at a youth center looks small until Maggie suspects the blow to the handyman's head and the missing presents hide something larger. Two ten-year-old girls and a colorful former speakeasy owner help her chase the truth.