Margaret Millar Books in Order

When a shady retiree is murdered among a tense circle of guests, psychologist Dr. Paul Prye becomes both suspect and quarry. To clear his name, he has to read motives faster than a killer can strike again.

Paul Prye is about to be married when a bridesmaid collapses and an anonymous note announces a killer's plans. What should be a celebration becomes a poison case with Prye racing to stop murder at his own wedding.

Paul Prye's lakeside holiday in Muskoka turns sour when a classics professor's teenage daughter vanishes. Searching through gossip, family strain, and summer flirtations, Prye finds that the case is darker than it first looks.

A blind heiress, still haunted by a car crash that ruined several lives, believes someone wants her dead. Inspector Sands follows the fear into a wealthy Toronto household full of resentment, secrets, and old damage.

A busload of skiers is stranded in a Quebec blizzard and forced to shelter in an eerie, half-ruined house. As people disappear and fear takes over, the night turns into a tense locked-room nightmare.

When Lucille Morrow vanishes from her grand family home, Inspector Sands finds links to an unsolved murder from fifteen years earlier. The deeper he digs, the more the Morrow household looks built on fear, obsession, and lies.

Martha Pearson lives inside a marriage warped by her husband's jealousy and paranoia. When an embittered former lover returns from the war, the balance shifts and a brittle domestic life starts to crack open.

Priscilla is clever, dramatic, and just a little alarming, and her family never quite knows what she'll do next. This darkly funny children's novel turns an ordinary prewar childhood into something mischievous and sharply observed.

A dissatisfied mother resents her disabled child and grows dangerously fixated on the neighbor's little girl. Millar turns domestic unhappiness into something eerie and unnerving, with tension built from obsession rather than open violence.

After Dr. Charlotte Keating refuses a desperate young woman's request for an illegal abortion, the girl turns up dead. Charley is drawn into a brutal investigation that exposes hypocrisy, danger, and the hard limits placed on women's lives.

In Rose's Last Summer, a faded actress turns up dead in a California garden, and what looks natural quickly becomes suspicious. This paired volume shows Millar at her slyest, mixing black comedy, social observation, and menace.

A rich playboy is murdered, a troubled young wife is accused, and then a dying man confesses to the crime. Lawyer Eric Meecham has to sort through guilt, class, and family damage to find the truth.

In a California coastal town, one unhappy man's affair tangles several already fragile lives. Millar follows ex-spouses, would-be lovers, and disappointed marriages with the same sharp eye she brings to crime, even when the wounds are mostly domestic.

Shut-in heiress Helen Clarvoe is rattled by a stream of threatening phone calls and turns to family lawyer Paul Blackshear for help. What begins as harassment becomes a deeply creepy psychological mystery about loneliness, cruelty, and hidden identity.

When Ron Galloway never shows up for a weekend fishing retreat, his friends and suspicious wife are left with too many bad possibilities. This edition presents one of Millar's sharpest missing-man mysteries, full of lust, greed, and betrayal.

After a troubled trip to Mexico ends in an apparent suicide, Amy Kellogg vanishes and her husband Rupert is left explaining too much. Millar builds a slow, unnerving case around missing persons, marriage, and the stories people tell to survive.

Daisy Harker can't explain the blank place in her memory or the nightmare that ends at her own gravestone. Private investigator Stevens Pinata takes her case and uncovers murder, buried history, and a conspiracy stretching back years.

Down-on-his-luck investigator Joe Quinn stumbles into a remote California religious cult and a strange inquiry about a man who vanished years earlier. The case mixes lost husbands, false appearances, and enough bad faith to keep Quinn in trouble.

Charlie Gowen wants to believe he can stay harmless, but his fixation on a little girl named Jessie says otherwise. Millar turns suburban complacency into suspense, showing how easily adults miss the danger in front of them.

A year after young rancher Robert Osborne disappeared near the Mexican border, a court hearing threatens to expose everything his community has buried. The search for truth opens onto racism, old scandals, and a family that can't agree on what happened.

In this warm, funny memoir, Millar follows her own birdwatching obsession through the wild edges of Santa Barbara. Part nature journal and part autobiography, it's a different side of her, full of close observation and quiet humor.

Tom Aragon, a young Mexican-American lawyer with detective instincts, is sent to Mexico to find a wealthy client's vanished ex-husband. The search leads through scams, prejudice, and danger as the case grows stranger at every turn.

When widowed club member Miranda Shaw disappears with a much younger lifeguard, scandal is only the beginning. Tom Aragon digs into Santa Barbara privilege and finds a comic, nasty tangle of desire, money, and deception.

After a vulnerable young woman named Cleo Jasper asks Tom Aragon about her rights, she vanishes without a trace. Her brother hires him to bring her home, but a suspicious death suggests someone has been using Cleo for their own ends.

The death of a wealthy California couple's young daughter sends shock waves through a community that thought it knew itself. As grief curdles into suspicion, Millar strips away status, manners, and the moral excuses people hide behind.

A jury weighs the case against a Caribbean yacht captain accused of killing a rich white woman for her jewelry. Inside the jury room, prejudice, vanity, and private agendas prove almost as important as the evidence.

This collection gathers Margaret Millar's short mystery fiction, from early novellas to lean, unsettling later stories. If you want her suspense in smaller doses, it offers twists, dark humor, and a good look at how flexible her style could be.