Max Byrd Books in Order

Private investigator Mike Haller takes a case involving a missing runaway bride in London. His search leads through dangerous streets and into his client's concealed past, where finding the woman becomes entangled with threats, deception and violent consequences.

Sacramento investigator Mike Haller is hired to find a missing newsman by the man's alcoholic wife. A confrontation at gunpoint and a trail through the Sacramento Valley draw Haller into a conspiracy larger than the original disappearance.

Mike Haller searches for Muriel Contreras, a sex worker who stands to inherit a million dollars. With his investigator's licence under attack and a colleague murdered, he must track the missing heir while uncovering who wants her silenced.

After Donald Kerwin's killing, a legal ruling allows the accused murderer to escape prosecution. Kerwin's widow Nina pursues the man herself, forcing San Francisco policeman Gilman into a dangerous effort to find her before vengeance leads to disaster.

A series of bomb attacks grips Los Angeles, pitting explosives expert David Renner against the elusive Simon Caute. Actress Jillian Speirs becomes caught in the danger, and protecting her requires confronting secrets from her past as the attacks continue.

In 1784 Paris, Thomas Jefferson's secretary William Short observes the American diplomat amid political intrigue and complicated personal relationships. Jefferson's ambitions and ideals encounter uncomfortable contradictions, exposing tensions between public principles, private desires and the institution of slavery.

Young writer David Chase becomes drawn into the contentious political world surrounding Andrew Jackson. Through competing perspectives, the novel follows the struggle for power around a contradictory leader whose democratic appeal coexists with violence, ambition and slave ownership.

After a failed bid for another presidential nomination, Ulysses S. Grant confronts financial ruin and illness. Journalist Nicholas Trist observes the former general amid Mark Twain, Henry Adams and the political ambitions and financial schemes of America's Gilded Age.

In 1840, an expedition travels west from Washington to photograph a solar eclipse using experimental technology. Four men and one woman carry conflicting motives into the wilderness, where scientific ambition becomes entangled with deception, greed and dangerous personal rivalries.

In 1926 Paris, American reporter Toby Keats becomes involved in a mystery surrounding an eighteenth-century mechanical duck. Banker, criminals and Elsie Short compete for the object, drawing the war veteran toward hidden connections with German weapons technology.

Following Lincoln's assassination, intelligence officer George H. Sharpe investigates whether a wider conspiracy survives beyond the captured killers. A team pursuing Confederate fugitives in Europe encounters elusive courier Sarah Slater and evidence that threatens to reopen the case.

American reporter Annie March works in Europe near the end of World War II, guided by Martha Gellhorn. Her relationships with two American soldiers develop amid major military campaigns, forcing private choices against the pressures and uncertainties of war.