R.E. Donald is the author of the Highway Mysteries series, traditional mysteries with realistic characters, multiple suspects and character-driven subplots. Her protagonist took to the road as a long haul truck driver in the hopes that the solitude of the highway would help him heal from two personal tragedies that made him leave a successful career as an RCMP homicide detective. The stories take place in locales around North America.  Ruth draws on her twenty five years of experience in the transportation industry to create credible individuals and situations in that unique setting.

Ruth attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., where she studied languages and creative writing to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree. Prior to publishing her 1st novel, Slow Curve on the Coquihalla, she studied the art of writing good mysteries for almost ten years, including an intensive workshop in California with acclaimed mystery novelist Elizabeth George. (Slow Curve on the Coquihalla is now availabe as an audiobook.)

Ruth’s 2nd novel, Ice on the Grapevine, was a finalist for digital publishing guru Dan Poynter’s 2012 Global Ebook Award in Mystery Fiction. The 3rd novel in the series, Sea to Sky (also available in a German language edition) is set in Whistler, B.C. The 4th and 5th books in the series - Sundown on Top of the World and Yellowhead Blues - were both finalists for the Whistler Independent Book Award. The Highway Mysteries are widely available in both digital and print editions, and are gaining fans in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain and Australia.

Ruth currently lives on a ranch in the South Cariboo region of B.C., where she and her partner, Gilbert Roy, enjoy their Canadian Horses (Le Cheval Canadien) and other animals. She is working on a 6th novel in the series, named for what's arguably the most famous highway in the world.