P.M. Carlson

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1985
  • Latest Book:
    April 2007
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Full Series List in Order

Maggie Ryan

1 - Audition for Murder (May-1985)
2 - Murder Is Academic (Sep-1985)
3 - Murder Is Pathological (Jul-1986)
4 - Murder Unrenovated (Dec-1987)
5 - Rehearsal for Murder (Nov-1988)
6 - Murder Misread (Nov-1990)
7 - Murder in the Dog Days (Jan-1991)
8 - Bad Blood (Nov-1991)

A Marty Hopkins Mystery

1 - Gravestone (1992)
2 - Bloodstream (Jun-1995)
3 - Crossfire (Dec-2006)
4 - Deathwind (Apr-2007)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Audition for Murder

    Maggie Ryan - 1

    To escape New York City's public pressures and diminish Lisette's need for alcohol and drugs, actor Nick O'Connor and his beautiful wife accept roles in a university production of Hamlet, but someone in the cast wants Lisette dead...

  • Murder Is Academic

    Maggie Ryan - 2

    Vietnam, assassinations and riots. In the spring semester of 1968, a series of brutal attacks draws campus women together to study self-defense and the psychology of rape. Graduate student Mary Beth Nelson struggles to keep the Lords of Death at bay ...

  • Murder Is Pathological

    Maggie Ryan - 3

    The exploding wastebasket is a prank, but slaughtered lab rats have graduate students Maggie Ryan, Monica Bauer and the rest of the lab on edge. When the custodian is murdered, actor Nick O’Connor goes undercover to investigate, a protective gestur...

  • Murder Unrenovated

    Maggie Ryan - 4

    Realtor Len Trager is anxious to sell the brownstone in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, but prospective buyers don't want to deal with Julia Northrup, who rents the basement apartment. Maggie Ryan and her husband Nick O'Connor love the property. ...

  • Rehearsal for Murder

    Maggie Ryan - 5

    Maggie Ryan and her actor-husband Nick struggle to learn the ropes of parenting, but their lives are turned upside down when the star of Nick's play, is killed and Maggie is implicated in a kidnapping...

  • Murder Misread

    Maggie Ryan - 6

    CAMPUS POLITICS CAN BE MURDER When Maggie Ryan returns to her alma mater as a consultant to reading expert Charlie Fielding, she takes along her two small children to enjoy the drowsy campus after the hectic pace of New York. But the academic peac...

  • Murder in the Dog Days

    Maggie Ryan - 7

    On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to ...

  • Bad Blood

    Maggie Ryan - 8

    When a noisy neighbor is suddenly murdered, feisty independent Maggie Ryan attempts to solve the crime, all the while dealing with a delicate secret from her own past....

  • Gravestone

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    A Marty Hopkins Mystery - 1

    Marty Hopkins, deputy sheriff for Nichols County, Indiana, is suddenly confronted with death threats, burning crosses, a kidnapping, charges of incest, racially motivated murders, and a possible Ku Klux Klan conflagration. Reprint....



  • The Jersey Lily; or, Make Me Immortal with a Kiss

    in Malice Domestic 1

    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD ruffles feathers on Beacon Hill...BARBARA PAUL visits with a fatally clumsy clan...D.R. MEREDITH tells a murderer to go fly a kite...AUDREY PETERSON pursues a shadowy gentleman caller...VALERIE FRANKEL tracks a catnapper in Brooklyn...

  • Put Out the Light; or, The Napoleon of Science

    in Malice Domestic 4

  • Bloodstream

    A Marty Hopkins Mystery - 2

    Struggling with personal family problems, Deputy Marty Hopkins takes the case of murdered fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato, whose killer is believed by many to be a wealthy Arizona developer who plans to build a religious community...

  • Parties Unknown by the Jury; or, The Valour of My Tongue

    in Women On the Case

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Renowned Be Thy Grave

    Full of color, humor, and suspense, the 10 Bridget Mooney stories are marvelous historical recreations by one of the modern masters of the mystery. Bridget encounters crimes and mysteries involving Ulysses S. Grant, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, T...

  • Blood In Buzzard's Bay; Or, Sweets To The Sweet

    in First Lady Murders

    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...

  • Crossfire

    A Marty Hopkins Mystery - 3

    The new Marty Hopkins mystery - Deputy Marty Hopkins is back on day shift, investigating the death of Zill Corson in an apparent arson-attack at his hunting cabin. It soon emerges that Zill shared his cabin with Don Foley, a former sheriff in the dep...

  • Deathwind

    A Marty Hopkins Mystery - 4

    Deputy Marty Hopkins is not pleased to be awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from her boss. As tornado season hits southern Indiana, Martys small county sheriffs office finds itself with a perplexing puzzle to solve. The body of a youn...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

P.M. Carlson has published 17 books.

P.M. Carlson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deathwind, was published in April 2007.

The first book by P.M. Carlson, Audition for Murder, was published in May 1985.

Yes. P.M. Carlson has 2 series.
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