Maggie Ryan and Nick O'Connor Books in Order

Actors Nick and Lisette O'Connor take up college residencies during a production of Hamlet. When threats and accidents target Lisette, student lighting technician Maggie Ryan joins their effort to discover who is turning the theater dangerous.

Violence against women unsettles a college campus in 1968 as graduate student Mary Beth Nelson pursues her language research. When murder strikes close to home, she and housemate Maggie Ryan must confront secrets among their friends.

Pranks turn sinister in a brain research laboratory when animals are slaughtered and a custodian is killed. Maggie Ryan and actor Nick O'Connor investigate while fellow researcher Monica tries to connect with an injured Vietnam veteran.

Maggie Ryan and Nick O'Connor find a Brooklyn brownstone they want despite an unsettling tenant. A corpse upstairs adds another complication, drawing the couple into an investigation as they try to understand the house's hidden troubles.

Nick O'Connor hopes a role alongside star Ramona Ricci will advance his acting career while Maggie adjusts to their new baby. Ramona's shooting instead brings danger, and another man's ambitions pull Maggie into a deceptive scheme.

A family beach outing ends with the discovery of a reporter murdered inside his locked office. Pregnant Maggie Ryan becomes involved in the investigation, clashing with a police officer whose experiences in Vietnam complicate an already difficult case.

Statistician Maggie Ryan returns to her former university to advise on a reading study. When a retired professor dies before a celebratory lunch, she challenges the suicide verdict and investigates colleagues whose professional lives may conceal deadly motives.

Teenage runaway Ginny arrives at Maggie Ryan’s Brooklyn home after an argument with her grandmother. When Maggie learns the girl is suspected of murder in Maryland, she investigates undercover while buried connections threaten to unsettle both their families.