P.M. Carlson 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.

Indiana deputy Marty Hopkins is assigned to a sick judge who fears his vanished daughter wants to kill him. As evidence emerges from limestone caves, her enquiry intersects with racially motivated murders and Ku Klux Klan activity.

Deputy Marty Hopkins investigates when a missing teenager’s mutilated body is found in an Indiana river. Suspicion falls on a developer restoring a historic religious settlement, where archaeological work and local history may conceal a more immediate danger.

Nineteenth-century actress Bridget Mooney travels through a theatrical world filled with ambition, opportunists, and murder. These ten historical mysteries bring her into contact with famous figures as she uses wit and unconventional methods to protect her independence.

Deputy Marty Hopkins investigates an apparent arson death at a hunting cabin shared with a former sheriff who resents her. The fire awakens painful memories, while conflicting loyalties turn a seemingly straightforward inquiry into a dangerous personal challenge.

As tornado season approaches southern Indiana, Deputy Marty Hopkins is called to investigate a young woman found dead in a bank lobby. The unclear cause of death turns an unsettling discovery into a difficult puzzle for her small sheriff’s department.