Maggie Ryan, 1979

After an argument with her grandmother at her Maryland home, sixteen-year-old Ginny Marshall – “born rotten,” according to Gram – gets high and runs away.  She turns up on the doorstep of Maggie Ryan and Nick O’Connor’s Brooklyn brownstone.  Her presence in Brooklyn is unsettling, but, more urgently, Ginny is a suspect in a murder investigation back home.  Maggie travels undercover to Maryland, where she searches for a killer as threads from the past threaten to unravel both families.

This Mystery Company edition is the first paperback publication of the eighth and final novel in the Maggie Ryan series.

Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-932325-52-2 | 2017

“How great that Patricia Carlson’s entire Maggie Ryan series is back in print! She’s been a role model for women since the beginning and I loved watching her merge marriage and children with her talent for solving mysteries.”

— Margaret Maron

"P.M. Carlson’s energetic and insightful novels are back in print — hallelujah!"

— Sara Paretsky