Maggie Ryan, 1969

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 gesture Maggie does not appreciate.  While Maggie and Nick search for the killer, Monica struggles to connect with a young man who was shot in the head in Vietnam.

This Mystery Company edition restores to print the third novel in the Maggie Ryan series.

Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-932325-27-0 | 2013 | $16.00

“[Carlson’s] work offers a unique combination of empathy for her characters, her sense of history, and her ability to weave the social and political currents of the ‘60s and early ‘70s into the stories.” — The Drood Review of Mystery