P.M. Carlson: Bad Blood (USA 2017)

From the Publisher:
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 eigth and final novel in the Maggie Ryan serie.

"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: Bad Blood. Maggie Ryan, 1979. The Crum Creek Press / The Mystery Company, ISBN: 9781932325522 (October, 2017), 296 p., $16.00, eBook $5.99.

P.M. Carlson: Bad Blood (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
The year is 1979. Maggie Ryan, the feisty, independent sometime-sleuth who appears in seven previous crime novels by P. M. Carlson, is brought face-to-face with a long-buried secret that she must try to keep in the dark as she brings a killer to light.

Maggie Ryan is a statistician and mother, married to an often out-of-work actor named Nick O'Connor. Coming home from work one autumn day, they find on their doorstep a troubled and angry runaway teeneger. The girl is wanted for questioning about the murder of John Spencer, a widower popular with the bridge-playing ladies of the local church.

Disguised as a reporter, Maggie plunges into the underside of the teenager's outwardly placid Washington, D.C., suburban home and uncovers drug abuse, blackmail, fraud, dark family secrets, and fierce family attachments that finally add up to the vicious murder of a polite, well-liked old gentleman.

With its twisty plot, and insightful probing of the social and family conflicts of the '70s, Bad Blood continues the high standards of excellence of a series that has become famous for its engaging, perceptive female sleuth.

P.M. Carlson: Bad Blood. Doubleday Crime Club, ISBN: 0385421222 (November, 1991), 306 p., $15.00.