P.M. Carlson: Murder in the Dog Days (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to remain at home to follow up on an important story results in a tragic discovery when the beach-goers return: Dale's body in a pool of blood inside his locked office. Vietnam veteran turned police officer Holly Schreiner leads the investigation, battling Maggie-and demons of her own.

This Mystery Company edition restores to print the sixth novel in the Maggie Ryan series, a 1992 Edgar Award nominee.

"An ingeniously plotted, fair-play, locked-room mystery, one of the best we've encountered." Tom & Enid Schantz in The Denver Post

P.M. Carlson: Murder in the Dog Days. Maggie Ryan, 1975. The Crum Creek Press / The Mystery Company, ISBN: 9781932325379 (May, 2014), 274 p., $16.00, eBook $5.99.

P.M. Carlson: Murder in the Dog Days (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
To escape the broiling New York summer Maggie Ryan, her actor husband, Nick, and daughter, Sarah, head for historic Civil War country -- Mosby, Virginia. But Mosby's simmering Southern heat hides as many sinister secrets as there are citizens.

For one Mosbyite, reporter Dale Colby, is about to publish a hot exposé about prominent -- and not-so-prominent -- townsfolk. He's in his air-conditioned den. The door is bolted, the windows locked. Nobody can get in-or out. But there lies Dale, in a pool of blood, deader than the story he'd intended to write.

The list of villagers with motives is as long as the Mosby phone book. But only outsider Maggie can figure out who did it -- once she realizes how it was done.

"Carlson writes with a sure hand, warm intelligence and glowing empathy." The Drood Review of Mystery

P.M. Carlson: Murder in the Dog Days. Maggie Ryan, 1975. Bantam Crime Line Books, ISBN: 0553277782 (January, 1991), 274 p., $3.95.