P.M. Carlson

CROSSFIRE
The newest Marty Hopkins mystery
Severn House, ISBN 978 0 7278 6388 1
Midnight in wintry Indiana. Her unsupportive new boss has sent Deputy Sheriff Marty Hopkins to report on an insignificant cabin fire in a remote area near the national forest. But the investigation takes on national importance and personal anguish when she finds a local man cruelly murdered, and his murderer vanished into thin air. Her search for the killer is complicated by a visiting lawyer from New York and by two strange clowns. And how can Marty get any sleep when her teenage daughter insists on listening to that rock music?

"Marty uses her keen intelligence and hard-jawed tenacity to unearth the sad and shocking truth. A fine addition to this engaging series." Booklist

GRAVESTONE
The first Marty Hopkins mystery
Deputy Sheriff Marty Hopkins has her hands full with her nine-year-old daughter, her wandering husband, an old judge raving that his long-missing daughter is trying to kill him -- and a grisly murder marked with a charred cross, the calling-card of the Ku Klux Klan. A tip from an eccentric biologist sends Marty to a cave deep in the Indiana limestone, where she's plunged into a harrowing confrontation, trapped under the earth, alone with chilling fears and shattering secrets that cannot bear the light of day.


"Quite simply. Gravestone is the best series debut I have ever read. The story is gripping and dramatic, and there is a climax in a dark, deserted cave that will hold you spellbound." Rave Reviews

"An ambitious, multilayered, richly textured novel." Denver Post

BLOODSTREAM
The second Marty Hopkins mystery
When fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato's body is found floating in the White River, Deputy Sheriff Marty Hopkins investigates local residents and also a group of newcomers, a teenage church group working on an archaelogical dig of a utopian village. Marty is a cop but she’s also a mother, and soon a second tragedy triggers every parent’s nightmare. Someone is out there, someone haunted by dreadful torments, roaming the riverbanks, stalking new prey.

"Shocking. . . .In Marty Hopkins, Carlson has created a heroine who exemplifies today's independent working woman struggling to balance the diverse and challenging demands of work and home." Park Slope Courier

"As the river and the suspense rise to a crescendo, Marty endures watery danger of her own before solving this affecting puzzle." Publishers Weekly

DEATHWIND
The third Marty Hopkins mystery
Severn House, ISBN 0-7278-6175-1
At four a.m., Marty Hopkins knows the phone calls won't be good news. First her long-gone husband threatens her with a nasty divorce, breaking her daughter's heart. Then her boss the sheriff asks her to investigate how a young woman died in the lobby of a closed, locked bank. And she's still working on the disappearance of Tom and Dee Turley's talented teenaged daughter Coral. A visiting rock star complicates the picture. To find the answers she'll have to battle PR men, lawyers, rapists, and hit men, while a murderous Midwestern tornado churns toward them.

RENOWNED BE THY GRAVE; or, The Murderous Miss Mooney
Being an actress in the late nineteenth century can be fraught with peril. For one thing, there are the lecherous theatregoers--but Bridget Mooney can avoid them, except of course when she doesn't want to. More bothersome are the crimes and mysteries she encounters involving people like Ulysses S. Grant, Lillie Langtry, Thomas Alva Edison, and Jesse James. Two of the ten stories in Renowned Be Thy Grave were finalists for the Agatha Christie Award.

GERMAN
P.M. Carlsons Krimis in deutscher Übersetzung
Grabes Stimme (Gravestone)
Knochenstrom (Bloodstream)
Todes Hauch (Deathwind)
Miss Mooney (Renowned Be Thy Grave)

CROATIAN
Roman Patricije M. Carlson na hrvatskom jeziku
Grob u kamenu (Deathwind)