This Mystery Company/Crum Creek Press edition restores to print the 1985 novel that introduced Maggie Ryan.

Vietnam, assassinations and riots. In the spring semester of 1968, a series of brutal attacks draws campus women together to study self-defense and the psychology of rape. Graduate student Mary Beth Nelson struggles to keep the Lords of Death at bay by immersing herself in researching Mayan languages. Her new housemate, Maggie Ryan, has her own secrets. When murder strikes close to home, Maggie investigates with a little help from her friends.

This Mystery Company/Crum Creek Press edition restores to print the third novel in the Maggie Ryan series.

Murder Unrenovated

Steve Bradford has a good job, a loving wife and a precious daughter, but he dreams of life in Venezuela with another woman. Actor Nick O'Connor allows himself the luxury of a little hope, cast in a production with the famous Ramona Ricci. But there are new responsibilities too, as he and his wife, statistician Maggie Ryan, are adjusting to life with a baby daughter of their own. Then Ramona is shot, and Steve puts Maggie at the heart of a dangerous deception. This Mystery Company edition restores to print the fifth novel in the Maggie Ryan series.

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.

Maggie Ryan returns to academia in search of clues to a grisly murder, only to make the grim discovery that the key to the crime lies in the human brain's method of processing the written word

When a noisy neighbor is suddenly murdered, feisty independent Maggie Ryan attempts to solve the crime, all the while dealing with a delicate secret from her own past