Bench with a View
Join Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude on a thrilling journey through the dark underbelly of crime as she investigates a perplexing murder case in this gripping crime thriller set in Calgary’s beautiful parks.
Police Procedural
Beneath the Icy Depths
Skate into a thrilling Parks Pat Mystery! Detective Margie Patenaude delves into a twisted murder that will send shivers down your spine.
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Parks Pat Cases 1-6
Join Métis detective and single mom Margie Patenaude in the Parks Pat Mysteries series by P.D. Workman as she solves murders in Calgary’s stunning parks.
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Sanctuary in the Stream
Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to an idyllic scene in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Where the scene is marred only by the body of a man who apparently got in the way of beaver construction.
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Spanning the Creek
City Hall wanted the death of Samuel Keller to be anything but an accident. Confederation Park had seen too many tragedies lately and did not need another added to the tally.
But Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude had not been expecting to find evidence of murder.
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Knows the Hills
Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to the gruesome scene, and despite what she can see with her own eyes, does not believe that this is an open-and-shut case of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Parks Pat Cases 4-6
The writing is excellent, the plot is nice and twisty and the the characters and situations are believable. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to seeing where she takes these new characters.
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Hazard of the Hills
(Book #6) This case might just leave Margie feeling nostalgic about the water deaths she has been investigating lately.
A woman is found at the bottom of a 70-meter drop. It is pretty clear from the beginning that she was killed in the fall.
But you can never be sure until the medical examiner’s report comes back.
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Skimming over the Lake
(Book #5) It’s Parade Day, and Margie would have thought that any trouble would have centered around drinking and motor vehicles. Or being trampled by horses. Or clowns. But the latest homicide investigation is nowhere near the parade route, but on the outskirts of town. And the culprit appears to be a tiny boat.
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Immersed in the View
(Book #4) Detective “Parks” Pat is back. Now an established and accepted member of the homicide squad, she unexpectedly brings a new case to the table when she stumbles across a body as Canada Day dawns. While it was initially assumed to be an accidental drowning, the autopsy results say otherwise.
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