The Parks Pat Mysteries are fast-paced Canadian police procedurals set in Calgary’s parks, pathways, reservoirs, gardens, and natural spaces. Métis police detective Margie Patenaude—Parks Pat to her colleagues—investigates crimes in places where beauty, history, weather, and terrain can all conceal vital evidence.
Each concise mystery offers a complete case, combining careful police work, memorable Calgary settings, and glimpses of Indigenous culture and community. Margie’s persistence and eye for physical detail guide her through suspicious deaths, buried secrets, missing evidence, and landscapes that never remain simple backdrops.
These quick-read mysteries are ideal when you want a satisfying police procedural without committing to a full-length novel. Start with Out with the Sunset and take a walk through Calgary with Parks Pat.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is another well-written, briskly-paced mystery featuring great characters, lots of interesting glimpses into Canada’s Indigenous culture, and a satisfying resolution all wrapped up in delightful quick-read police procedural by an author who could make a description of drying paint sound fascinating.
A murder in a beautiful Calgary park. A new detective with something to prove. Meet Métis detective Margie Patenaude in this fast-paced Canadian police procedural novella ...
(Book #2) Detective Pat is called out to another park homicide scene with disturbing similarities to the Fish Creek murder. Digging more deeply into the evidence reveals something even more worrisome. If her instincts are right, this case may hit a little too close to home ...
(Book #3) Detective “Parks” Pat has made a name for herself in solving the Fish Creek and Glenbow Ranch murders, so she is the one they call when a body turns up in Ralph Klein Park. She would be happy for the confidence placed in her if it weren’t for the fact that the body is in the water ...
Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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. Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman ...
