These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat. Detective "Parks" Pat — Margie Patenaude — is a new Calgary homicide detective. Being Métis and a single mom, she has a few things on her plate. Working on a spate of murders in Calgary and area parks earns Margie her nickname.

Parks Pat Mysteries

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Out with the Sunset by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 27,560. Language: English. Published: September 3, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Margie Patenaude is new in town and wasn’t expecting to get called to a murder scene on her daughter’s first day of school. It’s an ugly murder in a beautiful setting. How can Calgary’s park-goers feel safe with a murderer still on the streets—or pathways? Margie and the team are on the case while at the same time she and her daughter try to acclimatize to the new city.
Long Climb to the Top by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,860. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Solving this case is going to be a long climb 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.
Dark Water Under the Bridge by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 32,840. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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.
Immersed in the View by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 32,890. Language: English. Published: April 15, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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.
Skimming Over the Lake by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 33,620. Language: English. Published: April 15, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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.
Hazard of the Hills by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 36,410. Language: English. Published: April 15, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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. It would appear that there is a lot more to be investigated after all.
Knows the Hills by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 32,470. Language: English. Published: June 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
An accidental death like the one in Nose Hill Park is always tragic, but what can a homicide detective be expected to do about it? 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.
Sanctuary in the Stream by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,150. Language: English. Published: June 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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. Nature can be cruel and beavers have been known to attack. This national symbol can be rabid and vicious. Yet that does not appear to be the case this time, and Parks Pat is on the case, hoping t
Spanning the Creek by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 35,630. Language: English. Published: June 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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. Sometimes an accident is just an accident. But sometimes it’s not.
Echoes of the Engine by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Pre-release—available July 19, 2024. Price: $3.99 USD. Language: English. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude did not expect to be the first one on the scene at a gruesome accidental death when a walk with Stella took a sudden turn for the worse. The below-grade pedestrian crossing was supposed to prevent such things, but the homeless man encamped up the slope apparently had his own ideas.
Bench With A View by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Pre-release—available July 19, 2024. Price: $3.99 USD. Language: English. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
When a lifeless body is discovered on a park bench, Detective Margie "Parks Pat" Patenaude is thrust into a perplexing case that will test her investigative skills.The victim, a woman who clearly didn't die at the scene, is posed as if she was simply resting, leaving Margie to question the motive behind this macabre display.
Beneath the Icy Depths by
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries. Pre-release—available July 19, 2024. Price: $3.99 USD. Language: English. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
They assured her that the woman probably didn’t feel a thing.When a woman falls through the ice to the dark and murky depths, the shiver she feels is not the anticipation of a twisted mystery, but that is what she gets.There is no indication that Mary’s death was a homicide, except for one niggling thing…