Pat Arneson Author

Pat Arneson AuthorPat Arneson AuthorPat Arneson Author

Pat Arneson Author

Pat Arneson AuthorPat Arneson AuthorPat Arneson Author

Engaging Stories that Captivate Readers

Engaging Stories that Captivate ReadersEngaging Stories that Captivate ReadersEngaging Stories that Captivate Readers

Engaging Stories that Captivate Readers

Engaging Stories that Captivate ReadersEngaging Stories that Captivate ReadersEngaging Stories that Captivate Readers

Experience and Expertise

Pat Arneson is an author, a storyteller, a licensed clinical therapist with decades of experience in high-trauma settings,

a certified equine-assisted therapist, and an adventurer who advocates living great stories, big and small. 

She walked away from danger. Death followed her.

  

Therapist Abby Maguire is no stranger to violence. After years of counseling killers and victims, she needs a break. Her new job doing equine-assisted therapy should have been a stroll in the countryside—instead, she is surrounded by secrets, sabotage, and murder. Abby struggles to escape her own past, while grappling with ghosts in the hearts of others.  

Headstrong and relentless, Abby won’t stop until she finds the truth—unless the killer finds her first. 

  

https://bookshop.org/p/books/simply-dead/b5739fb28d2261c5?ean=9798992256208&next=t 

  

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/simply-dead-pat-arneson/1146961064

  

https://www.target.com/p/simply-dead-by-pat-arneson-paperback/-/A-1004581261#lnk=sametab 


BOOK TWO OF THE MAGUIRE MYSTERY SERIES

SHE MADE IT OUT ALIVE. BUT IS SHE OUT OF THE WOODS?

  

Desperate for a change of pace, therapist Abby Maguire took a short assignment at an equine-assisted therapy ranch. After decades spent in the trenches of other people’s trauma, she wanted to find some calm. When dead bodies started turning up, foul play evident, it seemed she couldn’t catch a break - but, she did catch a killer. 

Investigation complete and assignment extended, Abby wants nothing more than to immerse herself in doing what she does best: helping people heal. Summer turns to autumn, and the days grow short in the woods of central Minnesota. But darkness grows as the seasons change, and death is once again close at hand. Abby’s surroundings may be beautiful, serene - but not everything that is quiet is safe.


https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-empty-dark-pat-arneson/576f28759d06fda6?ean=9798992256222&next=t

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-empty-dark-pat-arneson/1148117867?ean=9798992256222

REVIEW FOR SIMPLY DEAD

I fell in love with her protagonist … and the rest of the colorful cast.

 Pat does a great job of creating interesting, flawed characters who hold my attention … The mystery was intriguing with lots of potential suspects and several non-obvious twists. I hope Abby Maguire will be back in another book in the not too distant future.


Dean Hovey, award-winning author of the Doug Fletcher, Whistling Pines, and Pine County mysteries.  

Readers on location at Maguire Mystery Series setting

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