Perils of a Pregnant Sleuth (Callahan Banks Mystery)

[A] wonderfully layered story that brings together a fun cast of Southern characters... hard to put down. -San Francisco Book Review "...lyrical and poetic...(A) wonderfully evocative novel..."-IndieReader Ferociously independent biology professor, Callahan Banks, is thirty-two years old, six months pregnant, and happily single living in the wilds of her childhood home on Timicau Island, South Carolina. But there are complications. The baby's father, a wealthy forty-two-year-old bachelor, Pepper Dade, owns the island and is determined to marry her and raise their child together. When nine-year-old triplets relocate to the island and stumble upon the body of a stranger wrapped in barbed wire and drowned in a tidal creek, the hodgepodge cast of island inhabitants are thrown into a tizzy. From FaLa Jo Digsby, the four-time divorcee who sold Avon from her motorcycle, to Teelia Moultrie, a newly divorced single mother competing for Pepper's affections, to Chalmers Redpath, a reclusive obstetrician drawing suspicion for his curious architectural eccentricities-everyone on the island seems to have something to hide. When two more bodies are found, tensions on the island reach a fever pitch. Callahan's due date is nearing. Pepper is growing more frantic, and Teelia is waiting in the wings. Worse yet, the ever-observant Callahan is starting to suspect that the murderer may be one of the island's own. Will she keep fighting for her freedom or marry a man she may be learning to love? And can she and her young sidekick, Harry Applegate, the bright outlier in the triplet gang, find the murderer in time?

• | Author: Dershie Mcdevitt
• | Publisher: Bublish, Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1647046092
• | ISBN-13: 9781647046095