From Charleston to Hilton Head, Family matters . -- Library Journal on The Mercy Oak Third book in the Bay Tanner mystery series..
Highly recommended.
Wall, in a quiet and unassuming way, has produced a body of work of equal quality.
Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Marcia Muller come to mind as the quintessential writers of the modern female private eye novel. . . . . . .
Bay begins a desperate hunt for her shirttail cousin through the twisted alleys of the past, from Civil War days to a plantation called Perdition House, and to one last deadly fight.
Before Bay can help straighten out Mercer\'s problems, the mousy young woman disappears.
But when Bay generously takes Mercer back to the family mansion of Presqu\'isle, she finds that this distant kin comes with a lot of personal baggage--and some very dangerous pursuers.
What she\'s really after is a secret Bay\'s not willing to reveal--yet.
Mercer Mary Prescott spent a lot of time and trouble locating Bay on the family tree, and she needs more than bail out of the relationship.
When a fifth cousin twice removed calls Bay Tanner--a young, recently widowed financial consultant--from the Beaufort County Jail, it\'s no accident. and murder is relative. . .
From Charleston to Hilton Head, Family matters
