Just Holler Bloody Murder: 1 (Callahan Banks Mystery)

Heres a new kind of sleuth with an ecological bent and an unlikely sidekick a sometimes tense sometimes funny murder mystery with a touch of romance. - P.B. Parris author of Waltzing in the Attic and His Arms are Full of Broken ThingsCallahan Banks returns to her beloved Timicau Island near Charleston South Carolina to settle her mothers estate. Her grief is compounded by Pepper Dades plans to develop the island and destroy the only home shes ever known. When the body of a bikini-clad blonde washes up on the beach Callahan is pulled into a web of intrigue that has her questioning all she thought she knew about her own life. Struggling to resist her attraction to Pepper Callahan suspects he may be involved in the death of the blonde. She ignores her misgivings until nine-year-old freckle-faced Harry Applegate her sidekick disappears. Now Callahan must muster all her skills as a naturalist and tracker to find the little boy before its too late.