Perils of a Pregnant Sleuth

<p><strong>An indomitable protagonist a quirky supporting case and plenty of Southern charm make this mystery a treat.</strong><em>-</em><strong><em>Kirkus</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>McDevitt's standout follow up to <em>Just Holler Bloody Murder </em>expertly blends romance and mystery... <em>-BookLife Editor's Pick</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...a great piece of 'chick-lit' as well as a mystery story. <em>-Readers' Favorite</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>[A] wonderfully layered story that brings together a fun cast of Southern characters... hard to put down.<em> -San Francisco Book Review</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...lyrical and poetic...(A) wonderfully evocative novel... <em>-IndieReader</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect for fans of Danielle Collins and Aloha Alibi's <em>Murder Mystery Book Club</em> and Jasmine Webb's <em>Charlotte Gibson Mysteries </em>series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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?</span></p><p><br></p>