A Hilton Head detective's search for a woman's missing family leads to murder in this "tense, introspective and hard to put down" mystery ( Kirkus Reviews )."Wall's Low-Country Carolina setting and her strong female protagonist continue to make this a satisfying series, worthy of recommendation to fans of Julia Spencer-Fleming." — BooklistPrivate Investigator Bay Tanner is...

Winner of the Canada Book AwardsListed as one of Independent Book Review's "Books We Recommend: Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense"Worlds collide in this fast-paced tale of love and entanglement.Meet Chris, an attractive, intuitive man, comfortable living on the edge, and Sara, solid and less unconventional, but not without a flair for adventure. Pushed and pulled by their attraction to one another, they embark on a dance that u...

Bay Tanner's fledgling detective agency gets off the ground when she, the Judge, and Eric Whiteside look into the murder of an old college friend of Eric's. Right before he was killed, Grey Palmer Jr. contacted Eric to tell him that while working as an archeologist on the islands off of Beaufort, SC, he had found the remains of a man who was recently killed. The next day, Grey's body is found underwater, tied to his boat, his face mutilated by the boat's propeller. As Bay and Eric get clos...

To clear her name, Bay Tanner must uncover what happened to a missing teenager and unravel a conspiracy in this thrilling mystery.When Alain Darnay suddenly reappears on Hilton Head, Bay Tanner believes she and her former lover can finally settle into something resembling a normal life. But her tenuous peace is shattered by an innocent-looking boy with cold blue eyes who will force her to relive the nightmare of her husband's murder, to face that terrifying summer ...

While restoring her Hilton Head home after a brush with a hurricane, PI Bay Tanner reluctantly accepts bestselling true-crime writer Winston Wolfe as a client. Arrogant and secretive, Wolfe is researching the cold-case disappearance of reclusive millionaire Morgan Tyler Bell from his secluded private island off the South Carolina coast. Adding to the mystery, Bell's personal assistant vanished as well. But what has Bay's investigative antennae quivering is the apparent suicide at the time ...

When a fifth cousin twice removed calls Bay Tanner - a young, recently widowed, financial consultant - from the Beaufort County Jail, it's no accident. 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. What she's really after is a secret she's not willing to reveal-yet. 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 p...

Towering live oaks guard old secrets and powerful forces that even the spirited Bay Tanner can't control. . . .A freak summer storm has Bay Tanner, sometime private investigator, cooped up with her ailing father at his antebellum mansion near Hilton Head. Desperate for a distraction, Bay recovers a cooler bobbing along on the incoming tide. What she discovers inside will plunge her into a world of ancient magic where the power of the "root" has held sway since the days of the slave ...

Bleached-blond call girls rarely bring good news, especially the one who bursts through the door of Bay Tanner's struggling inquiry agency and into her already complicated life. Karen Zwilling swears she's been viciously attacked but can't—or won't—go to the police.With the tragedy of her husband's murder finally resolved, Bay has been yearning for a little tranquillity, but that hope is shattered, both by Karen's plea for help and by the unexpected reappearance of aging playboy Win...

Greed and deception drive the action in this tenth entry in the awardwinning series, set in South Carolina's sultry LowcountryWhen bank employee Cecelia Dobbs approaches Bay Tanner's inquiry agency, Bay has no idea her association with the awkward young woman will lead to murder. Concerned that one of her colleagues may be running a scam on the elderly and very wealthy Castlemains of Hilton Head Island, Cecelia is seeking proof she can take to the authorities. The other object of he...

In the sultry South Carolina Lowcountry, a young widow's investigation into a hit-and-run uncovers dark secrets that someone will kill to keep buried...Amateur sleuth Bay Tanner finds her love life heating up with Red, the local sheriff's sergeant and her late husband's brother. But when her housekeeper's son, Roberto, hints that a recent hit-and-run may have been more than an accident, Bay is drawn into a dangerous mystery. The victim, a crusader for the rights of...

Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "easy-to-use" manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offerin

Thyroid Ultrasonography and Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy: A Practical Guide and Picture Atlas is a concise and visual reference for diagnostic ultrasonography and needle biopsy of the human thyroid gland. The book provides the reader essential information on how to 1) distinguish between normal and abnormal thyroid sonograms, 2) differentiate low suspicion for malignancy thyroid nodules from sonographically high suspicion nodules, 3) evaluate cervical lymph nodes and parathyroid glands, a...