Perils of a Pregnant Sleuth

"McDevitt’s standout follow up to Just Holler Bloody Murder expertly blends romance and mystery…" —BookLife, Editor’s Pick Perfect for fans of Danielle Collins and Aloha Alibi’s Murder Mystery Book Club and Jasmine Webb's Charlotte Gibson Mysteries series. 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