Judas Island (Bay Tanner Mystery) - Hardcover

Praise for "Perdition House" "Kathryn Wall's touch and tender sleuth Bay Tanner takes top honors in any list of new female investigators. In "Perdition House," Bay deals with a painful past and a dicey future. Wall hauntingly evokes the lovely South Carolina Low Country in a suspenseful novel of lost love, double dealing, and danger. First rate."- Carolyn Hart, author of "April Fool Dead" "The suspense ratchets up periodically, the characters are all well drawn and unique, and the writing evokes the new South without resorting to stereotype. Best of all, Bay makes a believable and appealing protagonist.""- The Cleveland Plain Dealer" "If anything, Wall's stories are getting better. I found myself eager to get home from work so I could finish reading. And this wasn't a book I rushed through. It's an enjoyable story from beginning to end."- "Beaufort Gazette" ..".St. Martin's Minotaur has a real winner on its hands with Bay Tanner, and South Carolina has a rising literary star in Kathryn Wall."- "The State, Columbia South Carolina"

Bay Tanner's agency gets started when she, the Judge, and Erik look into the death of Erik's old friend. Before he was murdered, Gray contacted Erik to tell him that he had found the body of a recently killed man while working as an archaeologist on the islands off of South Carolina. The next day, Gray's body is found underwater, tied to his boat, his face mutilated by the boat's propeller. As Bay and Erik get closer to the truth, they find themselves uncovering secrets that have long been buried