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Covenant Hall: A Bay Tanner Mystery (Bay Tanner Mysteries)

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In Hilton Head, South Carolina private investigator Bay Tanner struggles with two difficult inquiries that are personal. Heart wrenching she needs to find rather quickly one of the long lost sisters of Joline Eastman, whose child Kimmie needs a bone marrow transplant from a suitable match donor before she dies from leukemia. Her other case is not life-threatening, but matters a great deal to her. She reads her dying father's will in which he mentions Julia Simpson, a half-sister of whom Bay she never knew she had.

Bay is stunned when Joline's friends and family refuse to cooperate in spite of the clock ticking on Kimmie's life. On the other hand she is not stunned that Julia's guardian has doubts and cocnerns about whether she should agree to the half-sister meeting. As her dad retired judge Talbot Simpson nears death, Bay also must decide whether she will actually marry her fiancé police sergeant Red Tanner, the brother of her deceased husband.

Both of Tanner's cases hit her gut with the fury of a Tsunami. Frantic from the start she personalizes saving Kimmie's life especially when no one who might have a clue cooperates, and obsesses over meeting Julia. Ironically though fans have waited for her decision whether to marry Red, in COVENANT HALL that feels minor and intrusive when compared to Kimmie and to a lesser degree Julia. Fans will relish Bay's latest cases as each gets personal.

Harriet Klausner

Kathryn Wall has done it again!! The story is crisp and exciting; the locations are wonderful. Really got to know the characters! I couldn't ask for a better read.

Wonderful book, I couldn't wait to read another of Kathryn Wall's books. They are wonderful. Once I started reading (and I know how this sounds) but I couldn't put it down. Can't wait for the next one.

Some of us read just for the pleasure of it. And to me a good book is one that flows, sentence to sentence, and thought to thought. Jumping around is distracting, and Kathryn Wall is consistant with a smooth flow. Yet surprises come out of nowhere. That is a nice art. A delightful way to entertain oneself.

This is the ninth story in the Bay Tanner series set in beautiful Hilton Head, SC. Wall is very creative and explicit when detailing the background and describing the area around this exclusive area of SC.

As a Private Investigator, Bay has been involved in some very dangerous situations. This time out, it's not the physical danger, but the mental and emotional perils that drive Bay to seek answers in places she has never before tread.

Finding the missing relatives for a woman whose daughter needs a bone marrow transplant, and finding she may have a sister, puts Bay on the hunt for missing relatives.

The health of her father and her relationship with her lover Red are also feeling strain and stress. Can she beat the clock and find the missing relatives before the child succumbs to the inevitable? Will Bay find her heretofore-unknown sister; will her father rally from his illness one more time? And what about the relationship with Red, is it over or are they going to be able to set their world back on track?

This book spans only a week or so in real-time. Bay travels back and forth from her beloved Hilton Head to the small islands off the SC coast looking for clues to both problems. Little does she know all her answers are actually in one small area. Both families are tied to the small island of Edisto, and it is here that Bay can find the answers to her questions for both the child's sake and her own.

I have been a fan of Katheryn Wall since her very first novel and have to say this one is the best yet. I love the sense of continuity in her stories and how this one pulls together strands of Bay's family history in a very satisfying way. One definitely should read the earlier books to appreciate Covenant Hall. It will be time well spent.

By far the most exciting and deepest emotionally of the Bay Tanner series (which are all excellent)!

I'm from that area which makes each mystery more personal. Keep them coming Ms. Wall.

Not much more to say than I loved Covenant Hall and love all Bay Tanner Mysteries! Kathryn R. Wall, in my opinion, is a most gifted writer, and as fast as she can "turn out this line of books, I'll be reading them!