Bay Tanner Books in Order

After surviving her husband's murder, Bay retreats to Hilton Head only to be drawn into a shaky development scheme threatening her old friends. A body near a ruined plantation links money, land, and grief in unsettling ways.

Bay's old friend Jordan returns to South Carolina convinced her mother did not die of natural causes. Between family pressure, international intrigue, and a hurricane bearing down, Bay is pulled into a volatile search for the truth.

A distant cousin's call from jail pulls Bay into a family tangle of missing women, old plantations, and dangerous pursuers. The search for answers sends her through Civil War shadows and toward a deadly reckoning.

Back from Paris and nursing fresh heartbreak, Bay is drawn into trouble at her father's Beaufort home and the death of an archaeologist. An old grave on a coastal island leads to a buried conspiracy with deep local roots.

A bitter teenager accuses Bay of knowing the truth about his father's death, then vanishes, leaving blood behind. Soon Bay and her lover are suspects, forced to untangle corruption, grief, and buried history.

A terrified call girl, a long-missing heir, and a beaten corpse on the beach throw Bay into several cases at once. What looks like separate trouble slowly tightens into one dangerous puzzle.

After a summer storm, Bay finds a gruesome clue drifting in on the tide and stumbles into a world of old beliefs and newer crimes. A missing wife, a backwoods commune, and rising danger pull her deeper in.

A suspected hit-and-run draws Bay into a tangle of robberies, prejudice, and Lowcountry secrets. When people close to her start disappearing and someone wants her off the case, the investigation becomes painfully personal.

Bay takes a case involving a desperate mother searching for relatives who could save her leukemia-stricken daughter. At the same time, her father's whispered confession opens a family mystery that cuts much closer to home.

A timid bank employee asks Bay to look into a scheme aimed at a wealthy elderly couple, then disappears after a sudden death. As Bay's new marriage strains, every lead points to divided loyalties and carefully hidden motives.

A secretive true-crime writer hires Bay to revisit the disappearance of a millionaire who vanished from his private island. Strange behavior, an old supposed suicide, and mounting lies make the cold case feel dangerously alive.

Bay Tanner starts receiving childish, unsettling messages from a stalker just as a new case lands on her desk. An aging landowner, a greedy nephew, and a suspicious death turn memory and real estate into dangerous ground.

When a man from novelist Elizabeth Stanton's past resurfaces and approaches her young daughter, panic sends her running again. Bay Tanner helps Liz plot a way out before an old nightmare turns deadly.

An old school friend asks Bay Tanner to help an abused woman before things turn fatal. Then the husband vanishes from his yacht, and Bay must decide whether the battered wife is a victim, a suspect, or both.