<p>A cold case heats up . . .<br />
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A dead man in Big Bay Creek, spring break, and a rogue FBI agent would be enough to drive Chief Callie Jean Morgan to drink . . . if she hadn&#39;t already quietly crawled inside a bottle of gin to drown her sorrows over a life ripped apart by too many losses.<br />
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When her investigation into the stranger&rsquo;s death heats up an unsolved abduction case, Callie finds herself pitted against the town council, her son, the agent, and even the raucous college kids enjoying idyllic Edisto Beach.<br />
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Amidst it all, Callie must find a way to reconcile her grief and her precious taste for gin before anyone else is killed.<br />
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C. Hope Clark is the award-winning author of the <em>Carolina Slade Mysteries</em> and now the <em>Edisto Island Mysteries</em>. During her career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she met and married a federal agent&mdash;now a private investigator. She plots murder mysteries at their lakeside home in South Carolina when not visiting Edisto Beach. Visit Hope at chopeclark.com.</p>