Covenant Hall: A Bay Tanner Mystery

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

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.

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