Callie"> callie & the dealer & a dog named jake Callie, a restaurateur on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, knows someone is stealing from the storeroom. As a hurricane blows in, she must confront him ...or her! ... in addition to the demons from her past. Available from your favorite bookstore, Amazon.com, BN.com or Direct from Publisher clickr here for our bookstore "An auspicious debut.  Wendy Howell Mills gives us an emotionally vulnerable woman on the run from her past...This newcomer writes like an old pro." Margaret Maron, Edgar-wining author of the Judge Deborah Knott series "The chilling danger of nature on the rampage plus human nature gone sour drive this compelling Outer Banks mystery by Wendy Howell Mills." Elizabeth Daniels Squire, author of the Peaches Dann absent-minded sleuth series   About the Author.... Wendy Howell Mills lives and works in the sumptuous Outer Banks of North Carolina where her story is set. Her day job gives her plenty of background for the story.     Wendy is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and DororthyL.      Notes of Note... Coming December 2002 from Coastal Carolina Press. Callie McKinley is back in the second book in the Outer Banks Mystery series, Murder of a Mermaid. It's fall on the Outer Banks, and most of the tourists have gone home, leaving restaurant manager Callie to enjoy the peace and quiet. But when a skull is discovered in the dune outside of the Holiday House Hotel, and Callie's head waitress disappears, Callie must use all her wits to solve five-year-old crime of thwarted love and obsession. About the Artist... Our own Mary Montague Sikes provided the photo which our designer used to create this stunning cover for Callie!   Callie & the Dealer & and a Dog Named Jake won the Dark Oak Mystery Contest in 2000! Return to:      Home Page    Hot Releases           Coming Attractions