A Luanne Fogarty mystery

Luann Forgarty lives on the edge of Lake Palmetto and the swamp around it. She is a diver working for the local police. Both her current love, and former love work for them as well.

One morning she hears a woman's screams mixing in with the critter noise and upon investigating she finds 2 midwives attending a woman on a bloody bed who had just given birth. One if the women is holding a bundle which is the just delivered baby while the other gathers up pans and bloody rags As she was calling an ambulance, the two midwives and the bundle one is holding disappear into the swamp. The new mother is transported and subsequently dies.

This begins a tale which leads to illegal midwifery, selling babies, murder, and a plot to reap big money for the sale of swamp land to developers. The terrain is almost a character as it figures so prominently in the story.

This is the 2nd book in this series, and I look forward to the next one. Very good!

**** 4 Stars