Bird in Hand A Sam Tate Mystery

The body that washes out of the Chesapeake Bay belongs to Arley Fitchett, a local guide and treasure hunter. Was he the victim of a burgeoning drug war that has spread from Baltimore to Maryland's Eastern Shore? Or was he done in by his obsession with finding an 18th century carving that may not exist?Lieutenant Sam Tate, former Tennessee sheriff, has relocated to the sheriff's office in Talbot County, Maryland. She's come east to care for her mother and has jeopardized her career in the process. Worse, her nightmares involving a childhood trauma may contain the seeds of her own destruction. No matter. Her job is to find out how many others shared Fitchett's fixation. Any of them might become victims. One of them is definitely a murderer.