title: Death of a Mermaid: A Callie McKinley Outer Banks Mystery
author:  Wendy Howell Mills 
description: Wendy Howell Mills, like her heroine Callie McKinley, was a restaurant manager on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. She now lives in St. James City, FL. Mills is also the author of <i>Callie &amp; The Dealer</i> and <i>A Dog Named Jake</i>, the winner of the Dark Oak Mystery Award, and the first book in the Callie McKinley Outer Banks Mystery Series.
zlib_text: PANIC IN THE TREATS
  SWEETFERN HARBOR MYSTERY #16
  
  WENDY MEADOWS
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Wendy Meadows
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s
  imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any
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  locales is completely coincidental.
  
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  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
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  CHAPTER ONE
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