num_pages: 256
description: The first appearance of Barrett Raines in A Rock and a Hard Place added an intelligent and extraordinarily engaging black policeman to the short roster of leading Afro-American fictional detectives.At the end of A Rock and a Hard Place , Raines is so torn by the conflicts he faced that he's gone into an emotional tailspin. While trying to save himself from depression Raines gets a new case. It involves the discovery of a mysterious stranger's body that strongly speaks of illicit dealings and Raines is pressed to follow a trail that takes him to an island so remote he can hardly find the way to it. There he encounters a situation that forces him to call upon his courage and his intelligence not only to solve the crime but to save his life.
language: English
title: Dead Man's Bay
titlecomplete: Dead Man's Bay (Barrett Raines, #2)
ratings_count: 14
series: Barrett Raines
publisher: Minotaur Books