Ghosted

by Helen Currie Foster

Five years after her husband’s helicopter vanished in the North Sea, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer flies to Scotland to identify his possible remains. She returns home to Coffee Creek, Texas, with more questions than answers. What happened to the chopper? Who disappeared just before it went down? Why does the trail lead east to Hong Kong and deep-sea operations in the Pacific? Back in Texas, Alice has little time to sort out old mysteries when she’s plunged into helping solve the brutal death of Nanette, a young lawyer and friend. Nanette’s worries that her legal work was being used to hide money laundering may have been proven horribly correct. Alice finds herself torn between the past, with the British Consulate showing up with questions about her dead husband’s family, and the present, as she tries to help Nanette’s family unmask their daughter’s killer. Ghosted is a compelling mix of past wrongs and present sins—featuring Alice and the feisty characters of colorful Coffee Creek in the Texas Hill Country.

300 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2023

About the author

Helen Currie Foster writes the Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery series, set in the Texas Hill Country west of Austin, with its quirky characters, hidden springs and spectacularly rough landscape.

Helen taught high school English and covered local politics for a weekly newspaper which gave her a ringside seat for battles over sewers, water mains, and development. She headed for law school and after thirty years practicing environmental and regulatory law and litigation, she found the character Alice and her stories had suddenly appeared in her life. From childhood Helen loved mysteries...and still does.

Married with two children, Helen lives north of Dripping Springs, Texas, supervised by three burros. She's deeply curious about human history and how, uninvited, the past keeps crashing the party. Current preoccupations include the impact of mass production of weapons in the Bronze Age, debates over altruism vs. competition in human nature, and the fascinating research on human prehistory.

Helen serves on the boards of Austin Shakespeare and the Heart of Texas Sisters in Crime.

Reviews

[Jennine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always fun to read mysteries taking place in the small town where you live!!

[Corinne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book no 8 by this mystery writer. Now I have to wait for her to write another! I learned a lot about rare earths in this one.