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Ghost Next Door
During night-time fireworks at Coffee Creek's first official barbecue cook-off, deep in Texas Hill Country, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer trips over the murdered body of a sharp-tongued food writer. The hotly competitive grill-masters all possess sharp knives and stout alibis. With local law enforcement baffled, the mystery darkens when a malevolent stalker pursues Alice and her engaging but secretive client using arson, assault and highway terror. Alice finds herself needing far more than her legal skills to survive.An Alice MacDonald Greer legal thriller, full of smoke, music, mayhem and suspense.
276 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2018
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About the author
Helen Currie Foster
16 books45 followersHelen 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.
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.
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January 4, 2020
My husband likes to get me mysteries set in places we live for Christmas presents. I hadn’t heard of Currie, but really enjoyed this novel about a lawyer in a small town outside Austin who comes across a mystery though her work. It’s a well constructed mystery with solid plotting, fun red herrings, good dialogue, romance, and most importantly, characters with whom you want to spend some time. I look forward to reading the rest in the series!
January 25, 2026
Alice is on the Rules Committee of the very first bbq competition in Coffee Creek. She is also retained as an attorney for Caswell Black who is purchasing the Tindall Ranch which is right next to Clay Bond's ranch. The evening before the competition, the food writer turns up dead. Alice literally stumbles over his body.
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