Bøger af Helen Currie Foster

The latest installment in the Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery series finds the intrepid sleuth caught up in the intriguing world of Texas country folk music when one popular artist is found dead in a swimming pool and another goes missing.The body of folk icon Annie Temple is discovered just before a concert at the chic recording studio and retreat of Twin Springs, and police suspect a young singer-songwriter, Tessa McElroy, of the murder. It seems that Annie recorded a commercial using Tessa's signature song without her permission. But Alice has concerns about the business practices of the recording studio-and owner Ray Gimble's strange obsession with killing an engaging stray dog.Alice is also hired to help a local rancher deal with the abandoned belongings of Blanton Geddes, the fabled bad-boy singer known for sporadically disappearing-except this time, he's left behind not only his truck but also an unpublished novel and recordings of a new song cycle.Set against the rustic beauty of Texas Hill Country, Ghost Dog features lively dialogue, quirky characters, and heartfelt music as the small-town lawyer unravels an old mystery to solve a new one.

The third title in the Alice MacDonald Greer mystery series, Ghost Letter follows the lawyer and sometime sleuth as she continues to build her practice-and her life-in the arid beauty of Texas Hill Country. When a local antiques dealer presents a letter to Congressman Sandro Navarro that suggests his father, Alejandro, is the illegitimate heir of a long-dead oil scion named Alex Drinkman, Alice knows that this information will likely cause plenty of waves in the community.Sure enough, someone leaks the letter to the press, setting off a chain of events that culminates in the death of one of Sandro's top aides...and Alice agreeing to represent ninety-four-year-old Alejandro in his quest to establish himself as Drinkman's rightful heir.But powerful oil barons don't take kindly to people staking claim on their land or money. Alice and Alejandro quickly find themselves targets of the Drinkman family's considerable power-plunging Alice into a world of antique rifles, spy technology, and corrupt politics-all while juggling her friendships with local characters like Red, who runs a horse rescue operation, and navigating an increasingly smoldering relationship with Ben Kinsear.

In Book 1 of the Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery series by award-winning author Helen Currie Foster, ...big-city lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer moves her office to the small town of Coffee Creek, in the heart of Texas Hill Country. She's just beginning to meet the locals when brusque, elderly rancher Ollie West walks into her office. Ollie wants a trust to protect prehistoric rock paintings on his ranch. Intrigued by the unexpected power of the ancient art, Alice obliges.When Ollie is murdered, Alice feels bound to honor his wishes-despite some family opposition. A series of inept break-ins at Alice's office and ranch escalates into violence by an unknown adversary. Climbing the limestone cliffs of Cloud Ranch to seek inspiration from the rock art, Alice finds herself not only fighting to vindicate Ollie, but fighting for her life.Ghost Cave plunges the reader into a world of ancient shamans and murderous greed. In the heart of Texas, the passion for land runs deep-sometimes dangerously so.

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.

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 honed 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 Mystery, full of smoke, music, mayhem and suspense.