Synopses & Reviews
Compared by Publishers Weekly to New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb, Helen Chappell makes her debut at Dell with "Ghost of a Chance", her third Hollis Ball and Sam Wescott mystery, set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, featuring a newpaper reporter and her "living-impaired" ex-husband, who uses his ghostly talents to look out for his former wife's safety and happiness.
"Ghost of a Chance" is Helen Chappell's third mystery featuring Hollis Ball and her ex-husband San Wescott, Hollis and Sam have an unusual relationship: Sam is "living-impaired", and he uses his ghostly talents to look out for his former wife's safety and happiness, "Ghost of a Chance", Sam will have to use all of his powers to help Hollis when the police dredge up a '68 Caddy from the bottom of the Santimoke River and find a body inside -- together with a huge sum of cash. When Hollis, a reporter for The Watertown Gazette, begins asking questions about the body and uncovers a tangled knot of family secrets, stolen art, and local prejudices, she finds that someone is eager to see that Hollis and Sam spend all of eternity together -- beginning as soon as possible.
Synopsis
On Maryland's salt-swept Eastern Shore, a woman reporter has a dilapidated old house, a dysfunctional family, and a talent for solving mysteries. How does wisecracking, love-burned Hollis Ball find out so much about other people's secrets? Just ask the ghost at her side.
Once he was her husband--and not a very good one at that. Now Sam Wescott is a ghost. And what he lacks in respect for Hollis's privacy, he makes up in his ability to talk to the dead. For Hollis, Sam's talent has never come in handier. A vintage Cadillac has been resurrected from the muddy waters beneath a highway bridge, and in it are the bones of a woman. Now a community of fishermen, crabbers, and local boys-turned-millionaires is being ripped apart by a mysterious death thirty years old. And when another body is found in Chesapeake Bay, Hollis and Sam join forces: to catch a killer who is alive and all too well....
About the Author
Helen Chappell is a writer whose work has appeared in The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. She is the author of two previous Sam Wescott and Hollis Ball mysteries, Dead Duck and Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death. She lives in Easton, Maryland.