Dead Duck (Sam and Hollis, Book 2)

JUDGE FINDLAY S. FISH NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT HIM. . . .

The murder weapon was an expensive antique snow goose decoy--a treasure that a zillion others at the Eastern Shore Decoy Jamboree would gladly kill for.

Reporter Hollis Ball of The Watertown Gazette wasn't too crazy about Judge Fish, who recently gave a convicted wife murderer a light sentence. But Hollis is certain that her old schoolmate didn't bash the judge, as the police suspect.

So she lets her dead ex-husband--that charming ghost Sam Wescott--suck her into finding the real killer. When they succeed, Hollis will have the story of her life . . . if she lives to write about it.

Helen Chappell is a writer for The Baltimore Sun, contributing features, book reviews, and columns, including a monthly column of short-short fiction about the Eastern Shore called "Oysterback." Her radio play Oysterback debuted on National Public Radio, where her commentaries are also heard. She is the author of Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death.

Ms. Chappell lives in Easton, Maryland.