Description: 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.

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