The three burros who live with Alice MacDonald Greer, lawyer/amateur sleuth protagonist of my Texas Hill Country legal thrillers, bear a...

April 1! It's spring, with a riot of bluebonnets this year. Plus paintbrush! Winecup! Verbena! Prairie celestials (so lovely)! And within...

by Helen Currie Foster August 8, 2022 Our family’s favorite mystery quote (bolded below) appears in Strong Poison, by Dorothy Sayers,...

by Helen Currie Foster – May 16, 2022 Cast your mind on the perfect croissant. A perfect croissant may have hundreds of layers of dough +...

Have you noticed that the roads diverged in a yellow wood? So Frost was thinking of fall, in “The Road Not Taken” (1916). Leaves turn...

[First appeared in Austin Mystery Writers and Ink-Stained Wretches) Driving into New Mexico with my husband (favorite long-time travel...

In the back of the closet I recently unearthed my mother’s old Caswell Massey “Gardenia” bubble bath. The resulting bath held astonishing...

First published on Ink-Stained Wretches I know, you’re asking yourself what barbecue has to do with mystery writing, my other beloved...

Why, exactly, do we take such interest in what our favorite detectives eat or what a character like Aunt Agatha grabs for first at...

“With her extraordinary and narrative driven storytelling style, author and novelist Helen Currie Foster once again exhibits her mastery...

Lately I’ve been thinking about remarkable people who never got to see the significance of their work, regardless of its brilliance....

So, did you dress up for Halloween? Did you buy a mask in New Orleans, or Venice, perhaps one with feathers? What would you wear to a...