The Books
'A Stranger Comes Home' is the first of the Shirley Foster Southern Shadow Mysteries set in southern North Carolina, inspired by memories from the author's childhood of life in a rural area known as Hog Swamp.  The loveably quirky characters, Miss Shirley, Quessie, Eunice, Agnes and Papa Zeke, and many others, will make you smile, maybe laugh, but definitely scratch your head.  You'll recognize their tenacity, their unique hospitality, and the secrets that give each one their own special heartbeat.

Second in the Shirley Foster Southern Shadow Mysteries is 'A Stone's Throw To Murder'. Sixteen-year-old Martha Ann Lovett is missing again. Deep in the woods lies the body of a young girl. Strange letters, a month before appeared, riddled with the voice of a spirit. Is history repeating itself? A diary from 1898 described children skipping rope to a rhyme, "A redhead goes missing and nobody cries," around the time an Indian brave was put to death by the men in town. Dark secrets will not stay buried.