Wedding Bell Blues (32 page)

“Like God with money,” I said, and we both laughed and laughed.

Littleboro was all right. The real honest-to-God
God
was in His Heaven and everything on this little piece of green earth was okay. Or close to okay. At the moment.

 

Also by
Ruth Moose

Doing It at the Dixie Dew

 

About the Author

RUTH MOOSE
is the 2013 winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition. She won the PEN award for Syndicated Fiction, the Robert Ruark Award for the Short Story, and the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award. She has received three Pushcart nominations and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. She's published three collections of short stories and six collections of poetry. She was on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fifteen years and received the Chapman award for teaching. She lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chapter Forty-Eight

Chapter Forty-Nine

Chapter Fifty

Chapter Fifty-One

Chapter Fifty-Two

Also by Ruth Moose

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Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

An imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group.

WEDDING BELL BLUES.
Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Moose. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

Cover illustration by Tom Hallman

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Moose, Ruth, author.

Title: Wedding bell blues: a Dixie Dew mystery / Ruth Moose.

Description: First Edition | New York: Minotaur Books, 2016. | “A Thomas Dunne Book.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2016003506 | ISBN 9781250067418 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466875722 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Women—Southern States—Fiction. | Bed and breakfast accommodations—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3563.O69 W43 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2016003506

e-ISBN 9781466875722

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First Edition: August 2016