Wedding Bell Blues (32 page)
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Authors: Ruth Moose
“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.
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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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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.
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: WomenâSouthern StatesâFiction. | Bed and breakfast accommodationsâFiction. | MurderâInvestigationâFiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3563.O69 W43 2016 | DDC 813/.54âdc23
LC record available at
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e-ISBN 9781466875722
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First Edition: August 2016
