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Who says you can't go home again?When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown and attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a bed and breakfast called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than cleric black is found strangled in his chapel. The whole town of Littleboro is turned upside down, inside out, and Ossie Delbardo, the town cop whose job heretofore mainly involved controlling football traffic on Friday nights, is not cut out to solve the murders. Beth fears her newly opened B&B is in danger of failing. She's even more worried that she is Ossie's number one suspect. Aided by her friend from high school and trusty handyman, she sets out to discover the truth of the murders.
About the Author
Ruth Moose is an award-winning mystery novelist for "Doing It at the Dixie Dew," to be published by Minotaur Books (St. Martin's Press) in May 2014. The novel won the Malice Domestic 2013 prize for best first traditional mystery novel.
Moose has published three collections of short stories, six poetry collections, and taught Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill for fifteen years. Moose published individual short stories in Atlantic, Alaska Review, North American Review, scores of other literary magazines and in places like Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, etc. and also abroad in the UK, Holland, Germany, Denmark, and South Africa. Her poetry has been included in anthologies and won, among other awards, the Carl Sandburg Prize from the National Park Service.
She's received a McDowell Fellowship and the Chapman Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. Her short stories have been included in classes at the University of Denmark, Odense Denmark.
"Southern to the core" (in her words) , she lived for many years in the Uwharrie Mountains in North Carolina where she and her artist husband designed and built a house on a 900 acre mountain. (They only owned 3 acres) The area was known for rocks and rattlesnakes.
"No other writer has produced a body of short stories that so deftly captures the Southern mindset, history and language." --Doris Betts, author of The Ugliest Pilgrim, Souls Raised from the Dead, and other novels