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Beth McKenzie, owner of the Dixie Dew Bed and Breakfast, is enjoying an exciting affair with her new love, Scott. Meanwhile, the town of Littleboro, North Carolina is abuzz with gossip about Crazy Reba's upcoming nuptials. Most brides go crazy at some point, but Littleboro's resident homeless lady has had a head start: she's beloved, indulged, and most of all, eccentric. But at almost 60 -- or thereabouts -- her marriage seems a little peculiar. Sure, she's sporting a diamond big enough to choke a horse, but no one can tell if it's real, or just a Cracker Jack prize she pilfered from a yard sale.Crazy Reba's wedding plans go confirmedly awry when the bride-to-be is arrested for her fianc's murder. Beth, determined to clear Reba's name, gets in over her head when a lady wrestler who threatened to kill her books a room at the Dixie Dew, and Robert Redford, her neighbor's white rabbit, disappears.
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
