Wedding Bell Blues

The sequel to Moose's award-winning debut-Doing It at the Dixie Dew-featuring her colorful array of Southern characters and more laughs and hilarity. 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 sixty 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 fiance'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. Then Litteboro's First Annual Green Bean Festival gets up and running, a famous food writer becomes deathly ill, and Beth must battle through madcap mayhem to apprehend the culprit and save the day. "e;Ruth Moose is at it again, using her considerable wit and humor to chronicle the lives of her small town Southerners."e; Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker"e;Beth is an appealing character, and the southern, small-town setting and the quirky secondary characters, especially Beth's employee, Ida Plum, are interesting and well drawn."e; Booklist