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DOING IT AT THE DIXIE DEW
by Ruth Moose
St. Martin's Press, May 2014
243 pages
$24.99
ISBN: 1250046386


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Beth McKenzie comes home to Littleboro, North Carolina after her grandmother, the one who raised her, is seriously injured in a fall. When her grandmother dies, Beth decides to turn her home into a bed and breakfast named the Dixie Dew Inn. After getting the minimum work done in order to accommodate guests, Beth opens. Her first guest, Miss Lavinia Lovingood, also grew up in Littleboro as a member of a prominent family. She too had been gone for several years. After Lavinia was found dead in her room at the inn one morning and her death is determined to be not from natural causes, people begin to speculate on why she had returned to Littleboro and whether that reason factored into her death. When Beth discovers another dead person, the attention turns to Beth and what connection she had to the two deceased people.

Ruth Moose has written to her audience. This book will not appeal to people who favor straight police procedurals, thrillers or books with a set of tough characters. But those readers are unlikely to pick up a book with a mauve house with white gingerbread trim, rocking chair and cat on its cover. The cover clearly shows the tone of the book and will help the author's readers find it. With virtually no sex, foul language or firsthand violence DOING IT AT THE DIXIE DEW could be dismissed by some as light-weight fiction. It is not. The book is very well written, well plotted and sports a charming cast of characters. The author has used the characters to develop the community and set the stage for a long running series.

DOING IT AT THE DIXIE DEW was the winner of the Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel. That award pretty much sums up the book and its audience. Those readers will not be disappointed.

§ Caryn St.Clair resides in University City, Missouri and is a former elementary school media specialist, President of the Parks Commission and a docent at the St.Louis Zoo.

Reviewed by Caryn St Clair, May 2014

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