Berkley Prime Crime
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
286 pages ISBN: 0425260615 EAN: 9780425260616 Kindle: B00IOE4OZQ Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert takes
readers back in time to small-town Darling, Alabama, in the
1930s—where the Darling Savings and Trust has just closed
and the women of the Darling Dahlias’ garden club are
betting their bottom dollar there’s going to be trouble…
It’s the spring of 1933 and times are tough all
over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner
Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal
agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the
small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly
caught short on cash and everyone is in a
panic.
Desperate to avoid disaster, several town
leaders—including Alvin Duffy, the bank’s new vice
president—hatch a plan to print Darling Dollars on
newspaperman Charlie Dickens’ printing press. The “funny
money” can serve as temporary currency so the town can
function. But when the first printing of the scrip
disappears, the Darling Dahlias set out to discover who made
an unauthorized withdrawal.
Meanwhile County
Treasurer Verna Tidwell questions whether she can trust
Alvin Duffy—and the feelings he stirs up inside her. And Liz
Lacy learns her longtime beau may be forced into a shotgun
wedding. Seems other troubles don’t just go away when
there’s a crisis. There’ll be no pennies from heaven, but if
anyone can balance things out, folks can bank on the Darling
Dahlias…
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