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 1930sβwhere the Darling Savings and Trust has just closed and the women of the Darling Dahliasβ garden club are betting their bottom dollar thereβs going to be troubleβ¦
Itβs 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 leadersβincluding Alvin Duffy, the bankβs new vice presidentβhatch a plan to print Darling Dollars on newspaperman Charlie Dickensβ printing press. The βfunny moneyβ 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 Duffyβand the feelings he stirs up inside her. And Liz Lacy learns her longtime beau may be forced into a shotgun wedding. Seems other troubles donβt just go away when thereβs a crisis. Thereβll be no pennies from heaven, but if anyone can balance things out, folks can bank on the Darling Dahliasβ¦
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