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    The Bride Price: Price Mysteries Book 1
    The Bride Price: Price Mysteries Book 1
    The Bride Price: Price Mysteries Book 1
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    The Bride Price: Price Mysteries Book 1

    By Marcella Whitley

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    The Bride Price

    A Mystery in Two Acts

    It was almost a perfect wedding. Almost.  Judith Price, noted puzzle designer, had finally found the love of her life. Daniel Danvers, quiet and reserved, had finally popped the question, and the arrangements were all but completed, when everything fell apart. Her father,Alistair Price, the noted author and literary critic had been killed, his body found slumped over his writing desk, a letter opener used to end him.

    Local sheriff Alan Voorhees has set his sights on Danvers as the prime suspect. But Judith is certain that Daniel could never do such a thing, and now she is in  a race with the law. Sheriff Vorhees will arrest Daniel on Monday, but Judith must solve the mystery of her father’s death, and identify his killer in the next two days.

    She is determined to do so, but at what price is Daniel’s freedom gotten?

    Evidence is thin, and time is running out.

    She can’t waste another minute. And neither should you.

    This is the first of the Price Mysteries. Don’t miss a single volume.

    Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateMar 13, 2017
    ISBN9781386808855
    The Bride Price: Price Mysteries Book 1

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      Book preview

      The Bride Price - Marcella Whitley

      The Bride Price

      A Mystery in Two Acts

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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      Table of Contents

      Act One, Scene One: The Scene of the Crime

      Act One: Scene Two: The Police Station

      Act One, Scene Three: The Shady Tree Inn

      Act Two: Scene 1: The Shady Tree Inn

      Act Two, Scene Two: The Police Station

      Act Two, Scene Three: The Scene of the Crime

      Epilogue

      Act One, Scene One: The Scene of the Crime

      That is really a crime. Somebody should have to go to jail.

      Judith was flipping through the catalog of bridesmaid dresses and was seriously put off by them.

      It was less than a month from the wedding, and she still hadn’t been able to choose a compelling theme, let alone a color spectrum for the dresses. Well, the dress. Josie had agreed at the last minute to stand up for her, but it had taken some doing.

      Judith, a plain amber wrap over her Mary Jane shoes and under her nearly-ubiquitous floppy upside-down basket of a hat, was taking the few minutes of a lunch break to work on two puzzles. One was a challenge that invigorated her mental acuity, her sense of propriety, and a natural curiosity about the way the world worked. The other was trying to choose the dress -gown-whatever - that her best friend and coworker would be wearing at her wedding.

      She turned back to the crossword she was working, particularly to 11 across.

      Eight letters, ends with R. Intentional killjoy, without the humor.

      Usually, if the clues were too much of a challenge, Judith’s signature move was to put the eraser end of the pencil to her lips in thought. She didn’t need it. With the confidence of an expert in word puzzles and linguistic games, she confidently put the letters in the appropriate boxes.

      M-U-R-D-E-R-E-R

      As the final tail of the R manifested, her cell phone rang. Absentmindedly, she flipped it open, put the receiver to her ear.

      Judith here.

      Miss Price? Judith Price?

      Yes. How can help you?

      "I’m Deputy Anshelm, Liberty County. I am calling from the home of your father, Alistair Price? The Sheriff says you should head over here. I can’t discuss

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