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Wedding Jitters and Stormy Rivers

March 2026!
Denise Swanson: Wedding Jitters and Stormy Rivers

The fifth in Denise's
Welcome Back to Scumble River mystery series.

March 2026

Love is deadly.

School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd is already in a tizzy when classes are extended into June causing summer break to be delayed and overlap into her friends’ wedding week. However, that’s a minor inconvenience when an unforeseen discovery causes the rice to really hit the fan.

When Frannie and Justin return to their hometown to get married, things in Scumble River, Illinois, blow up into the perfect storm of wedding chaos and mysterious past homicide.

Skye is Frannie’s matron of honor/wedding planner, but her plans to devote all her time to helping with her friend’s nuptials are disrupted—first by her uncle, the mayor, going rogue, and then by an unsolved murder they uncover at the Starlight Theatre while it’s being prepped to serve as the wedding venue.

Then unsavory characters begin skulking around Scumble River, and it becomes clear that Hizzoner is up to his neck in a heap of trouble. Do the mayor’s shenanigans have anything to do with the cold case tied to the Starlight?

Soon it becomes evident that the identity of the victim is by far the least of the secrets buried in the theatre’s past.

Will Skye figure it all out before she or someone she loves becomes the killer’s next target? Or will the Scumble River Skeleton soon be joined by another fatality?

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 - Book 10 - Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 11 - Murder of a Royal Pain Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 12 - Murder of a Wedding Belle Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 13 - Murder of a Bookstore Babe Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 14 - Murder of a Creped Suzette Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 15 - Murder of the Cat's Meow Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 16 - Murder of a Stacked Librarian Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
 - Book 17 - Murder of a Needled Knitter Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries
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 - Book 1 - Dead in the Water Denise Swanson: Welcome Back to Scumble River
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Short Story, June 2001
"Not a Monster of a Chance"
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   And the Dying is Easy   
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Novella, February 2005:
"Dead Blondes Tell No Tales"
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Drop-Dead Blonde
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Short Story, May 2015:
A Finger in Every Lie
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Short Story, October 2015:
All I Want for Christmas
is You...Dead

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Music: Scumble River Legend, a Ballad for Small Orchestra by David Stybr (1 minute, © 2001)

How many book series have their own signature music? It's quirky, but so is Scumble River, Illinois.

An apt description of the hard work in the writing process, be it a novel or a symphony:
— Czech-born Austrian composer Gustav Mahler on his Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 25 July 1896 —
     "It is as if a swimmer would have a giant distance to cover to the other side: in the beginning is absolutely no sight of the end, always water, water, which never seems to become less. And in the middle, how far and unreachable the goal still seems to us! But finally it approaches nearer and nearer, until at the conclusion the floods rapidly diminish and with a few strokes it's done!"

     [Original German: "Es ist, wie wenn ein Schwimmer eine Riesenstrecke bis ans andere Ufer zurückzulegen hätte: im Anfang ist gar kein Absehen auf das Ende, immer Wasser, Wasser, das gar nicht weniger zu werden scheint. Und in der Mitte, wie weit und unerreichbar dünkt uns noch das Ziel! Aber endlich rückt es näher und näher, zum Schluß mindern sich rapid die Fluten und mit ein paar Schlägen ist's getan!"]

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