A Summer Wedding Death at the Riverfront Dog Park
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It's a beautiful July in Greenbanks, PA, and Ellen and her friends are looking forward to her wedding at the Riverfront Dog Park. Joy turns to devastation when Ellen's body is found early one morning at the park just days before her upcoming nuptials. It takes the combined efforts of the police and her human and canine friends to bring justice. This is the 3rd in the Riverfront Dog Park Series.
Saundra McKee
I am a retired educator. I taught in the public schools for 15 years and at the university level for 22 years. I love to travel the world. I enjoy politics, dogs, mysteries and water sports. I am a lay speaker in the United Methodist Church.
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A Summer Wedding Death at the Riverfront Dog Park - Saundra McKee
A Summer Wedding Death at the Riverfront Dog Park by Saundra McKee
3rd in the Riverfront Dog Park Series
Smashwords Edition. Copyright 2013. Saundra McKee
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All characters and events in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental. While some of the places mentioned actually exist, they are used in an entirely fictional manner.
Chapter 1
Terry
The final words she spoke to me were, Terry, can you believe it? I’m actually getting married! Me! Married! After all these years.
Just twenty four hours ago, we were euphoric. It was a perfect July, low humidity and temperatures in the mid seventies in Greenbanks, PA. The wedding was to take place at the new gazebo at the beautiful Riverfront Dog Park along the picturesque Allegheny River. Dogs were a very big part of her life, thus the unusual setting for her nuptials. Ellen’s wedding was going to be relatively small, with close friends, her family and of course all of our beloved dogs. The reception would take place afterwards at Crafts and Joe,
the café and handicraft shop that I owned and operated together with Ellen, Bonnie and Sean.
Ellen, like the rest of us who had been childhood friends and former teachers, was in her early forties. This was to have been her first marriage. She dated a lot over the years and being blonde and petite and nurturing, she never lacked for the admiration of the opposite sex. She was just particular and had high standards. She always told me that she’d rather die a spinster than to settle for someone less than she deserved.
She believed that Rick Swanson had everything she desired in a mate. He was average looking, forty five, with a fair complexion and light brown thinning hair. His best attribute’s were a kind face and deep set blue eyes. Rick was the Lutheran minister who had been in town for about a year. Ellen especially liked that he worked with the Lutheran program that sent comfort dogs to disaster areas around the country. Unfortunately Rick’s former wife got their dogs in the divorce settlement. He had moved to Greenbanks from the Erie area. While I found him a bit pretentious, Ellen insisted that he was just smart and guarded. She’d confided to me that Rick’s wife had dumped him for his young associate pastor. This had caused quite a scandal and a great deal of humiliation for Rick. Rick had two children with his ex wife, two girls ages twelve and sixteen. They visited a couple weekends a month and for a few weeks in the summer.
Ellen could go on ad nauseam about the many ways that Rick was kind to her…"Rick sent me flowers, Rick sent me the cutest note, Rick is always texting me, Rick took me to the neatest café for lunch, etc., etc. Maybe I was just jealous. I was dating Tom Hodges, the local sheriff who seldom indulged me in daily acts of sweetness, not that I wasn’t crazy about the guy. He is more the big solid teddy bear type who’d come up with a cool surprise every couple of months. There was the sleigh ride in February and the hot air balloon adventure in April, so I’m very content with the big lug. Plus he loves my dogs, Mickey and Maisey