Jennifer Goss Duby
Author of Belle, a story about a woman who found a way to beat the system and the inevitable price we pay when our sins catch up to us.
How much are you willing to give up for just a moment of happiness?
A true story… ish.
Author
Jennifer Goss Duby
J.G. Duby is a crime fiction writer who lives in the woods of New Hampshire with her husband and no pets because her younger daughter took them with her when she moved out. Her older daughter took the good blender. J.G. has been a mass transit bus driver, paraeducator, and lexicographer, and now works as a technical editor. Belle is her fiction debut.
“She read them twice through and then a third time to make sure she understood correctly. Belle let the papers fall. What she had just read was a truly remarkable stroke of luck. And it changed everything.”
Meet Belle
BELLE is a darkly comedic tale of a woman in 1890s Indiana determined to succeed in a world made for and by men. She has no trade or skill, and has to rely on her own wit and hard work—and stomach for violence—to get ahead.
The tale is inspired by the very real Belle Gunness, a notorious 19th century serial killer who lured men to her Indiana farm using lonely hearts ads
“Would you shush? It’s your own fault you’re not sleeping through this.”
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Notes from the writer
Thoughts on researching and writing BELLE, a bit about Belle Gunness herself, a smattering of 1890s history, and the writing life.