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"The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state's Cascade Mountains--home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate--has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. Her legion of avid armchair sleuths will relish this deliciously gripping novel. As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading...
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THE ALPINE ADVOCATE IS ON A ROLL.
The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs—hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for the paper's editor and publisher, Emma Lord.
Pro-spa Alpiners cite the prospect of sorely needed new jobs. Those against it predict glitz, sleaze, and an avalanche of "Californicators."...
The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs—hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for the paper's editor and publisher, Emma Lord.
Pro-spa Alpiners cite the prospect of sorely needed new jobs. Those against it predict glitz, sleaze, and an avalanche of "Californicators."...
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The small mountain town of Alpine, Washington, is humming. At the Alpine Advocate, editor Emma Lord and her staff are working on a feature about RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing about Emma's engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now Wayne Eriks has got himself electrocuted on an electric pole in the middle of a storm. But Sheriff Dodge doesn't buy the idea that Wayne's death is an accident.
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2014.
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"An ill wind blows through Alpine, but Advocate publisher Emma Lord and Sheriff Milo Dodge seem immune to the prevailing angst. The newlyweds' domestic idyll is most definitely over when a dead man is discovered near the fish hatchery and nobody has a clue as to his identity. Vida Runkel may have insight, but Emma's redoubtable House & Home editor is mad at the world and saying little. Moreover, whispers of scandal travel through the quaint streets...
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ALL THE MURDER FIT TO PRINT
Editor-publisher Emma Lord and her Alpine Advocate staff suspect excitement when glamorous Ursula O'Toole Randall returns to Alpine to marry her third husband. But hers is a lethal homecoming. . . .
Ursula, clad in satin pajamas, is found dead in the shallow waters of the Skyhomish River....
Editor-publisher Emma Lord and her Alpine Advocate staff suspect excitement when glamorous Ursula O'Toole Randall returns to Alpine to marry her third husband. But hers is a lethal homecoming. . . .
Ursula, clad in satin pajamas, is found dead in the shallow waters of the Skyhomish River....
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When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder.
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The picturesque town of Alpine in Washington's Cascade Mountains is decked out in holiday finery, but family troubles are brewing. Emma Lord is fretting over how her brother and son, both priests, will react when she confesses her affair with Sheriff Milo Dodge. Then Postmaster Roy Everson shows up with bones that may or may not belong to his long-missing mother. But the most disturbing holiday dilemma is the body found in the cave on Mount Sawyer...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 15
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Not even in Alpine, Washington, could the death of octogenarian Jack Froland be considered big news--except by his drinking buddies at Mugs Ahoy. But that suddenly changes when in the middle of his funeral, Jack's widow hysterically insists that he was murdered. Emma Lord, publisher of The Alpine Advocate, who is already investigating a threatening letter received by the town's beautiful blonde judge, now suspects she has two hot stories to unravel....
10) Saks & violins
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When world-famous musician Dolph Kluger drops dead of rhubarb poisoning during a reception at the Hillside Manor B & B, proprietor Judith McMonigle Flynn launches her own investigation to uncover a killer.
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Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the charming little hamlet of Alpine is welcoming Thanksgiving with open arms, while Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, feels her spirits sink. With no family or friends to share the day, Emma wonders how she managed to screw up her life so badly. But on the Monday after the holiday, a call from Sheriff Dodge concerning a trio of alarming unsigned letters leaves Emma no time to...
14) Clam wake
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"Innkeeper and irrepressible sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn and cousin Renie face off against a cold-blooded killer in a beach community in this delightfully charming Bed-and-Breakfast mystery from USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Mary Daheim. With the holidays gone and Hillside Manor almost empty, Innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn has a bad case of the blues. A housesitting stint at her aunt and uncle's retirement home on Whoopee Island...
15) A case of bier
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Vacations can be murder. No one knows that better than Judith McMonigle Flynn, owner of Seattle's popular Hillside Manor B & B. After a busy summer, she desperately needs some R & R. Leave it to her thoughtful husband, Joe, to surprise her with a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Thrilled to be getting away, Judith's overjoyed when Cousin Renie and Bill agree to join them. Though the husbands have made the arrangements, how bad can a short time away in...
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In the picturesque little town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, Emma Lord, editor and publisher of "The Alpine Advocate," uncovers the story behind the story of a drunken brawl at the Icicle Creek Tavern that left loner Alvin De Muth dead and a likable young local on life support.
17) Bitter Alpine
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"After a relatively calm and cozy holiday season, neither Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, nor her husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, are surprised when their new year gets off to a rocky start. A woman's body has been found in a squalid motel. Her driver's license shows that Rachel Jane Douglas was in her late thirties and lived in Oakland, California--and the only connection between that town and Alpine is their gold-mining and...
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"Editor-publisher Emma Lord finds out that running a small-town newspaper is worse than nutty—it's downright dangerous."—Carolyn G. Hart
When a local girl, Dani Marsh, returns to Alpine a star to shoot a Hollywood film, the tension in the air is so thick it crackles. Then at the annual Loggerama, Dani's former husband, Cody Graff goes berserk with an axe and is later found dead. Reporting on on all the goings-on as the editor of...
When a local girl, Dani Marsh, returns to Alpine a star to shoot a Hollywood film, the tension in the air is so thick it crackles. Then at the annual Loggerama, Dani's former husband, Cody Graff goes berserk with an axe and is later found dead. Reporting on on all the goings-on as the editor of...
20) The alpine quilt
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 17
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Sheriff Milo Dodge and Emma Lord, editor of the weekly "Alpine Advocate" join forces to uncover a killer, who uses poison as a weapon, from among the members of a local quilting society.
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