Mary Daheim. Ballantine, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-50259-9
Daheim’s 23rd Emma Lord cozy (after 2011’s The Alpine Vengeance) will gratify longtime fans emotionally invested in the characters, but isn’t likely to attract new ones. As 2004 turns into 2005, Emma, the editor and publisher of the Alpine Advocate...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97867-0
In her 18th cozy B&B mystery, Daheim offers more amusing action than in last year's Suture Self, now that her two sleuthing heroines, Judith Flynn and cousin Renie, have almost fully recovered from surgery and are no longer stuck in a...
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Mary Daheim, Author Avon Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-380-80079-7
Seattle B&B owner Judith McMonigle Flynn and her ill-tempered cousin, Renie, leave behind their recently retired husbands to look after the elderly mother of an indisposed friend in this chatty mystery. Convinced someone is trying to kill her, and...
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-42124-1
As Daheim's readers well know, Emma Lord (appearing in her 13th mystery) is a full-time journalist and part-time sleuth in the tiny Washington lumber town of Alpine. Persuaded by Vida--her gray-haired yet spunky house-and-home editor at The Alpine...
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Mary Daheim, Author Ballantine Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-46814-7
Well-drawn characters and a complex crime are a winning combination in Daheim's 18th Emma Lord mystery (after 2005'sAlpine Quilt ). The sleepy town of Alpine, Wash., is shocked when a local home goes up in flames in an act of arson\x97and murder....
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Mary Daheim, Author Ballantine Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-46715-7
Emma Lord, the heroine of Daheim's so-so 16th cozy (after 2002's Alpine Obituary to feature the newspaper publisher/sometime sleuth, has been a resident of Alpine, Wash., for 13 years, but she's still somewhat of an outsider in this small, closed...
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Mary Daheim, Author William Morrow & Company $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97869-4
In Mary Daheim's This Old Souse: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery, the 20th entry in this popular cozy series (Suture Yourself, etc.), B&B proprietor Judith Flynn joins cousin Renie in scouting an old Seattle house inhabited by the reclusive Bland family.
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Mary Daheim, Ballantine, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-50257-5
Set in 2004, Daheim's meandering 22nd Emma Lord mystery (after 2009's The Alpine Uproar) finds the editor/publisher of The Alpine Advocate in Alpine, Wash., revisiting an old crime to solve some new ones, including maple tree poaching and the...
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Mary Daheim. Morrow, $23.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-135158-7
Judith McMonigle Flynn, the owner of Seattle's Hillside Manor B&B, casually juggles a slew of strange guests, a homicide investigation, and complicated personal relations in Daheim's 26th bed-and-breakfast cozy (after 2010's Loco Motive). When a...
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Mary Daheim, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-97866-3
Not quite up to Daheim's usual standards, the 17th in the author's Bed-and-Breakfast series (A Streetcar Named Expire; Creeps Suzette; etc.) finds amateur gumshoe Judith McMonigle Flynn sleuthing from her hospital bed, where she is recovering from...
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Mary Daheim. Morrow, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-208983-0
Daheim’s cute 27th mystery featuring Seattle B&B owner Judith Flynn (after 2011’s All the Pretty Little Hearses) takes Judith and her cousin Renie Jones to Little Bavaria, Wash. for an Oktoberfest celebration. There elderly Dietrich Wessler, the...
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Mary Daheim. Morrow, $23.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-208984-7
Early in Daheim’s sprightly 28th cozy featuring Seattle B and B innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn (after 2012’s The Wurst Is Yet to Come), an old friend of Judith’s, Ruby Tooms, arrives at Hillside Manor. Ruby wants Judith’s husband, retired cop Joe...
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Mary Daheim. Ballantine, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53533-7
Emma Lord, publisher of the weekly newspaper in isolated Alpine, Wash., is enjoying life with her sexy new husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, but must contend with a veritable avalanche of soap operas emanating from the 24 previous books in Daheim’s...
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Mary Daheim. Morrow, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-231772-8
Daheim’s goofy 29th Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2013’s Gone with the Win) takes Seattle innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn and bickering cousin Renie Jones to Whoopee Island to house-sit for Auntie Vance and Uncle Vince. Judith and Renie hold...
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Mary Daheim. Ballantine, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53535-1
Set in 2005, Daheim’s engrossing 26th and final mystery featuring Alpine, Wash., newspaper publisher Emma Lord (after 2014’s The Alpine Yeoman) finds Emma worried about Vida Runkel, her House & Home editor at the Alpine Advocate. Vida is despondent...
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Mary Daheim. Morrow, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-266381-8
In Daheim’s highly implausible 31st Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2016’s Here Comes the Bribe), Seattle B and B owner Judith McMonigle Flynn and her best friend and cousin, Renie Jones, embark on a 10-day vacation in Banff, Alberta, along with...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Ballantine $24 (374p) ISBN 978-0-345-50255-1
In Daheim's appealing 21st mystery to feature newspaper editor-publisher Emma Lord (after 2008's The Alpine Traitor
), an altercation between car mechanic Alvin De Muth and trucker Clive Berentsen at the Icicle Creek Tavern in Alpine, Wash.
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97868-7
Leaving their beloved Seattle B&B, which is being renovated, Judith McMonigle Flynn and husband Joe take their two squabbling mothers and Judith's cousin Renie to Lake Stillasnowamish Resort Casino in this winning addition to Daheim's...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-47720-0
Quilters will especially enjoy Daheim's 17th cozy (after 2004's Alpine Pursuit
) to feature Emma Lord, publisher of the Alpine Advocate
, the weekly newspaper of rural Alpine, Wash. When Genevieve Bayard, who grew up in Alpine, returns for a
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-056648-7
In Daheim's disappointing 21st bed-and-breakfast cozy (after 2004's This Old Souse
), B&B owner Judith Flynn and cousin Renie tear off to San Francisco to join a 1930s-themed maiden cruise for Renie's employer's newest luxury...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-06-056651-7
Murder visits Seattle's Hillside Manor B&B yet again in the busy 22nd entry in Daheim's popular cozy series (after 2005's Dead Man Docking
). Judith McMonigle Flynn and her neighbors are exasperated with the noise violinist Rudi...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-056653-1
Daheim's enjoyable 23rd B&B mystery (after 2006's Saks and Violins
) takes Judith McMonigle Flynn, her cousin Serena “Renie” Jones and their husbands to a remote town in Scotland. The idea is to get away from the stresses...
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Mary Daheim, Author Ballantine $23.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-345-46818-5
Murder and mayhem once again rock the placid town of Alpine, Wash., in Daheim’s 20th cozy to feature newspaper publisher Emma Lord (after 2007’s The Alpine Scandal
). When the two grown children of Emma’s deceased long-ago lover,...
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Mary Daheim, Author . Morrow $23.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-06-135154-9
Cozy buffs who've yet to encounter Daheim's popular Pacific Northwest series will find this entertaining 24th installment (after 2007's Scots on the Rocks
) an easy entry point. Judith McMonigle Flynn, who operates a bed-and-breakfast
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-42122-7
Small-town newspaper editor Emma Lord is on the trail of the murderer of a pompous philanthropist in Daheim's 11th mystery (the alphabetical series began with The Alpine Advocate). The eccentric residents of Alpine, Wash., are abuzz over the arrival
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Mary Daheim, Morrow, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-135156-3
In Daheim's plodding 25th Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2008's Vi Agra Falls), innkeeper and librarian Judith McMonigle Flynn takes a cross-country train trip with bumpy results. After aging daredevil Wee Willie Weevil performs a stunt that goes...
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-37672-5
Daheim's ( Holy Terrors ) amateur-sleuth whodunits unfortunately recycle well-worn elements: mistaken identities, long-hidden secrets, convoluted familial relationships and heavy-handed clues. Even a new heroine, newspaper publisher Emma Lord, and a
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-38843-8
Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Especially if you're the editor of a small-town weekly newspaper faced with an unsolved murder and a fast-approaching deadline, as is the case with Emma Lord, heroine of the sixth novel in the...
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Mary Daheim, Author Avon Books $7.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-380-77879-9
Sly humor and domestic details drive this chatty 10th installment in Daheim's Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery series. An ill-tempered matriarch's refusal to join her neighbors in putting up outdoor Christmas decorations sets the stage for the woman's...
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Mary Daheim, Author Avon Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-78518-6
The eleventh installment of Daheim's Bed-and-Breakfast-Mystery series is an unremarkable work set on a Pacific Northwest coastal island. Daheim's heroine, Judith McMonigle Flynn, and her sidekick cousin Renie play amateur sleuths when a murder takes
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Mary Daheim, Author Avon Books $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-78520-9
The prolific Daheim's latest bed and breakfast mystery, finds b&b proprietor Judith Flynn hosting a horde of new in-laws for her son's wedding. But as luck would have it, Judith believes she's seen a murder outside the hotel reception site. Judith,...
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-44791-3
Alpine Obituary, the 15th entry in Mary Daheim's series featuring Alpine Advocate publisher Emma Lord and her cohorts-the forthright and all-knowing Vida, an Advocate editor, and Sheriff Milo, Emma's former lover-is far more sedate than her...
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Mary Daheim, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-39641-9
In this seventh Emma Lord adventure, the Alpine Advocate editor copes with her small Washington town's hostility toward California realtors who want to develop the hot springs. The death of of a realtor halts the deal. Vida Runkel, Emma's able home...
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Mary Daheim, read by Lindsay Ellison. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 10.25 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-690-6
When bodies begin to pile up at a stately bed and breakfast in the remote German countryside, innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn must find a way to restore her reputation and do her part to assist the local investigation. But when the police chief...
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