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Published in USA
Mar 2007
336 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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Welcome to mystery lovers favorite destination: Alpine, Washington, Mary Daheims picturesque old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. From the Venison Inn to the Upper Crust Bakery, Front Street is jumpingand the nerve center of the community is the office of The Alpine Advocate, Emma Lords weekly newspaper, which keeps folks up to speed on everything from joyous weddings to sudden, violent death.
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Seattle native Mary Richardson Daheim lives three miles from the house where she was raised. From her dining nook she can see the maple tree in front of her childhood home. Mary isn't one for change when it comes to geography. Upon getting her journalism degree from the University of Washington (she can see the campus from the dining nook, too), she went to work for a newspaper in Anacortes WA. Then, after her marriage to David Daheim, his first college teaching post was in Port Angeles where she became a reporter for the local daily. Both tours of small-town duty gave her the background for the Alpine/Emma Lord series.
Mary spent much of her non-fiction career in public relations (some would say PR is fiction, too). But ever since she learned how to read and write, Mary wanted to...
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