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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 Daheim’s picturesque old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. From the Venison Inn to the Upper Crust Bakery, Front Street is jumping–and the nerve center of the community is the office of The Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord’s 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
has been fascinated by story-telling since early childhood. She first listened,
then read, and finally began to write her own fiction when she was ten. A
journalism major at the University of Washington, she was the first female
editor of The Daily where she attracted national attention with her
editorial stance against bigotry.
After getting her B.A., she worked in newspapers and public relations, but in
her spare time she tried her hand at novels. In 1983, Daheim’s first historical
romance was published, followed by a half-dozen more before she switched genres
to her original fictional love, mysteries, in 1991. Just Desserts and Fowl Prey,
the first books in the Bed-and-Breakfast series were released in 1991. A year
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