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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle Times says Daheim is “one of the brightest stars in our city’s literary constellation”—and the popularity of her irresistible Pacific Northwest crime series has swept across the nation.For a small town newspaper like The Alpine Advocate, a new play at the local show more community college is big news. Editor and publisher Emma Lord is duty-bound to attend opening night, but expects the amateur enterprise will serve only as a cure for insomnia. The play is dubbed “a black comedy,” but the only laughs Emma gets are from the bad acting and the wretched script. And while the turgid production makes Wagner’s Ring cycle seem like a vignette, the real drama begins just before the final curtain.
Hans Berenger, dean of students, wasn’t well known or well liked around Alpine, but the audience found his death scene genuinely convincing—until they realized he wasn’t acting. No one can say how or when the blanks in the prop gun were replaced with the real bullets that killed Berenger, but the list of suspects reads like a playbill of the cast and crew. They all had opportunity, access, and their own axes to grind with the thespically challenged dean.
Seeking the assistance of Vida Runkel, the Advocate’s redoubtable House and Home editor, Emma Lord vows to unravel a mystery that spirals out into unexpected places. As Emma sets the stage for the most likely suspect, she finds herself in a two-character scene whose next cue could make the resolute editor take a final—and permanent—bow. show less
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The journalist in Emma knows she has to attend all "big events" in Alpine. The woman says she has no desire to see a locally written play by a woman she doesn't much like. While at the 1st showing of the play one of the actors is shot, but the bullet is real not a blank.
Now Emma is on the hunt to find out who killed the Dean of Students of the college. There seem to be plenty of people who didn't like him but none seem to be angry enough to kill him.
Sheriff Milo is also working on the case but this time he doesn't really want a lot of help from Emma. It could be that their complicated relationship is getting in the way.
I do enjoy spending time in Alpine and need to keep working my way through my towering TBR pile to get caught up.
Now Emma is on the hunt to find out who killed the Dean of Students of the college. There seem to be plenty of people who didn't like him but none seem to be angry enough to kill him.
Sheriff Milo is also working on the case but this time he doesn't really want a lot of help from Emma. It could be that their complicated relationship is getting in the way.
I do enjoy spending time in Alpine and need to keep working my way through my towering TBR pile to get caught up.
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Mary R. Daheim is a reporter and mystery writer. She was born in Seattle, Washington. Daheim was a newspaper reporter and a public relations consultant before beginning to write. In 1983, she published her first historical romance. Daheim wrote six more books before becoming a mystery writer. In 1991, Daheim began the Bed & Breakfast series of show more books. She began a second series, the Alpine series, in 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Alpine Pursuit
- Original title
- The Alpine Pursuit
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Emma Lord; Vida Runkel; Hans Berenger
- Important places
- Alpine, Washington, USA
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- English
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