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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:ALL THE MURDER FIT TO PRINTEditor-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. Sheriff Dodge suspects foul play. Yet as Emma hunts for a stop-press story, a show more snake-in-the-grass killer, unappeased by one murder, slithers unnoticed through the shadows. . . . show less
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Who killed the wealthy woman that returned to town? Interesting characters and a lot of romance between Emma and Milo.
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73+ Works 10,629 Members
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 Icon
- Original title
- The Alpine Icon
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Emma Lord; Milo Dodge; Ursula O'Toole Randall; Vida Runkel; Ed Bronsky
- Important places
- Alpine, Washington, USA
- First words
- After Ed Bronsky, my former ad manager at The Alpine Advocate, took over the local food bank last March, there was some concern about whether or not he was eating more than he handed out.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
