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MURDER IS RELATIVE
The brutal stabbing of local philanthropist Einar Rasmussen Jr. outrages folk in the old logging town of Alpine. But, strangely, editor Emma Lord of The Alpine Advocate can scarcely pry a word out of the victim's reclusive relatives. Sheriff Milo Dodge isn't much help either, now that he and Emma are no longer an item. So intrepid Emma goes solo, hot after a story that sparks through town like wildfire, fueled by rumor, malice,...
The brutal stabbing of local philanthropist Einar Rasmussen Jr. outrages folk in the old logging town of Alpine. But, strangely, editor Emma Lord of The Alpine Advocate can scarcely pry a word out of the victim's reclusive relatives. Sheriff Milo Dodge isn't much help either, now that he and Emma are no longer an item. So intrepid Emma goes solo, hot after a story that sparks through town like wildfire, fueled by rumor, malice,...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 17
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Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left Alpine, decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper, arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth.
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Not even in Alpine, Washington, could the death of octogenarian Jack Froland be considered big news--except by his drinking buddies at Mugs Ahoy. But that suddenly changes when in the middle of his funeral, Jack's widow hysterically insists that he was murdered. Emma Lord, publisher of The Alpine Advocate, who is already investigating a threatening letter received by the town's beautiful blonde judge, now suspects she has two hot stories to unravel....
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 9
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Editor-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..."P. 4 of cover.
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 18
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When peaceful Alpine, Washington, is stunned by a case of arson, newspaper editor Emma Lord and Sheriff Milo Dodge soon discover that the fire had been used to cover up the more sinister crime of murder.
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 21
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When Alpine's newspaper, "The Advocate," narrowly escapes a potential hostile takeover, Emma Lord finds herself on the top of the suspect list when the person behind the bid turns up dead.
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 19
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When the "Alpine Advocate" receives a suspicious obituary, sent to them by the subject himself, amateur sleuths Emma Lord and Vida Runkel set out to track down the truth, only to find the man bludgeoned to death behind his house.
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When a local girl, Dani Marsh, returns to Alpine a star to shoot a Hollywood film, the tension in the air is so thick it crackles. Then at the annual Loggerama, Dani's former husband, Cody Graff goes berserk with an axe and is later found dead. Reporting on on all the goings-on as the editor of the ADVOCATE, Emma Lord begins to suspect that neither she nor the sheriff, laconic Milo Dodge, is getting the real story. Why are there such strong feelings...
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2014.
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An ill wind blows through Alpine, but Advocate publisher Emma Lord and Sheriff Milo Dodge seem immune to the prevailing angst. The newlyweds{u2019} domestic idyll is most definitely over when a dead man is discovered near the fish hatchery and nobody has a clue as to his identity. Vida Runkel may have insight, but Emma{u2019}s redoubtable House & Home editor is mad at the world and saying little. Moreover, whispers of scandal travel through the quaint...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 24
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Winter in the small mountain aerie of Alpine should be as quiet as new-fallen snow on the Cascades, but from the Grocery Basket to the Venison Inn, the town is humming. At the "Alpine Advocate, " editor Emma Lord and her staff are on deadline with a feature about the opening of RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing with gossip about Emma's recent engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now that fool Wayne Eriks has...
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"The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state's Cascade Mountains--home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate--has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. Her legion of avid armchair sleuths will relish this deliciously gripping novel. As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading...
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2020.
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"After a relatively calm and cozy holiday season, neither Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, nor her husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, are surprised when their new year gets off to a rocky start. A woman's body has been found in a squalid motel. Her driver's license shows that Rachel Jane Douglas was in her late thirties and lived in Oakland, California--and the only connection between that town and Alpine is their gold-mining and...
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2012, c2011
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The picturesque town of Alpine in Washington's Cascade Mountains is decked out in holiday finery, but family troubles are brewing. Emma Lord is fretting over how her brother and son, both priests, will react when she confesses her affair with Sheriff Milo Dodge. Then Postmaster Roy Everson shows up with bones that may or may not belong to his long-missing mother. But the most disturbing holiday dilemma is the body found in the cave on Mount Sawyer...
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Emma Lord returns volume 1
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2019.
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For a small town nestled in the Cascade Mountains' foothills, picturesque Alpine provides more than enough headlines to fill the pages of editor and publisher Emma Lord's Alpine Advocate. The Labor Day edition's lead story features controversial timber baron Jack Blackwell's scheme to become Skykomish county manager, but the recent strangling deaths of two young women are all anyone can talk about. After a third body is found, Emma's husband, Sheriff...
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2013
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It's winter in the small mountain aerie of Alpine, Washington, but the town is humming. At the Alpine Advocate, editor Emma Lord and her staff are on deadline with a feature about the opening of RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing with gossip about Emma's recent engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now that fool Wayne Eriks has climbed an electric pole in the middle of a storm and got himself electrocuted. But...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 1
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1993
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Emma Lord, publisher of the Alpine Advocate, needs is a big story. And she gets just that when Mark Doukas, the handsome grandson of rich Neeny Doukas, is murdered. Even more shocking is that the other grandson, Chris - always the black sheep in the family - is the prime suspect!But trying to get a straight answer out of Neeny or his son, is like poking a nest of rattlesnakes. And if Emma doesn't watch out, she'll be conducting an interview from the...
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 3
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1993
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the pretty little town of Alpine looks like a Christmas card: deep, fresh snow, carolers, Christmas trees, and even a sleigh. The sight of a woman's leg in a lake, along with another young woman's hal-frozen body, puts a damper on everyone's festive mood. But for Emma Lord, editor of The Alpine Advocate, a hot story is still great news. With the help of her assistant, a bottomless well of local history, Emma begins to piece together the puzzle. Emma's...