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  • Published: 15 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780345502582
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $16.99

The Alpine Vengeance

An Emma Lord Mystery




This wickedly entertaining twenty-second installment of Mary Daheim's bestselling Alpine mystery series is packed with delicious intrigue.

Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the charming hamlet of Alpine is preparing for Thanksgiving, while Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, feels her spirits sink. There will be no family or friends to share the day, but a call from Sheriff Milo Dodge on the Monday after the holiday weekend leaves her no time to wallow. Three alarming letters, sent to the sheriff from an anonymous writer, assert that the murder conviction of Alpine resident Larry Petersen ten years earlier was the result of a wrongful arrest. Adding to the miscarriage of justice, Petersen recently died behind bars. Then a fourth letter arrives, threatening retribution in the form of another death—most likely Emma’s or Milo’s. Mary Daheim’s Emma Lord novel is a rich and authentic blend of small-town life and chilling menace.

  • Published: 15 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780345502582
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Mary Daheim

Mary Daheim is a Seattle native who started spinning stories before she could spell. Daheim has been a journalist, an editor, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer. But fiction was always her style of choice, and in 1982 she launched a career that is now distinguished by more than forty published novels. In 2000, she won the Literary Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Daheim lives in Seattle with her husband, David, a retired professor of cinema, English, and literature. The Daheims have three daughters: Barbara, Katherine, and Magdalen.

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Praise for The Alpine Vengeance

  • "Keeps the reader turning the pages." --Booklist, on The Alpine Uproar
  • "Daheim writes...with dry wit, a butter-smooth style, and obvious wicked enjoyment." --Portland Oregonian
  • "[Daheim] amiably captures the rhythms and crosscurrents of small-town life." --Kirkus Reviews
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