Has the hot weather driven everyone nuts, or are cold-blooded forces committing deadly misdeeds? And just when Emma and her husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, start to unsnarl these tangles, a male body, dead too long to identify, surfaces at the town dump-making what seemed merely weird feel downright sinister. Then, to the utter bafflement of her colleagues, Vida vanishes without a word to anyone. So when a peculiar young woman walks in claiming her parents have been murdered, and that she’s in mortal danger, too, it fits right in with the rest of the craziness. For unfathomable reasons, the paper’s House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, is in a major snit, refusing to speak to her colleagues, or even her boss. Her legion of avid armchair sleuths will relish this deliciously gripping novel.Īs an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading very lightly. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. 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.
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