Seattle native Mary Richardson Daheim has been fascinated by story-telling since early childhood. She first listened, then read, and finally began to write her own fiction when she was ten. A journalism major at the University of Washington, she was the first female editor of The Daily where she attracted national attention with her editorial stance against bigotry. After getting her B.A., she worked in newspapers and public relations, but in her spare time she tried her hand at novels. In 1983, Daheim’s first historical romance was published, followed by a half-dozen more before she switched genres to her original fictional love, mysteries. Just Desserts and Fowl Prey, the first books of thirty in the Bed-and-Breakfast series were released in 1991. A year later, the Emma Lord series made its debut with The Alpine Advocate. Daheim has also written several short stories for mystery anthologies and magazines. Married to professor emeritus and playwright David Daheim, the couple lives in Seattle and has three grown daughters. She has been an Agatha Award nominee, winner of the 2000 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Achievement Award, and her mysteries regularly make the USA Today bestseller list and the New York Times top thirty.
Series
Books
The Alpine Uproar
2009
Major Vices
1995
The Alpine Obituary
2002
The Alpine Kindred
1998
Murder, My Suite
1996
All the Pretty Hearses
2011
The Alpine Zen
2015
The Alpine Xanadu
2013
Silver Scream
2002
Bitter Alpine
2020
The Alpine Hero
1996
Saks & Violins
2006
The Alpine Scandal
2007
The Alpine Menace
2000
A Case of Bier
2019
The Alpine Advocate
1992
The Alpine Gamble
1996
Nutty as a Fruitcake
1996
The Alpine Icon
1997
Auntie Mayhem
1996
Bantam of the Opera
1993
The Alpine Pursuit
2004
The Alpine Fury
1995
The Alpine Journey
1998
The Alpine Escape
1995
The Wurst Is Yet to Come
2012
The Alpine Quilt
2005
Passion's Triumph
1988
The Alpine Yeoman
2014
Snow Place to Die
1998
The Alpine Betrayal
1993
Sugarplums and Scandal
2006
The Alpine Decoy
1994
Hocus Croakus
2003
Gypsy Baron
1992
Loco Motive
2010
Legs Benedict
1998
This Old Souse
2004
The Alpine Traitor
2008
Clam Wake
A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
2014
Destiny's Pawn
1984
Fowl Prey
1991
A Streetcar Named Expire
2001
Just Desserts
1991
A Fit of Tempera
1994
September Mourn
1998
Here Comes the Bribe
2015
Alpha Alpine
2017
King's Ransom
2006
Suture Self
2001
Dead Man Docking
2005
The Alpine Recluse
2006
Holy Terrors
1992
The Alpine Christmas
1993
Creeps Suzette
2000
The Alpine Legacy
1999
Vi Agra Falls
2008
Gone with the Win
2013
The Alpine Vengeance
2011
Dune to Death
1993
Scots on the Rocks
2007
The Alpine Nemesis
2001
The Alpine Winter
2011
Wed and Buried
1998
