Part of Series
At the start of The Alpine Winter, Emma hasn’t gone far since the close of The Alpine Vengeance. Less than three weeks have passed since the harrowing events of December 4. I can’t give away too much because many of you may not have read AV yet, but I can say that Emma hasn’t been in the true spirit of Christmas despite the imminent arrival of son, Adam, and brother, Ben. Nor do Emma’s spirits lift when Ben arrives. She has a confession to make and it’s one that her priestly brother doesn’t want to hear. The visit isn’t off to an auspicious start, especially when Adam is delayed by an Alaskan white-out. But there’s still a newspaper to put out on the sometimes snowy and almost always wet streets of Alpine. It doesn’t buoy Emma’s spirits when Leo and Vida both leave town for the Christmas weekend—and Mitch Laskey suddenly goes AWOL. Emma’s only source of comfort is Sheriff Milo Dodge who finally returns from his own nerve-wracking domestic ordeal in Bellevue. Of course there are some very mysterious doings—three seemingly separate incidents, including two from out of the past. Are they linked?
Author
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.
