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Bestselling author Mary Daheim offers the 21st thrilling installment in the Alpine Alphabet crime novel series starring Emma Lord.  Set in the Pacific Northwest, it is one of the longest cozy mystery series in print.  A fight erupts at the local tavern, and a patron is murdered by a blow to the head with a pool cue.  What initially seems to be an open-and-shut case disintegrates into the contradictory and confused retellings of the murder's many witnesses.  It's up to Emma Lord and her longtime compatriots to solve the case.

A Seattle native who started spinning strories before she could spell, Mary Daheim has been a journalist, an editor, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer, but fiction was always her medium of choice.  In 1982 she launched a career that is now distinguished by more than fifty novels.  In 2000, she won the Literary Achievment Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.  She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count.

Visit Mary's website: www.authormarydaheim.com. 

The Alpine Uproar: An Emma Lord Mystery (Hardcover)

By Mary Daheim

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780345502551
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books, 06/01/2009

The twenty-first installment of Mary Daheim's series featuring Emma Lord proves once again that life in the peaceful town of Alpine is anything but
In Emma Lord's newest outing, a fight erupts at the local tavern, and a patron is murdered with a pool cue. What initially seems to be an open-and-shut case disintegrates into the contradictory and confused recountings of the murder's many witnesses. Each one has an agenda behind the story--some of them committed enough to lie. And it's up to Emma Lord and her longtime compatriot, Sherriff Milo Dodge, to figure it out.

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