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. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading very lightly. 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. 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. Then, to the utter bafflement of her colleagues, Vida vanishes without a word to anyone. 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. Has the hot weather driven everyone nuts, or are cold-blooded forces committing deadly misdeeds?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780345535368
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221093206
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Alpine Zen: an Emma Lord Mystery
Author
Mary Daheim
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
175mm
Item Width
107mm
Volume
26
Item Weight
168g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mary Daheim
Series Title
Emma Lord
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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