The Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery [Kindle Edition] Author: Mary Daheim | Language: English | ISBN:
B008TSC10C | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download electronic versions of selected books Download The Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery [Kindle Edition] from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link A new exhilarating installment in Mary Daheim’s beloved and long-running small-town murder mystery series set in Alpine, Washington, and featuring unforgettable newspaper editor Emma Lord.
Winter in the small mountain aerie of Alpine should be as quiet as new-fallen snow on the Cascades, but from the Grocery Basket to the Venison Inn, the town is humming. At the Alpine Advocate, editor Emma Lord and her staff are on deadline with a feature about the opening of RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing with gossip about Emma’s recent engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now that fool Wayne Eriks has climbed an electric pole in the middle of a storm and got himself electrocuted.
Sheriff Dodge doesn’t buy the idea that Wayne’s death is an accident. But how—and, more important, why—he died is only one of the conundrums that keep the sheriff and Emma working overtime. Why is RestHaven giving Alpine so many restless nights? What to make of allegations that someone’s trying to kill the richest man in town . . . or whispers of a rash of indecent behavior at the local high school? After Vida Runkel, the Advocate’s stalwart House & Home editor, disappears into thin air, Milo and Emma suddenly have too many loose ends to solve before they can even think about tying the knot.
Featuring beloved characters from the series alongside some sinister new ones—not to mention a mystery that will shake Alpine to its core—The Alpine Xanadu may be Mary Daheim’s most delicious novel yet.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Mary Daheim's The Alpine Yeoman.
Praise for Mary Daheim and her Emma Lord mysteries
“Always entertaining.”—The Seattle Times
“Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.”—Carolyn Hart
“Daheim writes . . . with dry wit, a butter-smooth style, and obvious wicked enjoyment.”—The Oregonian
“The characters are great, and the plots always attention-getting.”—King Features Syndicate
“Even the most seasoned mystery fans are caught off-guard by [Daheim’s] clever plot twists.”—BookLoons Reviews
“Witty one-liners and amusing characterizations.”—Publishers Weekly Books with free ebook downloads available Download The Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery
- File Size: 1396 KB
- Print Length: 370 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0345535340
- Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 29, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008TSC10C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,335 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
No one who loves a cozy mystery featuring a delightfully flawed amateur sleuth (why did it take Emma Lord so many years to see what a hypocritical jerk Tom Cavanaugh was) should fail to read THE ALPINE XANADU. There is no one better at creating a humorous cozy mystery filled with eccentric characters, (Vida Rundel with her myriad hats), and an evocative sense of place, (Alpine, Washington, where it seems always to be either raining or snowing), as Mary Daheim. The residents of Alpine, whether likable, humorous, unpleasant, or downright evil, are all family to the reader as one follows the ups and downs of their lives in the twenty-plus books in the series. In this latest title Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the Alpine Advocate, the town's weekly newspaper, is planning a special edition to inform the community of the grand opening of RestHaven, a retirement, psychiatric hospital located at the edge of town. Emma attempts to interview all the doctors and other personnel involved in managing the facility, but feels she hasn't done a very good job of it, perhaps because she doesn't quite like them. In fact, Emma has a sense of something a bit off about RestHaven. When Wayne Eriks is electrocuted while working on RestHaven's electrical line, the death is thought an accident. Wayne Eriks ought to know better than to work on electrical lines during a thunderstorm. Still, Wayne wasn't that stupid, was he?
Emma can be excused from immediately believing Wayne's death is suspicious; after all, Milo has picked up marriage license applications and he wants to have an immediate civil ceremony, while the Catholic Church takes its time about annulling Milo's previous marriage.
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