The Alpine Yeoman
Emma Lord Mystery Series, Book 25
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January 27, 2014
Emma Lord, publisher of the weekly newspaper in isolated Alpine, Wash., is enjoying life with her sexy new husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, but must contend with a veritable avalanche of soap operas emanating from the 24 previous books in Daheim’s alphabetical cozy series, most recently 2013’s The Alpine Xanadu. A woman has a breakdown following the foiled jailbreak of her son; another copes with post-traumatic stress disorder after a shooting and the collapse of a marriage due to alcoholism; and that’s just chapter one. The main action involves a corpse found by a nearby river and such questions as who is he, why is a deputy missing, and why are high school girls disappearing? Following the various threads can be hard given the many characters, all with melodramatic backstories. The book’s strength is the often-amusing dialogue between Emma and Milo, as they navigate their public and private lives. Everyone else is a blur who needs therapy.
October 1, 2013
Another small-town murder, this one at the state fish hatchery, sets Alpine Advocate editor and publisher Emma Lord on the penultimate addition to this popular series.
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March 1, 2014
A middle-aged honeymoon couple has to catch wedded bliss on the fly when murder and a car wreck upset their little town. Emma Lord and Milo Dodge have been married all of two months. As the editor and publisher of a newspaper on a shoestring budget, she's always looking for stories worth a few inches of copy. He's the sheriff of Alpine, somewhere east of Washington's Cascade Mountains. Emma also enjoys the sometimes-questionable company of Vida Runkel, the "House & Home" editor, who knows everyone and everything in town. Vida's all atwitter about her beloved great-grandson Dippy now that his mother, the town hooker Vida wrested him from, is out on bond. When a body is found near the fish hatchery, it's identified as someone who may be either a federal agent or a crook; a major car crash, missing teenagers and a detective who goes off the grid also conspire to keep Emma and Milo busy. An intruder who threatens Emma's life provides yet another entanglement in a confusion of noisy neighbors, ex-spouses, stepchildren, children who are no more than voices on the phone and characters mentioned only in passing--all of them distractions from the overlapping plotlines. Despite these extraneous dramas and a rather muted resolution, however, Daheim injects enough wit and color to make her tale more entertaining than the standard small-town mystery. Fans of Daheim's multivolume chronicle (The Alpine Xanadu, 2013, etc.) may feel right at home among Alpine's denizens, but it will be a struggle for newcomers to figure out who's who.
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