Mary Daheim

1 series 26 books in order

Mary Richardson Daheim started spinning stories before she could spell. 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 sixty novels. In 2000, she won the Literary Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. In October 2008, she was inducted into the University of Washington’s Communication Alumni Hall of Fame. Daheim lives in her hometown of Seattle and is a direct descendant of former residents of the real Alpine, which existed as a logging town from 1910 to 1929, when it was abandoned after the mill was closed. The Alpine/Emma Lord series has created interest in the site, which was named a Washington State ghost town in July 2011. An organization called the Alpine Advocates has been formed to preserve what remains of the town as a historic site.

Known for: Emma Lord

Series by Mary Daheim

Emma Lord

26 books in order · 1992–2015

The Alpine Advocate

1992 · Mary Daheim

The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series. After a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to…
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The Alpine Betrayal

1993 · Mary Daheim

"Editor-publisher Emma Lord finds out that running a small-town newspaper is worse than nutty--it's downright dangerous."—Carolyn G. Hart When a…
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The Alpine Christmas

1993 · Mary Daheim

The holiday headlines are murder in this thrilling Emma Lord mystery The pretty little town of Alpine looks like a Christmas card: deep, fresh show,…
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The Alpine Decoy

1994 · Mary Daheim

An Emma Lord mystery by the author of "The Alpine Christmas." When a beautiful young African-American nurse with a shady past takes a job in Alpine,…
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The Alpine Escape

1995 · Mary Daheim

THE EDITOR OF THE ALPINE ADVOCATE GOES DIGGING FOR A MURDERER. At forty-two, newspaperwoman Emma Lord decides she needs time off to do some…
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The Alpine Fury

1995 · Mary Daheim

BANK ON MURDER For generations the venerable family-owned bank has served the old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. But…
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The Alpine Gamble

1996 · Mary Daheim

THE ALPINE ADVOCATE IS ON A ROLL. The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around…
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The Alpine Hero

2011 · Mary Daheim

THE ALPINE ADVOCATE SCOOPS A MURDER Emma Lord, the Advocate's editor, finds the body in the facial room of Stella's Styling Salon anonymous under a…
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The Alpine Icon

1997 · Mary Daheim

ALL THE MURDER FIT TO PRINT Editor-publisher Emma Lord and her Alpine Advocate staff suspect excitement when glamorous Ursula O'Toole Randall returns…
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The Alpine Journey

2008 · Mary Daheim

A JOURNEY OF TERROR Murder is news--even when editor-publisher Emma Lord is away from The Alpine Advocate. A picturesque Oregon seashore village may…
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How many books has Mary Daheim written?

We list 26 books by Mary Daheim across 1 series, published between 1992–2015 — each shown in full reading order.

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