The Alpine Pursuit
By Mary Daheim

      Newspaper owner and editor Emma Lord is up to her ears in news--of the quaint small town variety, until the night of the local amateur theater production, when something goes terribly wrong. An accident. Or was it?

      Of course, there was supposed to be a shooting scene in the show, but the bullets were supposed to be blanks. Instead, an actor lies dead.

      When not acting, he held the position of administrator at the local community college, and as much as Emma hates to believe it, his death may not have been an accident at all.
In fact, as it turns out, he was hated by many, even received threats in recent months.

      Beset by blizzards and threatened by flood waters, life in this small mountain town is never dull, and now the lively, squabbling townspeople take sides and make things even more challenging as Emma and Sheriff Milo Dodge join forces to dig out the truth.

      Charmingly reminiscent of Jessica Fletcher's character in "Murder She Wrote", Mary Daheim's Emma Lord is a savvy and sensible matron with a heart of gold, who dreams of far away places, but is stuck writing and even creating the news in her tiny burg, as well as dealing with all manner of quirky, yet lovable townfolk.

      Her memorable and sometimes outrageous characters will come alive if you let them, walking off the printed page and straight into your heart--just as they did mine.