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    The Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery

    Written by Mary Daheim

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    About this audiobook

    Winter in Alpine should be quiet, but 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.

    After the Advocate's House & Home editor disappears, Milo and Emma suddenly have too many loose ends to solve before they can even think about tying the knot.

    ©2013 Mary Daheim (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781624063183
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    The Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery
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    Mary Daheim

    Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a communications degree from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series.

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    • 3/5
      This is not a cozy series I follow. I only read a couple of early installments. I was motivated to listen to this one by the need for an "x" in the AlphaKIT. Emma Lord is publisher of the Alpine, Washington newspaper. She is engaged to Sheriff Milo Dodge. The book really seems to be more about the quirkiness of small-town life than about the mystery concerning the death of a local resident. Oh, the sheriff and Emma do investigate it, but it's more about the community than about the mystery. Emma and Sheriff Milo do elope in the book. It was a little all over the place with several story lines competing for the reader's attention. I suppose that's the way it is in the newspaper business though. I doubt I'll spend time catching up on the series. I didn't really enjoy them that much in the past, and I don't know and love the characters enough to continue it. The narrator was okay, but not outstanding.
    • 4/5
      4 STARSThe Alpine Xanadu: An Emma Lord Mystery #24This is my first time reading an Emma Lord mystery their is a lot of history that I don't know so at times I was a little lost and others why this was important to the story. I imangine if your a long time fan you would like this more than me at times.The Characters are well developed and you can tell most of them have been around along time with full backgrounds. Emma and the Sheriff sometimes I wondered at their relationship the way they talked to each other or yell. Other times I was laughing at them and with them.Emma is the owner of a newspaper and online news for the town of Alpine. Their is a radio station that is competition for the news. Vida works for both of them. She is mad at the Sheriff for something in the past. She knows everything that is going on unless it has to do with her blind spot Roger.Their is a new rehab and mental health center opening up. They keep lots of secerets. Close by a man fixing something is killed. It seems to be accident or was it.One of Emma's reporter does not realize that the Sheriff is living with her. He does not trust the sheriff.The Sheriff's daughter has come to town after she has some problems and feels only safe living with him. So he moves back to his house for a while. He plans to sell his house and wants to expand Emma's and keeps getting bigger and bigger. She is worried how they will be able to pay for it.Their is lots of small town information in the story that makes it nice to know. I wish I had read earlier stories about Emma Lord seems like a lot goes on for a small town. I will be on the lookout for more of Mary's work in the future.I was given this ebook to read and asked to give honest review of it by Netgalley.01/29/2013 PUB Random House Publishing Group Ballantine 336 pages
    • 3/5
      This was a decent cozy mystery. Sometimes there were too many plotlines to follow at once. But, I probably should have read the physical book and not listened to the audiobook. The ending was okay. Some plots weren't completely wrapped up, but that's true to life so it didn't bother me too much. All in all, it was a fun few hours of reading.
    • 4/5
      The Alpine Xanadu by Mary Daheim is a 2013 Ballantine Books publication. It is always fun to touch base with the characters in this series. This 24th installment in the Emma Lord saga begins with a freak accident, which might actually be the murder of a distasteful resident no one really liked. Milo has his hands full with the investigation and a visit from his former wife and his troubled daughter. But, Emma and Milo have finally agreed to an engagement and are more or less living together... finally. This mystery was especially confounding and the Sheriff has his hands full with a plethora of other issues, both professional and personal. Emma and Milo struggle to maintain professional boundaries since it would be super tempting for Emma to gain the inside scoop from Milo and vice versa. It feels awkward at times but they make it through.I love the odd duck characters in this series, the small community atmosphere, and the dark little secrets buried there. Milo and Emma have some of the best banter between long term couples in any series I have read, often making me laugh out loud. As with many cozy mysteries, the great appeal for readers is how the story is more character driven, with the mystery sort of unfolding in the background amid all the relationships and secondary happenings. I think after a time, revisiting these characters is like touching base with old friends, and it's comforting. I am so pleased with how things are going for Emma and Milo, and hope things continue on this way. These are the types of cozy mysteries I love to read. I have the next two installments queued up and ready to go. I'm looking forward it! 4 stars
    • 4/5
      Got a bit annoyed with the hints of something coming at the end of evey chapter
    • 3/5
      The plot is thin and the wedding/engagement of Dodge and Emma only is tested by family circumstances.
    • 3/5
      Well, clearly, starting in on a series at book 24 isn't the best idea. Although I didn't finish it this time around, I'm giving it a 3 because I was actually enjoying what I read of it; at this point in time, I just didn't have the patience to read through all of the background on every single person in the town. And I couldn't for the life of me remember who they all were from page to page. I wouldn't mind trying the first book in the series and having it all unfold in the proper way. Just not now.
    • 1/5
      I promised myself that I wouldn’t read any more books in this series, but I saw this one for sale for $2 at a used book store and picked it up. Big mistake. It isn’t worth $2. One of the rules I would impose on mystery authors if I had the power is that they may not include more than 25 named characters in a single book. I didn’t count how many there were in The Alpine Xanadu, but I’m guessing 125. The story rambled. The resolution was so quick and so unsatisfying that when I got to the last page, I thought, “what just happened?” And Emma Lord is one of the worst heroines in cozy fiction. She’s in her 50s and acts like about 17. A definite case of arrested development. I like heroines with endearing flaws, not ones that make me want to slap her upside the head.No more. No more.