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Mary Daheim

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Tietoja tekijästä

Mary R. Daheim is a reporter and mystery writer. She was born in Seattle, Washington. Daheim was a newspaper reporter and a public relations consultant before beginning to write. In 1983, she published her first historical romance. Daheim wrote six more books before becoming a mystery writer. In näytä lisää 1991, Daheim began the Bed & Breakfast series of books. She began a second series, the Alpine series, in 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

Sisältää nimet: Mary Daheim, Mary R. Daheim, Mary Richard Dahiem

Sisältää myös: Damiem (1)

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Tekijän teokset

Just Desserts (1991) 357 kappaletta
The Alpine Advocate (1992) 303 kappaletta
Fowl Prey (1991) 243 kappaletta
Scots on the Rocks (2007) 229 kappaletta
Suture Self (2001) 227 kappaletta
A Streetcar Named Expire (2001) 221 kappaletta
Snow Place to Die (1998) 219 kappaletta
Nutty as a Fruitcake (1990) 219 kappaletta
The Alpine Christmas (1993) 219 kappaletta
Holy Terrors (1992) 218 kappaletta
Hocus Croakus (2003) 218 kappaletta
Bantam of the Opera (1993) 215 kappaletta
This Old Souse (2004) 212 kappaletta
Auntie Mayhem (1996) 209 kappaletta
Creeps Suzette (2000) 208 kappaletta
Dune to Death (1993) 202 kappaletta
Legs Benedict (1999) 202 kappaletta
The Alpine Betrayal (1993) 199 kappaletta
Silver Scream (2002) 193 kappaletta
Major Vices (1995) 192 kappaletta
Dead Man Docking (2005) 190 kappaletta
Murder, My Suite (1995) 183 kappaletta
September Mourn (1997) 179 kappaletta
Saks and Violins (2006) 179 kappaletta
The Alpine Decoy (1994) 178 kappaletta
The Alpine Quilt (2005) 177 kappaletta
Wed and Buried (1998) 177 kappaletta
A Fit of Tempera (1994) 177 kappaletta
The Alpine Escape (1995) 173 kappaletta
The Alpine Fury (1995) 169 kappaletta
The Alpine Gamble (1996) 163 kappaletta
Loco Motive (2010) 158 kappaletta
The Alpine Nemesis (2001) 156 kappaletta
The Alpine Recluse (2006) 154 kappaletta
The Alpine Journey (1998) 150 kappaletta
The Alpine Obituary (2002) 148 kappaletta
The Alpine Traitor (2008) 148 kappaletta
The Alpine Icon (1997) 147 kappaletta
The Alpine Hero (1996) 146 kappaletta
The Alpine Kindred (1998) 145 kappaletta
Vi Agra Falls (2009) 143 kappaletta
The Alpine Scandal (2007) 141 kappaletta
The Alpine Pursuit (2003) 140 kappaletta
The Alpine Legacy (1999) 139 kappaletta
The Alpine Menace (2000) 137 kappaletta
The Wurst Is Yet to Come (2012) 123 kappaletta
Motherhood Is Murder (2003) — Avustaja — 109 kappaletta
The Alpine Uproar (2009) 105 kappaletta
The Alpine Vengeance (2011) 105 kappaletta
The Alpine Xanadu (2013) 100 kappaletta
The Alpine Zen (2015) 100 kappaletta
All the Pretty Hearses (2011) 100 kappaletta
The Alpine Winter (2011) 97 kappaletta
Gone with the Win (2013) 96 kappaletta
The Alpine Yeoman (2014) 91 kappaletta
Clam Wake (2014) 73 kappaletta
A Case of Bier (2018) 46 kappaletta
Here Comes the Bribe (2016) 40 kappaletta
Alpha Alpine (2018) 20 kappaletta
Improbable Eden (1991) 17 kappaletta
Love's Pirate (1983) 14 kappaletta
Destiny's Pawn (1984) 14 kappaletta
Gypsy Baron (1992) 12 kappaletta
Bitter Alpine (2020) 12 kappaletta
King's Ransom (1990) 8 kappaletta
Passion's Triumph (1988) 8 kappaletta
Lady MacDeath (2020) 5 kappaletta
Prides Captive (1986) 3 kappaletta
Reunion (2013) 2 kappaletta
The Royal Mile (2014) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Sugarplums and Scandal [Anthology 6-in-1] (2006) — Avustaja — 155 kappaletta
Murder, They Wrote (1997) — Avustaja — 51 kappaletta

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This was the first I tried by this author and it as not really to my liking. The plot was fine, but I frequently felt like the characters were off a bit. The way they were all sort of jolly around missing body parts. I like at least a little psychology in my stories, and everyone in here felt like a bit of a sociopath, more concerned with the Ferrari they were driving and their clothes than the dismembered folks from their community
 
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cspiwak | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 6, 2024 |
In a word, goofy. Everything about Silver Scream was goofy. The premise goes like this: the owner of a bed and breakfast needs to solve a murder on her property before the authorities blame her for the death and shut her business down. I thought that was a plausible and clever way to have a civilian try to solve a mystery. A bunch of movie are staying at Hillside Manor for a movie premier. When the producer is found dead, drowned in the kitchen sink, the race is on to solve the death. Accident? Suicide? Murder? The cleverness ends here and the story becomes just plain goofy. Judith, as the bed and breakfast owner, became completely unbelievable when she promised to have an elaborate costume for an actress repaired in one day. Then there was this goofy moment: the rookie police officer, responding to aforementioned death in Judith's kitchen, makes bunny ears behind her superior officer's head while investigating the scene. This is at a potential crime scene! Goofy! And another (still at the same crime scene): Judith's husband's ex-wife shows up. She's not only allowed to enter the potential crime scene, but she hangs around for awhile. I could go on and on, listing all the silliness of Silver Scream. Even though I didn't solve the mystery right away, I wasn't sure I cared.… (lisätietoja)
½
 
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SeriousGrace | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 15, 2023 |
In the mood for some small town shenanigans and murder? This book is for you. You won't find pulse pounding thrills or crackling prose. This is a straight-ahead, pleasantly written, cozy mystery set in a little town that once existed, but was never like this.

There's a lot of setting up happening in the first half of this book. We're learning about Emma Lord, her son, her town, her former lovers, the eccentric staff of her newspaper, the equally eccentric population of the rest of the town, and a murder. At first I feared that it would all turn out to be too cloying and contrived to be tolerable. But the plot finally settled down into some reasonably intelligent sleuthing and the hints and allegations started mounting up.

This is a good example of this sort of fiction. I couldn't settle for only 3 stars, so it gets 4.
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zot79 | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 20, 2023 |
Well, granted this was an impulse grab browsing in the library, and I really resolve never to try a new series starting on #18, but still found this one scattered and unsatisfying, with way too many characters, and no particular progress by anyone in solving the actual homicide.
 
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JudyGibson | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 26, 2023 |

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