Books by Mary Daheim
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review 1: This is the 29th book of Mary Daheim and I enjoyed it and while I didn't like this one as much as others in the series I will be reading the next one. Judith and Renie are cousins that live close to each other with their mothers close by. The mothers are something else but they d...
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review 1: Enjoyed the book, but for personal reasons I ran into the library to quickly grab some books and didn't realize that I didn't get the ones that were right after the one I got done reading. Was transported 10 years later and was lost on some of the characters and going on in the t...
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review 1: I always enjoy the Alpine books, but I do have trouble keeping the cast of characters straight. Who was or is married to whom and trying to remember how they are all related to Vida Runkel! Emma and Milo finally tie the knot, which creates a different set of complications. Of c...
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review 1: I had missed Judith and Renie but as usual Daheim has way way way too many characters. By the time the mystery is solved you are so tired of trying to keep all the characters straight you almost don't care who committed the murder. There were probably 15 characters introduced and...
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review 1: This is the first book in this series that I’ve read so I don’t if this is typical of this author or not. I have to say I thought it would have a bit more to do with racing than it did, so I’m puzzled as to why this title. I had no trouble staying interested but I did feel as t...
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review 1: This 23rd outing for small-town newspaper publisher Emma Lord finds Emma and Milo finally acknowledging their feelings for each other. Emma is worried about how her priest brother and priest son will take the news. Milo is still technically married to Old Mulehide, which is a p...
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review 1: 25th book of the Bed and Breakfast Mystery series. Although I liked the traveling by railroad theme, this was not a favorite of this series. There are too many people to keep track of. At the end when the mystery is solved I lost total interest. I had no idea who the murderer was...
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review 1: I received this book from the publisher.I love mysteries; it is my favorite genre. I really wanted to like this book but I could not get past the first 50 pages. I found the characters to be unlikeable and they seemed to be constantly yelling or sniping at each other.The author...
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review 1: I have not yet read any of the early books in this series (this is #22), so found the complex of local characters and family alliances a bit confusing. At the same time, I enjoyed the small-town feeling and recall visiting the setting as a child. The basic story was surprising a...
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review 1: Excellent, as usual. Mary Dave in has written a winner again. Her series of books are set in a small town called Alpine. The local sheriff and his wife are the main characters and when they aren't solving crimes, they are falling in love. Fortunately, with each other. They a...