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Bezig met laden... The Alpine Advocate (1992)door Mary Daheim
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Emma Lord is a single mom who has achieved her dream of owning a small town newspaper. Her son is away at college, so the paper is her main focus. She is proud of hitting a full year as editor/publisher, but feels she needs to ramp things up. Maybe a big story or increase in advertising dollars? Her hope is answered when Mark, the grandson of the patriarch of the Doukas family, is murdered. What really knocks it out of the park is the prime suspect is Chris, the other grandson, who has just returned to town after being gone 14 years. Chris is considered the black sheep of the family due to his mother having married "beneath" her. When her husband disappeared, she packed up and left Alpine. Her father had disowned her when she married, so why not? Emma relies on her assistant Vida, a virtual encyclopedia of Alpine's families and history, when she starts investigating. Scandal has always been part of the Doukas family and of interest to the town. Seems there is plenty to go around. Especially to a news woman. Not only is Emma busy with running the weekly publishing schedule and trying to solve the murder, someone from her own past shows up and she has to deal with that and the town's curiosity. This is the first in this series. I enjoyed it and will be looking for other books in the series. When Emma Lord, single mother and publisher-editor of a small Washington newspaper, takes in one of her son's friends, she finds herself involved in a murder investigation when the son of one of the town's richest families is killed. I found Emma and her possible romantic triangle a little tedious, but I liked her sidekick, the ascerbic society writer for the paper. The plot was competently spun and I may decide to read more of the series. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: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 this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really needs for her paper, though, is a big story. And she gets itâ??when handsome Mark Doukas, grandson of rich, old Neeny Doukas is murdered. Emma discovers that trying to get straight answers out of Neeny and his thin-lipped son is like poking a nest of sleeping rattlesnakes. What begins with an innocent story about the murdered man, ends with Emma conducting the most interesting, and probably the last, interview of her career from the wrong end of a .38. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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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. ( )