The Alpine Recluse (26 page)
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Authors: Mary Daheim
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M
ARY
D
AHEIM
is a Seattle native who started spinning stories before she could spell. Daheim has been a journalist, an editor, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer, but fiction was always her medium of choice, and in 1982 she launched a career that is now distinguished by more than forty novels. In 2000, Daheim won the Literary Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Daheim lives in Seattle with her husband, David, a retired professor of cinema, English, and literature. The Daheims have three daughters: Barbara, Katherine, and Magdalen.
B
Y
M
ARY
D
AHEIM
The Alpine Advocate
The Alpine Betrayal
The Alpine Christmas
The Alpine Decoy
The Alpine Escape
The Alpine Fury
The Alpine Gamble
The Alpine Hero
The Alpine Icon
The Alpine Journey
The Alpine Kindred
The Alpine Legacy
The Alpine Menace
The Alpine Nemesis
The Alpine Obituary
The Alpine Pursuit
The Alpine Quilt
The Alpine Recluse
The Alpine Recluse
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Mary Daheim
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Daheim, Mary.
The Alpine recluse : an Emma Lord mystery / Mary Daheim.
p. cm.
1. Lord, Emma (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Arson—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Newspaper publishing—Fiction. 4. Washington (State)—Fiction. 5. Women editors—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3554.A264A838 2006
813′.54—dc22 2005048108
eISBN: 978-0-345-49084-1
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