The Alpine Vengeance
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The Alpine Vengeance
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Daheim's The Alpine Winter. Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the charming hamlet of Alpine is preparing for Thanksgiving, while Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, feels her spirits sink. There will be no family or friends to share the day, but a call from Sheriff Milo Dodge on the Monday after the holiday weekend leaves her no time to wallow. Three alarming letters, sent to the sheriff from an anonymous writer, assert that the murder conviction of Alpine resident Larry Petersen ten years earlier was the result of a wrongful arrest. Adding to the miscarriage of justice, Petersen recently died behind bars. Then a fourth letter arrives, threatening retribution in the form of another death—most likely Emma’s or Milo’s. Mary Daheim’s Emma Lord novel is a rich and authentic blend of small-town life and chilling menace.
Shadows of Vengeance
Zoe was trained to disappear. A former covert operative with no fingerprints and a trail long buried, she vanished after her family was slaughtered by a powerful cabal known only as the Obsidian Circle. Now, years later, whispers of the same voices that orchestrated her loss echo from the shadows of global power — and Zoe is done hiding. Armed with a searing intellect, weaponized trauma, and the black ops skills of a phantom, she hunts them from Geneva to Lagos, Paris to Moscow. Each target carries a piece of the puzzle — and a price. But as her war deepens, so does the danger. Traitors wear the masks of therapists, allies become suspects, and a seductive enemy from her past reemerges with secrets that could fracture her mission — or her mind. Haunted by what she’s lost and what she’s becoming, Zoe leaves a signature at every strike: a black origami bird — her silent message of reckoning. But vengeance has its own cost. And as Zoe steps deeper into the fire, one question burns louder than the rest: Is she destroying the Obsidian Circle… or becoming something worse? Shadows of Vengeance is a razor-edged thriller of justice, betrayal, and the price of becoming your own weapon.
Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.