The Alpine Fury (Emma Lord Mystery, Book 6) by Mary Daheim
By Mary Daheim
Unique book: 1995
BANK ON MURDER
For generations the venerable family-owned financial institution has served the previous logging city within the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. yet all of sudden Marv Peterson, financial institution president and relatives patriarch, turns out unnaturally distracted; his heirs and staff are jittery. And whilst a banker from Seattle involves city, allegedly on a fishing holiday, Emma Lord, editor and writer of The Alpine suggest, comes to a decision to do a bit fishing herself.
Abetted by way of her unsinkable house-and-home editor, Emma snoops for a narrative and finally ends up investigating murder--the strangling demise of the bank's attractive blonde bookkeeper after a rendezvous at an area hotel. Did she die due to whom she knew or what she knew? Sheriff Milo stay clear of hasn't a clue, yet Emma and The suggest get set to roll with the surprising fact and the most important tale in history....
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.