A review by judyward
The Alpine Advocate: An Emma Lord Mystery by Mary Daheim

1.0

The first book in the Emma Lord series. A middle aged woman buys a weekly newspaper in a small town in Washington state and ends up solving a multiple murder. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the story--which I didn't, it wasn't that I figured out the mystery in the first third of the book--which I did, it was more that I wanted to slap several of the major characters--repeatedly. I read this book as part of the Read the USA challenge on goodreads. Maybe the next books in the series are better. I hope so.