Mary Daheim's The Alpine Pursuit was okay. (Damned by faint praise? You betcha.) It's billed as an Emma Lord mystery, so I'll go out on a limb and assume there's more than one book about Emma Lord. Emma runs a small town weekly newspaper and, apparently, solves crimes in her spare time. I don't know that I'll go search for any more of her adventures, but I didn't show disgust by hurling this book across the room when I finished it. A solid C, maybe a C+.


Currently reading: Best American Mystery Stories edited by Lee Child and Otto Penzler. AARGH!