The Alpine Obituary (An Emma Lord Mystery) Review

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The Alpine Obituary (An Emma Lord Mystery) ReviewIn an always powerful series, I think the "Alpine Obituary" is quite possibly Mary Daheim's most complex novel to date. She's incorporated a number of historical flashbacks into her text which worked extremely well for me and added both depth and dimension to her here-and-now plotline. When the book begins, the dreary, dog days of August seem to have extended into September, and Emma Lord, Editor-Publisher of the Advocate, is feeling overwhelmed by the frustration of having to scrape up enough 'new' news to fill her editions and stay even with her arch-rival and competitor, radio station KSKY owner, Spencer Fleetwood. Adding to her emotional malaise is the fact that she is still mourning the tragic death of her long-time lover, Tom Cavanaugh, and worrying about their son Adam, who has just accepted his first Parrish assignment in the wilds of the Alaskan outback. Preoccupied with past horrors and her own miseries, she finds it hard to work up either outrage or amusement when an oddball obituary for recently-deceased Alpine resident Jack Froland floats across her desk, and she is not at all receptive when Marsha Foster-Klein...the local judge who sent Tom's killer to prison...asks her to try and find out who's behind an anonymous letter with an enigmatic photo attached that threatens to expose Marsha's 'dark secret' unless she immediately withdraws her candidacy for a plum appointment to the Court of Appeals. However, because the photograph piques her interest and Marsha is willing to let her involve her old friend, the Advocate's indefatigable super-snoop, House & Home editor Vida Runkel in her sleuthing, Emma finally agrees to look into the matter. Drawing on Vida's encyclopedic knowledge of the community's history, they not only ferret out the blackmailer, but uncover some sad and startling connections between the Foster-Klein and Froland families...extending as far back as pre-WWI Alpine...that become all the more disturbing once the present intrudes itself into their investigation in the form of Widow Froland crying murder and a flash fire in a nearby forest that turns up a corpse together with evidence of arson. Somewhere in all this mass of conflicting data, Emma reasons, there must be a common link. Finding it takes her from no news to almost more news than she and Vida can handle as the action intensifies to its cliff-hanger conclusion when Emma makes a last, devastating discovery that provides an amazing answer to everyone's questions and finally allows the dead past to RIP.
One of the things that always delights me whenever I begin a new Alpine mystery is just how easy...and how pleasurable...it is to re-immerse myself in Emma Lord's world. Mary Daheim has such a marvelous flair for making her on-going characters so immediately accessible and appealing that even if you haven't read any of her other books, it still feels as if you are coming home. However, I thought one of the especially outstanding features of Emma's latest adventure was the new light that it shed on so many old, familiar faces. There were also some marvelous, almost O'Henry-like twists to this particular plot that heightened my overall enjoyment of the novel and made me extremely eager to find out what will happen next in Emma's life. Maybe we could follow her to Rome on an Alpine Pilgrimage?The Alpine Obituary (An Emma Lord Mystery) Overview

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