Mary Daheim

Vacations can be murder. No one knows that better than Judith McMonigle Flynn, owner of Seattles popular Hillside Manor B&B. After a busy summer, she desperately needs some R&R. Leave it to her thoughtful husband, Joe, to surprise her with a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Thrilled to be getting away, Judith's overjoyed when Cousin Renie and Bill agree to join them. Though the husbands have made the arrangements, how bad can a short time away in the...

"Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Mille, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem normal--until Rodney insists that innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn is his long-lost mother. Shocked to meet an alleged son she's sure she never had, Judith can't believe Rodney when he swears he has proof from a hospital birth certificate listing her as his mother. The father's name is Unknown. But Judith's got a bigger problem when one of the B&B guests turns up dead in the...

When an unpopular local is found murdered in a new rehabilitation facility, reporter and soon-to-be-bride Emma Lord teams up with her friends to identify the culprit and receives the shock of her life when she is framed for the killing.

Hearing that two of Good Cheer Hospital's patients didn't make it following routine surgery, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is eased about her hip surgery only by sharing her hospital room with her cousin, Renie, who's in for rotator cuff repair. The cousins survive their surgeries, but the ex-pro quarterback in for minor knee surgery does not. Soon, Judith and Renie look to sew up the case.

There's snow place like homicide B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's ready to hang up her oven mitts, but irrepressible Cousin Renie needs help catering the telephone company's annual winter retreat at secluded Mountain Goat Lodge. The pay's good, the scenery's to die for -- but they never figured there'd be a killer cooking up mischief among this innocuous stew of corporate-climbing phone company ding-a-lings. Unfortunately, Judith and Renie's discovery...

Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left the group decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper, The Alpine Advocate, immediately arrives on the scene to report the incident and the sleuth her way to the truth. But Genevieve's murder isn't the only...

Judith and Renie's dreams of some R&R on a deluxe cruise are dry-docked when the stabbing death of the cruise line owner mars the prelaunch party. However, that murder is only the first in a trio of homicides as the cousins prowl the steep streets of San Francisco.

When an obituary is mailed to the town paper--by the subject himself--Emma Lord tracks him down only to find he has been murdered.

A conclusion to the long-running mystery series finds Emma investigating the arrival and illness of a young woman who is searching for the mother who abandoned her, a case that is complicated by Vida's altered state, a stalker and a reclusive artist.