Mary Daheim Books in Order

In 1561 Scotland, Dallas Cameron discovers that Iain Fraser is both a royal courtier and a pirate. Their marriage begins as a bargain for security, but court intrigue and divided loyalties turn it into something far riskier and deeper.

Morgan Todd enters Henry VIII's court longing for lost love, only to be trapped in an arranged marriage and dangerous political games. Religion, ambition, and desire pull her toward the one man she should fear most.

Serena Farrar dreams of newspaper work and abolition, but a family-arranged marriage to sea captain Brant Parnell upends everything. As scandal and looming war follow her south, she must choose between stubborn pride and real partnership.

In 1585 Scotland, Sorcha Fraser longs for a life beyond her Highland home and falls for Gavin Napier, a man tied to faith and court danger. Their romance unfolds against the violent aftershocks of Mary Stuart's reign.

Puritan ward Honor Dale hates the Royalist cause until the outlaw Captain Hood steals more than her family jewels. As Cromwell's England unravels, she is caught between duty, politics, and a dangerously compelling highwayman.

Judith and cousin Renie slip away to a Vancouver hotel for a pre-Thanksgiving break, then a popcorn vendor and his parakeet wind up dead. Surrounded by eccentric showbiz guests, the cousins have to spot the killer before suspicion settles on them.

Illegitimate Eden is pulled into late seventeenth-century court politics and trained to win favor with King William. But her mission to save her father and clear Maximilian's name grows harder as she falls for the wrong man.

Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor is upended when flamboyant tycoon Otto Brodie arrives with a noisy entourage and a talent for trouble. What should have been a wild house party turns into Judith's first very personal murder case.

Lady Katherine de Vere is swept from mourning at James I's court into scandal, exile, and European intrigue. Stefan Dvorak, the restless Baron Ostrov, may love her, but war, class, and old accusations keep tearing them apart.

Judith is already stressed by Hillside Manor's Easter brunch when a killer in a bunny suit strikes. With Renie and Joe helping, she follows a very crowded trail of suspects through one of her messiest holiday cases.

Emma Lord needs a big story for her small-town weekly, and she gets one when Mark Doukas is murdered in Alpine. Chasing answers through a tight-lipped family quickly turns her first major scoop into a fight for survival.

An obnoxious opera star checks into Hillside Manor with his entourage and soon dies of poison. Judith must save her inn's reputation by untangling backstage grudges, oversized egos, and a very public murder.

Newly married Judith and Joe head to Buccaneer Beach for a honeymoon, only for Joe to land in traction and their landlady to turn up dead. Pirate gold rumors make the seaside mystery even messier for Judith and Renie.

When hometown girl Dani Marsh returns to Alpine as a movie star, old feelings reignite across town. After her former husband dies, Emma Lord digs into the gossip and finds a case far murkier than anyone admits.

Christmas brings brutal murder to Alpine, and Emma's search for the truth puts her directly in danger. Holiday cheer quickly gives way to suspicion, gossip, and the possibility that Emma herself could wind up in the obituary pages.

Judith accepts a painting from a nervous neighbor, then heads to the family cottage with Renie for a break. When the artist is found strangled, the cousins realize the odd gift may be the key to the killing.

A young man is shot, and blame falls on a Black nurse already dealing with Alpine's prejudice. Emma and Vida dig past rumor and bias to see who really wants the case solved their way.

Judith and Renie reluctantly cater their billionaire uncle's seventy-fifth birthday party, expecting fuss, not homicide. When the guest of honor dies amid competing wills, family greed turns the celebration poisonous.

Fleeing gossip and stress at Hillside Manor, Judith visits Renie at a ski resort. The same poisonous columnist they hoped to avoid is due to arrive, unless the killer reaches the slopes first.

Needing time away, Emma lands in Port Angeles instead of peace when a skeleton turns up in a friend's basement. The century-old death pulls her into a dark family story that refuses to stay buried.

A Seattle banker's arrival rattles Alpine's financial world, then a bookkeeper is murdered. Emma follows the nerves, secrets, and money trail to see why respectable people are suddenly so afraid.

Judith and Renie look forward to a weekend at an English country manor, but their elderly hostess dies after eating poisoned chocolates. The trip quickly becomes a classic closed-circle puzzle with a very bitter center.

Christmas spirit is thin on Judith's cul-de-sac, especially for prickly Enid Goodrich. When Enid is murdered, Judith and Renie dig into neighborhood grudges that prove far less merry than the decorations suggest.

A proposed luxury spa divides Alpine between jobs and progress on one side, glitz and ruin on the other. When murder cuts through the debate, Emma has to report the story and solve it.

A body in the local salon sends Emma after a case full of rumor, missing persons, and danger. What looks like mere town talk soon becomes the biggest story Alpine has seen in months.

While helping manage a friend's inn on a remote island, Judith and Renie clash with a difficult guest who later dies in a fall. Renie fears she caused it, but Judith suspects island secrets and a far more deliberate shove.

Glamorous Ursula O'Toole Randall returns to Alpine to marry for the third time, then dies before the wedding. Emma has to look past old histories and fresh drama to find the killer.

One of Judith's guests dies at Hillside Manor, and the victim turns out to be mob hit man Legs Benedict hiding under another name. Almost everyone under Judith's roof has a reason to be glad he's gone.

Judith and Renie help cater a corporate winter retreat at a remote mountain lodge, then a storm traps them with a corpse and ten suspects. Cut off from help, the cousins have to sort grudges from panic before the snow closes in.

Emma is on vacation on the Oregon coast when a woman is killed after her nightly nude swim and the husband vanishes. The couple's strangely calm children make the case even harder to read.

A new disturbance in Alpine forces Emma back into the messy territory of family ties, old loyalties, and fresh suspicion. As gossip spreads, she has to work out which connection is merely personal and which one is deadly.

On the eve of her son's wedding, Judith sees a man in a tuxedo throw a woman in white from a roof. Family celebrations have to compete with a fresh murder as Judith races to learn who staged the deadly scene.

A radical new local paper attacks Emma personally, then its editor Crystal Bird is murdered and Emma becomes the top suspect. Clearing her name means stepping into one of Alpine's ugliest media wars.

Worn down by family chaos and Joe's retirement, Judith joins Renie at the estate of elderly Leota Burgess, who fears her relatives want her dead. One battered body, one very dead man, and a creepy household prove she may be right.

When Alpine native Carol Stokes is strangled in Seattle, Emma's cousin Ronnie is accused and has almost no defense. Emma and Vida hunt for another suspect before the killer edits them out of the story too.

Renovation next door uncovers a body sealed inside an old building, then Judith finds much fresher remains on the same property. She starts linking past and present murders even as everyone else thinks she's overbuilding the case.

Judith goes into the hospital for hip replacement already worried that recent patient deaths were no accident. When another patient dies, she starts investigating from her room, which may make her a target before she's back on her feet.

A long-running family feud explodes after three bodies are found in a meat freezer, with a fourth corpse making the case even stranger. As Emma chases the biggest story of her career, she uncovers a conspiracy that will change her life.

A film producer brings Hollywood vanity and a preview party to Hillside Manor, hoping his latest movie will be a triumph. Instead, Judith gets a front-row seat to murder among actors, egos, and expensive illusions.

An old man's funeral turns upside down when his widow insists he was murdered. Emma juggles that claim, threats against a local judge, and wildfire on the mountainside in a case with murder, blackmail, and arson.

After a fire forces Judith out of Hillside Manor, Renie talks her into a stay at a Native American casino resort. Their attempt at escape ends when death crashes the getaway and the cousins are back to sleuthing.

Emma expects boredom at a community college play until a dean dies onstage from a prop gun loaded with real bullets. With Vida's help, she investigates a campus murder wrapped in backstage grudges.

A creepy old house from Renie's youth turns out to be occupied by a secretive family with a very strange routine. When a corpse lands in Judith's car trunk, curiosity becomes a murder investigation with decades of buried secrets.

Judith and Renie cannot resist a luxury cruise to the South Pacific, but the ship never leaves port after the CEO is found stuffed in a piano. Stranded in San Francisco and under suspicion, they join the hunt for a killer.

Alpine's quilting circle plans a grand welcome home for Genevieve Bayard, but she dies at dinner instead. Burglaries, old scandals, and Vida's unusual reluctance make the case more personal than Emma expects.

A nude violinist and his impossible circle make Judith's neighborhood even more chaotic than usual. Then a music mentor dies by poisoning, and the case turns into a comic tangle of debts, thefts, and badly tuned secrets.

A house fire kills Tim Rafferty and leaves Alpine buzzing about arson, money trouble, and a mysterious recluse called Old Nick. Emma and Vida push past rumor to uncover what really burned.

This holiday anthology mixes romance, mystery, and a touch of the uncanny in six Christmas-set stories. Mary Daheim's contribution adds a ghostly note to the festive mischief.

Judith and Renie head to Scotland for a vacation and wind up stranded in an old castle after an explosion kills a young heir. Ghost stories, missing husbands, and Highland family tensions make this one of their trickier trips.

An obituary arrives for Elmer Nystrom before he is even dead, and Emma soon finds him murdered in a henhouse. With Milo sidelined, she and Vida chase the prophecy, the family tension, and the hand that mailed it.

Emma's newspaper is hit with a takeover bid from the heirs of her late lover, and the fight turns deadly when the buyer's front man is killed. Suddenly Emma is both reporter and suspect in a battle for the Advocate.

Joe's ex-wife Vivian moves back into Judith's neighborhood with a younger husband and big plans for a condo project. When a mysterious body appears in Vivian's yard, old resentments and new money collide.

Another round of Alpine gossip turns explosive when a new death sends Emma back into the town's feuds and secrets. She has to separate noise from fact before a public uproar hides the real killer.

Hillside Manor fills with odd guests, including a stuntman who barely survives a rooftop mishap, and Judith hopes a train trip to Boston will bring relief. Instead, the same trouble follows her aboard the Empire Builder.

Just as Alpine seems ready for calmer days, a grim highway accident leaves two people dead and another clinging to life. Emma follows the aftermath into a case where grief, blame, and buried motives keep shifting.

Judith gets tangled in a case involving insurance fraud, suspicious food, and yet another Hillside Manor uproar. What starts as local chaos turns into a sharp, funny mystery with real danger underneath the jokes.

Children find old bones on the mountain, reviving questions about a woman who vanished years earlier. Then a jail escape and a second corpse turn a cold Alpine winter into one of Emma's most tangled cases.

After state inspectors start eyeing Judith's inn, she volunteers at an Oktoberfest bed-and-breakfast booth for a change of scene. A body appears before the beer really gets flowing, and Renie ends up posing as the sleuth.

A guest calling herself Mary Smith turns out to be Ruby Tooms, a woman Judith met earlier, and she arrives with an old murder in tow. Judith is pulled into a twenty-year-old cold case that refuses to stay buried.

While the paper covers a new rehab and mental health center and Emma's engagement to Milo stirs town talk, a suspicious death rocks Alpine. When Vida disappears, Emma and Milo face more loose ends than ever.

Judith and Renie house-sit at a retirement community on Whoopee Island, expecting a quiet off-season break. A stabbing among the residents forces them to sort through cheerful surfaces, private grudges, and a very unlikely victim.

Trouble blows through Alpine when Deputy Sam Heppner suddenly goes missing. Emma and Milo have to work through rumor, loyalty, and local nerves before the disappearance grows into something worse.

A guest at Hillside Manor claims Judith is the mother who abandoned him and backs it up with a birth certificate. Before she can untangle the blackmail and identity mess, one of the inn's guests turns up dead.

Emma would love a quieter season, but Alpine rarely cooperates when gossip and death arrive together. Balancing the Advocate, Milo, and a fresh case, she has to find the truth beneath the town's latest swirl of rumors.

Death returns to Alpine just as old rivalries flare, including Milo's long-running conflict with Black Jack. Emma is back at the Advocate, trying to untangle the case before personal history clouds the facts.

Joe surprises Judith with a trip to the Canadian Rockies, but the remote getaway is packed with guests waiting to stage a relative's burial. Judith soon realizes the intended corpse is still alive and may not stay that way.

In a snowbound Alpine, the apparent murder of a woman at a motel on the edge of town sets everyone talking. Emma has to work through red herrings, harsh weather, and the town's usual tangle of loyalties.

Vivian and her latest husband, Lord Plumbsley, arrive at Hillside Manor with a shady entourage and designs on the property. When their real estate agent is murdered, Judith and Joe have to clear their names and save the inn.