Mary Daheim who was born in Seattle, Washington in the
United States to parents Hugh and Monica Richardson holds an educational degree
in B.A Communications. Mary has been the first female editor at The
Daily, a campus newspaper at University of Washington where she carried forward her higher
education.
Works and Career
Mary Daheim has
contributed as a spectacular journalist at Port Angeles, Washington and later
at Anacortes.
Considered to be the maple tree of writing, Daheim’s first series of fiction
was published in the year 1983 named Love’s
Pirate, a historical Romance. Later she contributed swapping to the new
taste of genres with her work, “Bodice – rippers” and the mystery genre that
took a scaling trend among the readers.
Her “Bed & Breakfast” that was published in the year
1991 is a series of fiction that features an amateur detective, Judith
McMonigle that was later named as Flynn.
Works (Description)
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Loves
Pirate: The beautiful Dallas Cameron who is left penniless after her
father's death has been frantic. At a point she discovers that Iain Fraser who
is a close associate of the Queen, was framing his fate as a pirate, she projected
haggle barter to him, i.e. “her quietness for the marriage as a security”.
Dallas had never dreamed that both of their pact would let loose all the zeal
of his pirate's crooning blood or may be that her tender innocence would capitulate
so keenly to his wish. But the sense of duty to the sovereign took Iain from
his bride and yet they experience the woes and enviousness of the lonely
separation. Iain could unearth his contentment with no other lady. And yet Dallas
could not tranquil the yearning that ire in her spirit. Finally their good deal
had taken the turn towards the marriage of the two young hearts that hankered avidly
to be one eternally.
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Bed and
Breakfast Mysteries: The off-season adventure, a pyromaniac mother as well
as a lately retire pensioned husband who is continuously underfoot to have the unfortunate
Judith McMonigle Flynn leaving whisk wild at Hillside mansion. Now the hassled
R&B lady host jumps at one of the cousin Renie's implication that Judith be
an adjunct to her to Creepers atthe imperial estate of benevolently old Leota
Burgess! The prosperous superior is sure that someone is dogged to do her quietly
in for the purpose of wealth, and in all likelihood one of her seedy kith and
kin. Yet Judith and Renie concur to glance into her contention. In the mean
time when they stagger upon Leota's injured but at a halt breathing body at the
bottom of the ostentatious staircase, they become conscious that the old lady's
qualms could be bought well bring into being. But the unquestionably dead
cadaver lying on the body of Leota, his skull whacked flatter than the exactly proverbial
French styled pancakes advocate that there was more to these bloodthirsty activities
than what is actually visible to the naked eye. Eventually it is up to the siblings
now to go behind the evidence to the slither who is being a creep all around as
a creeper with the bloodshed slaughter on the psyche mentally.
Published Works Chronology
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Genre
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Name of the Book
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Mystery Series
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Bed & Breakfast series
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Just Desserts (1991)
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Fowl Prey (1991)
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Holy Terrors (1992)
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Dune to Death (1993)
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Bantam of the Opera (1993)
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A Fit of Tempera (1994)
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Major Vices (1995)
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Murder, My Suite (1996)
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Auntie Mayhem (1996)
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Nutty as a Fruitcake (1996)
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September Mourn (1998)
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Wed and Buried (1998)
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Snow Place to Die (1998)
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Legs Benedict (1998)
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Creeps Suzette (2000)
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A Streetcar Named Expire (2001)
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Suture Self (2001)
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Silver Scream (2002)
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Hocus Croakus (2003)
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This Old Souse (2004)
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Dead Man Docking (2005)
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Saks and Violins (2006)
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Scots on the Rocks (2007)
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Vi Agra Falls (2008)
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Loco Motive (2010)
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All The Pretty Hearses (2011)
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The Wurst Is Yet to Come (2012)
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Gone With the Win (2013)
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Historical Romances
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Destiny's Pawn (1984)
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Pride's Captive (1986)
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Passion's Triumph (1988)
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King's Ransom (1990)
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Improbable Eden (1991)
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Gypsy Baron (1992)
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B&B short stories in
anthologies
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"Tippy Canoe" in Murder, They Wrote (1997)
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"Dial M for Mom" in Motherhood Is Murder (2003)
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"The Ghost of Christmas Past" in Sugar Plums & Scandal
(2006)
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Alpine series
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The Alpine Advocate (1992)
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The Alpine Betrayal (1993)
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The Alpine Christmas (1993)
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The Alpine Decoy (1994)
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The Alpine Escape (1995)
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The Alpine Fury (1996)
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The Alpine Gamble (1996)
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The Alpine Hero (1997)
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The Alpine Icon (1998)
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The Alpine Journey (1998)
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The Alpine Kindred (1998)
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The Alpine Legacy (1999)
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The Alpine Menace (2000)
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The Alpine Nemesis (2001)
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The Alpine Obituary (2002)
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The Alpine Pursuit (2004)
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The Alpine Quilt (2005)
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The Alpine Recluse (2006)
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The Alpine Scandal (2007)
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The Alpine Traitor (2008)
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The Alpine Uproar (2009)
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The Alpine Vengeance (2011)
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The Alpine Winter (2011)
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The Alpine Xanadu (2013)
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The Alpine Yeoman (2014)
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Did You Know?
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Besides being a prolific writer by profession
Mary Daheim has been a profound journalist and has been encircled around the
Non-fiction PR career in her early life stages until she discovered the
Pen-centric abilities to make her creative thought vibrant and apparent to the
Masses.
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Mary Daheim is one of the hottest selling e-book
Authors in the United States and she has published over 55 books (you can count
the above chronology though!)
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Being the dominant female writer, Mary became the first female Editor at the University of Washington for the university
Newspaper, The Daily.
The Powerups
Mary Daheim started to develop her bond for the love of
Books along with the playing with the words in the vocabulary collection just at the age of 5. She also at one point of life disdained from becoming a writer.
The secret is that she never liked attending school as she did not keep up well
during her childhood days. Yet we see a lady with a pen eccentric identity.
