Usually the beginning of each month is full of great new cozy mysteries. However this month there are some excellent cozy mysteries being released on January 29, and over the next few days we are going to be offering up some for our readers to win.
Today’s choice is The Alpine Xanadu by Mary Daheim, the next in her Emma Lord Mystery series.
Winter in the small mountain aerie of Alpine should be as quiet as new-fallen snow on the Cascades, but from the Grocery Basket to the Venison Inn, the town is humming. At the Alpine Advocate, editor Emma Lord and her staff are on deadline with a feature about the opening of RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing with gossip about Emma’s recent engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now that fool Wayne Eriks has climbed an electric pole in the middle of a storm and got himself electrocuted.
Sheriff Dodge doesn’t buy the idea that Wayne’s death is an accident. But how—and, more important, why—he died is only one of the conundrums that keep the sheriff and Emma working overtime. Why is RestHaven giving Alpine so many restless nights? What to make of allegations that someone’s trying to kill the richest man in town . . . or whispers of a rash of indecent behavior at the local high school? After Vida Runkel, theAdvocate’s stalwart House & Home editor, disappears into thin air, Milo and Emma suddenly have too many loose ends to solve before they can even think about tying the knot.
To enter to win:
1. Comment below with your choice of hardbackor kindle (Kindle version will be delivered on release day)
2. This giveaway will close on January 29, 2012 at midnight. The winner will be notified by email.
Giveaway is open US/Canada (for hardback) and international (for Kindle).
I love love love the Alpine series! I would love to win a hard copy of The Alpine Xanadu
Sounds like a good read.
I would love to win a copy of this book.
Another great series. Thanks for having this contest.
I would love to win.
Would love to win, and I’d appreciate either version! Whatever’s easier for you guys!
Kindle edition
This series is on my to read list. SO many books not enough time!
I have all of the books in this series so far, so would really enjoy getting this one too! These are great books, well written and fun to read. Either version would be OK but would actually prefer the paperback edition if that would be OK.
hardback please…sounds good
Love Xanadu!
Oops, Paperback, please!
Although I know the author, I don’t know this series. I’d love a hardcover version.
You can’t get much better than Mary Daheim. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love the Emma Lord series and I can’t wait for Alpine Xanadu. I would be thrilled to win the Kindle version–thank you.
A lot of patrons from the library love this series – would love to win the paperback!
Great series!!!!
Nice setting for a book.
Kindle
I’ve read Mary Daheim, but have not read her books in a couple of years. I do not know why I gotten away from her books because they have always been so much fun to read.
Kindle Edition would be great and would be my first choice. O f course I would never turn down a hardcover copy.
I would love to win a hardback copy of this book, thank you for the chance.
I haven’t read this series but it sounds wonderful, I’d love to start it!
kindle version would be fine for me
thank you for the chance! 
hardback please! very nice giveaway!
Sounds intriguing. If I’m fortunate enough to win, I’d prefer the hardback version, please.
This is a new series to me, so thanks for the great opportunity to win a copy of the book!
Kindle for me, please!
Just recently got into the Alpine series and found I loved it. I love Mary’s other books the bed and breakfast series too. If I win I would love a Hardcover please.
How can it be “X” in the series? I hope that doesn’t mean only two more. I would love a hardback.
I love the Alpine series! Have ready every one of them!! I would love to win a hard copy of The Alpine Xanadu.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
Hardback for me, I do not own a Kindle.
I would love to win a kindle ebook! Thank you for the oppotrunity!
Sounds like a good read. Hardcover for me if I’m lucky enough to win.
This series is on my list but I haven’t gotten to it. How could I pass up a newly-printed hardback?! I would love it!
Love both series, and would love a hard copy ofyour new book Mary!
I would like to read it and do have a kindle.
A new series to me. I have a Kindle. (I can have soooo many more books on my TBR pile that way.)
Hardback please as no kindle, thanks for all the giveaways
Hardback would be a dream for me!
CarolNWong(at)aol(dot)com
Hardback please!
Hardcopy please, I really enjoy her books. Thanks for the giveaway.
I like Mary’s books. I hope I win.
Kindle!
I would love a hard copy
melanieinoh2003 at yahoo dot com
hardback copy please
melanieinoh2003 at yahoo dot com
It sounds like a good one to me.
I would love to win a hardback copy of this book.
suefarrell.farrell@gmail.com
kindle please.
I’m not familiar with this series, but would love to read it on my kindle!
Yes I got my new Tablet today but I still love my dead tree reading material. I want the hard cover. I love the series and already own a few of the books in the series.
NoraAdrienne(at)gmail(dot)com
This series is on my to read list. I would love to win a hard back copy
Thank you, thank you.
I just picked up two of her books at the library of this series. Can’t wait to start reading them!
Oops forgot to say hardback.
Should be fun to read. Alpine? Cascaes? I’d prefer Kindle version. Those hard cover books get heavy on moving day!
Hardcover
I would pick the hardcover copy because I don’t own a computer or e-reader. Plus it would be nice to have a new hardcover that just came out.
I’d like a kindle copy. Sounds like a fun read.
michelletucker at baconnation dot net
I’d like kindle if I win.
Thanks.