Well, it appears that Mary Daheim has hit the "Z" limit
sooner than Sue Grafton, with
The Alpine Zen in her also alphabetical Alpine Advocate series. And
The Alpine Zen has recently dropped to $4.99, a reasonable price IMO for a most-recent-in-series title.
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Alpine-Zen-Em.../dp/B00N6PEU8O
Kobo US:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-alpine-zen
Spoiler:
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The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state’s Cascade Mountains—home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate—has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z. Her legion of avid armchair sleuths will relish this deliciously gripping novel.
As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma and her staff are treading very lightly. For unfathomable reasons, the paper’s House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, is in a major snit, refusing to speak to her colleagues, or even her boss. So when a peculiar young woman walks in claiming her parents have been murdered, and that she’s in mortal danger, too, it fits right in with the rest of the craziness. Then, to the utter bafflement of her colleagues, Vida vanishes without a word to anyone. And just when Emma and her husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, start to unsnarl these tangles, a male body, dead too long to identify, surfaces at the town dump—making what seemed merely weird feel downright sinister. Has the hot weather driven everyone nuts, or are cold-blooded forces committing deadly misdeeds?
The Alpine Zen tingles with all the mystery and allure that only Mary Daheim’s brand of small-town life can provide. Gossip, love affairs, feuding, and plenty of dirty secrets make for an intriguing adventure every Alpine fan will want to read all about.
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And, BTW, for those worried about the future of the series, Daheim's website indicates:
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But the solution wasn't very hard. It was just a matter of starting the alphabet anew. The working title for the next book is Alpha Alpine. That could change before the book is finished, of course.
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