The Alpine Betrayal — Mary Daheim

BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE ALPINE ADVOCATE

Five years after her hasty departure from Alpine, Dani Marsh, now a Hollywood star, returns home for location shooting in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains... .At the annual Alpine Loggerama, Cody Graff, Dani's former husband, goes berserk with an ax.... Graff is later found dead on a lonely back road .... With stories like these, the Advocate's valiant editor and publisher, single mother Emma Lord, is on a roll, slightly assisted by her flaky but faithful staff.

But Emma begins to suspect that neither she nor the sheriff, laconic Milo Dodge, is getting the real story. Why are there such violent tensions among everyone who knew Dani Marsh back when? Why so few tears for Cody Graff? Whence the impenetrable mystery that enfolds Alpine like a shroud? Emma's nose for a story leads her straight into trouble....