Mystery author Mary Daheim at Third Place Books October 1

From our NewsPartner The Seattle Times

"Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery" by Mary Daheim (William Morrow, $23.99). The Seattle author writes a new mystery about a B and B innkeeper who tries to get away from work on a cross-country train trip to Boston and runs into a mystery. Daheim will read from her book at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 1 at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, 206-366-3333.

Mary Daheim is a local author with two locally-set series. The Alpine Mysteries feature a female newspaper editor in a small mountain town (Index?). The Bed and Breakfast Mysteries feature a single woman with a teen-aged son who turns her family home on Queen Anne (not named in the books) into a bed and breakfast. The books, in the mystery genre known as "cozy," are very popular.