worked on small-town newspapers and in corporate
public relations. Her goal to write fiction remained in
place, however, and she began publishing the Bedand-Breakfast series in 1991, adding the Alpine
mysteries a year later. She is married to David
Daheim, and the couple lives in Seattle. They have
three grown daughters: Barbara, Katherine, and
Magdalen. Daheim received the Pacific Northwest
Writers Association 2000 Achievement Award “for
distinguished professional achievement and for
enhancing the stature of the Northwest literary
community”.
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Praise for
SUTURE SELF
and MARY DAHEIM’s other
Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries
“Delightful”
“Skillfully takes a satiric scalpel to the hospital
industry . . . There are funny twists aplenty . . . [and]
telling jabs at modern hospital care as the novel
scampers to its zany conclusion. The other inmates of
Good Cheer Hospital—staff and patients alike—are so
wacky that every ward seems like a psychiatric unit.”
“Like Joan Hess’ Maggody series, Daheim’s bed-andbreakfast mysteries show a funny and often stinging
insight into people’s relationships and behavior.
SUTURE SELF is less about solving a crime than
about the too-real-not-to-be-funny personalities of the
people involved.”
“Daheim fans will relish the witty and revealing
interactions between familiar characters.”
“[A] screwball crime novel . . . The banter . . . is
choice . . . And Good Cheer Hospital does live up to
its name in the warped sense that it malfunctions
even more blatantly than a real-life hospital.”
Other Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries by
Mary Daheim
A STREETCAR NAMED EXPIRE
CREEPS SUZETTE
LEGS BENEDICT
SNOW PLACE TO DIE
WED AND BURIED
SEPTEMBER MOURN
AUNTIE MAYHEM
