Suture Self : A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery

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by Mary Daheim


  something to tell you—”

  “Hey,” Mike said, holding up a hand. “Kristin won’t

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  get in your face. She just wants to help. If you don’t

  like some of her ideas, tell her.”

  “No, it’s not that,” Judith insisted. “It’s about Joe.

  When you came down here to see him in all that bad

  weather, I felt then that I should have spoken to you

  about what a risk you took and that—”

  Mike put his hand up again. “No problem. Why

  wouldn’t I do that?” Suddenly Mike’s expression grew

  uncharacteristically sober. “After all, he’s my father.”

  Judith’s jaw dropped. “You know? ”

  Mike’s eyes were level with Judith’s as he took her

  hand. “I’ve known for a long time. I just didn’t know if

  you wanted me to know. Are you okay with it?”

  “Oh, Mike!” Judith burst into tears.

  Joe reappeared in the doorway. “We’re all set. Hey,

  what’s wrong?”

  “N-n-nothing,” Judith blubbered. “I’m just so

  happy!”

  Joe stared at Mike. “This is happy? ”

  “It sure is. Pops, ” Mike added. He grinned at Joe,

  then shoved the hospital form at his mother. “Here,

  sign this so we can go home.”

  With trembling fingers, Judith signed the form. She

  fought for control and handed the sheet of paper to Joe.

  “That’s right. I’m very happy.” Judith took a deep

  breath. “I’ve finally gotten my release.”

  About the Author

  Seattle native MARY RICHARDSON DAHEIM

  began reading mysteries when she was seven. She

  started writing them when she was eleven, but her

  career as a published novelist didn’t begin until much

  later. After graduating from the University of

  Washington’s School of Communications, Daheim

  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”

  Kansas City Star

  “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.”

  Portland Oregonian

  “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.”

  Houston Chronicle

  “Daheim fans will relish the witty and revealing

  interactions between familiar characters.”

  Publishers Weekly

  “[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.”

  Newark Star-Ledger

  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

  NUTTY AS A FRUITCAKE

  MURDER, MY SUITE

  MAJOR VICES

  A FIT OF TEMPERA

  BANTAM OF THE OPERA

  DUNE TO DEATH

  HOLY TERRORS

  FOWL PREY

  JUST DESSERTS

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters,

  incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s

  imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any

  resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead,

  is entirely coincidental.

  SUTURE SELF. Copyright © 2001 by Mary Daheim.

  All rights reserved under International and PanAmerican Copyright Conventions. By payment of the

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  Document Outline

  Title Page

  Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  About the Author

  Praise

  Other Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries by Mary Daheim

  Copyright Notice

  About the Publisher

  Table of
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  SEVEN

  EIGHT

  NINE

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  ELEVEN

  TWELVE

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  FOURTEEN

  FIFTEEN

  SIXTEEN

  SEVENTEEN

  EIGHTEEN

  NINETEEN

  TWENTY

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PRAISE

  OTHER BOOKS BY MARY DAHEIM

  COVER

  COPYRIGHT

  ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

  Praise for

  Table of Contents

  ONE

  TWO

  THREE

  FOUR

  FIVE

  SIX

  SEVEN

  EIGHT

  NINE

  TEN

  ELEVEN

  TWELVE

  THIRTEEN

  FOURTEEN

  FIFTEEN

  SIXTEEN

  SEVENTEEN

  EIGHTEEN

  NINETEEN

  TWENTY

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PRAISE

  OTHER BOOKS BY MARY DAHEIM

  COVER

  COPYRIGHT

  ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

  Praise for

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