Sue Henry Books In Order

Murder on the Iditarod Trail

The winner of Alaska’s world famous Iditarod a grueling, eleven hundred mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, the prize is survival. Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska’s premier female ‘musher,’ fears she may be the next intended victim, but nothing is going to prevent her from aggressively pursuing the glory and the rewards that victory brings. Dedicated State Trooper Alex Jensen is determined to track down the murderer before more innocent blood stains the pristine Alaskan snow. But Jensen’s hunt is leading him into the frozen heart of the perilous wild that Jessie Arnold knows so well a merciless place far from any vestige of civilization, where nature can kill as fast as a bullet…
and only the Arctic night can hear your final screams.

Termination Dust

The virgin landscape along the Yukon River has hardly changed since the gold rush began in 1897. Frostbiting winds slice the rugged terrain, and, like a shroud, the first dusting of snow covers the low hills. Braving thick snow on the Top of the World Highway where one slip could mean a fall down thousands of feet Detective Alex Jensen is hunting a cold blooded killer. His only witness is Jim Hampton, a rugged canoeist whose vacation has abruptly ended. And Jensen’s only clue is an 1898 journal detailing an eerily similar murder that Hampton discovered on the killer’s path. Set against nature’s most beautiful, yet cruelest, elements, Termination Dust weaves together legend and reality.

Sleeping Lady

DEEP FREEZE DISCOVERY

Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen is faced with solving the mystery of what became of pilot Norm Lewis, whose plane disappeared six months ago in the vast white wilderness. Even ore puzzling is the discovery of the broken hulk of his Cessna, half submerged in the icy waters of the Spring thaw with the frozen body of an unidentified woman strapped in the passenger seat. Norm is nowhere to be found, and his wife, Rochelle, a pilot herself, has flown in, demanding to be included in the search.

Jensen and Rochelle begin their probe, an emotional trek through the forbidding Alaskan wilderness a trail that turns even more ominous as they follow the fateful path of a man who has vanished without a trace, leaving behind a bundle of troublesome secrets, unanswered questions…
and some dangerous connections in the business of murder.

Death Takes Passage

History is repeating itself on hundred years later on Alaska’s breathtaking Inside Passage. Re creating the famous Voyage of 1897, the Spirit of ’98 is setting sail from Skagway, Alaska, en route to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold. Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen and his love, famous female ‘musher’ Jessie Arnold, are among the excited participants. The Grim Reaper is a passenger as well. Dressed in period coustoume, Gold Rush buff Alex Jensen is only too happy to be representing the Troopers on this historic journey through a giant maze of scenic straits, harbors, and inlets. But the strange disappearance and probable death of a crew member pulls Alex rudely back to the present. As the only law officer in the vicinity, it is now his duty to unravel a twisted skein of lies, greed, and lethal shipboard secrets before the Spirit’s fateful encounter with murderers abroad a stolen ketch writes a grim new chapter in Alaska’s history.

Deadfall

Iditarod musher Jessie Arnold is being stalked and terrorized by an anonymous enemy. First, one of her sled dogs is badly injured in a steel trap and an ominous note leaves no doubt that the trap was set with malicious intent. Threatening phone calls and unsigned messages follow pressing Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen to urge Jessie to go into hiding while he tries to track down the source of the threats. Finally, a near fatal car crash convinces Jessie to let Alex fly her to an isolated island more than two hundred miles away. There on desolate, windswept Kachemak Bay, Jessie hikes the island trails with her lead dog Tank, marveling at the splendor of her solitude. But in a wilderness filled with hazards and hiding places, she soon discovers she is not alone. With Alex searching for a madman hundreds of miles away, Jessie is on her own…
playing a deadly game of hide and seek with a killer.

Murder on the Yukon Quest

The Yukon Quest has the reputation of being the toughest sled dog race in the world, taking teams and mushers through more than a thousand miles of North America’s most remote and treacherous territory. Jessie Arnold is ready to meet the challenge.

Jessie and her team of dogs are well prepared for the daring competition, but her one regret is that her longtime friend and lover, Alex Jensen, isn’t there to see her off. Alex has been called home to Idaho for a family emergency and Jessie begins the big race without her biggest booster. Well along the trail, Jessie is stunned to learn that a young novice racer she met at the start has been abducted and held for ransom. The girl’s distraught father has been warned that no one but Jessie Arnold is to be told especially not the police. Feeling isolated and alone, Jessie must decide what to do in the face of terrible odds.

It’s the contest of a lifetime, yet as the other mushers push toward the finish line, Jessie forges ahead in a race all her own. Unable to ignore the plight of the missing girl, she’s in a life and death battle against a desperate, unknown kidnapper who will stop at nothing. Speeding through the twists and turns of the icy, broken trails, Jessie has no time for fear. For somewhere in that vast and lonely landscape, a killer waits for a chance to unleash a murderous rage on anyone who dares to get in his way.

Beneath the Ashes

Out of the dark, an alomost invisible shadow slips swiftly through the falling snow to the back door. A glow in the window flickers and grows stronger…
tongues of flame leap and dance…
the blaze speaks in cracks and pops, until its voice gradually becomes a ravenous, insatiable roar.. The arrival of spring’s first delicate blossoms promises relief from another cold and harsh winter deep in the heart of Alaskan widerness. And with a gang of frisky half grown Husky pups trailing at her heels, Jessie Arnold looks forward to a new season of grueling, yet exhilarating, training with her dogs on the blankets of snow that linger on into the summer. But just as the harsh Alaskan wind can unexpectedly sting on even the most beautiful spring day, new horrors bring a chill to Jessie’s seemingly peaceful home…
A mysterious fire ravages a popular local pub, leaving an unidentified body lying in the ruins. As if the destruction of her favorite watering hole isn’t bad enough, Jessie’s life is interrupted by the anticipated arrival of a friend she hasn’t heard from a decade. Shocked at the sight of a troubled woman, Jessie is stuneed to hear Anne’s story of years of abuse at the hands of her husband. And when Jessie awakens in the night to discover the cabin she built herself engulfed in flames, and Anne sitting idly outside unwilling to help, Jessie begins to wonder whether her houseguest is a crazed liar or an arsonist. But it is Jessie herself who is the target of the arsonj investigation. Fighting to cear her name, she comes face to face with dangerous passions that leave her angry and confused about unanswered questions from the past. And when an unknown killer begins to stalk her, only Jessie can stop the forces that threaten to destroy her.

Dead North

What was once the home of champion Alaskan ‘musher’ Jessie Arnold is now a pile of charred logs and ashes. With her life in pieces, she gratefully accepts a friend’s proposal that she drive his RV up from Idaho, along a two thousand mile long road that winds past glaciers and glass blue lakes, hot springs and breathtaking wilderness: the Alaska Highway. With her lead sled dog, Tank, along for the ride, Jessie sets out from the Lower Forty Eight, sharing the journey with new friends she encounters along the way. One of them, Maxie, a colorful senior citizen living life at full throttle, makes the miles melt away. But it’s Patrick Cutler who brings terror aboard. Jessie offers the hungry, frightened teenager shelter, a compassionate ear, and a ride. But at Jasper National Park, he disappears. Suddenly police are swarming around Jessie and Maxie, searching for the runaway in connection with two shocking murders. Jessie’s instincts are telling her that Patrick is innocent, but her concern, linked with a determined need to uncover the truth, has plunged her and her elderly companion into the deadly center of a crazed blood vendetta. There are dark secrets in the boy’s past that could have devastating perhaps fatal consequences for anyone who unearths them. Because, stalked victim or murderous maniac, Patrick Cutler is a lightning rod for violence and death. And now Jessie is a target a traveler on a cold and empty wilderness road that could be leading her not to her home…
but to her grave. Once again, the remarkable Sue Henry brilliantly evokes a magnificent northern landscape and chills the blood with a riveting tale of suspicion, suspense, and lives found and lost on an unforgettable journey.

Cold Company

Multiple award winning author Sue Henry once again carries us into the heart of America’s last frontier with a gripping tale of suspense set in a land whose rugged, exquisite beauty appeals to the adventurous and strong…
and to those who are drawn to darkness. Cold CompanyThe summer solstice is near bringing long sunlit days to the Alaskan wilderness and for famed musher Jessie Arnold, the time has come to put the past behind her and move on. Building a new home for herself and her sled dogs on the charred ashes of her old one, she plans to be finished well before the onset of the long northern winter. But her progress is halted chilling Jessie to the bone when the excavations unearth a skeleton entombed in a crumbling baseme*nt wall. Twenty years earlier, a serial killer brutally murdered a number of women in the area. One of the fiend’s victims disappeared wearing a butterfly pendant a necklace similar, if not identical, to one discoveredwith the grisly human remains. A grim nightmare believed to be long over must now be revisited or, worse still, has been reborn. Because, once again, a local woman has disappeared without a trace. And, once again, Jessie is being pulled into a murder investigation against her will. Red roses are being sent to her anonymously the gifts of a secret admirer who may also be a stone cold killer. In this stark and lonely place, in the first days of the all too brief Alaskan summer, the signs suggest the unthinkable: An insatiable human monster has returned…
and Jessie Arnold may well be his next victim. In what is perhaps her most unforgettable novel to date, the incomparable Sue Henry weaves a spellbinding tale of past sins and present day evils, of humanity at its best and worst, and nature at its most powerful.

Death Trap

No author on the crime fiction scene brings the beauty, mystery, majesty, and danger of the Alaskan frontier more vibrantly alive than critically acclaimed award winner Sue Henry. Now she takes us due north once more to this rugged land that famed ‘musher’ and sometime sleuth Jessie Arnold calls home a breathtaking world where the summers are brief and winters, like death, are cold and long. With August drawing to a close, Jessie Arnold is feeling empty. Not even the return of a friend can lessen her disappointment over having to miss the approaching Alaskan dogsled racing season because of her recent knee surgery. But a request to help man the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair is a godsend, something that keeps Jessie involved and happy…
until a corpse turns up on the fairgrounds. The murder is an especially brutal one: a small time hoodlum dispatched by a double blade axe blow to the skull. Though she has already seen too much death in her lifetime, Jessie becomes a participant in the proceedings when her beloved lead sled dog, Tank, vanishes. Angry and sick with worry, she sets out to find him and unwittingly discovers connections that link Tank’s disappearance to the murder and a recent theft in bizarre and disturbing ways. Friends new and old are soon involved as well. Musher Lynn Ehlers, the parents of a local boy, and state troopers are plunged into a desperate and harrowing search that leads them across lush forested valleys, up silent, forbidding mountains, and into Alaska’s darkest heart. Because, suddenly, a sled dog is not the only missing player in this drama. Under alarming circumstances, Jessie Arnold has also vanished.

Murder at Five Finger Light

Sled dog racer Jessie Arnold’s friends have acquired their dream a lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage and invited everyone to a party where guests earn their keep by restoring the old building. With the company of old friends and a view to die for, this is one weekend Jessie won’t soon forget especially when guests start dying. The deaths seem like accidents, but soon Jessie realizes there’s a killer loose on the island. Worse yet, the killing spree might not be over even though the party certainly is.

Degrees of Separation

Champion musher Jessie Arnold has been out of racing for a number of years, ever since she incurred a devastating knee injury. Now she’s ready to get back into shape for this year’s Iditarod. While taking her team on a practice run down a local trail she takes a snowy bump that’s never been there before. It turns out to be a snow shrouded body.

Now, Jessie and her boyfriend, Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen, are back chasing criminals. And the hunt is on for the killer of a supposed earthquake victim whose death turns out to actually be a murder.

The Serpents Trail

From an author whose ‘twists and turns keep you turning the pages’ Denver Post comes a brand new mystery series starring Maxie McNabb an independent retiree whose adventures across the country in her motor home are destined for murderous roadblocks. At 63, Maxie is cruising down the Alaska Highway in her brand new Winnebago. She’s always been a gypsy at heart and with her mini dachshund at her side, and the open road ahead, she’s never been happier. But before her exploration of the Lower Forty eight gets underway, Maxie needs to figure out who burglarized her friend’s Colorado home and why. But the closer Maxie gets to solving the puzzle, the more it becomes chillingly clear that her friend’s life isn’t the only one on the line…

The Tooth of Time

Zigzagging the country in a mini Winnie means endless adventure and Maxie McNabb is always up for something new. So she and her dog, Stretch, head for the heat of New Mexico, where Maxie plans to learn how to weave. But everything changes for the sleepy town when a local woman attempts suicide. A casualty of her husband’s mid life crisis, she was replaced by a newer, sexier model. And to top it off, a sleazy conman has set his sights on her. Maxie may be on vacation, but she’s determined to help the poor thing. With her nose for trouble, she’ll leave no mesa unturned until she brings two dogs to justice neither of whom is Stretch.

The Refuge

Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are in Hawaii to help Maxie’s friend Karen Bailey pack up her house. But after a prowler tries to break in and someone sabotages the plumbing, Maxie suspects that Karen is hiding something…

The End of the Road

New from the multiple award winning author of The Refuge, whose ‘grasp of storytelling and strong characterization matches her with Sue Grafton.’Colorado Springs GazetteMaxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are just back from their latest adventure when a murder shatters the quiet in their hometown of Homer, Alaska. Now it’s up to Maxie to find the killer a search that leads her to a place called ‘The End of the Road.’

Sisters on the Case

The latest: an anniversary anthology of 25 short stories by today’s best women mystery writers: Sara Paretsky Sue Henry Sue Dunlap P.M. Carlson Rochelle Krich Linda Grant Carolyn Hart Libby Fischer Hellman Nancy Pickard Kate Grilley Medora Sale Barbara D’Amato Claire Carmichael McNab Charlotte MacLeod Annette Meyers Kate Flora Eve K. Sandstrom Patricia Sprinkle Margaret Maron Dorothy Salisbury Davis And more!