Sue Henry

Sue Henry (born 1940) is a writer of mystery thriller fiction. She has also been a college administrator and instructor at the University of Alaska and has lived in Anchorage, Alaska since the 1970s.^[1][2][3]

Her first book Murder on the Iditarod Trail (1991), was well reviewed and won both the Macavity Awards and Anthony Awards for best first novel, prompting the author to develop a series based on this book's characters, Alaskan state trooper Alex Jensen and Jessie Arnold, a sled dog racer. In 2005 she started a new mystery series featuring a 63 year old widow, Maxine McNab, travelling in her Winnebago with a miniature dachshund, Stretch. Maxine had appeared in Dead North (2001) in the first series. Henry went on the road to research the book.^[4]

Murder on the Iditarod Trail was filmed for television as The Cold Heart of a Killer (1996) starring Kate Jackson, who bought the rights to the book.^[5][6]

Alex Jensen and Jessie Arnold

• Murder on the Iditarod Trail (1991) Winner of the Macavity Award and Anthony Awards Awards for Best First Novel, 1992
• Termination Dust (1996)
• Sleeping Lady (1996)
• Death Takes Passage (1997)
• Deadfall (1998)
• Murder on the Yukon Quest: An Alaska Mystery (1999)
• Beneath the Ashes (2001)
• Dead North (2001)
• Cold Company (2002)
• Death Trap (2003)
• Murder at Five Finger Light (2005)
• Degrees of Separation (2008)
• Cold as Ice (2010)

Maxie and Stretch

• The Serpents Trail (2004)
• The Tooth of Time (2006)
• The Refuge (2007)
• The End of the Road (2009)

See also

• Mystery fiction
• Thriller (genre)
• Crime fiction
• Adventure fiction
• List of female detective characters

References