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Up north,the summers are brief --and winter, like death,is cold and long . . .Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But murder becomes an attraction here as well -- an especially brutal one -- when the corpse of a small-time hoodlum slain by a double-blade axe blow to the skull turns show more up on the fairgrounds. Jessie shouldn't get involved, having already seen too much violent death in her lifetime. But strange connections are linking the killing with a child's kidnapping . . . and with the sudden disappearance of her own beloved lead sled dog. Soon friends old and new will be pulled in as well when the unthinkable occurs: Jessie herself vanishes without a trace. show lessTags
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Pretty good book. Sled dog gets kidnapped, then our heroine. Story's all about finding her. Jessie's former love interest assembles all the clues necessary to locate her and Tank using an assortment of Alaskans. The story is revealed in an interesting way; all revealed in flashback. Ok. where's the next book?
This just wasn't for me.
I have not read any other books in this series and I am coming into a series in the middle so I might think differently if I started with the first book but...
I didn't connect with any of the characters, I didn't think the murder/mystery was all that compelling. I really didn't like the way she told the story where everyone is sitting around talking about everything that happened in the past tense - it just took some of the mystery out of the book.
I have not read any other books in this series and I am coming into a series in the middle so I might think differently if I started with the first book but...
I didn't connect with any of the characters, I didn't think the murder/mystery was all that compelling. I really didn't like the way she told the story where everyone is sitting around talking about everything that happened in the past tense - it just took some of the mystery out of the book.
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Sue Henry is a former college administrator. She writes the Jessie Arnold Mystery series and the Maxie and Stretch Mystery series. Murder on the Iditarod Trail won the Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for Best First Novel in 1992 and the Anthony Award. It was made into a TV movie starring Kate Jackson and Corbin Bernsen three years show more later. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Death Trap
- Important places
- USA; Alaska, USA
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
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