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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1991
  • Latest Book:
    September 2010
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Full Series List in Order

A Jesse Arnold/Alex Jensen Mystery

1 - Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Mar-1991)
2 - Termination Dust (May-1995)
3 - Sleeping Lady (Sep-1996)
4 - Death Takes Passage (Aug-1997)
5 - Deadfall (Aug-1998)
6 - Murder on the Yukon Quest (Jul-1999)
7 - Beneath the Ashes (Jul-2000)
8 - Dead North (Jun-2001)
9 - Cold Company (Jun-2002)
10 - Death Trap (Jun-2003)
11 - Murder at Five Finger Light (Apr-2005)
12 - Degrees of Separation (Apr-2008)
13 - Cold As Ice (Sep-2010)

A Maxie and Stretch Mystery

1 - The Serpents Trail (Apr-2004)
2 - The Tooth of Time (Apr-2006)
3 - The Refuge (Apr-2007)
4 - The End of The Road (Nov-2009)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • IDITAROD: A grueling eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness--a tortuous test of endurance, skill and courage for a $250,000 reward. But this year, the prize is survival. One by one, the top Iditarod contestants are dyi...



  • It is said that when the first snow of early winter--the "termination dust "--starts to fall, it's time for visitors to leave Alaska's wonders behind. For some, it's already too late. Jim Hampton's Yukon vacation takes a turn for the worse whe...



  • Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than seventy bestsellers, presides over a salon of today's wittiest writers of mystery in this sparkling new addition to the series. MALICE DOMESTIC 5 once again delivers the ...



  • 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 more puzzling is the discovery of the broken hul...



  • History is repeating itself one 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 go...



  • 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...



  • Jessie and her team of dogs are competing in the toughest dog sled race in the world--the Yukon Quest. Alone in the vast white wilderness, she's suddenly facing a danger worse than anything Nature has to offer. A young novice racer she met at the sta...



  • IN A BREATHTAKING LAND OF ICE AND COLD, DEATH HAS COME...BY FIRE. In the lingering chill of the early Alaskan spring, famed "musher" Jessie Arnold confronts the charred remains of a favorite local pub, destroyed by a suspicious blaze that claimed ...



  • With her cabin a pile of ashes and her life in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friend's proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highway -- a breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long...






  • Famed Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold thinks she's finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall--along with a butterfly pendant necklace worn by the all...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 sixty-three, Maxie isn't sure that leaving everything behind for a new life is...



  • This time, Jessie unscrambles a deadly puzzle along the Alaskan Inside Passage.... Two of Jessie's friends are throwing a party at their new digs-- an old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage. Not a party in the typical sense, but one where gu...



  • Maxie McNabb, the "irresistible"' Winnebago-driving, pistol-packing sixty-something-year-old, is back--and criminals from the Iditarod Trail to the Southwest had better beware. This time, she sets out to turn, one on-edge town back into a peaceful pu...



  • After nine months on the road, Maxie McNabb is ready for some R&R, Alaska-style, with her miniature dachshund, Stretch. But no sooner has the sixty-something RVer parked the Mini-Winnie than a pleading phone call sends her flying to Hawaii. Because K...



  • Sue Henry's Jessie Arnold mysteries have been praised for both their beauty ("twice as vivid as Michener's natural Alaska") and suspense ("the twists and turns keep you turning the pages"). Now the champion sled dog racer returns to the trail... only...



  • Maxie McNabb and her mini-dachshund, Stretch, meet a drifter who is ready to settle down in Homer, Alaska...in a most unexpected way. Drifter John Walker has no friends in the area and no particular plans, but he's so engaging that Maxie invites the...



  • The search for a killer takes Jessie Arnold and her fianc, Alex Jensen, from the glaciers of Prince Island Sound to the back alleys of Anchorage. But reading the finish line in this race may prove fatal....


Award-Winning Books by Sue Henry

Murder on the Iditarod Trail
1992 Anthony Award -- First Novel
1992 Macavity Award -- First Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sue Henry has published 18 books.

Sue Henry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cold As Ice, was published in September 2010.

The first book by Sue Henry, Murder on the Iditarod Trail, was published in March 1991.

Yes. Sue Henry has 2 series.