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Summary: We All Fall Down
Review: As a preface, I am not a mystery fan, and I am definately not a cozy mystery fan. How this book came into my possesion is a mystery in and of itself. But I read it, and did enjoy parts of it, but overall, I found it over-simplified and unrealistic.Basically, a "somebody" is burning everything down in town, and Jessie Arnold somehow winds up in the middle of it. Splash in some drudged up marital abuse from the past, sprinkle with some over-zealous arson investigators, and you got a mystery that, once all solved, still doesn't really fit together. Granted, I did read Beneath the Ashes fast, and if your simply looking for something to dog-ear while you sit by the pool, you can probably do much worse.
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Summary: Husky Owner
Review: Book was very good. Every chapter seemed to give a new clue and the book was suspenseful.
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Summary: Husky Owner
Review: Book was very good. Every chapter seemed to give a new clue and the book was suspenseful.
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Summary: Great Read!!
Review: I always enjoy Sue Henry's books and really liked this one as well. She knows how to tell a good story and her descriptions of Alaska and mushing just keep getting beter. I felt like I was on the sled with Jessie.
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Summary: Not one of her best
Review: I've read many of Sue Henry's books and enjoyed most of them (they've also have turned me into an Iditarod and Yukon Quest fan). But this one is not up to her usual standards. Not only don't you care for any of the characters, but the denouement is so convoluted and implausible that I was left thinking "HUH????" I feel rather disloyal saying all this, since she's one of my favorite authors, but I wouldn't want anyone reading this and judging her series by this one volume. Try "Murder on the Iditarod Trail," "Murder on the Yukon Quest," or "Termination Dust" (one of my favorites) before giving up on her.
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Summary: Alex Jensen Needs To Come Back
Review: Im 13, From Mich, I traveled to Alaska with my Dad and have gone back ever since. While I was there, i went to the Kantishna Roadhouse (check Alaska out,great place to go,Beutiful Kantisna is great!) anyway when I was there for the last night I went to the Main Cabin building I was about to leave and saw the first sue henry book (Murder on the Iditorod trail) and read it so quickly and I loved it! Ever since Ive read like crazy. Ive read Mysteries from Tami Hoag, Iris Johansen, Just to name a few, but Sue henry Got me started. Ive read all her books, Love Dana Stabenow's books and many others. ... She continues to develope and I hope you think about what I said and read some of those authors especially The ones about alaska, Read them and you will fall in love. Dana Stabenow is also a great author and she writes alaska mysteries and read the others and I promise all the authors books will hook you. As for Henry, I love her books and this was very good and you may try them and I gerrantee you will love them. Trust me. Good luck and I hope you take my advise, BYE BYE
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Summary: Fast Paced Enjoyable Mystery
Review: Jessie Arnold, musher extraordinaire, is happily training her young Husky pups as spring approaches. She then hears from a neighbor of hers from ten years ago who is coming back to Alaska and needs her help. Then an arsonist strikes a local hangout. Jessie's cabin is the next target. Connections to her neighbor's past are revealed and Jessie is soon in fear for her life without knowing who she can trust to help her. Jessie Arnold is one of my favorite characters. She is strong, smart and capable. This is a well written, fast paced mystery with a good plot and interesting characters. My favorite parts of a Henry novel always involve Jessie's interaction with her dogs and there was plenty of that in this story...it's almost like being there in the middle of the pack! A very good read.
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Summary: Fast Paced Enjoyable Mystery
Review: Jessie Arnold, musher extraordinaire, is happily training her young Husky pups as spring approaches. She then hears from a neighbor of hers from ten years ago who is coming back to Alaska and needs her help. Then an arsonist strikes a local hangout. Jessie's cabin is the next target. Connections to her neighbor's past are revealed and Jessie is soon in fear for her life without knowing who she can trust to help her. Jessie Arnold is one of my favorite characters. She is strong, smart and capable. This is a well written, fast paced mystery with a good plot and interesting characters. My favorite parts of a Henry novel always involve Jessie's interaction with her dogs and there was plenty of that in this story...it's almost like being there in the middle of the pack! A very good read.
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Summary: Arsonist on the loose
Review: Much to Jessie Arnold's dismay, one of her favorite watering holes, Oscar's Other Place, is burned to the ground with someone inside. At the same time, Jessie receives a call from a former neighbor, Anne Holman, who asks to come and stay with her for awhile. Anne is very insistant and after arriving, she asks to be taken to her old cabin. She also tells Jessie that her husband has been abusive to her for years, something that Jessie never suspected of her former neighbor. Eventually the husband arrives in town in search of his wife, and he tells a story that is exactly the opposite of Anne's. Jessie is confused and can't decide which of the couple is telling the truth. There are more deaths and more fires before Jessie unravels the truth. The explanation for the motivation for setting the fires is not very believable and there are several things which don't make sense, such as why Anne's husband would help her in certain ways. Also, Alex Jensen provided a love interest and some interesting tension in previous books in the series, and they are not the same without him. Even though Henry gives some interesting information about the training of racing dogs, her best books are those which actually occur during a race.
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Summary: Arsonist on the loose
Review: Much to Jessie Arnold's dismay, one of her favorite watering holes, Oscar's Other Place, is burned to the ground with someone inside. At the same time, Jessie receives a call from a former neighbor, Anne Holman, who asks to come and stay with her for awhile. Anne is very insistant and after arriving, she asks to be taken to her old cabin. She also tells Jessie that her husband has been abusive to her for years, something that Jessie never suspected of her former neighbor. Eventually the husband arrives in town in search of his wife, and he tells a story that is exactly the opposite of Anne's. Jessie is confused and can't decide which of the couple is telling the truth. There are more deaths and more fires before Jessie unravels the truth. The explanation for the motivation for setting the fires is not very believable and there are several things which don't make sense, such as why Anne's husband would help her in certain ways. Also, Alex Jensen provided a love interest and some interesting tension in previous books in the series, and they are not the same without him. Even though Henry gives some interesting information about the training of racing dogs, her best books are those which actually occur during a race.
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