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Sue Henry, whose award-winning Alaska mysteries have received the highest praise from readers and critics alike, has lived in Alaska for almost thirty years, and brings history, Alaskan lore, and the majestic beauty of the vast landscape to her mysteries. She has also been a college administrator and instructor at the University of Alaska.
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.
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The Ultimate Road Trip.
For anyone who travels in a motor home, or dreams of doing so, the Alaska
Highway is an ultimate trip--well over 2,000 miles of adventure into the far
northern United States and Canada. The highway, now asphalt-surfaced from one
end to the other, is no longer the ordeal it was when it was built by the
military in a record eight months and 12 days just after the start of WWII.
Still, to me, as to most Alaskans, the highway was usually just one way of going
from point A (Alaska) to point B (the Lower Forty-Eight). So, when I decided to
write Dead North, which was to take place along this route, I immediately
acquired a motor home of my own and hit the road to do weeks of research,
traveling in both directions. It was a luxury to have the time to wander along,
taking three weeks each way, and discover much of what the Alaska Highway and
its side-trips had to offer.
I took hundreds of photos and pages of notes, and many of the places, people,
and events of those trips found their way into the pages of Dead North. An
ominous stranger joined the tourists and locals strolling along the main street
of Jasper. The Kiskatinaw River Bridge (the only original timber bridge still in
use) was the ...
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