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5.0 out of 5 stars
Thoroughly enjoyed, April 19, 2008
This review is from: Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery (Hardcover)
Winter is coming and Jessie Arnold's knee is finally healed enough for her to think about taking her dogs out to train for a race, perhaps the Iditarod again. After the first snow fall, they go out for a practice run and when Jessie heads down the trail back to her house, she runs over a dead body hidden by the snow. While she tries to leave the investigation to her Alaska State Trooper boyfriend, Alex, she keeps getting unavoidably involved.
Along with the murder, there is an earth quake providing a lot of interesting information about tremors in Alaska.
The part I enjoyed most was when Jessie's friend Maxie, of the Maxie and Stretch mysteries (i.e., The Refuge), along with her canine companion, Stretch, comes to visit Jessie and Alex for a few days. While there, she provides valuable insight into possible solutions to the mystery. Since it has been a while since we've had a new Maxie mystery, it is a treat to get an update on what she's been doing lately.
I've missed the Jessie Arnold mysteries since Jessie has been out of commission from her injury and this book turned out be a real treat by including Maxie and Stretch. Recommended!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Perfect, May 16, 2008
This review is from: Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery (Hardcover)
No Jesse Arnold mystery is ever bad, but Degrees of Separation is particularly lovely, as it has, despite a murder early on that must be solved, a gentle and contented ambience that is wonderful for regular readers.
After her bad knee injury in an earlier book, Jesse is chomping at the bit to get back into mushing...and although it is Fall, a few Alaska snowflakes are beginning to make their appearance. Happily "shacked up" with sexy Trooper Alex Jensen (to regular readers, this is just perfect), Jesse happily sets out on her practice trail in a trial run--to test out her knee, and her dogs. On the trail, she runs over a bump in the trail--that turns out to be a dead body.
Badly shaken, Jesse notifies Alex, who of course gets entwined in the mystery. And here is a great surprise for Sue Henry readers: Wonderful Maxie and Stretch make a guest appearance for half the book! Those who read that series as well will be warmed by the interplay between Maxie, who has come to visit, and her hosts, Alex and Jesse.
In due time, the mystery, which is actually quite pallid in comparison with earlier books, is solved--but Henry actually leaves a few loose ends, such a unique situation for a mystery novel, which always has to cross every t and dot every i!!
One assumes the loose ends will continue into the next installment, and I, for one, cannot wait.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
not as good as the rest...., November 2, 2008
This review is from: Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery (Hardcover)
I've been waiting for next Sue Henry book for a long time. I was a bit disappointed by it. It lacked the landscape with the descriptions of snow. I didn't like how Maxie showed up, because thats a branch off into another series and it felt as if it was a second attempt to get readers involved in the Maxie and Stretch series (which I'm not interested in). This book didn't take me back to Alaska like the rest of the series, maybe too much was going on, maybe not enough.
But I still love Sue Henry's books and will read the next one, but I just hope she is able to bring me back into another world again.
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