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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451223166
ISBN number: 0451223160
Label: NAL Hardcover
Manufacturer: NAL Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: April 01, 2008
Publishing house: NAL Hardcover
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Champion musher Jessie Arnold has been out of racing for a number of years, ever since she incurred a devastating knee injury. Now she's ready to get back into shape for this year's Iditarod. While taking her team on a practice run down a local trail she takes a snowy bump that's never been there before. It turns out to be a snow-shrouded body.
Now, Jessie and her boyfriend, Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen, are back chasing criminals. And the hunt is on for the killer of a supposed earthquake victim-whose death turns out to actually be a murder.
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I've been waiting for subsequent 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 endeavor 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 subsequent one, but I just hope she is able to bring me back into another world again.
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Jessie Arnold and her boyfriend, Trooper Alex Jensen are both eagerly awaiting the very first major snow fall of the season so that Jessie may begin the training of her Huskies for sled racing. On her very first trip out, she is horrified to run over the body of a local, up on one of the training trails behind her house. The story then develops into the investigation of his murder with the book's title more than hinting at the inquisitiveness of the inhabitants of a small town, even one in Alaska. The descriptions of the magnificent countryside of Alaska are so beautifully expressed that one could be tempted to visit, despite the cold and rugged surroundings. There is even an appearance of another of Sue Henry's heroines, Maxie with her dachshund, Stretch..a most enjoyable read!
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The theory of "Six Degrees of Separation" refers to the idea that, if someone is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is an average of six "steps" away from each person on Earth.
In Sue Henry's book, Degrees of Separation, Alaskan dog sled musher Jessica Arnold returns after months of recuperation from a devastating knee injury. The very first snows of winter are starting and Jessica and her dogs are eager to hit the trails. On the very first sled-able day, Jessica and companions glory in being on the trail again until they hit a bump in the trail. They literally have run across a dead body.
Jessica tries to keep out of the investigation begun by her live-in boyfriend, Alaska state trooper Alex Jensen. In the course of the investigation, she keeps getting drawn back in by one or two degrees of separation. Add the confusion and scares of the all-too-real Alaskan earthquakes that are shaking up the area, and Jessica's formerly remote wilderness home becomes a scene of chaos. To help shake things up, you are treated by a visit from savvy senior RV'er Maxie and her canine companion Stretch, both featured in their own Sue Henry series.
A tense storyline with amazingly realistic characterizations evolves into a mystery that showcases the great Alaskan wilderness and the strong women and friendships that endure the tests of nature and man.
by Rhonda Esakov
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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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 subsequent installment, and I, for one, cannot wait.
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Musher Jessie Arnold has been away from dog-sled racing for some time because of an injury she sustained on the trail. Jessie can't wait to get back into training so that she can compete in the Iditerod or one of the other Alaska races. The very first time she is out on a training run, she runs over a dead body, and that begins an investigation for her boyfriend Alex Jensen, an Alaska state trooper. Sue Henry's books contain the exciting backdrop of Alaska plus interesting continuing characters. In this entry, Sue Henry includes Jessie's good friend, Maxie, who appears in her own series, Maxie and Stretch. This is a welcome return to the series and hopefully heralds more books which will include dog-sled racing, an area where author Sue Henry really shines.
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