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No author on the crime fiction scene brings the beauty, mystery, majesty, and danger of the Alaskan frontier more vibrantly alive than critically acclaimed award winner Sue Henry. Now she takes us due north once more to this rugged land that famed "musher" and sometime sleuth Jessie Arnold calls home -- a breathtaking world where the summers are brief and winters, like death, are cold and long.
With August drawing to a close, Jessie Arnold is feeling empty. Not even the return of a friend can lessen her disappointment over having to miss the approaching Alaskan dogsled racing season because of her recent knee surgery. But a request to help man the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair is a godsend, something that keeps Jessie involved and happy . . . until a corpse turns up on the fairgrounds.
The murder is an especially brutal one: a small-time hoodlum dispatched by a double-blade axe blow to the skull. Though she has already seen too much death in her lifetime, Jessie becomes a participant in the proceedings when her beloved lead sled dog, Tank, vanishes. Angry and sick with worry, she sets out to find him and unwittingly discovers connections that link Tank's disappearance to the murder and a recent theft in bizarre and disturbing ways.
Friends new and old are soon involved as well. Musher Lynn Ehlers, the parents of a local boy, and state troopers are plunged into a desperate and harrowing search that leads them across lush forested valleys, up silent, forbidding mountains, and into Alaska's darkest heart. Because, suddenly, a sled dog is not the only missing player in this drama. Under alarming circumstances, Jessie Arnold has also vanished.
Revue de presse
“Suspenseful, intelligent, and filled with the spectacular beauty of the northern wilds.” (Dallas Morning News)
“Henry revels in the wilderness of Alaskan scenery and keeps the tension mounting. ” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“Henry does an excellent job of building suspense. Then she sets hearts racing with nail-biting scenes.” (Associated Press)
“Real thrills set against the wild beauty of Alaska.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“Henry has once again succeeded in crafting an engrossing mystery that...keeps the reader well-occupied.” (Anchorage Daily News (on Cold Company))
“Sue Henry is an agile writer...hard to put down.” (Charleston Post & Courier)
“Wonderfully evocative.” (Baltimore Sun)
“Recommend this to fans of Nevada Barr.” (Booklist)
“A spectacular, dangerous backdrop . . . surefire suspense.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review--on Deadfall))
“Twice as vivid as Michener’s natural Alaska.” (Washington Post Book World)
“Dazzling . . . adrenaline pumping.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Well-drawn characters...charm the reader.” (Booklist)
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