Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery (Jessie Arnold Mysteries) | 
| Author: Sue Henry
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0451223160
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451223166
ASIN: 0451223160
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Good friends and mystery hit the Alaskan trails May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 first snows of winter are starting and Jessica and her dogs are eager to hit the trails. On the 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
Simply Perfect May 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Welcome back Jessie! May 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 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.
Sue Henry writes wonderfully about Alaska April 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sue Henry certainly can write about Alaska. On almost the first page, during the first snowfall of the year, her character takes her dogs out for a sled run and they run over a dead body. Of course the rest of the book is about finding out who it is and who dunnit. In between you see a small vignette of living in Alaska. It isn't all pretty either, but it seems very real.
Read it for the mystery or read it for life in Alaska, but read it.
Thoroughly enjoyed April 19, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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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