Murder at Five Finger Light (Jessie Arnold Series #11)
The Jessie Arnold mysteries offer “real thrills set against the wild beauty of Alaska” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)—and this time, Jessie unscrambles a deadly puzzle along the Alaskan Inside Passage…\ Two of Jessie’s friends are throwing a party at their new digs—an old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage. Not a party in the typical sense, but one where guests earn their keep by scraping, painting, and generally restoring Five Finger Light, named after the long, low islands around it. So...
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Sled dog racer Jessie Arnold has just gotten back together with her ex-boyfriend and sleuthing partner, Alex Jensen, and she's looking forward to some peace and quiet. But even when she's deep in the wilderness, trouble has a way of finding her. Jessie's friends Laurie and Jim have acquired their dream–and old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage–and they've decided to throw a party. Not a party in the typical sense, but one where guests earn their keep by scraping, painting, hammering, and generally restoring Five Finger Light, named after the long, low islands over which the house stands guard. So Jesse decides to leave Alex alone for a few days and help Laurie and Jim. With the company of old friends, the smell of fresh paint in the air, and a view to die for, Jessie won't soon forget this weekend–especially when she stumbles across a dead body. The death seems like an accident. But even as a frantic Alex learns that someone's cut the phone lines and wrecked the radio, Je...Publishers WeeklyThose looking for authentic American Indian lore will embrace Aimee and David Thurlo's White Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel, the latest outing for the Navajo Tribal Police special investigator (after 2004's Wind Spirit). The search for a missing FBI agent and a Social Security fraud case collide in this engaging mystery set in New Mexico. Agent, Elaine Koster. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
\ From Barnes & NobleThe Barnes & Noble Review\ Welcome to another Alaskan adventure in this return to Sue Henry's Anthony and Macavity Awardwinning Jessie Arnold mystery series.At loose ends when a knee injury sidelines her for the dogsled racing season, Jessie Arnold is delighted to accept an invitation to help old friends Laurie and Jim restore an old lighthouse that they are turning into a bed-and-breakfast. In Alaska, though, few journeys are simple; and as Jessie makes her way to Five Finger Island via several short-haul flights, she encounters a young woman called Karen who claims she's fleeing an abusive relationship. She says that although she left the man years ago, he keeps tracking her down…and the police have been no help at all. Although Karen declares she's running for her life, there's something about her story that doesn't quite ring true with Jessie. Not willing to abandon the other woman to a killer, yet wanting to keep a close eye on her, Jessie -- with her hosts' permission -- invites Karen to join the work party on the island. Soon Cooper, the man who is following Karen, ends up there, too. But events take an escalatingly sinister turn when someone wearing Cooper's jacket is found dead. Suspicious incidents begin to mount up…and it becomes clear that a killer is on the island. With the phone and radio out of commission and the island isolated by fog, Jessie struggles to solve the mystery and stop a killer who threatens the lives of everyone at Five Finger Light.Sue Henry's evocative descriptions in Murder at Five Finger Light capture the isolation and the grandeur of Alaska and the self-reliance to those who choose to live there. Sue Stone\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyThose looking for authentic American Indian lore will embrace Aimee and David Thurlo's White Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel, the latest outing for the Navajo Tribal Police special investigator (after 2004's Wind Spirit). The search for a missing FBI agent and a Social Security fraud case collide in this engaging mystery set in New Mexico. Agent, Elaine Koster. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsMusher Jessie Arnold (The Serpent's Trail, 2004, etc.) finds herself in an Alaskan version of And Then There Were None, except that, luckily for her, it's And Then There Were Some Left Over. On remote Five Finger Island in the Frederick Sound, Laurie Trevino and Jim Beal are restoring a historic lighthouse. Laurie calls to ask her friend Jessie's boyfriend, State Trooper Alex Jensen, for advice about some unnamed problem on the island, but misses him. Since the island measures three acres altogether, with some special bugs as the only permanent residents, how big could the problem be? Deciding to join them for a weekend restoration work party, Jessie heads to Peterson, in South Alaska. While she's waiting for Jim and his boat to pick her up, Jessie runs into (or is it vice versa?) Karen Emerson, a frightened young woman on the run from a stalker who tracked her to Peterson. Jessie invites her to join the work party, where she's confident Karen will be protected by the isolation. Their first morning on the island, Karen discovers the bludgeoned body of a young fisherman wearing the stalker's coat. Phones and radios disabled and the boat sunk, Jessie and her friends are trapped on the island with a killer. Anticlimactic and tediously expository, Henry keeps getting in the way of a perennial throat-catcher and a great setting.\ \
