Death Trap

by Sue Henry

Book Overview

Up north,
the summers are brief --
and winter, like death,
is cold and long . . .

Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion musher Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But murder becomes an attraction here as well -- an especially brutal one -- when the corpse of a small-time...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380816865
• ISBN13: 9780380816866
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Loved the Format of this one

Sitting at the table with friends and each telling their part of the story. So unusual, and I loved it. I like the way she writes and am always checking the maps in her books. If she goes into detail of locations, I am at the computer finding out more. That's one of the reasons I have read her books. The descriptions of all the areas.

I loved this one.

This is one of my favorite Sue Henry books. I like the way it is written with everybody reflecting on what happened. It ties together characters from former books. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

Fun format and mystery characters

Jessie Arnold is back as the main character of Henry's novel "Death Trap". She is frustrated and not used to being only partially mobile. She is recovering from the knee injury caused by falling down the hill (last book) and is unable to train her dogs. She still has Tank at home with her along with a few others but she is under strict doctors orders to not train them and Billy is coming by to tend to the ones that are not out being trained with a friend. Jessie answers a friend's call to help at the Alaska State Fair in the Iditarod booth. She and Tank jump at the possibility to get out and do something constructive. Two other fun characters are also woven into the story. Frank, an octogenarian and "escapee" from a nursing home and Danny, a youth who escapes to the fair, though he was told to mow the lawn. There will also be a surprise character that Sue Henry fans will recognize and love. Jessie, Frank and Danny accidentally stumble onto the plot, or are dragged in, to rob the collected monies from the state fair. This plot results in the kidnapping of both Tank and Jessie as well as the death of a few others. This book has a fun format. The story is told as the characters are all sitting around Jessie's home talking about their part in the story. This book reminds me of the earlier Henry novels where it was fast paced and had me laughing out loud as well as gasping. I also absolutely LOVED the surprise character. Bravo, that has been missing for a while.

Okay, but not the best

It took a little bit to get used to the different format of the book but i got used to it and i liked it once i got used to the different style. I probably won't reccamend this for a first time sue henry reader cause her other books i think are a little better.

An Ultimate Cozy

Sue Henry has provided her faithful readers with an ultimately cozy mystery. In the first two pages of the book, we learn not only that heroine and Iditarod-musher Jessie Arnold's beloved lead dog, Tank, is going to get dog-napped, but also that everything turns out all right in the end. In these days when reading the newspaper provides all the unpleasant suspense a reader could ask for, I felt very grateful to Ms. Henry for eliminating my worries about Tank, and allowing me to read with pure pleasure.Tank is already one of the most well-rounded characters in the Jessie Arnold series, and the depth of characterization (without undue anthropomorphism) of this quadruped and his relation to Jessie distinguish this series. Readers who value those talents of Ms. Henry will not be disappointed by this novel.