The Serpents Trail (Maxie and Stretch Series #1)

by Sue Henry

Overview

At sixty-three, Maxie McNabb is cruising down the Alaska Highway in her brand-new Winnebago. With her mini-dachshund at her side and the open road ahead, she's never been happier. But before her exploration of the Lower Forty-eight gets underway, Maxie needs to figure out who burgled her friend's Colorado home-and why. And the closer Maxie gets to solving the puzzle, the more it becomes chillingly clear that her friend's life isn't the only one on the line.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451411785
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/2005
Series:	Maxie and Stretch Series , #1
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	4.18(w) x 6.67(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sue Henry is the author of the award-winning Alaska mystery series. She has lived in Alaska for almost a quarter of a century and brings history, Alaskan lore, and the majestic beauty of the vast landscape to her mysteries. She teaches writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Editorial Reviews

Unlike her musher friend Jesse Arnold (Death Trap, p. 645, etc.), senior citizen Maxie McNabb drives an RV, owns a mini-dachshund instead of a husky-and is rarely tormented by serial killers. Nonetheless, her plan to spend time with an ailing friend is disrupted by violence. Firing up her RV, Maxie heads south from her Alaska home to her old friend Sarah Nunamaker in Grand Junction, Colorado. Sarah, who has only a few months to live, wants Maxie's company. More urgently, she needs Maxie's help with some problem that she refuses to explain. Maxie arrives to find Sarah's house ransacked and Sarah in the hospital. By the next morning Sarah is dead, not from natural causes, and Maxie, her executrix, must settle Sarah's estate, which she has left to her adopted son and any natural children of her own, the existence of whom no one has ever suspected until Ed Norris, Sarah's college boyfriend, claims that Sarah's adopted son, Alan, is actually his. Emphatically denying this birthright, Alan makes it clear that he resents Maxie's and Ed's presence. Puzzled and stung, Maxie searches Sarah's home for the secret hiding places her friend loved to devise, in between dodging car collisions at the Colorado State Monument and research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Luckily, Maxie is no Miss Marple, and those who like Henry's chatty style will like this departure, too.

Kirkus Reviews