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 mediocre December 16, 2006
Greene "PB" (Kern Valley, CA)
I agree with a lot of the other reviews that this book was not up to Sue Henry's standards. Generally I enjoy reading about the dogs and the musher's life, and I did as well in this book. However the story was implausible and I felt the ending was very weak. Almost as if the author just wanted to finish the book and did not really think it out logically.
Fun, Fast, Read February 4, 2006
W. Carol
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you like dogs, and you like easy, uncomplicated mysteries, and you like strong, single, capable female heroines, you'll like this book. I did--very much. It's my first introduction to Sue Henry's "Alaska Mystery" series, and it certainly won't be the last.
Light on improbable plot but strong on descriptive details (really interesting information on how to mush a dog team, which I found captivating), the story concerns a series of arsons that come to involve heroine Jessie, her cabin, and her good name among her compatriots in the Alaska town in which she lives. It all centers on a former friend named Anne, whom Jessie picks up at the airport, only to regret the reunion the minute they meet.
I found the denoument so confusing that I'm still not sure who did what to whom, but nevertheless, I found the whole reading experience lots of fun--enough to want to try more Sue Henry.
Mush !! January 16, 2006
Beverley Strong (Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jessie Arnold, champion dog sled racer and dog breeder, is horrified when her favourite watering hols, "Oscar's Other Place", is burned to the ground, but even more so when an unidentified body is found in the ashes. She is even less pleased to be visited by a former neighbour, Anne Holman, who claims to be in hiding from her abusive husband, Greg.Anne is frantic to retrieve something from the burned out remains of their former home, which she claims was burned down by Greg, and pressures Jessie to take her back, by dog sled, to the ruins. She digs up a metal box which contains the bones of a baby who, she says, was murdered by Greg. On returning to town, Anne is confronted by Mike Tatum, an arson investigator who declares Anne to be a fire bug who caused the death of a family. Anne insists that Tatum is obsessed with proving her guilt and is not to be trusted. After Jessie's cabin is also burnes out, the story becomes fairly obvious but the author's descriptions of the Alaskan scenery and the details of long distance dog sledding are excellent. Perhaps readers who have followed Jessie's earlier acventures ( this is book 5)would gain more pleasure than I did from this book, but, to start at this point, it was rather ordinary.
MORE FRIGID ADVENTURES October 5, 2005
Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sue Henry's Jessie Arnold series is wonderful in evincing a feel of the Alaskan wilderness and life in the "slow" lane. Unfortunately, Henry's books while generally entertaining are a little too laid back in their delivery, and Arnold comes across as a less effective heroine than she should be. In BENEATH THE ASHES, Arnold is approached by an old acquaintance to help her dig up something in a cabin where she lived ten years prior, having Arnold as her neighbor. We immediately dislike this friend, Anne, and it isn't too long before several arsons immerse Jessie in a complex plot in which she becomes a main suspect. Henry isn't a master of suspenseful plotting, but her images of the wilderness and her love for the sledding life is evidenced and entertaining.
good book November 4, 2004
jorgen
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
the book beneath the ashes is about jessie arnold being framed for burning down the local pub, her house, and a couple other places that were linked to an arson murder 10 years ago. jessie tries to prove her innocence while looking for her missing friend ann holmon who is also a suspect in the arsons.
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