From Booklist
At loose ends because she is unable to race her dogs this season due to an injury, Jessie Arnold heads to Five Finger Light Island to help friends restore an old lighthouse. On the way to the island, Jessie meets Karen Emerson, who is on the run from a persistent stalker, and invites her along on the trip. Once on the island, Jessie's idyllic getaway turns deadly as a body is found, a woman disappears, and an extensive search of the tiny island fails to find her. Jessie and her companions realize they are on their own when they discover that all means of communicating with the outside world are either missing or destroyed. Alternating chapters from Jessie's and the stalker's points of view keep motives hidden and readers guessing as the plot moves briskly along. The unspoiled Alaskan setting, and Jessie and her boyfriend Alex's somewhat uneasy relationship, add to this eleventh in the series. Sue O'Brien
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Book Description
Sled dog racer Jessie Arnold stars in a series that's "suspenseful, intelligent, and filled with the spectacular beauty of the northern wilds" (Dallas Morning News). Her friends, Laurie and Jim, have acquired their dream-an old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage-and invited everyone to a party. Not a party in the typical sense, but one where guests earn their keep by restoring the old building. With the company of old friends, the smell of fresh paint, and a view to die for, this is one weekend Jessie won't soon forget-especially when a guest ends up dead. At first, the death seems like an accident, but when someone cuts the phone and radio connections, Jessie realizes there's a killer loose on the island.

About the Author
Sue Henry's first Jessie Arnold mystery, Murder on the Iditarod Trail, won both the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel. She also writes the Maxie McNabb mysteries. Henry is a former college administrator and has lived in Alaska for 30 years. She spends much of her spare time RVing around the Lower Forty-Eight or researching Alaska.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Welcome to another Alaskan adventure in this return to Sue Henry's Anthony and Macavity Award–winning 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￯﾿ﾽand 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￯﾿ﾽand 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

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Jessie 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 - an 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, Jessie realizes there's a killer loose on the island. Worse yet, the killing spree might not be over - even though the party certainly is.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

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Kirkus Reviews