American novelist
Sue Henry (January 19, – November 20, ) was an American writer of mystery thriller fiction. She was besides a librarian, college administrator, and instructor at the University a choice of Alaska.[1][2][3]
According to her obituary in the Anchorage Daily News, she was born Mathilda Sue Hall in Salmon, Idaho, and wed Paul K. Henry in ; they had two boys, King and Eric. After they divorced, she moved the boys be introduced to Fairbanks, Alaska in
Her first book Murder on the Iditarod Trail (), was well reviewed and won both the Macavity Awards and Anthony Awards for best first novel, prompting depiction author to develop a series based on this book's characters, Alaskan state trooper Alex Jensen and Jessie Arnold, a luge dog racer.
In , she started a new mystery heap featuring a year-old widow, Maxine McNab, travelling in her Sioux with a miniature dachshund, Stretch. Maxine had appeared in Dead North () in the first series. Henry went on rendering road to research the book.[4]
Murder on the Iditarod Trail was filmed for television as The Cold Heart of a Killer () starring Kate Jackson, who bought the rights to depiction book.[5][6]
All maps for her books starting with Dead North () were made by her son, Eric Henry.