Awards & Winners

Sue Henry

Date of Birth 1940
Place of Birth United States of America
(Americas, DVD Region 1, United States, with Territories, Lacks Family Cemetery )
Nationality
Profession Writer
Sue Henry is an author of mystery thriller fiction. She has also been a college administrator and instructor at the University of Alaska and has lived in Anchorage, Alaska since the 1970s. 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 the author to develop a series based on this book's characters, Alaskan state trooper Alex Jensen and Jessie Arnold, a sled dog racer. In 2005 she started a new mystery series featuring a 63 year old widow, Maxine McNab, travelling in her Winnebago with a miniature dachshund, Stretch. Maxine had appeared in Dead North in the first series. Henry went on the road to research the book. Murder on the Iditarod Trail was filmed for television as The Cold Heart of a Killer starring Kate Jackson, who bought the rights to the book.

Awards by Sue Henry

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sue Henry.

1992


Macavity Awards for Best First Mystery Novel
Honored for : Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Honored for : Murder on the Iditarod Trail