{"id":613,"date":"2010-12-31T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2011-01-16T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T21:23:40","slug":"termination-dust-by-sue-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Termination Dust by Sue Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Termination<\/a>Termination Dust is the second book in Sue Henry’s series on Jessie Arnold, set in Alaska. \u00a0This book is set in the Yukon. \u00a0Ok, so this isn’t Alaska. \u00a0When the book opens, Jim Hampton is kayaking in the Yukon River. \u00a0En route, he discovers a body and a few artifacts dating back to the 1890s. \u00a0Among these items is the diary of a gold miner heading for the Klondike gold rush and a few nuggets of gold. \u00a0Part of this book is uncovering the events of the miner and what became of his gold.<\/p>\n

Next, Jim is attacked by two men in a zodiac, an inflatable motorized boat, who destroy his kayak and steal his gear. \u00a0Jim makes camp, but when he wakes, there are two policemen, a dead body, and most of his gear is back. \u00a0All the evidence points to Jim as the murderer, but he has no motive.<\/p>\n

Termination dust is an Alaskan term for the first light dusting of snow on the mountains. \u00a0This is taken as a sign of the big snows to come. \u00a0Both stories see this moment come and pass.<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed the story a lot, but felt it could have been more. \u00a0I kept expecting more from the historical story. \u00a0It was pretty obvious who dunnit, especially that Jim hadn’t. \u00a0And the evidence seemed to hinge a lot on a simple error by the guilty. \u00a0But it is still a very enjoyable read.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, the last chapter of the book is the full diary of the gold miner, Addison Harley Riser. \u00a0It is an enjoyable tale in its own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Termination Dust is the second book in Sue Henry’s series on Jessie Arnold, set in Alaska. \u00a0This book is set in the Yukon. \u00a0Ok, so this isn’t Alaska. \u00a0When the book opens, Jim Hampton is kayaking in the Yukon River. \u00a0En route, he discovers a body and a few artifacts dating back to the 1890s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}