Sue Henry is a writer 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. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1940 in United States of America (Age 84)