The Refuge: A Maxie and Stretch Mystery

by Sue Henry

Book Overview

Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are in Hawaii to help Maxie's friend Karen Bailey pack up her house. But after a prowler tries to break in and someone sabotages the plumbing, Maxie suspects that Karen is hiding something...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451223527
• ISBN13: 9780451223524
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Great Read

I really enjoyed this book--I've read the two previous ones with Maxie and Stretch. I enjoy the references to the dachshund, although he was absent a great deal in this one. I hope Sue will continue this series as I like the interesting places I can travel with her. My only suggestion is bring Stretch back. Thanks Sue.

Great Read

Yet another great read by Mrs. Henry. The detail provided, as with all her books, brings you into the story and "along for the ride". Keep them coming Sue. Highly recommended.

I love Maxie and Stretch

I love to read Sue Henry and I like her new series Maxie and Stretch. It's a great NEW story, not just a new name and a new local for the same old story. I like Maxie so well, I find myself wanting to jump in a minniewinnie and go - just like she does.

Missed Stretch

I love this series and really enjoyed the book, but I missed Stretch. I am a great fan of dachshunds & would like to see him throughout the book. Otherwise, could not put the book down-very exciting all the way thru.

exciting mystery

After being away from her Alaskan abode for the past nine months sixty four year old Maxie McNabb yearns for her home in Homer. She has spent time with her mini-dachshund in the lower forty-eight states around the Four Corners region of the Southwest. When she arrives at her home, she has less than a week to enjoy it before a friendly acquaintance calls her from Hilo, Hawaii asking for her help. In a fall she tripped, hurting an arm and a leg and is out of commission. She needs Maxie to help her sort, point, sells and more to Alaska. Maxie reluctantly heads to the fiftieth state to help Karen out, even knowing that before Karen was injured, she was helpless and always needing someone to tell her what to do and how to do it. Needing a break from her friend, she goes sightseeing and meets the plumber's helper Jerry who has worked on Karen's house. They put Karen on a plane and get to work packing and then they plan to do some sight-seeing. However, men want something from Maxie and they will kill them if necessary to get it it. Maxie doesn't know what they want or where it is but is determined to get the best of the men that stalked her and kidnapped Jerry. Sue Henry has written an exciting mystery focusing on a protagonist who has more energy at sixty-four than people do in their twenties. She certainly shows that life can be fulfilling as a senior while she appreciate the beauty of the things around us like Maxie does in Hawaii. There is lots of action, no blood or gore and a great cast. Readers will immediately take to the heroine and Jerry who is not quite what he seems. Harriet Klausner