Twice widowed Maxie McNabb has decided to stay home this
winter in her hometown, the small village of Homer, Alaska.
Usually she travels the Lower 48 each winter in her RV with
her canine companion, Stretch, the mini-dachshund she
inherited from her late second husband. While walking with
Stretch, Maxie befriends a lonely traveler, John Walker.
They have a nice chat and she decides to invite him a little
get-together she's holding the next day.
John gets along well with everyone at the dinner, although
he doesn't volunteer much personal information. Still, Maxie
is surprised to get a call regarding John a couple of days
later. Why would the police want to talk to her? Turns out
John has been discovered dead, a presumed suicide, but has
left no identification to confirm his identity. As far as
the police can tell, John Walker didn't really exist. At
least, not as John Walker.
Maxie tries to get away from the persistent questions and
gossip by visiting friends. But trouble follows her. Just
who was John Walker really? What--or who--is he running away
from? Why would he come to Alaska to die all alone? In
between visits with friends Maxie slowly pieces together
some of John's background.
THE END OF THE ROAD is a pleasant way to while away an
evening. The mystery oftentimes takes a secondary role for
pleasantries and diversions with friends but the very last
part of the book is definitely action-packed. Ms. Henry has
a good grasp of canine behavior and I often smiled at
Stretch's antics. Readers need not have read the previous
books in the Maxie and Stretch mystery series to follow
along in this book. Dog lovers and cozy readers should snap
up this cutesy story.
New from the multiple award-winning author of The
Refuge, whose “grasp of storytelling and strong
characterization matches her with Sue Grafton” (Colorado
Springs Gazette).
Maxie McNabb and her
miniature dachshund, Stretch, are just back from their
latest adventure when a murder shatters the quiet in their
hometown of Homer, Alaska. Now it’s up to Maxie to find the
killer—a search that leads her to a place called “the end of
the road.”
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