Maxie McNabb,’ author Sue Henry’s savvy RV-driving 60-something, and her canine companion, Stretch, solve mysteries once again in “The Refuge” (2008).

Part-travel log, part-autobiographical journal, this is Henry’s fourth parlor mystery featuring ‘Maxie,’ this time in Hawaii.

Henry introduced Maxie in “Dead North,” (2001), a novel featuring musher Jessie Arnold. Because of Maxie’s popularity in “Dead North,” she and her dachshund sidekick ‘Stretch’ returned in “The Serpents Trail” (2004) set in Colorado.

In The Tooth of Time” (2006) Maxie becomes involved with a mysterious woman in Taos, New Mexico. Along the way she takes site-seeing treks of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado and the “The Tooth of Time,” an impressive landmark, near Cimarron, N.M.

For Julianne Crane’s story about Sue Henry published in The Spokesman-Review click on: “Research trips create an RV addict“