Anna Pigeon mysteries
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The fascinating hero of Nevada Barr’s award-winning series—park ranger Anna Pigeon—has brought an unyielding love of nature and sense of fair play to the mystery genre. Track of the Cat is the acclaimed novel that first introduced readers to Anna, as a woman looking for peace in the wilderness—and finding murder instead…Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought...
3) Ill wind
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 3
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Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.
4) Firestorm
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon and her companions discover a slain firefighter in a Northern California park, sending them on a search for a murderer in the midst of a winter firestorm.
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A woman park ranger has an accident during a survey of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, a 300-mile labyrinth of caves and tunnels 800 feet underground. Fellow park ranger Anna Pigeon braves her claustrophobia to mount a rescue and discovers it was no accident. By the author of Endangered Species.
8) Deep South
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Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It's a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones....
9) Blood lure
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Straddling the border between Monana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Anna's home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy...
10) Hunting season
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Working at Mt. Locust, a historic Mississippi plantation, park ranger Anna Pigeon stumbles upon the body of a man, who happens to be the brother of the local sheriff candidate and the victim of an S&M ritual gone awry, and must deal with dark family secrets, political intrigue, and romantic upheaval as she investigates the crime.
11) Flashback
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Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War....
12) High country
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t's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed...
13) Hard truth
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 13
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Anna and Sheriff Paul Davidson are married only three days before Anna moves from Mississippi to Colorado. Her mettle is immediately tested as the new district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. Three young girls have gone missing, and when only two return a month later--wearing filthy undergarments and bearing deep psychological scars--the signs point to a mysterious religious organization that guards its secrets closely. As a palpable sense...
14) Winter study
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 14
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Visiting an isolated Lake Superior isle to study wolf behavior, ranger Anna Pigeon joins a scientific group that subsequently discovers unusual DNA evidence suggesting that a giant and dangerous wolf hybrid has been introduced by an unknown source.
15) Borderline
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 15
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Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.
16) Burn
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Anna, on leave from her job as she recovers from recent traumas, decides to go stay with an old friend, Geneva, in New Orleans. She isn't there long before she crosses paths with a creepy tenant of Geneva's who appears to have attempted to put a curse on her. Slowly, she finds other traces of dark doings around town. Add in a fugitive mother accused of killing her husband and children in a fire, and it will take all of Anna's investigative skills...
17) The rope
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 17
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"In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes...
18) Destroyer angel
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 18
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After a summer fighting wildfire, park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying a weekend away camping in Minnesota's National Park with her girlfriends. Leah Hendricks is the genius behind a high-end sports gear manufacturer and Heath Jarrod has volunteered to test out some of the equipment. But when they encounter a band of violent kidnappers little do they realise that their ultimate challenge will be to stay alive.
19) Boar Island
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 19
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"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...