FICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2001
"Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed."
Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2000
"Still, Barr's many fans, eager to see her take on every federal property in the nation, will treasure her atmospheric presentation of Mississippi as the country's biggest little town."
Though she loves her varied postings as a National Park Service ranger (Liberty Falling, 1999, etc.) and hates administration, Anna Pigeon's not getting any younger or richer, so she puts in for promotion, and next thing she knows she's driving hell-for-leather alongside Mississippi mud and alligators en route to her posting as district ranger of the Port Gibson District.
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FICTION
Released: March 15, 1999
"Score a mere double this time for the Park Service's answer to Mark McGwire."
illness and Anna's need to deal somehow with FBI agent Frederick Stanton, the ex-boyfriend who deserted her for Molly.
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FICTION
Released: March 23, 1998
"This installment is the most suspenseful of all, even though claustrophobes are well-advised to stock up on Prozac before turning the first page."
When Mesa Verde National Park dispatcher Frieda Dierkz, on an avocational expedition to explore and survey the Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, is trapped 800 feet beneath the earth's surface by a head injury and a shattered leg, the person she asks authorities above to send after her is her friend Anna Pigeon.
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FICTION
Released: March 19, 1996
"No matter what you read mysteries for, it's in here."
Another routine assignment for National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon—doubling as medic and security for a firefighting camp fighting a blaze in California's Lassen Volcanic Park—turns into a nightmare when the snowstorm that promised relief from the flames instead whips them up into a firestorm, isolating Anna's spike camp and leaving two firefighters dead: one from the fire, a second from a knife in his back.
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FICTION
Released: March 23, 1994
"A crackling good mystery, fleshed out by a detective and a supporting cast far more human than they need to be."
Texas park ranger Anna Pigeon (Track of the Cat, 1993) proves she's much more than a regional specialist when she's reassigned to the frigid North Shore of Lake Superior and hears two divers' tales of finding six bodies in the Kamloops, a sunken 1927 wreck where there are supposed to be only five.
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