Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) | Nevada Barr

Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) | Nevada Barr | A Winter's Tale

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Winter Study (Anna...

	Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) Nevada Barr G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008 - 370 pages average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Anna Pigeon returns?in the remarkable new novel from the New York Times?bestselling writer.

It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She?s housed in the island?s bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park each winter?effectively bringing an end to the fifty-year study?so that it can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada.

Soon after Anna?s arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the team to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves, but for also her own survival.

Filled with the nail-biting suspense, richly drawn characters and gorgeous nature writing that are her hallmarks, Winter Study is vintage Barr, proving once again that she?s ?a real writer, in every sense of the word? (The Denver Post).

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Great Book!

I have read every book Nevada Barr has written. I feel this is one of her best, if not the best book she has written. Reading this,you feel you are right in the frozen countryside with Anna Pigeon. It is interesting, gruesome, and very entertaining. More please.

A Winter's Tale

A six-week investigation of a 50-year-old study of moose and wolves in Isle Royale in Lake Superior brings Park Ranger Anna Pigeon to a brutal winter, in this 14th novel in the series. The investigation is under the scrutiny of Homeland Security, which wants to bring it to a grinding halt so the area can be opened to tourists the year round and close an easy entry for illegals from Canada.

Shortly after her arrival, strange things begin to happen. The wolf packs behave in unusual ways, and the interaction of the small team gives rise to abnormal behavior. Before it's all over, there are deaths and Anna has to fight for her own survival.

Once again, the author demonstrates a facility for writing about nature and provides penetrating character studies. Perhaps so much detail that it overwhelms the reader (at least it did me). One can nearly literally freeze to death reading the chilling chapters and descriptions of the weather and the tundra. Nevertheless, it is an exciting story, with unexpected consequences. A novel to be read by a rip-roaring fire, and recommended.

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mystery

so glad she finally came out with another book, been waiting a long time...enjoyed it tremendously...

A Little Reality Please

I have been a dedicated fan of Nevada Barr's books in part because I like the story and in part because I like her descriptions of the National Parks and nature in general. I liked the story told here and I enjoyed her descriptions of the wolf study. As always I enjoyed Anna's wry comments. But common on, you have to have a somewhat realistic ending. A woman can only be knocked down so may times, especially in minus 17 degree weather and still get up.

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