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	Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) Nevada Barr Avon, 1998 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A small plane crashes into the palmetto thickets nearby. Anna and her crew arrive in time to control the blaze, but too late to save pilot and his passenger, Cumberland's sole law enforcement ranger. When the cause of the "accident" is determined to be sabotage, Anna becomes entangled in an investigation that threatens to upset the very delicate balance of this fragile ecological preserve. For she is precariously close to exposing dark, clandestine crimes both old and new that someone has worked very diligently to conceal. . .and which make Anna Pigeon the most endangered creature on the island.

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history comes to life.

The action takes place on Cumberland Island. I've read the book, and visited the island. Now I want to share with my husband, so I got the audio book version: we will listen to it on our way back from Florida to California.


Plodding for an Anna Pigeon novel, then... BOOM!

First things first. Regardless of the cover illustration of baby sea turtles or the title, this is not a book about sea turtles. You'll learn a lot more about fire management than loggerheads (you always learn something about natural resource management in author Nevada Barr's books).

In Endangered Species, Anna Pigeon is earning some extra money with a temporary assignment to the fire suppression crew on Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia. When a plane crashes on the island, killing the pilot and his passenger, Anna is asked to help (as a note-taker) with the investigation and watch over the widow of one of the deceased. Her investigative ears are burning, though, and her law enforcement skills uncover deeper mysteries.

Anna continues to be an imperfect person, but her drinking is temporarily under control, her snooping helps catch a killer, the ashes of her dead husband go down the tubes, and her relationship with Frederick comes to a conclusion.

In the meantime, ranger Anna Pigeon is clobbered, infested with ticks and chiggers, shot at, and forced to inhale very large quantities of mind-altering smoke.

In other words, Anna continues her life story thick in the middle of things.

Endangered Species started slowly, and I kept getting confused with who was who and who was doing what. It seemed to plod along, and took until chapter 25 to really get going. That was about 4/5 of the way through the book! However, I appreciated "getting to know" Anna Pigeon better. I now know I have to read these books in order of publication to appreciate them best (even though each one works as a stand-alone book).

Here's the list of Anna Pigeon novels, and the order in which they've been published (I've starred the ones I've read to date, to remind me):

1. Track of the Cat (1993)*
2. A Superior Death (1994)
3. Ill Wind (1995)*
4. Firestorm (1996)
5. Endangered Species (1997)*
6. Blind Descent (1998)
7. Liberty Falling (1999)
8. Deep South (2000)
9. Blood Lure (2001)
10. Hunting Season (2002)*
11. Flashback (2003)
12. High Country (2004)
13. Hard Truth (2005)
14. Winter Study (2008)

Enjoy!

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Solid Mystery

My aunt left this book at the house after visiting over thanksgiving, so I decided to give it a try. Very interesting to have a mystery plot built around a park ranger. It is very evident the author has done here reaserch and knows her subject. Plot and mystery was strong enough to hold your attention. I'll look for more books in this series.


Seashore Murder

Storytelling at its finest, Nevada Barr's ENDANGERED SPECIES features the little known Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia, home to the Loggerhead Turtle, which many have fought for to bring back from the edge of extinction. The island is on our must visit list the next time we are on the east coast and I'm sure to read this addition to the Anna Pigeon series for its descriptions of the fauna and wildlife of the island.
The story is marred by too many characters, it becomes confusing but Barr's powerful prose keeps your eye glued to the page.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

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Not one of her better stories

I love Nevada Barr's character Anna Pigeon, but this story was diffinetly not one of her better writtings. I found it kinda boring and wished that she had used Barbara Rosenblat as the narrator. I find that the narrator along with the story really makes the book so much better and gives Anna Pigeon life.


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