Nevada Barr
1) Borderline
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 15
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English
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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.
2) Hard truth
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Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
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...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation--an autumn canoe trip in the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will...
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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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...
6) Boar Island
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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...
7) Burn
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months -- while the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband busy and back at work, Anna decides to go to stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park. Anna isn't in town long...
10) Firestorm
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English
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Exhausted by efforts to stop a wildfire that has already devoured 17,000 acres in California, ranger Anna Pigeon takes refuge when the fire crosses her path and emerges with nine other people, only to discover a murdered body.
11) Hunting season
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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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A nude body found in the Natchez Trace National Park in Mississippi puts district ranger Anna Pigeon in danger as a circle of suspects, as well as her own deputy, do everything they can to disrupt her investigation.
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Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 5
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English
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon investigates the crash of a drug-interdiction plane on an isolated Georgia island. Was it an accident or sabotage that downed the plane, killing both the pilot and his passenger? It's up to Anna and her crew to solve the mystery.
13) Winter study
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 14
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English
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"It's January and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn wolf management. She's lodging in the island's bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team and two scientists from Homeland Security, who are considering opening the park in the winters, so that the area can be manned to secure the border with Canada - bringing an end to the 50-year study. Soon after Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave...
14) What Rose forgot
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's 'not making it through the week,' Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home.
15) Liberty falling
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
While park ranger Anna Pigeon is visiting the Statue of Liberty, a teenage girl jumps to her death. Or was she pushed? Officially the girl was being chased by a guard who thought she was a pickpocket.
18) Blood lure
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.