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Anna Pigeon mysteries

Author:
Barr, Nevada
 
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Star rating for Track of the cat
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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THE FIRST ANNA PIGEON NOVEL—WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD.
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...
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Star rating for A superior death
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
On an island in Lake Superior, Anna Pigeon, a National Parks Service ranger, investigates the death of a diving instructor whose body was found in an old shipwreck. Is there a link between the instructor's death and the disappearance of the wife of a fellow-ranger?
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Star rating for Ill wind
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In this breathtaking suspense novel by Nevada Barr, park ranger Anna Pigeon is faced with a sinister mystery that threatens the visitors of Mesa Verde. As a strange and deadly disease spreads through the park, Anna must unravel the source and put an end to the evil wind that carries it.
With gripping twists and turns, Ill Wind transports readers to the atmospheric landscape of Mesa Verde, immersing them in the heart-pounding action...
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Star rating for Firestorm
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A raging forest fire in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. One a victim of the flames. The other, stabbed through the heart. Now, as a rampaging winter storm descends, cutting the survivors off from civilization, Anna must uncover the murderer in their midst.
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Star rating for Endangered species
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon investigates a suspicious plane crash in which a fellow ranger and his pilot died. The pair were on an anti-narcotics patrol in an island park off Georgia. By the author of Firestorm.
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Star rating for Blind descent
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying the open spaces of Colorado when she receives an urgent call. A young woman has been injured while exploring a cave in New Mexico?s Carlsbad Cavern Park. Before she can be pulled to safety, she sends for her friend Anna. Only one problem: a crushing fear of confined spaces has kept Anna out in the open her whole life.
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Star rating for Liberty falling
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Anna Pigeon is in Manhattan to look after her hospitalized sister, and explores the Statue of Liberty in her spare time. But when a teenage girl falls to her death from Liberty's ledge, Anna wonders if the suicide was actually a homicide-and begins an investigation that puts her in the line of fire.
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Star rating for Deep South
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Nevada Barr's ever-popular Anna Pigeon series is consistently praised as "exceptional" (Denver Post), "stunning" (Seattle Times), and "superb" (New York Times Book Review). In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south…
Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's...
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Star rating for Blood lure
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
The latest entry in the bestselling series featuring Anna Pigeon. Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park-Annarsquo;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,...
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Star rating for Hunting season
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foe—human nature—in Nevada Barr's New York Times bestseller, Hunting Season.

 

The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He’s nearly naked,

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Star rating for Flashback
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.

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

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Star rating for High country
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
It'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...
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Star rating for Hard truth
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park.
When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect—and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
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Star rating for Winter study
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior, the wolf packs begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced they are being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond...
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Star rating for Borderline
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
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.
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Star rating for Burn
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Star rating for The rope
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:

New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr finally reveals the story that her fans have been clamoring for: Anna Pigeon's first case.
In 1995—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 Recreation Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think

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Star rating for Destroyer angel
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:

Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the to 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

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Star rating for Boar Island
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"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...