New Releases by Nevada Barr

Tough, likable park ranger Anna Pigeon is back in another high-spirited outdoors adventure/mystery. Anna has been assigned a three-week posting on Georgia''s isolated Cumberland Island. Despite the breathtaking natural setting, Anna finds time weighing heavily as she works tedious fire pre-suppression duty. Her boring routine is shattered when a sudden plane crash in the inland palmetto thickets calls her and the other members of the fire crew to action. When Anna and the crew investigate, they discover the plane was sabotaged. Suspicions smolder over the accident which killed both the pilot and his passenger, Cumberland''s lone law enforcement ranger. Even the usually unflappable Anna is shocked by the desperate cold-bloodedness of the crime. Will protecting the island come at a price even Anna is unwilling to pay?

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 the ordinary…

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.

Anna Pigeon, Rocky Mountain National Park ranger, runs across a large wolf and strange wolf DNA while studying a wolfpack on a Lake Superior island with two Homeland Security scientists, and fights for survival after a female scientist turns up missing.

It''s fall on Mississippi''s Natchez Trace: brown leaves scattered on springtime-green grass, winter-bare branches of sweetgum and sassafras etched against a summer-bright sky, the soft blue of chicory and delicate yellow of tickweed shimmering in the hollows alongside the highway. And as Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn that served travelers between Natchez and Nashville, now a tourist spot, she breathes in the scent of a forest readying itself for sleep, the very essence of autumn. Despite the bare branches above and the brown leaf litter below, the sky is blue, and murder is far from her mind. But the man Anna finds in Mt. Locust''s old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He''s nearly naked, and very dead, his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible, ominous passages circled in red.

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 to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna''s life if threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.

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 as Anna races against time to uncover the truth. Fans of Nevada Barr''s thrilling storytelling and gripping mysteries won''t be able to put this book down.

A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels. Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for meaning in life. Hat by hat, step by step, Barr leads readers down her path to enlightenment by sharing personal episodes, some of them funny and revealing, others painfully honest. Each chapter offers a truth or an answer forged through experience and deep reflection, and a nugget of insight certain to encourage thought and discussion among readers, who may, in turn, find their own spiritual language.

Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. Written with a naturalist''s feel for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner.

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 the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna’s rage knows no bounds. It’s up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals—and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare…

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, and very dead—his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red. There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps—and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.

Well-crafted gems by some of today’s wittiest and most well-known writers. - Library Journal. The quintessential cozy anthology. - Mystery Lovers Bookshop News,Clue into a world of murder and mayhem from the ingenious minds of today’s most fiendishly clever mystery writers, including Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard, K.K. Beck, Peter Lovesey, and Carolyn Hart, to name just a few. Witness the crimes and uncover the evidence of murder at its most diabolical. A woman returns to her girlhood home to dig up a decades-old secret. An old-time movie star has sinister plans for the bestselling writer who slashed her in print. A widow who narrowly escapes death has a surprise in store for her would-be slayer. The fourteen stories that make up this collection share the common theme of ordinary people getting involved in criminal doings. Malice Domestic is an annual event that salutes the traditional mystery - books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is loosely defined as mysteries which contain no explicit sex or excessive gore and violence.

In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West… Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’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, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...

Written collaboratively by thirteen female authors.

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 knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It''s a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep-and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna...

Mesa Verde : le plus prestigieux des parcs nationaux américains le plus riche en vestiges amérindiens, mais le plus touristique aussi. Cet afflux de curieux en tous genres, amateurs de nature ou pseudo anthropologues, laisse des marques indélébiles sur le paysage et provoque plus d''une tension. Alors rien d''étonnant à ce que les affrontements verbaux entre les défenseurs du patrimoine indien et fervents du naturalisme à outrance dégénèrent peu à peu en batailles rangées . Jusqu''à offrir au parc et aux dieux anasazis quelques sacrifices qui n''ont plus rien d''humain.

Plusieurs jours, maintenant, que des équipes de pompiers venus du pays entier tentent de vaincre l''incendie qu''ils ont surnommé Jackknife. Anna Pigeon et ses collègues, arrivés en renfort pour soigner les soldats du feu, luttent pied à pied contre l''Armaggedon. Mais en mer comme en montagne, c''est la nature qui décide du sort des hommes. Et elle a décidé de ne faire aucun cadeau. Quand enfin la colère du ciel s''apaise, l''heure est venue de rechercher les survivants et de compter les morts, tombés au combat pour sauver leurs semblables. Mais le cadavre découvert par Anna sous une tente d''isolation n''a pas été victime du feu du ciel. Un poignard en plein cœur, c''est de la colère des hommes dont il semble avoir fait les frais... Après l''Empreinte du fauve, Nevada Barr confirme que son personnage Anna Pigeon est bien de la trempe dont on fait les grandes héroïnes...