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Blood Lure

#9 in series

by Nevada Barr
Barbara Rosenblat
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The Anna Pigeon mysteries are a New York Times best-selling series. Each addition is eagerly anticipated by fans of its award-winning author Nevada Barr, who uses her experience as a park ranger to create stunningly authentic details. Blood Lure takes Park Ranger Anna Pigeon high into Glacier Park and deep into a grisly murder case. Anna has joined a bear research team in the vast park that spreads from Montana into Canada. They hope to gather enough information to form a picture of its Grizzly bear population. Instead, one terrifying night, a bear finds them. By morning, their camp is in ruins, and the youngest member of the team is missing. A few hours later, the body of a camper is discovered: the neck broken and face mutilated. As Anna sets out to find what, or who, is responsible for the carnage, her search will stretch all her resources—physical, mental, and moral—to new limits. Audie Award-winning narrator Barbara Rosenblat's voice is perfect for Anna, capturing all her courage and vulnerability.

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  • Series

    Anna Pigeon

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  • Release date

    December 1, 2000

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449872212
      • File size: 328226 KB
      • Duration: 11:23:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 1, 2001
      The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      What's more dangerous--human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      October 15, 2001
      In Barr's latest mystery, Anna Pigeon, a park ranger, leaves her post at the Natchez Trace Parkway for a study trip to Glacier National Park. The majestic mountains are a welcome relief from swampy Mississippi and the resident alligators, although Anna is soon being harassed by a grizzly bear. Unfortunately, the plot is predictable, and most listeners will be well ahead of Anna as she puzzles over the clues. Barbara Rosenblat reads the story with energy and confidence. The cast of characters, which include a frightened teenage boy, an abused husband, a motherly bear researcher, and an honest and politically savvy park superintendent, are each given an individualized voice by Rosenblat, who employs accents, pitch, and pacing flawlessly. For most popular collections. Juleigh Muirhead Clark, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Lib., Williamsburg, VA

      Copyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Every book by Nevada Barr that includes Park Ranger Anna Pigeon takes place in a different national park and usually involves large animals. This one is about bears. Here's a middle-aged and plump Anna Pigeon climbing around in Glacier Park with a grisly Grizzly murder. There are wandering campers, sullen teens harboring dark secrets, and a rampaging bear to spice things up. There is also something odd and magical happening just beyond Anna's vision. It's a wonderful series, and this is a fine book full of interesting folks for Barbara Rosenblat to bring brilliantly to life whether huffing up or puffing down the slopes. B.H.B. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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