The laws of nature take a terrifyingly murderous turn in this spellbinding addition to the New York Times bestselling series featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon.

In Blood Lure, Anna returns to the West, where she is sent on a training assignment to study grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park, straddling the border between Montana ad Canada. But back in her beloved mountains, where the air is pure and cool, Anna fails to find the spiritual renewal she expected. Instead, nature seems to have become twisted, carrying a malevolence almost human in its focus.

Along with Bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile and unpredictable teenaged boy, Anna hikes the backcountry, seeking signs of the bears. On their second night out, the tables are turned: one of the beasts comes looking for her. Daybreak finds the boy missing and a camper dead, her neck snapped by a single blow, the flesh of her face cut away with a knife. Feeling betrayed by both nature and humanity, Anna must find the beast stalking the trails - leading her readers deep into a gripping wilderness life-or-death mystery.

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

 

Nevada Barr is the award-winning author of thirteen previous Anna Pigeon mysteries, including the New York Times bestsellers Hard Truth and High Country. She lives in New Orleans.

Blood Lure by Nevada Barr
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