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Berkley (2003), 352 p.
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2004-07-22
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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.… (more)
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LibraryThing member wdwilson3
The tenth Anna Pigeon mystery is set in the Natchez Trace Parkway (like the earlier “Deep South”) and involves a dead body found in unusual circumstances, a vandalized slave burial ground, murderous deer poachers and a truck that wants to play destruction derby with our heroine. Themes from the
My major issue with this book is that it’s light on the mystery. Barr writes effectively in the “Oh my God how will Anna survive?” mode, making some parts fine page-turners, but the whodunit quotient is pretty low. Second, I just don’t find the Natchez Trace to be as effective setting as the other National Park units that have served as settings in the Pigeon series – at its core, it’s just a small town and rural South locale, with no particular dramatic backdrops for the action.
I’ve given the book three stars – if you’re a completist with your mystery favorites, don’t pass this by, but if you’re not, there are better books in the series.
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previous nine installments are continued, as this series increasingly becomes a domestic mystery, focused on Pigeon’s private life as well as the case at hand. I don’t mind this, as I found the progression natural, but from the perspective of a new reader it may be distracting and uninvolving.My major issue with this book is that it’s light on the mystery. Barr writes effectively in the “Oh my God how will Anna survive?” mode, making some parts fine page-turners, but the whodunit quotient is pretty low. Second, I just don’t find the Natchez Trace to be as effective setting as the other National Park units that have served as settings in the Pigeon series – at its core, it’s just a small town and rural South locale, with no particular dramatic backdrops for the action.
I’ve given the book three stars – if you’re a completist with your mystery favorites, don’t pass this by, but if you’re not, there are better books in the series.
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LibraryThing member eduscapes
I always enjoy the books about Anna Pigeon, the National Park Ranger. I liked the last one, Blood Lure better.
LibraryThing member jepeters333
Ranger Ana Pigeon and an accidental death during a poaching.
LibraryThing member Bookmarque
I always like how Anna gets herself out of trouble and is never rescued by a man. In this latest novel, she starts poking around in this murder. The scars from an S&M ritual are fake. She divines that the deceased had no sexual contact before dying and instead smothered to death in his own bulk
Hung from what though? She is also investigating a brutal attack on her where she tried to catch some poachers at their illegal deer stand. She becomes the hunted instead and if Barth and Randy (her field rangers) hadn’t shown up, she would have had to shoot her attackers. Instead they all ran away. She begins to put together the venison that someone’s wife inadvertently gave her and the remains of a recently butchered doe, when she is stopped on the road by someone in a pick up.
She slyly gets out of the passenger side of her patrol car, intending to sneak up on them and surprise them. Just in time because the truck bashes the patrol car out of recognition. She had just radioed for back up and before the attacker can step out of the truck, Barth arrives.
In the mean time, she’s all out of sorts with her somewhat illicit boyfriend, Sheriff Paul Davidson. He’s having a hard time dealing with her while still trying to get divorced. Anna is feeling like she’s about to be dumped so she gets all standoffish. When Steve, the district ranger next-door starts hinting that he’s dating someone that she knows, for her benefit, she doesn’t pick up on the fact that it is Davidson’s wife. Now that she has a fella, it is much easier for her to grant Paul the much-wanted divorce.
So she gets a call from Sheriff Jones about the identity of the owner of the rampaging truck, but he tells her to call him from a land line. She leaves the records dept where she and Barth are researching the history of a black man who was part of the business that the ancestor of the dead man started. It turns out that the 300-acre property the family still has was actually deeded to a freedman back before the civil war. The man died without issue and they quietly took back the property. The surviving brother of the dead guy is running for Sheriff even though the ‘sex crime’ angle of his brother’s death has leaked and effectively ruined his chances of election.
She gets back to the ranger station but before she can get to the phone Randy Thigpen tells her that Sheriff Jones told them to meet him at a suspect’s house and to stay off the radio. Suspicion doesn’t dawn for a while. Then she puts some things together. Randy has been asking for odd hours. Those late hours coincide with hang up calls to her in the middle of the night. Those nights line up with the ‘poker nights’ of the dead guy and his buddies. Randy has wanted to be in on the investigation and has screwed up every interview with every suspect he’s come into contact with. The ‘poker buddies’. Turns out that Randy has been selling hunting rights on the national parkland for years. They were all illegally poaching deer that night when the dead guy fell off the stand in his harness. For a joke, they let him hang there not realizing he was dying. Panic hit and they all made Randy deal with the corpse. He put it in the compromising position because he was going to run for Sheriff also and wanted to ruin his opponent’s chances. Now he’s pissed off at Anna for ruining his life again. Not only did she take ‘his job’ but she loused up his hunting scam too.
But of course, in her panic, Anna finds a place of reason and exploits the only advantage she has over the much larger Randy Thigpen. Her small size and her speed and her intelligence - all underrated by Randy. She fakes dropping her gun (he never checks and the thud was just her second magazine hitting the ground) and when she gets away from him, she’s armed. He isn’t carrying his normal semi-auto, but a revolver. When he uses up the ammo, she has the drop on him. He starts to leave and taunts her saying she’d never shoot him because there is no cause. He wasn’t directly threatening her. When he starts to leave, she shoots him in the leg. He freaks but she tells him that he went the wrong way. If he’d gone into the trees, she would have let him go, knowing he’d be picked up shortly. But he headed for the road and the patrol car and the shotgun therein. Wrong.
So Randy is out of her life. The sneaky land-grubbing rednecks are about to be evicted. And Paul is heading for a divorce. I hope the smooth sailing doesn’t last too long and Anna loses her edge.
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after being hung in some kind of harness.Hung from what though? She is also investigating a brutal attack on her where she tried to catch some poachers at their illegal deer stand. She becomes the hunted instead and if Barth and Randy (her field rangers) hadn’t shown up, she would have had to shoot her attackers. Instead they all ran away. She begins to put together the venison that someone’s wife inadvertently gave her and the remains of a recently butchered doe, when she is stopped on the road by someone in a pick up.
She slyly gets out of the passenger side of her patrol car, intending to sneak up on them and surprise them. Just in time because the truck bashes the patrol car out of recognition. She had just radioed for back up and before the attacker can step out of the truck, Barth arrives.
In the mean time, she’s all out of sorts with her somewhat illicit boyfriend, Sheriff Paul Davidson. He’s having a hard time dealing with her while still trying to get divorced. Anna is feeling like she’s about to be dumped so she gets all standoffish. When Steve, the district ranger next-door starts hinting that he’s dating someone that she knows, for her benefit, she doesn’t pick up on the fact that it is Davidson’s wife. Now that she has a fella, it is much easier for her to grant Paul the much-wanted divorce.
So she gets a call from Sheriff Jones about the identity of the owner of the rampaging truck, but he tells her to call him from a land line. She leaves the records dept where she and Barth are researching the history of a black man who was part of the business that the ancestor of the dead man started. It turns out that the 300-acre property the family still has was actually deeded to a freedman back before the civil war. The man died without issue and they quietly took back the property. The surviving brother of the dead guy is running for Sheriff even though the ‘sex crime’ angle of his brother’s death has leaked and effectively ruined his chances of election.
She gets back to the ranger station but before she can get to the phone Randy Thigpen tells her that Sheriff Jones told them to meet him at a suspect’s house and to stay off the radio. Suspicion doesn’t dawn for a while. Then she puts some things together. Randy has been asking for odd hours. Those late hours coincide with hang up calls to her in the middle of the night. Those nights line up with the ‘poker nights’ of the dead guy and his buddies. Randy has wanted to be in on the investigation and has screwed up every interview with every suspect he’s come into contact with. The ‘poker buddies’. Turns out that Randy has been selling hunting rights on the national parkland for years. They were all illegally poaching deer that night when the dead guy fell off the stand in his harness. For a joke, they let him hang there not realizing he was dying. Panic hit and they all made Randy deal with the corpse. He put it in the compromising position because he was going to run for Sheriff also and wanted to ruin his opponent’s chances. Now he’s pissed off at Anna for ruining his life again. Not only did she take ‘his job’ but she loused up his hunting scam too.
But of course, in her panic, Anna finds a place of reason and exploits the only advantage she has over the much larger Randy Thigpen. Her small size and her speed and her intelligence - all underrated by Randy. She fakes dropping her gun (he never checks and the thud was just her second magazine hitting the ground) and when she gets away from him, she’s armed. He isn’t carrying his normal semi-auto, but a revolver. When he uses up the ammo, she has the drop on him. He starts to leave and taunts her saying she’d never shoot him because there is no cause. He wasn’t directly threatening her. When he starts to leave, she shoots him in the leg. He freaks but she tells him that he went the wrong way. If he’d gone into the trees, she would have let him go, knowing he’d be picked up shortly. But he headed for the road and the patrol car and the shotgun therein. Wrong.
So Randy is out of her life. The sneaky land-grubbing rednecks are about to be evicted. And Paul is heading for a divorce. I hope the smooth sailing doesn’t last too long and Anna loses her edge.
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LibraryThing member ffortsa
The 10th (?) in the Anna Pigeon series, and another in the Natchez Trace set. I'm getting a little tired of Anna getting herself into trouble in the final chapters by somehow missing the logical action and plunging ahead without backup. It gives police procedurals a bad rap.
But this time, the
All in all, a good read, and a satisfying ending, even if I did see it coming.
But this time, the
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villain was just as rotten as should be. And the love interest unbelievably patient.All in all, a good read, and a satisfying ending, even if I did see it coming.
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LibraryThing member gypsysmom
This is the second Anna Pigeon mystery set on the Natchez Trace, the first being Deep South, which I read just a week ago. This one is set about 10 months after Anna moved to Natchez Trace to take a supervisory position. She oversees two rangers, Bartholomew Dickin and Randy Thigpen. When she
In fact, when the book opens Anna is in church watching Paul perform a marriage ceremony for his deputy. Her pager vibrates and once Anna checks the message she realizes she won’t be attending the wedding breakfast. A dead body has turned up in one of the buildings at Mt. Locust which is in her jurisdiction and the circumstances make it pretty clear the corpse was a victim of homicide. Dressed in her finery Anna goes to Mt. Locust to investigate. The park employee who found the body when she opened up is almost in hysterics but calms down as Anna talks to her. Once the sherriff (not Paul because this is in another jurisdiction) and coroner attend the body is identified as a Doyce Barnette, a local man who everyone agrees isn’t too bright but doesn’t have an enemy in the world. What is truly bizarre is the marks on the body that make it look like he was involved in some kind of kinky sex act. Doyce’s nearest kin are his younger brother, Raymond, and his aged mother. Anna and Sherriff Clintus Jones go to tell Raymond but find out that he has already been notified by the coroner. Raymond will break the news to “Mama” Barnette and Anna and Clintus go along, mostly because Doyce lived with his mother in an old manor house that is actually very close to Mt. Locust. Anna and Clintus get there first and almost get buckshot in their rear for their troubles because Mama is a racist and Clintus is black. Once Raymond arrives he defuses the situation and Anna is able to question Mama a bit and check out his room. There is a message on the answering machine from Herm asking if Doyce is going to show up for their weekly poker game. So the hunt is on for Herm and the poker buddies.
In the meantime, it is hunting season and Anna believes that some poaching is being done in the park. She arranges with Randy to ambush the hunters but when she gets to the location the hunters are waiting for her and appear to be going to rape and/or shoot her. Randy is nowhere in evidence and Anna has to flee for her life. Randy does eventually show up and run them off but he insists they were just having fun with her. Anna is not so sure and vows to find out who the hunters were.
That’s just the first of three times that Anna has to fight for her life. Fortunately, she is blessed with superior intelligence and wiry strength (and as many lives as a cat). Both the mysteries get solved at the end of the book and, without spoiling the ending (well, maybe spoiling it just a bit) let’s just say Randy Thigpen won’t be bother Ranger Pigeon anymore.
This is the first time that I’m aware of that Barr has set two books in the same National Park. To me, that was a bit of a let down because one of the things I like about these books is the chance to get to know more about some of the great parks in the USA. It looks like the next book takes us to new territory but I do wonder what that is going to do to Anna’s blossoming romance. I guess I’ll have to read the next one soon and find out.
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started as their supervisor both men were downright insubordinate. However, Barth helped in the murder investigation in Deep South and is now a supporter of Anna and even a friend. Randy still remains difficult but he only has a few months to go to his retirement and then Anna will be free of him. Sherriff Paul Davidson and Anna still have a romance going but Paul is having trouble getting a divorce from his wife and he and Anna haven’t been broadcasting their relationship.In fact, when the book opens Anna is in church watching Paul perform a marriage ceremony for his deputy. Her pager vibrates and once Anna checks the message she realizes she won’t be attending the wedding breakfast. A dead body has turned up in one of the buildings at Mt. Locust which is in her jurisdiction and the circumstances make it pretty clear the corpse was a victim of homicide. Dressed in her finery Anna goes to Mt. Locust to investigate. The park employee who found the body when she opened up is almost in hysterics but calms down as Anna talks to her. Once the sherriff (not Paul because this is in another jurisdiction) and coroner attend the body is identified as a Doyce Barnette, a local man who everyone agrees isn’t too bright but doesn’t have an enemy in the world. What is truly bizarre is the marks on the body that make it look like he was involved in some kind of kinky sex act. Doyce’s nearest kin are his younger brother, Raymond, and his aged mother. Anna and Sherriff Clintus Jones go to tell Raymond but find out that he has already been notified by the coroner. Raymond will break the news to “Mama” Barnette and Anna and Clintus go along, mostly because Doyce lived with his mother in an old manor house that is actually very close to Mt. Locust. Anna and Clintus get there first and almost get buckshot in their rear for their troubles because Mama is a racist and Clintus is black. Once Raymond arrives he defuses the situation and Anna is able to question Mama a bit and check out his room. There is a message on the answering machine from Herm asking if Doyce is going to show up for their weekly poker game. So the hunt is on for Herm and the poker buddies.
In the meantime, it is hunting season and Anna believes that some poaching is being done in the park. She arranges with Randy to ambush the hunters but when she gets to the location the hunters are waiting for her and appear to be going to rape and/or shoot her. Randy is nowhere in evidence and Anna has to flee for her life. Randy does eventually show up and run them off but he insists they were just having fun with her. Anna is not so sure and vows to find out who the hunters were.
That’s just the first of three times that Anna has to fight for her life. Fortunately, she is blessed with superior intelligence and wiry strength (and as many lives as a cat). Both the mysteries get solved at the end of the book and, without spoiling the ending (well, maybe spoiling it just a bit) let’s just say Randy Thigpen won’t be bother Ranger Pigeon anymore.
This is the first time that I’m aware of that Barr has set two books in the same National Park. To me, that was a bit of a let down because one of the things I like about these books is the chance to get to know more about some of the great parks in the USA. It looks like the next book takes us to new territory but I do wonder what that is going to do to Anna’s blossoming romance. I guess I’ll have to read the next one soon and find out.
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LibraryThing member sumariotter
Excellent, as always. I particularly like the ones set in Mississippi like this one--I love her compassionate and subtle understanding about Southern culture.
LibraryThing member bsquaredinoz
National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is called to a historic plantation house situated within the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. The near-naked body of a man has been discovered in the house and at first sight it would appear that Doyce Barnett might have been indulging in some peculiar sexual
Barr does a brilliant job creating her settings, this time the deep South of America which I have not visited in real life but now feel like I might recognise were I to travel there. Her descriptions of the park’s landscape as the season moves from autumn to winter and the broader depiction of the people and their shared history combine to provide a superb sense of what is a completely foreign place to me.
But Hunting Season offers more than an exotic location. The plot is well-constructed and genuinely suspenseful and draws in several themes of interest beyond the whodunnit element of the story. For example through the eyes of one of Pigeon’s two staff, a black man called Barth Dinkins, we see how the impact of the area’s past, specifically its slave ownership and racism, is still felt today. I admire Barr for cleverly weaving this into her story rather than inserting some kind of message as a politically correct battering ram. Dinkins’ efforts to uncover the histories of those buried at a local slave cemetery and even his relationship with Pigeon which is awkward due to all their differences offer a really compelling thread within the story. There are other equally engaging storylines including Anna’s ongoing battle with the entrenched misogyny displayed by a section of the male population, not least of which is her other staff member, Randy Thigpen. The depiction of a strong, capable woman like Anna still being in peril purely because she is a woman is done in such a way that I’m sure most female readers would do as I did and recall some situation in their own lives that had similar overtones. I was almost surprised when the mystery itself was solved as I was completely engrossed in the lives that Barr has depicted here.
As already mentioned Anna is a terrific character of the sort that should be shared with young women everywhere. She is imperfect but interesting because of that and does have a feminine side, though not the fondness for high heels that women are thought to have as a birthright. Here she is developing a relationship with Paul Davidson a Sheriff from another part of the State who also happens to be a priest which offers yet another angle of interest as Anna is an avowed atheist. The other people in the story are well drawn too, whether they are characters taking centre stage like her two rangers or have a relatively minor role to play like the woman who discovers Doyce’s body. Barr creates real people not mere two-dimensional fictions.
My minor quibbles with the book revolve around my never-ending confusion with the various layers of legal jurisdiction that are depicted in American crime fiction (I’ve still no idea which branch of which service overrides the other in this book) and a slight disappointment over the-Anna-in-peril scenario towards the end (though it’s not nearly as bad as many other books). Overall though this is a first-rate novel with lots of bonuses on top of the very well crafted mystery.
What about the audio book?
It’s no surprise that Barbara Rosenblat has won many accolades (including 6 Audie Awards) for her narration. Her use of accents, tone and inflection to provide a the wide range of characterisations demanded by this novel is superb. So far she has not recorded the latest book in this series but when she does (fingers crossed) it will be an automatic buy for me.
Rating 3.5/5
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exploits. Barnett’s brother Raymond however is the town’s undertaker and candidate for Sheriff and as well as involving himself unnecessarily in the investigation he puts pressure on to ensure the more salacious details of his brother’s death do not become public. However it soon becomes evident that there is much more to worry about than Doyce’s presumed proclivities and Anna has to fight for her life more than once.Barr does a brilliant job creating her settings, this time the deep South of America which I have not visited in real life but now feel like I might recognise were I to travel there. Her descriptions of the park’s landscape as the season moves from autumn to winter and the broader depiction of the people and their shared history combine to provide a superb sense of what is a completely foreign place to me.
But Hunting Season offers more than an exotic location. The plot is well-constructed and genuinely suspenseful and draws in several themes of interest beyond the whodunnit element of the story. For example through the eyes of one of Pigeon’s two staff, a black man called Barth Dinkins, we see how the impact of the area’s past, specifically its slave ownership and racism, is still felt today. I admire Barr for cleverly weaving this into her story rather than inserting some kind of message as a politically correct battering ram. Dinkins’ efforts to uncover the histories of those buried at a local slave cemetery and even his relationship with Pigeon which is awkward due to all their differences offer a really compelling thread within the story. There are other equally engaging storylines including Anna’s ongoing battle with the entrenched misogyny displayed by a section of the male population, not least of which is her other staff member, Randy Thigpen. The depiction of a strong, capable woman like Anna still being in peril purely because she is a woman is done in such a way that I’m sure most female readers would do as I did and recall some situation in their own lives that had similar overtones. I was almost surprised when the mystery itself was solved as I was completely engrossed in the lives that Barr has depicted here.
As already mentioned Anna is a terrific character of the sort that should be shared with young women everywhere. She is imperfect but interesting because of that and does have a feminine side, though not the fondness for high heels that women are thought to have as a birthright. Here she is developing a relationship with Paul Davidson a Sheriff from another part of the State who also happens to be a priest which offers yet another angle of interest as Anna is an avowed atheist. The other people in the story are well drawn too, whether they are characters taking centre stage like her two rangers or have a relatively minor role to play like the woman who discovers Doyce’s body. Barr creates real people not mere two-dimensional fictions.
My minor quibbles with the book revolve around my never-ending confusion with the various layers of legal jurisdiction that are depicted in American crime fiction (I’ve still no idea which branch of which service overrides the other in this book) and a slight disappointment over the-Anna-in-peril scenario towards the end (though it’s not nearly as bad as many other books). Overall though this is a first-rate novel with lots of bonuses on top of the very well crafted mystery.
What about the audio book?
It’s no surprise that Barbara Rosenblat has won many accolades (including 6 Audie Awards) for her narration. Her use of accents, tone and inflection to provide a the wide range of characterisations demanded by this novel is superb. So far she has not recorded the latest book in this series but when she does (fingers crossed) it will be an automatic buy for me.
Rating 3.5/5
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LibraryThing member auntieknickers
As with a good many others of Barr's books that I read and enjoyed, I don't really remember much about this one (I had to look at a synopsis to remind myself exactly where it took place.) That doesn't mean they were bad books or undeserving of my rating, but they are pretty much consumable
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LibraryThing member wareagle78
Once again I enjoyed Nevada Barr's tales of Anna Pigeon, park service ranger. This time Ranger Pigeon is assigned on the Natchez Trace, and is faced with a murder and the good ole boy system as well. The story was well-written and held my attention.
I particularly enjoyed Barr's descriptions of the
p. 78: "In dryer, higher climes one could actually come to know the woods. Not so in Mississippi. Here the forests were rich and deep and changeable as the sea. The land was not forged of granite and lava. There were no rocky outcroppings or mountains to hold the earth in place. Waterways changed their courses. Rivers and streams, not under the iron hand of the Army Corps of Engineers, left their beds to form new ones. Windstorms and tornadoes downed trees or uprooted them from the soft loess, the region's powdery soil, and flung them into the boughs of their fellows. Ice storms shattered branches, crushed them into the ground beneath. Through this ongoing upheaval and change, life as tenacious and persevering as that of the people who lived in the south pressed on. Vines claimed the fallen trees; trees sprang up in old streambeds. The dirt itself rotted underfoot, crumbling away at a touch."
I particularly enjoyed Barr's descriptions of the
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woods of Mississippi. As an Alabama girl, I too find particular joy in Southern woods, but they are by no means similar to the northern forest. Here's a passage that rang particularly true:p. 78: "In dryer, higher climes one could actually come to know the woods. Not so in Mississippi. Here the forests were rich and deep and changeable as the sea. The land was not forged of granite and lava. There were no rocky outcroppings or mountains to hold the earth in place. Waterways changed their courses. Rivers and streams, not under the iron hand of the Army Corps of Engineers, left their beds to form new ones. Windstorms and tornadoes downed trees or uprooted them from the soft loess, the region's powdery soil, and flung them into the boughs of their fellows. Ice storms shattered branches, crushed them into the ground beneath. Through this ongoing upheaval and change, life as tenacious and persevering as that of the people who lived in the south pressed on. Vines claimed the fallen trees; trees sprang up in old streambeds. The dirt itself rotted underfoot, crumbling away at a touch."
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LibraryThing member SaschaD
Another excellent book in the series. Definitely keeps you wondering as to the perpetrator of the crime.
LibraryThing member EmpressReece
It's been a long time since I read this book but I have read the entire series, up until the most current book and I really like it. I love how the series is set outdoors in the different parks. If you like C.J. Box, then you'll like Barr too.
LibraryThing member ritaer
A good ole boy seems an unlikely victim of sexually deviant murder and poaching deer seems an unlikely motive to attempt to murder a federal ranger, but the two cases overlap for ranger Anna Pigeon in the Natchez Trace.
LibraryThing member SeriousGrace
The premise of the series is main character Anna Pigeon is a ranger assigned to different American parklands. Every time Pigeon shows up somewhere she's confronted with a mystery (most of the time with a murder or two or three attached). You have to wonder how she doesn't develop a stigma from all
This time Pigeon is stationed at Mt. Locust, a historic inn located on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway. Two different crimes have her attention, the murder of Doyce Barnette and suspected poaching activity. Are the two related? All clues point toward Doyce being the apparent victim of a sex game gone wrong but true to mystery, nothing is adding up. Anna, as a woman and new to the area, has a difficult time being the boss of male rangers, some who have been around longer than she has.
Confessional: I knew who the killer was within the first 100 pages. It took me a few more to make absolutely sure but the clues Barr left were glaringly obvious. I was hoping she would pull a fast one and make the suspect Anna's biggest ally. That I wouldn't have seen coming.
Idiot move: Once again, I am reading a series out of order. Last month I read Flashback and at the end Pigeon agreed to marry her newly divorced boyfriend. Now, in Hunting Season Pigeon is lamenting the death of her first husband while silently cursing her married boyfriend.
Author fact: Barr does a great job keeping Anna Pigeon's personality and life history accurate. Anna's family life, love interests, personality, and even acquired scars stay consistent.
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these coincidental deaths wherever she goes. She never seems to find littering her biggest problem.This time Pigeon is stationed at Mt. Locust, a historic inn located on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway. Two different crimes have her attention, the murder of Doyce Barnette and suspected poaching activity. Are the two related? All clues point toward Doyce being the apparent victim of a sex game gone wrong but true to mystery, nothing is adding up. Anna, as a woman and new to the area, has a difficult time being the boss of male rangers, some who have been around longer than she has.
Confessional: I knew who the killer was within the first 100 pages. It took me a few more to make absolutely sure but the clues Barr left were glaringly obvious. I was hoping she would pull a fast one and make the suspect Anna's biggest ally. That I wouldn't have seen coming.
Idiot move: Once again, I am reading a series out of order. Last month I read Flashback and at the end Pigeon agreed to marry her newly divorced boyfriend. Now, in Hunting Season Pigeon is lamenting the death of her first husband while silently cursing her married boyfriend.
Author fact: Barr does a great job keeping Anna Pigeon's personality and life history accurate. Anna's family life, love interests, personality, and even acquired scars stay consistent.
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LibraryThing member whybehave2002
Second Review: As you can see I love this series. A woman not afraid to go out and catch the bad guys, and do it all by herself. I love that Taco the dog has been added. It shows Anna's softer side. She carries baggage, as we all do, and that gives her inner turmoil but she keeps going. She is a
First Review: As always, Nevada Barr keeps me reading and guessing. My only let down is that she can't seem to remember what kind of dog Anna owns. See if you can tell.
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survivor.First Review: As always, Nevada Barr keeps me reading and guessing. My only let down is that she can't seem to remember what kind of dog Anna owns. See if you can tell.
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Language
Original language
English
ISBN
9780425188781
Physical description
352 p.; 4.2 inches
Pages
352