High Country

Name: High Country
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Nevada Barr
ISBN: 9781440782336

Author: Nevada Barr

Series: Anna Pigeon Mysteries #12

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/30/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

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.

About Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is the author of the series of New York Times bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement park ranger. Her novels include Winter Study, Borderline and Burn. She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Track of the Cat. Like her character, Barr worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger before resigning to write full time. She had postings to such parks as Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas (where Anna Pigeon was created) and Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on September 13, 2018

I have been into these Anna Pigeon novels from the start. [URL not allowed] She’s a smart and resourceful National Park Ranger who author Barr has moving from one USA National Park to another with each book. This book finds her in Yosemite National Park and I liked the premise......more

Goodreads review by Donna on July 18, 2012

First of all, I want to say that the Anna Pidgeon mystery series is stellar and I absolutely love it. I eagerly await every book and would recommend it to anyone. That being said, there was one glaringly obvious flaw in this book, that I just had to point it out. --(Minor Spoiler References below)-- A......more

Goodreads review by Kelly (Maybedog) on July 20, 2011

Damn Nevada Barr for writing books I can't put down so I don't get enough sleep. I should know better than to start one of her novels in the evening. Nevada Barr is one of those people who write so well I find myself slowing down to make sure I capture every word. It's kind of necessary as her prose......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 23, 2014

This mystery novel's heroine is Anna Pigeon, an undercover park ranger. She is working as a waitress in the hopes of discovering what happened to four missing people. The poor lady is beat up several times, left on her own by her supervisors, and deemed to be a "poor" waitress which seems to hurt he......more

Goodreads review by Lori on March 08, 2020

Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress in Yosemite National Park to find what happened to three hikers. She must spend time getting to know the various persons in the park, and "being chummy" is not one of her strengths. She does manage to forge some trust, but most people think she's a company s......more