Hunting Season

3.5 stars. It's been about 6 years since I last traveled with Park Ranger Anna Pigeon in one of our National Parks. This is the first time (if I remember correctly) that the author has set the story in a park we have visited before - The Natchez Trace Parkway, although in another section of this lon......more

Oh Anna, I am just not sure Mississippi is really for you. Maybe things will be better in the next book there? I sure hope so. I really enjoyed this one very much. Part of my enjoyment is from not knowing exactly who done it, and part is from picking up on the various clues that are provided. These......more

Anna Pigeon is losing IQ as she gets older because she was pretty slow on the uptake here even though the clues were right in front of her face. Also she's very naive and trusting for her age of people who have already shown themselves to be untrustworthy and betrayed her in the past to just follow......more

Are you a horror movie fan? Nevada Barr's 10th Anna Pigeon novel, Hunting Season, 2002, includes poaching and grave robbing, both implied in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Barr creates more of a Southern Gothic feel in this story of her own rural Mississippi. Perhaps that was a stretch for her, but I......more

Another good entry in the series and I loved the ending and felt that justice was served. I was also kept guessing with the story and then as the reveal started everything made sense.......more