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PRAISE FOR

WINTER STUDY

ChillingBarrs visceral descriptions of the winter cold nicely complement the paranoia.

Publishers Weekly

Strong, evocative writingfrigid winds blow through Winter Study as the suspense heats up.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Barr skillfully uses archetypal images of the wolf to deepen the suspense.

The Washington Post Book World

Fast-paced, intricately plotted, and filled with foreboding.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Riveting.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

RESOUNDING PRAISE FOR NEVADA BARR, ANNA PIGEON, AND

ENDANGERED SPECIES

Barr is a splendid storyteller.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

In Anna Pigeon, author Barr may have created the most appealing mystery series heroine to come along since Sue Graftons Kinsey Millhone.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

VividskillfulBarr, a park ranger herself, has the tools to make the island seem real, from the wicked insect life to the glow of the moon on the Atlantic.

Detroit Free Press

Despite the many plot complications that claim Annas attention in this intricate mystery, Ms. Barr makes sure that she also has eyes for the eerie beauty of her isolated surroundings. No less than her heroine... the author seems to have immersed herself in everything strange and lovely about this place.

The New York Times Book Review

Nevada Barrs fifth Anna Pigeon is an Americanized, natural history version of the English country murder.... While the mystery in Endangered Species is expertly rendered, keeping us guessing most of the way, the strength of the novel lies in Barrs host of deftly sketched and offbeat supporting players... and her striking depictions of the islands environment.

San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

[An] estimable series... Barr writes evocatively about natures pleasures and perils, astutely about those who would protect the wilderness from those wishing to exploit it.... Anna continues to be a character to care about, flawed but resilient.

Orlando Sentinel

Nevada Barr has carved out her own fictional fiefdom, creating a body of work like no other. To her intriguing depiction of the U.S. Forest Service, its mission and its members, she adds a storytelling skill that makes her Anna Pigeon novels tops in entertainment. The San Diego Union-Tribune

A nifty thriller... Barrs one heckuva writer.... Her tales read like Patricia Cornwell exploring the great outdoors.

The Clarion-Ledger

Anna Pigeon is an outstanding example of the contemporary woman detective. She is smart, determined, and able enough to compete with anyone in the mystery business.

The Dallas Morning News

Nevada Barrs mysteries keep getting better and better.

Susan Isaacs

Anna Pigeon, Barrs down-to-earth heroine, is a delight, with her no-nonsense approach to crime solving and her commonsense approach to life.

Booklist

No one delivers the thrill better than Nevada Barr.... Fans of the current crop of women mystery writers will love Anna Pigeon.... For those who read mysteries to figure out whodunit before the end, be warned: Barr will stump you almost every time.

The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph

Poetically written and exquisitely clued.

Kirkus Reviews

A refreshing change from the brash, wisecracking order of female PIs, Barrs thoughtful and sensitive heroine rings true on every page.

Publishers Weekly

Nevada Barr is an accomplished storyteller. She understands about plot twists, narrative drive, comic relief, and the various other elements vital to the mix... she also has a feeling for the solidity of mountains and the relentlessness of rivers, and what it is that can make a brilliant, star-filled desert night so scary.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The book abounds with unusual and colorful characters and is imbued with Barrs wonderful sense of place and the details of a park rangers daily life.

The Denver Post

Gals dont get much tougher than Forest Service ranger Anna Pigeon.... Barr is as precise a craftswoman as Agatha Christie.... Shes made the genre her own.

The San Jose Mercury News

Anna Pigeon is one of the top female sleuths today.... Endangered Species is a fabulous read.

The Blood-Letter

Titles by Nevada Barr

WINTER STUDY
HARD TRUTH
HIGH COUNTRY
FLASHBACK
HUNTING SEASON
BLOOD LURE
DEEP SOUTH
LIBERTY FALLING
BLIND DESCENT
ENDANGERED SPECIES
FIRESTORM
ILL WIND
A SUPERIOR DEATH
TRACK OF THE CAT
BITTERSWEET

Nonfiction

SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENTHAT BY HAT

For Andrea, Jim, and Andrew Goodbar. Without their expertise and generosity not only could this book not have been written but I would never have been lured into the beauty of the underground.

With deep appreciation of the staff of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, particularly Dale Pate, Paula Bauer, Harry Burgess, and Frank Deckert. Among them, they educated, enlightened, amused, advised, and kept me safe on what turned out to be some of the most amazing journeys of my career. People like those at Carlsbad Caverns make me remember that the hackneyed phrase our National Parks are our greatest heritage is the simple truth.

ANNA HADNT SEEN so much dashing about and popping in and out of doors since the French farce went out of fashion. Given the pomp and posturing surrounding her, she felt like a walk-on in Noises Off.

Anna Pigeon was on the overhead team, the second wave to hit CACAthe official if unfortunate National Park Service abbreviation for New Mexicos Carlsbad Caverns, home to two of the most famous caves in the world, the original cave, known and exploited since the late 1800s, and Lechuguilla, discovered in the 1980s and yet to be fully explored.

Though Carlsbad was less than an hours drive from the Guadalupe Mountains, where Anna had worked some years back, shed been down in the cave only once. The parts of Carlsbad open to the public were highly developed: paved paths, theatrical lighting, named formations, benches to sit on while changing film. At the bottom, some seven hundred fifty feet underground, there was a snack bar and souvenir shop. When hot dogs and rubber stalactites had been brought into this pristine heart of the earth, their ubiquitous companions came as well: rats, cockroaches, and raccoons.

It could be argued that the open areas of the caverns felt as much like a Disney creation as Space Mountain. There were no dangerous mazes, no precipitous heights, no tight squeezes. Still, it was a cave, and so Anna had passed on repeat trips. Given the inevitable nature of things, she would spend much of eternity underground; no sense rushing on down before the grim reaper called for her. Her love of bats might have overcome her fear of enclosed spaces, but if one waited, the splendid little creatures were good enough to come out and be enjoyed in less stygian realms.

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