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Praise for
NEVADA BARR
and the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels ...

Nevada Barr is one of the best.

The Boston Globe

A constant source of pleasure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Nevada Barr writes with a cool, steady hand about the violence of nature and the cruelty of man.

The New York Times Book Review

A true original ... like a combination of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Sherlock Holmes, and Maureen OHara, the engaging character of Anna Pigeon is the only reason most readers will need to return to this series again and again. But it doesnt hurt that Barr can write rhapsodic passages about Americas beautiful parks and cobble up page-turning whodunits.

The Denver Post

Nevada Barr can take the most improbable plot and turn it into a fascinating foray into the human psyche, then dress it up with eloquent description of the great outdoors she so obviously adores ... Shes also one of the more eloquent mystery writers around, having the ability to make you feel the chill of the night, smell the smoke of a campfire, experience the isolation of the wilderness. Shes worth reading just for that alone.

Chicago Tribune

Barr combines primo mysteries with what always feels like a virtual reality tour of one of the parks ... There is beauty here. Still, Anna never loses her edginess in a world where your life depends on having a backup light for your backup light.

Detroir Free Press

Please turn to the back of this book
for a special preview from Nevada Barrs
FLASHBACK
Available now from Berkley Books!

Praise for
HUNTING SEASON

Genuinely thrilling.

Los Angeles Times

Thoroughly enjoyable. The Seattle Times

Suspenseful, atmospheric, [and] pulse-pounding ... Hunting Season ranks right up there with the best in this excellent series. Chicago Tribune

An engrossing and deftly written thriller ... [Nevada Barr] provides us with a backstage view of our national park system that is both fictionally exciting and factually enlightening.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Will keep readers guessing until the last page.

The Denver Post

Satisfying [and] shocking. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In Hunting Season, [Barrs] descriptions are so vivid a reader almost feels the leaves on the forest floor cracking beneath her feet and the misty fogs soaking into her pores.

The Commercial Appeal

A good, exciting read. [Barr] has a deft touch with suspense. The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

The edgy, fast-paced tale generates plenty of tension ... and Barr does a good job of developing the character of Anna, adding romance to the mix and giving the ranger plenty of opportunity to display her slightly dark, off-center wit.

Booklist (starred review)

First-rate ... Barr outshines most other authors in the mystery genre. Publishers Weekly

Praise for
BLOOD LURE

Well-baited suspense. People

Barrs red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge pay-off. Entertainment Weekly

A must-read for Barr fans and a great place to start for everyone else.Rocky Mountain News

Downright spine-tingling ... Blood Lure is an exciting read, and its wilderness setting puts it in a league of its own.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A captivating story distinguished by her keen appreciation of nature, both Mother and human.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

One of Barrs best... a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The authors masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Barrs biggest triumph is in detailing Anna Pigeons falling-out with nature, and her inner journey back to a place of trust for the world she so reveres ... As in all of Barrs novels before this one, Anna is the heart and soul behind the story. And with Blood Lure, Barr will take a well-earned spot on best-seller lists across the country.The Denver Post

Anna is at her best in the great outdoors, and so is Barr, both in her passages detailing the wonders of the natural world and in tense, action-packed sequences ... Armchair campers will enjoy the vicarious thrills.Orlando Sentinel

Anna Pigeon ... remains one of the most engaging characters in modern whodunits. Star-Telegram

TITLES BY NEVADA BARR

Hard Truth
High Country
Flashback
Hunting Season
Blood Lure
Deep South
Liberty Falling
Blind Descent
Endangered Species
Firestorm
III Wind
A Superior Death
Track of the Cat
Bittersweet

NONFICTION

Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat

For my mother and sister

CHAPTER 1

There hadnt been a god for many years. Not the nightgownclad patriarch of Sunday school coloring books; not the sensitive young man with the inevitable auburn ringlets Anna had stared through in the stained-glass windows at Mass; not the many-armed and many-faceted deities of the Bhagavad Gita that shed worshipped alongside hashish and Dustin Hoffman in her college days. Even the short but gratifying parade of earth goddesses that had taken her to their ample bosoms in her early thirties had gone, though she remembered them with more kindness than the rest.

God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

Anna sat down on a smooth boulder, the top hollowed into a natural seat. The red peeling arms of a Texas madrone held a veil of dusty shade over her eyes. This was the third day of this transect. By evening she would reach civilization: people. A contradiction in terms, she thought even as the words trickled through her mind. Electric lights, television, human companionship, held no allure. But she wanted a bath and she wanted a drink. Mostly she wanted a drink.

And maybe Rogelio. Rogelio had a smile that made matrons hide the hand with the wedding ring. A smile women would lie for and men would follow into battle. A smile, Anna thought with habitual cynicism, that the practiced hucksters in Jurez flashed at rich gringos down from Minnesota.

Maybe Rogelio. Maybe not. Rogelio took a lot of energy.

A spiny rock crevice lizard peered out at her with one obsidian eye, its gray-and-black mottled spines creating a near-perfect illusion of dead leaves and twigs fallen haphazardly into a crack in the stone.

I see you, Anna said as she wriggled out of her pack. It weighed scarcely thirty pounds. Shed eaten and drunk it down from thirty-seven in the past two days. The poetry of it pleased her. It was part of the order of nature: the more one ate the easier life got. Diets struck Anna as one of the sourest notes of a spoiled country.

Letting the pack roll back, she carefully lowered it to the rock surface. She wasnt careful enough. There was an instant of rustling and the lizard vanished. Dont leave town on my account, she addressed the seemingly empty crevice. Im just passing through.

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