Blood Lure
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4.3 • 99 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West…
Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection.
Customer Reviews
Blood Lure
Nevada Barr takes us into the wilderness With Anna Pidgeon on yet another gripping thrill ride of adventure and mayhem! Great read!
Blood Lure
Nevada Barr is one of my favorite authors and I have read most of her books. That said, this is not one of my favorite Anna Pigeon stories. It was not as action packed as most of her previous ones, thus for me the pace was disappointingly slow. As usual, the tale was a creative one, but this time it strained credulity. In Barr’s favor, her use of language is still well above average and her descriptions of the natural environment are moving, at times waxing poetic. I hope that Barr continues writing Anna Pigeon/National Park adventure stories, and I recommend to her the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a setting. After all, it is the most visited NP and is rich in history and fascinating stories. As such I think the book would have wide appeal.
A Zillion printing errors! Ms. Barr should be embarrassed.
So many typos; incorrect words. Even sentences repeated. Awful! Not one of her best books either. A great story but tons of inconsistencies and a schmarmy ending. :(