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Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
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Author: Nevada Barr
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Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780425197257
ISBN: 0425197255
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Berkley
Product Release Date: 2004-06-01
Studio: Berkley
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780425197257
ISBN: 0425197255
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Berkley
Product Release Date: 2004-06-01
Studio: Berkley
Editorial Review of Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
The third Anna Pigeon mystery is a charm.
Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.
Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.
Customer Reviews of Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Anna Pigeon in Mesa Verde National Park!
Review: Ill Wind is my third Anna Pigeon novel. Author Nevada Barr (I still wonder if this is her real name) has Ranger Pigeon living with the noisy seasonals, drinking hard, making friends, and... solving a murder.
Pigeon continues her string of "close misses" in her life and in her caseload.
A well-liked temporary ranger is found dead in an Anasazi structure. Is it a natural death, or murder staged to look natural? Pigeon, along with FBI colleague Fred Stanton, analyze every clue to unravel this mystery. Are the Anasazi ruins haunted? Are environmentalists resorting to murder to keep development from occurring?
Anna Pigeon finds out.
No murder in the first chapter here. This book unfolds slowly, with 100 pages under your belt before the foul deed is uncovered. Anna's drinking problem is in full view. She is a very imperfect person.
I have to admit that I thought I had uncovered the mystery fairly early. "Oh, brother," I thought. "That is so obvious."
It wasn't. Theory number two fell by the wayside as well.
Nevada Barr's mysteries are as good as those written by Dick Francis. And if you have an interest in the layout and management of our national parks, these mysteries are brain candy. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Breath of Death
Review: Winds always blow across the barren landscape of Mesa Verde National Park, but Anna Pigeon finds them deadly with the murder and the death of a child. One of the great mysteries of the southwest are the Anasazi who left behind beautiful pottery and tiny fragments of their once flourishing civilization.
Nevada Barr captures the marvelous wind cut features of the park in her third Anna Pigeon (park ranger) mystery/suspense novel. A tough subject to handle as it has been done so frequently, Ms. Barr's fine writing and style lifts this one above the rest.
A captivating visit with an old friend.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good character development and a good read
Review: Ms. Barr does a good job of bringing back characters from earlier books in the series as participants in her novels. It is interesting to follow Anna Pigeon's relationships as they transcend each book in the series and follow how you feel about each character from one novel to the next. Also, there is always a healthy crop of new characters that you learn about as well. In this one, you not only travel with Anna as she works to solve a mystery, but also how she reconnects with Stanton Frederick, who comes back from an earlier novel to help her solve the case. In all, a great read with lots of mystery and great characters to follow through the maze of facts and lies that ultimately leads to finding out who the bad actors are.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The plot thickens
Review: Anna's move to Mesa Verde National Park from Isle Royale sets her on track to solve another mystery. Reading this book was a delight because it was more than 50 years ago when I visited Mesa Verde and found it to be one of the most fascinating places five of us Boy Scouts experienced on a 5,000-mile journey through the West. It was good to find that the place retains its special charm. Nevada Barr's ability to provide fine details about the characters and an intriguing plot make this book one you shouldn't miss.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Suspenseful and engrossing
Review: I always enjoy Barr's novels because they just strike me as so real. She's done an excellent job of creating a likable character in Anna Pigeon. Anna's wisecracks and her flaws and her admirable traits all combine to make her a character with which the reader is comfortable, a person for whom the reader can cheer.
Another plus of these novels are the vivid settings for each and the way in which Barr lovingly describes them. The author's previous experiences as a park ranger give her work an authenticity that is especially striking. There is a great deal of passion in the description of places and it only heightens the way in which places speak so much to Anna while people remain somewhat beyond her reach.
This was a very nicely written mystery with many seemingly disparate threads that the author was able to tie up very neatly at the end. It was suspenseful and intriguing and I always find her books to be quick reads because they are so compelling that I devour them, eager to find out what will happen next.
Review Summary: Anna Pigeon in Mesa Verde National Park!
Review: Ill Wind is my third Anna Pigeon novel. Author Nevada Barr (I still wonder if this is her real name) has Ranger Pigeon living with the noisy seasonals, drinking hard, making friends, and... solving a murder.
Pigeon continues her string of "close misses" in her life and in her caseload.
A well-liked temporary ranger is found dead in an Anasazi structure. Is it a natural death, or murder staged to look natural? Pigeon, along with FBI colleague Fred Stanton, analyze every clue to unravel this mystery. Are the Anasazi ruins haunted? Are environmentalists resorting to murder to keep development from occurring?
Anna Pigeon finds out.
No murder in the first chapter here. This book unfolds slowly, with 100 pages under your belt before the foul deed is uncovered. Anna's drinking problem is in full view. She is a very imperfect person.
I have to admit that I thought I had uncovered the mystery fairly early. "Oh, brother," I thought. "That is so obvious."
It wasn't. Theory number two fell by the wayside as well.
Nevada Barr's mysteries are as good as those written by Dick Francis. And if you have an interest in the layout and management of our national parks, these mysteries are brain candy. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Breath of Death
Review: Winds always blow across the barren landscape of Mesa Verde National Park, but Anna Pigeon finds them deadly with the murder and the death of a child. One of the great mysteries of the southwest are the Anasazi who left behind beautiful pottery and tiny fragments of their once flourishing civilization.
Nevada Barr captures the marvelous wind cut features of the park in her third Anna Pigeon (park ranger) mystery/suspense novel. A tough subject to handle as it has been done so frequently, Ms. Barr's fine writing and style lifts this one above the rest.
A captivating visit with an old friend.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good character development and a good read
Review: Ms. Barr does a good job of bringing back characters from earlier books in the series as participants in her novels. It is interesting to follow Anna Pigeon's relationships as they transcend each book in the series and follow how you feel about each character from one novel to the next. Also, there is always a healthy crop of new characters that you learn about as well. In this one, you not only travel with Anna as she works to solve a mystery, but also how she reconnects with Stanton Frederick, who comes back from an earlier novel to help her solve the case. In all, a great read with lots of mystery and great characters to follow through the maze of facts and lies that ultimately leads to finding out who the bad actors are.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The plot thickens
Review: Anna's move to Mesa Verde National Park from Isle Royale sets her on track to solve another mystery. Reading this book was a delight because it was more than 50 years ago when I visited Mesa Verde and found it to be one of the most fascinating places five of us Boy Scouts experienced on a 5,000-mile journey through the West. It was good to find that the place retains its special charm. Nevada Barr's ability to provide fine details about the characters and an intriguing plot make this book one you shouldn't miss.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Suspenseful and engrossing
Review: I always enjoy Barr's novels because they just strike me as so real. She's done an excellent job of creating a likable character in Anna Pigeon. Anna's wisecracks and her flaws and her admirable traits all combine to make her a character with which the reader is comfortable, a person for whom the reader can cheer.
Another plus of these novels are the vivid settings for each and the way in which Barr lovingly describes them. The author's previous experiences as a park ranger give her work an authenticity that is especially striking. There is a great deal of passion in the description of places and it only heightens the way in which places speak so much to Anna while people remain somewhat beyond her reach.
This was a very nicely written mystery with many seemingly disparate threads that the author was able to tie up very neatly at the end. It was suspenseful and intriguing and I always find her books to be quick reads because they are so compelling that I devour them, eager to find out what will happen next.