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Title: High Country by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0-399-15144-3 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Anna Pigeon (undercover) getting harder to believe
Comment: We've read every entry in Barr's Anna Pigeon (National Park Ranger / Supervisor) series and have generally enjoyed them for two distinct traits. The first are the unusual settings and the illuminating descriptions thereof. Almost like travelogues, Barr takes us from one Park to another, often in highly different geographic areas around our country, acquainting us with places many of us have not experienced. The second is that Anna is a real-life woman -- NOT overly gorgeous, overly intellectual, overly brave -- just kind of a normal person like the rest of us. So her persona, coupled with her obvious outdoor living and law enforcement skills, tends to create stories we believe and care about. Add a dash of danger and suspense, and Barr usually delivers a gripping, enjoyable mystery.
Certainly in "High Country", we get another unusual setting -- California's (apparently) oft-gloomy Yosemite National Park. We find Anna on temporary assignment here looking into the mysterious (and likely, criminal) disappearance of four young Park employees. Her "cover" is working as a waitress at one of the Park hotel restaurants -- to our thinking, a regrettable choice as Anna's questioning and probing sessions with just about everybody label her not as a busybody, but some sort of spy. Thus all the events at the hotel were marred by what at best is a flawed premise. When Anna gets outdoors and goes hunting for either the missing persons or the probable suspects, things improve; but it seemed like it took an awful long hiking story (and a lot of pages) to get us closer to the real plot and story line of the novel. Several readers have complained the story ("drug plane crashes into lake") is based on a true-life event (without any hint from the author); it does have a ring of familiarity about it.
The last few Anna Pigeon tales have seemed to fall short of the entertaining earlier entries in the set. Maybe as Anna continues to age, perhaps somewhat ungracefully, so do her exploits. Perhaps letting her retire would be a wise step after the current contract expires. Hopefully Barr can land a couple more gems before that happens.
Rating: 4
Summary: My first Nevada Barr mystery.
Comment: Decided to try a new author based on my love for Yosemite National Park. Although this story didn't do justice to the beauty and grandeur of Yosemite's glacier-carved peaks and valleys, it was an enjoyable read. Barr's writing style is fast-paced and keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. I liked the protagonist, undercover park ranger Anna Pigeon, and can't wait to read more of her adventures in other national parks.
Rating: 1
Summary: thesaurus walts
Comment: Anna Pigeon is a great gal, but in this latest installment of her life, the horrors she endures at 50 roll off her too easily to be at all believable. Her physical ordeal in the dark and freezing mountains alone would be enough to make even quite hardy people need a few days of rest. But good old Anna, tender of heart thogh she is, is hardly phased by the violence, the suffering, the nastiness she encounters in this book, even though Barr allows a sentence or two of quick, sentimental reflection from time to time. And I wonder how some of the other sentences would have turned out had Barr not had her thesaurus handy - plethora used too many times, not withstanding! I enjoy the excitement of improbable fiction as well as the next person, but this offering is just too silly for credibility.
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Title: A Grave Denied: A Kate Shugak Novel by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0312306814 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0399150854 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Blow Fly: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399150897 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Flashback by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0399149759 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Exit Wounds : A Novel of Suspense by J. A. Jance ISBN: 0380977311 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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