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Winter Study (An Anna Pigeon Novel) |  | Author: Nevada Barr
Publisher: Berkley
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Rating:  78 reviews
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Pages: 496
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425226956
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425226957
ASIN: 0425226956
Publication Date: April 7, 2009
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Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park, giant wolf prints are found, and she spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced they are being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary.
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 WINTER STUDY heralds a welcome return of a favorite suspense character June 9, 2010
Bookreporter.com (New York, New York)
Anna Pigeon fans, rejoice! The National Park Ranger/sleuth returns to bookstores after a three-year hiatus by her creator, Nevada Barr. Barr moved to New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina and took time off from fictional danger and suspense to be a real-life observer of Mother Nature and to clean up and repair her damaged home. She's back with what may be the best Anna Pigeon adventure in her long string of successes.
The setting for WINTER STUDY is not New Orleans, however. The adventurous Anna returns to Isle Royale on the north shoreline of Lake Superior in the dead of winter, with mixed emotions. Very early in her career she spent a summer at the remote island National Park and very nearly lost her life beneath the chilly waters in a diving incident.
The reintroduction of gray wolves to the park's animal population at her current posting in Rocky Mountain National Park prompts her superiors to send her on a six-week fact-finding tour to observe a 50-year study of predator/prey interaction between wolves and moose. She's prepared for the bone-chilling sub-zero cold and hip-deep snows, but she's not ready for the spine-chilling challenge awaiting her in the cramped cabin she shares with the research scientists.
Homeland Security, concerned about guarding the Canadian border, is pushing to open the park year round. Normally closed during the frigid winters in order to control possible illegal aliens from entering the United States across an unguarded frontier, this action would bring to a halt a valuable 50-year study. Washington has sent a Homeland Security official to observe the study and is among her cabin mates.
Anna encounters savagery in nature that seems to put a lie to facts that wolves do not attack humans when one of the researchers is found dead, apparently the victim of an attack by one of the three wolf packs on the island. Doubting the evidence of the attack, Anna begins to suspect that humans may be involved as she finds herself being stalked by an unknown, savage predator.
In her long and adventurous career as a National Park Ranger, Anna has encountered natural and human threats --- from raging forest fires, serial killers and child molesters to dangerous wildlife and nature's own vengeance --- but never has she lived in such close proximity to madness as in WINTER STUDY.
Nevada Barr never fails to serve up a suspense-filled outdoor adventure, filled with psychologically fascinating villains and heroes, action and true-to-life natural settings in America's national parks. The authenticity of her settings and crime fighting is based on her personal experience. She has worked as a ranger at several National Parks, including Isle Royale, and always visits each featured park.
Among her biggest fans are countless numbers of forest rangers and National Park workers who can testify to the authenticity not only of the settings but nod knowingly at some of the behind-the-scenes rivalries and insider humor of the realities of the low pay, rugged living conditions and camaraderie between park service employees. The parks themselves become characters in her page-turning thrillers.
WINTER STUDY heralds a welcome return of a favorite suspense character. We look forward to another adventure with our favorite park ranger. Will Hurricane Katrina be a featured character in another thrilling episode in the life of Anna Pigeon?
A booklover's review June 5, 2010
Linda Rogers (Nashville, TN., US)
Love the Anna Pigeon books...very well written and feel like she's a friend....want all of them.
winter study May 27, 2010
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
one of miss barr s top three books. a not to be missed adventure.
 Very boring May 12, 2010
V. P. Dura (Rogersville, AL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow! I've read six or seven of NB's books, and this is by far the most boring. Don't waist your time on it.
 Wolves of Isle Royale National Park plus Anna Pigeon means... trouble! May 4, 2010
Robert Schmidt (Honolulu, HI USA)
The wolves of Isle Royale National Park are famous, and when the tourists leave the park in the fall, the scientists move in to study these animals... thus begins the annual Winter Study. Much of what we know about unexploited wolf populations and wolf behavior came from Isle Royale until the wolves of Yellowstone National Park became science's new "alpha location."
NPS ranger Anna Pigeon has a short assignment to accompany wolf scientists and personnel representing the Department of Homeland Security to Isle Royale. Immediately, they are spooked with tales and visions of a "windigo," a "voracious and monstrous cannibal that feasted on human flesh and souls on the shores of southern lakes, where no one could hear the crying of its tortured victims" (p. 9).
Perhaps even the wolves are afraid.
A wolf is killed. Then, a researcher. Anna doesn't believe in ghosts, so that leaves her with a tiny pool of suspects. The magic of Nevada Barr's storytelling is that, by page 300, the only way to exclude potential suspects is to have their name be Anna Pigeon or else make them dead!
Nevada Barr consulted with famed wolf researcher Rolf Peterson (who wrote the foreword) to get the biology correct. But this is a mystery book, much closer to a Patricia Cornwell novel in intensity than I am used to.
But Anna Pigeon is still a unique character:
"..Anna had found it hard to believe that these intelligent and phenomenally complex animals [wolves] could be hunted down and butchered so that some fool could have the pelt and head for a hearth rug. But, then, human beings hunted down and butchered one another for stranger reasons" (p. 74).
Isle Royale in the winter can be a very, very cold place, and Nevada Barr tries very hard to get the reader to envision this cold. Alas, this is hard to do, and the continual retelling of cold and snow, and cold and ice, and cold and freezing was too much for me. But as I think about it, Pigeon is always hot or cold, baking or drowning, freezing or slithering through mud. That's what she does!
I enjoyed this book, and look forward to the next installment. Oh, and Anna is married to Paul in Winter Study!
Here's the list of Anna Pigeon novels, and the order in which they've been published (I've starred the ones I've read to date, to remind me):
1. Track of the Cat (1993)*
2. A Superior Death (1994)
3. Ill Wind (1995)*
4. Firestorm (1996)
5. Endangered Species (1997)*
6. Blind Descent (1998)*
7. Liberty Falling (1999)*
8. Deep South (2000)
9. Blood Lure (2001)
10. Hunting Season (2002)*
11. Flashback (2003)*
12. High Country (2004)*
13. Hard Truth (2005)
14. Winter Study (2008)*
15. Borderline (2009)
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