Winter Study

Name: Winter Study
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Nevada Barr
ISBN: 9781423325673

Author: Nevada Barr

Series: Anna Pigeon Series #14

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Abridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have its own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She’s lodging in the island’s bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park in the winters—an act that would effectively bring an end to the fifty-year project—so that the area can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada.Soon after Anna’s arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the group to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves but for her own survival as well.

About Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is the award-winning author of thirteen previous Anna Pigeon mysteries, including the New York Times bestsellers Hard Truth and High Country. She lives in New Orleans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on December 30, 2008

I used to really like Nevada Barr's books, but the series is getting old after 14 books. On the plus side, each of the books takes place in a different national park (although this book returns to a park, but in a different time of the year)all across the United States. Also on the plus side, it's r......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on April 11, 2021

Another good entry in the Anna Pigeon series. In this one Anna joins a long running wolf study on an island in Lake Superior during the winter when the island is closed to visitors. The members of the study are all just a little off and bad things soon begin to happen. Everytime this book described......more

Goodreads review by Jane on March 12, 2017

Suspense in the snow! This is one of her best books. Fascinating science, great characters, and up-late-reading-suspense. Now I can get back to work.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 17, 2016

I like Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon mystery series very much. Anna is a US Park Ranger who finds herself assigned to work in the varied National Parks in the US each book. Each book lets you have a view of new areas of the US and at the same time people the stories with interesting characters and thril......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 02, 2023

That was so intense! I dislike winter and cold weather so I was immediately uneasy. And then throw in a bunch of strangers living in a close environment with strange things going on and my heart is in my throat. It was stark and beautiful and chilling and then the evil of man got thrown into the mix......more