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Winter Study
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Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior, the wolf packs begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna 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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Diane's Reads and Things
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“Have to catch my breath.
Nevada Barr can write a book that practically has you gnawing on the book to get the pages turned to find out what will happen next.
This story covered a real study of wolves in a remote area and wound its mystery into the fiber of truth.
Her main heroine Anna Pigeon shown bright again. The villain was terrifying as she can make them completely evolve to be in the winding of the story.
If you want to play who did it, read her books.”
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“Although this was in many ways a typical entry in Barr’s series about Anna Pigeon, US National Park Service ranger, it didn’t have quite the same narrative focus as some others I’ve read. Set on isolated Isle Royale in Lake Superior in the heart of winter, it features a limited cast, with a closed circle mystery feel about it.
Anna is spending time in that location, closed to visitors during the winter, to observe the decades long wolf study ongoing there. Also present are several researchers, an observer sent by Homeland Security (Isle Royale is actually closer to Canada than the US and is a potential border threat), and a pilot who ferries them around the island as necessary.
Strange occurrences begin shortly after Anna’s arrival, and the imaginative among them suspect the presence of some sort of hybrid wolf, or perhaps the “windigo”, a Native American mythological creature that pursues and devours humans. At one point Anna and another woman are traveling along a treacherous route back to the ranger station during a night snow storm. After they’ve lost contact with the others in their group they hear ominous noises coming from the nearby woods. I mention this because I found Barr’s descriptions of their fear of this unknown compelling. Well done scary stuff as compared with a ghost story I recently read.
As usual Anna is put into a life threatening situation before the book is over; it was a nice touch to have her compare her aging body with a youthful, high energy woman who is part of their group. Even someone as fit as Anna is subject to the effects of aging on her body. Also typical are Barr’s descriptions of the natural world, which evoked vivid memories of times I’ve spent snowshoeing through the woods in winter.
The plot is complex, and while the resolution may have been a bit tidier than I normally prefer, all in all it was entertaining to read again about this physically and mentally tough women.”
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About Nevada Barr
Formerly an actress and a park ranger, Nevada Barr is now an award-winning and New York Times–bestselling novelist and creator of the Anna Pigeon mysteries, and numerous other books and short stories. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and various pets.
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