Anna PigeonSéries

Cette série de romans policiers primée suit une garde du parc national qui mène des enquêtes complexes dans des décors naturels époustouflants. Des étendues sauvages isolées aux sites historiques des parcs, chaque roman présente une énigme unique à résoudre. S'appuyant sur l'expérience personnelle de l'auteur, ces histoires mêlent habilement suspense et descriptions vivides du paysage américain. Les lecteurs seront captivés par la protagoniste attachante et les environnements atmosphériques, souvent dangereux, qu'elle protège.

Ordre de lecture recommandé

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Track of the Cat
Nevada Barr
272pages
10 heures de lecture
3,9(17593)Évaluer
THE FIRST ANNA PIGEON NOVEL—WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD. The fascinating hero of Nevada Barr’s award-winning series—park ranger Anna Pigeon—has brought an unyielding love of nature and sense of fair play to the mystery genre. Track of the Cat is the acclaimed novel that first introduced readers to Anna, as a woman looking for peace in the wilderness—and finding murder instead… Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna’s rage knows no bounds. It’s up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals—and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare…
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A Superior Death
Nevada Barr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
3,9(9950)Évaluer
The story follows park ranger Anna Pigeon as she navigates the haunting beauty of Isle Royale National Park, where she uncovers a chilling underwater murder linked to a sunken treasure. Adjusting to her new environment, Anna's routine diving permit application leads her deep into Lake Superior's depths, connecting a drowned man to a historic cargo ship. With vivid descriptions of the wilderness and complex characters, the novel combines mystery and adventure in a captivating exploration of nature's extremes.
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Ill Wind
Nevada Barr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
3,9(8584)Évaluer
Set against the backdrop of Mesa Verde, a deadly disease begins to spread among visitors, prompting park ranger Anna Pigeon to investigate its origins. As she delves deeper, Anna uncovers a sinister human source behind the mysterious illness, blending elements of mystery and suspense in a race against time to protect the park and its visitors.
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Firestorm
Nevada Barr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
4,0(156)Évaluer
Park ranger Anna Pigeon and her companions discover a slain firefighter in a Northern California park, sending them on a search for a murderer in the midst of a winter firestorm.
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Endangered Species
Nevada Barr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
3,7(139)Évaluer
Set against the stunning backdrop of Cumberland Island, the story follows Anna as her monotonous fire presuppression duties are abruptly interrupted by a tragic plane crash that claims two lives. As it becomes clear that sabotage is involved, Anna is thrust into a web of intrigue, forcing her to confront danger and unravel the mystery behind the deadly incident.
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Blind Descent
Nevada Barr
384pages
14 heures de lecture
4,1(9674)Évaluer
A would-be killer is drawing Anna Pigeon deep into the darkness-and closer to hell than she's ever gone before. "Anna Pigeon, the intrepid National Park Service ranger in Nevada Barr's superb wilderness mysteries, has had some perilous experiences in the five novels that preceded Blind Descent, but none compares with this thrilling subterranean adventure in the underground caverns of Lechuguilla, 'a monster man-eating cave' in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna chokes back the willies of claustrophobia and joins the rescue team. Burrowing 800 feet below ground, she negotiates airless tunnells, gaping pits, vaulting caverns and silently flowing rivers, each hazard with a daunting name like Razor Blade Run or the Wormhole. At the end of the dangerous descent, she reaches her friend and hears her say, 'It wasn't an accident.' A would-be killer is drawing Anna Pigeon deep into the darkness-and closer to hell than she's ever gone before.
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Liberty Falling. An Anna Pigeon Novel
Nevada Barr
336pages
12 heures de lecture
3,7(72)Évaluer
Anna Pigeon is in Manhattan to look after her hospitalized sister, and explores the Statue of Liberty in her spare time. But when a teenage girl falls to her death from Liberty's ledge, Anna wonders if the suicide was actually a homicide-and begins an investigation that puts her in the line of fire.
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Deep South
Nevada Barr
3,9(7652)Évaluer
Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock—and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she’s knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It’s a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep—and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna...
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Blood lure
Nevada Barr
333pages
12 heures de lecture
3,9(7113)Évaluer
In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West… Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...
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Hunting Season
Nevada Barr
3,9(5907)Évaluer
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foe--human nature--in the latest entry in Nevada Barr's bestselling, award-winning series ...The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He's nearly naked and very dead-his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red.There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps-and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.
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Flashback
Nevada Barr
3,9(7163)Évaluer
The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time.When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.
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High country
Nevada Barr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
3,9(7893)Évaluer
It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna's life is threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.
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Hard Truth
Nevada Barr
336pages
12 heures de lecture
3,8(5773)Évaluer
Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park.When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
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Winter Study
Nevada Barr
469pages
17 heures de lecture
3,8(239)Évaluer
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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Borderline
Nevada Barr
496pages
18 heures de lecture
3,9(152)Évaluer
Featuring Anna Pigeon, this bestseller combines thrilling adventure with a strong female lead. Set against a backdrop of nature's beauty and dangers, the story delves into themes of survival and resilience. The author, known for her gripping narratives, weaves a tale filled with suspense and rich descriptions, drawing readers into Anna's world as she navigates challenges that test her limits. Fans of outdoor mysteries will find this a captivating addition to the series.
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Burn
Nevada Barr
482pages
17 heures de lecture
4,0(6)Évaluer
After a traumatic period, Anna Pigeon visits her old friend Geneva, a blind blues singer in New Orleans. However, her trip takes a sinister turn when she encounters a disturbing neighbor, Jordan, and finds a brutally killed pigeon adorned with mysterious runic symbols. This discovery raises questions about a potential curse and intertwines Anna's personal struggles with a chilling mystery, setting the stage for an intriguing blend of suspense and supernatural elements in the vibrant backdrop of New Orleans.
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The Rope
Nevada Barr
464pages
17 heures de lecture
3,9(137)Évaluer
The RopeNevada BarrIt's 1995. Fresh off the bus from New York City, a broken-hearted 35-year-old named Anna Pigeon takes her first job as a park a decidedly unglamorous, seasonal stint at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, she goes hiking alone in the park―never to return. Her co-workers assume she's moved on since her cabin is cleaned out. But when Anna wakes up―trapped at the bottom of a well, naked, with no supplies and no memory of how she got there―she must draw upon all of her strength, courage, and skill to survive. Because whoever set Anna's trap isn't through with her yet…This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.
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Destroyer Angel
Nevada Barr
416pages
15 heures de lecture
4,0(88)Évaluer
"Gripping...BREATHTAKING...complex."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) In Nevada Barr's New York Times bestseller Destroyer Angel, Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on a much-needed vacation: an autumn camping trip in the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Elizabeth, Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and Katie, Leah's thirteen-year-old daughter. For Heath, this getaway is the ultimate test to see whether Leah's camping gear can help make wilderness adventures more accessible to the disabled. So far, so good. . . "BARR IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Boston Globe Until their second night, when Anna decides to go for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she returns to the campsite, she is shocked to see, with her own two eyes, that a group of heavily armed thugs have abducted Heath and the others. Now, with limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna must find a way to rescue the women from their captors-and brave the elements of the unforgiving North Woods-before it's too late. And time is running out... "Equal parts PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER and WILDERNESS-SURVIVAL tale...Top-tier white-knuckle suspense."-Booklist
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Boar Island: An Anna Pigeon Novel
Nevada Barr
480pages
17 heures de lecture
3,6(51)Évaluer
"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then she calls in the cavalry--her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon. While they try to deal with the fragile state of affairs--and find the person behind the harassment--the three adults decide the best thing to do is to remove Elizabeth from the situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the park, Boar Island. But the move east doesn't solve the problem. The stalker has followed them east. And Heath (a paraplegic) and Elizabeth aren't alone on the otherwise deserted island. At the same time, Anna has barely arrived at Acadia before a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably close to her"-- Provided by publisher