RELEASE NOTES:

Released via paperbackswap.com to a fellow bookcrosser.

Pre-numbered label used for registration.

Second in the series (after "Track of the Cat").

This starts out slow, but when it takes off, it takes off. Far and away the best bits of this one are the dive sequences on the very deep and nasty Kamloops wreck off Isle Royale. They are phenomenally descriptive and visceral.

Anna Pidgeon is more multi-dimensional than in "Track of the Cat." She has her quirky flaws and a wicked sense of humor is more evident. The characters on the island are solid and make for plenty of red herrings.

One note -- I did notice a mixup. Molly is Anna's sister. Holly is Hawk's sister. In at least one place in the book it was wrong. Damn, I hate typos!

Highly recommended reading!

Booklist Review

Barr has written an intriguing if unusual story that successfully combines a refreshing enthusiasm for nature, an impassioned entreaty for environmental awareness, and an engrossing murder mystery.

Leaving Texas to take a job in northern Michigan, park ranger Anna Pigeon soon becomes involved in a puzzling murder involving a drowned diver and a mysterious shipwreck. Her investigation puts her in touch with some odd characters, including Pizza Dave, who's as large as a small tractor, and Holly and Hawk, a brother and sister dive team whose love for the briny deep hides a dark secret. Between extracting fish hooks from the limbs of amateur fishermen, instructing naive tourists about the local wildlife, and corralling drunken boaters, Anna puts her considerable skills toward solving the puzzle of who killed the diver and why.

Barr, a park ranger herself, provides plenty of authentic details about life in the great outdoors, and her deft plotting and appealingly quirky characters give her story plenty of punch. Anna Pigeon is tough-minded, strong, sensitive, vulnerable, and funny.

RELEASE NOTES:

Released to Bunnylady in person. Enjoy!

Rec'd last night from Pyan while picking up a book box.