Blind Descent: : An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr

Blind Descent: : An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr

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Feisty, resourceful forest ranger Anna Pigeon faced everything from raging fires to deep-water dives with cool aplomb in her first five adventures. Very early in Blind Descent her courage is put to an even greater test when she learns that a woman seriously injured while exploring a cave next door to New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns is a friend who has requested Pigeon's help in getting her out. "A chilling image filled Anna's mind: herself crouched and whimpering, fear pouring like poison through her limbs, shutting down her brain as the cave closed in around her." Pushing aside her fears, Pigeon takes the plunge, leading readers through a truly harrowing series of tight squeezes. Nevada Barr is so good at involving us in Anna's terror that when she finally resurfaces, we share her "unadulterated joy. Even the dirt smelled alive... When she saw her first stars, she croaked out her delight from tired lungs." Above ground, Anna quickly gets involved in two possibly linked murders and becomes a rifleman's target. As we share the progress of her investigation, a sneaky suspicion starts to grow of possible suspects within the small community of spelunkers and National Park Service bureaucrats. Barr couldn't possibly ask Anna to go back underground again, could she? When it happens, of course, it seems inevitable--and just as frightening as the first time. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Great Book, August 28, 2003 Reviewer: A reader from Garden Grove, California United States I just finished this book & it was great. So realistic. Anne had to go into a cave, a deep dark cave, and it is written so real that if you are claustrophobic this book is going to scare you. It is a scary time for Anne. And then she goes back in the cave again & is stalked by a killer who is going to kill her if he can. You feel like you are crawling in this tiny, dark space. You can feel Anne's pain when she get hurt, which of course she does more that once. Do read this great book. It is really hard to put down when you start to get close to the ending.