Hunting Season (Anna Pigeon)

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Summary: Good book in a great series!
Review: Anna is trying to sort out her feeling for the local sheriff but Murder seems to keep getting in the way of her doing this.

First there is the body that is found in the Old Plantation/National Park Site bedroom. This is not a run of the mill tourist it is a well known man of a local family, and trussed up to look like he did more than just die.

Then there is the deer stand that Anna and her Deputy are trying to catch in use. Well Anna catches more than she barging for with this one.

After a few harrowing disasters and learning a lot about the history of the area I just couldn't stop listening and was disappointed that it ended.

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Summary: another wonderful Nevada Barr book
Review: As usual this is another great book by Nevada Barr

Anna gets herself into trouble at least twice but comes out of it brused and bleeding as usual.

great story & things are starting to look up for her.

Nevada Barr in one of the best writers out there. Edge of the seat story lines.

I have every book she has ever written.

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Summary: Why do I keep reading this series?
Review: I do not find the lead character likeable. Ranger Pigeon has little sense of humor and typical left wing prejudices. One reviewer accurately charaterized this as her "NPR soapbox". Nevertheless I keep reading this series-I suppose due to Barr's story telling ability and my childhood love of our National Parks.

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Summary: One of, if not the best of Barr's series!
Review: I really enjoy Barr's mystery series. Not only is Anna Pigeon a bit more 'identifiable-with' for us normal folk, but the information she gives so lovingly about the Parks and the history surrounding them makes the reader as if she/he is not wasting their time. Somehow we always learn something new, we didn't know before, and I like that in an author.

Once again, this book takes places in the Deep South. The ability of Barr to use words to draw and color the areas in which the mysteries take place is one of the great things about her writing. She doesn't have to go into long explanations or use big words to get across the local flavor, the prejudices (of everyone!), even the time of year is so well drawn you can almost smell the time after the leaves have fallen and just before the winter sleep. Since this is a favorite time of year for me, that description alone was worth the read.

Anna gets herself into a situation, one that is confusing for her where she has a strange murder that seems 'set-up- but also then immediately runs into some 'good-ole'-boys' who chase her in order to keep their hunting rights on Federal property (or so she thinks at first). Eventually, the story ties everything in...and I have been waiting for her nasty under-ranger (with a hilarious name) Thigpen to show his true colors. I knew from the moment she first described him a few books ago, that he was so prejudiced against women in what he considered a 'man's job' that one way or another, he would try to 'get' Anna for taking the position he coveted (and not the position he earned...too lazy for that).

Once again, a very enjoyable read. The history of the slaves and stories about the freemen is something I very much want to know more about, especially as geneaology is an important topic to me. I cannot imagine trying to do geneaological research in an environment where families were torn apart, graveyards are not marked in recognizeable forms, historical documents would have to be searched through carefully to find slight bits of information, and many times slaves took the last names of their owners (tho heaven only knows why). This is the new and interesting information that really excites me when I read Barr's books. Maybe that same information will excite some people into doing more historical and geneaological research down in the Deep South, so families can be 'reunited'.

Karen Sadler

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Summary: Excellent read
Review: Nevada Barr does great characters, and this is one of her best. Anna Pigeon, of course---ascerbic, independent, quick-thinking, courageous. But the secondary characters are equally well-done...I particularly got a kick out of her rendering of the the various good ol' boys in this mystery, starting with her deputy, Randy Thigpen. You expect well-written atmospheric settings in a Barr novel, not only the natural setting, but also the cultural, and Hunting Season is no exception. I think these novels set in Mississippi are just about her best.

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Summary: Another Excellent Read
Review: Nevada Barr gets better with every book. All of her characters are multi-dimensional, real people. Her layered plots draw me in so that I have to read some every night or I go to sleep feeling like I haven't checked in with a good friend. Hunting Season is an excellent work. Great plots. The writing allows me to actually experience the locations, know the characters, and share their emotions. The only downside is that I've read everything Nevada Barr has written and now have to wait for her next book. If you're looking for a favorite mystery writer - check out Nevada Barr.

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Summary: not up to par
Review: Of all the Anna Pigion books I have read, this is the worst. The charecters are shallow and stiff, the dialog stillted and meaningless, and the park is not well described and in no way seems like a place one would like to visit. This mystery seems to be a big "so what". Not nearly up to Ms Barr's best efforts.

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Summary: The worst in the Anna Pidgeon series
Review: This book was EXCELLENT, much better than the last and very suspenseful. I haven't read a book in a long time that I couldn't put down until the end, but I couldn't rest until I got found out "who did it." The ending, while a surprise, was still believable and fit into the story well. Really, you need to buy this, it was great.

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Summary: Hunting Season by Nevada Barr review
Review: This is the 3rd Anna Pigeon mystery I have read, the others were first Deep South, the second Liberty Falling and now Hunting Season. I think her writing is very well done and her novels keep my interest from the beginning and I keep on going if I have the time. This plot is well done, kept me guessing until the very end. I am now reading Firestorm and plan to read each of her mysteries.
Nevada Barr is great!

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Summary: ANOTHER GOOD ANNA PIGEON MYSTERY
Review: What I enjoy most about Anna Pigeon mysteries is Nevada Barr's ability to make the setting one of the book's main characters. Barr breaths life into the various locations of the National Park System that Anna, a District Ranger, has worked at throughout this series. The reader is given a back door glimpse into these often-exotic locations across the United States. In HUNTING SEASON we are granted a behind the scenes tour of Mississippi's Trace Natchez National Park. Anna investigates the death of a local man discovered in an historic settlement building. To add to the mystery the death appears to be the result of an alleged sex crime. Throughout her investigation Anna confronts family secrets kept hidden for many generations and a large dose of sexism and racism to keep her from discovering the real killer. But Anna's infamous perseverance eventually solves this mystery and the Trace Natchez is restored to safety. In her Anna Pigeon character Nevada Barr creates a mystery series that is a delight to read and HUNTING SEASON is no exception.