Winter Study

Winter Study is Nevada Barr's 14th installment in the Anna Pigeon mystery series. It's been three years since her last novel. As always Barr really delivers on this mystery. Park Ranger Anna manages to escape near death not once but 3 times. January finds Anna back on Isle Royal, the site of one of her earlier adventures (A Superior Death). In winter the park is closed to the public and the site of a prestigious wolf study. It takes the book a while to get going. (I believe it was after page 100 before the first body shows up.) Once it starts moving it's not stop adrenaline until the end. I did not figure out the mystery until Anna spelled it out for me and it came as a surprise. The ending is a little different also and fizzles out a little. Certainly, not the best book in the series and by all means don't begin with this one if you haven't already read some others. I just wish these mysteries would come a little faster.