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HUNTING SEASON
by Nevada Barr
G. P.Putnam's Sons, February 2002
320 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0399148469


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The 10th book in the Anna Pigeon series brings the ranger back to her home park, Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. It's autumn, and the thick, stifling heat of summer has abated, but Anna is still battling sexism, racism, and all the other 'isms of modern America, especially in the National Park Service. Even though Anna owns both a cat and a three legged dog and enjoys drinking tea, this is far from a cozy.

District Ranger Anna Pigeon is at the wedding of one of her rangers being conducted by Episcopal priest, Paul Davidson, who is also sheriff of one of the counties in which the park is located, and Anna's current love interest, when her pager vibrates, giving her an excuse not to attend the reception (at which Paul's estranged wife might show up). On answering the page, she finds a dead body laid out in a bedroom of Mt. Locust, a 1780 plantation house / inn. The dead man is Doyce Barnette, brother of local undertaker, Raymond Barnette, who is going to run against Clintus Jones, Adams county sheriff, in the upcoming county elections.

When she tries to investigate, she comes across poachers hunting on government land, antipathy and obstructionism from her rangers, vandalism in a slave cemetery, the mores of the deep South, and is threatened with death more than once.

This is the first time that Barr has used the same park more than once in the series but this is perhaps the strongest of the lot. Not only is the setting a major character, as in all the other books in the series, but there is more plot than usual, and it looks as though Anna is finally getting a life beyond the Park Service. I must admit that I have liked all of the books so far because Anna is the woman I would like to have been (if I had been born 20 years later). The National Parks are fascinating, and if one cannot visit them all, the books make for excellent vicarious visits.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2002

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