Nevada Barr: Blood Lure (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: "Of all the wonders of nature evoked in Nevada Barr's national parks mysteries, none stirs the imagination quite like Ursus horribilis -- the grizzly bear.
Four hundred pounds or more of muscle. Saw-toothed canines. Four-inch claws. Nasty temper... Even Anna Pigeon, the district park ranger who strides fearlessly through this invigorating series, is forced to reexamine her 'spiritual connection' to all of God's creatures when she is assigned to work on a scientific project that has her hanging out lures of blood and guts to attract the big, grizzlies in Glacier National Park. Anna still manages to snatch those occasional moments of solitary communing with nature that make her an inspirational wilderness guide. But there's no time for meditation when a rampaging bear attacks the researchers' campsite..."

Nevada Barr: Blood Lure. An Anna Pigeon Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425183750 (February, 2002), 333 p., $6.99.

Nevada Barr: Blood Lure (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
The laws of nature take a terrifying murderous turn in this spellbinding addition to the New York Times-bestselling series featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon.
In Blood Lure, Anna Pigeon returns to the West, where she is sent on a training assignment to study grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park, straddling the border between Montana and Canada. But back in her beloved mountains, where the air is pure and cool, Anna fails to experience the spiritual renewal she expected. Instead, nature seems to have become twisted, carrying a malevolence almost human in its focus.

Along with a bear researcher, Joan Rand, and a volatile and unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of the bears. On their second night out, the tables are turned: one of the bears comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing and a camper dead, her neck snapped, the flesh of her face cut away. Feeling betrayed by nature and humanity, Anna must find the beast stalking the trails - and enter deep into a gripping wilderness life-or-death mystery.

With Blood Lure, Nevada Barr takes readers on a journey like no other. She proves once again that she "has enough storytelling ability to power a dozen different series" (The Denver Post).

Nevada Barr: Blood Lure. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399147020 (February, 2001), 320 p., $24.95.