Winter Study Hardcover - 2008

by Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon returns in the remarkable new novelfrom the New York Times–bestselling writer.

It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to IsleRoyale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understandingwolves, as her home base of Rocky MountainNational Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent,much-maligned animals. She's housed in the island'sbunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientistsfrom Homeland Security, who are assessing the studywith an eye to opening the park each winter effectively bringingan end to the fifty-year study so that it can be manned tosecure the scrap of border with Canada.

Soon after Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observationbegin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, andAnna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane.The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the teamto believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introducedto the island. When a female member of the team is savaged,Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once abeautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrencesand danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island withoutelectricity or running water, with temperatures hoveringaround zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for thewolves, but for also her own survival.

Filled with the nail-biting suspense, richly drawn charactersand gorgeous nature writing that are her hallmarks, Winter Studyis vintage Barr, proving once again that she's 'a real writer, inevery sense of the word' (The Denver Post).