Continue to learn about different National Parks in the US and find the way her characters relate and solve mysteries enjoyable. ( )

I love the Anna Pigeon books which are all set in national parks. This one is older and somehow I missed reading it. ( )

Anna Pidgeon - 5 ( )

#5 Anna Pigeon, national park ranger mystery series, in which Anna is on the ‘fire watch’ team on Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia. Unlike the previous book, Firestorm, however, there’s really no fire action, except for a small blaze triggered by a small plane crash—and this crash sets the entire mystery. The pilot flew drug interdiction patrols for the park service, and the other was the chief ranger on the island, though that wasn’t discovered immediately—someone else was supposed to be flying with the pilot. When it’s discovered that the plane was tampered with, causing a deliberate crash, this complicates figuring out who was intended to die and who had motive. As usual, Barr sets the scene brilliantly by putting you out in the middle of the wilderness and you end up learning a bit, too. A side thread through the book has to do with loggerhead turtles and their mating/egg laying rituals, which I quite enjoyed. I liked this book in the series very much, almost as much as Firestorm, the previous entry. I’ve found this to be a sort of ‘hit or miss’ series, but with two hits in a row, I’m eager to move on ahead. Well-written, and with a mystery that I didn’t figure out totally til the very end, also very suspenseful. I enjoy Anna’s laid-back personality and humor. Well done! ( )

This novel was nice and fast. A quick read that left me laughing as I tried to figure out who did what to who. This is the first time I have read a Anna Pigeon novel, I'm not sure which book this is in the series. I have never read part one and that didn't stop me from keeping up at all. Barr did an excellent job at balancing between giving us character info from past novels and not being too repetitive or not having enough info for new readers to the series. I would not mind reading more from this series. ( )