On an island on Lake Superior, Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger, investigates the death of a diving instructor whose body was found in an old shipwreck.

Caught in a firestorm in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna Pigeon, her patient, and the fire fighters survive, except for one who is found in his fire shelter with a knife in his back. Anna must attend to the physical and emotional needs of the survivors and identify the murderer, while snow delays their rescue.

Award-winning author Nevada Barr fills the pages of Blind Descent with heart-stopping suspense, plots that twist around every corner, and spectacular wilderness settings. When park ranger Anna Pigeon embarks on a thrilling subterranean rescue mission, she confronts personal demons and a multitude of life-threatening dangers-not all of them from the hostile terrain. A fellow ranger is injured in a suspicious accident while exploring the mostly unmapped...

When park ranger Anna Pigeon stumbles on the corpse of a girl with a noose around her neck, she is plunged into a murder investigation with serious racial overtones in the heart of the Deep South.

When Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is called to historic Mt. Locust on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway, the last thing she expects to encounter is murder. But the man Anna finds in the stand's old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He's nearly naked, and very dead, his body bearing marks consistent with an S&M ritual gone awry.

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young seasonal park employees have disappeared, so Anna takes a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers.

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is at Isle Royale on Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, since her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park may soon have them. Soon after her arrival, the wolf packs being studied begin acting strangely and giant wolf prints are found. When a female member of the study team is savaged, and Anna is stalked, what was once a beautiful refuge becomes a place of great danger.

Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger on administrative leave after a traumatic ordeal, stays with a friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, and when she encounters a strange man named Jordan and finds herself the target of a curse, she is forced to use her outdoors skills to help save herself and others in the urban setting.

After a summer fighting wildfire, park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying a weekend away camping in Minnesota's National Park with her girlfriends. Leah Hendricks is the genius behind a high-end sports gear manufacturer and Heath Jarrod has volunteered to test out some of the equipment. But when they encounter a band of violent kidnappers little do they realize that their ultimate challenge will be to stay alive.