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The Rope (Anna Pigeon 0)
by
Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon's first case—this is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts.In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr’s bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from...more
ebook, 368 pages
Published
January 17th 2012
by Minotaur Books
(first published January 1st 2012)
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Okay, so awhile back, I swore off Nevada Barr because of her dark edginess yada yada (feel free to look up my previous review). HowEVER...when I heard she had written a prequel, I HAD to read it because Anna Pigeon and I are Ranger Sisters, practically, and I HAD to know how it all started. Besides, I don't remember the first Anna Pigeon books being quite that edgy, so the part of me that has the ability to make excuses and justify going back on my own word unwisely thought that the prequel coul...more
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This is a fun mystery taking us back to 1995, when Anna Pigeon took her first job with the National Park Service. It's a prequel, so you need not have read any of the other books in the series before reading this one. If you're a long-time Anna Pigeon fan, you'll enjoy seeing her as a rookie. She's new to the outdoor life and not yet in law enforcement.
Recently widowed and drowning in despair, Anna takes an entry-level job at Lake Powell. As yet she has no wilderness savvy. On her day off she h...more
Recently widowed and drowning in despair, Anna takes an entry-level job at Lake Powell. As yet she has no wilderness savvy. On her day off she h...more
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Oct 13, 2012
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I've read most, if not all, of Nevada Barr's series starring Anna Pigeon.I like the fast pace of Barr's novels, and I think she does a great job with suspense. What always keeps me from loving her books is the excrutiating detail she goes into describing the natural surroundings. No matter how much detail she goes into, I'm never able to picture the place. I'd like to skim over it, but am always afraid some small detail may be pivotal to the climax. So I read it and feel bad about myself and I n...more
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This series has gotten longer, darker, deeper with each new book. Here, we meet Anna Pigeon starting out as a seasonal help cleaning poop from the beaches of Glen Canyon Lake, a place I not longer have any desire to visit as it seems to be a haven for inconsiderate party boaters. I was astounded to discover that doughty ranger, Anna, began her life as a pale, black turtleneck wearing stage manager in NYC. After the dead of her husband, an actor, she goes west to recover from his loss and takes...more
Another really disappointing mystery. A good friend is hooked on these Anna Pigeon mysteries, so I took this one on a trip. It's one of those that go back to the protaganist's beginnings, one the author wrote way after completing over a dozen of these mysteries, all set in national parks. I had never been introduced to the character, and I found her prickly and annoying. She has come to be a seasonal parks dept employee in Glen Canyon, Utah after being a stage manager in New York City, and I won...more
I happened upon this book when I was looking for a good audio-read for commuting.I'd read a couple of Nevada Barr's earlier books and liked the combination of learning about national parks and mystery. This novel, Barr's 19th about the resourceful and feisty National Parks Service ranger, Anna Pigeon takes readers back to the time before Anna began work at the NPS. It's unusual for an author of a popular series to write a prequel, but this thriller explains why the ranger is the way she is in th...more
I have long been a fan of park ranger Anna Pigeon, so I had to read this book despite a couple of misgivings. The storyline is one that’s been done before: our hero/ heroine wakes up a prisoner in peril. Dick Francis did it quite well long ago in “Risk,” and the same device was more recently used in JA Konrath’s “Shaken.” I wasn’t sure how I felt about Anna trapped and helpless.
I was almost instantly wrapped up in the story, especially since we were given the points of view of both the trapped A...more
I was almost instantly wrapped up in the story, especially since we were given the points of view of both the trapped A...more
My first reaction is that you might want to try canyon climbing after reading this book! I have enjoyed the Anna Pigeon character in several of the Nevada Barr books so I liked the idea of reading a "prequel" to fill us in on the details of Anna's foray into national park work. Well, wow!
This book is like an intricate Survivor episode as Anna withstands many physical and mental challenges. I found my own adrenaline pumping while reading many of the scenes!
I have always liked these books, also,...more
This book is like an intricate Survivor episode as Anna withstands many physical and mental challenges. I found my own adrenaline pumping while reading many of the scenes!
I have always liked these books, also,...more
When you've written as many successful novels built around one recurring figure as Nevada Barr has, what do you do next? Where do you take the central character to keep readers buying into the total package?
For Barr, creator of 18 Anna Pigeon mysteries set in U.S. national parks, the answer was easy - "Go back to the beginning." And so she did. "The Rope" is an intriguing and deeply personal introduction to the fictional ranger known for her long braided hair, emotional aloofness and professiona...more
For Barr, creator of 18 Anna Pigeon mysteries set in U.S. national parks, the answer was easy - "Go back to the beginning." And so she did. "The Rope" is an intriguing and deeply personal introduction to the fictional ranger known for her long braided hair, emotional aloofness and professiona...more
I've been listening to this one in the car and finished it off on my trip to work yesterday. I've liked this series from the beginning, but haven't done the last couple as the violence was getting too much for me. This one is less so, and takes us back to the beginning of Anna's career with the National Park Service with her first season as a seasonal ranger. The action takes place at Glen Canyon, and Anna is inadvertently drawn into a bad situation. Anna is still grieving the loss of her husban...more
Anna Pigeon, blaming herself for the death of her husband and seeking to escape the city that seemed to be closing in on her. So much of her time spent in one drunken haze after another, she takes a job with seasonal work with the Park Service in Utah at Lake Powell.
Walking to see the sites she is brutally attacked and dumped in a sink hole in the ground. When she does not return at first she is thought to be just one of those who could'nt stand the work and the vastness of the park. Her roommat...more
Walking to see the sites she is brutally attacked and dumped in a sink hole in the ground. When she does not return at first she is thought to be just one of those who could'nt stand the work and the vastness of the park. Her roommat...more
I had almost forgotten about Nevada Barr's books until a friend loaned me this latest in the Anna Pigeon mysteries. THE ROPE took Anna back to her first seasonal ranger gig in Lake Powell's Glen Canyon National Park and explains a lot about who she was then and why she stuck with law enforcement in the Park Service. Having been to Glen Canyon, I enjoyed the descriptions of the red rocks area of southern Utah and the way that Barr brings out the beauty of the harsh desert landscape.
Anna was an ab...more
Anna was an ab...more
I've gotten a bit hooked on Anna Pigeon's adventures solving crimes in the National Park Service, so I was excited to spot this one at the library. It fills in some of Anna's backstory, recounting her first experience in the parks. Following the death of her husband, Anna flees New York City, hoping to forget her nightmares in the wilderness. While working as a seasonal temp, literally shoveling excrement, she stumbles upon much darker adventures than she could have expected...
I read this book o...more
I read this book o...more
For 16 books, readers have known Anna Pigeon as a courageous and resourceful Park Ranger with a bit of a loner streak and a tendency to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Before Anna entered the Park Service, however, she was a happily married Stage Manager in New York City. In The Rope, Barr takes us back to the very beginning of Anna's new life away from the hustle & bustle of the big city. Grieving the death of her husband Zack and needing to escape the city they shared together, Anna takes a...more
Although this book is the latest in the author's "Anna Pidgeon" series, it is written as a "prequel" and explains the events that led up to Anna becoming a law enforcement officer for the National Park Service. Nevada Barr has written a number of Anna Pidgeon novels in which the main character solves mysteries set in various locations managed by the NPS around the US. Each book also focuses on a specific topic such as fire, endangered species, poaching, etc. I have read several of them and they...more
TRACK OF THE CAT is the first Anna Pigeon mystery, but the events in this book happen before that, shortly after her husband died, while she was still getting over the "I want to be dead, too" part, and learning how to go on living. Everyone responds to grief differently, but I felt Nevada Barr got that pretty well on the button.
Anna has decided to get away from the city where everything is a reminder of Zack, and work as a temporary Park Ranger at Lake Powell. Most of her job is assisting Jenny...more
Anna has decided to get away from the city where everything is a reminder of Zack, and work as a temporary Park Ranger at Lake Powell. Most of her job is assisting Jenny...more
Who can resist another Nevada Barr National Park mystery? Not me! This one was even more intriguing than most because it took us back to the beginning, when Anna Pigeon first became involved with the National Park Service after the death of her husband Zach. A seasonal worker in Glen Canyon National Park (just northeast of the Grand Canyon), Anna wakes up to find herself at the bottom of a sandy "well" without water, but with a big knot on her head and a dislocated shoulder. (Note: as a person w...more
Apr 14, 2012
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The Rope by Nevada Barr
This is the pre-quel for Anna Pigeon stories. I always wondered how she got to be so crusty, so resourceful and strong of character.
She takes her first Ranger job in Glen National Recreational Area. A beautiful area created by flooding of the Glen Canyon Dam with lots of shoreline, varying depths of water in side canyons, and barren landscape except for the sandstone, slowly eroding by the water actions.
She is damaged; she is running away from her husband’s death. She is i...more
This is the pre-quel for Anna Pigeon stories. I always wondered how she got to be so crusty, so resourceful and strong of character.
She takes her first Ranger job in Glen National Recreational Area. A beautiful area created by flooding of the Glen Canyon Dam with lots of shoreline, varying depths of water in side canyons, and barren landscape except for the sandstone, slowly eroding by the water actions.
She is damaged; she is running away from her husband’s death. She is i...more
I must say that I'm in love with Anna Pigeon at all phases of her life. I met a tiny little red headed and freckle faced park ranger in the Tetons after she pulled me over for speeding. I called her Miss Pigeon. She was a bit miffed until I told her about the Barr novels. Then she forgave the speeding and went on her way.
The rope should have been titled "Dangling Rope" as that is where Anna's post New York "intellectual" and therefore, pubescent career began. I suppose there may have been a cop...more
The rope should have been titled "Dangling Rope" as that is where Anna's post New York "intellectual" and therefore, pubescent career began. I suppose there may have been a cop...more
Prequel to the Anna Pigeon mystery series. Anna Pigeon is in mourning for her husband Zach who died in a car accident she witnessed. She was a successful stage manager in New York. She leaves the city to become a seasonal worker at Glen Canyon National Park in Utah. She is numb and withdrawn going through the motions. She finds herself naked, drugged and without food or water in a solution hole in the park with no way to get out. She finds a dead girl buried in the sand and puts on her clothes....more
Nevada Barr is one of my favorite authors. She is the best-selling author of 17 books about Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service Ranger. Barr sets her books in many of the parks where she served as an NPS Ranger herself. I’ve watched with interest and affection as Anna has grown over the years, but even in her first book “Track of the Cat” she’s a take-charge Law Enforcement Ranger who’s physically capable and mentally confident.
In her latest book ”The Rope,” Barr takes us back to Anna’s first a...more
In her latest book ”The Rope,” Barr takes us back to Anna’s first a...more
Totally interesting to read what is the first book in the now 17 book series. Makes me wants to reread the first book again. Good story - a lot implausible, but this is fiction.....
Anna Pigeon has been a ranger with the National Park Service for many years, but she had a very different life before tragedy sent her west seeking something new. Now Nevada Barr finally tells the previously untold story of Anna's first foray into the wild, and the case that helped shape her into the ranger she became...more
Anna Pigeon has been a ranger with the National Park Service for many years, but she had a very different life before tragedy sent her west seeking something new. Now Nevada Barr finally tells the previously untold story of Anna's first foray into the wild, and the case that helped shape her into the ranger she became...more
The Rope, by Nevada Barr, a-minus, Narrated by Joyce Bean, Produced by Brilliance Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
This is #17 in the Anna Pigeon series, but it’s really a prequel giving us Anna Pigeon’s back story as to what she did before she became a park ranger. She takes a job as a laborer, “interpretive worker” in a park in Glen Canyon Arizona. Her husband had been killed in New York City, and she has such intense grief she wants to leave New York and do something totally different. Ther...more
This is #17 in the Anna Pigeon series, but it’s really a prequel giving us Anna Pigeon’s back story as to what she did before she became a park ranger. She takes a job as a laborer, “interpretive worker” in a park in Glen Canyon Arizona. Her husband had been killed in New York City, and she has such intense grief she wants to leave New York and do something totally different. Ther...more
As Lee Child recently did with his latest in the “Reacher series” titled The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel author Nevada Barr takes readers back in time in this prequel to her Anna Pigeon series. The year is 1995 as The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel opens and Anna is thirty-five and adrift in a sea of mourning regarding the recent death of her husband Zach. She is a specter in black amongst the living and has barely connected with any of her fellow workers at the Glen Canyon Recreational Area except...more
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I have read a number of Nevada Barr's books about Anna Pigeon, Park ranger, and enjoyed them. This one may be the best so far; it flashes back to Anna's summer at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, before she became a ranger. It takes Anna through more thrills, chills, and life-threatening events than any normal person would experience in a lifetime, but that's the nature of mystery thrillers. Did I figure out the villain before the end? Yes, but not much before. Barr does a good job of plan...more
I have kept up with this series over many years now and I look forward to each new entry. This book takes Anna Pigeon's fans back in time to show how she ended up becoming a ranger in the National Park Service after the death of her husband. The exploration of her psychological state--her numbness to life and emotion after the accidental death of her young husband--is sensitive and of great interest to those of us who have seen the stronger character that Pigeon becomes as the series continues....more
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The brand new book--I spent my valued audible credit for this one. I have really enjoyed the Anna Pigeon series, but I did think one or two of the more recent books were dark insofar as Anna's outlook on life. I was afraid this book might be the same way. However, the author did the unexpected. This book, if placed in chronological order, would be number one in the series, covering the period between the death of Anna's husband and her decision to join the Park Service as a law enforcement range...more
Anna Pigeon, young and raw, in this series prequel
Almost twenty years after Track of the Cat, the first Anna Pigeon mystery, we have the prequel, the missing link filling in the story of Anna’s transformation from New York Theater type to national park ranger. In The Rope Anna is just a seasonal employee whose job it is to clean boat-dumped human waste off the shores of Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. It’s only a few months following her husband Zach’s death and she’s stil...more
Almost twenty years after Track of the Cat, the first Anna Pigeon mystery, we have the prequel, the missing link filling in the story of Anna’s transformation from New York Theater type to national park ranger. In The Rope Anna is just a seasonal employee whose job it is to clean boat-dumped human waste off the shores of Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. It’s only a few months following her husband Zach’s death and she’s stil...more
I have been following Anna Pigeon for over a decade. Obviously, I'm a pretty big fan. It's been several years since I've actively read any of the books, but upon seeing this new one at the library, I immediately grabbed it. On page 194 is when I became sure of the killer. However, due to Barr's amazing writing ability, I really had no reason for it, but just a gut instinct. I think it's outstanding writing that takes you so into the world of the characters that you can be sure on a gut instinct....more
I used to love Nevada Barr, and read all of her books, and when I went out of my mystery phase, I kept picking up books, so I could restart where I left off. So there are several recent ones I haven't read. But since this was a prequel, I felt safe in reading it. I thought it harkened back to some of my favorites, like Firestorm and A Superior Death. Like those, I was there, at Glen Canyon. Not just looking over the author's shoulder, but there - in the desert heat, in the cold waters of the lak...more
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Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr has won an Agatha Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat.
Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in...more
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Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in...more
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