Search - Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, Bk 4)

Let me put it this way I received it this morning and finished it in one sitting!
Excellent fast paced read.

Excellent story. Humorous. Holds your interest to the end. I really enjoyed this book. Can't wait to read the next one.

#4 Anna Pigeon, national park ranger mystery, this one is set in the mountains of California where Anna is serving as a medic at a firefighting station. With the wildfire under control and the various teams about to disband, a sudden front with excessive winds reignites the fire and sends a firestorm down the mountain, trapping Anna and a dozen others. Everyone survives the firestorm--except one man, who is found stabbed to death in his fire shelter. The man was not well-liked; in fact, he was positively obnoxious. But who among them had all of The Big Three--Motive, Means and Opportunity? It's up to Anna, with minimal communication with the outside world, to figure it out.

I enjoyed this much more than the previous Anna Pigeon book, which I read several months ago and which almost caused me to give up on this series. I'm glad now that I didn't because this one was superbly done! The only thing missing from this book is Anna's usual phone conversation with her sister Molly, a gruff, chain-smoking psychiatrist in New York. It still gets an A.

Amazon.com: "A raging fire in a national park seems an unlikely setting for a murder, but that's exactly the circumstances that crime-fighting park ranger and medic Anna Pigeon confronts in this mystery thriller. A suspicious fire breaks loose in Northern California's Lassen Volcanic Park and Pigeon assists in battling the blaze and treating the wounds of other fire fighters. As if that's not enough, Pigeon finds herself without food and water trapped with a group of fire fighters, one of whom is a murderer. She tries to figure out who the culprit is before he, or the weather, strikes again."

From Publishers Weekly: "As she's seen in her fourth spine-tingling adventure, it's hard to tell what impassions hard-nosed park ranger Anna Pigeon more: crime or grime. Fortunately, Barr (Ill Wind) has a flair for depicting both as she sets Anna to providing first aid for the crews fighting an especially nasty forest fire, probably caused by arson, in Northern California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. As if living intimately with strangers under stressful conditions weren't trouble enough, more problems flare when Anna and her EMTs must rescue a firefighter who has broken his leg. On their way back to camp, they are trapped in a firestorm?the most dangerous of all fire conditions. Anna is saved by her silver pup tent, or "shake 'n' bake," which she pulls over herself at the last minute as the fire dances on her back. One of the other medics isn't so lucky. Only it's not just bad luck. It's murder. The tension approaches unbearable when bad weather and destroyed roads trap Anna and the rest of her crew with the murderer in their midst. While Anna, with her compassion, toughness and abundant one-liners, calls Kinsey Milhone to mind, Barr's character is a true original. And for excitement, her line of work can't be beat." Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

One in a series of books based in National Parks with park ranger, Anna Pigeon, being a Kinsey Milhone of the Park Service. This one set in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park.

I love Anna Pigeon and this is another great story.

Good book with lots of twists.

If you like Anna Pigeon Mysteries, you'll enjoy this one. Keeps you guessing as Anna tries to figure out who the killer is without becomming the next victim.

If you like mystery/detective novels Anna Pigeon will get you hooked. After a fire sweeps over firefighters they emerge with two dead. One a victim of the fire, the other stabbed in the heart. Anna must investigate this homicide while she and nine others try to survive until help can arrive.

I enjoy all her books. Set in the National parks

As usual this author had me guessing right up until the end of this who-done-it. Not the best of the Anna Pigeon mysteries but extremely entertaining none-the-less.