Track of the Cat
by Nevada Barr
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Author: Nevada BarrEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-06-03
ISBN: 0425190838
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: Warmth and Affection Plus Adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
Another great Nevada Barr mystery . . . this one not as dark as say, Hard Truth (Anna Pigeon Mysteries), but nonetheless, still full of adventure, action, mystery, emotion, and a behind-the-scenes look at one of our National Parks--this one in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas close to El Paso and the Mexican border.
Perhaps Track of the Cat is not as dark as, for example, A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) (which gave me the creeps), because Track of the Cat is Barr's first mystery.
In the book, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is her usual comic-book strong and fearless. Alone, she spends the night the treacherous Southwest desert without the safety of a zippered tent after describing that tarantulas and rattlesnakes hunt in the night. In this first book, Anna is kinder, sweeter, and finds most of the people she works with above reproach after some research.
In later books, you don't find out until the end of the book that all but one of the characters in the book were red herrings. And, they all seem like likely suspects. In Track of the Cat it's like she wasn't quite yet ready to explore the darkest depths of the human psyche.
I especially like Track of the Cat because it brings me back to a night I spent in the Southwest Desert of Arizona's Kitt Peak photographing a radio telescope, under construction, against the panoply of the stars. The construction workers had warned me to be careful of a rattlesnake that patrolled the area as part of its territory, bats that flew over the trash barrel, and a mother puma with cubs. Instead of being afraid of these natural predators, I got myself worked up about Bigfoot stalking in the bushes. It's the kind of thing that can come over you when you're all by yourself with only a camera and tripod for company and a full moon illuminating quivering shadows made by a nervous breeze that rustles the creosote bushes. Anna Pigeon is one stalwart gal!
The mountains lions in Track of the Cat have my deep affection and also Ms Barr's. A lovely book. I love the ending. Again, she's not quite yet ready to tell it like it is. But, this is the first whisper of where she'll be going with later books.
Summary of Track of the Cat
Anna Pigeon takes a job as a park ranger looking for peace in the wilderness-but finds murder instead.General Books
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