Nevada Barr is an award-winning novelist and New York Times bestselling author. She began her career as an actress, during which time she became interested in the environmental movement and started working in the National Parks during the summers - Isle Royale in Michigan, Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, Mesa Verde in Colorado, and then on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. Nevada Barr has written a series of mysteries featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon as well as numerous other books, short stories and articles. She currently resides in New Orleans.

Predator becomes prey...

Blood Lure sees Nevada Barr's intrepid heroine Anna Pigeon come face to face with fear. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo and Sue Grafton.
'All is not well in grizzly country... Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff' - Entertainment Weekly
Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park - Anna's home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the backcountry, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...
What readers are saying about Blood Lure:
'Spine-tingling excitement'
'It has so many twists and turns... I had trouble putting in down!'
'Nevada Barr writes so well - the vivid pictures of the National Park and its wildlife stay in the mind long after [finishing the book]... a gripping thriller'