The Rope

Publisher Marketing: 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. Thirty-five years old, fresh off the bus from New York City, and nursing a shattered heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, she goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she s simply moved on her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she got into this situation. As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and that no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, strength, and will to live that she didn t even know she still possessed in order to survive, outwit, and triumph." Review Citations: Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9781410444868, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/01/2011 pg. 85 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 28 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 11/21/2011 pg. 36 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2011 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/01/2011 pg. 109 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Romantic Times 01/01/2012 pg. 80 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) New York Review of Books 01/22/2012 pg. 23 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 98 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9780312614577, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Barr, Nevada Navada Barr is the award-winning author of seven Anna Pigeon mysteries: Track of the Cat, A Superior Death, Ill Wind, Firestorm, Endangered Species, Blind Descent, and Liberty Falling. She lives in Mississippi and was most recently a ranger on the Natchez Trace ParkwayContributor Bio:  Bean, Joyce Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award, including for "Good-bye and Amen" by Beth Gutcheon.