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Wild Life Crime Booklist

Page Modified: June 19, 2009

Crime Fiction featuring the great outdoors and wild life.

• Endangered Species
  Author: Barr, Nevada
  Publisher: Putnam List Price: $22.95 ISBN: 0399142460 Date: 1997
  PW
  Park ranger Anna Pigeon investigates the crash of the drug-interdiction plan on an isolated Georgia island in Nevada Barr's spectacular new mystery. Was it an accident or sabatoge that downed the plane, killing both the pilot and his passenger. Pressed into service, its up to Anna and her crew to solve the problem.
  
  
• Blind Descent
  Author: Barr, Nevada
  Publisher: Putnam List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0399143718 Date: 1998
  Kirkus
  In Barr's gripping novel, park ranger Anna Pigeon faces personal demons as well as life-threatening dangers in an untamed underground wilderness. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna swallows her paralyzing fear of small places and descends into Lechuguilla Cavern to help a friend in need.
  
  
• Blood Lure
  Author: Barr, Nevada
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399147020 Date: 2001
  PW
  The laws of nature take a murderous turn in this spellbinding addition to the bestselling series featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon. Anna returns to the West, where she is sent on a training assignment to study grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park. But when daybreak finds a boy missing and a camper dead, Anna must track the beast stalking the trails as she becomes involved in a gripping wilderness life-or-death mystery.
  Updated 1/17/01
• Flashback
  Author: Barr, Nevada
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399149759 Date: 2003
  PW
  Running from a proposal of marriage, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Key West. When a mysterious boat explosion--and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts--keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her.
  Updated 12.23.02
• High Country
  Author: Barr, Nevada
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399151443 Date: 2004
  Booklist
  It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is investigating the disappearance of four seasonal park employees in Yosemite National Park. She follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trail to the high country, seeking answers. What waits for her is a nightmare of death and greed--and perhaps her final adventure.
  Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
  Updated 11.25.03
• Open Season
  Author: Box, C.J.
  Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399147489 Date: 2001
  Kirkus Booklist
  Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way---is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. - Publisher marketing.
  Updated 5/17/01
• Winterkill
  Author: Box, C.J.
  Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399150455 Date: 2003
  Booklist
  Award-winning writer Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer draws back his bowstring--with Joe as his prey.
  Updated 5.14.03
• Trophy Hunt: Joe Pickett
  Author: Box, C.J.
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399152008 Date: 2004
  PW
  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds he has a modern day Jack the Ripper on his hands when a vicious killer's sights switch from beast to man--and his rampage is just beginning.
  Updated 6.21.04
• The Snowfly
  Author: Heywood, Joseph
  Publisher: Lyons $ 24.95 ISBN: 1585740209 Date: 2000
  PW
  The Snowfly is a spellbinding novel of suspense, international intrigue, and fly fishing as UPI reporter Bowie Rhodes searches for the mythical creature that attracts trout of such size that they couldn't possibly exist in the world as we know it.
  Updated 8/7/00
• Blue Wolf in Green Fire: Woods Cop
  Author: Heywood, Joseph
  Publisher: Lyons $ 22.95 ISBN: 1585745871 Date: 2002
  PW
  Conservation Officer Grady Service, now a detective, must once again defend his hallowed Mosquito Wilderness when poachers target a rare blue wolf.
  Updated 8.27.02
• The Wall
  Author: Long, Jeff
  Publisher: Atria $ 24 ISBN: 0743266161 Date: 2006
  PW
  When Hugh Glass sets off into the vertical wilderness of El Capitan with his former climbing partner, the two become entangled in a deadly rescue attempt where the rescuers become victims hounded by their demons.
  Suggested Reading: Thrillers | Rock Climbing
  Updated 11.7.05
• The Hunt Club
  Author: Lott, Bret
  Publisher: Villard List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0375500146 Date: 1998
  LJ
  A striking debut novel of suspense with the Southern flavor of Anne Rivers Siddon and the deft literary pacing of David Guterson. Huger Dillard is no ordinary 15-year-old redneck. Weekends as the Hunt Club have made him an expert on the habits of deer, the social strata of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the day-to-day guided duties of his blind uncle Leland. When a dead body is found at the Club, Huger quickly realizes that he is an expert at nothing, least of all his own life.
  
• Night Game:A John Marquez Crime Novel
  Author: Russell, Kirk
  Publisher: Chronicle $ 23.95 ISBN: 081184112x Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  Former DEA agent John Marquez brings gritty investigative techniques and a clouded past to his role as head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game. In the second thrilling case of this masterful series, Marquez and his team's cover is blown, leaving him caught between a ruthless band of bear poachers, a corrupt local game warden, and a county detective obsessed with a murderer-at-large. Meanwhile, Marquez's own fragile family is left wide open to mortal danger. - Publisher Marketing.
  Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
  Updated 8.9.04
• Buck Fever: Blanco County Texas
  Author: Rehder, Ben
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312291140 Date: 2002
  PW Library Journal
  It's the beginning of a crazy weekend in Blanco County as deer hunting season gets underway--and already a man in a deer suit has been shot. A sidesplittingly funny debut that does for Texas what Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey have done for Florida.
  Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts |If You Like Carl Hiaasen
  Updated 9.7.02
• Flat Crazy: A Blanco County, Texas Mystery
  Author: Rehder, Ben
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 031232135x Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  Things get out of hand in Blanco County when the local population deals with a mythical beast called the chupacabra. Of course, it doesn't help game warden John Marlin's cause when a dead body turns up with a suspicious fang-like wound in its neck.
  Updated 7.26.04
• Gator Aide
  Author: Speart, Jessica
  Publisher: Avon $ 5.99 ISBN: 0380792885 Date: 1997
  PW
  Wildlife agent Rachel Porter is called to investigate a dead alligator found chained to the bathtub of a murdered hooker. She realizes that the gator did not die from the gunshot wounds in its head but was killed by a drug overdose from the heroin-stuffed condoms packed into its stomach. Rachel soon finds herself pursued by corrupt politicians, drag queens and a sexy police detective while trying to solve the murder.
  Suggested Reading: New Orleans
  Updated 7.6.04