The Great Outdoors
Categories: Mystery & Suspense , Staff Picks
Millions of people will visit our country's national parks this summer, from the well-traveled Great Smoky Mountains to the more remote Big Bend National Park. If you want to visit a national park, but can't decide which one, then let Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon be your guide. Barr first introduced her tenacious National Park Ranger sleuth in Track of the Cat, in which Anna investigated a murder disguised as a mountain lion attack.
Once you read the first one, you'll want to read them all, but here are a few of my favorites and the parks they take place in:
- A Superior Death (Isle Royale National Park in Michigan)
- Firestorm (Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California)
- Endangered Species (Cumberland Island National Seashore off the Georgia coast)
- Blind Descent (Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico)
- Blood Lure (Glacier National Park in Montana)
- Flashback (Dry Tortugas National Park near Key West, Florida)
- Hard Truth (Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado)
For more outdoor adventures, check out C.J. Box's series about Wyoming Game and Fish Warden Joe Pickett. The first entry in the series is Open Season, and the latest one, In Plain Sight, was released earlier this year. If you still can't make up your mind where to go, then visit nps.gov, where a wonderful world of parks, trails, monuments, and lakeshores awaits you.
