Linda says, "For a great armchair adventure, you can't beat Nevada Barr."

Anna Pigeon's first case—this is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts. In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr’s bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna 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. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.

As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and 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, determination and will to live that she didn’t even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.

For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeon’s strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barr’s captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.

Linda says:
"This is vintage Nevada Barr! She knows how to tell a story, and for those of us who love the outdoors, and maybe especially the National Parks, she is a great and enjoyable find. Her heroine, park ranger Anna Pigeon, is always getting into and out of impossible scrapes, but along the way the reader gets to 'visit' one gorgeous park after another, and always the park plays as big a role in the unveiling of the story as do the characters telling the tale.

This story goes back to the beginning of Anna's career in the park service and is set in the Glen Canyon Recreational Area. Being a desert rat myself, I loved getting to climb around the rocks and pools with Anna, and learn, as she learns, how to navigate the challenges of both the terrain and the evil forces at play.

For a great armchair adventure, you can't beat Nevada Barr, and while this one starts you off at the beginning of Anna's career, you can pick up any of her Anna Pigeon mysteries and jump right in. It's always a great ride!"