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Apr 18, 2016
Number nineteen in Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon suspense series, but reads perfectly as a standalone mystery. A cyberbullying attack on a teenage girl prompts Barr's park ranger/ law enforcement agent to bring a family needing protection with her on her latest National Parks assignment to Acadia National Park in Maine. You'd think that the family here would be safe in a house perched high on a rock cliff on a remote island reachable only by boat, but as Anna's friend, Heath, her elderly aunt Gwen, and her daughter, Elizabeth find out, you can flee but you can't hide. While the stalker continues to threaten Elizabeth, dark happenings on Boar Island and a murder in Acadia National Park bring danger to this remote location. Both plots move forward with creepy details from two sets of family pasts unfolding and overlapping satisfyingly and building tension.