Destroyer Angel
2014
18th in the Anna Pigeon mystery series
#8 on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
DESTROYER ANGEL was been chosen by "Booklist Online" as a “Best of the Year” audiobook for 2014. Everyone's favorite, and much asked for, Barbara Rosenblat, is the narrator.
Top ten New York Times bestseller, Nevada Barr, returns with the latest riveting Anna Pigeon novel—a vacation trip to the Iron Range in Minnesota.... which goes harrowingly wrong.
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets
off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the Iron Range in upstate
Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath’s
fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of
outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath
and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of
camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping
and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen.
On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a
solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she
finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have
taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited
resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to
rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the
country.
Note from the author on the writing of Destroyer Angel along with research photos:
The writing of Destroyer Angel was an adventure in itself. I found myself wondering whatever happened to Heath Jarrod, the woman Anna became friends with in Hard Truth. A germ of an idea began to form, so I Googled 'paraplegic paraphernalia' and, among others, a company called "Blue Sky Designs" in Minneapolis, MN popped up. They make things to help disabled people work and play more easily in the wilderness. For those of you who, like me, have too long a past to keep all the details straight, in Hard Truth Heath is a paraplegic. "Very cool, I thought," so I emailed Blue Sky Designs.
They knew who I was!
So, right there, I knew these were highly intelligent women of taste.
I was invited to Dianne's office/production facility, a wonderful creative space in Minneapolis, and was introduced to Sherry Rovig, one of Dianne's designers.
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