High Country by Nevada Barr
By Nevada Barr
It truly is fall within the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite nationwide Park's historical Ahwahnee resort. 4 kids, all seasonal park staff, have disappeared, and weeks of labor via crack search-and-rescue groups have didn't ensue a unmarried clue; investigators are not sure to whether the 4 went AWOL for purposes in their own-or died within the park. desiring an out-of-park ranger to paintings undercover, Anna is distinctive to dining-room accountability; yet after per week of ready tables, she is familiar with the lacking staff are just the 1st symptoms of a disease threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates hand over their party-girl methods and panic; her new eating place colleagues regard her with suspicion and worry. but if Anna's existence is threatened and her transitority manager turns a deaf ear, she follows the smell of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the excessive state, looking solutions. What waits for her is a nightmare of demise and greed-and maybe her ultimate experience.
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We were making money by the bushel. " Anna wasn't disappointed but she was amused. Scott was about as far from the clich‚ of a bean counter as a man could get. "A good one," he said. " The smile left his face. He took a hefty swallow of bourbon and raised a finger to the barmaid for another round. "I guess not," he said neutrally. "Anyway, after Jim got hooked up with the system and started teaching, being a swell all-around guy and a nonviolent offender I got in on it. I took to cooking and Jim took to me.
Kind of a surrogate mother thing. Far as I know she's never married. So that's all I got on Tiny. " He smiled and Anna smiled back, but she was wracking her brain to make sure there wasn't another hotel employee she needed the lowdown on. "Maybe later," she said. They sipped in silence for a while. The last hangers-on in the bar muttered softly over their drinks. Windows, blind-black with an overcast night, put Anna in mind of cave walls and a sudden panic of claustrophobia shuddered through her.
Having grown up underfoot, Mary Bates was a favorite around the hotel. Young, delicately pretty and surprisingly unspoiled, the staff was protective of her. Scott was no exception. Over the next few minutes Anna rode the roller coaster of his esteem. That she was Mary's friend took her up in his estimation. That she'd taken Mary to a place of vile males dropped her way down. That she'd brought Mary home safe leveled things out again. "Now, Mary is exactly the sort of girl I'd want for a daughter," Scott finished.