Anna is sure that clues reside in the thousands of snapshots the dead woman took-photos that show signs of having been rifled through. Her superiors discourage her from probing further, but another supposedly accidental death goads her into investigating Sheila's activities before her death-her campaign to open up the park to the public and her relationships with a young divorcee and with a powerful rancher opposed to Park Service policies. Although an autopsy confirms this judgment, Anna becomes convinced that the claw marks have been faked. There she finds the remains of fellow ranger Sheila Drury, who apparently was clawed to death by a mountain lion. Anna Pigeon has fled New York City after the accidental death of her husband, and she now works as a law enforcement ranger at Guadaloupe Mountains National Park. The texture, scents and sounds of the West Texas wilderness permeate this forceful debut, in which the murder of a National Park Service ranger illuminates the conflicts between those who want to place our country's open spaces and wildlife under government protection and those who want to profit from them.
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