Grade: B+
Notable People: Nevada Barr
Title: ” Boar Island”
Review: The most recent in Barr’s’ 25 year run of Anna Pidgeon books. Anna, the National Park Service Ranger, finds herself temporarily assigned to Acadia National Park, where all kinds of mayhem ensues. I have liked these books for a long time, but this felt a bit repetitive and the characters did not seem fully developed. Barr, who is really an NPS ranger, again goes back to some of the same characters in many of her books, and her sense of place is always wonderful, but this one seemed a bit over the top for me. Still, who doesn’t want to spend a virtual week musing over the great Maine north woods.