No Place for Wolverines

September 15, 2018
Park warden Jenny Willson made her debut in 2017's Full Curl?. It turns out that Full Curl was no fluke. Here, in the second installment in the series, Jenny accepts an assignment that takes her from her usual stomping grounds, Alberta's Banff National Park, and reassigns her to British Columbia's Yoho National Park, where the park superintendent seems just a little too eager to grant permission for a wealthy American to build a new ski area. Jenny's covert mission is to find out if there's anything untoward happening behind the scenes. When a wolverine researcher dies under suspicious circumstances, Jenny teams up with an RCMP officer and a journalist to find out what, exactly, is going on at Yoho. The writing is spot-on, the characters are beautifully rendered, and the story is complex without being too convoluted. A fine mystery novel and a series that should be on nightstands of all Nevada Barr fans.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)