Book Review: Hard Truth by Nevada Barr

This was a great book. I am a huge fan of Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon books. Anna is a national park ranger and each book takes place in a national park. Hard Truth is set in Rocky Mountain National Park. It is the story of three young girls who go missing in the park. After a massive search turns up no clues to the girls disappearance the search is closed. A month later two traumatized girls turn up at the camp site of a parapalegic woman and her aunt. The girls are too traumatized to be able to help find the third missing girl. One of the girls form a connection to Heath Jarrod, the paraplegic woman, and looks to her as her saviour. Heath feels responsible to help the young girl that affectionetly calls limpet.

Anna has newly transfered to the park as a district ranger and gets involved in trying to find out any information from the girls. She discovers that the girls are from a religious polygomous sect and that there are things that are amiss at the compound they live in. The "parents" are of no help and even in the initial searches the parents chose not to help search but instead had prayer vigils for the girls. The more Anna discovers the more the questions about what happened grow. Anna and Heath discover horrors and terror in the form of commune leader and a serial killer that Anna has dealt with before.

This book is a full of suspense and pschological twists and turns. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good suspense thriller.