Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Hard Truth by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0399152415 Pages: 336 Published: 2005 HARD TRUTH Anna Pigeon comes face to face with the dark side of humanity. "This summer's backpack read of choice is the latest national park mystery from Nevada Barr, whose gumshoe ranger Anna Pigeon has been cracking cases in the wilderness for more than a decade." —Outside, on High Country Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children reappear a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are frightened and traumatized, but they forge a bond with the campers who discover them—a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terrors: small animals are found mercilessly slaughtered, and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself