By Nevada Barr
It truly is fall within the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite nationwide Park's old Ahwahnee lodge. 4 youth, all seasonal park staff, have disappeared, and weeks of labor by way of crack search-and-rescue groups have did not take place a unmarried clue; investigators are not sure as to if the 4 went AWOL for purposes in their own-or died within the park. desiring an out-of-park ranger to paintings undercover, Anna is unique to dining-room responsibility; yet after every week of ready tables, she is aware the lacking staff are just the 1st symptoms of a affliction threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates hand over their party-girl methods and panic; her new eating place colleagues regard her with suspicion and worry. but if Anna's lifestyles is threatened and her transitority manager turns a deaf ear, she follows the smell of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the excessive kingdom, looking solutions. What waits for her is a nightmare of dying and greed-and possibly her ultimate event.
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Who knows," he said. "Jim's a moody guy. The price of genius, I guess. He is a genius when it comes to food. He's internationally known. Or was. " Scott looked up from mutilating the napkin. Gossipy camaraderie was gone. There was no trace of boyishness or bourbon. His years in Soledad stood in his eyes like rusty nails. Voice gone hard, he said, "The reason I'm not hauling plastic pipe for some pool company in San Diego or pushing buttons at a wastewater plant for six-fifty an hour is because of Jim.
Dark eyes, sunken and burning like hot coals in his pale, fleshless face, Jim Wither stood to Scott's other side. The cadaverous chef was trembling as if an emotion too great for his being raged through his wasted frame. The abruptly fragmented world coalesced. Wither had knocked over-or thrown-a pot of boiling water that landed where Anna had been standing. Had Scott Wooldrich not snatched her up and moved her, she would have been scalded from waist to ankle. Scott's apron and trousers were wet.
Maybe later," she said. They sipped in silence for a while. The last hangers-on in the bar muttered softly over their drinks. Windows, blind-black with an overcast night, put Anna in mind of cave walls and a sudden panic of claustrophobia shuddered through her. She rode it out. "Tell me about working with Jim," she said to keep the conversation going. Telling stories of his mentor, Scott grew animated, joyful. Listening to him extol his eccentric patron's virtues, Anna was put in mind of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, Dickens characters who knew and showed gratitude untouched by resentment or shame.