Blood Lure, by Nevada Barr (on CD)

I had read this before, in print. If I weren't lazy, I'd go find my 'review' from then. Mostly I picked this up to have something in the car driving back and forth to work and I like Barbara Rosenblat, the narrator. She's never led me astray.

She does a typically nice job here with Anna's voice, keeping it flat and unsentimental. Anna reminds me so much of a good friend of mine, for no discernable reason beyond height and worldview. Otherwise, they are diametric opposites. Still, with even step further into her character, I can't help but see my friend. And that makes me laugh.

In this book, Anna is helping set up a study on the grizzlies of Glacier Park. She's there to learn how to keep track of wildlife without damaging their habitats unduly. In the course of things, she and the other researchers are set upon one night by a giant grizzly only to find a dead body the next day, murdered in a gory, hideous fashion.

Since I remembered most of the plot, I could pay more attention to the flow of the story and the characterizations. It's a different thing to read with your eyes than it is to listen.

Good story. No shock there.