High Country - Nevada Barr

High Country is the 12th Anna Pigeon novel. Anna is pulled from her current station in Mississippi to go undercover in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young seasonal park workers have turned up missing and extensive searching has returned nothing and Anna is brought in undercover to see what she can learn from her fellow employees. She finds plenty to be suspicious about from her twenty-something roommates and the irritable head chef in the restaurant where Anna is waitressing in the place of one of the missing girls. An overheard conversation leads her on an expedition alone into the high country where she finds the source of the mystery and almost loses her life to some city-slicker goons. But, her will to live and to obtain justice lead her back to the main part of the park where she finds more clues and more trouble and her survival skills are pushed to the limits. Once again, Nevada Barr has delivered a suspenseful, thought-provoking novel set among beautiful scenery and corrupted people.