13 12, Nevada Barr
13 12, Nevada Barr
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13 1/2

Author: Nevada Barr

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/29/2009

Synopsis

With 13 ½, Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels, has written a taut and terrifying psychological thriller. It carries the reader from the horrifying 1970s murder spree of a child—dubbed “Butcher Boy” by a shocked public—in Rochester, Minnesota, to Polly, the abused daughter of Mississippi “trailer trash,” to post-Katrina New Orleans.In Jackson Square in the French Quarter a tarot card reader told Polly Deschamps she would be a success. Thirty years later, Polly is a respected professor of literature with good friends and her own home—a safe life for her and her two daughters.Butcher Boy, released on his seventeenth birthday, shook the snow from his boots and headed south.New Orleans, a Mecca for runaways then and now, offers sanctuary but never forgiveness.When Polly falls in love with Marshall Marchand, a restoration architect who is helping to rebuild her adopted city, shadows of the past rise out of the poisoned ground of New Orleans as thick and deadly as the toxic waters of the flood.Like history, some crimes are doomed to repeat themselves. Evil stays the same, only the victims’ names change. As two broken pasts collide in an uncertain present, Polly is determined that her children’s names will never be on that list.

About Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is the award-winning author of thirteen previous Anna Pigeon mysteries, including the New York Times bestsellers Hard Truth and High Country. She lives in New Orleans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zinta on October 14, 2009

I am holding Nevada Barr responsible: since picking up her newest novel, 13 ½, I have been losing sleep. Until the very last page had been read, sleep continued to evade me. In all my lifelong voracious reading habits, I continue to find that writers can generally be classified in one of two groups:......more

Goodreads review by Florence (Lefty) on August 10, 2016

I’m weird enough to read a book just to satisfy my curiosity about a title. It’s a prison tattoo, stands for 12 jurors, 1 judge & ½ a chance. If you were curious I just saved you from having to read this. Not a book for the faint hearted (and I'm not) it’s just that it’s OVERLOADED with excessively......more

Goodreads review by Judy on November 09, 2021

This stand alone crime novel does not feature Anna Pigeon. In fact, it is a bit beyond anything Anna ever had to deal with in the National Parks. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it follows the fate of two brothers, one of whom killed their parents and sister. The question is, who actually did. The......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 10, 2009

It's always a nervous time when a series author ventures out of the safety of the familiar, but this one works. It's a thriller, not a mystery; Polly Deschamps is no Anna Pigeon; and it's set, not in a national park, but post-Katrina New Orleans. But I urge you to take a step away from the familiar,......more

Goodreads review by Rosina on November 01, 2010

I wish Barr would write more novels like this, rather than the Anna Pigeon novels which have never really kept my interest. BIG BIG SPOILERS FOLLOW This novel worked for me on multiple levels, but most important is the fact that I was totally engaged in the two main characters -- Polly, who walks awa......more

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