Burn, Nevada Barr
Burn, Nevada Barr
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Burn

Author: Nevada Barr

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Abridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/03/2010


Synopsis

Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband back at work, Anna decides to go and stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isn't in town long before she crosses paths with a tenant of Geneva's, a creepy guy named Jordan. She discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her—a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Tied up in all of this is Jordan, who is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city. Now it will take all of Anna's skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to uncover the threads that connect these seemingly disparate people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures from the most savage of animals.

About Nevada Barr

NEVADA BARR is a novelist, actor, and artist best known for her New York Times bestselling, award-winning mystery series featuring Anna Pigeon. A former National Park Service Ranger, she currently lives with her husband in New Orleans, Louisiana.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Beverly on 2010-08-02 06:34:38

What's this about. Your photo is of a Nevada Barr novel and all the reviews are for Linda Howard's novel. Which is it?

AudiobooksNow review by Sara on 2011-02-24 17:24:04

I have been a long time fan of Nevada Barr, reading everything she has written. This book is written in the same crisp, logical prose, but the subject matter is terribly depressing. Maybe we need publicity for this terrible thing happening to some children, but never, ever think you will be entertained by this book.

Goodreads review by Jody on October 16, 2010

SIIIIIIGGGHH...I guess I'm finished with Nevada Barr. Her Ranger Anna Pigeon series started out friendly enough, but the last few books have been edgier and more explicit and I'm just not handling it. I don't blame Nevada or anyone. I'm just choosing to read other things. The sadness comes in thinki......more

Goodreads review by Leiah on January 01, 2013

All of you naysayers just don't want to accept the truth - humans are a failed species. You whiny people are the reason monsters like this get away with this type of thing - - you CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE TRUTH. This sort of thing --- IT IS YOUR FAULT FOR IGNORING IT! Nevada Barr does an EXCEPTIONAL job......more

Goodreads review by Sue on May 05, 2011

This was a more difficult read than the "typical" Anna Pigeon mystery novel. Instead of the wide vistas of various national parks and the descriptions of the natural world that offset the human predators she deals with, the setting is the darker side of New Orleans and modern day sex slavery and ped......more

Goodreads review by Pam on July 22, 2010

I was excited to win this advance-read book on Goodreads, especially because I have read other books by Nevada Barr in her Anna Pigeon series and I really like the character. This story was darker than some of Anna's other adventures. It delves so deeply into the worst of human nature, that you crin......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on October 14, 2010

First of all, I have to say that I’m tired of main recurring characters in mystery novels that do dumb and dangerous things when there are smarter and safer alternatives. I’m getting fed up! What’s wrong with me that I liked this book?! This mystery is practically the opposite of a cozy mystery, and......more