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    Written by Nevada Barr

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

    3.5/5

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    The five-week New York Times bestseller.

    Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.

    Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time.

    When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 25, 2006
    ISBN9781423300670
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    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.

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    • 4/5
      I've loved all of the books in the Anna Pigeon series. Especially enjoyed the history in this one.
    • 4/5
      Not bad, a little too long. The two stories (one in the present and one after the Civil War) were not intertwined enough for me, and the ending was not that satisfying. But after visiting several forts recently, it was interesting to be able to clearly picture the setting for this novel.
    • 3/5
      Anna Pigeon leaves her assignment on the Natchez Trace Parkway to temporarily fill the shoes as Chief Ranger at Dry Tortugas National Park off the coast of Key West. The ranger there is on medical leave as others question his sanity. Anna receives a packet of letters written by an ancestor who accompanied her husband to Fort Jefferson during the Civil War, the main feature of the national park. The present story involves a boat explosion, the injury of the other law enforcement ranger, dives to learn more about the boat and its potential business, and more. The past story dealing with the Lincoln Conspirators imprisoned in Fort Jefferson is told completely through the letters. Each story could stand on its own--and probably should have. I love historical fiction, but I read Nevada Barr's work for Anna's story and found myself tiring of the endless letters. They occupied far too much of the story, and I found myself asking whether her ancestor would have written such long letters. While I enjoyed both stories, they didn't really work that well together. This is more of a 3.25 star read than a 3.0, but it's not quite up to a 3.5 one so I'm rounding down. I listened to the audio book narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
    • 4/5
      Anna Pigeon is back. This time as a park ranger on one of the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park off the coast of Florida. She's there to fill in temporarily for another ranger who has fallen ill and run from a marriage proposal she doesn't know what to do about. While there she takes to reading old Civil War era letters written by a great-great-aunt that play an integral part in a mystery surrounding a missing woman. When a mysterious boat explosion yields unidentified body parts Anna is in the thick of the crime; as usual getting herself into sticky situations. If you remember from earlier Pigeon mysteries, she is extremely claustrophobic. To give you an idea, the scene where she is diving under an engine to recover parts of a dead man...In typical fashion Barr describes this national park in such a way you want to book a flight to it immediately. She captures the culture, the atmosphere with vivid detail.
    • 4/5
      It's been a long time since I read this book but I have read the entire series, up until the most current book and I really like it. I love how the series is set outdoors in the different parks. If you like C.J. Box, then you'll like Barr too.
    • 4/5
      Read it as two separate books until the last couple chapters. Either one was good but I still prefer her writing as Anna Pigeon.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my favorites of the recent Anna Pigeon books (well, kind of recent anyway). The historical aspect -- with even a little bit of "woo-woo" thrown in -- and the unusual nature of Dry Tortugas fascinated me. With Anna Pigeon, I also get to experience things I would never do in real life -- since I can't swim, there's plenty of that sort of thing in this book. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Different from the other Anna Pigeon mysteries--in this one there is a parallel mystery that takes place right after the Civil War, told in letters. Pigeon's engagement with the letters plays into what's going on around the fort in the present day, and things get quite gothic at times.
    • 3/5
      Anna Pigeon is now serving as a temporary Supervisory Ranger at Dry Tortugas National Park off the Florida Keys. Things appear to be calm until the night a boat blows up and one of her rangers goes missing. Anna then goes into her investigative mode. The story alternates with Anna reading old letters from a great Aunt who lived Fort Jefferson following the Civil War. The letters provide a history of the fort and its most famous resident, Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's leg following the assassination of President Lincoln.As I am not a great fan of story within a story books, I was irritated by the alternating chapters. However, I did find the historical facts about the fort to be very interesting.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book in which Anna Pigeon is acting Supervisory Ranger in Dry Tortugas National Park. The previous Supervisory Ranger is on sick leave having gone off the deep end after his girlfriend left him. Anna is enjoying being in a marine environment again (Dry Tortugas is in the Gulf of Mexico west of Key West, Florida) and spends much of her time off diving in the warm waters. She is also taking time to think about her boyfriend's proposal since he is left back in Mississippi.If Anna was hoping for a quiet time that is about to be blown to pieces, literally. Her second in command comes upon a speed boat that is acting mysteriously. In their haste to take off the speed boat blows up and a piece of their boat makes a hole in the NPS boat the ranger is in. Although the ranger survives the two men on the boat died and Anna has to find out what they were up to.One of her ancestors, an army wife, lived on Dry Tortugas during and after the Civil War. Anna's sister, Molly, sent Anna the letters she had written during her time at Fort Jefferson thinking they will help Anna pass the time. Instead they seem to drag Anna into the past to the point that Anna believes she sees her great-great-aunt's ghost.What with the ghosts of the past and the mysterious happenings of the present, Anna has her hands full.I really enjoyed this juxtaposition of stories. The historical details of life in a federal prison just after the Civil War when some of the inmates were the conspirators who worked with John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated President Lincoln were very interesting. And, as always, Anna's penchant for dangerous explorations creates a thrilling story.
    • 5/5
      Another excellent Nevada Barr mystery...I'm starting to worry that I'm going to run out of her books soon and go back to the drawing board for new authors.
    • 5/5
      I really like the Anna Pigeon series, but I'm a bit less enthousiastic about this particular book. You get two stories for the price of one: the adventures of Anna on Garden Key, part of Dry Tortugas National Park and as far South as you can get and still be in the USA, and of her great-great(-great?) aunt Rafaella who lived on Garden Key just after the Civil War, when it was a prison camp. Both stories are well told and thrilling, but I got annoyed with the switching back and forth, always stopping with a cliffhanger, and without there being any literary reason for this. Anna is supposed to be reading her aunts letters, and you get these in installments, but Anna stops reading at places that nobody else would :-)And I like Anna for not being a wimp and being very courageous and physical, but in this book it all becomes a bit too much, she is turning into a regular superwoman and that does not suit the rest of her character, I think.So, not the best in the series, but that will not stop me buying the next one!
    • 3/5
      Anna Pigeon gets assigned to Dry Tortugas National Park, a very remote piece of sand and brick that's a two hour boat ride away from Key West, Florida. Considering it's one of my favorite places, I had high hopes for this park ranger mystery. However, like the heavy bricks and mortar of Fort Jefferson that are built on sandy foundations, the weight of the book's two combined mysteries ultimately sinks it. Anna is assigned to the fort after the previous head ranger left for psychological evaluations because he reported seeing ghosts. The fort is a long, long way from anywhere, and Anna passes the off-hours by reading letters from her long-lost aunt, who had been at the fort just after the Civil War. The novel is told in alternating chapters-- modern day with Anna's pursuit of strange goings-on at the fort, and the 1860s epistilary accounts from Anna's great, great (several times over) aunt about two men who were being held at Fort Jefferson for their role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The older story drags the newer mystery down, and while the history is interesting, it ultimately slows the larger novel. Barr weaves a good story, but the length of the flashbacks and the ending that wraps everything up (including the former park ranger on medical leave) just doesn't work as well as her other Anna Pigeon novels. Fans of the series won't be terribly disappointed, but I won't recommend this as a starting place lest readers not want to try others in the series.
    • 1/5
      This one never really came together for me. The flashbacks and the present just didn't work.
    • 4/5
      I've enjoyed all 11 of Barr's Anna Pigeon mystery novels set at National Parks. This one set in the Dry Tortugas National Park was particularly interesting because it told the story through alternating chapters set today and during the Civil War. We've been wanting to visit this island 70 miles off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.