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    Deep South
    Deep South
    Deep South
    Audiobook12 hours

    Deep South

    Written by Nevada Barr

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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    About this audiobook

    Nevada Barr's award-winning mystery series captivates fans with vividly drawn wilderness settings and the resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon. Deep South portrays Anna boldly confronting hostile teenagers, suspicious locals, and a resentful "old-boy" network as she struggles to solve a gruesome murder. Anna leaves behind her beloved Mesa Verde to take on a position as district park ranger of the Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway. Once there she faces an angry staff that refuses to work with a woman supervisor. But she pushes that difficulty aside when she stumbles over the body of a teenage girl, shrouded in a hood reminiscent of the KKK. As Anna searches for the truth amidst lies and evasions, she discovers the overgrown woods, thick with kudzu, hold dark secrets that can only lead to violence. Nevada Barr draws on her own experience as a ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway to create believable situations. Barbara Rosenblat transports you to the Mississippi countryside to feel the sultry heat and smell the heady scents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 6, 2008
    ISBN9781449801243
    Deep South
    Author

    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
      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.
    • 5/5
      Book #8 in the Anna Pigeon series finds Anna moving up into management as district ranger in the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She arrives at her new post to feel the resentment of her two field rangers at having a woman boss and their ensuing insubordination. Coming from Mesa Verde, the whole feel of the Trace is different with its dark, dank vegetation and creepy, crawling critters. Then a young girl is found dead in a nearby cemetery on park property. She is all dressed up, but with a cover over her head and noose around her neck. As Anna’s investigation gets more involved, Anna finds herself the target of resentment for her being “Northern” and a woman, and aware of the currents of racial bigotry that run deep.While reading this book I enjoyed the descriptions of the area and followed the events on the map that was provided. More of the woman who is Anna was revealed as her character evolves throughout the series.
    • 5/5
      As always, Nevada Barr does not disappoint.
    • 4/5
      According to the author info on the back cover, Nevada Barr lives in Mississippi and worked as a ranger on the Natchez Trace. Little wonder that this book, in which Anna Pigeon leaves Mesa Verde and goes to work on the Natchez Trace, seems so authentic.Anna has taken a promotion to leave the desert that she loved and she may have cause to regret it. Her two subordinates, Randy Thigpen and Bartholomew Dinkin, exhibit behavior reminiscent of men before women’s lib. They are insubordinate, messy, lazy and generally lacking in social graces. On the other hand, the chief ranger in the next district, Steve Stilwell, is helpful and funny and the sheriff for the district, Paul Davidson, is more than helpful and he’s pretty good looking.Anna’s housing is right next to one of the NPS campgrounds so she has to field all the campers’ questions and complaints even when she’s not technically on duty. So when the head of a boy scout troop comes to complain about teenagers driving at high speeds and shouting obscenities through the campground Anna has to go investigate. What she finds is two boys dressed in tuxedos in a graveyard next to an old church. After scaring them half to death Anna hears someone crying. After some searching she finds a young girl in a prom dress hiding in one of the enclosures. The girl is almost incoherent with drink and can hardly move. Anna manages to get her back to her new housing and in the morning is able to contact her parents. However, the young girl, Heather, is reticent about what occurred the night before claiming she doesn’t remember anything because of the drink.When Sherriff Davidson comes looking for a young girl who didn’t make it home from the prom, Anna assumes it is Heather he is talking about and tells him she has already been reunited with her parents. The Sherriff thinks that’s great news and says he is going to phone Danielle’s parents. Then Anna realizes that it’s another girl who has gone missing. So the search continues. Anna goes out to go over the area she found Heather in which has the added benefit of orienting her to her turf in the daylight. She takes her dog, Taco, with her and lets him off leash. When he returns with a bloody scarf she realizes they may be looking for a dead body. She calls in some help, including Randy Thigpen, and eventually they find Danielle who is indeed dead. Bizarrely she is wrapped in a sheet with eyeholes, like the Ku Klux Klan would wear, and she has a piece of clothesline around her neck.Since Sherriff Davidson has concurrent jurisdiction he and Anna spend a lot of time trying to solve the mystery of Danielle’s death. Anna gets a late night call out about a road accident and when she goes into the garage an alligator is under her car. Anna is slightly hurt but her dog is severely injured when he comes to her rescue. It’s pretty obvious that the alligator was put there to intimidate her. Not one to be easily deterred Anna continues to pursue the case and thinks the perpetrator may have been Danielle’s date for the prom. She and Paul (because they have gotten to first name basis and more) hold off charging him. That night Anna finds out Paul is married when his wife comes to visit. She goes for a late night stroll and almost doesn’t make it back alive. She runs into Danielle’s killer who beats her up pretty badly. Anna manages to inflict her own damage that makes finding the man easy. With the case solved she is convalescing at home when Paul arrives. He tells her that he has filed for a divorce and that he has been separated from his wife for three years. It looks like Anna’s love life is looking up!
    • 5/5
      this is one of my favorite's of hers. I do not love all of them--sometimes her mysteries have situations that are too ongoing-tense and claustrophobic--like the one set deep underground in a cave and the one about the firestorm. I prefer the ones she writes that are set in a more typical park setting...anyway I loved this one because it is set in the deep south and it is full of atmosphere, interesting characters and an engaging mystery. And, as always, I love the tough Anna Pidgeon.
    • 5/5
      Really good, just like the first Barr I read. Rings with authenticity in descriptions of both Southern characters and Southern places, and beautifully paced through the first three-quarters of the book. A little bit of a collapse thereafter; I found the motive to be not particularly realistic, and Barr gets her heroine into such a mess near the end of the book that I don't think she ever could have realistically gotten out of it. Definitely well worth the read, though.