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Mississippi Books and WritersFebruary 2006Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice.
By Nevada Barr Berkley (Paperback, $7.99, ISBN: 0425208419) Publication date: February 2006 Description from Publishers Weekly : In Barrs taut 13th thriller to feature Anna Pigeon (after 2004s High Country), the 50-ish National Park Service ranger leaves her new husband, Paul, back in Mississippi, to assume a new post in Colorados Rocky Mountain National Park, where she encounters a serial killer and a strong, determined woman, Heath Jarrod, much like herself. Heath, a former ice climber now confined to a wheelchair after a near-fatal fall, feels depressed, isolated and helpless. Shes camping in the national park with her physician, whos also her aunt, when a pair of battered young girls, two of three missing from a nearby religious retreat, appear at the campsite. Heath and Anna at first dislike one another, but join forces to break the silence enforced by the retreats domineering head and discover why the youngsters vanished, who took them, where they were and what happened to the third girl. Barr skillfully weaves contemporary issues of parental responsibility, religious and political separatism, and sexual abuse into her harrowing story. She carefully sets the scene in the first part of the book, which builds to a spectacular climax that pits Anna against evil incarnate. Noted for her precise plotting and atmospheric descriptions of nature, Barr again proves her skill in putting believable characters in peril against a backdrop of breathtaking scenery. —Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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