Book Description
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon stumbles upon a gruesome
murder with frightening racial overtones in the latest
installment of the bestselling series.
"What lifts the Anna Pigeon novels far above most of the
other contemporary amateur sleuth mysteries is Barr's
exquisite writing--it swoops, it soars, sails then catches
you unawares beneath the heart and takes your breath
away," proclaimed the Cleveland Plain Dealer of
last year's Liberty Falling. In Deep South,
Nevada Barr takes our breath away once again as her heroine
travels cross-country to Mississippi, only to encounter
terrible secrets in the heart of the south.
The handwritten sign on the tree said it all: REPENT. For
Anna Pigeon, this should have been reason enough to turn back
for her beloved Mesa Verde. Instead she heads for the Natchez
Trace Parkway and the promotion that awaits her. Almost
immediately, she finds herself in the midst of controversy:
as the new district ranger, she faces resentment so extreme
her ability to do her job may be compromised, and her life
may very well be in danger. But all thoughts of personal
safety are set aside with the discovery of a young girl's
body in a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose
around her neck.
The kudzu is thick and green, the woods dark and full of
secrets. And the ghosts of violence hover as Anna struggles
for answers to questions that, perhaps, should never be
asked. Deep South proves that, "like the parks
and monuments she writes of, Nevada Barr should be declared a
national treasure" (The Bloomsbury Review).
