Nevada Barr - Flashback (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) Hardcover Book BCE

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This listing is for Nevada Barr Flashback (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) Hardcover BCE.  

Series: Anna Pigeon Mysteries

Hardcover: 388 pages

Publisher: Putnam Adult; Book Club Edition (February 10, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0399149759

ISBN-13: 978-0399149757

Taking a temporary post as ranger in Dry Tortugas National Park to escape dealing with a marriage proposal from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon fantasizes about an ancestor's romantic marriage before a mysterious boating accident leads her to uncover sinister local crimes from the past. When it comes to a vibrant sense of place, Barr has few equals, as deliciously demonstrated in her 11th Anna Pigeon novel (after 2002's Hunting Season), set in little-known Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. Anna takes up her new post on Garden Key, home to Fort Jefferson, a notorious Union prison during the Civil War, after fleeing a marriage proposal from just-divorced Sheriff Paul Davidson. As she goes about her duties, Anna quickly becomes ensnared in one life-threatening situation after another. Anna's fans expect no less; all her postings somehow turn dangerous. Indeed, the contrast between the natural beauty of the landscapes and the human evils within them is a recurring theme. But this one has an added twist: a mystery concerning alleged Lincoln assassination conspirator Dr. Samuel Mudd interweaves with current crimes. In a coincidence best left unscrutinized, Anna's great-great-great-aunt was the wife of the fort's commanding officer, and her letters, relating a story of intrigue and murder, have surfaced. The two stories are told in alternating chapters, and only Barr's skill keeps this familiar device fresh. The pitch-perfect 19th-century phrasing in the letters makes it easy to forgive the occasional over-the-top prose in the modern scenes. But this is a quibble. Those who already admire the doughty National Park ranger will rejoice in this double-layered story with its remarkable setting, passionately rendered; new readers have a treat in store.

Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author best known for her Anna Pigeon series of mystery novels set in national parks in the United States. When her then-director husband changed careers and became interested in the environmental movement, she began working as a seasonal park ranger in the summer. Barr created the Anna Pigeon series while working at her second seasonal job in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Pigeon is a law enforcement ranger with the United States National Park Service. The books in the series take place in various national parks where Pigeon solves murders that are often related to natural resource issues. 

Barr's first permanent park ranger job was on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She resigned to focus on writing when her books began to achieve commercial success.

Anna Pigeon character: Anna Pigeon is a fictional park ranger and detective in the series of novels by the same name. She shares some life experiences with the author such as working as a national park ranger and having had a husband who worked in the theater in New York City.

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