Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)

Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)

Product Type: Book

Product Price: $25.99

Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

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Nevada Barr brings her acclaimed New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon series to Minotaur Books with one of her most compelling, complex novels yet!
 
Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband back at work, Anna decides to go and stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isn’t in town long before she crosses paths with a tenant of Geneva’s, a creepy guy named Jordan. She discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her—a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Tied up in all of this is Jordan, who is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city.

Now it will take all of Anna’s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to uncover the threads that connect these seemingly disparate people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures from the most savage of animals.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-09-06
Summary: "Never again"

I've never felt raped by words before, but after reading this one, I felt a strong urge for a hot shower.

This is extremely disappointing considering that Nevada Barr was always a favorite author. I have all her books, most of them autographed when she lived in Clinton, MS.

Unfortunately, I won't be buying any more; over time they have become too dark and unpleasant. Maybe she can get a fresh mindset by re-reading her earlier novels to see how she used to write. They were spellbinding without casting an evil spell.

The hellish depravity so graphically described in this novel may have satisfied some personal need for Barr, but it did nothing but create a 'sick' feeling for this reader.

The best writers always tie up all loose ends in mysteries or thrillers. There were two big flaws in Burn; Barr wasn't up to par this time.

Burn is so sad for many reasons.

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "Not a typical Nevada Barr mystery"

If you are looking for a good mystery set amid exceptional descriptions of our national parks, don't by this book. The plot is excellent but the topic is very dark. Reviews hint at a voodoo link which is absent in the book itself. Very difficult to get interested in. Still, probably worth reading if you can deal with horrors of its subject matter. But wait for the paperback version

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-09-03
Summary: "Disappointing"

I agree with the others who state that no matter what a good writer she is, Nevada Barr has put us through a very painful experience in reading this book. Though it is just as well-wrought as her other stories, one wishes she hadn't tackled such an excruciating topic. I really wish I hadn't read this book, because now I'm having nightmares of my own horrific childhood experiences.

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-09-03
Summary: "Good Title"

Apparently "burn" is what would be best for this book!! I wanted to buy it till I saw the landslide of negative reviews....it just sounds depraved.

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-09-01
Summary: "Disappointed"

Very disappointed in this book. I was hoping to get intrigued enough to read more of the Anna Pigeon novels, but book hasn't got me wanting for more....