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).
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