From the Publisher
"Barbara Rosenblat’s reading is outstanding as she fully captures the many emotions involved in this suspenseful novel." SoundCommentary.com
"[Barbara] Rosenblat sounds exactly as you'd expect the frustrated, depressed teenager to sound...Rosenblat is completely convincing. Add a murder investigation, an abusive husband, identical twins, a couple of kidnappings, the gorgeous Maine landscape, and Rosenblat's expertise—and you have the makings of first-rate listening." -AudioFile
Charlotte Observer on Burn
Barr creates possibly her most riveting story yet.
Times-Picayune (New Orleans) on The Rope
A fast-moving, unforgettable tale.
Sun Sentinel on The Rope
Gripping . . . suspenseful . . . a tightly coiled story about trust and rebuilding a life, set against a stunning landscape.
Marilyn Stasio
A harrowing survival story, well imagined and forcefully told, about a brutal act that inspires a weak woman to become a strong one.
New York Times Book Review
Barr writes with a cool steady hand about the violence of nature and the cruelty of man.
The Boston Globe
Nevada Barr is one of the best.
Kirkus Reviews
2016-03-03
Ranger Anna Pigeon, sent from the Rockies to Maine's Acadia National Park for a three-week stint, finds the brief interval more than long enough for another round of murder and assorted skulduggery. It seems like an especially good time to leave Boulder, where 16-year-old Elizabeth, the adopted daughter of Anna's friend Heath Jarrod, has turned withdrawn and suicidal after becoming the victim first of unwanted and wholly inappropriate sexual overtures and then of an unrelenting barrage of cyberstalking and cybershaming. So packing up Heath, Elizabeth, and their dog Wily, Anna heads east just in time to run smack into a bizarre murder plot. Nurse Paulette Duffy, newly reunited with Acadia ranger Denise Castle, the identical twin separated from her for most of their lifetimes, is so convinced that her abusive husband, lobsterman Kurt Duffy, is going to kill her that she decides to strike first, establishing an ironclad alibi while her newfound sister does the dirty work. Denise, whose inability to cover her tracks is magnified by an inherited disease she doesn't know about and a series of comically unlikely coincidences, arouses Anna's suspicions almost instantly and just as quickly decides that "the pigeon" has to go. Lest Elizabeth feel neglected, her tormenter follows her to Acadia and demands a meeting that can't possibly end well. By the time it's all over, Anna will have been kidnapped twice, the second time duct-taped to a babe in arms. After the razor-sharp focus of Destroyer Angel (2014), Barr's latest is a surprisingly hot mess, awash in scattered crimes whose perpetrators' behaviors defy belief. There's not even much about Acadia National Park.
