Hard Truth (Anna Pigeon Series #13)

by Nevada Barr Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

Overview

Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end

Editorial Reviews

Marilyn Stasio

[Barr] has real feeling for creatures who live in the wild, especially women who can't be tamed.
— The New York Times

Kirkus Reviews

Married but living a thousand miles from her bridegroom, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon gets another harsh lesson in just how badly men can behave. You'd expect jubilation when two of the three young girls missing from their campsite and presumed dead emerge from the wilderness. But in Rocky Mountain National Park, where Anna's dream job as district ranger has separated her from her husband, Paul Davidson, the return of Beth Dwayne, 12, and Alexis Sheppard, 13, spooks Anna but good. The girls' closemouthed families, stalwart members of the Reformed Saints, refuse to let them talk to psychiatrists, get examined by rape counselors or accept any but lifesaving medical assistance. And Robert Proffit, the born-again youth group leader on whose watch they disappeared, is acting not so suspiciously as weirdly. Counting for help on backcountry ranger Raymond Bleeker and seasonal ranger Rita Perry, Anna's not at all sure she can trust them. Her most dependable ally will be paraplegic climber Heath Jarrod, still raging over the accident that put her in a wheelchair. Together and separately, the two women will confront a series of human predators who show how thin a line separates men from beasts. If the escalating horrors, which make Anna's first 12 novels (High Country, 2004, etc.) seem kind and gentle, don't stand your hair on end, make an emergency appointment with a therapist, or book a tour of the National Parks, where you'll evidently be right at home. Author tour

OCT/NOV 05 - AudioFile

Just married, Ranger Anna Pigeon leaves her honeymoon to begin her new job at Rocky Mountain National Park. A month after three young girls disappear from a religious retreat, two of them wander into the camp of Heath Jarrod, a woman confined to a wheelchair as a result of a climbing accident. Pigeon begins an investigation that uncovers the brutal butchery of small animals, a bizarre religious cult, and the unspeakable evil of a sadistic psychopath. Barbara Rosenblat expertly navigates the twists and turns of Barr’s precision plotting. Rosenblat’s Golden Voice makes even the least important characters three-dimensional. From messianic maniac to depressed paraplegic, Rosenblat’s commanding performance makes Nevada Barr’s thirteenth Anna Pigeon mystery one of the best. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169388619
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	02/24/2008
Series:	Anna Pigeon Series , #13
Edition description:	Unabridged

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