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Burn (Anna Pigeon, Bk 16) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Burn - Anna Pigeon, Bk 16 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Nevada Barr, Joyce Bean (Narrator) With her new husband back at work, Anna Pigeon decides to spend some of her administrative leave time in New Orleans -- visiting a friend from the Park Service; Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. Anna isn't in town long before she discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her: a gruesomely killed pigeo... more »n marked with runic symbols. Everything traces back to Geneva's tenant, Jordan, a creepy guy who works at a strip club in the French Quarter -- who is not at all what he appears to be....
Audio Review:
Joyce Bean makes each of Barr's characters instantly discernible, using varied speech patterns and pauses. Series regular Anna Pigeon, on leave from the National Park Service, is visiting an old friend in New Orleans. There she meets creepy Jordan, one of her friend's boarders, as well as fugitive Claire Sullivan, a Seattle mother accused of killing her husband and two daughters. As a post-Katrina world of voodoo curses and whispers of other eerie dark doings is revealed, Bean's pacing is exact, slowly delivering the languid passages of atmosphere and ratcheting up the tension where needed. Bean's mastery of storytelling serves Barr's latest drama well. -- AudioFile