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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. (2003) Another very good Anna Pidgeon story about posting at Dry Tortugas National Park where illegal immigrant smugglers are trying to get over 300 Cubans into the country via this remote island. When Dry Tortugas National Park came up in conversation last week I remembered that we owned this book in audio format and decided to give it a try. I can't really say enough good things about this book! I don't know how typical it is of the series. (As I understand it, the personal life of Anna Pigeon, the main character, is often highlighted in the books and that's not typically a plus for me.) The series aside, on its own merits, this book is definitely 5 stars for me. National Park Service law enforcement officer Anna Pigeon is temporarily stationed at Dry Tortugas after the previous agent in charge had a breakdown upon being left by his girlfriend. Shortly after she arrives all manner of bizarre and illegal events start happening, and the high-action plot is off and running. Parallel to this story is another, set in 1865 at Ft. Jefferson (which takes up most of the park), a Union military prison at the time. Anna is given a cache of letters written by one of her great-great-aunts who was the wife of the commanding officer. That story line involves, among others, Ft. Jefferson's most famous inmate, Samuel Mudd, the physician who set John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln's assassination. This story line is equally thrilling. So, we have a super location, a couple of compelling plot lines, and a number of strong female characters. What more could I want? Excellent writing, that's what, and Nevada Barr delivers. She moves smoothly between the third person recounting of Anna's contemporary story and the first person tale related in the 19th century letters. The icing on the cake is that the narrator is one of my favorites, Barbara Rosenblat. She's SO good with feisty women characters. In FLASHBACK, the 11th book in the park ranger Anna Pigeon series, Anna has taken a temporary assignment at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas off Key West, Florida. One of the things I absolutely love about this series is the way that each book takes you to a different national park, and the setting is described in such exquisite detail that it’s like really being there. This setting was especially fun to read about as Key West is so different to the parks Anna has worked in before. Someone goes missing, requiring a search at sea, some perilous scuba diving investigation, and the remains of an explosion are found. This book is written in dual timelines, with part of the action taking place in flashback through a series of letters Anna reads from the 19th century when Dr. Samuel Mudd (the physician who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg after the Lincoln assassination) was a prisoner there. Very interesting stuff in both timelines. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieAnna Pigeon (11) È contenuto inMenzioni
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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