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Publisher Marketing: Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months while the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband busy and back at work, Anna decides to go to stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park. Anna isn t in town long before she crosses paths with a tenant of Geneva s, a creepy guy named Jordan. She discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols and begins slowly to find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Tied up in all of this evil magic are Jordan, who is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city. Now it will take all of Anna s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to uncover the threads that connect these seemingly disparate people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures from the most savage of animals." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2010 pg. 65 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Booklist 06/01/2010 pg. 4 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/21/2010 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Romantic Times 08/01/2010 pg. 75 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2010 pg. 62 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2010 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 08/15/2010 pg. 22 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2011 pg. 5 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 45 (EAN 9780312614560, Hardcover) Audio File 10/01/2010 pg. 32 (EAN 9781441816016, Compact Disc) Contributor Bio:  Barr, Nevada NEVADA BARR is a novelist, actor, and artist best known for her New York Times bestselling, award-winning mystery series featuring Anna Pigeon. A former National Park Service Ranger, she currently lives with her husband in New Orleans, Louisiana. Contributor Bio:  Bean, Joyce Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award, including for "Good-bye and Amen" by Beth Gutcheon.