Deep South

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Nevada Barr's award-winning mystery series captivates fans with vividly drawn wilderness settings and the resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon. Deep South portrays Anna boldly confronting hostile teenagers, suspicious locals, and a resentful "old-boy" network as she struggles to solve a gruesome murder. Anna leaves behind her beloved Mesa Verde to take on a position as district park ranger of the Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway. Once there she faces an angry staff that refuses to work with a woman supervisor. But she pushes that difficulty aside when she stumbles over the body of a teenage girl, shrouded in a hood reminiscent of the KKK. As Anna searches for the truth amidst lies and evasions, she discovers the overgrown woods, thick with kudzu, hold dark secrets that can only lead to violence. Nevada Barr draws on her own experience as a ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway to create believable situations. Barbara Rosenblat transports you to the Mississippi countryside to feel the sultry heat and smell the heady scents.

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Critic reviews

"Barr produces another suspenseful and highly atmospheric mystery, illuminated even in this new setting by her trademark lyricism in writing about the natural world." (Publishers Weekly)
"Barr paints a luminous picture of the geography and the people of the Natchez Trace. Anna is a delight." (Library Journal)
"Narrator Barbara Rosenblat turns in the virtuoso performance that listeners have come to expect. She distinctly renders the Deep South accents of whites and blacks; men and women; old, middle-aged, and juveniles." (AudioFile)
"The novel offers the same strengths as its predecessors: vivid prose, a surprising plot, and a cast of sympathetic, well-rounded characters, both series regulars and a new crew of rangers and locals. There are some new pleasures as well: Barr effectively captures the beauty and menace of nature below the Mason Dixon Line and provides thoughtful insights into teens, race, and the Civil War." (Booklist)

Mississippi Bound

Anna moves to the Natchez Trace to be the head park ranger. Almost immediately she is immersed in a murder investigation of a teen girl. If the kudzu vines don’t get her the gator in her driveway might. Love the series and narrator.

great book

Listened to this book while traveling. Good storyline. I enjoyed the reader. Murder mystery along the Trace.

Noisy Narration

The story is very good. However, I completely agree with a couple of the other reviews in regards to the intakes of breath and swallowing by the narrator. Very distracting. I had to stop listening a couple of times, but finally decided to stick it out. This is my first Nevada Barr book and I will definitely listen to more as long as there is a different narrator!!!

Wonderful as always

Ms. Barr never disappoints. And what’s not to love in regard to Anna Pigeon!? Another well written mystery that you can loose yourself in the total story. The landscape, the dialogue, the mystery. Thank you Nevada! 😎

entertaining

always enjoy the nevada barr yarns. this over is particularly good with the southern heritage theme.

Anna Needs Self Defense Lessons

Anna keeps taking crazy chances, putting herself in dangerous situations, so she needs to get some serious lessons in self defense plus start carrying more weapons. or better yet, start using her brain. She is not Jack Reacher.

Narrator does good job but editor and/or sound technician are horrible because breathing and swallowing sounds should be edited better.

Please re-record!

I was interested in the read, but honestly could not listen to this woman swallowing any longer. The intonation was off, but the background rasp and cotton mouth was the nail in the coffin.

Narrator'w Swallowing Very Distracting

I like the Nevada Barr series. They are easy listening and don't compare to Michael Connelly or John Sandford, but if you know this, you don't expect the same level of plot and characters. Unfortunately this book is set in the south and since I am a recent transplant to the south, unfortunately I find it fairly accurate. What really bothered me, though, was the narrator's constant swallowing and breath intakes. It sounded like her throat was very dry and she needed water. It was distracting, especially the swallowing which bordered on grossness. It was an effort to continue to listen to the book to the finish. I will certainly sample the audio of any books Rosenblat narrates before purchasing.

deep south

wow... I just started reading these books by nevada barr, And I started with hard truth. I know that isn't the order there written, But whats so cool about this series is they all have A life of there own and it doesn't matter. The hard truth was a very good read, But this one hit home being in the south not to mention the natchez trace.
The best story In my opinion I ever read. Don't pass this one up you will miss out...

It Is What It Is

Although Ms. Rosenblatt is an exceptional narrator, she could not do much with this trite and predictable narrative. As this novel was rated as the best in this series by Nevada Barr, I will not be downloading the others.