The Rope

An Anna Pigeon Mystery, Book 17

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hrs

Publisher's summary

Anna Pigeon has been a ranger with the National Park Service for many years, but she had a very different life before tragedy sent her west seeking something new. Now Nevada Barr finally tells the previously untold story of Anna’s first foray into the wild, and the case that helped shape her into the ranger she became.

Thirty-five years old, fresh off the bus from New York City, and nursing a shattered heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, she goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she’s simply moved on - her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she got into this situation.

As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and that no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, strength, and will to live that she didn’t even know she still possessed in order to survive, outwit, and triumph.

Investigate more mysterious doings with Anna Pigeon.

©2012 Nevada Barr (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

The Rope

Joyce Bean did a good job narrating the story. This is book 17 in the Anna Pigeon Series but this book goes back and explains how she became a Ranger. Barr provides beautiful description of the Lake Powell National Park, felt like I was there. The story provides lots of suspense and nail biting action that keeps one glued to the IPod.

Must suspend disbelief

I usually like Anna Pigeon stories, but it just too hard to follow one horrible situation after another that she manages to get out of... and a bit too dark for me.

Love Nevada Barr

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This books comes alive in my mind with the detailed writing.

What about Joyce Bean’s performance did you like?

Love her voice.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The description of the wilderness.

Great plot

Always love Anna pigeon the twists were great didn't see it coming. highly recommend it.

Well Narrated, Crazy Tense

Well Narrate. I got used to Ms. Rosenblat, I like Ms. Bean's work as well. But also, Wow! The beginning, the Prequel. How'd she end up so badass? Well, it wasn't easy. Also, I'd just like to hang out with Anna and Jenny. Sexual tension aside, someone as smart and with as much bad-ass-potential. Fun listen. Hard to turn off. So many spots where I was tensing for a blow! Crazy Tensr!

Nevada does it again!

If you could sum up The Rope in three words, what would they be?

surprising, interesting and unusual

What did you like best about this story?

Seeing Anna's character unfold

Have you listened to any of Joyce Bean’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

good reader

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

Love her books, all the national parks come alive to the reader! And all have the twist &n turns of a mystery. This books goes back in time from the last book in the series...now I'm waiting for more of her future books!

A slow start but great twists and turns

Would you consider the audio edition of The Rope to be better than the print version?

I enjoyed the audio version, the narrator is perfect for the characters and creates a Lake Powell not to be forgotten.

What other book might you compare The Rope to and why?

I read most of Nevada Barrs books but what was great about this one is that it is a prequel - the story of how Anne Pigeon decided to become a Ranger.

What does Joyce Bean bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Joyce is able (in voice) to both create the scene and also give a clear emotional sense of each of the characters. She is easy to listen to and follow.

Any additional comments?

What I enjoyed best about this book is the crazy twists and turns. It was nearly impossible until the end to understand the "why" and "who" of the mystery. The con is that it is hard to believe this many unfortunate things could happen to one person in so short a time.

I need book 18..........aleays a good story..

Love Anna Pigeon books...... Nevada Barr never fails in writing a absorbing story line.. Plenty of twists and turns. Till the end...

Origin Story

From wanting to befriend and trust most people in the beginning to growing to recognize real darkness in others, the story captures Anna as she goes from grieving widow trying to rebuild her life into the hard and independent woman she becomes later in the series.

The best Anna Pigeon to date

Her descriptions of landscape just keeps getting better, can see it in the mind's eye.