BURN
Book ID/图书代码： 03880010B38708
English Summary/英文概要： Nevada Barr brings her acclaimed New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon series to Minotaur Books with one of her most compelling, complex novels yet!
Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but 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 back at work, Anna decides to go and stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She 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 to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Tied up in all of this is 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一般犯罪推理小說的主角設定，總是以偵探、冷硬派的警探，醫生或是記者，藉由他們的經歷當作一位作者的故事題材。而Nevada Barr筆下的女主角卻是有別一般小說，更易親近讀者，並透過每一本書發揮美國每一州的文化特色，以主角身為國家公園巡邏員為背景，周遊美國各地，帶領讀者進入故事裡複雜的人格和內心衝突。
擔任美國歷史最悠久的聯邦執法部門，美國國家公園警察可不是一份簡單的任務。要能勝任此一職務需負責對常見犯罪的預防、調查和對嫌疑人的拘捕等其他城市警察局職責外，美國公園警察還負責管理維護本土安全。
Anna Pigeon是美國國家公園的超級管理員，這次的任務是到爵士聖地：紐澳良爵士國家歷史公園巡視，並拜訪友人Clare Sullivan。然而Clare卻因涉嫌縱火殺害自己的兩位小孩，被紐澳良當地列為頭號罪犯。但經由Anna調查下，Clare不但沒有犯罪動機，甚至當時兩具焦黑的屍體是另有他人，而且Clare的小孩其實還活著，但背後牽連一場更大的政治陰謀….(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：★紐約時報暢銷作家
★亞馬遜 推薦
★『時代週刊』『出版人週刊』『Booklist』等美國主流評論一致推薦暢銷作家Nevada Barr最新力作
Reviews
Starred Review. Barr’s outstanding 16th Anna Pigeon novel (after Borderline) takes the National Park Service ranger to the urban wilderness of post-Katrina New Orleans, where the Jazz National Heritage Park preserves the Big Easy’s music. Anna comes to believe that a creepy neighbor, Jordan, one of the "gutter punks" who roam the city, is a pedophile. But Jordan turns out to have another side, and his link with Clare Sullivan, a Seattle actress whose family was murdered in a fire Clare is suspected of setting, is a linchpin of Barr’s skillful plot. Anna vividly maneuvers the lurid city jungle, from a Bourbon Street strip joint, where the women have formed a family, to a brothel specializing in children. Anna also learns that appearances can deceive even the most insightful of rangers. Anna’s complex personality continues to elevate the series, and the ranger’s sojourn to New Orleans further energizes this always reliable series. 150,000 first printing. ---From Publishers Weekly
In her new novel, the wildly popular Barr takes her crime-solver, park ranger Anna Pigeon, out of her element. Previous installments in the series have found Anna moving from one national park to another, solving the crimes that seem to follow her from place to place, but this time she is in New Orleans, staying with a friend, when, believe it or not, somebody tries to put a hex on her. Anna soon suspects that her friend’s tenant, an abundantly off-putting fellow named Jordan, might have something to do with it—but why? This is not the first time the author has taken Anna out of her usual rustic settings (1999’s Liberty Falling, for instance, is set in New York), but regular readers need not worry: Barr isn’t merely rehashing big-city themes she’s tackled before. There’s a reason why this story needs to be set in the Big Easy, and Barr develops the narrative carefully, never letting the eerie black-magic elements overshadow her solid and suspenseful plotting. A definite winner.---David Pitt, From Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： 暢銷作家Nevada Barr身份非常多元，她是戲劇演員、藝術家，更是紐約時報榜上最受讀者喜愛，最會寫發生在平凡人物之間的推理懸疑故事。Nevada還在戲劇與演講方面獲得學士學位，在成為全職作家以後即獲獎無數，並成為《時代週刊》《紐約時報》的暢銷作家。其中在她筆下以Anna Pigeon為主角的神秘推理劇場，就是獲獎並受讀者喜愛的獨立系列故事。在這本最新力作《BURN》，已是紐時榜上獲選好書。
Format:电子手稿
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