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Title: Flashback by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0-425-19449-3 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (33 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: SPELLBINDING LISTENING
Comment: Versatile voice performer Joyce Bean gives eloquent and exciting reading to the latest from New York Times best selling author Nevada Barr.
"Flashback" is the eleventh in Barr's highly popular mystery series featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon. With a marriage proposal from Sheriff Paul Davidson still ringing in her ears Anna escapes by signing on as a temporary supervisory ranger on Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park. This is the site of Fort Jefferson, a Union prison during the Civil War.
Anna's predecessor fell victim to some mind altering experiences in this area and was quickly dispatched to a safe haven. Anna finds equally challenging threats as her life is repeatedly jeopardized.
Barr skillfully weaves two stories - the contemporary predicament of Anna and that of a supposed Lincoln assassination plot.
Spellbinding listening!
- Gail Cooke
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Rebound for Barr!
Comment: Don't let the slow beginning fool you. "Flashback" is the best Nevada Barr book since "Deep South." This time around, Anna, sans dog and erstwhile fiancee Paul, is stationed for a brief time on the Dry Tortugas--the southernmost point of the Florida Keys, and therefore of the United States.
It should be a quiet, sleepy respite for Anna, who is filling in for the regular ranger--a man who has gone inexplicably mad. But then--where Anna goes, trouble follows, and this outing is no exception. In very short order, Anna, too, begins to fear she is losing her mind. There are ghosts that appear and disappear, flashing lights that cannot be, noises that may or may not be real, and the reality of the spooky Civil War fort that makes up the national park may just serve to take Anna's sanity away for good.
Told against this very interesting backdrop is another story entirely--that of Anna's ancestor Raffia Coleman, wife of the Civil War Union commander of the fort, which in those days housed Confederate prisoners, not the least of whom was the notorious Dr. Mudd, accused of helping to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Through a series of letters written by Raffia (and sent to Anna by her sister Molly), a dark and brooding mystery unfolds. Although this device has been used by other others, most notably by Anita Shreve (in "The Color of Water"), it in no way detracts from the interesting juxtaposition between Civil War times and the all-too-frightening present.
As Anna hallucinates between dreams of her great great aunt's letters and the strange goings-on of the present, the reader becomes rivited. When Barr is on, she is really on--and this book proves the point. A tragic murder of the past, and a deeping mystering of the present all entertwine to make Anna struggle for her wits and her sanity.
A good, solid yarn. Welcome back, Nevada Barr and Anna!
Rating: 2
Summary: Flash--I want my money--back
Comment: The reading was tedious and the forced metaphors were annoying; ex., her fingers were like white spiders. The book was loaded with these stupid metaphors. Was this really a bestseller? Golly jeez.
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Title: Hunting Season by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0425188787 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: High Country by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0399151443 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Blind Descent: : An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380728265 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Endangered Species by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380725835 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Firestorm by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380725827 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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