HARD TRUTH

Just married, Ranger Anna Pigeon leaves her honeymoon to begin her new job at Rocky Mountain National Park. A month after three young girls disappear from a religious retreat, two of them wander into the camp of Heath Jarrod, a woman confined to a wheelchair as a result of a climbing accident. Pigeon begins an investigation that uncovers the brutal butchery of small animals, a bizarre religious cult, and the unspeakable evil of a sadistic psychopath. Barbara Rosenblat expertly navigates the twists and turns of Barr’s precision plotting. Rosenblat’s Golden Voice makes even the least important characters three-dimensional. From messianic maniac to depressed paraplegic, Rosenblat’s commanding performance makes Nevada Barr’s thirteenth Anna Pigeon mystery one of the best. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/NOV 05]