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Summary: Rich atmospheric mystery - well worth your time
Review: This is the first book I have read by Nevada Barr and I enjoyed it very much. She does a wonderful job of describing southern Mississippi and the Natchez Trace. You can almost feel the heat and the humidity! Her characters are also well developed, and as you will see from the hypocritical religious characters, true to life in this part of the country. Anna Pigeon is a very interesting character and I look forward to reading more of Barr's books.
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Summary: DEEP SOUTH
Review: Excellent read Hard to put down-yet I was sad as I progressed in that, I would discover the answer to "Who done it" but I also would end this voyage into this wonderful place Barr had created-I often stopped reading in order to enjoy-in my mind-the visions and characters she had created for a few minutes longer
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: A winner. I had just travelled through the deep south when I finally picked up the newest Nevada Barr. I have been a faithful reader since Track of the Cat and have for the most part enjoyed following Anna Pigeon's career throughout the country. There have been some ups and some downs, but this is a definite up. Read it, read it, read it. In fact read them all.
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Summary: Five Stars!
Review: I could not wait for this book to be published! I'm a big Barr fan and I was NOT disappointed. The author's descriptions are so vivid, I could feel the humidity and smell the kudzu. All the new characters are compelling, but now I'll have to wait another year to read more about them. Deep South kept me up until three in the morning--my highest compliment! Way to go, Nevada!
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Summary: Deep South-Best Anna Pigeon yet!
Review: I couldn't put this one down. Ms Barr's writing has continued to mature with this book in the series being the best one yet. Even though some of the scenes are rather gruesome I was not nauseated as I am with other authors (a certain female coroner to allude to one) lately. Anna is also becoming more 'human' with a dog, a cat and a love interest. I would have liked to see some of the other characters developed more though. Perhaps since Anna will be at this Park for awhile Ms Barr will do that in the next book.
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Summary: An accurate portrayal of Mississippi and her people
Review: I confess to being a sporadic Nevada Barr fan. I've loved some of her earlier books, but have not enjoyed her last few. As a native Mississippian who has always loved the pastoral beauty and sense of history of the Natchez Trace, I had high hopes for her latest title. Happily, I was not disappointed. She has captured both the beauty and complexity of Mississippi and her people in a way few authors have.
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Summary: A+ In Every Way
Review: I've read all of Nevada Barr's books and couldn't put this one down. Great story line and excellent descriptive writing. Barr does her usual great job with Anna's latest assignment and the mystery storyline, plus she writes beautiful descriptions of the sights, sounds, and feel of the Natchez Trace Parkway. I felt like I just took a trip South!
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Summary: Nevada Barr does it again.
Review: This time Anna Piegon finds herself embroiled in a Southern battle that occured at the time of the Civil War. Anna is her usual inquistive self, and almost gets killed satisfying her curosity and trying to forget a man. Could not put the book down. Worth the five star rating.
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Summary: Another winner by Barr
Review: Attitude not miles counts when measuring the distance between Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park and the Port Gibson District of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Federal Park law enforcement official Anna Pigeon learns that lesson when she accepts a promotion transfer to the South. However, Anna soon learns that the "ole boy" network still thrives in the South, especially when she concludes that her all male deputies resent working for a mere female. Their sexism reaches dangerous proportions when they refuse to provide Anna back up during a potentially emergency situation. Anna's sense of oppression fully surfaces when someone kills a teenage white girl following the prom. The victim was stomped to death. A white sheet with slits cut out for the eyes covered her face. A rope hung loosely around her neck. Someone made it look like the work of the KKK. As she begins her investigation into the racially charged crime, Anna learns how deep hatred flows in the hearts and souls of some bigots. Surprisingly, DEEP SOUTH has a literary feel that counterbalances the repulsive almost overwhelming loathing that is the creed of some of the characters. This juxtaposition adds chilling drama to a well-designed mystery. Anna's adjustment to her new home augments the tense story line by her battle with racism and sexism. Nevada Barr condemns the rural south for its deep-rooted prejudices, even as the author applauds the fact that discrimination is more in the open than the de facto segregation of most of the rest of the country. The openness and honest feelings allows Anna to deal with anything thrown her way. The social commentary cleverly wraps inside an excellent police procedural without slowing down the main plot. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: In many ways, one of the best of the series
Review: I've enjoyed every Nevada Barr mystery I've read, which is all of them except for "Blind Descent." "Deep South" is no exception. In fact, it's one of my favorite entries in the Anna Pigeon series, even though I've never been farther south than Virginia and am a native of California who's always lived there. I've enjoyed the other novels immensely with their predominant western venues, but one of the joys of reading about Anna Pigeon's adventures in law enforcement as a U.S. National Park Ranger is the vicarious experience of traveling and experiencing new places. Nevada Barr is excellent at making the reader feel as if he or she were actually there. In "Deep South," we readers get to have an experience of the southern portion of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. Some interesting characters are introduced -- people who make Anna's professional life interesting, positively and negatively, as she has assumed a management position in a completely unfamiliar park venue and a part of the country that is utterly new to her. The plot is specific to the place and reveals much about local residents who live in towns and cities adjacent to the Trace. If I have a complaint at all, it's that Anna is subject once again to great injury and this time I found it upsetting. I had to put the book down and tell myself, "This is fiction. Anna Pigeon is not a real human being." I came to realize is that I wish she were a real human being. One of the best parts of this book is the introduction of a new character who looks to be a promising love interest for Anna, someone she actually deserves who deserves her, too. We shall see in forthcoming books what happens in this regard as Anna progresses through her 40s. Read "Deep South" and you'll feel the heat and humidity, experience aspects good and bad of Southern culture and politics, and learn the obvious truth that racism there, while firmly entrenched and prevalent, isn't universal. Nevada Barr writes this novel very convincingly as she ought to -- her most recent post as a ranger with the National Park Service was on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi and even though she's now working as a novelist, she still lives in that state.
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