Deep South

From New York Times best-selling author Nevada Barr comes another episode in the successful sleuth series. Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south. Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's knee-deep in Mississippi mud. Not exactly what she had in mind. As the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna almost immediately discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery with a sheet around her head and a noose around her neck. It's a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep-and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna...