Hard Truth

Name: Hard Truth
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Nevada Barr
ISBN: 9781436130370

Author: Nevada Barr

Series: Anna Pigeon Mysteries #13

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/24/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end

About Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is the author of the series of New York Times bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement park ranger. Her novels include Winter Study, Borderline and Burn. She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Track of the Cat. Like her character, Barr worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger before resigning to write full time. She had postings to such parks as Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas (where Anna Pigeon was created) and Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara on July 01, 2015

Hard Truth, a mystery set in Rocky Mountain National Park, is the story of a ranger - Anna Pigeon - who ends up in a seemingly impossible situation (one in which you know she'll be triumphant) that involves a creepy religious commune, missing and abused children, and a psychopathic serial killer who......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 29, 2023

This is the 13th book in the Anna Pigeon series, published in 2005. In each book, Anna works as a park ranger in a different national park and the park in this one is the Rocky Mountain Nat'l. Park in Colorado. I have enjoyed the series overall and have learned a lot about a number of parks I've nev......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on October 26, 2017

"She held [the flashlight] backward and the light blasted her retinas. Startled, she dropped it. Found it. Pointed it in the right direction. "Holy shit," she whispered. Then the screaming began." Hard Truth (2005), another National Parks series mystery by Nevada Barr, is the weakest of the five insta......more

Goodreads review by Tori on January 29, 2014

The first two-thirds of this novel were great. The mystery was intriguing, there were plenty of suspects to choose from and the twists, while not super creative, were at least entertaining. Then the bad guy is revealed and what was an intense, psychological thriller all of a sudden morphs into tortu......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 06, 2022

This was intense and sad and horrific but also sweet, beautiful, and hopeful. I love the Rocky Mountains. When I was a kid, my family lived in Wyoming for 3 years. It’s absolutely gorgeous and I am so glad it was a part of my childhood. There are big empty spaces in Wyoming and one can certainly pic......more