Burn (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) (2010)

Anna Pigeon is on leave from her job after a traumatic past couple of months. It seems like the perfect time to pay a visit to her old colleague Geneva, who now works as a jazz singer in the Big Easy. But Anna isn’t in town long before she crosses paths with Geneva’s neighbor, Jordan, who gives her the creeps. Then Anna discovers a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols. Is this a dark coincidence—or has she been cursed? Now it will take all of Anna’s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the post-Katrina urban jungle in which she finds herself. Tied up in all of this evil magic are the “gutter punk” Jordan; Clare, a fugitive mother accused of killing her family in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasan... full descriptiont goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city… (less description)

Author: Nevada Barr

Categories: Essays, Genre Fiction, Erotica, Short Stories, World Literature, Classics, Women's Fiction, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers