In her tenth outing, park ranger Anna Pigeon must investigate a murder at a tourist spot on Mississippi's Natchez Trace ... (more)
In her tenth outing, park ranger Anna Pigeon must investigate a murder at a tourist spot on Mississippi's Natchez Trace National Parkway. The corpse bears marks possibly made in an S&M act, and one clue appears on a nightstand in the form of a Bible with certain verses circled in red. Making things harder for Anna is the involvement of the dead man's brother, Raymond Barnette, an undertaker who fears what would happen if the facts of the case got out to his neighbors. It turns out the Barnette family has been hiding other dark secrets for generations, so they're quite good at obscuring the truth. Anna finds herself a bit out of her element as racial tensions, a jealous deputy, and a group of poachers add to the complications-even as her romantic life begins to heat up. (less)