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Nevada Barr
Dear Librarian, You have brought so many readers to my Anna Pigeon series, I cannot thank you enough. 13 1/2 is a whole new ball game, a thriller with a theme too dark for me to force on our dear park ranger. I hope you will love it and pass it on to our readers. Here's the basic idea: Dylan Raines, eleven years old, is convicted of slaughtering his family one winter night —mother, father, baby sister and the family cat killed with an axe. The only member of the family to survive the massacre is Dylan's older brother, Richard, and he is grievously wounded. The deaths bond them more surely than blood; the knowledge that whatever demons caused the axe murders are not gone but only awaiting another opportunity. At fifteen Pollyanna Marshall runs away from a run-down trailer park in Mississippi, a drunken mother and a string of "step-fathers", to reinvent herself in New Orleans: an education, a clean life, and daughters of her own to love and protect. In 13 1/2 these worlds collide, reopening the door to the Raines brothers' demons. If Polly is wise enough and strong enough and careful enough, her daughters just might survive them. Nevada Barr www.nevadabarr.com
13 1/2 / Nevada Barr / Vanguard Press / Hardcover; 320 pages
Price: $25.95 / ISBN: 978-1593155537 / Published: October 2009 Nevada Barr is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |