Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Anna Pigeon Mysteries, 16)

Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Anna Pigeon Mysteries, 16) by Barr, Nevada. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780312381806.

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, a blind blues singer who performs at New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. But Anna isnt in town long before she crosses paths with Genevas 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 Annas 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 unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city...