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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100399152415
ISBN-139780399152412
eBay Product ID (ePID)128523245
Product Key Features
Book TitleHard Truth
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicThrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorNevada Barr
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-057295
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToEighth Grade
SynopsisJust three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three young girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children emerge a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are traumatized but forge a bond with the pair of campers who discovered them - a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terror: small animals are mercilessly slaughtered and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect determined to keep their secrets and the girls sequestered from law enforcement and psychiatric help. Following the trails of the many suspects, especially that of the cult's intense youth group leader, Anna discovers the force which has destroyed the children's minds. Here in the park, evil has the eyes of a visionary and the soul of the devil. Anna will discover the truth-even if it kills her.