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    Liberty Falling
    Liberty Falling
    Liberty Falling
    Audiobook12 hours

    Liberty Falling

    Written by Nevada Barr

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning novelist Nevada Barr sends her remarkable sleuth, Ranger Anna Pigeon, to spectacular national parks to solve baffling crimes. In Liberty Falling, Anna leaves the rugged countryside of Colorado to face the concrete wilds of New York City. As soon as she hears her older sister is gravely ill, Anna rushes to the Big Apple to sit at her bedside. Between hospital visits, she relaxes at the park service quarters on Liberty Island and explores the crumbling ruins of Ellis Island where thousands of immigrants once were processed. Rest escapes her, however, when a teenage girl mysteriously plunges to her death from the Statue of Liberty-and Anna herself suffers a dangerous tumble. The Park Service claims the falls could only be accidents, but Anna wonders if there is a common purpose behind them. Nevada Barr's vivid descriptions and narrator Barbara Rosenblat's dramatic performance transport you to New York City to share in all the danger and the excitement.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 13, 2008
    ISBN9781436142137
    Liberty Falling
    Author

    Nevada Barr

    Nevada Barr is the author of the series of New York Times bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement park ranger. Her novels include Winter Study, Borderline and Burn. She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Track of the Cat. Like her character, Barr worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger before resigning to write full time. She had postings to such parks as Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas (where Anna Pigeon was created) and Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.

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    • 4/5
      This book is set in New York City and the federal park involved is Lady Liberty and the close by Ellis Island. Anna Pigeon lived in NYC before with her husband but after he was killed by a motor vehicle she left for the life of a ranger in the national parks. At this point in her life she is stationed in Mesa Verde park (scene of the book Ill Wind) but she comes back to New York when her only sibling, her sister Molly, is gravely ill in hospital. Anna is staying on Liberty Island with a friend who works for the National Parks Service so she is somewhat removed from the hustle and bustle of big city life. However, since it is late June the harbour is lively with boats some of which place their music loud late into the night. Anna just isn't used to big city noise anymore but she has to stay until Molly gets better. However, she can't stay at the hospital all the time, especially since her ex-boyfriend, Frederick Stanton who has fallen in love with Molly, shows up and is wooing Molly in her hospital bed. So Anna spends some of her free time exploring the decrepit ruins of Islands II and III of Ellis Island. She almost comes to grief when one of the staircases crumbles under her but ends up with nothing worse than a gash to her thigh. Then she discovers one of the actresses hired at Ellis Island for the summer historical pageants bashed on the head and close to death. When a guard at Lady Liberty falls to his death one evening and it doesn't seem like suicide, it is starting to look like it is dangerous even on Lady Liberty. Of course, Anna is right in the thick of it. Maybe because all the other books by this author I have read have been set in the outdoors I wasn't as taken with the setting. As a Canadian, Lady Liberty and Ellis Island don't mean anything to me but I'm sure for Americans, especially ones who emigrated through New York, this would be a fascinating read. However, like Anna, I can hardly wait to get back into the open spaces in her books. I've sort of read this series higgeldy-piggeldy. Two of the other books that I have read (Ill Wind and Flashback) took place before this one but two are set after (Blood Lure and High Country). I have to admit that I have forgotten some salient details about Anna's life (like Frederick Stanton) but it doesn't really seem to matter. Each book stands on its own well so I guess I'll just keep reading the series as books come my way.
    • 4/5
      It's been a long time since I read this book but I have read the entire series, up until the most current book and I really like it. I love how the series is set outdoors in the different parks. If you like C.J. Box, then you'll like Barr too.
    • 4/5
      Liberty Falling is a solid book, but I don't think I would have liked it without reading the previous 6 books in the series. As another reviewer stated, I am glad this was not the first Anna Pigeon book I read because I would have stopped here. AS usual, Nevada Barr's descriptions of the Park makes me want to go there. If you have read the previous books read this one. Just don't start with this book.
    • 4/5
      Finally I get to the book that the person who recommended this series highlighted. I love all the Anna Pigeon books, but this one especially since it's set "at home". Like all of these, they make me want to visit the parks and in this case it's actually possible. While it's someone dated and quite possibly pre 911, it's a really good look at the Statue. I loved the inside look with Charlie. What a passion. Related to the ebook itself, the quality isn't that look and some "Ferrys" read as "Berry" and "Kerry". Surprising as the other ones are solid.
    • 2/5
      Slow start but the second half kept me interested to finish the book.
    • 3/5
      Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr is the seventh in the Anna Pigeon mystery series. It is set in New York City, Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Anna is there because her sister is in intensive care. When she's not working as a park ranger, she's sitting at her sister's bedside in the hospital.Anna, though, is preoccupied at work by two very similar deaths at the Statue of Liberty. Her anger over both of them, combined with her sister's ill health put her in a very poor and self destructive mood all the way through.She spends her late nights exploring the ruins of Ellis Island, often putting herself in danger from the poor repair of the structures. While I normally love following along as a character explores old, crumbling buildings, I felt a disconnect here that just pulled me out of the story. Part of that disconnect was the realization that fictional Anna was there at the same time my family and I were there. The other part, stemmed from Anna's own recklessness — going at night without a partner, no ropes or other safety equipment.Finally, there's the mystery itself. Once all of Anna's anger and self destruction is pushed aside, the actual who done it and why is pretty basic. I think for this volume of the series, too much time was spent on character development at the cost of the mystery.
    • 4/5
      I think I like Anna Pigeon better in the wilds of her other assignments. I also like when she's actually working in the wilds of her other assignments. Anna, in this one, is in New York to look after her sister who is in the ICU in an uptown hospital. When she's not visiting her sister, she's wandering around Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. There be murder, of course, but it felt a little forced and the story meandered a tad. I had a hard time keeping track of the story and the players at times. Barbara Rosenblat's voice kept me interested and brought me back to the tale each time I meandered off the track. I loved the backstory on some of the employees and the eventual solving of the mystery was a good twist. I am glad this wasn't my first Anna Pigeon mystery, I might not have tried another. This is my 6th or 7th and I know the stories can be better, so will get more..in fact another arrived in the mailbox today from RecordedBooks. Yay! Four New York City where's the wildlife beans.....
    • 4/5
      My favorite of all the Anna Pigeon books. Informative as well as an exciting read.