Very interesting stuff in both timelines. Samuel Mudd (the physician who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg after the Lincoln assassination) was a prisoner there. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous. This book is written in dual timelines, with part of the action taking place in flashback through a series of letters Anna reads from the 19th century when Dr. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life.

When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. Flashback by Nevada Barr Published: Mass Market Paperback : 416 pages 0 members reading this now 2 clubs reading this now 0 members have read this book The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. This island paradise has secrets it would keep not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.

Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.

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