I really struggled with this book - I found it very difficult to get in to (I almost gave up 50 pages - very unlike me!) and even though I persevered it was difficult to read. (imho)
The subject matter (paedophilia & human trafficking) was disturbing but I don't think that was what kept me from enjoying the book.
The book is set in Post-Katrina New Orleans (maybe I prefer to read about Anna in a more wilderness setting?) where Anna is recovering from the events in the previous book - Borderline.
She is staying at the French Quarter home of her friend, Geneva, a blind singer working at the New Orleans Jazz National Heritage Park.
She (anna) is suspicious of one of Geneva's neighbours, a street punk called Jordan; Anna suspects he's a sexual predator.
Meanwhile, in a parallel story, Clare Sullivan a mother of two girls living in Seattle and married to a Saudi Arabian man with a mysterious import-export business, is Clare is returning from a dead-of-night run to the local drugstore for cough syrup, when her house explodes into flames. Since her marriage, to put it mildly, was troubled, Clare immediately becomes the police's No. 1 suspect in the deaths of her husband and children, whose charred remains are found at the ruins of the house.
Overhearing a conversation between two creepy voyeurs at the scene of the fire, Clare believes her daughters are still alive and that they are now in New Orleans.
As a former actress, Clare transforms herself into a completely different person in order to dodge the police and save her daughters.
Her path crosses with Anna's and the two of them join forces to locate the child victims of the New Orleans sex trade.
An unpleasant read & not one of Barr's best.
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