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Nevada Barr

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Nevada Barr was born on March 1, 1952. She is the author of a series of mysteries involving national parks. She draws on her own experience as a National Park Service ranger to thrill readers with the majesty of nature. Anna Pigeon, the heroine of such novels as A Superior Death and Endangered näytä lisää Species, is a rough-and-tough ranger who left the wilds of New York for the great outdoors, and is modeled after Barr. Barr began writing in 1978, garnering national attention with the publication in 1993 of Track of the Cat, which won both the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best First Mystery Novel. Her novels are known for breathtaking descriptions of nature, diverse settings, and a no-nonsense heroine. She also provides frequently unflattering portrayals of the National Park Service. Her works include 13 1/2, Winterstudy, Borderline, Burn, The Rope and Destroyer Angel. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Signing books at the 2006 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Madison, Wisconsin / Photo by Oldbeeg

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Tekijän teokset

Track of the Cat (1993) 1,803 kappaletta
A Superior Death (1994) 1,379 kappaletta
Ill Wind (1995) 1,264 kappaletta
Blind Descent (1998) 1,261 kappaletta
Hard Truth (2005) 1,227 kappaletta
Deep South (2000) 1,216 kappaletta
Blood Lure (2001) 1,212 kappaletta
Firestorm (2008) 1,211 kappaletta
High Country (2004) 1,209 kappaletta
Winter Study (2004) 1,178 kappaletta
Hunting Season (2004) 1,172 kappaletta
Flashback (2003) 1,172 kappaletta
Endangered Species (1997) 1,149 kappaletta
Liberty Falling (1999) 1,108 kappaletta
Borderline (2009) 943 kappaletta
Burn (2010) 687 kappaletta
The Rope (2012) 650 kappaletta
13½ (2009) 578 kappaletta
Destroyer Angel (2014) 503 kappaletta
Boar Island (2016) 405 kappaletta
Bittersweet (1984) 384 kappaletta
What Rose Forgot: A Novel (2019) 292 kappaletta
Malice Domestic 10 (2001) — Toimittaja — 33 kappaletta
Smoke and Murders (2011) 21 kappaletta
Anna Pigeon 9-11 (2004) 12 kappaletta
G.D.M.F.S.O.B. (2012) 4 kappaletta
Anna Pigeon 12-14 (2009) 3 kappaletta
Anna Pigeon 2 kappaletta
Anna Pigeon 1-13 (1995) 1 kappale
The Lure 1 kappale
Anna Pigeon 9-13 (2003) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Naked Came the Phoenix: A Serial Novel (2001) — Avustaja — 305 kappaletta
Women on the Case (1996) — Avustaja — 209 kappaletta
Deadly Housewives (2006) — Avustaja — 84 kappaletta
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Avustaja — 79 kappaletta
The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut (2015) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset49 kappaletta
New Orleans Noir 2: The Classics (2016) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
AZ Murder Goes Artful (2000) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta

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Kanoninen nimi
Barr, Nevada
Syntymäaika
1952-03-01
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
Yerington, Nevada, USA
Asuinpaikat
San Francisco, California, USA
Yerington, Nevada, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Johnstonville, California, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Koulutus
University of California, Irvine (MA)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (BA)
Ammatit
park ranger
actor
mystery writer
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Agatha Award (1993)
Anthony Award (1994)
Barry Award (2001)
Robin W. Winks Award (2011)
Agentti
Dominick Abel (Dominick Abel Agency)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. She grew up in Johnsonville, California. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.

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Kirja-arvosteluja

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr.,

In 1971, 11-year-old Dylan is convicted of murdering everyone in his family with a hatchet except his older brother Rich, whom he injured significantly. He is name "Butcher Boy".
Polly runs away from an impossibly abusive home at 15 and heads to New Orleans. As an adult she meets Marshall Marchand and falls in love with him.as does her two daughters. But she soon realizes that Danny, his brother, seems to be over controlling.
Things are not always as they appear.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Rini55 | 68 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 19, 2024 |
Temporarily working as a presuppression firefighter on Cumberland Island, GA, for three weeks, Anna was ready to soak up the sun, breathe the fresh ocean air, and witness the hatching of the endangered baby loggerhead turtles while raking in some much-needed overtime pay. But, after a fatal plane crash on the island, she finds herself investigating a possible murder as an NPS law enforcement officer. Surrounding her is another cast of quirky, semi-strange co-workers who seem to flock to the National Park Ranger positions. The plot in this fifth book in the series—laced with magnificent descriptions of the local wildlife and landscape—is captivating and suspenseful as Anna gets beat up, attacked by ticks and chiggers, then nearly killed while trying to bring down a killer. Good to the last page.… (lisätietoja)
 
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PaulaGalvan | 27 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 16, 2024 |
Still recovering from the nightmare at Isle Royale National Park, Anna is on leave and seeing a psychiatrist. She and her husband go on a float trip down the Rio Grande at Big Bend National Park with a guide and some college students. They find a pregnant woman caught in some vegetation, and while they are unable to save the woman, Anna performs an emergency C-section with her husband's pocket knife. They encounter a starving cow, and one of the college students insists they must rescue the cow. The guide is shot, and the person doing the shooting seems to be targeting their party when a second member is shot. With the river rising and the loss of their raft, they must try to climb (with a baby in arms), but it puts them in danger. They don't know who they can and cannot trust. The book was written sometime after 9/11 made it more difficult for Mexicans to enter the United States. Barbara Rosenblat does a good job narrating the story.… (lisätietoja)
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thornton37814 | 38 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 14, 2024 |
Not one of her best, but since I was at Mesa Verde last month, I could envision the places she was describing.KIRKUS REVIEWAs historians and contractors slug it out over replacing the ancient waterlines in Mesa Verde National Park, noncombatant park ranger Anna Pigeon battles a demon of her own: her growing attraction to Stacy Meyers, a law-enforcement temp unhappily married (what did he and Rose Meyers ever see in each other, anyway?) and burdened with a special-needs stepchild. Soon enough, though, there are more immediate problems: contractor Ted Greeley's hiring of Tom Silva, estranged husband of park superintendent's secretary Patsy Silva, who immediately feels she's being harassed by her obsessive ex; a midnight sabotage attempt on Greeley's excavation equipment; a nip-and-tuck airlift of an asthmatic girl who collapses in the Cliff Palace; Stacy's strangely dissociated behavior during the rescue; and finally the eerie discovery of Stacy's corpse, neatly laid out on the fire-pit floor of the Cliff Palace without a mark to indicate how he died. Whodunit, and why, and how? Not as intense or as ingenious as A Superior Death (1994), and this time Anna's struggles with alcoholism and the continuing grief of widowhood eclipse the more routine intrigues of the plot. But the supporting characters have stubborn lives of their own -- you never get the sense that they've spent their whole lives waiting to be suspects in a murder case -- and Barr's sense of place is as wondrous as ever.… (lisätietoja)
 
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bentstoker | 35 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 26, 2024 |

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