Nevada Barr
Nevada Barr ( born March 1, 1952 in Yerington, Nevada) is an American writer whose crime novels revolve around the main character Anna Pigeon. Most Anna Pigeon novels play in the U.S. National Parks and " National Monuments ", only the last date Burn plays in New Orleans. Descriptions of the landscape and the peculiarities of flora and fauna are among the strengths Nevada Barrs.
The character of Anna Pigeon goes through in the course of 16 novels now a distinct professional and personal development. Professionally, she manages the rise of young law enforcement officers in Track of the Cat (Eng. The trace of the cat ) to the District Ranger in Hard Truth. Personally, she suffers initially still strongly under her husband's death, which is before the novels and she has not been processed yet. In later books ( Ill Wind, dt testimonies in stone ) she goes to the proximity of alcoholism, a danger to which she goes out of the way in later novels.
Psychological support she finds regularly in telephone conversations with her sister Molly, a successful psychiatrist in New York. Your privacy is coined in the early novels of changing affairs, and later comes with Sheriff Paul Davidson, a steady lover added, with whom she is married in Hard Truth.
The crime, the Anna Pigeon confronts in the novels, is usually murder, but always from unusual motifs, and it costs Anna Pigeon often some effort to prove the murder as such or to convince their superiors of the need for further investigation.
The Anna Pigeon series consists of the following novels: