Nevada Barr





Nevada Barr

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March 01, 1952 in Yerington, Nevada, The United States

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Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr has won an Agatha Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat.

Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.

While working in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Barr created the Anna Pigeon series. Pigeon is a law enforcement officer with the United States National Park Service. Each book i...more


Average rating: 3.74 · 38,870 ratings · 3,926 reviews · 33 distinct works
Track Of The Cat (Anna Pige...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 3,956 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions
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Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon,...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 2,587 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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A Superior Death (Anna Pige...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,482 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
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Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, #4)
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 2,393 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions
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Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,257 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, ...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 2,388 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,253 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions
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Blood Lure (Anna Pigeon, #9)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,230 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions
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High Country (Anna Pigeon, ...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,176 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions
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Borderline (Anna Pigeon, #15)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 2,035 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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More books by Nevada Barr…
The Rope Track Of The Cat A Superior Death Ill Wind Firestorm Endangered Species Blind Descent
Anna Pigeon (17 books)
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“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
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“When she finally found her way onto the Trace, the sun was rising and, with it, her spirits.

The Natchez Trace Parkway, a two lane road slated, when finished to run from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, had been the brainchild of the Ladies' Garden Clubs in the South. Besides preserving a unique part of the nations past,...the Trace would not be based on spectacular scenery but would conserve the natural and agricultural history of Mississippi.”
Nevada Barr, Deep South

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