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Malice Domestic #10
Nevada Barr Presents Malice Domestic
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232 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2001
About the author
Nevada Barr
69 books2,338 followersNevada 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 in the series takes place in a different National Park, where Pigeon solves a murder mystery, often related to natural resource issues. She is a satirical, witty woman whose icy exterior is broken down in each book by a hunky male to whom she is attracted (such as Rogelio).
Currently, Ms. Barr lives in New Orleans, LA.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/nevada...
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 in the series takes place in a different National Park, where Pigeon solves a murder mystery, often related to natural resource issues. She is a satirical, witty woman whose icy exterior is broken down in each book by a hunky male to whom she is attracted (such as Rogelio).
Currently, Ms. Barr lives in New Orleans, LA.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/nevada...
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November 30, 2012Actually, I don't (yet) have this book, but Nevada is one of my favorite authors and I can't understand why more of her books are not on goodreads.
When you need a break from standard mysteries, this is the author to go to.
When you need a break from standard mysteries, this is the author to go to.
September 21, 2017
Contents:
Introduction - Nevada Barr
"The Tell-Tale Tattoo" - K. K. Beck
"A Note of Note" - Simon Brett
"People Who Sit in Glass Houses" - Susan Dunlap
"Turnaround" - Carolyn Hart
"Acting Tips" - Melodie Johnson Howe
"A.B.C.D.E.A.T.H." - M. D. Lake
"The Sea Cave" - Martha C. Lawrence
"Away with the Fairies" - Peter Lovesey
"The Choice" - Margaret Maron
"Junior High Samurai" - Sujata Massey
"The Would-Be Widower" - Katherine Hall Page
"Daisy and the Christmas Goose" - Anne Perry
"Lucky Devil" - Nancy Pickard
"Down the Garden Path" - Elizabeth Daniels Squire
This is the tenth in the Malice Domestic series of anthologies. All the stories in this series should be "cozy" mysteries, which Wikipedia decribes as follows:
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
Some of the fourteen stories in this book adhere to that definition and some do not.
There are some in which the violence is overt and very violent indeed. There are others in which there isn't even a crime committed. But whatever it is that defines a cozy, most of these certainly feel like cozies.
Anne Perry's "Daisy and the Christmas Goose" is narrated by a dog and all the sleuths involved are dogs or cats. They do not act remotely like real animals. I have never read any of the very, very many stories and books that have animal detectives that I liked; this is no exception.
Simon Brett's "A Note of Note" also falls into a category for which I don't generally care; it is narrated by an inanimate object, in this case, a British ten pound note. When I was in the fifth grade, the class was given an assignment to write the autobiography of an inanimate object. The example given was a dollar bill, being passed from person to person. I suspect that Brett decided to take a cliché and make a real story out of it; I don't think he succeeds.
(I should add that most of what I have read by Perry and Brett I have liked.)
As for the rest of the stories, my favorites are the ones by Melodie Johnson Howe, Martha C. Lawrence, Peter Lovesey, and Margaret Maron. I liked almost all of the other stories as well.
Introduction - Nevada Barr
"The Tell-Tale Tattoo" - K. K. Beck
"A Note of Note" - Simon Brett
"People Who Sit in Glass Houses" - Susan Dunlap
"Turnaround" - Carolyn Hart
"Acting Tips" - Melodie Johnson Howe
"A.B.C.D.E.A.T.H." - M. D. Lake
"The Sea Cave" - Martha C. Lawrence
"Away with the Fairies" - Peter Lovesey
"The Choice" - Margaret Maron
"Junior High Samurai" - Sujata Massey
"The Would-Be Widower" - Katherine Hall Page
"Daisy and the Christmas Goose" - Anne Perry
"Lucky Devil" - Nancy Pickard
"Down the Garden Path" - Elizabeth Daniels Squire
This is the tenth in the Malice Domestic series of anthologies. All the stories in this series should be "cozy" mysteries, which Wikipedia decribes as follows:
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
Some of the fourteen stories in this book adhere to that definition and some do not.
There are some in which the violence is overt and very violent indeed. There are others in which there isn't even a crime committed. But whatever it is that defines a cozy, most of these certainly feel like cozies.
Anne Perry's "Daisy and the Christmas Goose" is narrated by a dog and all the sleuths involved are dogs or cats. They do not act remotely like real animals. I have never read any of the very, very many stories and books that have animal detectives that I liked; this is no exception.
Simon Brett's "A Note of Note" also falls into a category for which I don't generally care; it is narrated by an inanimate object, in this case, a British ten pound note. When I was in the fifth grade, the class was given an assignment to write the autobiography of an inanimate object. The example given was a dollar bill, being passed from person to person. I suspect that Brett decided to take a cliché and make a real story out of it; I don't think he succeeds.
(I should add that most of what I have read by Perry and Brett I have liked.)
As for the rest of the stories, my favorites are the ones by Melodie Johnson Howe, Martha C. Lawrence, Peter Lovesey, and Margaret Maron. I liked almost all of the other stories as well.
May 8, 2016
All in all , a somewhat disappointing collection .
October 11, 2018
Some of the stories I enjoyed and others I didn’t.
March 9, 2019
Another fun collection of great classic mystery stories. This is a series I need to collect, just in case.
June 14, 2023
I usually love short story / anthologies, but this one just wasn't great.
July 9, 2019
A very uneven collection of short mystery stories.
July 27, 2008
Like most anthologies some stories worked better than others. Best stories in this lot are Simon Brett's A NOTE OF NOTE, Melodie Johnson Howe's ACTING TIPS, Peter Lovesey's AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES.
July 4, 2014
Another delightful collection of short stories. Yes, there were a few that I liked less than others, but on the whole these are well-selected and a pleasure to read.
January 21, 2017
This whole series gets high marks from me, except this one. If you skip any of the Malice Domestic books, let it be this one. The stories were barely engaging at all.
July 8, 2020
I didn't enjoy this anthology of mysteries nearly as much as Nancy Pickard Presents Domestic Malice. However, there were a few stories that captured my attention.
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