
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 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...
Series
Books

The Rope
2012

Firestorm
1996

A Superior Death
1994

Endangered Species
1997

Naked Came the Phoenix
2001

Flashback
2003

Liberty Falling
1999

Ill Wind
1995

What Rose Forgot
2019

Blood Lure
2001

Borderline
2009

Blind Descent
1998

13½
2009

Smoke and Murders
2011

Bittersweet
1984

Burn
2010

Hunting Season
2002

Winter Study
2008

Track of the Cat
1993

High Country
2004

Hard Truth
2005

Destroyer Angel
2014

Deep South
2000

Boar Island
2016

Seeking Enlightenment… Hat by Hat
A Skeptic's Path to Religion
2003