Bøger af Nevada Barr

Som ranger i USAs National Park Service er det Annas job at hjælpe til at beskytte uciviliserede og ensomme steder fra civilisationens ødelæggende hånd. Nu har pligten ført hende langt væk fra den ophøjede ro i den ørken, hun elsker så højt – og ind i et mysterium om et mord, som finder sted i Lake Superiors isnende greb.Det utilgængelige vrag af fragtbåden Kamloops har hvilet på søens bund i næsten halvfjerds år – og ligene af dens ulyksalige besætning er på uhyggelig vis blevet bevaret i Superiors iskolde vand. Men nu er der et lig mere om bord – en nylig myrdet udefrakommende, som mistænkeligt nok er iført tøj fra 1920′erne – og den efterforskende parkranger Anna Pigeon bliver draget ind i et mareridt af begærlighed og mord. og kommer dødbringende tæt på en morder.

Det siges at De Gamle stadig hjemsøger Mesa Verde. Hvileløse Anasazi-ånder, der mejslede deres hjem i bjergenes overflade for ottehundreder år siden – for så at forsvinde sporløst fra jordens overflade. Anna Pigeon, nytilkommen ranger i Colorados Mesa Verde National Park, er en kvinde med problemer. Hun er enke, hun er alkoholiker og har lige skiftet job. Hun søger fred for sine indre dæmoner i den ældgamle klippe-by fra en forsvundet oprindelig amerikansk civilisation. Men en uforklarlig sygdom der rammer gæsterne i den populære Nationalpark, et barns død og mordet på en ven, hiver hende væk fra drømmerierne. Anna må finde den meget menneskelige kilde til den onde vind der blæser iskoldt mellem ruinerne. For den truer flere uskyldiges liv, Moder Jord. og Anna selv.Pressen om Anna Pigeon-serien:“… man rives med som af en uventet flodbølge gennem et af parkens flodlejer. Kampen går mellem dem, der vil bevare naturen »ren« og dem, der har andre planer.”- Bo Bjørnvig, Weekendavisen“Anna er i høj grad et bekendtskab værd som hard core udgave af den moderne handlekraftige kvindetype, der har tilladt sig at smide et par skraldespande søde gammeldags kvindelige dyder på civilisationens losseplads for ikke-genbrugeligt affald. …en fundamentalt spændende og overbevisende krimiroman, skrevet med knivskarpt blik for den menneskelige dårskab.”- Anne-Marie Gregersen, Berlingske Tidende“Med naturen som en enestående kulisse giver Nevada Barr , selv fhv. ranger, os nogle spændende, vedkommende og barske krimier. Hun har blik for den menneskelige svaghed og kan godt banke en krimi-intrige på plads.”- Holger Ruppert, B.T.

Erindringen om sin mands meningsløse død i New York, driver Anna Pigeon til at søge fred i Guadalupe Mountain Park. Som ranger i nationalparken bliver Anna ét med naturen og dens fredfyldte, uspolerede storhed. Men en kollegas brutale død i den afsidesliggende vildmark – antageligvis et pumaangreb – ligner for Anna et mord. Hendes uautoriserede efterforskning af tragedien bringer hende selv i regulær fare. Anna konfronteres med ørkenlandets mørke … og det menneskelige hjertes!Nevada Barr er forfatter til en lang række bøger om rangeren Anna Pigeon, flere af dem er oversat til dansk. Nevada Barr bor i Mississippi og har virket som ranger i Natchez Trace Parkway. Hun har nu helt helliget sig sit forfatterskab.Spor er Nevada Barrs første bog i serien. Den har vundet Agatha Award for bedste krimidebut og Anthony Award ligeledes for bedste debut.

Ranger i National Park Service, Anna Pigeon, tvinges med på en redningsaktion ned i det altfortærende hulesystem, Lachuguilla, dybt under New Mexicos ørken. Hendes ven og kollega, Frieda Dierkz, der under en kortlægningsekspedition i hulen har været udsat for en ulykke, har brug for Annas hjælp. Anna må overvinde sin angst og begive sig to hundrede meter ned i den uoverskuelige og klaustrofobiske labyrint. Det bliver en rejse ned i et altomsluttende mørke og et møde med en både smuk og skræmmende verden.En verden, der rummer navne som Razor Blade Run, Tinker’s Hell og Wormhole. Da hun endelig når frem til sin veninde, er det blot for at høre hende sige "Det var ikke en ulykke ...""... man rives med som af en uventet flodbølge gennem et af parkens flodlejer. Kampen går mellem dem, der vil bevare naturen »ren« og dem, der har andre planer."- Bo Bjørnvig, Weekendavisen"Anna er i høj grad et bekendtskab værd som hard core udgave af den moderne handlekraftige kvindetype, der har tilladt sig at smide et par skraldespande søde gammeldags kvindelige dyder på civilisationens losseplads for ikke-genbrugeligt affald. ...en fundamentalt spændende og overbevisende krimiroman, skrevet med knivskarpt blik for den menneskelige dårskab."- Anne-Marie Gregersen, Berlingske Tidende"Med naturen som en enestående kulisse giver Nevada Barr , selv fhv. ranger, os nogle spændende, vedkommende og barske krimier. Hun har blik for den menneskelige svaghed og kan godt banke en krimi-intrige på plads."- Holger Ruppert, B.T.

In this mystery in Nevada Barr's New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West…Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park-Anna's home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna's life if threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.

In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping novel What Rose Forgot, a young grandmother wakes up to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare.WHAT SHE FORGOT IS FRIGHTENING.Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog. With no memory of how she ended up at this unknown medical facility, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to stop taking her medication. Becoming more and more lucid, she devises a plan of escape.WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS DEADLY.The only problem for Rose now is: how does she convince anyone that what she's experienced is true? With her memory shaky, how can she even trust herself? Enlisting the help of her computer-hacker sister and her teenage granddaughter, Rose begins to piece together fragments of her life. But any lingering doubt that she's in real danger is erased when a stranger starts showing up at her now-abandoned house, determined to get rid of Rose once and for all.

New York Times bestseller Nevada Barr brings National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon to the wild beauty of Acadia National Park in Boar Island. Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then she calls in the cavalry---her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon. While they try to deal with the fragile state of affairs---and find the person behind the harassment---the three adults decide the best thing to do is to remove Elizabeth from the situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the park, Boar Island.But the move east doesn't solve the problem. The stalker has followed them east. And Heath (a paraplegic) and Elizabeth aren't alone on the otherwise deserted island. At the same time, Anna has barely arrived at Acadia before a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably close to her. BOAR ISLAND is a brilliant intertwining of past and present, of victims and killers, in a compelling novel that only Nevada Barr could write.

A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for meaning in life.Hat by hat, step by step, Barr leads readers down her path to enlightenment by sharing personal episodes, some of them funny and revealing, others painfully honest. Each chapter offers a truth or an answer forged through experience and deep reflection, and a nugget of insight certain to encourage thought and discussion among readers, who may, in turn, find their own spiritual language.

The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.

About to start her new post as as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, Anna learns that Heath Jarrod's daughter Elizabeth is a stalking victim. Anna takes them to Boar Island, but their stalker follows them. At the same time, a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably close to Anna. Tall Premium Edition.

Anna Pigeon is on leave from her job after a traumatic past couple of months. It seems like the perfect time to pay a visit to her old colleague Geneva, a blind blues singer who performs at New Orleans' Jazz National Historical Park. But Anna isn't in town long before she crosses paths with Geneva's neighbor, Jordan, who gives her the creeps. Then Anna discovers a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols. Is this a dark coincidence-or has she been cursed?Now it will take all of Anna's skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the post-Katrina urban jungle in which she finds herself. Tied up in all of this evil magic are the "gutter punk" Jordan; Clare, a fugitive mother accused of killing her family in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city...

Anna Pigeon's first case-this is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts.In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she's simply moved on-her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didn't even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeon's strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barr's captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.

Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. Written with a naturalist's feel for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner.

Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.

Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.

Nevada Barr is the award-winning crime writer of seventeen Anna Pigeon mysteries, each of which has been a New York Times bestseller. Now her entire crime series is available in the UK in ebook format together with this, her brand-new Anna Pigeon mystery.

The nineteenth Anna Pigeon mystery by award-winning and New York Times bestselling crime writer Nevada Barr.