![]() ![]() I figured out 'whodunit' before Anna Pigeon did in A Superior Death, but I had the advantage of knowing that she was in a novel. Her novels move crisply and relentlessly, but not in too predictable a direction. Barr needs no excuses her prose is faultless, her characters believably nuanced and detailed, her plots well-crafted. There's no excuse for bad writing (see Cornwell, Patricia) with all the books being published and purchased these days, the publisher can only cite the most mundane excuse, greed. (I also buy paperback reading copies for books I'll read again, which I did for Blind Descent.) ![]() A measure of how good these books are: I switched to buying in hardcover when Endangered Species was published, an extravagance I almost never indulge for mysteries. Barr was a Park Ranger for a number of years herself, like Anna Pigeon. However improbable her name, Nevada Barr is a real writer, and her Anna Pigeon novels are first-rate mysteries, each of them set in a National Park. ![]()
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