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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1984
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

An Anna Pigeon Mystery

1 - Track of the Cat (Mar-1993)
2 - A Superior Death (Mar-1994)
3 - Ill Wind (Apr-1995)
4 - Firestorm (Mar-1996)
5 - Endangered Species (Mar-1997)
6 - Blind Descent (Mar-1998)
7 - Liberty Falling (Mar-1999)
8 - Deep South (Mar-2000)
9 - Blood Lure (Jan-2001)
10 - Hunting Season (Feb-2002)
11 - Flashback (Feb-2003)
12 - High Country (Feb-2004)
13 - Hard Truth (Apr-2005)
14 - Winter Study (Apr-2008)
15 - Borderline (Apr-2009)
16 - Burn (Aug-2010)
17 - The Rope (Jan-2012)
18 - Destroyer Angel (Apr-2014)
19 - Boar Island (May-2016)

Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • An outcast teacher and her former student pursue life and love on the unforgiving frontier in the acclaimed author’s tender Western lesbian romance.Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she’s had t...



  • The memory of violence and loss drove Anna Pigeon from the city to seek peace in the Southwestern wilderness. Now a ranger in America's national parks, Anna is at one with nature and its serene, unspoiled majesty. But the brutal death of a fellow ran...



  • A ranger with the U. S. National Park Service, it is Anna Pigeon's job to help protect wild and lonely places from civilization's corrupting touch. Now duty has called her far from the serenity of her beloved desert--into a mystery and a murder held ...



  • It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde--the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pig...



  • An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best--and worst--in those sworn to defeat it. ...



  • Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...



  • In the midst of a dangerously dry season, national park ranger Anna Pigeon has been posted to Cumberland Island off the Georgia coast for a monotonous, twenty-one day fire watch. But her boredom is short-lived, for this remote and marshy place is bre...



  • A would-be killer is drawing Anna Pigeon deep into the darkness--and closer to hell than she's ever gone before. Anna Pigeon, the intrepid National Park Service ranger in Nevada Barr's superb wilderness mysteries, has had some perilous experiences...



  • There is peril beneath the watchful eyes of the Lady... When Anna Pigeon left New York City after her husband was killed, she hoped it would be forever. But now her sister Molly is clinging to life in an uptown hospital ICU, so Anna has reluctant...






  • In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south.... Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock--and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's knee-de...



  • 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 volatil...



  • The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain...



  • Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foe--human nature--in the latest entry in Nevada Barr's bestselling, award-winning series ... The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna ans...



  • 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 ...



  • National park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at Yosemite National Park to investigate the disappearance of four young employees. What waits for Anna in the snowy wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas is a nightmare of death and greed--an...



  • Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna’s investi...



  • Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior: the wolf packs begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveilla...



  • Hoping a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Anna Pigeon and her husband, Paul, go to southwest Texas, where the Rio Grande is running high. The beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magic -- unt...



  • With 13 1/2, Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels, has written a taut and terrifying psychological thriller. It carries the reader from the horrifying 1970s murder spree of a child -- dubbed "Butcher ...






  • With her new husband back at work, Anna Pigeon decides to spend some of her administrative leave time in New Orleans -- visiting a friend from the Park Service; Geneva, w-ho works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. Anna isn't in town long befor...




  • 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...



  • Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation -- an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy...



  • 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. ...



  • A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...





  • In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only t...


Award-Winning Books by Nevada Barr

Firestorm
1999 Mississippi Authors Award -- Fiction
Track of the Cat
1993 Agatha Award -- First Novel
1994 Anthony Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nevada Barr has published 27 books.

Nevada Barr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, What Rose Forgot, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Nevada Barr, Bittersweet, was published in August 1984.

Yes. Nevada Barr has 1 series.