Nevada Barr?

[balzaccom]

Anyone else read some of these novels? Mysteries set in National Parks. I am not wild about them--they seem to have more violence than is completely necessary, and the one on Yosemite really does seem to miss the point of the park..,

But still...anyone else?

[dan]

My wife likes the Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon mysteries. But she likes lots of mysteries. I'll ask her about the Yosemite book--I think it wasn't her favorite. I think her favorite was on Mesa Verde. Nevada Barr is a former park ranger who put some of herself in the Pigeon character, I understand.

How does Barr miss the point about Yosemite? I'm not disagreeing, but it's so I can ask my wife about the point.

[balzaccom]

It just seems that she doesn't fall in love with the park. The action is in winter, and she continually describes the valley as dark and forboding...covered with clouds.

All well and good, but I think it's hard to write about Yosemite without really falling in love with the granite--clean, clear, monumental walls of white.

[dan]

Here's what my wife said about the Nevada Barr Anna Pigeon mysteries
* She has no rebuttal about the Yosemite book--it is the least favorite of the series for her.
* However, Yosemite is dark and forbidding in Winter.
* You can tell from her other books that she really loved the places she wrote about
* Violence--well that's a part of mysteries. Part of the problem is the Yosemite book came out about the same time as the real, gruesome murder of a park ranger that occurred in Yosemite.
* As for her favorite Nevada Barr book, well she says a lot of them are.