And although Leah is laser-focused on the performance of all her knew creations, Heath is allowing herself to enjoy the kind of deep-wilderness enjoyments she’d assumed she’d never feel again – in fact, she’s feeling those enjoyments so strongly she’d like to feel them in ways our eco-conscious world now makes crass: The two have brought their daughters – Elizabeth and Katie, respectively – a sweet old dog, and a whole range of Leah’s new camping equipment: “ … a chair, a canoe, a lifting device, and selvane, a chemical compound that was lightweight and strong, and dramatically decreased friction” (and a classic muckraking aside: “… God forbid the sinister uses the military would find for it”).

Destroying Angel opens in the middle of such a field test, with brilliant designer Leah out camping with wheelchair-bound Heath. He’s a mild and thoroughly civilized character, and neither of those things can be said of his wife.Also based in Boulder is Hendricks & Hendricks, a very successful sporting goods company that’s field-testing a whole range of new products designed for disabled people in order to open up the hiking and camping experience to them.

And Paul Davidson ought to know what he’s talking about when it comes to Anna Pigeon, since he’s her husband, an Episcopalian priest based in Boulder, Colorado. Destroyer Angel By Nevada Barr Minotaur Books, 2014 “A man might put Anna on a pedestal, but she would only leap down, snatch up a chain saw, and cut it up for firewood” – so thinks Paul Davidson about Anna Pigeon in Nevada Barr’s Destroyer Angel, the 18 th novel starring Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger with an uncanny penchant for stumbling upon crimes (sort of like Miss Marple, only with better upper body strength and an improved facility with pump-action shotguns).

Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr