Comments on: Please help me identify a deep-woods mystery novel.

Question: Please help me identify a deep-woods mystery novel.

tangerine — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:53:37 -0800

Please help me identify a deep-woods mystery novel.

There's a passage I'd love to read again, but I can't remember the book it's from. It was a mystery novel. I think I read it in the early or mid-90s.

The detective, a woman, is out in the woods with an expert tracker. The passage describes a technique the expert calls "tracking with the heart" -- recognizing discrepancies in your own heartbeat as the first signal that you've subliminally spotted something significant.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:41:13 -0800

Smilla's Sense of Snow?

By: fshgrl

fshgrl — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:23:36 -0800

The Loop, by Nicholas Evans?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:30:40 -0800

Way Of A Man (Wild River Trilogy) has woods, heartbeats and tracking in it.

By: tangerine

tangerine — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:42:01 -0800

Many thanks, everyone.

I know absolutely it isn't Smilla's Sense of Snow, because I've read it; and it really doesn't sound like either of the other two.

Someone emailed me to suggest that the author might be Dana Stabenow. I think that's plausible, though I still can't guess from the descriptions which book it might be.

By: lockedroomguy

lockedroomguy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:39:44 -0800

Does the name Nevada Barr ring a bell? It might have been one of her books.

By: tangerine

tangerine — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:29:56 -0800

That name sounds awfully familiar too.

If I don't get any farther, I guess I'll just have to email the two of them and ask "Did you write this?"