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Title: Barr needs a rest and Anna Pidgeon needs character depth.
Review: It's very difficult to maintain a single protagonist-driven mystery series. And Nevada Barr's "Liberty Falling" shows us just that. Barr gives her usual fantastic "like-you-were-there" background/color. But there is only so much you can say about the site. After all, it is an island and while detail is what Barr's best at,the book quickly gets boring when she can't move her characters very far. As for Anna, she's not moved very far since the death of her husband. Even psychiatrist sister Molly now has a boyfriend. Anna's issues remain the same and they too have become dull. The alcoholic thing, the "no man is an island except Anna" thing, the no-friends thing, the death of her husband thing, no real color outside that of the book's setting. And while I was intrigued with life on Ellis, the previous book, in which Anna is forced into caving, is by far Barr's best to date.
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