A Superior Death

SUMMARY: Below the frigid waters of Lake Superior lies a sunken 1927 wreck--the final resting place of its five victims. But when divers surface with a tale of seeing a sixth body, Anna Pigeon must break the lake's grip on its icy secrets. Reissue. Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. Written with a naturalist's feel for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner. A medical mystery on a racket to rejuvenate the old. It features Toby Harper, a doctor in a retirement community in Boston which caters to the rich. Toby's suspicion is aroused when patients admitted to her hospital exhibit symptoms of a rare disease. By the author of Harvest On an island in Lake Superior, Anna Pigeon, a National Parks Service ranger, investigates the death of a diving instructor whose body was found in an old shipwreck. Is there a link between the instructor's death and the disappearance of the wife of a fellow-ranger? While diving at her new station near Lake Superior, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon, last seen in Track of the Cat, discovers evidence of a grisly murder connected to an old sunken cargo ship. On an island on Lake Superior, Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger, investigates the death of a diving instructor whose body was found in an old shipwreck These killers of fish, she thought, will do anything.