A Superior Death
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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.
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19 primary books#2 in Anna Pigeon
Anna Pigeon is a 19-book series with 19 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by Nevada Barr.
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I was listening to this one and probably missed a lot of details, but I didn't find the plot twists very interesting. Not as good as the first, although that one's villain was also not great
I gave a stellar 4 star review to the first Anna Pigeon mystery, [b:Track of the Cat 76706 Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon Mysteries, #1) Nevada Barr http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899635s/76706.jpg 954916], and was very excited to sit down with book two of the series. Perhaps I had my hopes up, but this book was quite a disappointment. As a reader of mysteries, I expect that certain elements of plots must be far-fetched like the fact that murders seem to occur in unlikely places (at every National Park that Anna Pigeon visits, for instance). This book, however, just had too many unlikely characters all brought together to live at this Park, and I just couldn't bring myself to accept it as even remotely plausible. Like the first Pigeon book, though, the book was filled with fantastic descriptions of nature and the Park itself (thus the 3 star rating instead of 2), but it just fell flat with a poor plot driven mostly by poor characters. I will definitely read more in the series, but if the next few are like this one, I will give it up.
