Nevada Barr: A Superior Death (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
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.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 042519471X (September, 2003), 352 p., $6.99.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
The inaccessible wreck, Kamloops, has rested at the bottom of Lake Superior for nearly seven decades, the bodies of its ill-fated crew eerily preserved in the frigid waters. But now there is an extra corpse on board a newly slain interloper suspiciously dressed in 1920s clothing.

It is Anna Pigeon's job as a ranger with the U.S. National Park Service to help protect wild and lonely places from civilizations corrupting touch. Now a bizarre mystery held firmly in a Great Lake's icy grip is drawing Anna into a nightmare of greed and cold-blooded murder. And what she finds waiting beneath the surface could prove fatal.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death. An Anna Pigeon Mystery. Avon Books, ISBN: 038072362X (May, 2002), 318 p., $6.99.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
A ranger with the U. S. National Park Service, it is Anna Pigeon's job to help protect wild and lonely places from civilization's corrupting touch. Now duty has called her far from the serenity of her beloved desert -- into a mystery and a murder held firmly in the icy grip of Lake Superior.

The inaccessible wreck, Kamloops, has rested at lake's bottom for nearly seven decades -- the bodies of its ill-fated crew eerily preserved in Superior's frigid waters. But now there is an extra corpse on board -- a newly slain interloper suspiciously dressed in 1920s clothing -- drawing investigating park ranger Anna Pigeon into a nightmare of greed and murder... and into the deadly close company of a killer.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death. Avon Books, ISBN: 038072362X (May, 1995), 318 p., $4.99.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
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.

"An eventful, characterful story with a slam-bang denouement," said the Los Angeles Times about Track of the Cat, "set in a wilderness environment Barr knows, loves and describes with poetic passion." In that book hailed as "one of the best novels of the year" (Thomas Gifford, USA Today), "superior" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "a real find" (Tony Hillerman) - Anna Pigeon's debut was welcomed resoundingly by writers, critics, and other readers. 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 lake, below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship.

Nevada Barr: A Superior Death. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399139168 (March, 1994), 303 p., $19.95.