Another in Barr's series of National Park mysteries. This one is not as good as most of the others, it seems to me, but I had a character that I really liked in it: Pizza Dave. Pizza Dave can get anything for anyone any time. He's an amazing guy. (And this was in the days before eBay!)

I love this series because you not only have a great mystery, you also get to read about all the national parks (each one so very different from the others).

Anna Pigeon, park ranger, trades the beautiful mountains of West Texas and unpleasant memories for the frigid north of Lake Superior duty and a mystery involving one two many bodies. How did a fresh corpse get on the wreck of the Kamloops, a ship buried under Superior's frigid waters for decades? Anna must investigate. I did not enjoy this one as much as Tract of the Cat simply because scenery involving water and teeth chattering conditions do not appeal to me. Anna, hurry up and return to the warm west!

From Publishers Weekly: "In her second appearance, after Track of the Cat , National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is posted to an island in Lake Superior, where her interest in wildlife is fully engaged by the local population of humans. Two scuba-diving tourists exploring an old, submerged wreck discover a recent addition: the body of Denny Castle, who ran a commercial diving concession in the park. This makes Anna uneasy about the mysterious disappearance of Donna Butkus, wife of fellow ranger Scotty Butkus. Hawk Bradshaw, who worked with Denny, suggests that there was a link between Denny and Donna, but Hawk is less revealing about the nature of the relationship he and his twin sister had with the dead man and the impact Denny's recent marriage (to yet another woman) had on it. The Bradshaws aren't the only reticent ones here; indeed, Barr's characters hide enough unsavory secrets to keep a soap opera humming for months. Despite the wealth of personal intrigue, FBI agent Frederic Stanton looks for a drug connection to the murder: "I'm all for drugs . . . Takes the guesswork out of law enforcement." The levelheaded Anna is again a treat as she and a couple of minor characters whose lives don't verge on melodrama keep the story from floundering on the rocks."Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

a good mystery set on Isle Royale, MI

#2 National Parks, Anna Pigeon, I enjoyed even tho' water stories are not my favorite. Her characters are great.

Very interesting novelist for women---great characters and mystery plots all set in National Forests.

I got hooked on Nevada Barr mysteries one summer and read all of them!

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One in a series of books based in National Parks with park ranger, Anna Pigeon, being a Kinsey Milhone of the Park Service.

"Haunting...Wonderful...Vivid and Memorable...A Book That Is Just About Perfect."--Denver post.

This time Anna Pigeon is at Lake Superior. A mystery under water...

An Anna Pigeon mystery!

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