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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 A Superior Death with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, A Superior Death 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 A Superior Death 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 A Superior Death northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and various pets. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Sep 02, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Available from:. Paperback —. About A Superior Death 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. Also in An A Superior Death Pigeon Novel. Also by Nevada Barr. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Hunting Season. Blood Lure. Ill Wind. High Country. Winter Study. Sara Paretsky. Known to Evil. Walter Mosley. Hard Truth. Deep South. Dead or Alive. Michael McGarrity. The Paperboy. Liberty Falling. Keith McCafferty. Endangered A Superior Death. Cold Hearted River. A Superior Death Work. Crazy Mountain Kiss. Hope Never Dies. Andrew Shaffer. Live Bait. August Snow. Stephen Mack Jones. Burn Marks. The Music of What Happens. John Straley. Promises of Home. Mil Millington. Hope Rides Again. Tunnel Vision. In the Heat of the Night. The Devil All the Time. Donald Ray Pollock. Bad Things Happen. The Bangtail Ghost. Related Articles. Looking for More Great Reads? Download Hi Res. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it first. Pass it on! Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! A Superior Death - Sno-Isle Libraries - OverDrive

Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America, the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area, and the third largest freshwater lake by volume. It is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the U. Mary's River into Lake Huron. The Ojibwe name for the lake is gichi-gami pronounced gitchi-gami or kitchi-gami in different dialects[13] meaning "great sea. Lake Superior empties into Lake Huron via the St. Marys River and the Soo Locks. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world in area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Seawhile larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish ; though presently isolated, prehistorically the Caspian has been repeatedly connected to and then isolated from the Mediterranean via the Black Sea. American limnologist J. This feature makes the lake dimictic. Because of its volume, Lake Superior has a retention time of years. Lake Superior is fed by more than rivers, including the Nipigon Riverthe St. Lake Superior drains into Lake Huron via the St. Marys River. There are rapids at the river's upper Lake Superior end, where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient. Until approximatelythe natural hydraulic conveyance through the St. Marys River rapids determined the outflow from Lake Superior. Bydevelopment in support of transportation and hydroelectric power resulted in gates, locks, power canals and other control structures completely spanning St. Marys rapids. The regulating structure is known as the Compensating Works and is operated according to a regulation plan known as Plan A. Water levels, including diversions of water from the Hudson Bay watershed, are regulated by the International Lake Superior Board of Controlwhich was established in by the International Joint Commission. Lake Superior's water level was at a new record low in Septemberslightly less than the previous record low in Historic high water The lake's water level fluctuates from month to month, with the highest lake levels in October and November. The normal high-water mark is 1. In the A Superior Death ofLake Superior reached its highest recorded level at 2. Historic low water The lake's lowest levels occur in March and April. The normal low-water mark is A Superior Death. In the winter of Lake Superior reached its lowest recorded level at 1. The low water was a continuation of the dropping lake levels from the previous year,which set low-water records for October through December. During the nine-month period of October to Junewater levels ranged from 1. According to a study by professors at the University of Minnesota DuluthLake Superior may have warmed faster than its surrounding area. The increase in the lake's surface temperature may be related to the decreasing ice cover. Less winter ice cover allows more solar radiation to penetrate and warm A Superior Death water. If trends continue, Lake Superior, which freezes over completely once every 20 years, could routinely be ice-free by Two recent consecutive winters — and — brought unusually high ice coverage to the Great Lakes, A Superior Death on March 6,overall ice coverage peaked at Isle Royale contains several lakes, some of which also contain islands. Marie, Michiganand Sault Ste. A Superior Death, Ontario. Duluth-Superior, at the western end of Lake Superior, is the most inland point on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the most inland port in the world. Lawrence River. Lake Superior's size reduces the severity of the seasons of its humid continental climate more typically seen in locations like A Superior Death Scotia. The hills and mountains that border the lake A Superior Death moisture and fog, particularly in the fall. The lake's surface temperature rose by 4. The rocks of A Superior Death Superior's northern shore date A Superior Death to the early history of the earth. During the Precambrian between 4. It was during the Penokean orogenypart of the process that created the Great Lakes Tectonic Zonethat many valuable metals were deposited. The region surrounding the lake has proved to be rich in mineralswith copperironsilvergold and nickel the most frequently mined. The mountains steadily eroded, depositing layers of sediments that A Superior Death and became limestonedolomitetaconite and the shale A Superior Death Kakabeka Falls. The continental crust was later rivencreating one of the deepest rifts in the world. Magma was injected between layers of sedimentary rockforming diabase sills. This hard diabase protects the layers of sedimentary rock below, forming the flat-topped mesas in the Thunder Bay area. Amethyst formed in some of the cavities created by the Midcontinent Rift and there are several amethyst mines in the Thunder Bay area. Ignace Island. In the most A Superior Death geological history, during the Wisconsin glaciation 10, years ago, ice covered A Superior Death region at a thickness of 1. The land contours familiar today were carved by the advance and retreat of the ice sheet. The A Superior Death left gravel, sand, clay and boulder deposits. Glacial meltwaters gathered in the Superior basin creating Lake Minonga precursor to Lake Superior. Marie, becoming today's St. Mary's River. The first people came to the Lake Superior region 10, years ago after the retreat of the glaciers in the last Ice Age. They are known as the Planoand they used stone-tipped spears to hunt caribou on the northwestern side of Lake Minong. The next documented people are known as the Shield Archaic c. Evidence of this culture can be found at the eastern and western ends of the Canadian shore. They used bows and arrows, paddled dugout canoes, fished, hunted, mined copper A Superior Death tools A Superior Death weapons, and established trading networks. They are believed to be the direct ancestors of the Ojibwe and Cree. The Laurel people c. Another culture known as the Terminal Woodland A Superior Death c. AD — has been found. They were Algonkian people who hunted, fished and A Superior Death berries. They used snow shoesbirch bark canoes and conical or domed lodges. At the mouth of the Michipicoten River, nine layers of encampments have been discovered. Most of the Pukaskwa Pits were likely made during this time. After the arrival of Europeans, the Anishinaabe made themselves middle-men between the French fur traders and other Native peoples. They soon became the dominant Native American nation in the region: they forced out the Sioux and Fox and won a victory against the Iroquois west of Sault Ste. Marie in By the midth century, the Ojibwe occupied all of Lake Superior's shores. In the 18th century, as the booming fur trade supplied Europe with beaver hats A Superior Death, the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly in the region untilwhen the rival North West Company was formed. But bywith competition harming the profits of both, the companies merged under the Hudson's Bay Company name. Many towns around the lake are current or former mining areas, or engaged in processing or shipping. A Superior Death, tourism is another significant industry: the sparsely populated Lake Superior country, with its rugged shorelines and wildernessattracts vacationers and adventurers. Lake Superior has been an important link in the Great Lakes Waterwayproviding a route for the transportation of iron ore as well as grain and other mined and manufactured materials. Large cargo vessels called lake freightersas well as smaller ocean-going freighterstransport these commodities across Lake Superior. Shipping was slow to arrive at Lake Superior in the 19th century. The first steamboat to run on the lake A Superior Death the Independence inwhereas the first steamers on the other Great Lakes began sailing in Ice closes the Lake shipping from mid- January to late March. Exact A Superior Death for the shipping season vary each year, [40] depending on weather conditions that form and break the ice. Storms that claimed multiple ships include the Mataafa Storm in and the Great Lakes Storm of Built in Lorain, OhioCyprus was launched August 17,and was lost on her second voyage hauling iron ore from Superior, Wisconsin, to Buffalo, New Yorkwith the lone survivor among her 23 crew being Charles G. In the last warships to sink in the Great Lakes, French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisolesvanished in a Lake Superior storm, perhaps upon striking the uncharted danger of the Superior Shoal in an otherwise deep part of the lake. With 78 crewmembers dead, their sinking marked the largest loss of life on Lake Superior to date. All 29 crew members died and no bodies were recovered. Lightfoot sings that "The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead". But Lake Superior's water is cold enough year-round to inhibit bacterial growthand bodies tend to sink and never A Superior Death. More than 80 species of fish have been found in Lake Superior. Species native to the lake include: banded killifishbloaterbrook troutburbotciscolake sturgeonlake troutlake whitefishlongnose suckermuskellungenorthern pikepumpkinseedrock bassround whitefishsmallmouth basswalleyewhite sucker and yellow perch. In addition, many fish species have been either intentionally or accidentally introduced to Lake Superior: Atlantic salmonbrown troutcarpchinook salmoncoho salmonfreshwater drumpink salmonrainbow smeltrainbow troutround gobyruffesea lamprey and white perch. Lake Superior has fewer dissolved nutrients relative to its water volume than the other Great Lakes and so is less productive in terms of fish populations and is an oligotrophic lake. This is a result of the underdeveloped soils found in A Superior Death relatively small watershed. Lake Superior - Wikipedia 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 A Superior Death 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 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 A Superior Death for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner. This book is the second in the long running Anna Pigeon series and is set on and around Lake Superior. The A Superior Death character, Anna Pigeon, is a park ranger who has recently transferred from Big Bend It's been a long time since I read this book but I have read A Superior Death entire series, up until the most current book and I really like it. I love how the series is set outdoors A Superior Death the different parks. A Superior Death. Nevada Barr. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and various pets.