A Superior Death
Posted by seamonster02 on April 28, 2008
Started this book on Saturday and finished it around 2 am last night (or really early this morning). It is another from the Anna Pigeon series by Navada Barr. From the sounds of it, it is one of - if not the - first one of the series.
It is about Anna working as a park ranger at Lake Superior for a year. There is an old wreck that is in very deep water - only the “best” divers go down to it. Inside the wreck are five bodies that have been left there since the vessel sank years prior. Anyway, some out of town divers mention to Anna that the six bodies down there had kind of freaked them out. Of course, one body was really that of a local fisherman who had just gotten married.
Thus the mystery of who killed young Denny unfolds around us. Once again I had it figured out early on but I know a lot of that is that I spend more time analyzing each character then most people do when they are reading for pleasure.
Once again Navada does her homework on the surrounding area which makes the book informative as well as interesting. I don’t think she did as much research as she does in later novels but that is just my opinion. I kind of read her now to find out about our different national parks. LOL.
The book was pretty good - a little dry in spots but that is when I’d put the book down and go on to something else for awhile. It wasn’t spellbinding by any means but still kept a person semi-interested in the characters. Anna, because of her husband’s death, is something of a lush which I don’t really care for but that is just me. I get tired of the same old formula - an alcoholic person who can’t handle their own problems seemingly able to figure out complex cases that even the FBI can’t handle. I’d prefer that her character be one who is tormented by the past but yet strong and enduring - kind of a role model for real life folks. We all have problems yet most of us don’t turn to alcholism so why do the characters in books and in movies always seem to?
Anyway, I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn about another great environmental resource (Superior) and have a bit of a mystery plot too.
April 28, 2008 at 12:57 pm
even though I like these books I have to read about one year because they are all pretty much the same.
I like Nevada Barr, but she needs to expand a bit out of her comfort zone with these books.
Another author who writes the same book over and over is Iris Johannson
the first couple ones were interesting and then I realized it is the same story over and over, beautiful woman, rambo man who is a good guy but can kill someone like a snap of the wrist and how they are seperated and get back together.
Please give us a break.
Can’t she think of anything else to write about????
I need a variety and neither one of these authors can give it to me.
June 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm
It’s the second in the series.