I do like the main character in this series! I have to admit, I was a little curious, at the end of the first book, as to how a park ranger in a very small national park was going to come across enough murders to keep the series going, but Barr has solved that problem by moving Anna to another park. I expect such moves will be typical throughout the series, and I'm excited to see which park she goes to next. I'm a big fan of national parks in general, so I really enjoy having them be such a focal point of this series. The settings are incredible.

That said, while I liked this volume I didn't like it as much as Track of the Cat, and the difference is entirely down to the change in setting. A Superior Death, unsurprisingly, is set at Lake Superior and all the nature writing here is related to water and islands and so forth. This led to some great passages - Anna's diving experiences, especially the one where she was trapped on the sunken ship, were atmospheric and actually quite creepy - but very little of that nature focus was on living things. Cat was positively stuffed with descriptions of plants and animals and that was my favourite part about it, so fingers crossed the next park Anna gets sent to has lots of interesting wildlife.