My first Rock Harbor novel had a widow and her search dog trying to find the remains of the small plane that went down with her son and husband. Small planes can go missing in the vast forests. The list of dangerous scenarios is endless.Īnd it’s not just the lake itself that’s dangerous and mysterious. I had the sister of one of my protagonists trapped in a shipwreck with her air running out. Take a dive through one and all kinds of items are preserved. Shipwrecks hold onto their mysteries too.
Rip currents take swimmers unaware (if you’re brave enough to put a toe in the icy water!) and longshore currents can make it dangerous to swim near piers. There are so many fascinating things about Lake Superior that fuel the imagination. I once had my protagonist hiding from the killer in an ice cave, but the ice break starts before she can get out. In the winter there are ice volcanoes that look like an ordinary hill of snow, but inside is a hardened cone that erupts with a mixture of ice, water, and sleet. Vicious storms can rise up suddenly and sink a ship or a pleasure boat out for an afternoon sail. I like to say writing about this interesting place taught me how to bring a deeper sense of setting into my novels. Because of this obsession, it was only natural when I set out to write my first mystery, I turned to the danger and mystery of the Upper Peninsula, specifically the Keweenaw Peninsula area that juts into the lake on the west side of the Upper Peninsula.
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