Outdoor Suspense

WELCOME TO THE DEADLY WATERS Where the wild is unforgiving… and the truth can get you killed. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes the Deadly Waters Thrillers—a gripping series set in the rivers, swamps, backroads, and barrier islands of North Florida, where beauty hides brutality and survival is never guaranteed. In these waters, everything hunts The rivers run black. The storms roll in fast. The woods close in tight. And out here, far from help, the most dangerous predator isn’t the wild. It’s human. High-stakes suspense. Relentless pursuit. No way out. Across this ...

Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive---his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking...

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. These are the stories that defy...

Gary Player is one of golf’s greatest champions. As one of the "Big Three" of golf’s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major international sport. He sits fourth on the list of most major victories on the PGA Tour and built a reputation of being fearless on the course and steely on the greens. Don’t Choke is his look at what it takes to achieve success when the pressure is on. Player explains how and why he became a champion and what it takes to win in big-time golf, but he also explains how learning to cope in pressure situations can help anyone.

Some things in the woods only look natural. Blake Ellison and her teenage daughter, Priscilla, desperately needed a quiet weekend away to mend their fractured relationship. But deep in the freezing mountain foothills, their retreat shatters when a towering, unnatural beast forces their truck off the pavement and into the dark. Stranded in the remote wilderness, they are hunted by a predator that should not exist—a terrifying aberration that mimics human voices, weaponizes their deepest traumas, and refuses to let them leave. What begins as a desperate attempt to fix their family becomes a...

A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy...

Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year in Storm Tide, the harrowing new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron. "[Narrator Henry] Leyva and [author Paul] Doiron are a great combination offering a fast-paced thrill ride."...

Three novellas are included in this publication. In High Adventure, a small plane carrying five passengers crashes on a remote plateau in the rugged Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The passengers include three teenagers, an emergency trained nurse, and a Native American lawyer. The pilot is crippled in the crash, and two of the teenagers on board have health conditions that need specific monitoring and medications. An Emergency Medicine physician struggles with his regret that he was not on the plane as he had originally planned, and works with Fire and Rescue to locate and rescue the ...

"Listeners are treated to a warm and realistic portrayal of life with a smart dog along with a winding story of danger and suspense. [Narrator Kathleen McInerney] expertly sets the pace in scene after scene, driving listeners ever closer to the complicated answers at the heart of this mystery."...

Hang on for an exciting thrill ride as you experience three wilderness survival stories conveniently packed into one book. Buckle down as these likeable protagonists battle their way through foreboding jungles and dense forests while they face food deprivation, a limited water supply, dangerous creatures, and more. Follow the Pathway Elizabeth wakes up in the middle of a forest, with absolutely no memory of how she got there. Even worse, she does not have her phone with her, and the food and water supply in her backpack only consists of two water bottles, an apple, and a granola bar. ...

Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (Booklist) with Bad Little Falls, his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm. Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile...

Massacre Pond is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murder On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the...

In Paul Doiron's riveting novel Widowmaker, Game Warden Mike Bowditch is on the trail of a ruthless vigilante amid the snow-covered mountains of Maine When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is...

Cal Walker has been hiding. Assigned to the Black Mountain fire lookout after a rescue gone wrong, he's spent months watching the forest from a distance — close enough to help, far enough to avoid the cost of failing again. Then dry lightning strikes a ridge ten miles out, and five teenagers are trapped in the burn zone with no way out. Getting them home is the job. But when Cal walks the fire line, the scorch patterns are wrong — metal fused, earth glassed, heat concentrated in ways no natural fire produces. Someone made this fire burn hotter. And they had a reason. Cal starts asking ...

They thought they were the hunters. They were wrong. When cartel assassins track a frightened family in witness protection to a remote cabin deep in the wilderness, they expect an easy job. The forest has other plans. Something ancient lives here. Watching from the trees is a creature humans call Bigfoot—a solitary giant who survives by avoiding conflict and never staying in one place for long. But this time he stays. Told entirely through the sensory, instinct-driven perspective of the creature itself, BIGFOOT: Through His Eyes plunges readers into a brutal wilderness where danger closes...

In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the...

A riveting account of the infamous unsolved murder of two remarkable women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case. This story reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics, the failures of our justice system, and offers an...

Two women enter the wilderness. Only one of them knows the truth. And someone out there wants both of them dead. Best friends Kate Johnston and Veronica Hammond escape to Yosemite’s backcountry to forget the men who have derailed their lives—Kate’s controlling ex and Veronica’s ruthless soon-to-be-ex-husband, who built a tech empire with her and is now trying to cut her out. What’s supposed to be a healing weekend quickly curdles into unease: a pair of aggressive campers who won’t take no for an answer … a handsome stranger whose past feels unnervingly familiar … and the ...

The Wedding Plot, USA Today bestselling author Paula Munier's fourth Mercy Carr mystery, finds Mercy and Elvis at a deadly Vermont wedding. Love never dies a natural death…. When Mercy’s grandmother Patience marries her longtime beau Claude Renault at the five-star Lady’s Slipper Inn, it...

A gripping high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. "A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." — Gregg Hurwitz "[Narrator John Pirhalla's] deliberately stoic narration is neither flashy nor...