Environmental 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 ...

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

When a young woman washes ashore in Crystal Cove, Detective Ava Martinez uncovers a marine‑biotech conspiracy willing to poison ecosystems, silence whistleblowers, and kill anyone who gets too close — including her partner. Praise for Swimming with Manatees “A taut, atmospheric eco‑thriller… exposes corporate malfeasance.” — BlueInk Review “Corporate secrets, crooked power… pulls no punches.” — Foreword Clarion Review Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Shortlist; 2nd Runner‑Up, Killer Nashville Readers’ Choice Award As Ava investigates April Seagram’s ties to BioSphere, a ...

In the small town of Oakhaven, the annual Founder’s Day fair is a portrait of peaceful, American life. For EMT Mara Duvall and volunteer firefighter Cole Briggs, it’s a rare day off. But when the sky turns a sickly, nauseating green, the cheerful afternoon curdles into terror. A monster tornado descends on the town, but this is no ordinary storm. When the funnel passes over the site of an abandoned industrial works, it inhales decades of buried, forgotten poison. What it exhales is a toxic, black rain that coats everything in a greasy, deadly film. Trapped in a hardware store with a ...

Sydney Cole came back to Shell Key to disappear. Driven out of San Diego after a scandal shattered her career, the marine biologist returns to the small Florida town she once called home, hoping to keep her head down and survive what’s left of her life. Then the bay starts spitting up warnings: dead fish drifting in a chemical slick, a diver torn apart inside an outflow pipe, and terrified whispers of something massive moving under the water. As panic builds and officials fight to keep the beaches open and the tourists spending, Sydney is dragged into the hunt alongside a disgraced ...

The ship is intact. The crew is missing. The tracks don't lie. The routine search-and-rescue job Jenny Black Wolf expected isn't the one she got. The Orion's crew is missing. If she's lucky, she won't die trying to find them. When the military transport Orion goes down in the Calderan wilderness, the Alliance hires ecologist and tracker Jenny Black Wolf to find the crew. But when she reaches the coordinates, it isn't even a crash site—it's a crime scene. The ship is fully intact, completely gutted, and the survivors have vanished into the Hell's Gate Lava Beds. The tracks tell her an ...

A diverse and international group of six high school students wins the opportunity of a lifetime, to join a scientific research vessel in the South Pacific. But on the fourth morning of the voyage, they wake up to find the ship idling and discover that nearly all of the crew and scientists have fled in the lifeboats during the night, and that the engine has been disabled. They're left powerless in the middle of the ocean with only a deranged cook and a drunken teacher for company. Thousands of miles from the nearest land, they've got to find some way of getting the ship working again and ...

A single faulty sensor. A town blissfully unaware of the poison in the air. For Elena Markham, a brilliant and dedicated nuclear engineer, it’s the start of a thirty-hour nightmare. When her instruments detect a critical anomaly at the St. Croix Nuclear Facility, her superiors dismiss it as a minor glitch. With a major safety audit looming, they’re more concerned with appearances than with a potential catastrophe. As management actively works to bury her findings and silence her warnings, Elena finds herself in a desperate race against time. The reactor's core is unstable, and the ...

The invasive species…is us. Humanity teeters on the precipice of environmental collapse. The planet bears the scars of exponential warming, rampant pollution, and the ominous specter of mass extinctions on land and sea. Drought, wildfires, flooding, and storms wreak havoc, while the dire consequences of poverty and starvation deepen. As Earth's systems spiral towards irreversible decline, the President of the United States makes an audacious move, appointing an unlikely ally, an obscure park ranger, as the new Secretary of Conservation. Unbeknownst to the world, he is not only an outsider...

Jane Redwine, una rossa di trentasette anni, era seduta sul suo portico con vista verso il mare. Era una mattina di sabato cupa con nuvole basse che aleggiavano sulla baia. "John, vedi quella goletta che rimbalza senza meta là fuori? Sembra che si sia staccato dall'ormeggio. Andiamo fuori a controllare. Potremmo reclamare i diritti di salvataggio se non ci fosse nessuno a bordo." John uscì sul portico, ancora asciugandosi le mani su un canovacno. Strizzò gli occhi verso l'acqua, lo scafo pallido della goletta che si alzava e si abbassava nel mareo come qualcosa di mezzo vivo. "Quella non...

Former police captain turned private investigator Ellie Cook is still rebuilding her life on the Oregon coast. Chronic pain, addiction recovery, and the fragile stability she has with her partner, Dr. Alexa Mendoza, are already a lot to juggle. When a shallow grave is uncovered at the Tillamook Creamery expansion site and quickly dismissed as “historical,” Ellie knows something is wrong. The family of a missing dairy worker, Rafael Domínguez, comes to her for answers that the county refuses to give. Following the trail of Rafael’s last days, Ellie enters a world of industrial dairy ...

The storm is cover. The killer is already on the mountain. When whistleblower Dale Fitch flees into the Denali backcountry carrying evidence that could bring down Vance Industries, he thinks the mountain will protect him. He's wrong. A professional hunter named Brecht is already on the glacier. The storm closing in will ground every helicopter within three hundred kilometers. And the only man standing between Fitch and a corporate cover-up is SAR specialist Silas Kincaid — who doesn't know any of this yet. Zero visibility: the weather condition. The operational state. The corporate policy...

“Some knowledge survives only when the people who carry it disappear.” When Ethan Brooks pulls a weathered notebook from a library discard box in Forks, Washington, he expects nothing more than a curiosity. Instead he finds the name Joseph James, a 1934 survey photograph, and the first threads of a knowledge the forest has never fully surrendered. What begins as quiet research draws him into a hidden lineage of listeners—people who learned to hear what the land still remembers—and into the path of those who prefer that knowledge inventoried, managed, or erased. As Ethan is pulled ...

When paradise hides deadly secrets, the truth lies beneath the surface. A luxury yacht. A dead journalist. A killer who can't afford to be exposed. When investigative reporter Dominic Davidson is found floating beside his yacht at Dunk Island, the initial ruling is accidental drowning during a...

Toxic fury, a forest turned into a morgue, and a legend that shouldn’t exist. Marek Sokolov is a wildlife biologist who knows the northern wetlands like the back of his hand, but he’s never seen tracks like these. After an industrial disaster poisons the watershed, a series of grisly kills suggests something far worse than a rogue predator. Marek soon uncovers a terrifying truth: a Bigfoot has been exposed to toxic waste, transforming a reclusive legend into a killing machine fueled by agony and rage. Humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain.

The lake never forgets. And it never lets go. When a violent storm rolls over Silver Lake, veteran fisherman Harlen Pike disappears without a trace. His boat is found drifting. His sonar logged something massive beneath the water. And just before his signal died, the lake began to glow. Dr. Mara Ellison swore she would never return to Silver Lake. Five years ago, her environmental study exposed contamination buried beneath its surface—and powerful interests made sure the truth stayed underwater. But when new data reveals deep thermal surges and encrypted sensor drops at the exact moment ...

The future of the environment ...plays out on a remote stage. As Jake Maguire, a young FBI special agent, sets out to investigate the murder of a celebrity environmentalist in far-off Mongolia, he finds himself in a race against time. With mining interests and a desperate killer hot on his tail, Jake must use all of his skills and training to unravel the mystery and prevent a lovely and intrepid investigative journalist from walking into danger. With nonstop action and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Murder in Mongolia is a thrilling tale of crime and international intrigue that will keep you ...

A missing girl. A silent town. Something in the air that makes people stop asking questions. Cole Mercer doesn’t take jobs for money. He takes them because someone has to. When a bar owner’s daughter disappears without a trace—no calls, no sightings, no noise—Mercer follows the only lead he has: east. What he finds in Gayle, North Carolina, isn’t a town hiding secrets. It’s a town that’s forgotten how to care. The air smells wrong. People repeat themselves. Conversations reset mid-sentence. No one questions the work. No one questions the disappearances. And no one remembers ...

Note: Cover updated June 2025 A fashionista teen ill-suited for a safari adventure. A self-centered father. Can they save themselves and endangered rhinos from armed poachers? The last place seventeen-year-old Claire wants to go is on a South African safari with her father. Her discovery of her dad’s extramarital affair has unleashed a tidal wave of anger towards him. Claire’s safari experience improves after meeting Junior, a handsome young guide. But when she breaks a critical game-drive rule, Claire and her father are pulled into the crosshairs of armed rhino poachers. Can Claire and...

In Riversend, an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest steps out of his church and calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden...