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 ...

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.

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...

When a guest turns up dead at the newly opened Pinnacles Grand Hotel, ISB agent Felicity Harland finds herself summoned to a peculiar scene. A gentle breeze blows in from the balcony window, belying the violence of a man stabbed to death in his hotel room. It’s clear to Harland that this murder was personal, especially when the victim’s wife admits that she wanted him dead. But Harland isn’t so sure that this was a domestic dispute gone bad.

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling mystery series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn. Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

A riveting, "beautifully written" deep dive into the unsolved murder of two free-spirited young women in the wilderness (John Grisham, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a journalist's obsession—and a new theory of who might have done it.​ They must have been followed. That’s the...

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. When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike...

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. ...

Few will hire competitive rider, Viola Parker, since the famous jumper, Wastrel, crashed to his death with her aboard. Not only that, her attitude just landed her out of work...again. She can barely afford her whipped-cream-in-a-can addiction. Now, before she's 30, she must keep a job for one year and receive a glowing letter of recommendation to get a surprise trust fund set up by her absentee parents. A trust fund that could represent freedom and independence - or might be worth nothing.

A twenty-year-old debt. A predator with a human memory. Wade Halston was once a hunter who thought he’d escaped the jungle’s judgment. Now a "risk assessment consultant," he returns to the damp heat of the Indian wilds to protect a billionaire's ego. But the jungle has a long memory, and it doesn't care about tax brackets. Deep in the monsoon-soaked bush, a massive Bengal predator is playing a different kind of game. It doesn't hunt for food—it hunts for justice. It isn't just killing the members of the expedition; it’s dismantling them. Using the terrain as a weapon and the storm ...

After all, I'm Graham Scott, son of a football legend and guaranteed a scholarship. But now, I'm so far off the beaten path I barely recognize myself anymore. My father is a cheat. My best friend broke my heart. And I owe ten thousand dollars in gambling debt. The only thing I seem to find solace in anymore is the bottom of a booze bottle.

In Skin and Bones, an original short story in the Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series, the killing of a bald eagle unearths ties to a tragic case from mentor Charley Steven’s past. When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch discovers a bullet-ridden bald eagle in the Maine woods, he is...

Being a game warden in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado is all Jacob Cartwright ever wanted. It gave him a sense of purpose and belonging, and the animals he helped every day never asked him anything personal. There was no need to get married and have a family when his job kept him so busy and fulfilled. Until his new partner, Miranda Hartman, shows him things he never thought he was missing in his life. After working in corporate America left Miranda feeling bored and unsatisfied with life, she trades in her MBA for a tan uniform and a job that's sure to be filled with an adventure. Too bad...

Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress' spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that' s been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal?

“Breathless pacing, dark humor, wildlife, and vivid characters.” —Boston Globe In this original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series, legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike Bowditch of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens...