Suvival Crime Fiction Booklist

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
  • Blood Junction
    Author: Carver, Caroline
    Publisher: Mysterious $ 24.95 ISBN: 0892967706 Date: 2002
    starPW starLibrary Journal
    The outstanding thriller from the winner of the Crime Writer's Association's Debut Dagger Award is set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback. When journalist India Kane is framed for the murders of a friend and a cop, she resolves to find out why they died.
    Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts |Thrillers
    Updated 8.16.02
  • Vertical Run
    Author: Garber, Joseph R.
    Publisher: Bantam $ 21.95 ISBN: 0553100335 Date: 1995
    starBooklist
    A hot, compelling thriller sure to be one of the biggest hits of the summer. Every morning, in his 45th-floor executive office, David Elliot savors the moments before his workday begins--until the morning his boss aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, everyone David meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why.
    Suggested Reading: Time Changes | The Office
    Updated 8.24.05
  • Hunted Past Reason
    Author: Matheson, Richard
    Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765302713 Date: 2002
    starPW starKirkus
    It's supposed to be just an ordinary camping trip, two old friends hiking through the wilderness. But the enforced isolation of the hike soon exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between the two men. The deeper they get into primeval wilderness, the greater the tension between them becomes - until the simmering hostility erupts into a terrifying life-or-dath battle for survival. - Publisher marketing.
    Updated 5.20.02
  • The Purification Ceremony: A Novel of Suspense
    Author: Sullivan, Mark T.
    Publisher: Avon List Price: $24 ISBN:0380974282 Date: 1997
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    A stunning and terrifying story of brutal violence amid a secluded, snowy wilderness by the author of Hard News and The Fall Line. The hunters become the hunted in this tale of suspense set on a remote estate in British Columbia, where an insane and violent force of nature, hiding in the blinding whiteness of the Canadian winter, stalks a party in search of whitetail deer.