It was an instant new favourite and I then went onto read Hunted, The Dry (and all of Jane Harper’s books – she’s brilliant!) and a few more. I scoured the internet for thriller books set in the wilderness to little avail, but stumbled across The River by Peter Heller and that’s where I started. I digress, I decided to make one of my New Year’s resolutions to start reading again. I was a bookworm to the nth degree as a child but my teenage years were consumed by declining mental health and an unhealthy addiction to the internet. Last year around Christmas time I was reading articles on how to lead a happier life and one of the recurring themes was reading books. Darcy Book Club Community here, and mark your calendars for this and all our upcoming events. To join the conversation, sign up for the Modern Mrs. I can’t wait to hear more about Peter Heller’s writing-and adventuring-when he joins us for Book Club Tuesday night at 7 pm EST. Although I’m eager to pick up many books on this list, I might avoid reading them before bed. HSPs, take note: these mysteries are gritty, and some include violence on the page. Thankfully, these twenty gripping tales of detectives, park rangers, and hikers are perfect for enjoying indoors, preferably in front of a cozy fireplace. Some I’ve read and loved some are on my TBR. Heller based the titular character on his own mother: she’s an artist and private eye in her late 60s who can navigate New York City and national parks with equal aplomb, and has a knack for tracking down missing persons.Īfter loving the atmospheric nature settings in The River and Celine, I went in search of other wilderness mystery and suspense novels, and am delighted to share them with you today. Darcy Book Club community, we’re visiting Peter Heller’s backlist with another harrowing wildnerness mystery: Celine. Of course the next thing I had to do was read more Peter Heller, which I enjoyed so much I chose it for a Book Club selection. And with its atmospheric setting and simple-yet-vivid prose, The River turned out to be one of my favorite books of 2019. I like outdoorsy-ness, sometimes, but until that book, I wouldn’t have called it a favorite topic or setting.īut I am all for an absorbing story, well-told. When I picked up The River by Peter Heller this spring, its premise brought to mind an adventure article in Outside magazine. There’s no pleasure like wading into a new genre to find an unexpected favorite-and right now I have one of my new favorite genres on the brain.
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